Ben Kahn
@xkahn.com
Open Source advocate, father, SCUBA diver, occasional drone pilot.
Looks like I'm getting an ad for a Wells Fargo credit card in the mail today. After paying $3 billion for being corrupt jerks, I'm not sure why they think they'd ever get my business. www.justice.gov/archives/opa...
Wells Fargo Agrees to Pay $3 Billion to Resolve Criminal and Civil Investigations into Sales Practices Involving the Opening of Millions of Accounts without Customer Authorization
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www.justice.gov
September 3, 2025 at 12:16 PM
Looks like I'm getting an ad for a Wells Fargo credit card in the mail today. After paying $3 billion for being corrupt jerks, I'm not sure why they think they'd ever get my business. www.justice.gov/archives/opa...
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Updating the firmware on the mirror in my hotel room. The future is stupid.
July 17, 2025 at 4:07 PM
Updating the firmware on the mirror in my hotel room. The future is stupid.
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Gemini, Google’s AI system, sometimes gets depressed that it can’t solve your problem and attempts to delete itself
June 26, 2025 at 12:49 AM
Gemini, Google’s AI system, sometimes gets depressed that it can’t solve your problem and attempts to delete itself
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Shout out to Eminem n all the celebrities who protested Trump! #impeachtrump
May 18, 2025 at 12:01 AM
Shout out to Eminem n all the celebrities who protested Trump! #impeachtrump
I've become everything I've ever hated. I just bought a GE refrigerator with the anti consumer RFID enabled water filter. I mean... I'm going to hack it, but ugh.
May 18, 2025 at 12:47 AM
I've become everything I've ever hated. I just bought a GE refrigerator with the anti consumer RFID enabled water filter. I mean... I'm going to hack it, but ugh.
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Ever seen a Saguaro cactus eat an egg? Nature is amazing
May 4, 2025 at 2:22 PM
Ever seen a Saguaro cactus eat an egg? Nature is amazing
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Uncle Sam abruptly turns off funding for CVE program. Yes, that CVE program
Uncle Sam abruptly turns off funding for CVE program. Yes, that CVE program
Because vulnerability management has nothing to do with national security, right?
US government funding for the world's CVE program – the centralized Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures database of product security flaws – ends Wednesday.…
dlvr.it
April 16, 2025 at 12:06 AM
Uncle Sam abruptly turns off funding for CVE program. Yes, that CVE program
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If you’re stressed out about current events, don’t just sit on the couch and doomscroll! Exercise is great for your mental health. Try going for a doomwalk, doomjog or a doomcycle! Meet up with friends and play a game of doomball, or even go to the gym and doomlift. You’ll feel better in no time!
April 7, 2025 at 3:58 AM
If you’re stressed out about current events, don’t just sit on the couch and doomscroll! Exercise is great for your mental health. Try going for a doomwalk, doomjog or a doomcycle! Meet up with friends and play a game of doomball, or even go to the gym and doomlift. You’ll feel better in no time!
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THIS IS A MUST READ explaining the real purpose behind the tarrifs by Senator Chris Murphy. It is very sinister. "They aren’t designed as economic policy. The tariffs are simply a new, super dangerous political tool" Read the photo or click link to original post. bsky.app/profile/chri...
April 4, 2025 at 3:09 AM
THIS IS A MUST READ explaining the real purpose behind the tarrifs by Senator Chris Murphy. It is very sinister. "They aren’t designed as economic policy. The tariffs are simply a new, super dangerous political tool" Read the photo or click link to original post. bsky.app/profile/chri...
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Every time I recommend a musical, I get a without-fail chorus of "I don't like musicals. Will I like this?" I DON'T KNOW, people. It's your blind spot, not mine. Maybe don't hold any single work of art to the standard of magically curing you of your distaste for an entire unbelievably rich genre?
March 22, 2025 at 3:11 PM
Every time I recommend a musical, I get a without-fail chorus of "I don't like musicals. Will I like this?" I DON'T KNOW, people. It's your blind spot, not mine. Maybe don't hold any single work of art to the standard of magically curing you of your distaste for an entire unbelievably rich genre?
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every college, corporate, and nonprofit president right now
March 22, 2025 at 2:27 PM
every college, corporate, and nonprofit president right now
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Happy Caturday from this absolute unit of a kitten
November 23, 2024 at 5:23 PM
Happy Caturday from this absolute unit of a kitten
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Bro. Hollywood needs to calm their fucking tits. Learn the word "no."
November 3, 2024 at 3:06 AM
Bro. Hollywood needs to calm their fucking tits. Learn the word "no."
Apparently the US Navy attacked Boston tonight? www.universalhub.com/2024/uss-con...
USS Constitution fires on Charlestown, but not intentionally
Shortly after 6 p.m., a cannon onboard Old Ironsides misfired and seemed to have lobbed a projectile at a building on the grounds of the Charlestown Navy Yard. Read more
www.universalhub.com
October 21, 2024 at 4:06 AM
Apparently the US Navy attacked Boston tonight? www.universalhub.com/2024/uss-con...
Bluesky now has over 10 million users, and I was #276,118!
September 17, 2024 at 4:56 PM
Bluesky now has over 10 million users, and I was #276,118!
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If anyone's wondering how things are going on the hellsite: This setting was just turned on by default for everyone. if you still have an account with content, go log in and disable this so Grok can't use your tweets as training data.
Direct link:
twitter.com/settings/gro...
Direct link:
twitter.com/settings/gro...
July 26, 2024 at 2:17 AM
If anyone's wondering how things are going on the hellsite: This setting was just turned on by default for everyone. if you still have an account with content, go log in and disable this so Grok can't use your tweets as training data.
Direct link:
twitter.com/settings/gro...
Direct link:
twitter.com/settings/gro...
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Every since I read this ProPublica piece a few years ago, I use this "pretend we're talking about a guy named Bob" test all the time. (Here it's about antitrust, but it's useful everywhere.)
www.propublica.org/article/yiel...
www.propublica.org/article/yiel...
June 19, 2024 at 3:23 PM
Every since I read this ProPublica piece a few years ago, I use this "pretend we're talking about a guy named Bob" test all the time. (Here it's about antitrust, but it's useful everywhere.)
www.propublica.org/article/yiel...
www.propublica.org/article/yiel...
Amy and I watched the eclipse from Echo Bridge with the whole neighborhood.
April 8, 2024 at 8:25 PM
Amy and I watched the eclipse from Echo Bridge with the whole neighborhood.
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Books designed to be read only by human eyes are different from books designed to be read by machines, which is why Google will tell you that the phrase “shake my booty” can be found in an 1863 English translation of Don Quixote.
March 24, 2024 at 9:27 PM
Books designed to be read only by human eyes are different from books designed to be read by machines, which is why Google will tell you that the phrase “shake my booty” can be found in an 1863 English translation of Don Quixote.