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Chris Devers @cdevers.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

@hey.paris + @gruber.foo — I had a similar (but nowhere near as catastrophic) problem a couple years ago where an Apple gift card that I purchased at a major US dept store couldn’t be redeemed, apparently because someone “pre-activated” the number.

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Chris Devers @cdevers.bsky.social · 24/10/2025

The new #Apple feature for Photos to detect concerts seems useful. If only it worked. Alas. It either detects an event or it doesn’t, but we’re not currently allowed to edit or delete whatever it decides to add as an annotation. Lord, give me the confidence of a mediocre AI engine.

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Chris Devers @cdevers.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

@gruber.foo re: daringfireball.net/linked/2025/..., it seems like one obvious improvement would be a software change to cause macOS to raise a warning notification when the detected power supply is below spec for the system. Such a change could even be rolled out in a macOS 26 patch release.

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Consumer Confusion Regarding USB Power Adapters

Link to: https://daringfireball.net/linked/2025/10/20/heer-m5-mbp-charger

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Chris Devers @cdevers.bsky.social · 22/08/2025

@gruber.foo re: daringfireball.net/linked/2025/..., there’s also the social stigma to “smart glasses”. A coworker had Google Glasses. It was annoying to talk to him, not knowing if he was recording/streaming the conversation, web browsing, etc. “Take those things off so we can just talk, please.”

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Meta’s Ray-Bans Have Sold 2 Million Pairs, Total, as of February

Link to: https://www.theverge.com/news/613292/meta-ray-ban-2-million-10-million-capacity-subscription-essilor-luxottica-earnings

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Chris Devers @cdevers.bsky.social · 13/08/2025

I’ll play along… Farthest I've been: N: Oxford, England (unless flying over the Arctic Ocean counts) E: Tokyo S: Ho Chi Minh City W: Eureka, California

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Chris Devers @cdevers.bsky.social · 12/08/2025

Did anyone ever figure out where that guitar Prince threw landed?

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Opal @opalescentopal.bsky.social · 27/07/2025

With Tom Lehrer's passing, I suppose this is a moment to share the story of the prank he played on the National Security Agency, and how it went undiscovered for nearly 60 years.

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Chris Devers @cdevers.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

My favorite thing about iVim for iPadOS, aside of course from the obvious joy in having `vi` on an iPad, is that fact that `:sh` works, and gives you a reasonably functional shell environment, including both Python & SSH! It’s not a “proper” Terminal, but it works! github.com/terrychou/iVim

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Chris Devers @cdevers.bsky.social · 07/06/2025

…is it too uncool to say aloud that i'm not clicking with Bluesky ?

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Chris Devers @cdevers.bsky.social · 31/05/2025

I’m thirty years late on this, but I watched Wong Kar-Wai’s “Chungking Express” for the first time this week, and the more I think about it, the more convinced I am that the scene where Tony Leung puts a coin in a jukebox might be the coolest shot in cinema history. It’s in the top ten list, anyway.

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Chris Devers @cdevers.bsky.social · 10/05/2025

Send her home. Send them all home. And get the wrongful imprisonment case started.

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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 04/05/2025

Proof this guy is full of SITH.

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Chris Devers @cdevers.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

I was really looking forward to Pope Pizza, if only for the promise of finally, finally getting some liturgical guidance on whether or not pineapple is kosher or not.

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Chris Devers @cdevers.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

Let’s propose some intentionally disappointing Porchfest acts. I’ll start:

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Chris Devers @cdevers.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

Been on a Kurosawa kick lately. “Stray Dogs” was released & set in 1949, about 75 years ago. “Yojimbo”, released 1961, was set in ~1860. So the “contemporary” detective movies are ~as far in our past as (some of) the samurai movies were in Kurosawa’s past. 1850 to 1950 was a huge leap forward!

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Chris Devers @cdevers.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

Turns out, if you’ve had a long weekend and don’t have the tuits to do the midnight marathon bike ride this year, you can just head straight to the finish line and pretend you did all 26.2 miles.

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Chris Devers @cdevers.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

This, the 250th anniversary of Paul Revere’s midnight ride, is an excellent day to ride out to Concord and warn folks that defense against tyranny is every generation’s duty.

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Chris Devers @cdevers.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

Jon King & Hugo Burnham of Gang of Four, being interviewed by Jim Sullivan at Harvard Book Store. I am so looking forward to the Go4 show this weekend.

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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 08/04/2025

Tariffs xkcd.com/3073

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Chris Devers @cdevers.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

Boston’s “Hands Off” protest, April 2025. The republic itself may be under assault, but the people are rising to the occasion.

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Chris Devers @cdevers.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

Is it …normal? in Florida for the cops to not just run over kids on bikes, but also to do so while wearing lucha libre masks?

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Ben Werdmuller @werd.io · 16/03/2025

This is absurdly great, but I haven't read a single news article about it. A fully open source, offline-first alternative to Notion that's a collab between the French and German governments because they want to host docs securely and on their own terms. THIS is what Europe should be doing.

docs.numerique.gouv.fr

Docs

Docs: Your new companion to collaborate on documents efficiently, intuitively, and securely.

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 12/03/2025

Well done, @keating.house.gov A true ally doesn’t just watch—they stand up. I’ve accidentally misgendered someone at my daughter’s school before. It happens. The moment I realized, I apologized and made sure not to do it again. Rep Keith Self did this on purpose. He meant to be hurtful.

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Chris Devers @cdevers.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

#waitingfor Michael Shannon & Jason Narducy (and Jon Wurster & John Stirratt…) covering R.E.M.’s “Reconstruction of the Fables”. And, of course, #beingjen.

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 06/03/2025

Holy shit! In plain sight…

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Chris Devers @cdevers.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

On March 5, 1775, 255 years ago today, the first five patriots were slain for America in the Boston Massacre: • Samuel Gray • Samuel Maverick • James Caldwell • Crispus Attucks • Patrick Carr A quarter of a millennium is a good run for any country, I guess, but all things end. Time to start anew?

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Sam Brody @samuelhayimbrody.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

old Soviet joke for our times: Guy stops by the newsstand every day, scans the front page, doesn’t buy the paper. One day the vendor asks what he’s up to. Guy says: “looking for an obituary.” Vendor says “those are towards the back of the paper, comrade.” Guy says: “not the one I’m looking for.”

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Paul Amirault @paulamirault.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

My 5th Great Grandfather, whose brother was lost at Bunker Hill, didn't spend three years of his life in the 1770s/80s marching all over the Northeast in George Washington's army, for me to stay silent while foreign fascists and traitors try to take over this country. Not on my watch.

Minuteman statue at Lexington Battle Green, Massachusetts, shot from below, with a stormy sky and American flag seen fluttering in background

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Chris Devers @cdevers.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

The final Wu-Tang Clan tour is happening. Tickets are expensive, of course, but fortunately, financing options are available. www.youtube.com/watch?v=zhUn...

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Sam @samd.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

I don’t always agree with all of stancil’s takes but man did he completely nail this one

Will Stancil @whstancil
Musk pretty much confessing on stage that his plan is to manipulate Trump and be secret president
everythingism
@_everythingism • Oct 9, 2024
Replying to@whstancil
Netanyahu: "You can't be president of the US last time I checked right?"
Elon Musk: "Not officially."
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1:56 PM • Oct 9, 2024 - 857.4K Views

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

This man is barely even a formal government employee, let alone elected or Senate-confirmed. A total failure of the Constitutional order, just broadcast & normalized by every major media outlet.

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If you didn't vote Dem, you helped make this: @airbagmoments.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

America has never had a military coup, but we've also never had a hostile foreign takeover, so...

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Chris Devers @cdevers.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s face in this photo speaks for the whole world. Source: www.npr.org/2025/02/20/g...

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Chris Devers @cdevers.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

#waitingfor Jack White and, of course, #beingjen. (And this being Roadrunner, the PA system just played the Modern Lovers. ❣️)

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

Jesus christ, was I giving him ideas?

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Chris Devers @cdevers.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

Captain America: Brave New World, plot synopsis: A deranged red president under the control of a guy fixated on green stuff tries to start a war with America’s allies before, thwarted by a coalition of Black, Latino, & Jewish activists, settles on just destroying the White House and a bunch of DC.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

The irony of the richest man in the world almost single-handedly destroying an agency designed to help the world’s poor, so that the U.S. federal budget has more room for another giant tax cut for the richest man in the world and his pals, should not be lost on anyone. [Cartoon by Mike Luckovich]

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Chris Devers @cdevers.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

Recently got a record player, for the first time since I was a kid, which means now I need records. Naturally, the first order of business was to get the Fugazi catalog from @dischord.bsky.social. Surely a federal coup is enough motivation to finally bring this band back together, right?

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Chris Devers @cdevers.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

Finally visited the new Davis Square HMart. Was not disappointed in their inventory.

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MachinePix @machinepix.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

Bao machine.

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Chris Devers @cdevers.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

❝ I mean, what we’re seeing is what you’d expect if China and Russia had somehow managed to install people who wanted to sabotage America’s international position at the highest levels of the U.S. government. ❞ paulkrugman.substack.com/p/sabotaging...

paulkrugman.substack.com

Sabotaging the Pax Americana

Trump and Musk are making us distrusted, friendless and weak

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Chris Devers @cdevers.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

All this talk about sportsball gets me thinking it’s a great night to rewatch the best sports movie ever made.

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Dan Hon @danhon.com · 05/02/2025

1/ Here's my take on what's happening with DOGE. I've got fed experience through contracting with Health & Human Safety, Head Start, The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, and DOD. I get brought in when people need to get shit done. Other people here have way more experience than me.

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SwiftOnSecurity @swiftonsecurity.com · 26/01/2025

This is a fantastic point I had not considered before. The _act_ of writing is the actual practice, not the end-result. The refining of so much you do happens in the dialogue you have with the page.

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Chris Devers @cdevers.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

#waitingfor the generative Brian Eno documentary and, of course, #beingjen (Actually this is a lie, a group of us watched it last night, and it was fascinating and I want to see it again.)

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