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Greg Strange @iplayoddball.bsky.social · 19h
At 55, I realized that my 30 year Dr Pepper addiction was actually self-medicating my ADHD. I totally feel this in my dilated, ragged eye movemments.
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Roger Montti @martinibuster.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
EmDash 1.0 is a modern alternative to WordPress, but its features lock users into Cloudflare's infrastructure. www.searchenginejournal.com/emdash-1-0-c...
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Greg Strange @iplayoddball.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Rebuke?? How about prosecute? Prison? Civil Asset Forefiture?
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US Congress Tracker @congresstracker.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
SB5535: A bill to require the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development to establish a national evictions database, and for other purposes. Status: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs. 2026-09-24 Sponsors: - Republican: 1 - Democrat: 1
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SB5535: A bill to require the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development to establish a national evictions database, and for other purposes.
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Greg Strange @iplayoddball.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
From the Artificial President...
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Greg Strange @iplayoddball.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I confirm this is pretty normal Dem fighting in Texas. It's why the TX Dem Party is a weak org with almost no direction or on the ground strategy.
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Greg Strange @iplayoddball.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Why can't AI tell Putin there is a Ukrainian school in the White house?
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Greg Strange @iplayoddball.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
"She emphasized the need for women physicians to actively engage with AI, reversing a trend that suggests they may be less likely to use AI than their male colleagues." jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
jamanetwork.com
Will Women Physicians Face an AI Gap?
Editor in Chief of JAMA+ AI Roy Perlis, MD, MSc, and Rochelle P. Walensky, MD, MPH, professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School, discuss the role of women physicians in shaping AI’s impact on heal...
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Adrian Roselli, pH0 @aardrian.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
“OpenAI bots meddled with multiple US government agency sites” www.bbc.com/news/article... If only they were treated as Aaron Swartz was for far far less: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_... I’m on board with Lina Khan’s approach to lean on a 1934 precedent: www.theregister.com/ai-and-ml/20...
bbc.com
OpenAI bots meddled with US government agencies, including SEC and Census
OpenAI said its bots accessed public data from a range of institutions during test exercises.
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Greg Strange @iplayoddball.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I often wonder what Wittgenstein would think of AI.
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Greg Strange @iplayoddball.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I rarely actually test candidates on their coding skill or theory/etical understanding. I test them on creativity, resilience, measurement and ego. I've put together a ton of great teams that way. You can teach syntax, you can't teach mindset.
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Greg Strange @iplayoddball.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I agree with this except for Claude can very definitely not one-shot a SaaS of any complexity. I haven't tried Fable but I highly doubt if it can one-shot a SaaS that it's of any real quality or has any good security.
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Greg Strange @iplayoddball.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I think for me the biggest reason AI sucks is that it blows my ADHD brain apart trying to keep track of details through the constant repetition of established data and the nonsensitive status updates post-task. Also, I know what the fuck I'm doing and AI does not (in a web dev context)
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Kris 🧙‍♂️ Kowal @kriskowal.com · 26/09/2026
The only moat remaining is integrity.
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Aki the Conqueror 🦓 @akiro.se · 25/09/2026
Open source maintainers are starting to get all manner of communiques from the compliance & legal departments of huge corporations using vaguely threatening and legal-sounding language and demanding the maintainer fill out forms and reports and attest to the security of their project "because CRA".
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Greg Strange @iplayoddball.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I once friended hundreds of Greg Strange's on Facebook. Greg Strange liked Greg Strange's comment on Greg Strange's post was also non-informational.
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Andy Bell @bell.bz · 23/09/2026
If you think you’re alone in being miserable about being Claude‘s condom, you’re not www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/c... Once you get past the loud minority — those who are dead behind the eyes, but smiling for the cameras — no one who is forced to use LLMs all day is happy in this industry
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From the ClaudeAI community on Reddit
Explore this post and more from the ClaudeAI community
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Greg Strange @iplayoddball.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
mathandai.org
mathandai.org
Declaration — Math and AI
Read the declaration and add your name.
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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 14/09/2026
The only person in public service who has consistently made 100% sense on issues of "AI," which is why they hate her so much.
Law enforcers already have authority to charge companies and their CEOs for creating and releasing dangerous, unvetted, or defective products. We shouldn’t let discussions about new legal regimes distract from the fact that there’s no AI exemption from laws already on the books — a point 
@FTC
 emphasized repeatedly during my tenure.

1. There is an extensive set of laws that govern dangerous and defective products. For example, releasing unvetted AI models or agents can violate consumer protection laws. Shipping flawed AI tools without implementing adequate measures to detect and stop rogue or defective AI agents can be an “unfair or deceptive” act or practice under the FTC Act (and analogous state laws). And some state AGs are already exploring holding AI firms and their CEOs criminally liable when their models participate in criminal activity.

2. Existing laws also prohibit “unfair methods of competition.” This covers instances where AI firms appropriate the competitively sensitive information of their customers, including through tracking their use of various tools. It can also cover instances where firms pursue dangerous behavior, aware that doing so may compel rivals to do the same.As the Supreme Court has noted: “A method of competition which casts upon one's competitors the burden of the loss of business unless they will descend to a practice which they are under a powerful moral compulsion not to adopt, even though it is not criminal, was thought to involve the kind of unfairness at which the [unfair methods of competition] statute was aimed."

3. The highly concentrated and interconnected structure of these markets could be creating major risks and conflicts of interest. We had started investigating these partnerships and cross-investments across the stack (and released a preliminarily overview of some findings: https://ftc.gov/news-events/news/press-releases/2025/01/ftc-issues-staff-report-ai-partnerships-investments-study). 

Both federal and state enforcers should be scrutinizing these opaque relationships and inter-dependencies. We are already seeing how these relationships could undermine accountability. For example, OpenAI could face liability given the Hugging Face incident, but Hugging Face being bought up by Nvidia means that we’re unlikely to see it file a lawsuit over this — given Nvidia’s strong incentive to see OpenAI continue full speed ahead.4. As AI tools dramatically change the landscape of cybersecurity risks and hacks, all businesses should be doubling down on having core security protections in place. Firms that fail to invest in adequate data security measures or fix known vulnerabilities can also be breaking the law. A recent analysis showed that around 1/3 of Fortune 100 companies do not even have a way to notify them about security issues. During my 
@FTC
 tenure, we sued firms for poor data security practices and held CEOs liable when they were personally responsible.

https://this.weekinsecurity.com/dozens-of-americas-largest-companies-have-no-simple-way-to-report-security-flaws/

https://ftc.gov/news-events/news/press-releases/2022/10/ftc-takes-action-against-drizly-its-ceo-james-cory-rellas-security-failures-exposed-data-25-million

5. As policymakers consider new legal regimes, we should be looking to lessons from prior efforts to govern major sectors, such as banking and other networks, platforms, and utilities. Tools like structural separations, nondiscrimination, and supervision could be key, and there’s a rich history of what works and what doesn’t. But we can and must pursue any new efforts alongside enforcing existing laws.
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Greg Strange @iplayoddball.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
TIL you can style the `<br>` at different breakpoints even setting `display: none;` so you can lose it at larger breakpoints.
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Greg Strange @iplayoddball.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
async/await are just fancier goto statements.
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Evan Greer @evangreer.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Age verification makes everyone less safe. Age verification makes everyone less safe. Age verification makes everyone less safe. Age verification makes everyone less safe. Age verification makes everyone less safe. Age verification makes everyone less safe.
techdirt.com
Hackers Had A Live Feed Of Every ID This Verification Company Scanned. For Over A Year.
From the very beginning of this recent obsession with identifying everyone online (yes, they like to call it "age" verification, but it always ends up as identity verification), we've been pointing out that it was a huge privacy nightmare waiting to happen. Or maybe it wasn't waiting. Maybe it was already happening. This week a...
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Greg Strange @iplayoddball.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
This is absolute bonkers fare.
Screencap from a spreadsheet application with a warning modal that says

"Screen too small for editing. Your screen is too small to edit this spreadsheet. You’re in view-only mode. To make changes, please open this spreadsheet on a larger screen or expand your browser window."
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Greg Strange @iplayoddball.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
How long must the cold water run until it is no longer hot? #TexasKoan
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Greg Strange @iplayoddball.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Camus said that we must imagine Sisyphus as happy. Given that no one is happy, we did not make this trade.
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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
In honor of Uber shutting down in Nigeria this week, here’s my favorite story about Uber in Nigeria.
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Greg Strange @iplayoddball.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
I'm as suspicious of organized sports as I am of organized religion.
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Greg Strange @iplayoddball.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
And there were no problems and everyone was overreacting...
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Greg Strange @iplayoddball.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
This is my life now. This is what I do for a living. I watch this and I yell at machines.
Screencap of Claude Code showing a status of "Creating >" and a running duration timer showing "4h 4m 1s" and a token count of 3.7 tokens finally ending in what it is actually doing which is "Running tools..."
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Socks the Macro Wolf Dad @socksthewolf.com · 01/09/2026
Massie has been fighting for accountability of the people in the Epstein files for the last few years. He named people this morning. He lost the primary because 10k people (100k votes total from ~600k total pop) didn’t vote. His opponent, also a Republican, is a long time Trump friend (curious).
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Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) Names Epstein Co-Conspirators
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Vale @vale.rocks · 01/09/2026
Be careful when adding IDs, classes, or attributes in your markup that could be interpreted as paid content placement. Even if not actually advertisements or sponsored content, there is a good chance they'll be blocked by content blockers and filters. Further details 👉 vale.rocks/micros/20260...
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Content Blocker False Positives - 1 Sept 2026 03:50 UTC
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Greg Strange @iplayoddball.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Wow. Codex has to spin up a "short-lived" httpd on localhost to verify the OAuth token from signing in through the browser to auth Codex. So, if you have a completely normal dev setup that uses *.localhost to map several projects, you cannot auth codex. Great architecture. Fantastic implementation.
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Greg Strange @iplayoddball.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
And to think it all started with "Freedom Fries"...
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Greg Strange @iplayoddball.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
The fact that Bezos' WaPo is throwing shade on Hegseth tells you how serious it actually is.
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Greg Strange @iplayoddball.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Fantastic Dutch documentary of the Mississippi Delta Blues. The number of great artists that had to give up their dreams because of poverty is one of the most shocking things about America. www.youtube.com/watch?v=y1oM...
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It's Bad you Know, The blues according to Fat Possum ( 1999 )
YouTube video by Rene Hazekamp
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Greg Strange @iplayoddball.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
This is all I keep thinking when I hear AI bros scream that we won't want for anything in the AI future. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Behavio...
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Behavioral sink - Wikipedia
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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
An AI-native startup just restricted most new hires from using AI until they actually learn their jobs. Employees were using expensive frontier models for simple work while senior people cleaned up the AI slop. They now expect token spend to fall from $15–20M to $4–5M. I feel similar pain daily.
businessinsider.com
One CEO's fix for AI-generated slop: Make new hires learn their jobs without AI
Valon's CEO said he imposed the mandate after AI overuse drove up costs and left tenured employees with AI slop to fix.
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Glyph @glyph.im · 30/08/2026
the social contract that allows the web to exist at all is literally collapsing in real time people.kernel.org/monsieuricon/cree…
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Greg Strange @iplayoddball.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
I don't say "y'all" either. I say "dijyall?" "hajy'all?" "wudjy'all" and "Y'aller nuts" among many, many others. I'm from Texas. That's jist how we flap'er gums
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Greg Strange @iplayoddball.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Does every culture have a red wedding in their history?? "...bishops were beheaded. 14 noblemen, 3 burgomasters, 14 town councillors and ~20 citizens of Stockholm...hanged or beheaded. ...continued...the following day. [Selon] executioner...82 people...executed." en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stockho...
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Stockholm Bloodbath - Wikipedia
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Greg Strange @iplayoddball.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
"An agent that has internalized React's mental model will write Solid like React, and Solid written like React is bad Solid." "The question is where the next idea comes from. Every paradigm that has mattered started as something the establishment couldn't write."
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Jesse Wilson @swank.ca · 27/08/2026
Android 17’s better HTTPS privacy is rad. I’m proud that OkHttp 5.5 makes it easy to adopt.
medium.com
Closing a Critical Internet Privacy Gap for Billions of Users: Android 17 Rolls Out ECH Support
When you launch an app or visit a website, you likely assume your connection is private. In reality, a critical privacy gap remains. Even…
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Greg Strange @iplayoddball.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
It's made of people!!!
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Greg Strange @iplayoddball.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
www.youtube.com/watch?v=dFJW...
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John Oliver Investigates Australian Gun Control | The Daily Show
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Cristian Farias @cristianfarias.com · 27/08/2026
I was today days old when I learned Dolly Parton covered Collective Soul’s “Shine” alongside Nickel Creek and the dobro player from Alison Krauss & Union Station. She won a Grammy for it. Blew me away. youtu.be/plUD6vN80dg?...
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Dolly Parton - Shine (Official)
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FleaingDogFella @fleaingdogfella.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
In plainer words, DHS admits to lying in its claim that more than 14,000 noncitizens were improperly registered to vote in Pennsylvania.
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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Are we ever going to find out what happened to mitch McConnell
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Greg Strange @iplayoddball.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
I remember watching The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas when I was much younger. One of my all-time faves and my fave of Dolly's work. The flack she caught for portraying the cathouse madame as a person with heart who cared for her girls was legion. She was one of the greatest humanists ever.
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Greg Strange @iplayoddball.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
I love language and languages. I speak a few. I've never hated a word in all my 50+ years. I hate the word "reify". It's a wholly unnecessary word that's more a virtue signal than semiotic morsel. Sorry, have to get back to my cloud yelling.
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Daniel Fosco @danielfos.co · 26/08/2026
Your weekly reminder that every single paid speech-to-text app on MacOS is a scam – they all cost $0 to run because they're using a free local model. Download the free handy.computer or any of the many open source alternatives and go get a coffee.
handy.computer
Handy
Handy is a cross platform, open-source, speech-to-text application for your computer
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