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Oliver

@ovollmer.bsky.social
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bipolar computer security person maybe finally leaving twitter, here for news, politics, sports, and memes (and maybe community, if I ever decide to be social again)

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Oliver @ovollmer.bsky.social · 12h
O brave new world, that has such agents in it
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jen @thejenlife.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
As a reminder, Korea’s previous president tried to stage a coup and establish military rule, and he was thrown out of office expeditiously.
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Oliver @ovollmer.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
They blew a kid's hand off with a grenade, I'd call that repression. In a protest over school funding, the state chose to expend capital to pay public servants to brutalize and disfigure their upset kids. If we want a peaceful future, we must attend to the demands of the youth today.
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HasanTheHun (automated mirror) @hasanabirepeater.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
idk how we're ever going to deal w/ how much of the public square is controlled by a couple billionaires who tweak the algorithm & allow disinfo to spread against the left all around the world. we have no way to combat it. these guys are spreading maga all over the world
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Tran Girlismo: The Real Podcast Simulator @trangirlismo.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
DUDES ROCK
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Oliver @ovollmer.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Men, learn to call out your friends before it becomes hard. Call out the little things. Did they say something weird to the waitress? Call it out. Did they make a weird joke about an ex? Call it out. It's not hard, it's just uncomfortable the first couple times. Learn and exercise this ability.
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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Today, 8 years ago, my friend, Saudi Journalist and Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi was murdered.
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Jake Williams @malwarejake.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
This is such a good analogy re: AI lab liability.
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ᴉpᴉǝH 🐐💕 @summerheidi.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
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Ian Coldwater 🧊🚫 @lookitup.baby · 01/10/2026
Spectre is my favorite vulnerability class because it’s inherent to the way the system is built, and the only real way to fix it for good is to burn it all down. As an anarchist, I can appreciate that
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Oliver @ovollmer.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I say this sincerely: Democratic organizers need to stop with the text campaigns. There has got to be a better way than sending me 40 texts a day from different numbers, thus avoiding the law because every time I reply "STOP" only that number has to stop. ActBlue / NGPVAN refuse to remove me, too
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Pé 🍺🧿 @forevernever.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
It's weird how the federal government is constantly being hacked after DOGE gutted the government's cybersecurity agencies.
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jen @thejenlife.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I’m getting so many political texts right now and I genuinely don’t care who/what they’re for. I’m blocking and then deleting and reporting as spam as soon as I get them.
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Ghostly Bree @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 29/09/2026
I think the thing I resent most about what the tech overlords have done to the internet is that I planted a fucking garden. you literally made the internet so stressful I went outside and touched grass. i will never forgive you
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Oliver @ovollmer.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
www.youtube.com/watch?v=UMy4... incredible song / visuals
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short song about the ai apocalypse
YouTube video by Luke Nickle
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Bryan Hansel @bryanhansel.com · 25/09/2026
The fall color near Grand Marais is really good this year
A maple in full fall color showing yellows orange and reds up against the Blue Sky
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Technology Connections @techconnectify.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I'm not saying the term "agent" was chosen as a means to diminish the importance of understanding and protecting our own human agency but I'm also not /not/ saying it.
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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
you guys broke watergate
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Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Republicans know they can't win unless they prevent people from voting. www.nbcnews.com/politics/sup...
nbcnews.com
Supreme Court allows Trump administration to use expanded database for potential voter purges
Critics have said the data could lead to U.S. citizens being kicked off the voter rolls, but the justices noted the law prohibits broad voter purges in the weeks leading up to an election.
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
DOJ is officially trying to veto the Digital Services Act in Europe, intervening to prevent clear fines on Musk. www.justice.gov/opa/pr/unite...
justice.gov
United States Files Request to Intervene in Case Brought by X Corp. and Elon Musk Seeking to Annul Decision by European Commission
The United States filed an application to intervene in the captioned cases, X Internet and X Holdings v. Commission, Case No. T-114/26 and Musk v. Commission, Case No. T-121/26, before the General Cou...
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Eli Valley @elivalley.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Boasting to the world of his mass terrorist atrocity:
Netanyahu showing off a pager during his speech at the UN
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Status Coup News @statuscoupnews.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
"I see...at least 100 officers." @jordanchariton.bsky.social covers NYPD ARRESTING United Nations protesters who are there to speak out against Netanyahu and Israel's genocide in Gaza
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Oliver @ovollmer.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
The mass arrests at the UN this morning are making me quite upset. It is ridiculous to see city workers deciding that decorum is more important than stopping genocide. Each and every cop had the personal choice to not arrest these protestors and they did it anyway. Cowards, all.
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𝕊𝕦𝕟𝕕𝕒𝕖 𝔾𝕦𝕣𝕝 @sundaedivine.lol · 24/09/2026
One of these men is thinking in centuries - the other is thinking "is the camera still on me?”
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 24/09/2026
Filing: “This morning journalists from each of CNN, MS NOW, and POLITICO attempted to enter the White House and were turned away, and Secret Service agents confiscated the hard pass of journalists whose hard passes had not previously been confiscated” 2/2
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Oliver @ovollmer.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Has anyone written about stochastic terrorism in the age of AI? I am particularly interested to see if others have formulated thoughts on how AI is changing this landscape. Who is accountable when Claude blows up a pipeline? Who is accountable when Grok convinces someone to shoot up a school?
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kate conger @kateconger.com · 24/09/2026
The latest update in the rogue A.I. saga: OpenAI agents that were supposed to be performing mundane data requests for things like health data, historic photos and wait times at theme parks resorted to hacking attempts when they couldn't access the data they wanted www.nytimes.com/2026/09/23/t...
nytimes.com
OpenAI’s A.I. Tried Breaching Four Other Targets, With No Prompting (Gift Article)
In each incident, the technology appeared to be conducting mundane data collection and resorted to hacking techniques to get it, researchers said.
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Angry Staff Officer @pptsapper.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
why why why why do I think it’s a good idea to look at the news in the morning with coffee bad bad bad bad ASO only look at happy things otherwise you’re already sad/mad by the time you clock into the “make me sad or mad factory” and that’s just wasted energy
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
i strongly suspect the reason that they are hiding this is not because cops are moonlighting for ICE contractors off duty but because many of them are working for ICE contractors *while clocked in*
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ratarchy ΘΔ @maya-klenger.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Discord child grooming app to gambling spyware ark
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Jacqueline Antonovich @jackiantonovich.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
We don't talk enough about the experience all historians have in front of the classroom where you say the thing you always say, have been saying for years, and all of a sudden, it takes on new meaning
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Rowdy @r0wdy.sk33t.expert · 23/09/2026
without furries, the internet wouldn't work buddy
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Frog and Toad Bot @frogandtoadbot.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Frog and Toad looked into a mirror. “We look brave,” said Frog. “Yes, but are we?” asked Toad.
Frog and Toad gaze at their own reflections in a mirror. Toad holds in his hands a book titled "Fairy Tales."

From "Dragons and Giants"
In *Frog and Toad Together*
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Oliver @ovollmer.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
No one should be able to wield as much wealth as the wealthiest among us currently do, and this is because in our society wealth becomes power and we cannot check the power of wealth. But we can take it. We can just take it.
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FRANCE 24 English @en.france24.com · 23/09/2026
🔴 BREAKING - Harvey Weinstein sentenced to 15 years in prison for 2006 sex assault
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Disgraced Hollywood mogul Harvey Weinstein sentenced to 15 years for 2006 sex assault
Disgraced movie mogul Harvey Weinstein was sentenced to 15 years in prison Wednesday for sexually assaulting one-time TV production assistant Miriam Haley. 
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Chris Bianchi @bianchiweather.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Some accumulating snow at 12,500’+ in the San Juans last night! Uncompahgre Peak below: 📸: Andrew Wahr
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Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · 22/09/2026
EFF joined an amicus brief urging the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals to vacate an FAA drone flight restriction that violated the First Amendment right to record law enforcement. The government can’t avoid accountability by punishing those who exercise their rights.
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D.C. Circuit Must Vacate a Drone Flight Restriction That Criminalized Recording Immigration Agents
EFF joined an amicus brief with ACLU, ACLU of D.C., National Press Photographers Association, and Professional Photographers of America to urge the D.C. Circuit to vacate an FAA drone flight restricti...
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David Rovics @davidrovics.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
The money or the many -- our real options for the future of civilization, if there's to be one.
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fosfene.bsky.social @fosfene.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Yes, the veto right in the UN Security Council is extremely harmful. It's pretty much a license to violate international law. It must be abolished.
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Rowdy @r0wdy.sk33t.expert · 22/09/2026
Back in my day the brain was one organ, we drank hose water, and played in the woods until sundown!
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Oliver @ovollmer.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Use section 109 of the UN charter to rewrite the charter to protect from the tyranny of the security council which has neutered the only international body we have which should work to ensure peace. But it has failed. Yet that doesn't mean it has to remain a failure. We can save it, save us.
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✨John Carpenter’s BOObies✨ @ourflagmeansbeth.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Man the paramount merger really is the death knell of a few dying industries - independent journalism and media are going to become so much more important as these organizations churn out easily accessible propaganda.
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TracketPacer @tracketpacer.com · 21/09/2026
the coldest, funniest professional dis is seeing a photo of your team’s lab bench show up in the annual lab training as “DO NOT DO THIS”
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Frog and Toad Bot @frogandtoadbot.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Frog and Toad went for a walk. Toad did not trip over a rock. He did not bump into a tree. He did not fall in a hole. It turned out to be a very pleasant day after Toad's birthday.
Frog and Toad traipse through the woods, Toad wearing his new hat.

From "The Hat"
In *Days with Frog and Toad*
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Maybe It Will Happen Today @today-maybe.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
A digital illustration based on a scene from the German Expressionist silent film Metropolis (1927). What we see is a robot woman seated in a chair, colored in gradated maroon shades. She's a shiny brass color in a sculptural art deco style staring implacably or incomprehendingly outward. Two sockets on either side of her head and many such other sockets on the chair have wires leading away out of frame. The background, colored in shades of blue is divided into radial sections with lightning bolt edges. (All these colors are purely notional as the source material is all black and white.)Around the chair and the robot are four sets of equally-spaced concentric triple rings or some sort of energy or electricity. Riding the top edges of these rings is jaggedy, electric lettering reading 'Maybe it will happen today'.
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Oliver @ovollmer.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
www.cpr.org/2026/09/21/u...
cpr.org
Colorado's largest hospital is stepping up protections after someone intentionally disrupted its oxygen supply
A spokesman says police have identified a suspect.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
acting morally is a lot easier when it's your only option.
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Oliver @ovollmer.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Accidentally looped 17TB of traffic on my core switch stack this morning, fortunately only took a few minutes to resolve, but oof Happy Monday! I should probably refrain from further changes until the caffeine hits.
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shy guy who go to gym @coolideas.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
eagles fans burning the rebel flag in nashville go birds
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Oliver @ovollmer.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
youtu.be/G9GHu_5gEbE?... i've been depressed about the environment lately, but these videos of aerial firefighting are giving me a kind of hope i thought i'd lost
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Fly along on an Aerial firefighting mission.
YouTube video by Simon Butler Aviation
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