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Steve Peterson

@nordsteve.bsky.social
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Retired Microsoft service architect. Still volunteer for FIRST and the City of Bloomington. Live in Minnesota. Ski. Bike. Boat. Not an official account for anything besides me.

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Steve Peterson @nordsteve.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
I used to read recaps of major service incidents as part of my job. This one, recapping the Openai agent breakout, is the most terrifying one I've ever read. metr.org/blog/2026-08...
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Brief independent investigation of agents’ behavior, reasoning and collaboration in the OpenAI / Hugging Face hacking incident
Two METR staff members and a Redwood Research contractor investigated an incident in which OpenAI agents coordinated a multi-day hack of Hugging Face on a shared unsanctioned message board.
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Steve Peterson @nordsteve.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
Well written post. Made a note to try it out tomorrow. Thanks!
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The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 17/06/2026
A cartoon by Niall Maher.
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Steve Peterson @nordsteve.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
Proposed names for W series blackout plates. Kahlua Jagermeister Sambuca Black strap Scotch
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Tim Duffy @timfduffy.com · 03/06/2026
Google processes 3.2Q tokens/month. Humans process text at close to 10 tok/s, at that speed 3.2Q tokens is 125 million months. So the amount of human-speed thinking done by Google models can be very loosely approximated as equivalent to that of 125M people.
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Steve Peterson @nordsteve.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
Too good to quote. Just read it.
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Steve Peterson @nordsteve.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
Posted a new Bogleheads article on Trump accounts. Tldr: sign up for free money, think carefully about other uses. www.bogleheads.org/wiki/Trump_a...
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rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
Holy SHIT someone found the test pressing of Robert Johnson's Cross Road Blues and it is clear as a PIN www.openculture.com/2026/04/reco...
openculture.com
A Newly Discovered Recording Lets You Hear Delta Blues Legend Robert Johnson in Stunning Clarity
Great swathes of rock music since the nineteen-sixties would never have existed, we're sometimes told, were it not for the recordings of Robert Johnson. Certainly the likes of Keith Richards, Eric Cla...
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Steve Peterson @nordsteve.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
10 out of 20 on the Minnesota Star Tribune’s suburban slogans quiz. www.startribune.com/twin-cities-...
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Quiz: Match these 20 Twin Cities suburbs with their slogans
Think you know your Brooklyn Park from your Brooklyn Center?
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Christine Lemmer-Webber @dustyweb.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
I am convinced we are on the verge of the first "AI agent worm". This looks like the closest hint of it, though it isn't it quite itself: an attack on a PR agent that got it to set up to install openclaw with full access on 4k machines grith.ai/blog/clineje...
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A GitHub Issue Title Compromised 4,000 Developer Machines
A prompt injection in a GitHub issue triggered a chain reaction that ended with 4,000 developers getting OpenClaw installed without consent. The attack composes well-understood vulnerabilities into so...
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Steve Peterson @nordsteve.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
Early to the trend of machine readable flag typography.
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Douglas Reyes-CeroÑ @dreyesceron.bsky.social · 15/02/2026
At 9:18, 3rd period of the Finland-Switzerland women's ice hockey QF game, the ice crew came to clean the ice during a pause What follows is the funniest use of the slo-mo alternate angle tech I've seen them use during these Olympics of one of the crew members falling
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Steve Peterson @nordsteve.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
Exactly my wife's reaction.
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 03/02/2026
There's a point, well below a billion dollars, where the amount of money you have lets you rid yourself of anyone who can be a check on your worst impulses, and replace them with people who tell you those worst impulses are somehow valorous. Rare is the billionaire with someone to tell them "no."
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Steve Peterson @nordsteve.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
A really good article.
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Wes Miller @getwired.com · 30/12/2025
Blackbird in the style of Radiohead
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Steve Peterson @nordsteve.bsky.social · 30/12/2025
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Steve Peterson @nordsteve.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
With all of the snow this year thinking this might be necessary.
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Steve Peterson @nordsteve.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
Still remember the Gehry exhibition at the Walker. Miss the fish in the conservatory.
Standing Glass Fish sculpture by Frank Gehry.
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Steve Peterson @nordsteve.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
Most reporting on yesterday's Cloudflare outage will focus on the change that increased the size of the feature file as the root cause, but that's not true. blog.cloudflare.com/18-november-...
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Cloudflare outage on November 18, 2025
Cloudflare suffered a service outage on November 18, 2025. The outage was triggered by a bug in generation logic for a Bot Management feature file causing many Cloudflare services to be affected.
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Jeff Ash @jeffash26.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
Thread: 🧵 How the sinking of the Edmund Fitzgerald was covered 50 years ago today -- Tuesday, Nov. 11, 1975 -- in newspapers from the Great Lakes, the Midwest and Canada. (1/6)
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Steve Peterson @nordsteve.bsky.social · 09/11/2025
Of Monsters and Men, Palace Theater, November 8, 2025.
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Wes Burdine @wesburdine.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
Listen i don’t want to be rude, but $325k gets you a 300sq ft shoe hamper on most cities and in Minneapolis you get THIS SEXY BEAST www.pentzhomes.com/homes-for-sa...
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2101 Milwaukee Ave, Minneapolis, MN 55404
COMING SOON - Expected Date: 2025-09-29 - Charming historic home located along the pedestrian mall on Milwaukee Ave. Two story Victorian with character and craftsmanship. Main floor living room, dinin...
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Steve Peterson @nordsteve.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
100% true. Every trivia night I go to has a 'no mobile phone' rule, because it provides an unfair advantage. Smart glasses are just more convenient.
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Steve Peterson @nordsteve.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
With the long weekend, finally caught up on this talk. It's well worth your time.
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Steve Peterson @nordsteve.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
Got to be rough this morning near Waseca MN, with almost a foot of rain in last day.
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Steve Peterson @nordsteve.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
Car project progress: one last bolt to get in to timing chain.
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Steve Peterson @nordsteve.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
One thing about the city I live in is that the government attracts really qualified candidates for open positions. www.bloomingtonmn.gov/hr/news/city...
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City of Bloomington Announces City Manager Finalists
Four finalists have been selected to be interviewed for city manager in Bloomington. All four candidates have accepted the invitations and will have a first interview with the City Council on Monday, ...
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Steve Peterson @nordsteve.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
Fascinating article on the current state of human-AI relationships. Kind of terrifying to think about where this could lead. www.wired.com/story/couple...
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My Couples Retreat With 3 AI Chatbots and the Humans Who Love Them
I found people in serious relationships with AI partners and planned a weekend getaway for them at a remote Airbnb. We barely survived.
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Steve Peterson @nordsteve.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
If you're not catching this whole series from Scott and Mark, you're really missing out. Golden nuggets that will help your career and personal life. youtu.be/SGk9iampcZw
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EPISODE 19 - How Do Executives at Microsoft Manage Their Stress?
YouTube video by Scott Hanselman
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Steve Peterson @nordsteve.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
Not surprised to see MSP on top airport list. As someone who travels a lot, it's great. www.washingtonpost.com/travel/inter...
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The 50 best airports in America, ranked
Find out which U.S. airports travelers love most, based on reader reviews, transportation data and our own expert analysis.
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Omar Wasow @owasow.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
I’ve been studying civil rights protests for 20 years. With new mobilization against Trump’s agenda, I’m sharing a thread summarizing my research on how nonviolent & violent actions by 1960s activists and police influenced media, elites, public opinion & voters. 1/ www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Article title: Agenda Seeding: How 1960s Black Protests Moved Elites, Public Opinion and Voting

Article Abstract

How do stigmatized minorities advance agendas when confronted with hostile majorities? Elite theories of influence posit marginal groups exert little power. I propose the concept of agenda seeding to describe how activists use methods like disruption to capture the attention of media and overcome political asymmetries. Further, I hypothesize protest tactics influence how news organizations frame demands. Evaluating black-led protests between 1960 and 1972, I find nonviolent activism, particularly when met with state or vigilante repression, drove media coverage, framing, congressional speech, and public opinion on civil rights. Counties proximate to nonviolent protests saw presidential Democratic vote share increase 1.6–2.5%. Protester-initiated violence, by contrast, helped move news agendas, frames, elite discourse, and public concern toward “social control.” In 1968, using rainfall as an instrument, I find violent protests likely caused a 1.5–7.9% shift among whites toward Republicans and tipped the election. Elites may dominate political communication but hold no monopoly.
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Steve Peterson @nordsteve.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
This plot twist is so obvious that I can't believe the show runner allowed it.
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Steve Peterson @nordsteve.bsky.social · 17/05/2025
Lots of good songs on The Current's 894 essential songs from the last 20 years. Puzzled at Chaise Lounge at the top - a novelty song that will be forgotten 20 years from now.
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Steve Peterson @nordsteve.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
Live shot from grocery store this morning as Minnesotans respond to blizzard warning.
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Steve Peterson @nordsteve.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
A short thread. Let's say you are a large employer - say with a couple million employees. You have a database of weekly status reports. 1/
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Zillow Gone Wild @zillowgonewild.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
Everyone kept telling me to join so here I am!! Please repost this to signal boost so everyone can find me?? 🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼
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Steve Peterson @nordsteve.bsky.social · 28/12/2024
Closing out the year. Looking forward to a potential TVOTR tour in '25. open.spotify.com/wrapped/shar...
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My 2024 Wrapped - Get yours
2024 Wrapped
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Deltakosh @deltakosh.com · 26/12/2024
Christmas sale about to be shipped! We still have stock:) www.talesofilluminaria.com
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Steve Peterson @nordsteve.bsky.social · 26/12/2024
Went to see Wicked last week in the theater. I have a pretty good home theater setup, but there's no comparison with the theater experience. Grab you family and go see a movie at the theater. Do it.
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Steve Peterson @nordsteve.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
Our favorite from British ARROW Awards tonight. youtu.be/ILU-r9m9IL8?...
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Pack Yer Bags - Skipton Alfie
YouTube video by Yorkshire Tea
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Steve Peterson @nordsteve.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
Wish I'd heard of this while it was running 😈😈 cointelegraph.com/news/crypto-...
cointelegraph.com
Crypto user convinces AI bot Freysa to transfer $47K prize pool
A participant in adversarial agent game Freysa convinced the AI bot to transfer $47,000 of prize pool funds to them.
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Steve Peterson @nordsteve.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
What a great 1987 mix tonight by @jakerudh.bsky.social on The Current. www.thecurrent.org/playlist
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The Current | Playlist
On-Air Playlist for The Current
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