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Cynthia / Estienne

@cynthb.bsky.social
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🏳️‍🌈 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 🧦 they / she / iel / elle Enterprise architect / former #infosec security assessor and pen tester, CAF veteran. Avid MMO / D&D gamer, reenactor, and knitter. We rescue hedgehogs and have 1 (Smidgen). Pan / enby.

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Reca @recarecaps.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
@psychopete.bsky.social (Maybe interesting !? 🤷)
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Nonia Pariente @npariente.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
This is really cool 🧪
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AAS Nova @aasnova.org · 30/09/2026
New simulations suggest the outer solar system could disassemble within about one billion years after the Sun becomes a white dwarf. aasnova.org/2026/09/30/t... 🔭🧪 @caltech.edu
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The Solar System Has a New Life Expectancy, and It’s a Billion Times Shorter
New simulations suggest the outer solar system could disassemble within about one billion years after the Sun becomes a white dwarf.
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Inspire the Mind ✍️🧠 @inspirethemind.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
🧪 When is “no” a good outcome in research? In today's article, researcher Valentina Muñoz explores the challenges of participant recruitment and what it means to look beyond the numbers, drawing on her experience as a cancer research coordinator. www.inspirethemind.org/post/when-no...
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When 'No' Is a Good Outcome: Redefining Success in Cancer Research
At the core of any healthcare or science degree, students learn the importance of numbers. Specifically, “bigger” is often synonymous with “success”. It has been viscerally etched into my brain since ...
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Cynthia / Estienne @cynthb.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
How TF is Christmas crap on the shelves in bloody September??? It's not even (Canadian) Thanksgiving yet, never mind Halloween or Remembrance Day. They must be REALLY desperate and trying to get their crap on the shelves before diesel goes even higher, all I can think of.
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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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Guard The Leaf @guardtheleaf.com · 29/09/2026
Canada Needs To Start Watching Who We’re Letting Through The Back Door BRING THIS UP WITH YOUR MP AND LOCAL MEDIA! I left email contacts for all major canadian media in the article #elbowsup #boycottusa #canadastrong #CanadaSky #never51state #political www.guardtheleaf.com/p/canada-nee...
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Canada Needs To Start Watching Who We’re Letting Through The Back Door
From Kristi Noem at a Canadian mining company to a Don Jr. connected investor in Draganfly, Canadians need to start asking who we’re letting into our strategic industries.
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404 Media @404media.co · 28/09/2026
Facial recognition is everywhere. It’s in surveillance cameras; it’s soon going to be in Meta’s RayBan pervert glasses, and some students modded did that. @josephcox.bsky.social spoke to NYT journalist and author @kashhill.bsky.social about what that means for us. www.youtube.com/watch?v=aUFn...
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Tom Powell Jr @tompowelljr.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
the cornell case has me thinking about christine blasey ford and how she so bravely testified in 2018 about how future supreme court justice brett kavanaugh had sexually assaulted her. i'm thinking about what i wrote at the time and how nothing has changed:
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404 Media @404media.co · 23/09/2026
404 Media's @emanuelmaiberg.bsky.social wanted to know why Spotify, Tidal, Apple Music pages of dead musicians and indie artists were publishing AI slop music. So, he tried it out himself on a band's official page. It was horrifyingly easy. Watch more: www.youtube.com/watch?v=3KI3...
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404 Media @404media.co · 23/09/2026
The statements, taken together, are some of the most damning indictments of the ways LLMs were trained, how they worked, and the immediate threat they pose to human labor. @jasonkoebler.bsky.social reports. Listen now: www.youtube.com/watch?v=3KI3...
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404 Media @404media.co · 22/09/2026
A sample of 5,000 alleged agents seen by 404 Media includes names, addresses, phone numbers, and details on FBI employees' spouses.
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‘We Hacked the FBI:’ Hackers Say They Have Data on All FBI Employees
A sample of 5,000 alleged agents seen by 404 Media includes names, addresses, phone numbers, and details on FBI employees' spouses.
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The Kung Fu Hog Master @kungfuhogmaster.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Huffy and Piglet 🦔🦔 #Hedgehogs
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AstroBin @astrobin.com · 23/09/2026
AstroBin's Image of the Day: "The Methuselah Nebula" by Gavin Bent, Hunter Outten, Nick Fritz, Nico-RZD, Kaleb Jordan, Christopher Slaten and Bradley Bieri www.astrobin.com/kk97kj/ #astrophotography
The Methuselah Nebula
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Communications Sustainability @commssustain.nature.com · 23/09/2026
Turning recycled polypropylene back into high-performance plastic is a major barrier to a circular plastics economy. A scalable dual-dynamic vitrimer process strengthens post-consumer polypropylene while keeping it fully recyclable through five recycling cycles. 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/s44...
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Dual-dynamic vitrimerization upcycles post-consumer polypropylene into a durable recyclable material - Communications Sustainability
A dual-dynamic vitrimer network enhances yield strength by 24%, increases Young’s modulus by 31%, doubles complex viscosity, and retains performance through five recycling cycles, according to a two-s...
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SwiftOnSecurity @swiftonsecurity.com · 23/09/2026
Hmm
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Violet Blue® @violetblue.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
From earlier: the US won’t let Puerto Rico regulate disinformation during emergencies, a horrifying AI mistaken identity case, Flock’s device security is exciting trash, a fabulous art project about the internet's “Wild West” era, and it's my bday so become a patron! www.patreon.com/violetblue/p...
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Cybersecurity: September 22, 2026 | Threat Model
This week: today is my birthday (and Max cat’s birthday), ShinyHunters hacked the stuffing out of Cl0p and is punishing them in public, the
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🍁🇨🇦Team Canada Forever🇨🇦🍁 @teamcanadaforever.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
War criminals are the only ones who truly hate the ICC. 🔗 Source: www.reuters.com/world/china/...
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Trump calls on all ICC members to resign immediately
U.S. President Donald ​Trump on Tuesday urged ‌members of the International Criminal Court to ​resign and ​condemned what he called an "out ⁠of control ​institution" and "an evil group ​of people."
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Michael J Armstrong @profmjarmstrong.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
U.S. diesel fuel prices rose 65% between 23 Feb and 14 Sep 2026. ⛽🚚
This time series plot illustrates the weekly average number 2 diesel price in the United States from 2020 to 2026. It also highlights when Russia invaded Ukraine in Feb 2022, and when the USA and Israel attacked Iran in Feb 2026.
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Psycho Pete @psychopete.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
A lot of updates to the boycott guide with the new ones listed first. Remember, it’s not about being perfect. It’s about making the right choice when we have a choice. psychopete1.substack.com/p/psycho-pet...
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Psycho Pete's Living Guide to Boycotting the Big Orange Menace
Updated 3/28/2026 (Image is recycled AI. The damage was already done by someone else)
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Eric Topol @erictopol.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Your wearable or mattress sensor is giving you your HRV and a "Readiness" score every day? What are these metrics and do they have value? erictopol.substack.com/p/the-big-ho...
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The Big Holes in Wearable Heart Rate Variability And Readiness Scores
A Gaping Lack of Evidence for Health Benefits
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Mekka Okereke @mekka.mekka-tech.com · 19/09/2026
US journalists know that he's lying. Because he has lied every time before, and they know this.🤷🏿‍♂️ Just like US journalists know that the police are lying after an incident. Because the first thing the police say after an incident is always a lie, and they know this too. They pretend not to know. 🤡
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🍁🇨🇦Team Canada Forever🇨🇦🍁 @teamcanadaforever.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
🇨🇦 Canada’s Gen. Jennie Carignan faces Germany’s Gen. Carsten Breuer today for chair of NATO’s Military Committee. If elected, she would become the first woman to hold the position and step down as Canada’s defence chief. History could be made today. 🇨🇦 🔗 Source: toronto.citynews.ca/2026/09/19/n...
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NATO defence chiefs to decide whether to tap Gen. Carignan for senior NATO post
OTTAWA — NATO chiefs of defence are meeting in Copenhagen, Denmark, today to choose the next chair of the alliance's military committee, and Canada's top military commander is in the running.
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San Jose Astronomical Association @sjastronomy.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
🌙 Tomorrow is International Observe the Moon Night! On Sept. 19, join people around the world in celebrating our nearest celestial neighbor. No telescope required. Just step outside and look up! 🔭 🧪
Graphic for International Observe the Moon Night on September 19, 2026. A detailed photograph of the partially illuminated Moon fills the right side against a black background, with craters and surface features especially prominent along the shadowed terminator. Text reads, “International Observe the Moon Night,” “September 19, 2026,” and “Everyone’s invited. Look up.” The San Jose Astronomical Association logo appears at lower right.
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Dr Andrew Mahon @andyantarctica.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
FAT BEAR WEEK FAT BEAR WEEK FAT BEAR WEEK FAT BEAR WEEK 🧪🌊🌎🦑
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🍁 Alex Smith 🍁 @alexsmithants.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
🧪 Preparing students to work on a project on the #DairyBush this fall (a natural woodlot on the #Guelph campus) and want introduce them (& you) to this sugar maple that is estimated to have germinated in 1785. This 241 year old 🍁 (older than 🇨🇦 , than lithography, than …) is part of your campus.
Image looking up the trunk into the canopy of a sugar maple that germinated in the UofG Dairy Bush in 1785
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The Kung Fu Hog Master @kungfuhogmaster.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
The straw thief strikes again... 😂💗🦔 #Hedgehogs
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Cynthia / Estienne @cynthb.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Thought this might be interesting to those who wonder what an "ordinary person" could use AI for. My background: I used to code, but it's been a few years; I now do the security requirements and control sets for my org's use of cloud products. The idea and the DB URL came from @ddgumgum.com .
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Psycho Pete @psychopete.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Overdue, adding Lowe’s later today.
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Micaylah THL 🇺🇲🇺🇦🇨🇦🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🏴‍☠️ @micaylah.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
These are the things that make me smile. Researchers used genetic data to confirm that the cat is a new species, and gave it the scientific name Leopardus tilcayo, retaining its local name. www.reuters.com/business/env...
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New cat species identified in Bolivia, first in over a century
A diminutive wild cat that inhabits Bolivia's cloud forest has been identified as a previously unknown species, marking the first time a new living cat species has been formally named and described ​i...
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Cynthia / Estienne @cynthb.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
From Dean Blundell: Thomas Massie "has no f's left to give" and has launched a prosecution file against Hegseth. Long but a comprehensive breakdown. deanblundell.substack.com/p/breaking-a...
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BREAKING: A Republican Just Filed War Crimes Charges Against Trump’s Secretary of War. On the Same Day the FBI Director Had to Explain the Bestiality Thing.
Thomas Massie’s 34 pages are not a stunt. They’re a prosecution file with the dates already filled in while Kash Patel told the Senate why “victims of bestiality” should be FBI agents.
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Ian Coldwater 🧊🚫 @lookitup.baby · 14/09/2026
A 40-year-old kernel bug got discovered while on stage at DEF CON and the writeup is glorious
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How can you not be romantic about UNIX domain sockets?
A 40-year-old kernel bug discovered on the DEFCON 34 main stage.
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404 Media @404media.co · 14/09/2026
EXCLUSIVE: Humans are reading ChatGPT users’ prompts to improve OpenAI’s models, and those chats can include sensitive, personal information, according to leaked internal documents and real prompts seen by 404 Media.
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Inside ‘Project Lily’: The Humans Reading Your ChatGPT Chats
Humans are reading ChatGPT users’ prompts to improve OpenAI’s models, and those chats can include sensitive, personal information, according to leaked internal documents and real prompts seen by 404 M...
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Cynthia / Estienne @cynthb.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
#CdnPoli
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Mayday Marin (SF Bay) @maydaymarin.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
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Cynthia / Estienne @cynthb.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
#BoycottUSA
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Psycho Pete @psychopete.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
For alternatives, Skechers is a great one. psychopete1.substack.com/p/boycott-di...
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Boycott Dispatch: Adidas
They almost had me going there for a minute.
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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
thys nys no partye! thys nys no disco! thys nys no jestinge arounde! thys nys no taverne! nor roade-syde playhous! Ich ne have tyme for that nowe!
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Cynthia / Estienne @cynthb.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
An excellent critical look at claims that AI will cause a human extinction event in the next decade, and what is being overshadowed by the hype, by House of El. El has a Ph.D. in computer science. www.youtube.com/watch?v=YPf8...
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The Biggest AI Fraud Is the One Nobody Is Investigating
YouTube video by House of El: AI
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🍁🇨🇦Team Canada Forever🇨🇦🍁 @teamcanadaforever.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Crowds gathered in Dublin to protest Trump’s visit to Ireland, with demonstrators using imagery featuring Trump, Epstein and Netanyahu to voice their criticism Our Irish friends are doing a better job in voicing their displeasure against the corrupt p€do war criminal than some Americans these days.
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Psycho Pete @psychopete.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
A LOT of people de-Googled this week and none one of them miss it. Not one of them regret it. For my part, I was already de-Googled but I remembered to sell a small amount of their stock that I had. Use this guide: psychopete1.substack.com/p/the-infini...
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De-Google Your Life
And starve the machine while you're at it.
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Cynthia / Estienne @cynthb.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Posting this here in case it helps someone: homemade water filtration components, can be made to disassemble for moving. Source: friend in my medieval reenactment group who has been in charge of this for our camp during various camping events.
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Dr Elisabeth Kosters @elisabethkosters.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Please take 15 minutes to listen to former Canadian Prime Minister Jean Chrétien’s speech in Gander at the 9/11 memorial event today . He was our PM on 9/11. A brilliant speech. Every word matters. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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Jean Chrétien says ‘we bow to no one’ in fiery 9/11 speech in Gander, N.L. | CBC News
Former Canadian prime minister Jean Chrétien drew thunderous applause on Friday during a fiery and patriotic speech in Gander, N.L, where many had gathered at a sports arena to commemorate the 25th an...
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Cynthia / Estienne @cynthb.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Just finished "Our Wild Familiars" by Dan Werb, a fascinating look into synanthropes (non-domesticated animals living in human communities), from raccoons to ravens to octopi. He also goes into socioeconomics and environmental science. I really enjoyed his storytelling. 👍 #BookSky
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The Beaverton @thebeaverton.com · 11/09/2026
Trump notes that falling asleep onstage at 9/11 ceremony technically counts as moment of silence
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Trump notes that falling asleep onstage at 9/11 ceremony technically counts as moment of silence
ARLINGTON COUNTY, VA - Awakening briefly, President Trump addressed Americans assembled to pay their respects to the victims of the September 11th attacks, insisting that his mid-morning nap constitut...
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19thnews @19thnews.org · 11/09/2026
“What’s more patriotic than to point out that everyone in the United States, including the women and people of color and LGBT community, that they’re all doing the right thing — everyone is pulling together, everyone is making sacrifices?” Berkman said. (From 2021)
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Women first responders were erased from the 9/11 story. This woman wants to change that
Brenda Berkman, who was on the frontlines as a firefighter during 9/11, has fought to raise awareness of women like her.
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Electrek @electrek.co · 11/09/2026
Musk promotes blatant Tesla FSD misuse as crash lawyers rejoice
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Musk promotes blatant Tesla FSD misuse as crash lawyers rejoice
Elon Musk is once again promoting the misuse of Tesla’s “Full Self-Driving” (FSD), this time by amplifying a video of a 98-year-old man who openly admits he has stopped watching the road. The clip is charming. It’s also a textbook example of the exact driver behavior Tesla’s lawyers are fighting in a growing pile of crash lawsuits. more…
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Cynthia / Estienne @cynthb.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
"Documents obtained by EFF appear to support reports that WISeR vendors may be denying claims at unusually high rates... One company, Virtix, the vendor that CMS required to submit a Corrective Action Plan, denied more requests than it approved during this time period."
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Eric Topol @erictopol.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Here's your supplement and vitamin pairing for today! pewresearch.org/short-reads/... @pewresearch.org gift link @washingtonpost.com wapo.st/4A6QyjF
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