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Steve Wart

@swart.cosocial.ca.ap.brid.gy
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Retired software engineer, formerly enthusiastic about all things computer, but now less so. Climate alarmist. Friend of old dogs, lifelong learner of new tricks […] [bridged from cosocial.ca/@swart on the fediverse by fed.brid.gy ]

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Steve Wart @swart.cosocial.ca.ap.brid.gy · 07/10/2026
“If we would have to [choose between] serving the users of Canada with the end-to-end encryption that we provide around the world, or creating a much weaker version of our product that connects all of this metadata, the choice for us, unfortunately, would be starkly clear.” […]
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Prof. Sam Lawler @sundogplanets.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 25/09/2026
Well, *someone* needs to post about this on Mastodon www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-colu…
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Patrick 🌎 @patrickworld.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 25/09/2026
Born on this day: Scottie Pippen is an American former professional basketball player. He won six NBA championships with the Chicago Bulls and two Olympic gold medals. Considered one of the greatest small forwards ever, he is a Hall of Fame inductee.
James Doohan as Montgomery “Scotty” Scott on Star Trek (1966), wearing a red Starfleet engineering uniform with gold braid and insignia, holding a communicator in the Enterprise’s control room, surrounded by colorful indicator lights and futuristic panels. Try not to get too upset over this sports/sci-fi mashup, this is all in good fun.
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Steve Wart @swart.cosocial.ca.ap.brid.gy · 25/09/2026
www.wired.com/story/paulina-borsook… At the talk there were some 30 women in attendance. When they were asked if they read WIRED, they all raised their hands. “And when they were asked if they hated WIRED,” Borsook wrote in an essay, “they all raised their hands.”
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Who Killed Paulina Borsook’s Career?
A quarter-century ago, Borsook published a wildly prophetic, penetrating book about Silicon Valley called Cyberselfish. Then she disappeared.
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Steve Wart @swart.cosocial.ca.ap.brid.gy · 01/09/2026
Preach! www.thestar.com/opinion/star-column…
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Steve Wart @swart.cosocial.ca.ap.brid.gy · 30/08/2026
@evan He waits for seven years and obtains the apple. Blathnat then prepares a bath and ties her husband’s long hair to the bed, takes his sword and her lover cuts the apple in two. The husband loses his strength and cries out: ‘No secret to a woman, no jewel to slaves!’ Cuchulain cuts off his head
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Steve Wart @swart.cosocial.ca.ap.brid.gy · 30/08/2026
@evan In this version of the story, Blathnat extracts from her husband King Curoi the secret that his soul is hidden in an apple in the stomach of a salmon which appears once every seven years in a spring on the side of the mountain Slieve Mis. This apple can be cut only with his own sword.
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Steve Wart @swart.cosocial.ca.ap.brid.gy · 30/08/2026
@evan Robert Graves recounts numerous betrayals by women in The White Goddess: Gilgamesh's deception by Ishtar, Samson's deception by Delilah. In the Cuchulain version of the same story, Blodeuwedd is named Blathnat.
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Steve Wart @swart.cosocial.ca.ap.brid.gy · 30/08/2026
@evan Marat was a POS who got turned into a martyr. Sort of a murderous Charlie Kirk of the Terror, more murderous even than Robespierre www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v48/n13/oli…
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Steve Wart @swart.cosocial.ca.ap.brid.gy · 30/08/2026
@evan it’s not just medieval — here’s David’s Death of Murat, famously stabbed to death in his bath by Charlotte Corday
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Steve Wart @swart.cosocial.ca.ap.brid.gy · 30/08/2026
@evan I admit this painting depicts Judith’s decapitation of Holofernes, a different story in a long list of decapitations and betrayals that captivated medieval painters and infused folklore with fantasies of violent revenge
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Steve Wart @swart.cosocial.ca.ap.brid.gy · 30/08/2026
@evan it took me down a bit of a rabbit hole cosocial.ca/@swart/1171818405948124…
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Attached: 1 image Today is the feast day of the beheading of John the Baptist. Here's a graphic medieval depiction of a decapitation to observe the occasion
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Evan Prodromou 🇨🇦🇺🇸🇬🇷🇵🇸 @evan.cosocial.ca.ap.brid.gy · 30/08/2026
Today is the commemoration of the Beheading of John the Baptist. #Prodromou en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beheading_of_…
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Beheading of John the Baptist - Wikipedia
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Steve Wart @swart.cosocial.ca.ap.brid.gy · 30/08/2026
Today is the feast day of the beheading of John the Baptist. Here's a graphic medieval depiction of a decapitation to observe the occasion
This is Artemisia Gentileschi's painting Judith Slaying Holofernes, 1614–1620, not the more famous painting by Caravaggio. Decapitations were a popular medieval subject.
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Steve Wart @swart.cosocial.ca.ap.brid.gy · 05/08/2026
"Today is August 5, 2026, today is August 5, 2026, today is..." www.btboces.org/Downloads/7_There%2…
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Steve Wart @swart.cosocial.ca.ap.brid.gy · 24/07/2026
RE: tomkahe.com/@GiftArticles/116974993… Yet another Bridge to Nowhere
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:privTri: Volpeon :areonNSmol: @volpeon.at.icy.wyvern.rip · 24/07/2026
​:neofox_googly_woozy:​
Euro banknotes with a design incorporating the Teletubbies.
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Chris Alemany🇺🇦🇨🇦🇪🇸 @chris.mstdn.chrisalemany.ca.ap.brid.gy · 22/07/2026
All I can say is, what the heck is wrong with India?? #trump #theAmericanFascist #poll
HOW GLOBAL OPINION OF AMERICA CHANGED
Countries with more favorable vs more unfavorable views of the U.S.
BEFORE TRUMP
RUSSIA
CANADA
UNITED STATES
JAPAN
CHICA
SOUTH
KOREA
@geballday
AUSTRALIA
@gicaldky
AFTER TRUMP
CANADA
UNITED STATES
JAPAN
CHINA
SOUTH
KOREA
mgeoallday
AUSTRALIA
MOSTLY FAVORABLE
MOSTLY UNFAVORABLE
Source: Pew Research Center (illustrative map based on surveyed public opinion)
NOT SURVEYED / UNCLEAR
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
The famous "Wedges" paper was used repeatedly to shut us up when we argued against the continued use of fossil fuels, and, esp, against carbon capture and storage and the mass use of bioenergy. "But these eminent scientists say ..." Now we learn BP co-authored it. www.propublica.org/article/wedg...
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How BP Execs Influenced a Climate Study That Shaped a Generation of Global Policy
BP sponsored an elite Princeton research center to address the climate problem without getting off fossil fuels. Its key work, a paper known as “Wedges,” guided climate discourse for a generation.
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Steve Wart @swart.cosocial.ca.ap.brid.gy · 05/06/2026
@i0null I used to think Greek would be great but in retrospect it’s probably a bad idea to encourage the mathematicians
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Steve Wart @swart.cosocial.ca.ap.brid.gy · 26/05/2026
Trump Wants to Tap Your Phone. Ottawa Might Let Him Bill C-22 will lay the legal groundwork for giving the US warrantless access to our data #canpoli thewalrus.ca/trump-wants-to-tap-you…
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Trump Wants to Tap Your Phone. Ottawa Might Let Him
Bill C-22 will lay the legal groundwork for giving the US warrantless access to our data The post Trump Wants to Tap Your Phone. Ottawa Might Let Him first appeared on The Walrus.
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Steve Wart @swart.cosocial.ca.ap.brid.gy · 13/05/2026
By 1700, first rulers and magistrates and then wider public opinion in the west were concluding that punishing witches by execution was not a good idea, but in 1693 Lutheran Sweden could still burn alive a charismatic figure or ‘shaman’ called Anders Nilsson because he had sacrificed to the gods […]
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Elizabeth Tai | 戴秀铃 🇲🇾 @liztai.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 21/03/2026
From CCTV: US-Israel-Iran war explained So this is the new age of propaganda, where AI cats battle AI eagles and vultures... legit, because brain cells these days can only absorb this level of info :P From Taipology www.youtube.com/watch?v=As0rplNJTZI #Iran #USpol #Iranwar #China
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Bruce Sterling @bruces @bruces.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 20/02/2026
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Steve Wart @swart.cosocial.ca.ap.brid.gy · 20/02/2026
RE: mstdn.ca/@cdegroot/1160867716147123… As someone who’s recently been reading all the old Lisp books I can get my hands on, I heartily endorse the release of a new Lisp book
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Steve Wart @swart.cosocial.ca.ap.brid.gy · 27/01/2026
TIL it snowed in England: Teenagers rescue adults in trainers and jeans from icy mountain The ill-prepared group, one carrying a small dog, had got into difficulty on the jagged Striding Edge on Helvellyn in the Lake District […]
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Justin Ling @justinling.ca · 25/01/2026
Three months ago, Curtis Yarvin whined that Trump was moving too slow to punish his enemies. It seems the state is heeding his advice. www.thestar.com/opinion/star...
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Justin Ling: This far-right philosopher dreams of terror. In Minnesota, Trump is making it reality
If Trump is ever to abolish democracy — which Curtis Yarvin desperately wants — piecemeal repression isn't going to cut it, writes Justin Ling.
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Steve Wart @swart.cosocial.ca.ap.brid.gy · 23/01/2026
“The temperature gauge that I just bought, with the barometer and everything, I was very disappointed with it because it only goes up to 50C,” Neil Munro, who owns a caravan park in Marble Bar, said. “It hit 50C yesterday, but the electronic one [gauge] got up above 53C.” […]
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Chris Alemany🇺🇦🇨🇦🇪🇸 @chris.mstdn.chrisalemany.ca.ap.brid.gy · 23/01/2026
“Trump rescinds Carney’s invitation to be on Peace Board.” 🖕 🖕 #canpoli #cdnpoli #gaza #peaceboard #theAmericanFascist
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abadidea @0xabad1dea.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 21/01/2026
apparently malware gangs have exploited this by offering software engineers “interviews” with a “take-home assignment” so keep that in mind the next time VS Code annoys you with the “do you trust this folder” popup
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abadidea @0xabad1dea.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 21/01/2026
so it turns out that when VS Code asks you “do you trust the authors of this folder?” what they mean is that it’ll auto-execute .vscode/tasks.json if it exists, which can include shell commands. maybe that’s too many features. you can’t hold all these features. put a few features back
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Steve Wart @swart.cosocial.ca.ap.brid.gy · 19/01/2026
@evan dude you shaved
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Steve Wart @swart.cosocial.ca.ap.brid.gy · 16/01/2026
@mayintoronto I miss the woolly mammoth days
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Steve Wart @swart.cosocial.ca.ap.brid.gy · 16/01/2026
@mayintoronto yeah it’s almost like industrialization is downright destructive
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lj·rk @ljrk.todon.eu.ap.brid.gy · 17/11/2025
CVE-shitposting
The » Therapist: "it can't hurt you" « meme, but with path traversal.

It reads:

Therapist: ../../.. is old it can't hurt you.

Below, there's an screenshot of the screencapture from Burp sending the path traversal payload to create an admin user.
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Steve Wart @swart.cosocial.ca.ap.brid.gy · 06/01/2026
Enshittification wasn't an accident. It also wasn't inevitable. This isn't the iron laws of economics at work, nor is it the great forces of history. Enshittification was a choice: named individuals, in living memory, enacted policies that created the enshittogenic environment. They encouraged […]
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Steve Wart @swart.cosocial.ca.ap.brid.gy · 04/01/2026
Saturday marked the formal debut of an imperial America, led by a president who recognizes no law, save that of the jungle…Every country in the Western Hemisphere should be worried, particularly this country, which Trump so obviously covets as a 51st state.” […]
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
Nothing to see here, folks
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Tom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social · 01/01/2026
Happy New Year, everyone! This is a @theguardian.com books cartoon from a few years ago.
Title: New year's resolution 

A man sits at a table with a coffee writing in a notebook: “This year i will devote myself completely to reading serious, improving literature, forsaking easy pleasures and tirelessly seeking out truth and profundity in the work of the greatest writers.”

He looks at it
Says: Hmm... 
then “Scratch Scratch Scratch scratch” scribbles out words until the text reads: “This year I will read for Fun”
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Evan Prodromou 🇨🇦🇺🇸🇬🇷🇵🇸 @evan.cosocial.ca.ap.brid.gy · 01/01/2026
The greatest lie in social media is "I don't know the source of this; please tell me so I can give credit"
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Milcom Miasma @mmiasma.mastodon.sdf.org.ap.brid.gy · 31/12/2025
How old people communicate. Miasma: "So all that is really the secret of my soul." Mrs Miasma: "I'm sorry, I had my head in the sink washing my face. Did you say something?" #OldPeopleOfMastodon #Timing #Communication
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Steve Wart @swart.cosocial.ca.ap.brid.gy · 31/12/2025
RE: xyzzyx.ca/@swart/115815066821854301 This 2006 review of the cultural history of coffee seems relevant to social media and the problems that people seem to bring to everything we do.
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Steve Wart @swart.cosocial.ca.ap.brid.gy · 30/12/2025
Riley going after his Christmas toy like a professional-grade dissector #DogsOfMastodon
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