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Ferras Vinh

@ferras.bsky.social
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Lawyer and lapsed congressional staffer. Steadfast believer that pancakes are an anytime food.

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Maggie Astor @maggieastor.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Covid vaccines are now in stock at CVS, according to a spokeswoman. CVS will require prescriptions in three states: Arizona, Louisiana and Oregon. (Walgreens is also requiring them in Arizona and Oregon.) This could change if state officials act. My article will be updated soon with this info.
nytimes.com
F.D.A. Approves New Covid Vaccines, and They Should Be Available Soon (Gift Article)
The shots have been approved for people 65 and older, and for younger people with underlying conditions. Others may be able to get them off label.
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JM =^D @jm539581.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Same.
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Dream Job: Retirement
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Alex Zalben @azalben.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Dolly Parton, among a thousand other amazing things she did in her life, gifted over 330 million books to kids through her Imagination Library program. Her passing is a tremendous loss to the world, but you can support the program today to keep it going imaginationlibrary.com
imaginationlibrary.com
Dolly Parton's Imagination Library | USA, UK, IE, CA, AU
Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library is a book gifting program that mails free books to children from birth until they begin school in participating areas.
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oh no @ili.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
en esta economía??????
nyt cooking melissa clark seis leches cake january 21, 2020
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Ferras Vinh @ferras.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
“In May, the government announced a contract to use facial age-estimation technology developed by Cognitec, a German firm that calls itself ‘the face-recognition company’. That system showed bias against sub-Saharan Africans, tending to overpredict the ages of minors.”
theguardian.com
AI tool will lead to more child refugees being treated as adults, charity warns
‘Racist bias’ overestimating ages in Home Office’s facial-recognition software will lead to solo children being housed with adults, says Human Rights Network
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Gwen Snyder is uncivil @gwensnyder.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
I stared at this headline a full minute trying to imagine a reasonable explanation. And then it turned out to be literally actually the picture that had first popped into my head
After budget cuts, marmots join only fansOnlyMarms’: Marmots Are on OnlyFans to Raise Money for Research
A team of scientists uploaded videos of the squirrel-like rodents in the wild on the adult-content site OnlyFans to raise money amid government budget cuts.


Listen · 5:08 min
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Timothy Burke @bubbaprog.xyz · 08/07/2026
WHY ARE YOU ASKING ME
FOX sports
Are There Any World Cup
Games Today? Quarterfinal
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Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Iconic line from @stevevladeck.bsky.social here in response to Will Baude’s SCOTUS boosterism www.nytimes.com/2026/07/01/o...
Baude: I agree that we are in unprecedented times, maybe even a constitutional crisis, but if we survive it, the court deserves no small share of the credit.
Vladeck: Exactly the same credit we might give to the arsonist who shows up with a fire extinguisher.
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Ken Tremendous @kentremendous.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
Oh ok cool, we got this
Headline from The Guardian: Who would the US need to bet to win? Probably only Spain, France, and England
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Subscribe to Radio Free America (link in bio) @kleinman.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
You do not, under any circumstances, want to have as many PMs as the Giants have had head coaches since 2016
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Ferras Vinh @ferras.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
Me, pitching myself to employers on LinkedIn:
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Elder Taylor @taylornewc.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
If Waffle House doesn’t make this their new slogan, then capitalism has failed
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Anjali Dayal @anjalikdayal.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
do yourself a favor and scroll through the quote posts
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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
i'm not sure any tech criticism i could put forward rn would be more effective than the totality of this screenshot
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ashley fairbanks @ziibiing.com · 13/06/2026
girl me too
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Ferras Vinh @ferras.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
In which I build a 60-win team with hilariously awful locker room chemistry. NBA GMs, DMs are open if you want me to build a roster AND cast your new favorite reality TV show.
Roster includes Ja Morant, Ray Allen, Glenn, Robinson, Karl Malone, and DeMarcus Cousins.
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
not sure what is more odd: that it apparently didn't crack the top three, or that it is being advertised on the DC metro
picture of large poster ad on DC metro that says: "Kalshi rule #4 we operate under US law"
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Ferras Vinh @ferras.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
Some personal news—excited to be joining a number of brilliant people as an advisor to this project! www.ali.org/project/biom...
Screenshot of webpage listing advisors to the American Law Institute Principles for the Governance of Biometrics.
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Michael Caley @michaelcaley.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
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Helen Kennedy @helenkennedy.com · 15/03/2026
Happy March 15. Here is my favorite Ides of March meme:
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Elizabeth Spiers @espiers.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
Stop 👏 having 👏 unrealistic 👏 body 👏 standards 👏 for 👏 camels 👏
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Riana @riana.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
IT’S BACK visdeurbel.nl/en/
visdeurbel.nl
The Fish Doorbell — The Fish Doorbell
Did you spot a fish? Press the Fish Doorbell! This alerts our lock operator to let the fish through. The Fish Doorbell is in Utrecht, NL.
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Ann M. Lipton @annmlipton.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
*raises hand* who's taking the ubers and where are they going
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404 Media @404media.co · 24/02/2026
NEW: A hobbyist has created Nearby Glasses, an app that warns you if someone close by is wearing smart glasses. 404 Media spoke to the creator who said he was inspired by our coverage that uncovers how men are wearing Meta's Ray-Bans to covertly film massage parlor workers.
404media.co
This App Warns You if Someone Is Wearing Smart Glasses Nearby
The creator of Nearby Glasses made the app after reading 404 Media's coverage of how people are using Meta's Ray-Bans smartglasses to film people without their knowledge or consent. “I consider it to ...
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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
Tech Company: At long last, we have created the Torment Nexus from classic sci-fi novel Don't Create The Torment Nexus. FOSS nerds: the Torment Nexus cannot be ethical until it is Open Source
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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
Scoop: Ring's CEO told staff Search Party is not going to be just for dogs, according to a leaked email I obtained. Said it is "first for finding dogs" before suggesting it would be expanded to be used for crime: www.404media.co/leaked-email...
404media.co
Leaked Email Suggests Ring Plans to Expand ‘Search Party’ Surveillance Beyond Dogs
Ring's CEO told staff the feature is “first for finding dogs,” indicating a plan to expand.
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Hayes Brown @hayesbrown.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
shorter ring commercial: your spy camera’s auto-search function will only be used to track down lost dogs AND NEVER TO HUNT HUMANS (probably)
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Ryan Nanni @celebrityhottub.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
“Ring uses AI to help find lost dogs” yup it probably stops there, sounds fine
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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 07/02/2026
Some people have been saying…
pcmag.com
Is There Any Point in Resisting Face Scanning? Yep. And You Should
Police already use facial recognition to identify people. But refusing to opt in when there's a choice, in places like airports, can still matter.
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Timothy Burke @bubbaprog.xyz · 20/01/2026
certainly nothing bad ever happened after a downtrodden midwestern team shocked everyone and won a championship
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Frances Meh @francesmeh.reviews · 10/01/2026
every day on this website
The Telegraph

Dozens buried alive by avalanche of garbage

Harriet Barber
Sat, January 10, 2026 at 12:22 PM EST • 3 min read
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Rodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
Terrifying headline if you don’t realize they are sports teams.
Rockets owners expand talks to buy, move Sun
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kritty krat nyahah >w< @ BLFC @spookybiscuits.com · 10/11/2025
spoke with the executive director of my local food bank today and got this really incredible line: "if you donate 1 can of green beans, we can give away 1 can of green beans. but if you donate a dollar, we can give away 6 cans of green beans"
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Kim Zetter @kimzetter.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
Please news please stop please
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Bobby Silverman @robertsilverman.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
I’m watching the World Series. I’m taking part o the Stanford prison experiment. I’m at the combination World Series/Stanford prison experiment
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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
YOU NEED TO START OFF POSTS LIKE THIS BY SAYING THE PERSON IS ALIVE AND OK
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 18/10/2025
In Connecticut, the health care advocate office — whose services are free — has been able to resolve or overturn insurance denials in the patient’s favor about 80% of the time. Check to see if your state has a similar consumer assistance program:
propublica.org
This Little-Known Appeal Could Force Your Insurer to Pay for Lifesaving Care. Here’s How to File It.
When a health insurer refuses to pay for your treatment, you may have the right to have the denial reviewed — and potentially overturned — by an independent provider. Here are six steps experts sugges...
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Ferras Vinh @ferras.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
How can you not be romantic about baseball?
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Yael Grauer @yaelwrites.com · 02/09/2025
I just updated FIG: Filling in the Gaps for People Search Removal Services. It's a list of people search sites NOT covered by paid services. It's now in alphabetical order, easier to use with BADBOOL, added new brokers and removed defunct brokers and removal services. docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
docs.google.com
Filling In the Gaps For People Search Site Removal Services
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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
What Andrew Ferguson, an expert on big data policing, says in this piece: “The simple truth of digital surveillance is that if you build it, it will be used, and likely used against those with the least amount of political power.”
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Ferras Vinh @ferras.bsky.social · 01/06/2025
The Indiana Pacers: The Care Bears of the NBA.
“I think it's a new blueprint for the league, man,” Turner said. “I think the years of the superteams and stacking is just not as effective as it once was, you know? I mean, since I've been in the league, this NBA is very trendy. It just shifts. But the new trend now is just kind of what we're doing. OKC does the same thing. You know: young guys, get out and run, defend, and you know, use the power of friendship.”
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Serge Egelman @v0max.bsky.social · 11/05/2025
All of this, but also, the technology to do this in manufacturing has been in use for literally decades. Here’s a paper from 1998 describing Boeing’s augmented reality system: dl.acm.org/doi/10.5555/...
dl.acm.org
Several devils in the details | Proceedings of the international workshop on Augmented reality : placing artificial objects in real scenes: placing artificial objects in real scenes
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Kashmir Hill @kashhill.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
This is the first of these stories I've seen. Police in trouble for using face recognition tool Clearview AI, but not because it identified the wrong person. They relied on it solely in getting a search warrant; judge threw out incriminating evidence as a result www.cleveland.com/news/2025/01...
cleveland.com
Cleveland police used AI to justify a search warrant. It has derailed a murder case
Cleveland police used artificial intelligence software to justify a search warrant in a murder case. A judge, however, threw out the results of that search, including the gun authorities say was the m...
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Ferras Vinh @ferras.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
TBH, pretty relatable. Setting work boundaries is important.
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Jerry Chen @jcsalterego.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
fixed it
a screenshot of the following excerpt from an Op Ed:

"There's a bakery in downtown Houston that makes beef pho kolaches. Pho is Vietnamese soup; kolaches are Czech pastries. The combination is more American than bald eagles.
The United States is obviously failing to regulate immigration. Over the past four years, …
Holy crap let's go!"

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The sentence "Holy crap let's go!" is marked in green, indicating addition.
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Ferras Vinh @ferras.bsky.social · 24/12/2024
Going to try this the next time I need to focus while writing on a deadline.
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