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kscottz @kscottz.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

BREAKING: Hugging Face has been acquired by Weyland-Yutani corporation in a deal valued at $23B.

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OSHWA @oshwassociation.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

After two years of working closely with the Open Healthware community we are proud to launch the Open Healthware Certification process! This certification compliments our base process with a specialized look at source for open hardware health projects. Read more: oshwa.org/announcement...

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OSHWA @oshwassociation.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

October comes fast! This year we are once again running Show & Tell, our 24hr Membership Drive Livestream! Mark your calendars because October 10th 8am to October 11th 8am we will be exploring open source hardware far and wide with a focus on delightfully sloppy, human-made prototypes 👁️ 🫟

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kscottz @kscottz.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

@gilduran.com was one of the first mainstream journalists covering the emerging tech fascism in the Bay Area. Tech billionaires ran a pilot of their fascist political strategy in San Francisco before rolling it out nation wide. I'm excited to read Gils new book on the topic this weekend.

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OpenCV @opencv.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

The OpenCV AI Competition 2026 (powered by AWS) has one rule that matters: use image or video analysis to solve a real problem. Healthcare, accessibility, safety, autonomous systems — pick a domain that needs the work. $12K in prizes, you keep your IP. Register: opencv.org/opencv-ai-co...

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kscottz @kscottz.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Woke 1 and Woke 2 have now been deprecated. We're about to release Woke 3.0.0 and using semantic versionsing (SemVer 2.0) from now on.

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Michael Love @elkmovie.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

I’m on a small-ship Alaska cruise with my son; our boat rescued a stranded vessel last night and apparently we did that after the Coast Guard radioed Mark Zuckerberg’s yacht - which was closer - and they repeatedly refused to respond. (There was near unanimous booing when the captain announced this)

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kscottz @kscottz.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

My boyfriend: I'm going to reverse engineer the tool chain for this obscure Chinese FPGA. Also my boyfriend: folding a fitted sheet is an intractable problem that cannot be solved.

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 31/07/2026

I used to do some work on the ethical use of satellite and drone imagery for aid and disaster response, and it is genuinely hard to express in words what a dangerous, stupid thing Google is doing by making it easy to use GenAI to create faked satellite imagery:

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How to plant a nuclear plant in Iran

The question is: what on earth is Google doing?

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kscottz @kscottz.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

I support computer vision professionals. Back the RGB! Thank you for your service. 🫡

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OSHWA @oshwassociation.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Thank you so much for joining us in San Francisco for the 2026 Open Healthware Week! We are so happy to have witnessed so many incredible talks, workshop collaborations, projects and conversations among attendees.

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OSHWA @oshwassociation.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Welcome back to Day 2 of the Open Healthware Conference! You can watch all the talks LIVE on Youtube! www.youtube.com/watch?v=6y4A...

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Open Healthware Conference 2026 Day 2

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OSHWA @oshwassociation.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Daniel Lam and George Fakes presenting on what it means to restore a discontinued clinical tool through open sourcing

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OSHWA @oshwassociation.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Andrew Lamb is up to tell us all about the ways that Open Healthware exists around the world (and somehow so many of these projects happen to be in the room!)

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OSHWA @oshwassociation.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Jen Wilson is joining us virtually to tell us about quality assurance is one of the areas in open source manufacturing !

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kscottz @kscottz.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Day 2 of our @oshwassociation.bsky.social Open Source Healthware Conference is now live on YouTube. While we're focused on medical devices the event is broadly applicable to all hardware developers. www.youtube.com/live/6y4A6bc...

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Open Healthware Conference 2026 Day 2

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OSHWA @oshwassociation.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Doug B is bringing us back post break with a talk on open source MRI

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kscottz @kscottz.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Check out this $400 commercial braile printer at the @oshwassociation.bsky.social open healthware summit. Commercial printers cost almost $4000 making them unaffordable in the global south. If you're interested in this kind of stuff we're currently running a conference in SF.

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kscottz @kscottz.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Our @oshwassociation.bsky.social Open Healthware Conference just kicked off! If you want to learn more about making medical equipment free and open source please tune into our live stream. www.youtube.com/live/g7AY7-i...

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OSHWA @oshwassociation.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Check out Doug Brantner's talk "Open Source MRI" at the Open Healthware Conference on July 9th and 10th in San Francisco. OpenSourceImaging.org has developed the OSI² ONE MRI - a working, fully open source, low-cost MRI (Magnetic Resonance Imaging) machine, including both hardware and software.

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OSHWA @oshwassociation.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Kicking off the Open Healthware Conference with a workshop in our new certification process with Yves Nazon and Avinash Baskaran!

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kscottz @kscottz.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

Yeah, pretty sure the founding fathers of America were gay AF.

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kscottz @kscottz.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

I'm not an agent of the CCP but I'm pretty sure the combination of the three technologies below would bring the Silicon Valley startup economy to its knees and shift the locus of AI innovation eastward. The national security apparatus is the only rational explanation for why it doesn't exist yet.

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kscottz @kscottz.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

Excuse me, did you just call me a vibe coder? I went to college for this stuff! I'm a professional slopware engineer.

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kscottz @kscottz.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

Serious question, on Google Maps, when you click on the "Menus" tab of a restaurant why is it always 12 photos of the cocktail menu / wine list and like one out of date picture of the actual food menu? FFS we have OCR and AI. Are alcoholics the only ones reviewing restaurants?

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kscottz @kscottz.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

Anyone know the camera module or CCD/CMOS sensor on Flock cameras? Lens and filter specs would also help. Working on a little project.

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kscottz @kscottz.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

I just saw a robotics professor at a major EU university complaining in public about the mere existence of an LGBTQIA affinity group. These bigots continue to exist in society and pose obstacles to marginalized communities. Happy Pride month everyone. Please continue to be loud and proud.

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OSHWA @oshwassociation.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

The 2026 Open Healthware Conference is coming up FAST on July 9th and 10th in San Francisco! Check out some highlights from the schedule right here: oshwa.org/announcement...

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kscottz @kscottz.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

If "taste is the new intelligence" why am I not seeing more of these mid century Erik Nitsche posters at hard tech startups in the Bay Area?

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kscottz @kscottz.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

Not a bad day at Sunset Dunes Park.

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kscottz @kscottz.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

I'm begging a young PhD in the social sciences to write about how we went from "makers" in the post 2007-2020 era to "builders" post Covid. The former was full of whimsy, curiosity, and frankness while the later is the pastiche of hacker culture in the service of capital.

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adafruit @adafruit.com · 09/06/2026

On Responsible Security Disclosures and Free Speech Adafruit has worked with our longtime employment firm and team to make sure there is indemnification for all employees and contractors reporting responsible security disclosures at Adafruit.

ladyada holding zine, her and pt's baby girl, in front of a reflow oven on the Adafruit factory floor in the USA, in BROOKLYN. black and white documentary photo, pink hair the only color in the frame. this is what's at stake when legal threats are used to silence security researchers and journalists - a woman owned engineering company in the usa, that has employees with families, people who report facts in good faith. stand up together.

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OpenCV @opencv.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

OpenCV 5 is here, and it’s fucking amazing! Come by booth 515 in the CVPR Exhibition Hall to hear all about the new featured and get some exclusive stickers or a postcard! #OpenCV #CVPR

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kscottz @kscottz.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

New laptop sticker. Anyone want to deface signs in San Francisco?

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OSHWA @oshwassociation.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

Soooo much to explore soooo much to do!! #OHS2026 is truly a joy!

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OSHWA @oshwassociation.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

Grab tickets for our conference at Bit.ly/OpenHealthwareConference2026

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Digital Naturalism Laboratories @dinalab.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

If you are at @oshwassociation.bsky.social Open Hardware Summit (or are just in berlin), I have a *couple* extra mothboxes I could probably get to you AT COST! Hit me up! digital-naturalism-laboratories.github.io/Mothbox/ #ohs2026 #YearOfTheMoth #teammoth

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The Mothbox is a low cost DIY insect monitor

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OSHWA @oshwassociation.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

We are truly VIBRATING with excitement! Just ONE DAY left until the Summit! But there’s really rad pre-Summit activities you could join today tour Open Source MRI, LAUDS Factories workshop PLUS Helen Leigh & Crowd Supply’s Hardware Happy Hour!! All the deets are on the site: 2026.oshwa.org/social/

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kscottz @kscottz.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

Let's get these moths. Since I tore out out our grass and replaced it with native wild flowers the number of native bees in the yard has sky rocketed. I want to see if the flowers are attracting moths that only feed on specific species.

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kscottz @kscottz.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

Between this and the UFC match at the White House I'm convinced Mike Judge is a tine traveler who predicted the future in Idiocracy.

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kscottz @kscottz.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

I just paid my PG&E bill. I would really like to know how a 2 bed / 1 bath house generates a $200-$300 electric bill every month. We don't have an electric car. That's more than I paid in places that actually required heating and cooling.

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kscottz @kscottz.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

I have had a hardware startup idea stuck in my head for awhile now. A consumer electronics / durable goods company (TVs, washers, etc) that builds high quality and low tech products with 30 year lifetimes and serviceable parts. Maybe it has legs. wheelfront.com/this-alberta...

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This Alberta Startup Sells No-Tech Tractors for Half Price

This Alberta Startup Sells No-Tech Tractors for Half Price .Read automotive and aftermarket news today on Wheel Front

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Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 20/04/2026

This strategy—using fake AI profiles to boost political causes—was tested during the 2022 recalls in San Francisco. We called them the "Wencils" and they disappeared after being mapped and exposed. And now: Hundreds of Fake Pro-Trump Avatars Emerge on Social Media www.nytimes.com/2026/04/17/b...

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Hundreds of Fake Pro-Trump Avatars Emerge on Social Media

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Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 20/04/2026

The CEO of Palantir posted a fascist manifesto on X. I pointed out that it was fascist—which resulted in a permanent suspension from X (my second time!). So, when you hear the tweeters complaining that BlueSky is intolerant, remember why many of us came here in the first place.

Gil Duran tweet: TLDR: Fascism

in response to Palantir's long fascists screed on X.

"Your Account is Suspended" Message on X

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Benjamin Schneider @benschneider.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

Astonishing levels of hypocrisy from the "free speech" social network. Half of the content on X is more incendiary than this! Ironically, this will only bring more visibility to Gil's work.

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kscottz @kscottz.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

It has been pretty obvious for awhile now that the AI/crypto bros have been manipulating Github stars and social media engagement and using it as a vanity metric. I don't know what's more pathetic the manipulators or the people who believe them. awesomeagents.ai/news/github-...

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Inside GitHub's Fake Star Economy

Six million fake stars, $0.06 per click, and a VC funding pipeline that treats GitHub popularity as proof of traction. We ran our own analysis on 20 repos and found the fingerprints.

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kscottz @kscottz.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

We're on our 3rd year of rewilding our back yard in SF. We've stopped mowing and replaced the grass with native wild flowers. We're leaving out water and brush piles and fertilizing with homemade worm castings. Our native insects, birds, and butterflies are returning.

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