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@cwj.bgmn.net
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sysadmin living in Milwaukee, fixer of things, breaker of more things Listener of #phish and #gratefuldead, regular #jococruise attendee, #frogpants fan, #lego builder He/Him/His. Opinions are just my own and do not represent anybody I associate with.

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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 09/10/2026
This is the proper response & the energy Democrats need to matching. ICE is kidnapping, maiming, & killing people over administrative civil infractions. Like… Imagine getting gestapoed for expired tags on your car. This shit is unconscionable & ICE must be destroyed. Good on Mamdani for saying so.
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bgmncwj @cwj.bgmn.net · 08/10/2026
Can I act cruelly towards my cup of coffee? If not, what’s the difference? I’m guessing it’s not that the treatment reinforces human behavior towards others, which I’m guessing it would (but I’m not sure that’s been studied). For the last time, LLMs are not alive www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...
theverge.com
Anthropic bans ‘abusive or cruel behavior’ toward Claude
The usage policy update also adds new rules addressing propaganda campaigns, surveillance, and weapon development.
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bgmncwj @cwj.bgmn.net · 01/10/2026
I’ll take “this sounds like a terrible idea for $1000, Ken”
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bgmncwj @cwj.bgmn.net · 18/09/2026
I noticed a few weeks ago the domain for the countdown site I frequented leading up to the #JocoCruise expired. So I did a thing www.jcc-countdown.com It’s useful for me, but hopefully a few others too as a quick way to brighten up the day as the nerd boat‘s departure approaches.
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JoCo Cruise 2027 Countdown (unofficial)
An unofficial countdown to JoCo Cruise 2027, sailing February 20–27, 2027.
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bgmncwj @cwj.bgmn.net · 17/09/2026
Be sure to buy this guy a coffee! Or 20.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed." -Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1953
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bgmncwj @cwj.bgmn.net · 13/09/2026
Hey @atrupar.com, is there a way to support your awesome work that isn’t funneling money though substack? Happy to support your work, just really don’t like supporting some other folks they platform.
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bgmncwj @cwj.bgmn.net · 10/09/2026
I really want to love Amtrak but it’s stuff like this that drives me mad. Both of these trains have long since departed.
Displays in union station reporting two trains, one boarding currently and one next up. Both have already long since left.
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bgmncwj @cwj.bgmn.net · 03/09/2026
Well @1password.bsky.social, I’m a long time customer, brought my business account to you and encouraged friends and family to sign up. After your latest move, that quite frankly is pretty unexplainable, looks like I’m taking the vacation day today to look into alternatives. Very disappointed.
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bgmncwj @cwj.bgmn.net · 26/08/2026
So, anybody know a good paid for Maps app for iOS that respects my privacy, has no ads and decent CarPlay integration? 9to5mac.com/2026/08/26/a...
9to5mac.com
Ads have landed in Apple Maps, and they are as bad as expected - 9to5Mac
When we ran a poll last month, the overwhelming majority of 9to5Mac readers agreed that Apple should exit the ad...
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bgmncwj @cwj.bgmn.net · 14/08/2026
I’ve used this app for 5 minutes and I’m already sold. Fixes everything I didn’t like with the regular reminders app!
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bgmncwj @cwj.bgmn.net · 03/08/2026
The problem with this data is mke police don’t normally bother to show up to accident calls let alone file paperwork. apple.news/AJFh0VAwdSMa...
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Has construction on the south side led to more accidents? Not really. — Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Residents report that major construction on Milwaukee’s south side feels chaotic, but data shows accidents near work zones declined or stayed steady.
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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
Indeed. We are not forcing upon Graham the memory of him being a villain, a coward, and a malignant presence in the country; that was the legacy he chose again and again. He earned our contempt, as has everyone else on his path.
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bgmncwj @cwj.bgmn.net · 12/07/2026
If this keeps up I’m going to run out of people I’ve sworn I’ll outlive.
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M. Belanger @sethanikeem.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
And I say this with my whole chest: The anti-trans movement is not about trans people. It’s certainly not about protecting children It is about legislating conformity It is about restricting bodily autonomy It is about erasing all free expression they find disagreeable —It is about control—
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bgmncwj @cwj.bgmn.net · 30/06/2026
Glad the Supreme Court upheld birthright citizenship but it’s super concerning it wasn’t 9-0.
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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
This is the only thing anyone should ever say about Elon Musk. He deserves to be talked about in the same category as Mao and Stalin as one of history's worst mass murderers.
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 09/06/2026
Man, fuck this dude
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bgmncwj @cwj.bgmn.net · 09/06/2026
Wow Ubuntu, this is just bad. How do you goober this up at all, let alone for 9+ hrs? And yes, I’m quite annoyed it woke me up this morning due to servers going down. bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+sour...
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Bug #2155992 “headers-more dynamic module crash | Signal 11 and...” : Bugs : nginx package : Ubuntu
Environment: - OS: Ubuntu 24.04 LTS (noble), arm64 - nginx package: nginx 1.24.0-2ubuntu7.10 - nginx flavor: nginx-extras 1.24.0-2ubuntu7.10 - headers-more package: libnginx-mod-http-headers-m...
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bgmncwj @cwj.bgmn.net · 08/06/2026
Does the county not realize that making me wait two more hours before determining if I have jury duty this afternoon completely wastes my morning?! Do they not employee any neurodivergent folks to run these policies by first? 😂
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bgmncwj @cwj.bgmn.net · 07/06/2026
So here’s the thing Apple. If I’m listening to a podcast and open Apple News you should not pause my podcast so I can hear nonsense F1 coverage. If wanted to hear that I’d you know, select it.
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bgmncwj @cwj.bgmn.net · 05/06/2026
It’s nice to wake up to some half decent news for a change. www.engadget.com/2188069/spac...
engadget.com
SpaceX won't get early access to the S&P 500 - Engadget
The largest index in the world won't relax its rules to let SpaceX enter early.
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bgmncwj @cwj.bgmn.net · 31/05/2026
Wow, I just heard a podcast ad for Reddit. It feels like just a few years ago, before they made certain decisions, that wouldn’t have needed to be a thing.
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bgmncwj @cwj.bgmn.net · 30/05/2026
Just finished For All Mankind, that's some solid TV. Unrelated, it's awfully dusty in here all of a sudden.
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bgmncwj @cwj.bgmn.net · 30/05/2026
The older I get the more I realize it's true, history is pretty circular. I thought the computing world settled this a bit ago and discovered it wasn't the best idea to punish those finding bugs in your products? techcrunch.com/2026/05/29/m...
techcrunch.com
Microsoft under fire for threatening security researcher with criminal investigation | TechCrunch
A public spat between Microsoft and an independent security researcher reopens a long-running debate over who is responsible for securing software.
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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 29/05/2026
Everything has to change. Everything. Do not settle for politicians who want to go back to "normal." "Normal" was the garbage state of existence that allowed all of this evil to take root and thrive. Everything has to change.
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bgmncwj @cwj.bgmn.net · 28/05/2026
Tell me again how LLMs aren’t really the same as a bunch of monkeys typing stumbling upon Shakespeare?
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
"They leaked his tax returns, they tried to destroy him." If revealing your official tax returns -- something every single president and VP for forty years before Trump did voluntarily -- could possibly "destroy" you, that is the scandal.
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bgmncwj @cwj.bgmn.net · 14/05/2026
Homeland security elevator inspection division? Calm down there Indiana.
Indiana homeland security lift/elevator operating license from a hotel in Indiana
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Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
Then I guess it's not a financially sustainable organization. They'll have to close some locations or shorten their hours. Alternatively, we could end the public navy and let private navies provide this service.
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bgmncwj @cwj.bgmn.net · 05/05/2026
Narrator: this wasn’t what customers actually wanted from Target apple.news/Ai2bqcMs-RG2...
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Target invests $265M to give shoppers exactly what they want — TheStreet
Target makes a key move to fix customers' biggest complaint.
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bgmncwj @cwj.bgmn.net · 25/04/2026
You know, I feel like I saw this in a comic book and it didn’t end well apple.news/ASMfXnszoTk6...
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South Dakota Supreme Court rules officer names can be kept secret — The Associated Press
Two police officers involved in a shootout with a suspect in 2024 can have their names protected from public view to prevent someone from potentially locating or harassing the officer or their familie...
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bgmncwj @cwj.bgmn.net · 08/04/2026
What am I missing? It seems removing the Client Auth EKU from publicly trusted certs just makes them less useful without a upside? Granted I don’t think most were used that way but it was still useful.
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bgmncwj @cwj.bgmn.net · 07/04/2026
The next person to come to me with “.. but Claude said” — I don’t care what Claude said, it’s often wrong or at not fully correct (insert LLM excuse here as to why..) in any case it’s not a defense against a human who actually knows what they’re doing.
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bgmncwj @cwj.bgmn.net · 07/04/2026
It definitely wasn’t ”changing customer habits“ that stopped me from shopping at Pick ’N Save after they were bought by Kroger. It was poor staffing, empty shelves and an overall terrible customer experience. Now I exclusively shop Costco and Woodmans and it’s been great. apple.news/AsccVTK8oS02...
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More trouble brewing for Albertsons and Kroger — TheStreet
The grocery giants are still feeling the effects of this one major failure.
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Dan Shafer @danshafer.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
Here’s your periodic reminder to VOTE TOMORROW IN THE SPRING ELECTION, WISCONSIN!
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bgmncwj @cwj.bgmn.net · 30/03/2026
So the answer to people not wanting to fix their cars is to poison us all? That does sound like a republican approach at least, I guess apple.news/AST4heP-9St6...
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Governor candidate Tom Tiffany calls to end Wisconsin emissions tests — Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Congressman Tom Tiffany, who is running for governor, joined Republican state lawmakers who want to end vehicle emissions tests in southeast counties.
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bgmncwj @cwj.bgmn.net · 29/03/2026
So after a (great) week on the #jococruise I’m just now supposed to accept when I wake up, there’s nobody in my kitchen to make me a custom omelet besides me? (╯°□°)╯︵ ┻━┻
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Dimitri Drekonja, MD, MS @dimitridrekonja.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
“I’m a cop, don’t ask me about the law” is quite a line 😳😳😳
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bgmncwj @cwj.bgmn.net · 28/03/2026
Know who stopped being funny a long time ago? Vince Vaughn. Colbert however keeps bringing the laughs in this rough time. apple.news/AzGvLJiwDSkS...
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Vince Vaughn Criticizes Late-Night TV for Having Political 'Agenda': 'It Stopped Being Funny and Started Feeling Like I Was in Class' — Variety
Vince Vaughn has some thoughts about late-night television.
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bgmncwj @cwj.bgmn.net · 27/03/2026
Wouldn’t it be great if it happened tomorrow?
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Patrick Monahan @pattymo.com · 27/03/2026
Everyone relax, Kash Patel’s PERSONAL email was hacked. As we all know, conservatives don’t conduct any government business on personal email because they believe it’s wrong
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Covie @covie93.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
No amount of water ICE agents hand out in airports will let people forget the murdering, kidnapping and raping they are doing.
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C. Robert Cargill @crobertcargill.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
If J.K. Rowling had fucked a kid or said the N-word, this wouldn't even be a discussion. So if you ever wonder why the trans community doesn't feel like anyone has their backs *gestures wildly at Bluesky today*
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Annalee @flowerhorne.com · 25/03/2026
I've said this before but I say it again, with love in my heart and absolutely no judgement: You should wash your water bottle every day.
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Eric Neustadter (e) @thevowel.com · 25/03/2026
Everyone understands that ALL routers are foreign-made, right? I’m sure the companies that suck up and pay bribes will get their routers approved… somehow.
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
Eat shit, lol, and long live The Onion.
An adult man named Esoteric Jeff claiming The Onion would be out of business by 2025.A series of other guys with names like Esoteric Jeff giving The Onion 12 months to live.The Onion being named one of the most innovative companies of 2026.
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
Trump: I’m going to put ICE in the airports, where they will target and arrest all the illegals, especially Somalis, because I hate the Democrats Headlines: Trump puts ICE officers in airports to ease long lines, provide relief for weary travelers
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Micah @rincewind.run · 21/03/2026
when It finally Happens and there is a concentrated effort to run the Charlie Kirk playbook on steroids against anyone who takes glee in it we should just laugh and point to this post
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bgmncwj @cwj.bgmn.net · 21/03/2026
San Diego, I’ve arrived. #jococruise
Picture of the San Diego skyline from waterfront park at night
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