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Ryan Weaver

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Software developer in the Microsoft ecosystem. AZ-204 & MS-600

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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
the idea that immersing yourself in gruesome violence is a technique to build empathy is something which everyone who has ever studied the subject will tell you is not just false but 180 degrees removed from the truth.
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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 17/09/2026
Summer xkcd.com/3299/
4-panel comic. (1) [Person swings from tree over water.] (2) [In the middle of the swing, the tree’s leaves have turned brown.] (3) [When the person lets go, the tree is bare of leaves and everywhere is covered in ice or snow.] (4) [The person landed on the ice looks behind at Person 2 with shoulder-length hair standing on the snow.] PERSON 2: Summer over already, huh? PERSON 1: It seemed extra quick this year.
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Andy Greenberg @agreenberg.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Two security researchers shipped me a pink plastic kid's smartwatch from Amazon. When I wore it, they tracked my movements, surreptitiously took photos of me, even listened to my conversations. The same backend they hacked is used by 30+ watch brands for kids. 🧵👇 www.wired.com/story/hacker...
wired.com
Hackers Stalked Me by Hijacking a Smartwatch for Kids
Security researchers tracked and eavesdropped on a WIRED reporter using vulnerabilities in a pink plastic smartwatch. It’s just one piece of a deeply insecure supply chain of GPS-enabled gadgets.
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Jake Anbinder @jakeanbinder.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Traditional bank advertising: Built on a Foundation of Trust, There for You at Life's Most Important Moments Venmo: hey we noticed you don't gamble nearly as much as you could
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Adam Rawnsley @arawnsley.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
The Cray Y-MP supercomputer they’re sitting on could do about 2.7 Gigaflops. By comparison, a cheapo Raspberry Pi they give to kids for fun throwaway projects that can fit in your hand benchmarks at 25 GFLOPS for a reasonable $50.
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Janenenene @janenenene.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
Ok I've been in the race and sports business in Vegas for 30 years. Imo sports betting should have stayed only in Nevada. I think prediction markets are the real danger. Not properly regulated and yes, they seem to shove their product at the most vulnerable among gamblers.
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Scott Hanselman 🌮 @scott.hanselman.com · 18/06/2026
I have a $30 stationary bike that I got at Goodwill and I have an old Android tablet stuck to it, but I don't have a Peloton membership. Nor do I have the interest to ride 80 miles to the beach. So I made PedalScape.com It's a local PWA, no backend at all, no tracking, just 4k bike rides.
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PedalScape
Any bike. Any screen. Beautiful rides from home.
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Schera Wyss 💀 SLUG HUMAN @scherawyss.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
This might be one of the most insane scandals in game history When Pokemon Go players scan PokeStops, theyve been unknowingly building a detailed visual model of the world which is being sold to a military contractor to build a no-GPS positioning for the new generation of unmanned killing machines
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Jo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
So grim. In the 1990s I visited China. The faculty there couldn’t believe I designed my own courses. They kept asking the same question in different ways thinking I hadn’t understood. I assumed that China would come to adopt Western freedoms, not US would adopt central control.
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June Astford 🇨🇦 NASTY CANADIAN 🇨🇦 @june29.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
Sad. Reminds me of Brazilian parrots mimicking the sounds of power saws felling the trees in the rain forest.
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MAKS 26 👀🇺🇦 @maks23.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
💥 In Donetsk region, birds are building nests from drone fiber optics.
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Annie Sexton @anniesexton.com · 03/06/2026
"This is exactly the right question to ask" says Claude indiscriminately about every question I ask
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SwiftOnSecurity @swiftonsecurity.com · 30/05/2026
Fun fact last year I helped @404media.co inventory hundreds of these non-consensual AI nudify app ads on Facebook, which they did a story on and are now essentially dead as far as I've seen.
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Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
Lmao
Chart showing share of federal filings by pro se litigants spiking from 10-12% to 17% upon the release of ChatGPT
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Alex von Tunzelmann @alexvont.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
This is a shocking example of one of the big reasons why, right now, there is no way I’d use AI for any of my historical work. If you don’t look at the documents yourself, and if you don’t know how the AI you’re using was coded, you have no idea what it may be leaving out – or adding in.
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Sam Rose @samwho.dev · 06/05/2026
Who decided to call them “hallucinations” and not “Phantoms of the Slopera.”
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Andy Greenberg @agreenberg.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
Researchers at security firm RedAccess found more than 5,000 vibe-coded apps, created with AI tools from Lovable, Replit, Base44 and Netlify, with essentially no security, accessible on the open web. About 40% exposed sensitive personal or corporate data. www.wired.com/story/thousa...
wired.com
Thousands of Vibe-Coded Apps Expose Corporate and Personal Data on the Open Web
Companies like Lovable, Base44, Replit, and Netlify use AI to let anyone build a web app in seconds—and in thousands of cases, spill highly sensitive data onto the public internet.
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The Wall Street Journal @wsj.com · 04/05/2026
A WSJ analysis found 67% of Polymarket profits goes to just 0.1% of accounts, while most traders are in the red. Most Kalshi users also lose money.
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Why Almost Everyone Loses—Except a Few Sharks—on Prediction Markets
A WSJ analysis shows a small number of accounts on Polymarket and Kalshi—often pros using data-driven algorithmic trading—take home most of the winnings.
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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 05/05/2026
Hey This Seems Bad
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Ned Pyle @nedpyle.com · 23/04/2026
Hoooboy I never thought the bean counters’ desire to eliminate all engineering experience from the company in order to fund the AI cash furnace would get that blatant www.cnbc.com/2026/04/23/m...
cnbc.com
Microsoft plans first-ever voluntary employee buyout for up to 7% of U.S. workforce
Microsoft's inaugural voluntary buyouts will be open to workers at the senior director level and below whose years of employment and age add up to 70 or more.
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Charles Gaba ✡️ @charlesgaba.com · 23/04/2026
Keep this idiocy in mind the next time anyone from the Trump regime makes any claim involving math. Financial, transportation, healthcare, education, energy. Literally anything.
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Jen Gentleman @jenmsft.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
NASA put together a website for Earth Day where you can spell your name using Ariel photos of the earth - it's so cool 💙🌍🌎🌏 science.nasa.gov/specials/you...
Spelling out Jennifer on the site using various pictures of land and sea from around the world - natural photos that happen to look like letters with how the patches through the nature are
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public health guy @publichealthguy1.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
nearly all of these MAHA influencers are being compensated by tobacco companies, and very few disclose it. in many cases, they are marketing to children. nicotine pouches harm child brain development.
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Mia Farrow @miafarrow.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
Ronan has worked intensely on this investigation for the past year and a half, dealing with hostility behind the scenes. There’s shrinking space for this kind of reporting that affects our lives-individuals that can acquire the press they want to control. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
This is wild: a company is secretly scanning the internet for Zoom meeting links and turning them into AI-generated podcasts for $$$. Some meeting participants only found out after we told them. Included meeting on protecting kids from ICE, was supposed to be private www.404media.co/this-company...
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This Company Is Secretly Turning Your Zoom Meetings into AI Podcasts
WebinarTV hosts 200,000 “webinars.” A Zoom call you may thought was private might be one of them.
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Osaka, we 🐇 @osaka.zone · 23/03/2026
OS level age verification is a Meta lobbying project Pass it on
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Reddit User Uncovers Who Is Behind Meta’s $2B Lobbying for Invasive Age Verification Tech
Meta funneled $2B through nonprofit shells to push age verification laws targeting Apple and Google while exempting its own platforms from surveillance requirements.
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John Leavitt @leavittalone.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
Remember those secret bases the US had that got revealed cause people were uploading their running paths to a fitness app and it was hey check out this perfect polygon in the middle of the desert I ran
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Luke Russert @lukerussert.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
Last year when I was checking into a hotel, the desk person was wearing Meta glasses. I kindly asked them to take them off. They were annoyed. I said, “I do not consent to you looking at my credit card and ID with Meta glasses on.” My instincts were correct: www.bbc.com/news/article...
bbc.com
ICO writes to Meta over 'concerning' AI smart glasses report
Videos, including of glasses-wearers using the toilet or having sex, are sometimes reviewed by a Kenya-based subcontractor.
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Andy Greenberg @agreenberg.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
Hacking internet-connected civilian security cameras for recon has become a standard operating procedure of modern warfare. First for Russia and Ukraine, now for Israel and Iran. Your insecure internet-of-things surveillance system is now their targeting system. www.wired.com/story/from-u...
wired.com
From Ukraine to Iran, Hacking Security Cameras Is Now Part of War’s ‘Playbook’
New research shows hundreds of attempts by apparent Iranian state hackers to hijack consumer-grade cameras, timed to missile and drone strikes. Israel, Russia, and Ukraine have also adopted this trick...
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SwiftOnSecurity @swiftonsecurity.com · 06/03/2026
During Covid our security department was asked to give input on employee screen monitoring software. We said absolutely the hell not, hackers are just going to compromise it and dump it. That was the end of that conversation.
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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
New from 404 Media: CBP tapped into the online advertising ecosystem to track peoples' movements, according to an internal DHS document. Shows for the first time DHS tracked phones via process for putting ads in ordinary apps—video games, fitness apps, many more www.404media.co/cbp-tapped-i...
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CBP Tapped Into the Online Advertising Ecosystem To Track Peoples’ Movements
An internal DHS document obtained by 404 Media shows for the first time CBP used location data sourced from the online advertising industry to track phone locations. ICE has bought access to similar t...
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evacide @evacide.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
The data from your Meta Ray Bans is used to train Meta's AI, which most people don't understand means that humans are looking at the most intimate details of their lives. www.svd.se/a/K8nrV4/met...
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She Came Out of the Bathroom Naked, Employee Says
Bank details, sex and naked people who seem unaware they are being recorded. Behind Meta’s new smart glasses lies a hidden workforce, uneasy about peering into the most intimate parts of other people’...
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Andrew Couts @couts.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
NEW: The firm behind the Mobile Fortify app, which ICE and CBP use for running facial recognition scans on the public, was revealed today to be NEC, according to DHS docs reviewed by @wired.com. NEC makes its of face rec platform called Reveal. @regret.bsky.social & @dell.bsky.social with the scoop:
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Here's the Company That Sold DHS ICE's Notorious Face Recognition App
Immigration agents have used Mobile Fortify to scan the faces of countless people in the US—including many citizens.
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Andy Greenberg @agreenberg.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
Last year, a human trafficking victim trapped in a crypto scam compound in the Golden Triangle region of Laos contacted me. He then proceeded to leak to me a huge collection of the compound's internal materials. Then he had to get out alive. This is his story. 🧵👇 www.wired.com/story/he-lea...
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He Leaked the Secrets of a Southeast Asian Scam Compound. Then He Had to Get Out Alive
A source trapped inside an industrial-scale scamming operation contacted me, determined to expose his captors’ crimes—and then escape. This is his story.
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Scott Hanselman 🌮 @scott.hanselman.com · 25/01/2026
Hey friends, the baby that I made Baby Smash for is going to turn 21 this year. So I updated with it an all new website, installer, new .net 10 code base, and code signed executable. Please test it. Code on Github babysmash.com
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Baby Smash! • Delightful keyboard fun for curious kiddos
Baby Smash! is the playful, baby-proof keyboard experience that turns every key press into colorful giggles.
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
It was inevitable.
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Amazon's Ring to partner with Flock, a network of AI cameras used by ICE, feds, and police | TechCrunch
Agencies that use Flock can request that Ring doorbell users share footage to help with "evidence collection and investigative work."
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Casey Newton @caseynewton.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
I reached out to the author of this viral Reddit post thinking there might be a story in it. He sent me an employee badge that Gemini flagged as being AI-generated and supporting documents that I suspect were also generated by AI. Be careful out there folks! www.reddit.com/r/confession...
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From the confession community on Reddit
Explore this post and more from the confession community
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depths of wikipedia @depthsofwikipedia.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
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SwiftOnSecurity @swiftonsecurity.com · 07/12/2025
A while ago I worried that fools and novices would fall into a thrall of AI, unable to adjudicate its outputs. I just didn't think that included tech billionaires
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James Vincent @jjvincent.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
can't stop watching this clip of a tesla Optimus teleoperator taking his headset off before properly logging out the robot
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dan @danabra.mov · 23/11/2025
when i was 12, my favorite program was microsoft powerpoint. i went through every menu item and accidentally found a panel with record/play buttons. press record, do something, and it spits out the code automating what you just did. i tweaked the code and it did something different. i bought a book
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Ryan Weaver @mrcodeweaver.com · 11/11/2025
I'm remotely "attending" React Advanced Canada 2026 gitnation.com/badges/react...
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Nitish Pahwa @nitishpahwa.com · 27/10/2025
for whatever it's worth their article on the jugalbandi was wholesale ripped from Wikipedia's, citations and all
Fact-checked by Grok 14 hours ago

Jugalbandi

A jugalbandhi or jugalbandi is a performance in Indian classical music, especially in Hindustani classical music but also in Carnatic, that features a duet of two solo musicians.[1][2] The word jugalbandi means, literally, "entwined twins." The duet can be either vocal or instrumental.
Often, the musicians will play different instruments, as for example the famous duets between sitarist Ravi Shankar and sarod player Ali Akbar Khan, who played the format since the 1940s. More rarely, the musicians (either vocalists or instrumentalists) may be from different traditions (i.e. Carnatic and Hindustani). What defines jugalbandi is that the two soloists be on an equal footing. A performance can only truly be deemed a jugalbandi when neither musician is always the soloist or solely an accompanist. In jugalbandi, both musicians act as lead players, and a playful competition exists between the two performers.
Hindustani-Carnatic Jugalbandi
Jugalbandi of Hindustani and Carnatic styles has evolved into a relatively common pattern that has the Hindustani artist accompanied by a tabla artist, and the Carnatic artist accompanied by a mridangam artist, and possibly also accompanied by tanpura. The main artists from each tradition present a composition in their own style and thenJugalbandi

A jugalbandhi or jugalbandi is a performance in Indian classical music, especially in Hindustani classical music but also in Carnatic, that features a duet of two solo musicians.[1][2] The word jugalbandi means, literally, "entwined twins." The duet can be either vocal or instrumental.

Often, the musicians will play different instruments, as for example the famous duets between sitarist Ravi Shankar and sarod player Ali Akbar Khan, who played the format since the 1940s. More rarely, the musicians (either vocalists or instrumentalists) may be from different traditions (i.e. Carnatic and Hindustani). What defines jugalbandi is that the two soloists be on an equal footing. A performance can only truly be deemed a jugalbandi when neither musician is always the soloist or solely an accompanist. In jugalbandi, both musicians act as lead players, and a playful competition exists between the two performers.

Hindustani-Carnatic Jugalbandi

Jugalbandi of Hindustani and Carnatic styles has evolved into a relatively common pattern that has the Hindustani artist accompanied by a tabla artist, and the Carnatic artist accompanied by a mridangam
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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 22/10/2025
Imagine a browser where you type in “Taylor Swift” and it doesn’t even admit that her website exists. I write about Atlas, ChatGPT’s new anti-web browser that should come with a warning label. www.anildash.com/2025/10/22/a...
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ChatGPT's Atlas: The Browser That's Anti-Web - Anil Dash
A blog about making culture. Since 1999.
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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 17/10/2025
More than *anything* the people who actually know how technology works, who actually build things, wish that people would treat LLMs like every other technology, and be normal about them. Don't build a religion about them, don't force them on people, don't ignore the problems. Just be normal.
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R. Alex Anderson @ralexanderson.com · 07/10/2025
Struck by this Orange site comment about gen AI. It seems so obvious in hindsight. Gen AI cheapens everything. If you expect to be able to sell something produced by gen AI at the same price as something produced by a human, you're delusional. news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4550...
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CEOs keep taking (mostly misguided) about how GenAI will replace their people. T... | Hacker News
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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
Awesome, great can’t imagine this having any negative epistemological effects. Like you would always get what you searched for but now they’ve fully automated the confirmation bias machine.
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Scott Hanselman 🌮 @scott.hanselman.com · 11/09/2025
but is bro happy
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SwiftOnSecurity @swiftonsecurity.com · 11/09/2025
As I matured I realized responding to feed of most egregious headline and visual captivation was not brave and informed. It was dopamine hits, chemical incentives. You seek out and witness suffering for emotional activation and involvement. So, what are you doing? You are just... watching porn.
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