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Just Kurt

@0xsilverfang.bsky.social
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I break computers usually on purpose | Infosec | Outdoorsman Extraordinaire | General TTRPG Nerd | Occasional Game Dev | Not nearly as cool as Vonnegut or Cobain | He/Him

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Ian Coldwater 🧊🚫 @lookitup.baby · 4h
If you’re in the market for a good bike helmet (especially important at ebike speeds), Walmart has absolutely BANANAS deals on Giro helmets with MIPS right now. Like $200 off good. Protect your head
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 23h
This afternoon in Marble Hill, a New Yorker was shot by an ICE agent in a residential neighborhood. Early reports indicate agents surrounded him and a 5-year-old child in his car before firing multiple rounds. We believe the child was physically unharmed.

This is an unconscionable and incredibly serious situation. I have called the President; when we speak I will demand that he ends all ICE enforcement actions in our city. I will not stand by while ICE agents terrorize our communities.

Our thoughts are with the injured New Yorker and his family tonight. We are praying for his recovery.

Get ICE out of our neighborhoods. Get ICE out of our hospitals. Get ICE off our streets. Get ICE away from our children.

Abolish ICE.
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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
It's not a foolproof plan but every political debate from now on should be a Normal Guy competition. Ask them to describe grocery shopping in detail. Talk about what it's like to have a friend
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Amanda Levendowski Tepski @tepski.tech · 08/10/2026
Faculty are understandably fixated on AI, but we gotta start planning for persistent recording devices like Meta Glasses and the new Apple Watch.
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bryan newbold @bnewbold.net · 07/10/2026
ah damn, RIP Margaret Hamilton. she took safety-critical software engineering seriously, and got people to the moon and back. news.mit.edu/2026/margare...
old photos of a woman (Margaret Hamilton) standing next to a tall stack of books (printouts of Apollo space mission software source code)
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
www.bostonglobe.com/2026/10/06/m...
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Protesters barricade road to Vermont ICE facility with ‘community gardens’ - The Boston Globe
About 40 protesters built flower boxes in the middle of a road to block access to ICE facilities in Williston on Tuesday.
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𝐆𝐑𝐈𝐌 🎃 @gcbaccaris.itch.io · 06/10/2026
If you dig this, you're going to love what we're cooking up at the National Virtual Forum for Digital Games in Libraries! the event is online and free to attend; register now and join us October 29-30: soe.uncg.edu/rdi/dgil/for...
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National Virtual Forum for Digital Games in Libraries
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Pumpkin Spice Dracula Enthusiast @kmfao.latinsky.app · 05/10/2026
This is what I mean about imposter syndrome. Quaker is over here pushing a narrative that its customers are going to have a conversation about oatmeal on twitter and you think it's annoying to repost your art more than once.
IMAGE: The side of a box of bulk oatmeal packets. A call to action with the instagram, tiktok, pinterest and twitter logo on the side

TEXT: For special offers, information & to join the conversation, visit: QuakerOats.com or @Quaker
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Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
President Sheinbaum on the nature of the Right Wing: "The right wing is a movement, ideology, who is against the people. It doesn't defend people, it defends economic interests." "It promotes authoritarianism and violence, it is against democracy, government by the people.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 06/10/2026
my friend @juddlegum.bsky.social has put together a cool new tool that allows you to photograph political mail and immediately learn who paid for it. Check it out here:
paidforby.info
Who paid for this?
Find out who really paid for political mailers and TV ads.
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toilet bones @toiletbones.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Found the email I sent when I got accidentally added to the faculty listserv of an orthopedic surgery clinic and nobody would remove me so I sent this email to all faculty/staff/med students and they removed me almost immediately
Hello Bone Colleagues, 
I have invented a new type of ankle and I'm very excited to show it to you. Early raccoon trials suggest a 60% increase in scurrying speed and dramatic increases in fine motor banditry. I know we are not supposed to create super raccoons, but I think you'll change your mind and professional ethics when you see how cute they are. I believe we are on the cusp of a new era in advanced human scurrying because if medical science has taught me anything, it's that improvements in raccoons correspond 1:1 to improvements in humans. 

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[My name]
Chief Bone Inventor
Chair, Department of Foot and Leg Innovation
Lord Mayor, Musculoskeletal Medicine 
Hartford HealthCare,
The Bone & Joint Institute at Hartford Hospital.
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JNR (Civ Modding) @jnr-modding.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
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Cynthia Brumfield @metacurity.com · 05/10/2026
Every woman who has shared her SA story with me said some variation of this: "Any sort of analysis or reflection was drowned out by the fact that I was stunned that it happened, embarrassed that it happened, and ashamed that I let it happen to myself." Not one out of maybe dozens called the cops.
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Part of why I don't like the AI-or-bust economy is the constant flopsweat of people on the news who say this HAS to work. Quit making everyone so anxious. Goddamn. If this is the next Google then why are you acting like this? I don't remember being told to buy an iPhone at gunpoint.
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Alexandre Dulaunoy @adulau.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 04/10/2026
Threat-Actor explorer v1.1.0 released with many improvements and upgrade to the latest Pivotick library Latest A standalone, browser-only HTML/JavaScript application for exploring the MISP threat-actor galaxy, UUID-based relationships across every cluster […] [Original post on infosec.exchange]
Overview of the Threat-Actor explorer.
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Colette Delawalla, PhD @cdelawalla.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
I must say, I LOVE @pbs.org for my son. Having low intensity, educational shows for him to watch in a sea of slop, is a genuinely wonderful public service. We are watching a Daniel Tiger episode on voting with a little song called “stop, think, and choose”. It’s just so good.
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ve, the ghost of info past @vortexegg.com · 03/10/2026
This is the construction of sociotechnical systems of networked harassment as normal mainstream consumer product features in the age of digital vigilantism and digital lynch mob-facilitated technofascism, utilizing one of the features that LLMs are particularly good at. MetaFarms. Libs of Meta.
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UBI Works @ubiworks.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
It's commonly accepted that basic income would boost the economy, healthcare, and personal freedoms.
Portrait of Max Fawcett with quote arguing UBI boosts growth, supports jobs, and lowers healthcare costs.
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tweety fish oh wow like a chimera or something spoooky @sifu.tweety.fish · 29/09/2026
Like will LLMs (especially open weight ones) allow different scale on offense and defense? Sure. But most of infosec is about incentive structure and friction, and this changes one temporarily and the other not at all
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Jason Scott @textfiles.com · 29/09/2026
Link to the direct app in Google for this amazing book donation app: play.google.com/store/apps/d...
play.google.com
Donate Books - Apps on Google Play
Check books with your camera for donation to the Internet Archive.
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Jonathan Kamens 86 47 @jik.federate.social.ap.brid.gy · 28/09/2026
Look… In the year 2026, when publicly accessible buckets, databases, etc., etc., are a 100% known problem, it is nothing less than malpractice for a company hosting databases not to be continuously scanning for databases and tables that are queryable without authentication and blocking access to […]
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Zack Whittaker @zackwhittaker.com · 27/09/2026
Solid reporting here on the ongoing Citrix shituation.
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evacide @evacide.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
The most important thing I learned in my 20s is that being smart doesn't make you special. Eventually you need to learn to try hard and to enjoy learning to do things you're not immediately good at. It turns out that the people who didn't learn this lesson were reading Harry Potter fanfic.
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Tom McKay @catturd2.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
imagining a dystopia where every rich person is a giant genetically engineered baby
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Jake Williams @malwarejake.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Peak content.
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Karly Kingsley @karlykingsley.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I don’t know. It’s not that reassuring to know that this administration has a space weapon circling the planet and that could reshape how we interact with space forever. This administration can’t figure out how to stop measles after we already beat it and now we’re just okay with space weapons?
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Just Kurt @0xsilverfang.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Only if there's a cash reward. "Beware that, when fighting monsters, you yourself do not become a monster... for when you gaze long into the abyss. The abyss gazes also into you."
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Ian Coldwater 🧊🚫 @lookitup.baby · 18/09/2026
You know what’s an actual existential threat to humanity? Climate change. Weirdly, I don’t see the same people worrying about that. Odd. Wonder why that might be
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Micah Lee @micahflee.com · 16/09/2026
I've got a lot of work to do today but I'm getting absolutely nerdsniped by the new Flock dataset. You can download it here. It's all of the Android partitions extracted from a Flock device ddosecrets.org/article/floc...
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Flock ALPR camera - Distributed Denial of Secrets
Filesystem images of the partitions on an in-use Flock ALPR camera, including custom Android APK files installed on the device, as well as its recorded media. The data reveals how the devices track bo...
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Karly Kingsley @karlykingsley.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Good question
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Audio Antihero (New Avery Friedman Single Out Oct 9th!) @audioantihero.bandcamp.com · 14/09/2026
GOG: Game is cursed. Everyone involved in development died on the same day in different years. The company shut down after the principal tester started a fire and locked the doors. The files are presumed lost but confirmed poisonous. We have it. Satan licks your ankle when you run it. It’s $2.49.
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 14/09/2026
Your regular reminder: If the Russians stop fighting, the war ends. If the Ukrainians stop fighting, their land will be occupied, their leaders will be killed, their history and language will be erased, their children will be kidnapped to serve Russia.
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 08/09/2026
For years, New Yorkers have demanded access to City records about the lasting health impacts of the horrific September 11th attacks. For years, they have been denied and ignored. That ends today. nyc.gov/sept11docs
nyc.gov
September 11 Docs
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🎃 It’s the Mid Pumpkin, Emily 🎃 @lefttheprairie.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Please read this whole thread. It’s a very good depiction of how community care looks right now. Please be ready to show the same care.
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Benj Edwards @benjedwards.com · 03/09/2026
We have this really fat cardinal named Gary that hangs out in our yard and he’s awesome
Gary the red cardinal bird sitting on a fence
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Chad Loder @chadloder.dev · 02/09/2026
"Bottom 60% of households" is a wild phrase
CBS NEWS
The findings? For the bottom 60% of U.S. households, a
"minimal quality of life" is out of reach, according to the group, a research organization focused on improving lower earners' economic well-being.
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ve, the ghost of info past @vortexegg.com · 30/08/2026
In an age of extremism everyone is an extremism scholar
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River_Tam @rivertam.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
This is bonkers
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Hello, it is me, Kira. :) @kirabira.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
She also really debunks the common justifications about religion, region, and age. Your grandparents and parents have shitty values because they have shitty values, not because of anything else. They could do better. Anyone can use their eyes to see the world and have the correct read.
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Rob Davis @pezoporus.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Interesting learned behaviour from our Perth Hills magpies. They seemed to have learned that there’s good pickings to be had in front of a cool bush burn.
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Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
One thing that's been bugging me today: people who claim Dolly Parton wasn't political. False. She was very political. Her art and life's work were about interrogating power + amplifying the powerless. You only think she wasn't political because she did this by example, not bullshit slogans.
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Meredith McClaren @iniquitousfish.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Okay. Here's the deal. We have lost... pretty much the unanimous moral foundation of our nation. The imperative now. The only way forward. Is to be the kind of person Dolly would have been proud of.
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Joel @itsjoels.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
This is the letter kids got at the end of Dolly’s Imagination Library. I defy you to read this and not cry.
Sorry, I can’t type that.
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Rolling Stone @rollingstone.com · 25/08/2026
Dolly Parton's family asked that, in lieu of flowers, fans make a donation to the singer's Imagination Library. Here's what the charity does ⬇️ www.rollingstone.com/music/music-...
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Turning Pages: Inside Dolly Parton's Imagination Library
Core team of 15 staff and thousands of volunteers and partners help the country-music philanthropist deliver books to kids around the world.
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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 25/08/2026
"Several Waldorf board members are professionally focused on artificial intelligence, but at the school machine learning is minimized in favor of “human learning.” The goal is to train the future elite to think clearly."
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Hazel Weakly @hazelweakly.me · 24/12/2025
The two hardest problems in Computer Science are 1. Human communication 2. Getting people in tech to believe that human communication is important
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 23/08/2026
these people really want to make "racist" akin to a slur rather than what it is, a straightforward label for a set of beliefs and views. if you don't like the label because you, correctly, associate it with degenerate chuds, then get better beliefs
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Matthew Garrett @mjg59.eicar-test-file.zip · 21/08/2026
You know what even locally hosted LLMs are great at? Reverse engineering the proprietary code of big tech and writing copies that are, we are repeatedly told by big tech, not copyright infringing. I am really looking forward to AI companies trying to thread that needle in copyright law.
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Alanah Pearce @alanahpearce.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
A certain AAA studio told employees that their internal gen AI was trained only on local data, but whenever said employees tried to generate an image of a woman holding a gun, it generated Lara Croft. The studio was not Crystal Dynamics, and had never worked on the Tomb Raider IP in any capacity.
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