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Internet Technologist 👩‍💻 Security 🛡️ | Performance 🏃‍♀️ | Usability 🖐 | Observability 👁️ She/Her/Hers 🙋‍♀️ Opinions are my own, not my […] 🌉 bridged from ⁂ hachyderm.io/@suzannealdrich, follow @ap.brid.gy to interact

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Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 05/10/2026
It’s not just one billionaire. It’s a full-blown cult of billionaires who believe dictatorship should replace democracy—and that technology (crypto and AI) will make this inevitable. They say it loud. Some guy just wrote a book about it (That guy is me!) www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Ne...
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The Nerd Reich
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “This transfixing debut from journalist Durán investigates the antidemocratic ideologies espoused by tech billionaires ...
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WSFerrys @wsferrys.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
AHOY THERE! JUST CAN'T TAKE IT ANYMORE? "Engineers have had to work “abusive amounts of overtime” to fill temporary vacancies, which has caused crew shortages and ensuing sailing cancellations when workers “threw their hands up,” the union said."
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Washington State Ferries routes out of service
Most Washington state ferry routes are cancelled or down to one boat Monday morning while a crew shortage throws the system into chaos. Washington State Ferries forecasts “serious disruptions while management is trying to fill the slots.
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Mark Ingalls 🎃👻🧙‍♂️ @ingalls.mstdn.ca.ap.brid.gy · 05/10/2026
Most Washington State Ferries cancelled today due to an engineer sick out. Engineers are fighting for higher wages. mynorthwest.com/chokepoints/washing…
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 03/10/2026
The administration has found yet another way to fuck with solar power.
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The USDA just made it way harder for farmers to get grants for solar
Even farmers who were already promised funds from the REAP program may never get them under the Trump admin’s new restrictions. Some are suing.
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Brandy Zadrozny @brandyzadrozny.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Scoop: Podcaster Benny Johnson is being sued for defamation over his ICE ride-along videos calling protesters "terrorists." www.ms.now/news/benny-j...
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MAGA podcaster Benny Johnson sued for defamation over ICE ride-along videos calling protesters ‘terrorists’
Johnson accompanied top DHS officials last year to an ICE protest, where he pointed out “left-wing terrorists” for his millions of followers across social media.
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Turns out we don’t have to invoke weapons of mass destruction when talking about ocean heat uptake. The ocean absorbed a record-breaking 23 zettajoules of heat last year, equivalent to 40 times the energy used by humanity. It’s not going to end well.
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World’s oceans absorbed record heat equal to 40 times annual global energy use
The injection of thermal energy comes amid an increasing rise in sea levels and continuing acidification
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 30/09/2026
Today on Volts: Heat-pump water heaters use a fraction of the energy of the conventional kind, but they've often been bulky, loud, & a hassle to install. A company called Reservoir has made one that's smaller, quieter, & much smarter, installed in hours by their own plumbers. I talk with the CEO.
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What’s up with heat-pump water heaters?
A conversation with Luke Winston-Almanzar of Reservoir.
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Suzanne Aldrich (she/her) @suzannealdrich.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 01/10/2026
RE: newsie.social/@ProPublica/117365894… Horrific story about “Followers of Christ”, a death cult that kills children by denying them basic medical care. And it’s perfectly “legal” in Idaho. Can you imagine letting your baby die in your arms? Because you believe in some kind of […]
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Sriram "sri" Ramkrishna - 😼 @sri.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 01/10/2026
talkingpointsmemo had an interesting post on their backchannel. Which is an interesting read. It seems that things are not right in the IPO space and doubts grow in the AI fueled economy. talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=1559025 > What’s caught my attention is how just in the last week or so […]
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River 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @riverseeber.net · 29/09/2026
PeerTube doesn't provide ad revenue. It also -- at least in my experience as somebody who hasn't really used it for very much -- doesn't have great search or discovery features outside of local posts by users on the same instance. Maybe that gets better if I make an account? But anyways, it […]
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Suzanne Aldrich (she/her) @suzannealdrich.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 27/09/2026
RE: neuromatch.social/@jonny/1173247908… #ICYMI
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Mx. Luna Corbden 🪿🐸 @corbden.defcon.social.ap.brid.gy · 12/09/2025
And THIS is why I promote shifting political and religious discussions to core values. There aren't talking points that dig into core values. Because that's where someone is going to find self-awareness and feel dissonance, after they've compartmentalized "love thy neighbor" from "they took our […]
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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 24/09/2026
that entire jacob coxon AI doomsday newscycle was like some late-night food poisoning fever dream, just a hot and clammy mess propped up by an extraction class press that long ago gave up on actually trying to inform anybody
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sarah jeong @sarahjeong.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
lol my flight got diverted because of a medical emergency and they landed us in reykjavik in the middle of the night and deplaned us and sent us through passport control and then the crew vanished and then british airways sent us links to book an overnight hotel room but for a hotel at heathrow
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Jeff Moss @thedarktangent.defcon.social.ap.brid.gy · 22/09/2026
They had a series of workspaces for different crafts set up to show what a typical space looks like:
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Suzanne Aldrich (she/her) @suzannealdrich.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 22/09/2026
#USPol I’d say these numbers looks pretty bad for the incumbent party: • STRAIT OF HORMUZ — TONNES (KT) PER DAY tankermap.com/analytics/straits/hor… • WTI Crude Oil Price Chart www.liveoilprices.com/commodity/WTI • Weekly U.S. Ending Stocks of […] [Original post on hachyderm.io]
Graph showing precipitous drop in tonnes transported through the Strait of Hormuz over the last year. Starts off with numbers in the 4000kt then dropping off to almost nothing. There is a brief period where tankers get through during the “ceasefire” at the beginning of the summer, then that abruptly ends.Graph of WTI crude oil prices over the last year. Bottom timeline of graph is cut off. We see prices peaking at $120ish early in the war, then dropping a bit, now coming back over $100 and at $90.32 for a barrel today.Graph of US strategic petroleum reserves over the last few decades. It rises around the gulf war, then drops around the start of the Ukraine war, comes back up, now dropping to lowest level ever, 298,694 1000s of barrels.Chart of regular gasoline prices in the US as of this month showing the average in the country is $4.187 a gallon, which is up $1.305 from a year ago.
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myrmepropagandist @futurebird.sauropods.win.ap.brid.gy · 22/09/2026
News is often biased but there is something surreal and disorienting when the lies are this transparent. The truth is that ICE shot a man, possibly the wrong man, possibly they lost their temper over nothing. The local people were instantly outraged and the police responded to shut down the […]
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Andrew Gallagher @andrewg.mastodon.ie.ap.brid.gy · 22/09/2026
“Privacy regulation will get there too. Not because the industry repents because industries don't, but because this is how every one of these stories ends: seatbelts, smoking sections, lead paint. Normal, then scandalous, then unthinkable. Someday someone will ask what an ad network for children […]
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Mark A. Rayner @markarayner.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 20/09/2026
Sunny Day Sweepin' the tanks away Looking for cookies to eat Can you tell me how to get, How to get to Ka-i-ju Street #cookiemonster #grover #thatTail #kaiju #godzilla #humor #humour
toy that looks like gozilla's body, but with cookie monster's head, and grover's face on the tail -- all blue, not green
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🎃🔪KNIFER🔪🎃 @knizer.toot.boston.ap.brid.gy · 19/09/2026
#StarTrek #Voyager complete series digital box set on sale today in the us Apple Store for $15USD #deals #streaming #sciencefiction
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jakesimonds.com ( jklb.social) @jakesimonds.theforkiverse.com.ap.brid.gy · 18/09/2026
Last days of the forkiverse!!!! Maybe the ending can be even more energetic than the beginning??? Favorite forikiverse memory/moments?!?!?! is it too late to meet lifelong friends?
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Chris J. Karr @chris.omgwars.com.ap.brid.gy · 17/09/2026
An EXCELLENT article on LoRa mesh radios and the FCC "500 kHz" rule. beala.substack.com/p/the-fcc-want-m… #LoRa #MeshCore #Meshtastic #Reticulum #Radio #FCC
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The FCC wants me to use more bandwidth?
What we can learn about radios by diving into the latest mesh brouhaha
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Bruce Mirken @brucemirken.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 14/09/2026
Lovely. oilprice.com/Energy/Energy-General/… #Oil #inflation
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Oil Prices Surge as Middle East Attacks Continue and Diplomacy Stumbles | OilPrice.com
Oil prices jumped around 3% as attacks on Saudi Arabia and shipping near Hormuz, a major pipeline shutdown, Houthi advances, and faltering diplomacy intensified fears of a prolonged Middle East supply disruption.
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tante @tante.tldr.nettime.org.ap.brid.gy · 10/09/2026
RE: tante.cc/2026/09/10/making-social-m… I wrote about how we changed account creation on our server and how it did way more than just get rid of spam.
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myrmepropagandist @futurebird.sauropods.win.ap.brid.gy · 09/09/2026
Every new crypto coin is a pointless scam. It's not a real business or way to raise money. There are tens of thousands of these "financial instruments" and none of them are innovations in finance or payment or doing anything good. Can anyone explain the purpose of "Trump Coin" or this Hunter […]
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Jeremy Kahn @trochee.dair-community.social.ap.brid.gy · 06/09/2026
My parents are in a Renaissance music ensemble My dad was telling me about Der Hundt by Heinrich Isaac "A secular song about going to run with the hounds"; his sackbut (~ Renaissance trombone) line imitates the baying of the dogs ***** I am pretty sure that this is the 16th century pre-make […]
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Suzanne Aldrich (she/her) @suzannealdrich.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 05/09/2026
Where in the hell did the portrait mode go in the Camera app in iOS 26??? What kind of stupid “designer” made such a dick move as hiding all the cool Apple camera modes inside an invisible toggle you only see if you happen to press and hold the button? I just […] [Original post on hachyderm.io]
Screenshot of the Apple Camera app in photo mode, with two cats sleeping on my bed in the frame. No sign of portrait mode, just a toggle looking bottom with video on the left and photo on the right.Screenshot of Apple Camera app in iOS26, now with additional camera modes revealed, like portrait, but you had to KNOW how to find this. It was absolutely not visible until I clicked and held the toggle button and has a HIDDEN INVISIBLE MENU AGGGGGGGHHHHHHH I HAD TO KAGI THIS
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Suzanne Aldrich (she/her) @suzannealdrich.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 29/08/2026
RE: neuromatch.social/@jonny/1163246761… Just a reminder, we’re going to give over the bedrock solid operating systems to the likes of these. LLM providers are good at making stochastic parrots, but not known for well-engineered code. The code they wrote for making LLMs write […]
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
WATCH — Dr. @abdulelsayed.bsky.social 🔥 to @katyturreports : “This campaign is not about a streamer in California, it’s about affordability in Michigan… My only ‘Jihad’ is on Medical Debt… to be anti-Israel is not the same as to be anti-Jewish…”
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myrmepropagandist @futurebird.sauropods.win.ap.brid.gy · 29/08/2026
Woke 1.0 Woke 2.0 Woke 2.1 (patch) Woke 2.2 Woke 2.5 Woke 2.8 Woke 2.10 Woke Calico (Pre-Release) Woke
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✧✦Catherine✦✧ @whitequark.treehouse.systems.ap.brid.gy · 28/08/2026
ever wondered how USB devices negotiate Power Delivery (PD) with each other? ordinarily, you'd need a specialized USB PD analyzer. the upcoming #GlasgowInterfaceExplorer revD has I/O drivers that natively support USB PD voltage levels, enabling you […] [Original post on social.treehouse.systems]
SOURCE CAP message:
[1] [Fixed] 5V 3A (15W) [unconstrained] 
[2] [Fixed] 9V 3A (27W)
[3] [Fixed] 12V 3A (36W)
[4] [Fixed] 15V 3A (45W)
[5] [Fixed] 20V 5A (100W)
[6] [Programmable|PPS] 5/21V 5A
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jonny (nonvenomous) @jonny.neuromatch.social.ap.brid.gy · 27/08/2026
RE: neuromatch.social/@jonny/1171641853… A friend who just won a big grant just said to me "I think not using AI might have made my grant more competitive than it would have been years ago" and like... As long as there are people who actually read the grants, it gives me a […]
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David August ❌👑 @davidaugust.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
ICE deported people, including the people they did no mean to deport, to Iran. ICE must be stopped. "Internal emails indicate immigration agents complied with an Iranian request to hand over specific nationals - and accidentally sent the wrong person to Iran." #USpol #iran #ice #lawlessness
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ICE Worked With Iranian Regime to Set Up Deportation Flights as Trump Laid Plans for War
Immigration agents appeared to comply with an Iranian request to hand over specific nationals — and send the wrong person to Iran.
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Suzanne Aldrich (she/her) @suzannealdrich.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 17/08/2026
Maybe universal healthcare would have better uptake if we expanded that to pets as well. Imagine if there were no doctor or vet bills, just doctor and vet care? How many pets would be saved from adoption if their owners never had to worry about extreme medical bills? I bet animal suffering would […]
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myrmepropagandist @futurebird.sauropods.win.ap.brid.gy · 15/08/2026
Two Options 1. A state of the art cat fountain where a small clean ceramic dish is emptied and refilled twice daily with fresh water. 2. The water collection bin on the dehumidifier. Which will the cat pick? We all know.
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[object Object] @zzt.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 11/08/2026
only a fool would use windows for anything, I said, my kernel quickly turning into a set of security vulnerabilities and crash bugs due to guys who refuse to look at code at all anymore, accept user feedback ever, or believe anyone who raises any kind of issue in any context
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Suzanne Aldrich (she/her) @suzannealdrich.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 11/08/2026
Always say goodnight to froggy!
Pacific tree frog with mottled copper and green coloring sits comfortably on my windowsill and looks at me.
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Chuck Darwin @cdarwin.c.im.ap.brid.gy · 10/08/2026
When Keyana Sapp, 31, went shopping for a new backpack, the brands he remembered as a kid were just not the same. He researched the companies, from North Face to JanSport and Eastpak, and soon realized they were all owned by the VF Corporation after a wave of acquisitions in the 2000s. After a […]
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Heidi Li Feldman @heidilifeldman.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/08/2026
We must try to cut each other and ourselves some slack. We cannot let the perfect or even the extremely good be the enemy of the quite good or even the good enough. 4/
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2 Spoopy 4 You @jcrabapple.dmv.community.ap.brid.gy · 08/08/2026
🔴 A defense contractor is now selling technology that scans every electronic device in your car as you drive past a camera. It ties everything to your license plate. You cannot opt out. It is called SignalTrace. Made by Leonardo, an Italian military contractor with existing U.S. Special […]
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SpookJ 👻 @snoopj.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 09/08/2026
POV: you are about to experience cinema
Janus Films logo
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Maho 🦝🍻 @mapache.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 09/08/2026
Someone asked about using badges for gamification in #fossy #fedicon, these are some of the screenshots of previous work on it
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Chuck Darwin @cdarwin.c.im.ap.brid.gy · 08/08/2026
British Columbia declared a state of emergency on Saturday as a fast-moving wildfire destroyed homes, trapped residents and forced more than 20,000 people to flee communities along Okanagan Lake in western Canada. The premier, David Eby, announced the emergency as more than 100 wildfires burned […]
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
A story of the Iran war: February 14: Dan Caine warned Trump about the missiles March 1: Dan Caine warned abt missiles. April 1: Dan Caine warned abt missiles. May 1: Dan Caine warned abt missiles. August 3: Trump yelled at Whiskey Pete for not warning abt missiles. edition.cnn.com/2026/08/07/p...
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Trump’s top general is ‘looking for an off-ramp’ from Iran war as US military options remain limited, sources say | CNN Politics
Over the last few weeks, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs Gen. Dan Caine has privately made clear to other top Trump advisers that the US needs to find an off-ramp from the war with Iran — because the mil...
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daniel:// stenberg:// @bagder.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/08/2026
No one in the seven-person curl security team is on or runs Windows. People sending us Windows-only flaws makes us groan and roll eyes. And sometimes hyperventilate a little. Why this is so? Because no one in the team wants to be on Windows, and no other curl contributor is active enough […]
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C Z Doval Santos @czds.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 07/08/2026
“ U.S. employers unexpectedly cut 23,000 jobs last month, and Labor Department revisions shaved 103,000 jobs off payrolls in May and June. But the unemployment rate dipped to 4.1% as Americans left the job market. The June jobs numbers from the Labor Department Friday marked a sharp reversal for […]
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