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joepampel.bsky.social

@joepampel.bsky.social
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Polymath generalist, curious human, entrepreneur, rescue dog dad. Founding CISO/CTO @ Vestwell | All purpose nerd. He/Him

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joepampel.bsky.social @joepampel.bsky.social · 14h
Chat, is this bad?
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joepampel.bsky.social @joepampel.bsky.social · 21h
Netscalers are a BSD load balancing appliance, very powerful & very popular. At least when I was dealing with them Google was a huge user, so this could be inneresting. [Zero day being exploited since 9/3 per Mandiant]: nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/...
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NVD - Home
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joepampel.bsky.social @joepampel.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
fwiw, “GOES” steel is referring to various silicon-steel alloys that get annealed (heated and cooled) in specific ways to orient the grains in the steel. This affects their hysteresis curve (linearity) It’s what all transformers use, audio or utility power. It also doesn’t “wear out”. Recycle?
manufacturing.net
America's Transformer Crisis Is a Sign of What's Coming
Wait times are hitting five years, creating a massive power constraint.
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joepampel.bsky.social @joepampel.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
My very first car was a well worn 1970 corona deluxe. No reverse, and a good sized hole in the driver’s footwell. Starting it in the cold was also a challenge…
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joepampel.bsky.social @joepampel.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Tracking the decline of western civilization
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joepampel.bsky.social @joepampel.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
…and this, children, was how the first Bluesky food fight began
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joepampel.bsky.social @joepampel.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Omg… Milk.coming.out.of.nose… Can we talk about, oh idk, cars being introduced without brake lights or seat belts? Safety has been driven (pun intended) by government the entire time. Self governance is a joke. Safety is a cost your competitor doesn’t have otherwise. You need a level playing field
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joepampel.bsky.social @joepampel.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
CV19 + flu shot today. Don’t call it virtue signalling; maybe call it science signalling? 💪🧐💉
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joepampel.bsky.social @joepampel.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Worked on the corner weighting & front alignment. Went well overall, but the rears are out a bit more than I’d like. I wasn’t able to break the nut free to let me adj the rear, so im leaving it for now. Front came out perfect, weights are within 1/10lb & theres very slightly less toe-in. (1’ diff)
The front adjusters and the thread chasers i used to make sure they turned smoothly first. Using a $16 laser level to make sure the car would be level. I used vinyl tiles for the top part, .05” thick each. I topped each platform with salt to help the tires slide as adjustments were made. I turned myself into a pillar of salt. 5 x 40lb bags to simulate me.
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joepampel.bsky.social @joepampel.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
💯 this. Gus was a big problem 2.5yo dog (100lb GSD) when we rescued him. Took help from a pro trainer, lots of patience & lots of love to get him to where he is now & he was our 5th dog. They are not labs. I hand fed him every meal for 3 months straight to build trust. Stuff like that.
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joepampel.bsky.social @joepampel.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
The Sal Maida tribute will be out on 12/4. An incredible list of guest stars from Sal’s life showed up to contribute! Featuring : Phil Manzanera - Roxy Music Martin Gordon - Sparks Steve Wynn - Dream Syndicate Dennis Diken - Smithereens Mike Fornatale, Justin Strauss & Julian Maile, (& more!)
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The John Sally Ride — For Sal – THINK LIKE A KEY MUSIC
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joepampel.bsky.social @joepampel.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Watched “this isn’t happening” (X-Files, S7/E14) and scully storming into an encampment with heavily armed fbi agents really hits different now.
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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Meta and Tik Tok refusing to allow the trailer for Musk to run as a paid ad on their site—just like any other movie trailer—means users should fight tech oligarch solidarity and share it widely youtu.be/FFTf1lzcs28?...
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MUSK | Official Trailer HD
YouTube video by Elevation Pictures
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joepampel.bsky.social @joepampel.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
You bring a black coffee and a bacon, egg & cheese on toast to your interview. You are immediately hired.
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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Every taxpayer, no matter your party, should be outraged by this. Your money is being used to fund campaign ads for Trump. It’s totally completely illegally. He’s stealing your money for his campaign. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/24/u...
nytimes.com
‘Love Me’ Ad Promotes Trump With Public Money Ahead of the Midterms
A disclaimer says the ad was paid for by the U.S. government, which could violate federal law.
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joepampel.bsky.social @joepampel.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Im in 21st place going into the runoffs next sat. Best I’ve ever done. (It wont hold) The front suspension is still a bit off so im corner weighting the car & lord help me i used geometry in real life bc the car must be level. Net net the floor has a 2.7 deg slope which is 4” at the rear tire…
Using a laser level to find the rise at the rear tire.  (Green light)  just under 4 inches. Putting wooden blocks on top of the scales to get the rear up. Almost level, but close enough for a preliminary assessment. (Pic of scale interface showing car weights at each corner)

The scales connect via blutooth which is nice.  The weights are too far off side to side. They should within 10-20lbs across the car and the left side should really be heavier since it’s left hand drive. (Pedals, steering column, battery, etc)
The total weight in front or rear wont change, just how it’s spread out. Here it’s 524lbs left, 564lbs right.  The rear is even worse. LF/RR should = RF/LR ideally.  Its a bit of whack-a-mole as adjusting any one corner affects them all.
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 25/09/2026
Yup. We were deepfaked. But it's all part of a much bigger story about Russia's interference in our 2026 midterms to help the GOP.
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How a Russian attack on the midterms deepfaked Mother Jones
Putin's trolls are again looking to help Donald Trump and the GOP.
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Jeffrey Vagle @jvagle.me · 23/09/2026
More accurately, OpenAI developers and management built an automated system with unfettered access, unmonitored agents, prompting an LLM with zero safeguards and trained to be persistent until it drops, suggesting an increasing number of crazy activities, and running it for days without monitoring.
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joepampel.bsky.social @joepampel.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
THIS THIS THISITY THIS
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joepampel.bsky.social @joepampel.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
So am i committing fraud bc i pay for car insurance but have no accidents? Pay for home insurance but have no claims? What about life insuance? I haven’t been near dead in a long time… 😳
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joepampel.bsky.social @joepampel.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
I would just like get through one day where a giant pickup or suv doesn’t nearly kill me. That would be nice.
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joepampel.bsky.social @joepampel.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
No statement from leadership at any level stating remorse. Only more dishonesty. No suspensions of the agents. They think they’re untouchable. ICE is malignant from top to bottom and must be dismantled. There is no middle ground.
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joepampel.bsky.social @joepampel.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Years back I fixed up & gifted a V4B to my friend. He’d always wanted one. It started humming at rehearsal so I took it overnight for some tlc. All better now. (50yo tubes, still cranking away. Amaze amaze…
The guts of the V4B. Its’s the little brother of the SVT. Smaller, lighter & at 540V, only slightly less likely to kill you, 😬Broke out the TV2 military tube tester. Its a tank, and the users manyal tells younhow to destroy it if you have to abandon it. They thought of everything. 
The ampeg needed 1 new preamp tube, just one of the cheap ones, thankfully. Tested fine, but it hummed. When right to repair was the norm. The schematic is right on the chassis. Ampeg did this a lot.  The tone control section was especially innovative & sounds fantastic. Pixes? VH1? Its all in there.
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joepampel.bsky.social @joepampel.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Gus & Deli (in front) took mrs p and I for a brisk hike through the woods. Time to discover the smells of fall. They also got very muddy, which they clearly enjoy. 🤣 #dogsofbluesky
Gus the German shepherd follows mrs p through the woods on our hike. Deli is up ahead (on leash)  It was a gorgeous day.
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joepampel.bsky.social @joepampel.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Goodnight Gus ❤️ #dogsofbluesky
Gus is sleeping on his back. 
He took a big hike, got all muddy, got a bath and now he’s pooped!
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joepampel.bsky.social @joepampel.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Why don’t we call it, “natural language contextual search” and forget all the BS about “intelligence”.
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joepampel.bsky.social @joepampel.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
When the sound guys are dunking on you too
Diagram of two semi trailers.
The top one is full of equipment, labelled “Ed Sheeran’s backline truck last week”. 
The lower diagram show the same trailer with a single small object in it, labelled “Ed Sheeran’s backline truck this week.
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joepampel.bsky.social @joepampel.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
I know we’re the new international baddies bc the villains are driving a jeep in the new slow horses instead of a range rover or g wagon. Congratulations, America.
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joepampel.bsky.social @joepampel.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 17/09/2026
EXCLUSIVE: For over two decades, the OSCE has sent a mission to observe every federal election in the US.   But the regional security organization told DD that it hasn’t received an invitation from the Trump administration to observe the upcoming midterms. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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Exclusive: These international observers have monitored US elections for decades. This time, the Trump admin didn’t invite them
It’s the latest ominous sign that the U.S. is backsliding on democracy — and adds to concerns that the administration wants to undermine the vote.
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DrArchivalGenomics @ehekkala.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
It might be hard for young people to know where we were before the Endangered Soecies Act (ESA) but we would have no whales, turtles, eagles, pandas, tigers, wolves etc without it. 🧪🌏 www.nytimes.com/2026/09/16/c...
nytimes.com
Trump Administration Moves to Gut a Core Endangered Species Protection
An internal memo reinterprets the law so that only the intentional killing of animals, not collateral harm, is illegal.
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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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joepampel.bsky.social @joepampel.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Things I despise in modern cars, #74: auto-dimming mirrors and auto-dimming headlights. They both suck at their functions, and are designed to allow the driver to pay less attention to what they are doing. You're a fragile bag of water in a tin can traveling 66 feet/sec. Always pay attention.
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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
It's cool that the guy who doesn't know the difference between insane asylum and seeking asylum is going to take point on controlling Ai.
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joepampel.bsky.social @joepampel.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Fuck these people. With a cactus. Thank you for your attention to this matter.
jessica.substack.com
BREAKING: EPA Will Test Drinking Water for Abortion Pills & Contraception
The federal agency just caved to years of anti-abortion pressure
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joepampel.bsky.social @joepampel.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Its been a wild 10 years! Here’s to the next 10!
lnkd.in
Vestwell's 10-Year Journey to Closing the Savings Gap | Aaron Schumm posted on the topic | LinkedIn
When starting Vestwell, people told us the existing retirement infrastructure was too entrenched to change. Too many incumbents, too much regulation, too hard to move. Well, ten years later, here we ...
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capitolhunters @capitolhunters.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
For people thinking, what's the big deal about the 4% cut in global oil production coming next week, that's the scale of the 1973 OPEC crisis and 1979 Iran war oil crisis. Each followed by a major recession. Prices and supply are global. And global oil stocks are already gone. It's a calamity. 1/
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joepampel.bsky.social @joepampel.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Why racing on TV does nothing for me. Here's clip where I completely screw up sharp a corner. At normal speed, boring. In slo-mo, you can see me brake too late, smoke the inside tires, skid past the apex and then use oversteer to get the rotation I need to salvage the lap. A bit more fun imo.
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joepampel.bsky.social @joepampel.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Took 4th in class yesterday at Lime Rock. Even better? I was "queen for a day"; several folks came up to say how much they liked watching me drive it, or how much they just liked seeing an old car out there beating much newer cars. Here's one of the more interesting competitors who showed up 😍
You can run anything you want, there is an 'other' category that is essentially "open".  This is a Caterham replica of a Lotus Super Seven. If you want to go hard, these are tough to beat. These weigh roughly 1,200lbs. An old 911 is a tick over 2X that; a new BMW M2 is close to 4,000lbs.
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joepampel.bsky.social @joepampel.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
translation: we will be pining for the days of $5 gas in the near future.
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Anna Hughes 🍁 @annaghughes.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
trying to make new friends as an adult
Amy Adams in Arrival holding the white board that says HUMAN while she's trying to communicate with aliens
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joepampel.bsky.social @joepampel.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Huh. Its almost like he’s saying competence matters.
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joepampel.bsky.social @joepampel.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
If you haven't before, take 2 min to get up to speed on this and then reflect on the fact that this is the same criminal Saudi gov't trump is helping to build a nuclear weapons program. #9/11
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The 28 pages - Wikipedia
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joepampel.bsky.social @joepampel.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
don't worry, our treasury secretary has everything under control & going according to plan; just like he did with his hedge fund. #Wheeee
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joepampel.bsky.social @joepampel.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Hey Samsung! why are there online gambling ads on the home screen of the tv I purchased? I already gets ads from every streaming service on top of their stupid monthly fees. I didn’t lease the tv, I bought it. I own it. I will throw this shit in the dumpster. Just stop it.
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The Steady State @thesteadystate.org · 11/09/2026
What happens after the Trump years? “When the time comes, moving forward will require more than putting the Trump years behind us. It will require determining what happened, who was responsible, which actions were lawful and which were not.” Read more from Bill Piekney here: zurl.co/rmKBi
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Governor Tim Walz @governorwalz.mn.gov · 10/09/2026
ICYMI: We’ve served over 450 million free school meals to students, saving families $1,000 per student each year. That’s a lot of full kids - and a lot of money back in families’ pockets.
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joepampel.bsky.social @joepampel.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Where were you? I was originally headed to windows on the world for the Waters Conference to discuss FIX-XML. But I got re-routed to Nantucket last minute to t-shoot a networking issue. I took the fam; incl both girls, then 3months & 2 years and Max our dog. One of the thousands saved by dumb luck
playing on the beach in Nantucket with our 2yo daughter. My company paid for me to take the whole family on the car ferry bc I got screwed out of going to the conference I really wanted to attend. In a very clear ‘careful what you wish for’ lesson, everyone at the conference died in the WTC attack.  As a result I got to know my children, which is really the best possible scenario.
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C. Robert Cargill @crobertcargill.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
It is 2026. I am 51 years old. I am sweating my ass off through a graphic tee in a small club in downtown Austin, listening to a prog rock band headed by actual rock god Tony fucking Levin. There’s no age bar. You get to be you as long as you want.
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The Contrarian @contrariannews.org · 08/09/2026
Mark your calendars for October 17th - the No Kings day for midterms that is entirely focused on mobilizing the vote. Learn how to get involved at indivisible.org @ezralevin.bsky.social @indivisible.org
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