Reposted by cchelbergMorgan Johnson @poormojo.bsky.social · 14/10/2026No joke. I think this is the most important video I have ever seen about mobile games. This guy breaks down how this game psychologically profiles you, and makes the game harder or easier in order to show you ads 179140825757
Reposted by cchelbergHypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 15/10/2026“Although TSA states that it is ‘committed to protecting traveler privacy,’ the audit highlights that this has not been the case.”eff.orgDHS Inspector General Finds That TSA is Not Properly Safeguarding Passenger Facial Recognition DataEFF legal intern Gabrielle Ladun was the principal author of this post. The Department of Homeland Security Office of Inspector General (DHS OIG) has published a summary of findings from its audit of ... 414063
Reposted by cchelbergneutral @neutral.zone · 14/10/2026Computing benefited from an extraordinarily favorable economic arrangement for decades: better hardware became steadily cheaper. Now we've got an industry redirecting enormous resources toward centralized infrastructure, while PCs people use to build things are becoming less affordable. 1305
Reposted by cchelbergPaul Crider @paulcrider.liberalcurrents.com · 13/10/2026This bill would abolish ICE, DHS, and CBP, transferring legitimate customs duties to other departments. It would sunset Section 219 of the INA close the Guantánamo Bay detention facility and shutter all immigration detention centers. You have my sword, milady. 6142111208
Reposted by cchelbergCarl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 13/10/2026Mickey Mouse just stole your online girlfriend.reuters.comCharacter.AI files for bankruptcy, to sell some assets to Disney for $20 millionChatbot platform Character.AI said on Monday it has filed for bankruptcy in the US and has agreed to sell some assets for $20 million to Walt Disney . 47816
Reposted by cchelbergKate Starbird @katestarbird.bsky.social · 13/10/2026Y’all, I hate to rain on the dead bot parade, but the Yandex data center destruction doesn’t seem to have significantly impacted social media bots. I made temporal graphs of X posts about AfD around the time of the attack and there’s no sign of a sudden dip or residual impact on that conversation. 15444991172
Reposted by cchelbergCalliope @calliope5431.bsky.social · 13/09/2026In a way this is a reversion to the pre-Islamic Revolution mean. The Middle East in the 1960s was a virtual war zone between Ba'athist Iraq, the newborn Gulf States, and the region's 1-ton gorilla, Imperial Iran. The British bailed in no small part because they didn't want to deal with it. 27513
Reposted by cchelbergergopraxis @ergopraxis.bsky.social · 20/07/2026Remember when Odysseus meets Achilles in Hades and praises his death and Achilles is like "I was a moron Odysseus, Odysseus I was a fool, I should better have been a hired hand, it wasn't worth it Odysseus" lol. The homeric epic itself is critical of glorious death in battle! 19519
Reposted by cchelbergTom Warren @tomwarren.co.uk · 20/07/2026Microsoft should really stop letting OEMs abuse automatic Windows Update driver installs like this. LG is now auto installing some crapware that shows a McAfee pop up 😵 www.theverge.com/tech/967983/...theverge.comLG’s monitors come with an unwanted addition for Windows: McAfee pop-up adsNo one asked for this. 516645
Reposted by cchelbergCarl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 22/06/2026Why does planning an essay feel like you're doing all the work before doing the work, Grammarly? Because learning the subject, figuring out what you want to say, and planning out of the structure of how to say it *IS* the vast majority of the work of writing. Any writer knows this. You do too. 1041264
Reposted by cchelbergCats of Yore @catsofyore.bsky.social · 23/06/2026Management cannot be held responsible for the disappearance of unattended snacks. Photo from my collection, no date/info. 111456125
Reposted by cchelbergPMC Vanguardist @tylerboschert.bsky.social · 22/06/2026I have been doing a lot of critical reevaluation of Roman and medieval historians recently because I am living through the kind of end to an autocratic regime that very sober, serious modern historians have footnoted with phrases like "an unreliable account from a hostile chronicler." 171358283
Reposted by cchelbergIan Coldwater 🧊🚫 @lookitup.baby · 20/06/2026if you’ve been on the fence about getting an ebike and want to pay less than I paid for mine Velotric is currently having a sale that’s absolutely ridiculous (they did not pay me to post this, I just really love my bike) 916924
Reposted by cchelbergMaaike @maaikeverbruggen.bsky.social · 20/06/2026Shoutout to the Warthunder community 1409
Reposted by cchelbergPwnallthethings @pwnallthethings.bsky.social · 20/06/2026Having sincerely-held virtue ethics is a Good Thing not a Bad Thing, and Ds would be better if they had more of it, not less of it 311911
Reposted by cchelbergMisterJayEm @misterjayem.bsky.social · 19/06/2026Thomas House of Dublin exhibiting the pro-human solidarity that all of us should demonstrate. 491533217
Reposted by cchelbergPopehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 09/06/2026Just used this case to scare the living shit out of every attorney in my firm, with dire threats and refreshers on policy. I am humming a little tune. 381437238
Reposted by cchelbergAsawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 09/06/2026Jokes aside: horrifying but also entirely expected how much MAGA is making California into one of their main staging areas for the upcoming planned assault as we get closer to this year’s Election Day in November. Hoping to have more reporting on this soon but until then: I think it’ll get bad! 211096183
Reposted by cchelberg🇬🇾🗽Sydette The Dreaded Gorgon🗽🇬🇾 @blackamazon.bsky.social · 09/06/2026*blinks in Black person* and is just over it “We never thought it could happen here” If you’ve never included racism/ monitoring via being immigrant/ incarcerated / or the family of such And spent the creeping fascism swearing you were different and special Might be a shock 26224
Reposted by cchelbergAndy Masley @andymasley.bsky.social · 09/06/2026Having access to Claude Mythos is going to help my blogging career so much. A lot of important data center stats are scattered in the documents of random local governments they haven't shared. I can simply get through all their security and access the docs directly now. 320417
Reposted by cchelbergGil Durán @gilduran.com · 09/06/2026Steve Hilton, a Republican from Britain who is running for California governor, was a public champion of Brexit. Has one reporter asked him about his support for this massive failure of a policy, and how it reflects on his political judgement? Not that I could find. 211009286
Reposted by cchelbergNathan Newman @nathansnewman.bsky.social · 09/06/2026Mamdani erasing back rent owed for over 5000 tenants - saving them millions of dollars Showing how to use city power to force corporate landlords to fix unsafe apartments and end exploitative conditions gothamist.com/news/landlor...gothamist.comLandlord targeted by Mamdani agrees to forgive back rent in 5,100 apartmentsThe company Summit says it will waive unpaid rent in its new building portfolio as long as tenants resume making payments. 91395400
Reposted by cchelbergmtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 09/06/2026Los Angeles County literally has a fully transparent vote counting process - the entire count is livestreamed online. This commitment to transparency makes zero difference, mainstream press still credulously repeats GOP info bubble claims of fraud anyway. 283015639
Reposted by cchelbergDr. NerdLove @doctornerdlove.com · 17/05/2026War Thunder. War Thunder never changes. 05716
Reposted by cchelbergStarfire’s Deranged Neocon Foreign Policy Podcast @irhottakes.bsky.social · 14/05/2026I like how Game Freak randomly decided the Squirtle line is for crime. They took one look at Squirtle and said “You are the crime starter. You ooze criminality.” 5564
Reposted by cchelbergQuantian @quantian.bsky.social · 14/05/2026Many people have a vested interest in pretending otherwise, but the US research university is globally dominant to an almost unbelievable degree. The typical state university is a football team stapled to a R&D lab with a budget bigger than the entire nation of Belgium. 464334944
Reposted by cchelbergCaitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 14/05/2026Recently, FamilySearch digitized and uploaded tons of microfilmed records, including many from 18th-century Massachsuetts. They're using some sort of AI to transcribe/summarize the handwritten documents. I've noticed that the AI strips out references to race and enslavement in 18thc documents. 9235451779
Reposted by cchelbergI write words on anime girl pictures @kawaiibossbaby.bsky.social · 09/04/2026why would you do that 🙁 210536
Reposted by cchelbergMel Malus @applefarmer.bsky.social · 08/05/2026In WI, UMOS.org is a great org that educates and fights for farm laborers, including those who find themselves in labor trafficking situations. I highly recommend them. Donate if you can and want to help farm laborers in this big ag state.umos.orgUMOS: Building Better FuturesUMOS is a non-profit advocacy organization providing programs and services to improve employment, educational, health and housing opportunities for all. 0215
Reposted by cchelbergae @aelkus.bsky.social · 13/05/2026Napoleon, Caesar, Alexander…..i wonder what those three had in common…. oh yeah they all couldn’t hold on to anything they won in battle 2192
Reposted by cchelbergKevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 12/05/2026Mamdani has demonstrated something that Democrats have largely forgotten. You can't just do good things for voters and expect to be rewarded for it. You have to tell them about it, over and over again. You have to advertise your work in office just as much as you did on the campaign to win it. 230129913305
Reposted by cchelbergJennifer N. Victor @jenvictor.bsky.social · 12/05/2026Absolute banger from @davekarpf.bsky.social today. Given the fines Musk would have been subject to, it was cheaper for him to buy the government (to the record-breaking tune of $290 million) than face the law. So much corruption. davekarpf.beehiiv.com/p/a-story-of...davekarpf.beehiiv.comA Story of Simple CorruptionIn which Elon Musk buying the government turns out to have been his cheapest option. 8377168
Reposted by cchelbergAaron Vegh @vegh.ca · 12/05/2026Hopefully the first of many great stories about Indigo!techcrunch.comIndigo brings the open social web to one app | TechCrunchIndigo's new social app lets you cross-post to the open social web, including Mastodon and Bluesky, and browse a unified timeline. 1162
Reposted by cchelberg"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 12/05/2026As a final note, the idea that Napoleon (!!!) is some sort of aspirational role model show how detached these guys are from any real historical understanding. In English writing, Napoleon spent the period from 1815 to 1939 with 'Pharaoh' (from Exodus) as the 'Godwin's-Law-Hitler' before Hitler. 3088348
Reposted by cchelbergKevin Beaumont @doublepulsar.com · 12/05/2026Microsoft employees should not have sided with their employer and tutted at employees protesting about Gaza - as it turns out said protesting employees were right. cyberplace.social/@GossiTheDog...cyberplace.socialKevin Beaumont (@GossiTheDog@cyberplace.social)Remember those Microsoft employees protesting about Azure being used by Israel to help genocide? That got fired? And tutted at and laughed at by other MSFT employees? Turns out they were right. Se... 06416
Reposted by cchelberg"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 11/05/2026This is very foolish, especially in current supply-shock conditions: the price will just rise until consumption ends up balanced with supply *anyway.* There is, in fact, no short-term policy solution to a supply shock. You need to restore inputs, replace inputs or destroy demand. 🤷♂️ 1757780
Reposted by cchelbergEd Zitron @edzitron.com · 11/05/2026I think the US should actually enforce its already-existing price gouging laws and then enhance them by saying sites like eBay and StockX can’t charge more than 15% over RRP for electronics or clothes, with an embargo of two years. Scalping should be illegal 202467636
Reposted by cchelbergRachel Holliday Smith @rachelholliday.bsky.social · 11/05/2026some really, really exciting news. we're hiring a two-year reporting fellow to cover higher ed in NYC but especially CUNY!! come work with me and dive into an amazing, complicated and under-covered beatcity-report-inc.breezy.hrHigher Education Reporter at THE CITYAbout THE CITYThe Organization THE CITY is New York City’s award-winning nonprofit, nonpartisan local news organization. Working across all five boroughs, our stellar journalists bring diverse skills ... 6173109
Reposted by cchelbergDr Ellie Mackin Roberts @elliemackinroberts.net · 11/05/2026QPing this in case others don’t know either! orbis.stanford.eduorbis.stanford.eduORBIS: The Stanford Geospatial Network Model of the Roman World 0359
Reposted by cchelbergalex roberts @lexlanham.bsky.social · 11/05/2026you annual reminder that in order to federally register something as a trademark, you have to use it *as a mark* in connection with goods or services you offer for sale that move in interstate commerce 39111
Reposted by cchelbergErin Grievances @erinbartram.bsky.social · 11/05/2026This isn't what I argued, but also, can someone *please* write up some good stuff on the way universities/consulting firms change metrics over time to find the one that justifies closing departments? 522037
Reposted by cchelbergAnil Dash @anildash.com · 10/05/2026I say again: Billionaires, Zohran Mamdani is the best friend you have in this world, and you are fools if you don't see it! 219020