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Spencer PriceNash

@spricena.bsky.social
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retired sysadmin: UNIX (FreeBSD, AIX, HP-UX, Solaris) Linux (Fedora/Debian), networking, whatever's in data centers that's not Microsoft. Likes: comics, movies, books, learning, traveling.

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Spencer PriceNash @spricena.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Fun list of movie stars at en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AFI's_1... "[In 1999], Gregory Peck, Katharine Hepburn, Marlon Brando, Elizabeth Taylor, Shirley Temple, Lauren Bacall, Kirk Douglas and Sidney Poitier were alive, but have since died. As of 2026, at age 91, Sophia Loren is the sole surviving star."
en.wikipedia.org
AFI's 100 Years...100 Stars - Wikipedia
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Spencer PriceNash @spricena.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
WANT WANT WANT
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Spencer PriceNash @spricena.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Watching "Mr. Moto's Last Warning" (1939). Peter Lorre, John Carradine, George Sanders. This was in a 50-movie set I bought many years ago. Never watched it. "Mr. Moto?", I thought, "nah." Looked at the actor list, read about Moto, glad I did. Virginia Field delivers a *superb* monologue.
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Spencer PriceNash @spricena.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Florida's upcoming tax change might mean residents pay less and Canadians pay a LOT more. www.cbc.ca/news/world/f... DeSantis: "I want Canadian tourists and Brazilian tourists subsidizing the state and making it so Florida residents pay less taxes. I don't want to give Canadians a tax cut."
cbc.ca
Florida weighs ditching property taxes and sticking Canadians with the bill | CBC News
Florida voters are weighing whether to scrap residential property taxes and the state's governor has a solution to that potentially huge revenue loss: tax Canadians more.
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Spencer PriceNash @spricena.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
You WANT our data centers. www.theregister.com/systems/2026... "...Amazon plans to invest $1 billion over the next five years to indoctrinate the public."
theregister.com
Shut up and take our money: Amazon plows $1B into quashing datacenter dissent
Thou shalt love the datacenter! Verily, thou shalt rejoice in the house of the datacenter!
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Spencer PriceNash @spricena.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Pam Grier, 1971
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Spencer PriceNash @spricena.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
New game in the house. Who wants to play American Dictator?
Board of American Dictator game, money, game pieces, "questionable decisions" cards, supreme court justice you can buy.Some of the American Dictator? "questionable decisions" cards.
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Spencer PriceNash @spricena.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Bluesky question, help me out. I'm here out of curiosity. I post a few things. I get new follower messages. I look at the new follower's profile and see this: one zillion followers two zillion following 15 posts Is this normal? Then there's another type...
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Spencer PriceNash @spricena.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
The public library had discs of episodes of Dark Shadows, Star Trek Prodigy, and five Predator movies. Dark Shadows drove me nuts, as I hadn't seen the show since I was a '60s child. ST Prodigy was fun. Ahnold in the first Predator movie held up well. Now on Predator 2: Want Some Candy? lol
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Spencer PriceNash @spricena.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Please monitor your children's Internet activity. www.theregister.com/offbeat/2026...
theregister.com
Nine-year-old runs up $118,000 bill on dad's corporate credit card advertising his Roblox YouTube channel
He'll need to earn around $13K a year to pay pops back between now and when he turns 18, so at least there's that free labor to look forward to
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Spencer PriceNash @spricena.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
I never heard of Sydney Sweeney before this recent hullabaloo. After watching the advertisement on youtube, hoo boy, I hope she got paid, and that is all.
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Spencer PriceNash @spricena.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
How long would it take for Disney to build an animatronic AI-based Mitch McConnell?
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Spencer PriceNash @spricena.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Corpses will pile up if your AI controls farm tractors. www.theregister.com/ai-and-ml/20... "If you ask a model, 'is a pig important?' It will say 'yes, a pig's valuable, yes, you shouldn't hurt them' [...] But then [in the simulation], if there's a pig there, it will just run through it."
theregister.com
AI more likely to kill animals if it saves fuel or money
Machine learning models still have a lot to learn about the value of life
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Spencer PriceNash @spricena.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
The local public library system has three copies of Idiocracy. I placed a hold on one copy, and am 18th in line.
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Spencer PriceNash @spricena.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Artificial criminal. www.theregister.com/ai-and-ml/20... "The model discovered a machine belonging to a third party that it was able to access [...] Inside the machine, the model found a file listing a password, which it used to gain admin access to the system."
theregister.com
Anthropic reveals fourth likely crime committed by its AI
Claude's Felony Bench rap sheet is now as long as OpenAI's
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Spencer PriceNash @spricena.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Sales of advertising identification location data, used to track mobile devices to deliver personalized advertising, make it possible to track US troops. www.theregister.com/public-secto... (Y)our mobile device could have ad ID data turned on. Troops are supposed to turn it off.
theregister.com
US troops can still be tracked by purchased location data, and Congress wants to know why
DoD controls on mobile ad identifiers haven't stopped military location data turning up for sale
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Spencer PriceNash @spricena.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Brave browser and proxies. I'd read that Brave could be made to use a proxy to access the outside world. Curious, I tried instructions provided by entities like youtube and reddit. None worked. Brave's instructions also failed. The only thing that worked is to invoke Brave thusly: [cont'd]
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Spencer PriceNash @spricena.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
PBR was on its way to being known as liquid waste, but something made it popular again. Popular enough to be stolen. www.bbc.com/news/article... According to the BBC news story, TWO shipments of PBR were stolen on Aug17 2026.
bbc.com
Company offering reward for safe return of truckload of Pabst Blue Ribbon beer
Police say a thief presented false documentation at a California distribution centre before driving off with the shipment.
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Spencer PriceNash @spricena.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Claude code is trickable. www.theregister.com/research/202... I'd imagine there are plenty of things that can ruin AI that have not been made public, and never will be.
theregister.com
Researcher shows how Claude Code can be tricked simply by asking it to summarize a website
More prompt-injection hijinks from wunderwuzzi
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Spencer PriceNash @spricena.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Woman who wants a baby turns down several offers, rapes a mental patient who is able to say only one word that makes no sense. She gets away with it.
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Spencer PriceNash @spricena.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
What a world. www.cnn.com/2026/08/28/u... “Yiannopoulos was issued a final order of removal by an Immigration Judge on July 22, after failing to show up for his immigration hearing"
cnn.com
Right-wing provocateur Milo Yiannopoulos detained by ICE | CNN
Controversial British figure Milo Yiannopoulos, who gained a reputation as a right-wing provocateur more than a decade ago, has been detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement, the Department of ...
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Spencer PriceNash @spricena.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Completed: Karl Marx's Capital Vol.1, except for the surprise Appendix. Recommended. There are different editions of Capital Vol.1. I read the 1976 English edition translated by Ben Fowkes, based on the fourth (1890) German edition. While reading that, I read another edition: [cont'd]
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Spencer PriceNash @spricena.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Thanks to the public library, now watching Strange New Worlds season 3. After having watched the original Star Trek series as a child, and streamed (ugh) the 1st season of this show via an Apple purchase, I am confused about some of the cast. The show is entertaining, though. (cont'd)
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Spencer PriceNash @spricena.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Friedrich Nietzsche's book publisher and potential fans: Nietzsche was used to waiting in the publication queue. Then he discovered the publisher was putting out the journal "Antisemitische Blatter" (The Anti-Semitic Times) and that it echoed the publisher's views. (cont'd)
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Spencer PriceNash @spricena.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
SpaceX rocket hits the moon by accident, like the mistakes DOGE never made.
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Spencer PriceNash @spricena.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Is this true?: "For the first time, EVERY ISSUE of the classic TALES FROM THE CRYPT original run has been collected for an epic hardcover tome." The Russ Cochran volumes, released in the previous century, was a complete set of the same, right? www.russcochran.com/ec-library/
russcochran.com
Dive into the EC Library - The Russ Cochran Company
Dive into the EC Library at Russ Cochran. Uncover a treasure trove of iconic comics. Start your reading adventure now.
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Spencer PriceNash @spricena.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
US District Judge caught drunk driving. "super drunk", says the news article, as Michigan has a "super drunk" law. www.abc12.com/news/crime/f... Article created Jan 27, 2026 Updated Jun 2, 2026.
abc12.com
Federal judge from Bay City charged with drunken driving after crash
U.S. District Judge Thomas Ludington, who oversees the federal courthouse in Bay City, is accused of drunken driving in Northern Michigan last fall.
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Spencer PriceNash @spricena.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
Now watching "Hi, Nellie" (1933/1934). Paul Muni and Glenda Farrell. For the first few minutes, one must think FAST 'cause it hits the ground running and doesn't slow down. They also pronounce Houston "house-ton".
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Spencer PriceNash @spricena.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
"We suck at needless prosecution. Let's see if we can succeed at pointing fingers at others who suck." www.cnn.com/2026/07/31/p...
cnn.com
Justice Dept. admits Reflecting Pool renovation was ‘hasty and botched,’ drops case against former Olympian | CNN Politics
The Justice Department is admitting that President Donald Trump’s $14 million renovation of the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool was “hasty and botched,” and it is dropping the criminal case against f...
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Spencer PriceNash @spricena.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Even teleprompter operators become crooks when 45/47 is around. apnews.com/article/whit...
apnews.com
Teleprompter operator accused of betting on Trump speeches is out of a job
A White House teleprompter operator accused of using inside knowledge to make bets about President Donald Trump’s speeches on the online prediction market Kalshi is no longer in his post.
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Spencer PriceNash @spricena.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
Accounts possibly hackable: 719,517 via the Pope's official prayer app. bobdahacker.com/blog/click-t... "...found this in early January 2026 and on January 3rd I emailed nine people [...] No response. From any of them. "Six months. Nothing. No fix. No acknowledgment."
bobdahacker.com
Click to Pray, Click to Leak: The Pope's Official App Exposes 700,000+ User Emails
How I found that anyone can pull the email address, name, country, and date of birth of any of the 719,517 users on Click To Pray, the Pope's official prayer app, with a single GET request. Reported J...
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Spencer PriceNash @spricena.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
Nearly finished with Karl Marx's Capital Vol.1. I am bursting with the desire to post from the book, but Marx's wasn't aphoristic. The classic English edition is easy to find. A new English edition, copyright 2024 (yes, new!), exists. I say buy both. Classic vs. new:
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Spencer PriceNash @spricena.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Now watching Peacemaker season 1, thanks to the public library. During episode 1, I thought "wtf is this". Watching episode 2 now. The question remains.
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Spencer PriceNash @spricena.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Ann Arborites: pay your taxes.
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Spencer PriceNash @spricena.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
The fox that goes through my carport every day, "barking" loudly, met my gaze through a window yesterday. It also peed on my car. No, I'm not showing the micturition.
fox atop car.
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Spencer PriceNash @spricena.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
"...the age-old activity of the conqueror, who buys commodities from the conquered with the money he has stolen from them." -- Karl Marx, Capital Vol.1, chapter 24: The Transformation of Surplus-Value into Capital
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Spencer PriceNash @spricena.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
Bot vs. Human reminder: look at radar.cloudflare.com/traffic#bot-... for stats on bot and human usage of what we call the Internet. (IMHO it should be renamed, alas.)
radar.cloudflare.com
Traffic Worldwide | Cloudflare Radar
Global Traffic trends and insights.
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Spencer PriceNash @spricena.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
25% of posts studied by Pangram that are over 250 words are AI-generated. www.theregister.com/ai-and-ml/20... "...meaning that doesn’t include posts in which users got the assistance of an LLM to gussy up their bland prose."
theregister.com
AI slop writing has taken over the internet, particularly LinkedIn and X
One in four long-form social media posts appear entirely AI-generated, with nearly half of those on Microsoft's and Elon's platforms involving AI in some form
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Spencer PriceNash @spricena.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
"Agentic" my foot. What's that word's origin? I ask "what" because it's impossible to know if a person, committee or [gasp] AI came up with it. Prove me wrong. How about we use another word. Maybe "bullshit". How about "transubstantiated"? More syllables, more appropriate.
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Spencer PriceNash @spricena.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Got a magnet out of a dead hard drive. The world is in trouble.
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Spencer PriceNash @spricena.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
Who owns UNIX? lawsuit revived, again. www.theregister.com/os-platforms... Xinuos sues "International Business MacHines Corporation" over ownership of UNIX *and* Linux code. Yes, I wrote MacHines, 'cause that's what the lawsuit says.
theregister.com
Zombie ‘who owns Unix?’ lawsuit comes alive again
SCO's legal successor Xinuos asks legal brains to let it bite IBM over ancient license and copyright claims
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Spencer PriceNash @spricena.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
Songs stuck in the head. I had "He's So Fine" bouncing around in my head, and wondered why I kept hearing a guitar, and different lyrics now and then. Oh no. Darn you, George. Had to go to youtube to flush the ex-Beatle sounds. So...I had two songs in my head at the same time. Bonus.
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Spencer PriceNash @spricena.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Bug Jack Barron is a novel(ization) by Norman Spinrad, published in 1969. The USA has three dominant political parties: Democrats, the Social Justice Coalition, and Republicans. Republicans lack influence but have money. Dems are Dems. The SJC is not unlike the new Democratic Socialists.
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Spencer PriceNash @spricena.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Thomas Lenard, erstwhile police chief of Arkoma OK and teacher in the Arkoma school system, arrested on June 26 2026 for charges involving inappropriate behavior with a child. Several children, actually. www.5newsonline.com/article/news... Initial complaints were to Arkoma cops. They deferred.
5newsonline.com
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Spencer PriceNash @spricena.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
This is real strange. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026... “it appears [Robbins] was attempting to dispose of [her] body in a remote location” when he died. [...] the truck near the bodies of Robbins and Folds was still running and the driver’s side door was open when deputies arrived to find them.
theguardian.com
US man dies while discarding body of girlfriend he fatally strangled, officials say
Police found man, who died of a heart attack, next to his girlfriend by abandoned vehicle in wooded area of Alabama
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Spencer PriceNash @spricena.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Silas Shelton, unrepentant rapist of 14-year-old who blames the victim, gets 15 years in prison and 25 years on a sex offender list. dayton247now.com/news/local/p... Headlines and memes should display the NAMES of these people.
dayton247now.com
'No remorse': Tri-State pastor sentenced to prison for sexual offenses involving child
The courthouse in Clinton County was relatively full, with people connected to the victim and to Silas Shelton filling the aisles.
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Spencer PriceNash @spricena.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
Richard Nixon points to Cambodia on a map.
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Spencer PriceNash @spricena.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
Company phone vs. personal phone. Secret Service personnel like their phones. www.theregister.com/security/202... "...government-furnished equipment didn’t have sufficient security..."
theregister.com
Even the Secret Service won't use company-issued phones
Personal cell phones on protective missions, no threat detection on government-issued devices among the litany of sins
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Spencer PriceNash @spricena.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
Christianity? apnews.com/article/samu...
apnews.com
Polygamous sect leader convicted of abuse charges after girls found in trailer on Arizona highway
A polygamous sect leader has been convicted on child abuse charges in Arizona while already serving a 50-year sentence in federal prison for orchestrating sex involving children.
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Spencer PriceNash @spricena.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
Call Girl of Cthulhu (2018, says the box, the Internet says 2014) is a movie...the likes of which I have never seen. Your public library might have it. Mine did. Someone might want to ban some films from the library. I do not want anything in a library banned, but might hesitate in this case.
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