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Greg Pollock @gregpollock.bsky.social · 7h

@kleinman.bsky.social 's work inspired me to dramatize the future Republicans want as an Oregon Trail -like journey across a country ravaged by rightwing legislative extremism. It sucks! games.gregpollock.net/state-of-the...

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Greg Pollock @gregpollock.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I was watching youtubes about coaching physical contact for U10 soccer and while the video titles are all intensity and aggression, it was nice to see how the coaches understand the kids' need for psychological safety to deal with a stressful/scary/upsetting part of the game (also why i was doing it

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Greg Pollock @gregpollock.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

There are plenty of AI scams to go around, but Jev provided the opportunity to study brand impersonation under pretty much ideal conditions (social pressure creating urgency, brand new and fairly unique name). And yeah, impersonators move fast! www.upguard.com/breaches/jev...

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Have You Heard of Jev? They Have. | UpGuard

Jev's first lookalike domain appeared the day after launch. Within two weeks there were over a hundred. Here's how fast brand impersonation follows a viral AI model.

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Greg Pollock @gregpollock.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Oracle's massive Critical Patch Update with 1,235 CVEs looks impressive on paper, but it's easy to mislead with stats. So I ran the numbers on whether it was an accounting trick or anomaly. And it looks like there's really something in it www.upguard.com/blog/oracle-...

Graph showing number of quarterly CVEs for Oracle and other comparable companies, with real upward changes from the norm in the last quarter

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Greg Pollock @gregpollock.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Wired has that dawg in them. For as long as I've worked with Dell (since Gizmodo) he has been strongly averse to being pushed around. I love it.

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Greg Pollock @gregpollock.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Pokemon is by far the most popular tag (actually several of them) on Rule 34....the data has spoken

Top 10 character tags:
name count
pokemon_(species) 581514
original_character 538925
pokémon_(species) 193012
oc 133906
eeveelution 83386
fan_character 80967
original_characters 75852
generation_1_pokemon 57482
nami_(one_piece) 53858
tifa_lockhart 50893

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