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@cybrid.bsky.social
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He/him. Data Protection guy. Wanderer who doesn’t do much wandering anymore. Worst fly fisher ever. Learned history and now forced to watch others repeat it. Reposts are not endorsements.

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Meredith Rose @mrose.ink · 02/10/2026
ADHDers when confronted with a crisis
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Rock Lee Removes His Weights
Alt: Rock Lee Removes His Weights
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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
You've seen fireworks that look like jellyfish, but what about a jellyfish that looks like fireworks? The E/V Nautilus filmed this rare Halitrephes maasi jellyfish glowing like a firework at a depth of 4,019 feet (1,225 meters) off the coast of Baja California, Mexico. (📷: Ocean Exploration Trust)
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 29/09/2026
A thing I learned not too long ago is that when an LLM selects a token that leads it down an incorrect path (factually), it has no way to back up, or even know that it should back up, it's just on to the next likely bit. Literally every LLM is just posting their way through it. What an image.
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kottke.org @kottke.org · 01/10/2026
Map of the Lighthouses of the World. Each lighthouse sweeps out its actual arc and the reach of the beams is true to scale. Very cool. [kottke.org]
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Map of the Lighthouses of the World
From mapped.earth, a map of every lighthouse on the planet, along with other charted lights like lighted buoys and such. The screenshots above are static but the lights on the real map move: each lighthouse sweeps out it
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Best laid plans of mice and Bren… @cybrid.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
While the content is obviously grim, I really appreciate @zekuzelalem.bsky.social ‘s coverage of the Ethiopian conflict.
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Dreadnought Holiday @dreadships.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
"The hulls are alive, with the sound of mu-" Oh. Oh dear.
Hungarian (I think) postcard of the sinking French Cruiser Leon Gambetta, which we're assured is the victim of a "megtorpedozot". It's certainly been dotted all right. Image via Cartorum.fr, which I highly recommend for all your dubious and saucy French postcards for the discerning gentleman (and no doubt some of the ladies)
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 26/09/2026
UPDATE: British Columbia’s attorney general is seeking Criminal Code changes to strengthen accountability for artificial intelligence companies in response to @markfollman.bsky.social investigation.
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ChatGPT helped the Tumbler Ridge school shooter focus on guns, tactics, and terror, our investigation reveals
OpenAI’s chatbot fed the shooter’s violent fantasies and planning up to the massacre.
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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 25/09/2026
Here's this week's monologue. I talk about how $200bn-$300bn of AI GPUs are sitting in warehouses, how hyperscalers are overstating their AI capacity, and why the AI overbuild is magnitudes worse than the Dot-Com era's "dark fiber." www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZFu5... linktr.ee/betteroffline
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Monologue: The AI Data Center Overbuild | Better Offline
YouTube video by Better Offline
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Cats with Jobs ⚒️ @catworkers.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
So many bookstore cats... 📚 📹 Cupboard Maker Books
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David Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Wow. This is a major scoop from Mark Follman. Great reporting and a troubling story about AI that everyone should read.
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AP Stylebook @apstylebook.com · 23/09/2026
Artificial intelligence systems do not think, feel, want or understand. Avoid language that gives them human characteristics.
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https://apnews.com/article/openai-safety-ai-framework-089e75b95bc935af092da7b79d92706d
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☀️ Starshine @starshine.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
What’s your fake starwars academic paper
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Best laid plans of mice and Bren… @cybrid.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Not my photo, but is the pharmacy I go to. Taken earlier on Sunday, apparently a mama bear and cub wandered in through the automatic doors and one of the staff took a picture. I guess when the Rx is delayed and they say “bear with us” they mean it.
Original link: https://www.facebook.com/share/p/1EPZ1GgYsR/?mibextid=wwXIfr

“Pharmasave Hope BC had some unusual customers today :O thanks to Erin Regan for snapping this shot. A Mama bear and cub  wandered in through the automatic doors and looked around for a bit. Their PAW-SCRIPTION for BAYER aspirin wasn't ready so they left.”
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Eoin Higgins @eoinhiggins.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
You’re right—that plane shouldn’t have gone there. That’s my fault, and I should have made sure there wasn’t a terminal in the landing path. Would you like me to call emergency services, or assist with lining up takeoffs?
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Best laid plans of mice and Bren… @cybrid.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
🧵A lot of the time it really sucks having friends scattered all over the world as I do crave actual in person human contact but sometimes it works out too. So one of my wife’s best friends is Cambodian-Canadian. She doesn’t remember Cambodia, her first memories are of the refugee camps in Thailand.
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Kevin Riggle @kevinr.free-dissociation.com · 18/09/2026
The OpenAI guy Alex is QTing doesn't know what a fucking air-gap is, I literally consult on building these, I will take your money please and thank you
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Best laid plans of mice and Bren… @cybrid.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Price of diesel by my place this morning. Yep. 3 bucks a litre. In a truck-infused town.
Price of gas in Hope BC showing 2.99.9 for diesel
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Nicolas Hénin @nicolashenin.net · 17/09/2026
Nice campaign by the Norwegian Consumer Council about the declining lifespan of products. Enjoy!
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Best laid plans of mice and Bren… @cybrid.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Tangentially related, and I can’t name names, but I recently had a meeting where “does your recovery model Include the fact that AWS is a valid military target” was a point of discussion. Strange days in data protection consulting.
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Best laid plans of mice and Bren… @cybrid.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Look I’ve sent some pretty shady prayers to some pretty shady entities to get some of my IT projects working. Take what holy help you can get.
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Rachel Gilmore @rachelgilmore.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
This is so exciting lol I hope we get work/movement benefits
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EU chief opens door to Canada becoming associate member
European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen has proposed opening a path for Canada to become the European Union's first associate member, a status that doesn't currently exist.
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404 Media @404media.co · 16/09/2026
NEW: Hackers ripped down a Flock camera above a roadway, made a near-complete copy of the data stored inside it, and shared the files with 404 Media and @wired.com, revealing in new detail how exactly Flock Safety’s cameras track the movements of both vehicles and people.
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Hackers Stole Flock’s Camera Software, Revealing How the Company Tracks Cars and People
While people around the U.S. are tearing down Flock cameras, one group of hackers went a step further: extracting the camera's software too.
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The Tyee @thetyee.ca · 16/09/2026
A military base in Washington state, bird handovers at a gas station, a slew of permits, thousands of volunteer hours, nest boxes — and a whole lot of tiny, wriggling mealworms. Here’s the story of how the bluebird came back. thetyee.ca/News/2026/09...
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Bluebirds Went Extinct on Vancouver Island. Now They’re Back | The Tyee
Seventy landowners and many other volunteers have helped return their gentle, chortling song to the Cowichan Valley.
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Django Wexler @djangowexler.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
So seeing all the AI figures calling for a slowdown in the name of saving humanity, I have two possible theories: 1. It's all posturing, they don't actually care about a slowdown, but they're happy to score points by calling for one while confident the administration is too cooked to do anything.
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Best laid plans of mice and Bren… @cybrid.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
I look haggard. Been a long week for a Monday. But the dog seems content, and coordinates well with my shirt.
Some middle aged geek in a kitchen in a tan shirt holding a small Yorkshire terrier Some middle aged geek in a kitchen in a tan shirt holding a small Yorkshire terrier
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Jesse Felder @jessefelder.com · 14/09/2026
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Best laid plans of mice and Bren… @cybrid.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Ok I live in an expensive place for fuel in general but I drove past stations with diesel at 2.90 a litre. That’s 7.92usd per us gallon. And yet I still see pickup trucks idling in parking lots. Who has that kind of money?
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Jen the Feisty Librarian @feistywaters.com · 10/09/2026
Thank you, Saddle Lake Cree Nation.
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Funranium (AKA Phil Broughton) @funranium.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
It is so important to have people who can think like evil bastards without actually *being* evil bastards in your design loop.
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Best laid plans of mice and Bren… @cybrid.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
As dusk falls, your party sees a yellow facade making its presence known along the road. It's been a long day of travel and those Kobolds and that Grassy Gnoll didn't make it easier. The party rations are low, but that sign doesn't look friendly. What do you do? (restaurant in Victoria BC)
Photo isn't mine. From the View from my Window group on Facebook. Source: https://www.facebook.com/share/p/1HwohVd9Qh/
Yellow house turned restaurant with bright red "Murder Burger" sign on the front, advertising fast food. Your party is hungry, but has anyone seen Kevin recently? Roll for initiative.
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Best laid plans of mice and Bren… @cybrid.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Did my feed somehow just get populated by angry Michigan types or something? How do we placate them?
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Best laid plans of mice and Bren… @cybrid.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
I mean that’s what @birderk.bsky.social has long convinced me of.
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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Well you see, the polycule is organized into three rifle squads, a heavy weapons squad, and a six-member headquarters unit led by the polycule's first lieutenant,
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Patrick Wyman @patrickwyman.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
It doesn't really sink in how insane the Roman Empire was until you write a sentence like "We have the skeleton of a man in York who was bitten by a lion."
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Best laid plans of mice and Bren… @cybrid.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Well that’s always fun, boarded a plane and they’re going to have to reboot it. “We apologize but the plane will be completely dark for a few minutes while we power off and on” Better here and now than in the air, I guess
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Cat Kimbriel @catkimbriel.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
If you have never read this, and have ever had a dog, you probably need to read this. Maybe it's time to write about the time our hound tried to swallow a bird whole. . . .
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Reece @thiccreese.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
My latest for @wired.com: I tried exercising my data access rights over 100 times and almost lost my sanity during the process. www.wired.com/story/i-dema...
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I Asked 100 Companies for My Data. I Got Deletion Notices Instead
California residents have a legal right to access the data that companies collect about them. Actually exercising that right is a burdensome nightmare.
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Stephanie Carvin @stephaniecarvin.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Wake up, babe. The Prime Minister just dropped “hydronym”.
The name Lake Ontario comes from the Wendat word Ontari’io, which, appropriately, means “the lake is beautiful, the lake is big”.

The name is more than 400 years old, predating both the Confederation of Canada and the Declaration of Independence of the United States of America.

We know that America is changing. Their trading relationships, their foreign policies, their national monuments, their hydronyms. 

Canadians also know that naming reality means calling it Lake Ontario – then, now and always.
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Rodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Just dawned on me that we lost two officers of the Red October in a month
Tim Curry saying “you’ll receive the order of Lenin for this, Captain!Sam Neill saying “I would have liked to have seen Montana”
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JudithFlanders @judithflanders.co.uk · 26/08/2026
I reviewed Spamalot in the UK with Tim Curry as King Arthur. I wrote that he was the single most charismatic performer I had ever seen onstage. The editor tried to delete 'I had ever seen', thinking I meant that night. Me: No. He is the most charismatic performer I have ever seen. Bar none.
Tim Curry taking a curtain call in Spamalot, dressed as King Arthur, arm in arm with Eric Idle. Unfortunately that dipwad John Cleese is in the background. Into every life a little rain must fall.
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Toss @stevenspoints.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
I really cannot think of a greater honor than to have the Muppets say this about you upon your passing
Instagram post from the official Muppets account: Few humans have earned the title of honorary Muppet more than the legendary Tim Curry. As a performer he was unparalleled - witty, charming, unnerving, and deeply funny. We will always consider it one of our greatest treasures to have been part of Long John Silver’s crew. Thank you for everything, Tim.
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Best laid plans of mice and Bren… @cybrid.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
To be clear, Ford is an ass, and a bully himself. Happy to have them have a “let them fight” moment though. A few more knots of headwind can be useful in such matters.
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Best laid plans of mice and Bren… @cybrid.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Granted, I’m not sure Bonhomme /can/ be killed. Pretty sure he is part of the SCP universe.
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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
This is what the growth of surveillance is going to bring. Not safety from crime, but new, non-criminal acts redefined as criminal so as to give the police an excuse to exercise power. local12.com/news/offbeat...
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Police request public's help to find suspect who picked up $30 off ground in Walmart
A police department took to social media and asked the public to help them identify a suspect who found $30 on the ground in Walmart.
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Best laid plans of mice and Bren… @cybrid.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
This is a wild ride of a story
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nsqe @nsqe.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Y'know...for decades, a lack of documentation has been my pain point. Now, we've got AI-slop documentation coming out our ears. We can document every tiny aspect of a product. We can have Claude write playbooks and runbooks that summarize the playbooks and guidelines that summarize the runbooks.
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Best laid plans of mice and Bren… @cybrid.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
I was driving through Chilliwack earlier this evening, and pulled up alongside a nice Harley. Grizzled older gentleman rider was playing music loudly, not uncommon for a Harley of course. The song though? The 1961 Shirelles hit “mama said there’d be days like this”. Unexpected, sir, ride onward.
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Best laid plans of mice and Bren… @cybrid.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Iqair had longer averaging times think. Purpleair has shorter ones but corrections sometimes need to be applied. Either way it’s not great here. Filters are running full tilt but it may not be enough. I made have to find a hotel room elsewhere for wife and doggo at least for a couple days.
Air quality index shows 552 and that’s not great for anyone. air quality meters in hope bc showing 564 and 771
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✨John Carpenter’s BOObies✨ @ourflagmeansbeth.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
I’m seeing a lot of people frustrated with mutual aids stalling, and then other people frustrated that they’ve been unable to find work for months. The two things are definitely connected. Economy is trash.
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