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Spencer Dailey @spencerdailey.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Here's a post from a few years ago that captures my excitement around the fediverse, and I still think that we should want more journa.host/@spencerdail...

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Spencer Dailey @spencerdailey.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

short memories abound. remember Muse is from the same company that brought you this AI fiasco <shot ~ chaser>

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Spencer Dailey @spencerdailey.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

I can't recall anything close to this level of ratio-ing in my 15 years of HN-ing. Many top comments here focus on the financial engineering aspect of this deal (Alphabet owns ~7% of SpaceX) and the ubiquity of circular deals in the industry. news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4841...

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Spencer Dailey @spencerdailey.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

a grand total of 0 of these articles mention the context that Binance paid $4B in 2023 to settle with the US over violations of sanctions on Iran and that Trump pardoned CZ in 2025 after shady financial entanglements with his crypto ventures/coins like USD1. 1/2

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Spencer Dailey @spencerdailey.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

Brockman's testimony had some bombshells: a previously unreported $10M deal with Altman that may not have been disclosed in the non-profit's filings. Brockman solicited donations from investors like Marissa Mayer, saying he too had donated $100K. But he hadn't! etc www.techmeme.com/260504/p39#a...

screenshot of discussion on Techmeme:
@michelletomkim: @techreview In October 2015, when Greg Brockman was soliciting donations to found OpenAI as a nonprofit, he sent an email to Marissa Mayer, who was the CEO of Yahoo at the time, asking for a donation. He told her that he himself was donating $100,000 to OpenAI, and made the same claim to
Gary Marcus / @garymarcus: Wow. Greg Brockman had a 10M side deal with Altman even in the early nonprofit days, which not disclosed to Elon or (I believe) in nonprofit filings to the company.

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Spencer Dailey @spencerdailey.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

why do the biggest loudmouths and basket cases never have anything to say when it comes to war criming and war profiteering?

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Spencer Dailey @spencerdailey.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

hey there Jason @snell.zone - I just wanted to put currentkey.com on your radar. This little Mac app (of mine) lets you assign custom icons and Banners per macOS Space. It's unique! (It does a whole lot more, too.) I hope you like it! 🙏 apps.apple.com/us/app/curre...

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Spencer Dailey @spencerdailey.bsky.social · 01/03/2026

heyyy @gruber.foo, putting currentkey.com on your radar. This little Mac app lets you assign custom icons and Banners per macOS Space. It's unique! apps.apple.com/us/app/curre...

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Spencer Dailey @spencerdailey.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

This is macOS Tahoe. Can you spot the menu bar? ... 🕵 🤦🏻 On the bright side, testing shows that full compatibility for CurrentKey Stats will be achieved (after small update, in the works to fix a few tiny things). And then, ICYMI, a major update just dropped:

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Spencer Dailey @spencerdailey.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

A lot of opinions from crypto leaders, but none mention *why* Dems stopped supporting stablecoin legislation: Trump is taking money from strangers via $TRUMP and taking billions in investment for his own company's stablecoin. The real problem is: crypto leaders look past corruption and are in a cult

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Spencer Dailey @spencerdailey.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

Still a panels over parties guy @gaberivera.bsky.social ? Something tells me... no

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Spencer Dailey @spencerdailey.bsky.social · 30/03/2025

Yup that’s a grackle in Austin's main terminal. They are here ostensibly to help the FAA but are actually just scouting for a city takeover

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Spencer Dailey @spencerdailey.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

oh joy. thanks again for being hacked. you never get to come back from that. until today, I wasn't sure which was more doomed, 23andme or this dried husk of a company

email from LastPass reading: "Unlimited access to your passwords: 35% off"

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Spencer Dailey @spencerdailey.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

this is a cardboard box factory near Fernandina Beach. In the 70s, Amelia River was considered "dead" because of the factory's waste dumping practices. Then the EPA happened, and now it's a thriving ecosystem: both the environment and local tourism-heavy economy. RIP EPA gizmodo.com/the-supreme-...

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Spencer Dailey @spencerdailey.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

hey @matthewcassinelli.bsky.social, I have a new Shortcuts action for ya! Show any custom image in your Mac menu bar! 😄 currentkey.com/2025/02/13/c...

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Spencer Dailey @spencerdailey.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

"Overnight" trading sessions have begun for US equities and we get our third example of tariffs hurting/slowing the economy... I reckon enough to (likely) put a major dent in carbon emissions in the near term

a snapshot of a bunch of stocks dropping

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Spencer Dailey @spencerdailey.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

Second example of tariffs reducing carbon emissions output globally. Recessions/depressions cause major fall offs in fuel consumption. Nobody tell him

an image of oil and nat gas prices spiking

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Spencer Dailey @spencerdailey.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

First example of reducing carbon output. Now throw in all the other economic struggles that will come from the tariffs, and you actually start improving our climate change posture

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Spencer Dailey @spencerdailey.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

I'd say this aged well. Zuck showed his colors long ago, though sadly people have a tendency to forget or minimize past actions' significance to roughly zero

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Spencer Dailey @spencerdailey.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

neat how our president elect lies about climate change being a hoax and all. don't look up, etc etc

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Spencer Dailey @spencerdailey.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

Major update just dropped for my little app: You can now put custom images in your Mac's menu bar, even GIFs! 💅 Give it a looksie apps.apple.com/app/apple-st...

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Spencer Dailey @spencerdailey.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

"Muskian" is the new "Orwellian"

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Spencer Dailey @spencerdailey.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

deck.blue is a gamechanger -- use a one time app password to keep your secrets safe(r)

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Spencer Dailey @spencerdailey.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

the irony that he gutted all the teams that actually worked to mitigate coordinated foreign actor disinformation, which led that content to spike on X, should not be lost on anyone

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Spencer Dailey @spencerdailey.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

something i've been working on, the update should land in the app store within a few days 😄

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Spencer Dailey @spencerdailey.bsky.social · 12/11/2024

i log in to X for two seconds to do a work related thing, and it recommends this Musk-boosted garbage, with 30M+ views

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Spencer Dailey @spencerdailey.bsky.social · 02/09/2024

Reminder: it's a pretty big red flag that your "free speech" platform probably isn't a "free speech" platform, when your top investor is part of a regime that literally kills people for their tweets

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Spencer Dailey @spencerdailey.bsky.social · 27/05/2024

i wonder: what will the lack of "political correctness" have to say about bone saws? 🧐

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Spencer Dailey @spencerdailey.bsky.social · 18/05/2024

i came across my first AI Overview in Google, and it wasn't helpful. (I was asking about a specific usecase for a thing, and it just gave a generic description of said thing.) #godot

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Spencer Dailey @spencerdailey.bsky.social · 14/05/2024

OpenAI announced a ChatGPT Mac app but (for most of us) there has been no info about it in ChatGPT's interface. When you ask ChatGPT about it, it sends you, incorrectly, to a Github page of a 3rd-party app that's basically a wrapper. Not great! (Here's the link it provides github.com/lencx/ChatGPT )

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Spencer Dailey @spencerdailey.bsky.social · 12/05/2024

You know, the same theory that has underpinned basically every manifesto penned by mass shooters in recent memory. (This is no coincidence www.nbcnews.com/tech/social-... )

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Spencer Dailey @spencerdailey.bsky.social · 30/04/2024

a quick story about Elon stans and the Tesla pumping blogosphere, in four acts:

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Spencer Dailey @spencerdailey.bsky.social · 09/04/2024

Were you there? I was. #2024eclipse and yes, tv stations may use this for free, just please include attribution

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Spencer Dailey @spencerdailey.bsky.social · 17/03/2024

Headline Notes:  1. Could use some scare quotes "" 2. Needs other context and hedging language 3. Don't push this headline as a phone notification, it's not news

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Spencer Dailey @spencerdailey.bsky.social · 12/03/2024

as someone who has checked Hacker News daily for about 15 years, I can't recall ever seeing a post that was ratio'd this hard 😬

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Spencer Dailey @spencerdailey.bsky.social · 05/03/2024

people think ETFs were why bitcoin hit the ATH today. They're wrong, it's because this guy wore a satoshi shirt to the superbowl.

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Spencer Dailey @spencerdailey.bsky.social · 06/02/2024

I wrote about why using SMS to authenticate users in any way (but especially for password resets and account recovery) is a fundamentally broken idea, and companies need to own up to all the SIM-swap attacks they are allowing. news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3926... keydiscussions.com/2024/02/05/s...

A post at the top of Hacker News with the title: "Companies embracing SMS for account logins should be blamed for SIM-swap attacks"

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Spencer Dailey @spencerdailey.bsky.social · 15/12/2023

For years I've seen this take go viral, and it's a bad one. With this change,Apple further entrenched a broken authentication system. companies rely heavily on phone numbers for logging in (including money managers like Cash app), making us prime targets of SIM swaps www.techmeme.com/search/query...

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Spencer Dailey @spencerdailey.bsky.social · 23/05/2023

So I'm excited to share that my recently launched a web game Quorbo.com (think Wheel of Fortune with some twists) has added Dark Mode support, confetti, more streak stats, and more! Give it a whirl and tell me what ya think - I've been iterating on it as fast as the feedback rolls in :D

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