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joe sepi @joesepi.com · 30/04/2026
Funny story. I spoke at a conference in Greece (devIT 2018 in Thessaloniki) and the organizers asked me to play guitar and sing a song to kick off the conference. I obliged by changing the words of Taylor Swift’s “Shake It Off” to be about JavaScript. (...cont'd) www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Xmo...
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CityJS London broadcast this rehearsal recording onstage during opening keynote!
YouTube video by Joe Sepi
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James Snell @jasnell.me · 17/04/2026
We are happy to announce the NodeConf EU is returning in 2026. This time, things will be a little different. While the Irish countryside made for a beauttiful backdrop for getting the community together to talk about Node.js, there have always been a number of logistical challenges to hosting there;
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joe sepi @joesepi.com · 06/02/2026
Drifting North is featured on a benefit comp put together by Mike Horn (Seawind of Battery) & Mike Mannix (Centripetal Force Records) with cover art by Ian Branch All proceeds will be donated directly to the National Immigrant Justice Center centripetalforcerecords.bandcamp.com
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joe sepi @joesepi.com · 29/01/2026
📣 Big changes to start 2026! I’m thrilled to share that I am joining Cloudflare as the Workers Runtime Engineering Manager! Onward and upward! 🚀
I'm joining Cloudflare to help build a #BetterInternet
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joe sepi @joesepi.com · 12/01/2026
NEW GTR The yellowish strat is my new ride. The NEW COOL TRICK: these kill buttons. I love the arcade style on the new guitar. I always put a Hot Rail in the bridge position so l've started just getting customer pick guards too. Thanks to GuitarFixer Bob for the work. 💥🤘💥
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joe sepi @joesepi.com · 30/12/2025
Home stereo discussions with Elm City Sounds. Need an amp to power these 70s Japanese Coral speakers I got for my studio from Inner Space Sound Labs
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joe sepi @joesepi.com · 22/12/2025
Happy birthday, Michael. I love and miss you and still think of you often.
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joe sepi @joesepi.com · 20/12/2025
I modded my guitar with a momentary kill switch. ✨🤘✨ I am working on my backup guitar to have the same setup except it’s an arcade button. Can’t wait to show you all when it’s finished. S¡¡¡CK!!!
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joe sepi @joesepi.com · 19/12/2025
Early XMAS gift FOR ME!!! I have a 100s of old 4-track tapes that I can’t wait to dump and digitize. Yay!! Dreams do come true.
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joe sepi @joesepi.com · 22/11/2025
After hours guitar repair with “GuitarFixer Bob” Pieper of legendary hair metal band, XYZ 🤘
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joe sepi @joesepi.com · 16/10/2025
Work! #jsconf
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OpenJS Foundation @openjsf.org · 23/09/2025
Open source foundations don’t run on “magic piles of money.” Registries, CDNs, CI pipelines, security response and compliance work all require sustained support. Read why OpenJS joined peers in signing “Open Infrastructure is Not Free.” 🔗 hubs.la/Q03KtFgr0
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joe sepi @joesepi.com · 10/04/2025
Let’s estimate that Apple sells 50 million iPhones per year in the US. Apple couldn’t manufacture 50 million iPhones per year in the US at any cost. No amount of money could be thrown at the problem and make it happen that 50 million new iPhones are made in the US: daringfireball.net/linked/2025/...
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Trump, Supposedly, Thinks the U.S. Has the ‘Resources’ Needed to Make iPhones
Link to: https://9to5mac.com/2025/04/08/trump-thinks-the-us-has-the-resources-needed-to-make-iphones/
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joe sepi @joesepi.com · 02/04/2025
Discount Fireworks’ BIG WEEKEND OF SHOWS! APR 4 FRI - at AS220 in Providence, RI APR 5 SAT - at Joe Nolan’s 50th birthday bash at Scottish Dave’s in Clinton, CT APR 6 SUN - at Three Sheets punk rock matinee DiscountFireworks.band
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joe sepi @joesepi.com · 01/04/2025
“Behold the decade of mid tech! That is what I want to say every time someone asks me, “What about A.I.?” with the breathless anticipation of a boy who thinks this is the summer he finally gets to touch a boob….” www.nytimes.com/2025/03/29/o...
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Opinion | The Tech Fantasy That Powers A.I. Is Running on Fumes
A.I. is just what we need in the post-fact era: less research and more predicting what we want to hear.
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joe sepi @joesepi.com · 01/04/2025
In this 10-minute video, John Lithgow reads each of the lessons from Timothy Snyder’s On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century kottke.org/25/04/john-l...
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John Lithgow Reads 20 Lessons on Tyranny by Timothy Snyder
In this 10-minute video, John Lithgow reads each of the lessons from Timothy Snyder’s On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the
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Omar Wasow @owasow.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
Keep hearing people say protests against first Trump administration were ineffective. Evidence suggests otherwise.
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joe sepi @joesepi.com · 28/03/2025
👊 Law Firms Jenner & Block and WilmerHale Sue Trump Administration to Block Executive Orders President Trump has targeted big law firms that he claims have “weaponized” the legal system. On Friday, Jenner & Block and WilmerHale fought back in court. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/28/b...
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Law Firms Jenner & Block and WilmerHale Sue Trump Administration to Block Executive Orders
President Trump has targeted big law firms that he claims have “weaponized” the legal system. On Friday, Jenner & Block and WilmerHale fought back in court.
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joe sepi @joesepi.com · 28/03/2025
Two prominent American scholars on fascism & authoritarianism, Timothy Snyder & Jason Stanley, have recently moved from Yale to the University of Toronto. Stanley: “the primary reason was the deteriorating political situation in the United States”. kottke.org/25/03/004652...
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Two prominent American scholars on fascism & authoritarianis...
Two prominent American scholars on fascism & authoritarianism, Timothy Snyder & Jason Stanley, have recently moved from Yale to th
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joe sepi @joesepi.com · 27/03/2025
“A new report from Reuters: one of the young DOGE employees, 19yo Edward Coristine, previously was involved with a cybercrime group known as "EGodly." Also known by his online nickname "Big Balls," he provided support for cybercriminals through his company DiamondCDN” mashable.com/article/doge...
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DOGE staffer 'Big Balls' allegedly involved with cybercrime ring
Elon Musk's DOGE boys are currently rifling through government data. Do you trust them?
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joe sepi @joesepi.com · 27/03/2025
“Der Spiegel reported Wed not only were Trump's officials communicating via Signal, their cell phone numbers can be found online. Hegseth, Mike Waltz and Gabbard all had their private data, passwords and cell phone numbers leaked and can be found online…” boingboing.net/2025/03/26/w...
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White House officials’ Signal group chat leak now includes passwords, phone data
The Trump Administration's "SignalGate" leak of war plans only gets worse and worse.
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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
Tonight, hours after the Paul Weiss news broke, an associate at Skadden Arps sent a firm-wide email: "Please consider this email my two week notice, revocable if the firm comes up with a satisfactory response to the current moment...We do not have time. It is now or it is never..."
Jeremy and colleagues, Many deals I work on have concepts of conditional
notice. This is mine. Please consider this email my two week notice, revocable if the firm comes up with a satisfactory response to the current moment, which should include at minimum (i) signing on to the firm amicus brief in support of Perkins Coie in its litigation fighting the Trump administration's executive order against it, ii) committing to broad future representation, regardless of whether powerful people view it as adverse to them, (iii) refusal to cooperate with the EEOC's request for personal information of our colleagues clearly targeted at intimidating non-white employees, (iv) public refusal to fire or otherwise force out employees at the Trump administration's directive or implied directive and (v) public commitment to maintenance of affinity
groups and related initiatives. This is not what I saw for my career or for my evening, but Paul Weiss' decision to cave to the Trump administration on DEl, representation and staffing has forced my hand. We do not have time. It is now or it is never, and if it is never, I will not
continue to work here.
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joe sepi @joesepi.com · 21/03/2025
“Members of British punk rock band UK Subs denied entry into the US Three members of the pioneering band were detained and returned to the UK after flying to Los Angeles for a gig” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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Members of British punk rock band UK Subs denied entry into the US
Three members of the pioneering band were detained and returned to the UK after flying to Los Angeles for a gig
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joe sepi @joesepi.com · 13/03/2025
The US is vulnerable and its getting worse... #cybersecurity www.wired.com/story/inside...
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‘People Are Scared’: Inside CISA as It Reels From Trump’s Purge
Employees at the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency tell WIRED they’re struggling to protect the US while the administration dismisses their colleagues and poisons their partnerships.
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joe sepi @joesepi.com · 12/03/2025
This will be incredible, I’m sure. I cannot wait! www.nytimes.com/2025/03/11/a...
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Meow Wolf to Open New York Edition of Its Immersive Art Program
The Santa Fe, N.M., company has found success tapping into the experience economy and artistic psychedelia.
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joe sepi @joesepi.com · 26/02/2025
iPhones are briefly changing 'racist' to 'Trump' due to an iOS dictation issue www.engadget.com/mobile/iphon...
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iPhones are briefly changing 'racist' to 'Trump' due to an iOS dictation issue
A bizarre bug is causing iPhones to automatically change the word “racist” to “Trump” when using the built-in dictation feature in iOS.
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Halaylah @halaylah.com · 24/02/2025
I've been screaming this for years.
"Listen, if a Bad President can come in and take away our rights and we're dependent on a Good President replacing them in four years to give us back our rights, then we do not have any rights.

"If politicians can take or distribute them, then they're not 'inalienable' and they're not 'rights.'

"We don't have inalienable rights we have conditional privileges, divvied out according to the whims of whoever currently holds the reins.

"And if we want to have actual rights, then we must build a system in which no one has the power to take them away to begin with."
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Marc Hedlund @marcprecipice.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
Here's a little thread of some excellent videos of people punching up this week. First up, the Governor of Maine, Janet Mills, telling Trump, "I'll see you in court," to his face and on video. bsky.app/profile/atru...
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kottke.org @kottke.org · 24/02/2025
We the Builders is a site run by current and former federal employees about how “DOGE” is destroying the government. “They are destroyers. We are the builders. We don’t work for DOGE. We have always worked for you.” [wethebuilders.org]
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joe sepi @joesepi.com · 21/02/2025
Both bands! Two shows! One club! One weekend! Saturday, Drifting North is with My Fellow and Magic Deal from Philly at Three Sheets in New Haven Discount Fireworks is doing the Sunday matinee thing with EGG! and Pencils Down, also at Three Sheets
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joe sepi @joesepi.com · 21/02/2025
While Apple Maps, Google Maps, and Bing have all caved, Mapquest has held fast, along with the Associated Press and Encyclopedia Britannica. Now, the OG online map service lets you rename the Gulf of Mexico anything you want with "Name Your Own Gulf." boingboing.net/2025/02/20/m...
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Mapquest lets "Name Your Own Gulf"
While Apple Maps, Google Maps, and Bing have all caved and renamed the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America, Mapquest has held fast, along with the Associated Press…
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joe sepi @joesepi.com · 19/02/2025
MUST READ: “…this is not just Elon Musk’s coup. Musk seems to be following his own playbook but it’s clear that there are multiple, intersecting, mutually beneficial things going on there with Trump, Musk, Vought, and many Republican members of Congress.” kottke.org/25/02/theyre...
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They’re Purposefully Traumatizing the Federal Workforce
Russell Vought is a Christian nationalist, a significant contributor to Project 2025, the policy director of the RNC’s platf
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joe sepi @joesepi.com · 18/02/2025
Through moving images, intimate portraits & interviews, Juliet Klottrup created Skate Like a Lass: a moving archive of these skate subcultures that aims to “address gaps in representation, participation, and historical documentation within skateboarding" www.itsnicethat.com/articles/jul...
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Skate like a lass: Juliet Klottrup’s take on skating, survival and self-expression up north
Documenting underrepresented communities in the skate scene, the photographer and filmmaker has merged self-authored images with poignant portraits to reimagine the conventional capturing of the sport...
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joe sepi @joesepi.com · 09/02/2025
Truly how I feel right now
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joe sepi @joesepi.com · 27/01/2025
“…immoral to treat your enemies with kindness if kindness weakens the community in its struggle against a mortal foe. In the world of the friend-enemy distinction, your ultimate virtue: willingness to fight. Your ultimate vice is: refusing the call to political war.” www.nytimes.com/2025/01/26/o...
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Opinion | How a German Thinker Explains MAGA Morality
Us and them is all the rage.
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joe sepi @joesepi.com · 23/01/2025
Come on out tonight to Cafe Nine in New Haven for some good ole punk/rock music!
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Patton Oswalt @pattonoswalt.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
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Jane Coaston @janecoaston.bsky.social · 15/12/2024
www.thisamericanlife.org/545/if-you-d...
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Ask Not For Whom The Bell Trolls; It Trolls for Thee - This American Life
Writer Lindy West has been harassed by hundreds of trolls online.
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joe sepi @joesepi.com · 11/12/2024
Anyone on the new Turntable .FM thing? I started a #PRF room. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ hang.fm/da/prf-liste...
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Music is better with friends! This is the place for people to gather around music on the internet.
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joe sepi @joesepi.com · 08/12/2024
“It appears that the brutal reign of the Assad regime is over after more than 50 years. “Syrian rebels declared they had ousted President Bashar al-Assad after seizing control of Damascus on Sunday, forcing him to flee…” kottke.org/24/12/004581...
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It appears that the brutal reign of the Assad regime is over...
It appears that the brutal reign of the Assad regime is over after more than 50 years. “Syrian rebels declared they had oust
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Ruy Adorno @ruyadorno.com · 03/12/2024
A new Node.js LTS Release is out! 🥳 v22.12.0 enables require(esm) by default! Read more about that change and the rest of additions / fixes in our blog post / CHANGELOG: nodejs.org/en/blog/rele... #nodejs #javascript
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Node.js — Node v22.12.0 (LTS)
Node.js® is a JavaScript runtime built on Chrome's V8 JavaScript engine.
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joe sepi @joesepi.com · 03/12/2024
🤘💀 “Schools that choose to offer the LifeWise Academy bible lessons in Ohio find they also have to allow students access to Satan's program.” boingboing.net/2024/12/03/s...
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Satanism offers Ohio school children a choice
When faced with attending the LifeWise Academy bible lesson, held in 200 Ohio public schools, or going home to worship Satan, the choice seems pretty straightforward: I'd go with Satan.
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Inequality Media Civic Action @imcivicaction.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
Trump is now the first incoming president not to sign the federal transition funding agreement. That means he can raise unlimited amounts from wealthy donors for his presidential transition — and keep their identities secret. So much for draining the swamp.
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Trump keeps names of donors funding transition secret in break with practice
President-elect alarms ethics experts by neglecting to sign agreement that requires disclosure of donor identities
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joe sepi @joesepi.com · 22/11/2024
Discount Fireworks rehearsal last night. 💥🤘💥
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joe sepi @joesepi.com · 20/11/2024
This is such a great thread about the costs of pressing vinyl:
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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
NEW: The great Trump-Musk crackdown is coming. And it will hit hard & fast. Journalists will be first. But everyone else is next. I urge you to read my 20 lessons in How to Survive the Broligarchy, inspired by & featuring the great @timothysnyder.bsky.social 1/ www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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How to survive the broligarchy: 20 lessons for the post-truth world | Carole Cadwalladr
In the wake of Trump’s unnerving appointees, the investigative journalist and veteran of the libel court offers pointers on coping in an age of surveillance
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joe sepi @joesepi.com · 14/11/2024
Incremental improvements across the hardware and software stacks add up — IBM boosts the amount of computation you can get done on quantum hardware. arstechnica.com/science/2024...
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Jay 🦋 @jay.bsky.team · 13/11/2024
Bluesky is a PBC (public benefit corporation) with the mission “to develop and drive large-scale adoption of technologies for open and decentralized public conversation.” From the start, our goal has been to build a decentralized social network that is usable by the mainstream.
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joe sepi @joesepi.com · 13/11/2024
YASS!! I loved Turntable.fm and can’t wait to see how this goes. Music is better with friends. ✌️ www.engadget.com/audio/turnta...
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Turntable Labs just launched a new social music platform called Hangout
Turntable Labs just launched a social music platform named Hangout. The functionality works similarly to Turntable.fm, which was first shut down in 2013 before reappearing in 2021.
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Michael Ian Black @michaelianblack.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
MAKE KID ROCK SECRETARY OF BAWITDABA YOU COWARDS
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