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Jim Rea @provuejim.bsky.social · 8h

Has the novelty faded? A couple of days ago I saw a MacBook Neo in person for the first time. For those of us not hosting a weekly podcast about it, the Neo is still pretty new. 😀

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Jim Rea @provuejim.bsky.social · 9h

That was my thought also.

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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 12h

Kind of obsessed with this spooky season scene my 12-year-old painted today.

Acrylic paint on a roughly 8x8-inch canvas. Yellow and brown grass background with a couple of pumpkins and white sheet-style ghosts floating over top.

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Jim Rea @provuejim.bsky.social · 9h

I thought maybe your RSS feed had been hacked, but now I see this here as well. Quite an own goal. I sure hope this is a one off lapse.

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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 12h

I (probably obviously) disagree with John's POV here, but let's grant that all of what he says is true, and that X is good in all the ways listed in the post; let's even grant that's true for all demographics (it's not). It'd *still* be a site that pays known CSAM distributors at its owner's behest.

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Cabel Sasser @cabel.panic.com · 10/10/2026

i have lived here my whole life, and i have never once seen a plane take off from the Willamette… …let alone do THIS. wtf.

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Chise @sailorrooscout.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

WELL NOW, would you look at that? A massive, 4-YEAR-LONG study of NEARLY 30 MILLION people in France found that individuals who received a COVID-19 mRNA vaccine had a 74% LOWER risk of death from severe COVID-19 compared to unvaccinated individuals and ZERO increased risk of all-cause mortality.

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Harry McCracken @harrymccracken.com · 04/10/2026

I’m sorry to hear about the death of Mark Stephens, as reported on Reddit. He wasn’t the first or last InfoWorld columnist to write under the name “Robert X. Cringely,” but he was the Cringely who was a tech-media phenomenon in the 1980s and 1990s. news.ycombinator.com/item?id=499494…

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Jim Rea @provuejim.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

San Luis Obispo (and the adjacent areas) are wonderful, I go back again and again.

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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 11/07/2026

NEW FROM ME: "As Bloomberg says, DHS *wants* to create its own deportation airline. But we’ve known that since last year. What the new documents actually show is that they’ve failed. No one wants be an ICE pilot or an ICE flight attendant." gillianbrockell.com/whats-missin...

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What’s missing from Bloomberg’s story about the DHS ‘deportation’ fleet

In the ongoing saga of DHS’s “deportation fleet,” Bloomberg gets the facts vaguely right and story all wrong.

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Os Keyes @okeyes.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

Visiting my university’s new, expensively-refurbished space for startup incubators and senior management and cannot imagine a better illustration of the American university at this moment in time than a breathlessly press-released “collaboration room” featuring a single desk and chair.

A room labelled “collaboration room” featuring a single desk and chair.

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Jason Rabinowitz @airlineflyer.net · 05/07/2026

A $3 @mta.info subway fare and some good Q train timing can buy you one hell of a view of the July 4th fireworks and the Brooklyn Bridge light show! Huge shoutout to the train operator for slow rolling over the Manhattan Bridge and the conductor for announcing it.

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Debbie Ridpath Ohi @debbieohi.com · 20/06/2026

Continuing to empty my office at the house. Forgot about this, which I created during the pandemic for use during a virtual school visit, showing one way to brainstorm different characters & faces. Got the idea from a teacher friend! #Edusky

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Jim Rea @provuejim.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

@harlanhaskins.com Hello, found you here also. Unlike Mastodon, I was not already following you here. Nice to meet you tonight.

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Jim Rea @provuejim.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

I used a 1x display for about 37 years. Not sure I could stand it now. I do still have one though.

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Jim Rea @provuejim.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

I haven’t tried it yet, but it seems like some of your Xcode wishes may have come true. Amazing.

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Jim Rea @provuejim.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

As for Xcode, I think it’s mostly fine once you have a project set up. But it definitely is way too complicated to get a project started. Unfortunately, I highly doubt Apple will ever address this. It works for their in house projects, that’s usually all they care about.

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Jim Rea @provuejim.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

As a Mac developer for 42 years, I found this essay interesting. I definitely agree that coding is not the primary skill of being a developer, and even if coding could be reduced to zero it wouldn’t reduce the total effort needed to make a quality app by all that much.

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Jim Rea @provuejim.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

That is a very cool video. In the extremely unlikely event that this contraption is real, what is the point of the helmet? Pretty hard to imagine a scenario where a helmet is going to make any difference.

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Jim Rea @provuejim.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

I need to find mine, I know it’s around here somewhere!

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Jim Rea @provuejim.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

If you don’t have a long commute then L1 can definitely be viable. I have L2 now and it’s definitely more convenient, but I managed with L1 for quite a while.

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Jim Rea @provuejim.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

I’m an EV owner in the LA area and I’ve never seen one. I’ve read about them, but never seen any. I love my EV, but we desperately need more L2 charging beyond my garage.

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Kevin Erdmann @kevinerdmann.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

Holy crap, guys. His approval rating is down 300%.

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Jim Rea @provuejim.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

Yes, I’m old enough to remember eight tracks from when they were new. They were always terrible personally I wouldn’t touch them with a 10 foot pole. I did have a lot of vinyl and a lot of cassettes, though. I have no interest in going back.

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Jim Rea @provuejim.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

I simply mean that any bureaucratic system produces crazy results, but no thinking human would ever do. We had extensive dealings with the Foster system, and the children were simply treated as numbers.

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Jim Rea @provuejim.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

If they were serious about going back they would be listening to 8 track tapes 😳

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Jim Rea @provuejim.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

Unfortunately, bureaucratic systems commonly have failure modes like this.

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Jim Rea @provuejim.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

I solve this by not consuming any traditional media. There are plenty of other sources available - modern Samizdat.

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Posivista @posivista.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

Start calling it what it is: A #Countermander. Reframe it. Change the image to give it contrast. "It is countering Republican attacks on fair districting"

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Jim Rea @provuejim.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

I’m not from the UK, but is it possible the mistyped entry happened to match another person’s car that happened to be the same model? Or maybe someone failed to do the check?

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Jim Rea @provuejim.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

I would keep it, but whether I would or not, I certainly wouldn’t criticize someone else either way.

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Jim Rea @provuejim.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

Interesting story. Also weird how that link doesn't really work here in bluesky, though I did get there.

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Jim Rea @provuejim.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

How is this a story? It was obvious this was going to happen on the day after the election.

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Sarah Sweet @sarahsweet.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

NASA failed to predict the real splashdown risk.

Tabby stands on hind legs with one paw outstretched toward a TV displaying a capsule above water.

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Ben Chapman @benchapmanncsu.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

This one has everything: FOIA, spores, leftover rice, leg amputation, Happy Birthday and armpit rice balls. www.foodsafetytalk.com/food-safety-talk/2026/4/8/food-safety-talk-332-my-hairdresser-was-asking-live-from-intermountain-ift-meeting

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Food Safety Talk 332: My Hairdresser Was Asking (Live from Intermountain IFT meeting) — Food Safety Talk

In this Risky or Not Live cross-over episode, Don and Ben get together in person and do a live show from Boise, Idaho. After doing a bit of shucking and jiving to introduce new audience members to Foo...

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NewsNation @newsnation.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

Pope Leo XIV welcomed the Harlem Globetrotters to St. Peter’s Square on Wednesday, where Leo was seen attempting one of the team’s classic tricks — spinning their iconic red, white and blue basketball on his finger.

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Daniel ／妥仁得 @kaihat.su · 08/04/2026

New favourite clip from Japanese news just dropped

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Moltz @moltz.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

You may notice that the Moon is getting larger on the screen. This is perfectly natural as it becomes more and more excited about the astronauts' approach.

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Jim Rea @provuejim.bsky.social · 05/04/2026

This post goes into detail about potential coup scenarios, which is good, but I didn’t read anything in there about what to do about it other than “be on the lookout”. And then what?

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Bill McKibben @billmckibben.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

This looks like a complicated chart, but in fact it's some of the simplest and best news imaginable: batteries are quickly turning night into noon. Worth a read if I say so myself open.substack.com/pub/billmcki...

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Night Into Day

The thing changing the world this year is...batteries.

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Dakota Smith @weatherdak.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

The Canary Islands enveloped in dust as waves and vortices swirl off of them. A fascinating, complex view.

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Kathleen Bachynski @bachynski.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

How incredible: “The full delivery took about 30 minutes. For hours afterward, pairs of whales held the baby above the water until it was able to swim… What struck the researchers was how many mother, sister and daughter whales united to support the new calf, even ones that weren’t related.”

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Scientists captured female sperm whales on video working together during a birth to protect the calf

Scientists have captured rare footage of a sperm whale giving birth, offering a window into the large mammals' behavior.

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Jeff Gamet @jgamet.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

Some days are really tough, and this definitely is one of them. My dear friend John Martellaro passed away today. John is one of the smartest people I've ever met and had the kind of resumé most of us can only dream of. He was an astrophysicist. He worked for NASA. 1/4

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