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Technology Connections @techconnectify.bsky.social · 21h

It would be a very funny outcome if the tech industry forms a rift with the regime over "SI" in the same way Apple people got mad when you said "iWatch"

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Technology Connections @techconnectify.bsky.social · 22h

Y'know, sometimes you want to have one conversation, but the meta state of things forces another conversation. Fine, that's gonna happen, but... it's pretty unfair to assume I'm up to speed on everything that has happened in the last 24 hours at all times. And that's before we get to merit.

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Luke O'Neil @lukeoneil47.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

It's always been stupid and fake, but even more so now, that a "caravan" of migrants would be coming here, of all times, given how we are torturing and renditioning and sending them to concentration camps.

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Technology Connections @techconnectify.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Great thread here, and I'll add to it that my experience suggests this literacy crisis extends to non-textual media as well.

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Technology Connections @techconnectify.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Props to WBEZ, by the way, for following the segment on All Things Considered where a witch described using ChatGPT to help her position a broom over a doorway... with a local segment on Scream Club Chicago including audio of hundreds of people screaming out over the lake. A+ decision there.

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Technology Connections @techconnectify.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I'm not saying the term "agent" was chosen as a means to diminish the importance of understanding and protecting our own human agency but I'm also not /not/ saying it.

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Technology Connections @techconnectify.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Fun fact, the Figaro has the most ridiculously non-linear fuel gauge I've ever encountered. Not only is the quarter tank tick barely above empty, but when the needle is on it you really have half a tank left. It constantly looks like you're running on empty!

The speedometer, odometer, fuel gauge, and temperature gauge of a Nissan Figaro. They are styled like vintage dial pointers, and the fuel gauge is barely off of the empty mark because the quarter tank mark is barely above empty

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Technology Connections @techconnectify.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Releasing a video shortly. I'd like to formally apologize for the wild title/thumbnail A/B/C testing on this one but I have no idea how to package it

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e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 22/09/2026

investigating Elon Musk, subpoenaing him, making him testify under oath, and working toward significant prosecutions should be one of the leading Democrat campaign promises right now not just for DOGE, for a decade of self-driving fraud that has killed more than 60 Americans, and many other crimes

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e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 22/09/2026

to start: -a decade of Clean Air Act violations at Tesla's Fremont plant -multiple stealth recalls and other auto safety law violations -a long record of systematic workplace abuse -blatantly buying votes to throw the last presidential election -DOE loan fraud -interference in US foreign policy

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Thomas Bamonte @thomasbamonte.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Opportunity to weigh in on @nitachicago.bsky.social initial implementation of the People Over Parking Act (POPA). NITA is accepting public comment on POPA implementation and NITA's initial POPA map. Comments are open through October 9, 2026. nita.illinois.gov/communities/...

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Northern Illinois Transit Authority | People Over Parking Act

An element of the Northern Illinois Transit Authority (NITA) Act is the creation of the People Over Parking Act (POPA), a new Illinois law effective June…

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Technology Connections @techconnectify.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I would like to formally log a complaint against the increasingly widespread use of the redundant phrase "the Chicagoland area" Chicagoland means that all by itself.

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g0m @g0m.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

A world where a twist ending is repurposed as a video title. where a thing's climax has been removed, leaving an advertisment for the gap where it used to be. such things are commonplace in. the twilight zone

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Technology Connections @techconnectify.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Look, my intention is not to rub it in here, but I've been interested in electric cars for a very long time because I have been blessed with a memory longer than that of a goldfish. My flavor of Midwestern cheap is about stability in costs, not just what's cheap today.

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Technology Connections @techconnectify.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

"Are you selling me a solution or a dependency?" is a question I think more people should ask.

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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 18/09/2026

honestly some of the most apocalyptic impacts of "AI" will be shit like this, and most of the doomsday dipshits predicting SkyNet can't be bothered to notice or care

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UnitedHealth uses AI model with 90% error rate to deny care, lawsuit alleges

For the largest health insurer in the US, AI's error rate is like a feature, not a bug.

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Technology Connections @techconnectify.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Pulling this out of a discussion because there's something to this which not everyone sees and I'd like to pick apart.

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Technology Connections @techconnectify.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

As the opposite of a computer toucher, I sometimes worry that I'm not keeping up with the development of things. Luckily, I'm smart enough to realize that if the "most dangerous" LLMs need warehouses full of GPUs to function, they can't just "break out" and start running on random PCs.

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Technology Connections @techconnectify.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Gonna go out on a limb and suggest the loudest voices in the tech industry have very little grasp of the variety and complexity of the world outside their own industry, with a side dish of not understanding that to most people step one in furniture shopping is not "buy a CNC router and lathe"

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Technology Connections @techconnectify.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Politics-watchers have long been exasperated by those with leverage to make things better but who refuse to use that leverage, but my read has been the general public hasn't picked up on this particular problem. Thank you, Ed Sheeran, for your service in educating the normies.

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 12/09/2026

I know this'll ruffle feathers but I agree with this Food/Water watch analysis. Diverting renewable energy away from fossil phase-out and climate adaptation and towards melting graphics card to power chatbots is the formal end of moral purpose for clean technology.

Data Centers With Renewables Aren’t the Answer
So all these power plants and “temporary” turbines are raising power prices and polluting our communities. Why don’t we just power data centers with renewables?

Many data center companies are pledging to (eventually) do just that. But even if these pledges weren’t just empty greenwashing promises, powering data centers with clean energy is utterly unrealistic. It also threatens the progress of our already dangerously slow energy transition.

Continuously powering a 1 GW data center would require nearly 20,000 acres of solar panels or 185,000 acres of onshore wind power. We cannot afford to waste the time, space, or money to build renewables for Big Tech’s profit machines.

Already, data center growth is outstripping available renewable energy supply and redirecting renewables from other industries. It’s drawing urgently needed renewables from existing technologies and resources. We need to focus our renewable energy resources toward thos

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Technology Connections @techconnectify.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

I realized recently that, though I didn't understand it at the time, a large reason I chose to go into the hotel business as a career was that hospitality is honest work. And part of me wonders if society feels like it's cracking because we're being told this isn't important anymore.

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Technology Connections @techconnectify.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

I was young enough that my memories are vague, so a lot of this had to be recontextualized as I got older but yes. Definitely remember the "support our troops" ribbons being fucking everywhere. I was too young to understand the gravity of it but everyone was going along.

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Technology Connections @techconnectify.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

"OK, so these models need ridiculous amounts of compute" "Sounds expensive" "Yes, we're spending trillions to build data centers" "Cool, cool, what are the plans to make a return there?" "TBD, oh and by the way we're working on making these models more compute efficient" "So, fewer DCs?" "No."

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Leonard Pierce @leonardpierce.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Look diesel going up to six bucks a gallon isn't ideal but it would only be a big deal if we were a huge country where the vast majority of our consumer goods, commodities, building materials, and food were transported almost entirely by vehicles that run on it

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Technology Connections @techconnectify.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Woah. This is good news. People may not realize it when they demand this feature, but what they're saying is "I will not buy a car which requires an ongoing subscription to remain fully functional" and it is a good sign GM may be responding to that. carbuzz.com/gm-not-compl...

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GM May Not Completely Kill Apple CarPlay And Android Auto After All

Apple CarPlay and Android Auto are available for the 2027 Cadillac Lyriq despite GM saying it's not going to include them anymore.

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Tube🍂Time @tubetime.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

i finally finished my Nuvistor video, starring one of the weirder projects i've ever built.

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The Vacuum Tube That Almost Beat the Transistor

YouTube video by TubeTimeUS

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Technology Connections @techconnectify.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Yup. Either politicians do not believe they can successfully convince their constituents to trust their increased tax burden will be more than offset by decreases in other costs like, say private health insurance premiums, or they simply do not want to make that argument. But they should.

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Technology Connections @techconnectify.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

One angle to misinformation which probably needs more attention is the inability of people to understand the weedier mechanisms of relevance. Saw an anti-solar screed citing all the toxic compounds in solar panels. Writer of said screed doesn't understand most panels don't use those compounds!

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Goodnews @goodnews.computer · 04/09/2026

Take a break from being depressed that everything you love is being destroyed by slop for a moment and let me tell you about the beautiful symbiotic relationship between graffiti writers, train yard workers, and model train enthusiasts.

A hand holding a model train with a replica of the same graffiti on the full scale train car behind it.

A model train with two graffiti pieces on opposite sides.

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Technology Connections @techconnectify.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

This is the sort of story that Bluesky mostly seems to ignore but I guarantee has large political ramifications in real life. Rural America is getting hosed by this administration from all sorts of angles and that won't go unnoticed. MAGA's understanding of "rural" is an exurban poser.

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Leah Greenberg ❌👑 @leahgreenberg.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

If I may get on my soap box: No Kings is a tactic. It is not the strategy and no one involved in putting it on considers it sufficient on its own. It's a mass show of defiance that's also served as an onramp to the kind of local organizing work that's necessary to shift power

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Star:Line Chicago @starlinechicago.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Southbound traffic could still get through if they weren't cowards

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Technology Connections @techconnectify.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

This video explains why I think there could be a lot of demand for the Slate that much of the automotive press doesn't understand. The "better value" angle is not objective when one person's positive is another's negative. www.youtube.com/watch?v=LJHo...

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I like the Slate Truck. Why do I dislike the Ford Fathom?

YouTube video by Johnologue

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Gonna' have to figure out a way to process the rage. Because these stories are going to continue. And we can't ignore them.

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Technology Connections @techconnectify.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Perhaps not the Pandora's Box we were expecting, but an interesting one nonetheless and I am excited to see it opened further

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

There's no forgiving this. No living it down. It's a stain on our humanity. When all this is over, the monsters who did this should be pariahs. And the soulless thugs who cheered it on while dehumanizing Haitian immigrants should be reminded of what they did every day of their lives.

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Technology Connections @techconnectify.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

I remember learning in kindergarten that HOMES was a useful acronym for remembering the five great lakes. A bit on the nose to change it to SHAME, isn't it?

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Chris Kluwe @chriswarcraft.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

It would be nice to have people in charge who weren’t totally insane

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Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

in Springfield Ohio right now. I’m told by multiple activists and religious leaders here that ICE took a second Haitian pastor

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Technology Connections @techconnectify.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Seconding. And I'll add that when I (years ago) suggested it was weird how little attention this is getting as a factor in our uniquely-American pedestrian fatality numbers, nobody wanted to engage with my point. Almost like it's a "well it's fine when *I* do it" sort of thing.

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Technology Connections @techconnectify.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

When I wrote "we often rely on extraction efforts happening in other countries which may or may not be friendly" in my renewable energy video, Canada was not on my mind. But please, Canada - get nasty and fuck us up. You have every right to not be friendly, and we're counting on it.

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Arthur Snell @snellarthur.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Fascism under the rule of law.

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Technology Connections @techconnectify.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Here's an update on the ducting situation for my 120V plug-in heat pump water heater and my very me-coded method of controlling my HVAC fan with a second thermostat.

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Technology Connections @techconnectify.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

man the comments on this one are *extra* annoying.

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