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Brian McEntire @brianmcentire.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Claude horror story in 4 words: "What I built instead"

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Gravel Influencer @gravelinfluencer.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

If someone is concerned about the risk to pedestrians from e-bikes, e-motos, and scooters, but doesn't support taking away space from cars to build safer micro-mobility infrastructure then I would question their commitment to safety

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Brian McEntire @brianmcentire.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

@bodegacats.bsky.social adjacent #bikeShopCats #cycling One of my favorites from my stock photography days [Stocksy: www.stocksy.com/photo/48767/... ]

An orange tabby cat sits upright on a textured floor mat in a bike shop, looking off to the right. Behind him, out of focus, a mechanic in a black shirt and shorts works on a bicycle wheel on a workbench lined with bins and parts.

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Brian McEntire @brianmcentire.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

Trucks and SUVs have grown comically oversized. It would be funny if it weren't so deadly.

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Brian McEntire @brianmcentire.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

@theverge.com @reckless.bsky.social Mind blown by the federal ban on Fable 5. Experienced it live Friday night. The implications are massive: Fable 5 was the leading edge of frontier models. Does the halt potentially mean progress and competition on new LLMs stops? Need The Verge's PoV

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Jason Gorman @jasongorman.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

Any government that isn't right now accelerating plans to transition to 100% clean, renewable energy is either: a. Incompetent b. In the pockets of people who'd rather they didn't c. a & b

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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

One good use of the supposed two-week ceasefire is to get back to talking about the Epstein files

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Werner @wernervogels.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

For two decades, S3 has been an object store, but today it's broader. S3 Files lets you mount any bucket as a file system—Andy Warfield tells the full story; no copies, no sync scripts, no choosing between file and object. www.allthingsdistributed.com/2026/04/s3-f...

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S3 Files and the changing face of S3

Andy Warfield writes about the hard-won lessons dealing with data friction that lead to S3 Files

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Eric Foltz @ericfoltz.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

If we bought a few less bombs, we could probably afford nice things. One thing I'd like to see from the next presidency would be to appoint a special commission to prepare a report on the actual cost to defend the United States from attack. Not foreign wars. Just the cost to defend this country.

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Melanie Walsh @mellymeldubs.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

Whoa. "[F]inetuning exclusively on Haruki Murakami's novels unlocks verbatim recall of copyrighted books from over 30 unrelated authors...Our findings offer compelling evidence that model weights store copies of copyrighted works." papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

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Alignment Whack-a-Mole : Finetuning Activates Verbatim Recall of Copyrighted Books in Large Language Models

Frontier LLM companies have repeatedly assured courts and regulators that their models do not store copies of training data. They further rely on safety alignme

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Regina Burstein @mplsfietser.bike · 18/03/2026

The experience absolutely matters. I could walk hours down a bustling pedestrian-oriented commercial street or a tree-lined urban residential street but only like 5 minutes (willingly) down a wide stroad with huge parking lots in front of every building.

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Brian McEntire @brianmcentire.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

Great free tools for making / working with bike routes: • Move the start point of an existing route. Trim, reverse, or merge routes too - www.therideatlas.com/tools/ • Overlay routes to compare them, edit courses with or w/o routing - gpx.studio Thanks and kudos to the authors! #cycling #gis

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🌿 Regenerative Earth 🌿 @fengshuihealing.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

Oh, I laughed too hard. This is too real.

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Brian McEntire @brianmcentire.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

You guys. Is AI Extinction bad? It sounds bad. HT @reckless.bsky.social www.dallasfed.org/research/eco...

Dallas Fed chart showing AI impacts on GDP including Singularity Benign scenario and Singularity Extinction

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Brian McEntire @brianmcentire.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

Today's @theverge.com Vergecast pod www.theverge.com/podcast/8729... was thought provoking. Motivated me to learn more about LibGen. Amazing that it exists! Sad that the giant library is inaccessible to so many people yet foundational to for-profit AI companies. At least Gemini could commiserate...

A one page document showing a prompt, and Gemini's response, discussing the existence of LibGen (Library Genesis) and the irony that a massive digital library of humanity's published written works is inaccessible to many people but directly used by AI companies to train their for-profit models.

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Brian McEntire @brianmcentire.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

The best of the Internet includes @archive.org and hobbyists who've curated amazing archives. Discovered the TRS-80 Color Computer Archive of Rainbow magazine... instantly transported back to my 1980s living room typing in 100s of lines of BASIC with my brother to make an arcade game #retroComputing

Photo of a page of a The Rainbow Magazine displaying BASIC code with a screenshot of the video game that is the finished result.

The Rainbow Vol. 06 No. 01 - August 1986, p. 124

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Brian McEntire @brianmcentire.bsky.social · 17/01/2026

It's not a lot, but sure was pretty to wake up to in Frederick, MD @capitalweather.bsky.social

About 1 inch of accumulated snow on trees in forest and back yard with spilt rail fence

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Brian McEntire @brianmcentire.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

Only recently began reading @anildash.com and damn, that's on the nose: ...identified as “market inefficiencies” which indicated some wealth was going to you that should have been going to them. Enjoying these posts.

Screenshot of Anil Dash blog post with portion highlighted that says: "“market inefficiencies” which indicated some wealth was going to you that should have been going to them."

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Justin @ediparolev.bsky.social · 10/01/2026

“Uruguay did what most nations still call impossible: it built a power grid that runs almost entirely on renewables—at half the cost of fossil fuels. The physicist who led that transformation says the same playbook could work anywhere—if governments have the courage to change the rules.”

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Uruguay’s Renewable Charge: A Small Nation, A Big Lesson For The World

Uruguay built a power grid that runs 99% on renewables—at half the cost of fossil fuels. Here’s how its bold energy overhaul became a global model.

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David Zipper @davidzipper.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

Congestion pricing is a heckuva street safety strategy www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

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Josh Chafetz @joshchafetz.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

Congestion pricing is an unqualified success in NYC. It would be great to see it expanded to every city with decent public transit options. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

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Congestion pricing after one year: How life has changed.

How life has changed in the New York area, according to data on traffic, transit and the responses of 600 readers.

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Brian McEntire @brianmcentire.bsky.social · 30/12/2025

Veloviewer Wrapped: I worked too much. But, I have more energy in 2025 than 2024. Rode a metric century and nabbed a KOM. At 50, trying to balance cardio w strength training. Riding w friends is way more fun. Middling year for total miles, but pretty good year for frequency. @veloviewer.com

“VeloViewer 2025 cycling summary infographic for Brian McEntire. Shows 2,492 miles ridden over 287 active days, totaling 289 hours and 164,373 feet of elevation (5.6× Everest). Includes a colorful calendar heatmap of daily rides, bar charts of distance over time, and ride stats such as max ride distance 62 miles, max elevation 5,374 feet, longest streak 26 days, and one century ride. Location listed as New York City, United States, with a map arrow pointing to Bogotá, Colombia. Powered by Strava.”

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Kelly Vaughn @kvlly.com · 25/12/2025

(Checking my notifications this morning) Dad: Merry Xmas Text group: Merry Christmas love you all! Chase: Your statement is available

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Brian McEntire @brianmcentire.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

Took a day off to Christmas shop. Decided to work out first. Now I'm using AI to make a list of Internet Boom/Tech Culture shows for riding the trainer (which I'll definitely do... eventually 😅) Haven't seen all of these yet, but a few are all-time favorites. How'd I do? What am I missing?

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The Dial-Up Dreams Collection

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Brian McEntire @brianmcentire.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

I am unreasonably excited about this "pre-Invent" announcement - Interrupible ODCRs!!! This is going to save massive amounts of money for customers that can put unused capacity to productive use 🤩 #AWS aws.amazon.com/about-aws/wh... aws.amazon.com/blogs/comput...

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Amazon EC2 announces interruptible Capacity Reservations - AWS

Discover more about what's new at AWS with Amazon EC2 announces interruptible Capacity Reservations

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Mina Kimes @minakimes.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

Bill Ackman gotta be on the third draft of a tweet longer than Middlemarch right now

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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

Happy Zohran Day to all who celebrate!!

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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 02/11/2025

Meanwhile, in South Korea: "Starting at the end of November, public parking lots with more than 80 spaces will be required to install solar power generation facilities. This obligation applies not only to newly constructed parking lots but also to existing ones." cm.asiae.co.kr/en/article/2...

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Mandatory Installation of Solar Panels in Public Parking Lots to Apply Retroactively to Existing Facilities

Starting at the end of November this year, public parking lots with more than 80 spaces will be required to install solar power generation facilities. ...

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

In a win for the arts and universal basic income, Ireland plans to make permanent a $1,500-a-month pilot program for artists, citing benefits to creativity, mental health, and financial stability.

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Ireland plans to make a $1,500 a month basic income for artists permanent

Ireland's Basic Income for the Arts experiment has given creatives a weekly payment for three years. Now, a permanent program could be on the way.

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

I'm no economist but the fact that more than 42 million Americans (1 in 8!) are on SNAP (i.e., food stamps) says that the federal minimum wage is way too low.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 18/10/2025

Our federal tax dollars are being used to fund a network of government social media accounts that pump out disinformation 24/7. Even during a government shutdown. It’s definitely not essential work.

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Eric Roston @eroston.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

Oh: - The US sold $80 billion in oil and gas abroad through July. - China exported $120 billion in green technology over the same period. By @akshatrathi.bsky.social 🎁🔗 www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

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China Is Beating the US in the Battle for Energy Export Dominance

China’s exports of clean energy technology hit a record in August, with $20 billion shipped globally.

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Mark Gongloff @markgongloff.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

Don't sleep on Michelle Wu, one of this country's most quietly effective climate leaders, cruising to a second term in Boston. It's telling that business interests tried and failed to stop her and are pouting about it now Gift link: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

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Boston Mayor’s Blowout Victory Jilts CEOs Seeking New Direction

Boston Mayor Michelle Wu is coasting to reelection after her main opponent quit the race, giving her a commanding mandate that’s putting city business leaders on edge.

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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 09/09/2025

IMPORTANT STUDY: “On average, the implementation of 30 km/h speed limits in European cities demonstrated a 23%, 37% & 38% reduction in road crashes, fatalities & injuries respectively. Lower speed limits also yielded environmental benefits.” www.nrso.ntua.gr/review-of-ci...

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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 04/09/2025

Nobody who voted to confirm RFK is fit to hold public office

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Ann Keller @annck.bsky.social · 17/08/2025

Remember when restaurants figured out they could make more $ when they banned smoking? I love reading this!

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