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Ken '|<3ns41' 👻 - Pro-Ukraine 🌻

@k3n5s.bsky.social
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Posting on topics such as DevOps, security, technology, design, and the maker movement. [He/Him] @K3n_5s on Twitter, infosec.exchange/@K3n_5s on Mastodon

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Jen Gentleman @jenmsft.bsky.social · 2h
Explaining legacy code to new employees
This man looks absolutely crazy. Also there appears to be some sort of crime scene map behind him as he gestures wildly
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Humanoid History @humanoidhistory.bsky.social · 8h
Interfaces in ALIEN, 1979.
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Greg the Miller @gregthemiller.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
captain’s log: should our luck run out, i’d like to say that the shitposters of bluesky acted with distinction and valor
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Mondo 2000 bot @mondo2000-bot.bsky.social · 17h
Mondo 2000 Magazine - Mondo.2000.Issue.17.1997, pages 1-2 #Mondo2000 #Cyberpunk
Mondo 2000 MagazineMondo 2000 Magazine
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Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · 17h
Federal consolidation of our data leads to mistakes, abuses, and a lack of trust in institutions meant to protect us. But we all deserve to live in a world where our data is not combined and weaponized against us. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...
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Resisting the Menace of Federal Data Consolidation
In the past two years, the federal government has unlawfully consolidated data exposing our private information. This consolidation has been chaotic but generally came in three rolling waves: It
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The Onion @theonion.com · 19h
Nation’s Indigenous People Confirm They Don’t Need Special Holiday, Just Large Swaths Of Land Returned Immediately theonion.com/nation-s-indigenous-pe…
Nation’s Indigenous People Confirm They Don’t Need Special Holiday, Just Large Swaths Of Land Returned Immediately
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Ken '|<3ns41' 👻 - Pro-Ukraine 🌻 @k3n5s.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
🤣🤣🤣
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Ken '|<3ns41' 👻 - Pro-Ukraine 🌻 @k3n5s.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
I can endorse @blenster.com. I've met him and he is a great person with the many of the skills you're looking for.
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Oksii ✚ 🇺🇦 @oksii33.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Yandex is uploading everything to the cloud. Very advanced Russian technology. No cables, no servers.
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pixelatedboat aka “mr bluesky” @pixelatedboat.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Sad news for cinephiles: Tilly Norwood has been killed in a Ukrainian drone strike.
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Ken '|<3ns41' 👻 - Pro-Ukraine 🌻 @k3n5s.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Actually, I'll change mine. I kinda like "Deckards" as a unit, from the Blade Runner character who has to chase after rogue AIs hiding among us.
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Ken '|<3ns41' 👻 - Pro-Ukraine 🌻 @k3n5s.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
I was thinking "decacards".
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Ken '|<3ns41' 👻 - Pro-Ukraine 🌻 @k3n5s.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
What's the metric unit for computer intelligence, again?
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Jimothy the Raccoon @jimothythe-raccoon.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Installed last night #jimothy #seattle #jimothyraccoon
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Riker Googling @rikergoogling.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
how to erase holodeck history
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Blenster 🅅 @blenster.com · 11/10/2026
All this can lead to the most Sr roles being fairly isolating and you end up with people who can buy anything but an honest friend they trust to tell them the truth even when it's painful. Instead they end up in a system that inherently incentivizes YesMen behavior which only makes things worse.
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Blenster 🅅 @blenster.com · 11/10/2026
I may have the skills to suss out when one might really be helpful however I cannot offer anymore and so I don't. You can see this in military leadership structures as well; the officers and enlisted don't socialize and the Sr officers are very careful how they socialize with Jr officers.
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Blenster 🅅 @blenster.com · 11/10/2026
I remember a manager asking me if I could teach him how I was able to figure out when a female teammate needed a hug and offer it in a non-creepy way and I had to tell him he simply can't make that offer without some implications due to his position. Now I'm a manager and it's true for me.
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Blenster 🅅 @blenster.com · 11/10/2026
I've known some CEOs over the years at various levels (startup to hundreds of millions on revenue) and it is an isolating position. Leadership in general comes with some changes in expected behavior due to the shifting power imbalances and it only increases as the power does.
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Ken '|<3ns41' 👻 - Pro-Ukraine 🌻 @k3n5s.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
In other words: If (you != SOMETHING) Then...
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Sinead O'Connor - Nothing Compares 2 U
Alt: Sinead O'Connor - Nothing Compares 2 U - From the classic 1990s video, A close-up on Sinead O'Connor's beautiful face, her hair shaved almost to her scalp, surrounded by darkness, singing a very heartfelt song about remorse and a lost relationship. "Nothing compares to you."
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Ken '|<3ns41' 👻 - Pro-Ukraine 🌻 @k3n5s.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
It's also funny how people act differently within their band vs in front of others. Mid-level managers or even C-suite joke and gossip when it's just them, blowing off stress with others who understand what they are going through, but the shields come up in interactions with those above and below.
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Ken '|<3ns41' 👻 - Pro-Ukraine 🌻 @k3n5s.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
One of the challenges in getting promoted at big companies is being recognized as belonging to the "in group" at the next level. Once recognized as a peer by the higher level people you work with, the promotion is almost automatic. Lots of people work hard, but these connections show readiness.
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Ken '|<3ns41' 👻 - Pro-Ukraine 🌻 @k3n5s.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
This is also something highly cultural that can vary considerably. In some countries managers don't even eat lunch in the same place as the non-management, but in the US small teams share pizzas and things all of the time regardless of who the ranking people are. (You aren't wrong, though)
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Nick Sousanis @nsousanis.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Students made their first minicomics in my intro making course - mostly standard format but this student, a first time maker(!), did something so off the charts I’m still reeling from it! & he made like 12 of them for his classmates! A paper engineering feat of flipbookery as well as killer drawing!
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paulpro @mariopro.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
@claybennett.bsky.social
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Jenn @geekgalgroks.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Alt text is for EVERYONE!
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Sam Frantics @dsoart.com · 11/10/2026
This month’s sticker design for Patreon!
Medieval style rendering of Godzilla in front of a cloud of smoke and fire, with text written in red gothic letters that says “Go ahead and destroy the data centers, Godzilla. Make the people happy.”
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Ken '|<3ns41' 👻 - Pro-Ukraine 🌻 @k3n5s.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
"...And then I flew halfway around the world to explore an abandoned mine in Kazakhstan as a stress relief..."
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Ken '|<3ns41' 👻 - Pro-Ukraine 🌻 @k3n5s.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
You just need red string connecting the dates and locations. 😂
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Charlie Day Conspiracy: Pepe Silvia
Alt: Charlie Day Conspiracy: Pepe Silvia - A crazed looking guy pointing at a messy wall with red lines connecting a bunch of papers like a big conspiracy that only he knows about.
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Ken '|<3ns41' 👻 - Pro-Ukraine 🌻 @k3n5s.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
HACK THE GIBSON!
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Viktor Winetrout @viktorwinetrout.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Which wine pairs best with the terror of being alive
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Ken '|<3ns41' 👻 - Pro-Ukraine 🌻 @k3n5s.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Along the lines of: "I can jump higher than a building. (Buildings can't jump, obviously.)"
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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
New working paper: the Norwegian wealth tax was a huge success. The "exodus" of wealthy people never happened (less than 100 individuals left). Tax revenue increased by 71.5%. No changes in business activity or investment. www.nber.org/papers/w35854
Taxing Entrepreneurial Wealth: Evidence from
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Marius A. K. Ring
WORKING PAPER 35854|
DOl 10.3386/w35854
ISSUE DATE October 2026
Whether imposing higher taxes on business owners adversely affects business activity by constraining investment and inducing capitalist flight is a central question in the ongoing debate on how to tax the ultra wealthy. To shed new light, I exploit a series of related Norwegian reforms during 2021-2024 that increased dividend tax rates, removed migration-related capital gains tax loopholes, and nearly doubled the effective marginal tax rate on business wealth. These reforms spurred international debate and, allegedly, an "exodus" of Norwegian billionaires (Financial Times,
2023). While I document clear effects on migration, these responses are concentrated among the top 0.1% of the wealth distribution and mostly confined to 2022 and 2023. My results indicate that at most 100 individuals left due to the reforms. I find no evidence of significant outmigration or reduced inflows of startup founders or inventors. I estimate that absent any outmigration, wealth tax revenues would have increased by 75% from 2021 to 2024. Reform-driven outmigration lowers the revenue gain to 71.5%. My findings further show that outmigrating owners' firms remain economically active and do not reduce investment. In a broader set of analyses, I examine whether business outcomes are affected, regardless of whether owners outmigrate, since firms may reduce investment both due to liquidity constraints or distortions to owners' savings decisions. I compare firms owned by Norwegian individuals subject to the wealth tax with firms owned by foreigners and other tax-exempt entities. By merging historical ownership data from Orbis with the Norwegian shareholder register, I perform these analyses on both Norwegian and foreign-domiciled firms.
Across settings, I find no evidence that Norwegian-owned firms pay out more dividends or invest less after the reforms,…
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Da Bears! Chicago Bears Fans Cheering
Alt: Da Bears! Chicago Bears Fans toasting, lifting their beers towards the center of the table, all big white guys with moustaches, sunglasses and baseball caps like their idol, Coach Didka. (From the classic Saturday Night Live sketch)
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Ken '|<3ns41' 👻 - Pro-Ukraine 🌻 @k3n5s.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
The cure for the modern age.
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Ken Jennings @kenjennings.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
The “prosecute the former regime at every level” candidate has my vote in 2028.
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BitterOldPunk @bitteroldpunk.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Oh shit. Things are getting real along the Gulf coast.
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Ann LeBlanc @robotleblanc.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
friday is for kafkaposting
tumblr post poem by kleinergeist

I don't care if Monday's stressed
Tuesday, Wednesday, Kafkaesque
Thursday, feeling like a pest
It's Friday, I'm a bug
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Tanya Janca | SheHacksPurple @shehackspurple.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
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Ken '|<3ns41' 👻 - Pro-Ukraine 🌻 @k3n5s.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
#truth
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Eric Levai @ericlevai.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Now THIS is how you write a story. Devastating.
Screenshot from this article: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/08/us/politics/fort-hood-execution-streamed-public.html?unlocked_article_code=1.HVE.Rw7O.Sj-0_s5YONzL&smid=nytcore-android-share
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#BruceSterling @bruces.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
*The refuseniks (and the evangelists) often have good arguments, but these matters are not settled by debate
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KC Lemson @kclemson.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
I’m going to update my resume to say I’m good at ignoring previous instructions, but it has nothing to do with AI - I’m just good at ignoring instructions in general.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
i feel this more and more every day
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Micah @rincewind.run · 07/10/2026
rip to one of the coolest software engineers who ever lived
Margaret Hamilton standing next to a printout of code she and her team wrote for the Apollo program, which is as tall as she is
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In Otter News @in-otter-news.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Steve is at the pub. Singing again. Stop it, Steve.
Short description: A close-up photograph of Steve the otter with his mouth wide open, eyes nearly closed, and whiskers splayed.  
Baked-in text: none
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Dr. Todd Arrington @btarrington.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
“The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little.” ~President Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1936. Image: Universal History Archive/Getty Images.
This black and white photo shows a clean-shaven man, President Franklin D. Roosevelt, sitting at a desk and wearing a suit. He holds a paper in his right hand and appears to be speaking into a microphone that sits on the desk.
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Ken '|<3ns41' 👻 - Pro-Ukraine 🌻 @k3n5s.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
The author twinkled and shimmered, like a TV tuned to a dead channel...
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Ken '|<3ns41' 👻 - Pro-Ukraine 🌻 @k3n5s.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
🌷
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Deth Veggie @dethveggie.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Hear, goddamn hear.
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