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Pat Cable

@pcable.net
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Just a guy on the internet in Portland, Oregon. Security engineer, but not your security engineer. Lapsed Bostonian. Electronic on-line web portals: pcable.net | bigtech.llc

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Pat Cable @pcable.net · 04/10/2026
its saturday night, time to order tire chains
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Pat Cable @pcable.net · 28/09/2026
weird to me: offering to be on a conference program committee without having attended the conference. i get about 2 emails a week about this. what am i missing here?
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Pat Cable @pcable.net · 25/09/2026
im an agent
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Pat Cable @pcable.net · 12/09/2026
oh, you asked claude? not sure how asking the protagonist of grand theft auto 3 is going to help here, but let me know how that goes
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Ricky Mondello @rmondello.com · 08/09/2026
New post on my blog about switching password managers in 2026! It covers: - why your iPhone or iPad, and not your Mac, might be the place to start your switch - the recent controversy in password management and some thoughts on values - and more! rmondello.com/2026/09/07/s...
rmondello.com
Switching Password Managers in 2026
Important Note: Although I work at Apple in the password management and app/website authentication spaces, in this post I am speaking only for myself, personally. There is no “news” in this post or any kind of “inside scoop”. Please do share this post, but if I see “Apple’s Ricky Mondello” anywhere, I’ll be sad. My [...]
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Pat Cable @pcable.net · 06/09/2026
[florence welch voice] you need a big dog
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Pat Cable @pcable.net · 06/09/2026
making chicken stock on a rainy pnw day feels extremely Appropriate
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journeyman folklorist @aniceburrito.bsky.social · 12/06/2024
21 years ago Joe had a simple question
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Bella cool GRRiginal 🦝 @bellatrellia.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Thank you for following me everyone! I hope my page unlocks something primal within you that cannot be killed!
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born miserable @bornmiserable.bsky.social · 22/08/2023
"HOLY. FUCKING. SHIT." - cats
Box City, a store that sells boxes
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little lamb @puddleofbrain.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
I don’t care what the doctors say, if a pregnant lady eats nothing but barbecue sauce for 9 months that baby is going to come out barbecue
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Zach Clemente @clementeworks.com · 21/08/2026
Imagine working
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old roadside pics @roadside.xor.blue · 21/08/2026
sign, jockey's ridge mini-golf, nags head, north carolina, 1985
sign, jockey's ridge mini-golf, nags head, north carolina, 1985
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journeyman folklorist @aniceburrito.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Flavors used to be infused but nowadays flavors are blasted. This is happening to society as well of course
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Pat Cable @pcable.net · 17/08/2026
free bit: refer to anything as “ceremonial grade”
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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Wife: The trash is overflowing. Can you-- Me: Well I can't take it out but here's what I'll say. We need a strong trash can. And I'm committed to reforming the kitchen so the trash doesn't pile up
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Eryk Salvaggio @eryk.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
“Nobody is losing control of an emerging intelligence. They’re redirecting their own agency to the thing they are building.” It’s a myth, a self-affirming form of sense making: they take the action to build it, but insist on describing it as if they are passive witnesses to an inevitable force.
mail.cyberneticforests.com
The System From Nowhere
When Accountability Goes Rogue 💡I recently spoke with Dr. Zena Assaad for her podcast, Responsible Bytes. Video is above, below is an essay adapted from the conversation. "The system from nowhere" i...
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Pat Cable @pcable.net · 16/08/2026
it's likely always been this way & I had a luck for a tiny amount of time, but work in large orgs seems to have had a larger push towards the tracking the artifacts of planning and metrics of work, vs. the outcomes. some is necessary. but, it's unsurprising that people are searching for meaning.
noemamag.com
Why Is Everyone In Tech So Sad? | NOEMA
A lot of people seem to be realizing that knowledge work is mostly pointless. AI might give us the pleasure of finding out what happens if an entire class of workers loses faith in their careers.
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Pat Cable @pcable.net · 14/08/2026
oh, you're updating your terms of service? i'm letting the soft animal of my terms of service love what they love.
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Laura Knetzger @lauraknetzger.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
Hey guys meta announced a new policy where they send a killer to get you so be sure to go to settings>my account > killer> disable killer to turn that off
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Ramin Nasibov @nasibov.me · 12/08/2026
If you missed the solar eclipse, this is what it looked like:
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TQ 🌿 @witchytq.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
they know we don't want it. they do not care.
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Pat Cable @pcable.net · 12/08/2026
i returned from las vegas *without* full-spectrum ai-powered cyberresiliency, ama
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A.L. Goldfuss @ghoulpus.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
I've been saying for years now that the 70s are back. Slutty men's fashion, macrame, vinyl, conversation pits, zines, protests, and now cigarettes. Everything is expensive and counterculture is back.
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Pat Cable @pcable.net · 05/08/2026
man, delay bae!
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Pat Cable @pcable.net · 03/08/2026
hacker summer camp has always kind of made me roll my eyes ama
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Memento (spooky) Morty 🌙 @mementomorty.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
we had an entire ICU team that was dedicated to flipping patients onto their bellies to give them a last shot at oxygenating before their inevitable deaths, but ok
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ceej @ceej.online · 31/07/2026
ANTHROPIC: Our son loves humanity and for the low price of trillions and trillions of dollars will usher in an era of unprecedented peace and prosperity! OPENAI: Our horrible oafish son is hacking web sites without our permission. ANTHROPIC: (eyes narrowing) Our son is also evil
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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 25/07/2026
Definitionally, these are not “friends.”
futurism.com
Warning: Your Friends and Colleagues Are Now Recording Every Conversation
People in tech circles are carefully recording every single conversation they're having — not just at work but in their private lives as well.
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A.L. Goldfuss @ghoulpus.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
COVER REVEAL Thrilled to share the *incredible* cover for “Not Like Other Girls,” my upcoming story at @reactorsff.bsky.social ! Art: A.W. Sommers Design: Jess Kiley Editor: Ann VanderMeer Preorder here: us.macmillan.com/books/978125...
Cover for "Not Like Other Girls" by A.L. Goldfuss. A portrait of a woman whose face has been replaced by a hole with a pile of sea creatures spilling out of it.
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Pat Cable @pcable.net · 18/07/2026
cursed thought: we return to copy centered advertisements except the text is slop
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Pat Cable @pcable.net · 10/07/2026
confidently telling legal that torts is short for torties
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MinuteCon @minutecon.org · 09/07/2026
Calling all sponsors. 📣 MinuteCon is an independent hacker conference coming to Boston, April 30 – May 1, 2027. Two days, two tracks, real research, live demos. We're early in the journey and looking for sponsors who want to help build this from the start. minutecon.org/sponsors
minutecon.org
Sponsors - MinuteCon
Sponsor MinuteCon 2027, Boston's independent hacker conference. Sponsorship tiers, add-ons, benefits, and the full prospectus.
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Cabel Sasser @cabel.panic.com · 02/07/2026
some amazing things happening over on threads — ever since they “shut down CERN”
CERN has to be real. Why do the days magically feel longer again? I keep looking at the clock in disbelief.Honestly... I can feel the immediate difference with CERN turning off. It's like turning off the annoying big light in the house that's been on for last 4 years. It's like finally getting some quiet after being immersed in a screaming heavy death metal concert or rave for days and days. It's like there's no restrictions. No hindrances. No more delays. I feel free.They turned off CERN and now the days feel twice as long. I'm TIREDCall me crazy, whatever ya whatever you want but since CERN shut down their machine time IS slower (i saw somewhere that our minutes are actually 60 seconds long again after being 45 seconds since COVID, ive had a mild frontal headache for 2 days and just had this weird energy around me. I can't be the only one, right?!
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@jpaulreed @jpaulreed.com · 30/06/2026
One of the DevOps'y concepts we don't seem to talk much about anymore is the "Learning Organization."
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Rural Indexing Project @ruralindexing.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Hot Mess Express Elm City, NC
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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 30/06/2026
"I’m transitioning so I can join the girls’ basketball team and win everything. Yeah, it’s a totally normal thing for a straight guy with no gender dysphoria like me to do, that’s for sure."
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Guys, I Swear I’m Only Transitioning So I Can Cheat at Girls’ Sports
“I’m transitioning so I can join the girls’ basketball team and win everything. Yeah, it’s a totally normal thing for a straight guy with no gender dysphoria...
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Haus of Decline @hausofdecline.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
A woman asks "do you have cards for things you said during a mental breakdown?" The clerk gestures "right this way, ma'am!" She holds a flowery card with many different fonts that says "Sorry for calling you 'Pathetic' during my episode.? She remarks "wow, there are so many of these and in such variety!" The clerk says "people are not doing well."
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weeder @weeder.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
Two notifications over a blurred ios background

(neon paper icon) This appears to be a long document! Save time with an Al Summary? 

(neon hot dog icon) That appears to be a huge hot dog! Grind it between a robot's toothy gears? Extruding a coarse pink mash?
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Liam Wong @liamwong.com · 23/06/2026
Rothko rain in Tokyo
Photography by Liam. Neon reflections on wet asphalt in Tokyo resemble a Rothko painting. Blocks of electric blue, magenta, coral, and ember orange dissolve into one another through rippling reflections, while raindrops stipple the surface like brushstrokes, turning a Tokyo photograph into an abstract field of color and light.Swipe of the next three images contain a close-up of the image.
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Pat Cable @pcable.net · 17/06/2026
pronouncing "mac o s" as "maco's" (soft a)
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Museum of Twitter @museum-of-twitter.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
@Browtweaten

me: I bought a gun because of my bird phobia

therapist: you might be getting carried away

me: *firing into the ceiling* not without a fight
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Pat Cable @pcable.net · 16/06/2026
i'm going to get my initials changed to AI so other people can say "well AI told me" in reference to a conversation we had
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gwen howerton @kissphoria.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
there's an amazing guy here tonight, a big big supporter of mine, where's Lestat? we love Lestat don't we folks. He told me all about his Dark Gift, and it's a really wonderful gift. Louis was very unfair to him and we're going to be wishing Lestat well
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tef @tef.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
pictured: me safe and free from worry looking at things in the browser
average ie6 experience with 1600 toolbars and the obligatory bonzi buddy too
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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
Something we'll be hearing more and more I think
Why is everything a scam now
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Gef the Toking Mongoose @geftokingmongoose.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
You used to go to websites and they would have guestbooks that people would sign like it was a bed and breakfast
Still from the television show the Simpsons showing Grandpa Simpson talking the children of springfield
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Tommytoughstuff @tommytoughstuff.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
ME: (meeting the devil) I love your eggs.
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Phil Calçado @philcalcado.com · 02/06/2026
I’ve been in this industry for twenty-five years and have seen all sorts of companies and projects. You know what I have never heard? Someone saying, “You know what I really like about working here? Cross-team collaboration.” philcalcado.com/2026/06/01/c...
philcalcado.com
Cross-Team Pragmatics
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Pat Cable @pcable.net · 31/05/2026
every time i read "not x, not y, just z" i die a little bit inside
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