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Ted C. Howard @tedchoward.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 20/10/2026

This is truly exciting. One of the big critiques of Dallas’s local news coverage is that we only have one daily newspaper. But we used to have two. In the 90s, the Dallas Morning News bought and closed the Dallas Times Herald. There has never been a searchable online archive of the Times Herald […]

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Ted C. Howard @tedchoward.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 15/09/2026

@Iconfactory I'm 99% certain that this is Apple's bug, but I figured you'd want to know: I just installed Wallaroo on my MacBook Pro with Golden Gate. I clicked the "Set Wallpaper" button and saw the dialog with the "Install Shortcut" button. I clicked that […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

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Pablonius Monk 🇺🇦 @pabloniusmonk.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 10/09/2026

Wilonsky: A visceral visit to the Epstein files reading room in Dallas Off Midway Road, an exhibition reminds that behind the endless headlines are 1,200 women still suffering. @dallasnews […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

Gina Hinojosa, the Democratic nominee for Texas governor, listened Wednesday as Epstein survivors Sharlene Rochard, left, and Lara Blume McGee shared their stories.

Robert Wilonsky/Staff writer

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Ted C. Howard @tedchoward.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 30/08/2026

So, I stared getting a newsletter called “Texas Flyover”. I didnt sign up for it. Any of my #Dallas or #Texas followers get this too? Who’s behind it? Is it a legit news source trying to bootstrap, or something nefarious?

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Ted C. Howard @tedchoward.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 29/08/2026

So it looks like homebrew decided to deprecate my computer (a 2017 iMac Pro) because the OS it runs (macOS 15 Sequoia) was released **almost** 2 years ago! I understand dropping support for older OS versions, but this seems really aggressive.

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Ted C. Howard @tedchoward.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 27/08/2026

RE: social.treehouse.systems/@dee/11716… One thing I have carried forward from my very conservative, Christian upbringing is the concept of the tithe. It's something I'm trying to pass on to my kids. There are three things you can do with money: spend it, save it, and give […]

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Ted C. Howard @tedchoward.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 23/08/2026

@mos_8502 Sorry to ask, I thought I had this bookmarked somewhere. Where do I find docs/rom source/etc for #Sentinel65X?

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Ted C. Howard @tedchoward.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/08/2026

Last night I dreamed that Microsoft had somehow put ads in the desktop backgrounds on Windows XP. I’m not sure what this means.

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Ted C. Howard @tedchoward.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/08/2026

I was drifting off to sleep, then … “Pop!” And the power goes out 😭

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Ted C. Howard @tedchoward.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/08/2026

Who here has switched their mobile phone service to a MVNO? If so, any regrets? The plans seem so much cheaper and better than the main US carriers. Am I missing something?

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Ted C. Howard @tedchoward.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 07/08/2026

Mark Lamster: "When I first arrived in Dallas, in 2013, and began trying to make sense of the city, I found it utterly confounding, a place of seemingly endless enigmas and contradictions. This flew in the face of its reputation as a city of arch superficiality, of sleek surfaces with little […]

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Ted C. Howard @tedchoward.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 04/08/2026

om.co/2026/06/07/the-myth-the-mytho… "Anthropic is a safety company that has built a mythos. The name of their most powerful model is the admission, if you know how to read it. They need you in the wrong mode to ask the question that would unravel the story."

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The Myth, the Mythos and the Man

For a while I have been wondering why Anthropic named its most powerful AI model Mythos. A safety company. A company whose entire justification for existing is that someone needs to tell the truth …

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Ted C. Howard @tedchoward.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 01/08/2026

Just dropped off a photo for the creative arts contest at the Fair.

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Ted C. Howard @tedchoward.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 28/07/2026

@gruber I was listening to the latest Talk Show, and the segment on the Trump phone where you were talking about "stupid people" and the attitude of "how hard can it be?” It made me think of the Seinfeld where Frank Costanza starts a computer company in his garage. He “did a little reading, and […]

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Pablonius Monk 🇺🇦 @pabloniusmonk.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 25/07/2026

Dallas police report ‘surge’ in vandalism to Flock license plate cameras amid national privacy debate Most of the cameras were cut down as communities nationwide debate the technology’s growing role in law enforcement, weighing its investigative value […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

An automated license plate reader by Flock Safety has been erected in the 200 block of N. Good Latimer Expy near downtown Dallas, February 18, 2026. The AI-assisted cameras capture and analyze images of all passing vehicles and their license plates.

Tom Fox/Dallas Morning News

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Ted C. Howard @tedchoward.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 22/07/2026

Today was a good day. I stayed on top of my pain medication, and it worked. The worst part of the recovery so far is shoulder pain caused by leftover gas from the laparoscopy. It hurts when I lie down, so I’m sleeping in the recliner. Hopefully that goes away soon.

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Ted C. Howard @tedchoward.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 21/07/2026

"America's car overdependence has been fueled by moneyed interests exploiting a culture of hyperindividualism. 'We can get there on our own' is a story we tell ourselves about transportation and so much else." nobody-wants-this.ghost.io/japans-d…

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Japan's Design for Humans

A recent trip was a reminder of the US's missing care

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Ted C. Howard @tedchoward.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 21/07/2026

I spent last night in the ER and had surgery (appendectomy) this morning. How’s your week going?

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Ted C. Howard @tedchoward.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 17/07/2026

So the Texas Rangers baseball team abruptly switched streaming providers this week. I’ve been watching games on Victory+, which has been fine. Now I have to use something called BZZR. There’s no smart tv apps for it. The official instructions say to airplay/cast from your phone. So I […]

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Heidi Li Feldman @heidilifeldman.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 10/07/2026

Every town, city, state, and the federal government should pass a law like this. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/ju…

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Ted C. Howard @tedchoward.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/07/2026

Ugh! I left my ebook reader in NY! Hopefully the Airbnb folks can find it, but it looks like I may be in the market for a new one.

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Ted C. Howard @tedchoward.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/07/2026

One package I got that I was expecting, was my #sentinel65x board. Looking forward to playing with that this weekend.

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Ted C. Howard @tedchoward.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/07/2026

Just got back home after being away for a week and I had 3 bags from something called #gopuff. Each one has a label with a different name but they all have my address. Is this a scam, or just a weird coincidental mistake?

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Evert Pot @evert.indieweb.social.ap.brid.gy · 06/07/2026

Whenever I work in next.js I just have an uncontrollable urge to throw everything out and rewrite it into a server-rendered html app with a bit of client-side javascript for interactivity.

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Ted C. Howard @tedchoward.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 06/07/2026

I love being in New York. The apartment we’re staying in is next door to a pizza place and a deli and a grocery store. Anything I want, I can just walk and get. It makes the quasi-suburban life I live feel isolating.

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Ted C. Howard @tedchoward.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 05/07/2026

So, the place we're staying in NY has no antenna, and I don't have (nor do I want) a Fox subscription, so I'm watching World Cup matches in Spanish on Peacock. I don't speak Spanish, but I also don't really understand soccer.

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Heidi Li Feldman @heidilifeldman.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 29/06/2026

Read this. Spot on satire. www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/colu… “I am a centrist Democrat and I am terrified of success”

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Lisa Melton @lisamelton.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 25/06/2026

Twenty five years ago today I started the #Safari and #WebKit projects at #Apple Computer. Which means Safari is now old enough to rent itself a car. But let's not speculate about my age. I'm still sad I can't use Safari on my Windows PC. Alas, I lost the battle to keep it there. But at least […]

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Pablonius Monk 🇺🇦 @pabloniusmonk.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 12/06/2026

Dallas says no-thanks to Thanks-Giving Square, breaching 53-year-old agreement A ‘potentially lethal blow’ as the city says it’s done paying the $500,000 it owes downtown’s first park. A “major national shrine,” President Ford called Thanks-giving Square in […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

Thanks-Giving Square's swirling 90-foot chapel, topped by spiraling stained glass, is among the most-photographed and visited location in downtown Dallas

Staff photo/Dallas Morning News archives

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David Penfold :verified: @davep.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 06/06/2026

John Finnemore on the French horn/cor anglais: "I was idly wondering why the cor anglais has a French name meaning ‘English horn’, and the French horn has an English name meaning… well, ‘French horn’. I looked it up, even though I knew there would just be some reasonable but rather dull […]

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Ted C. Howard @tedchoward.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 06/06/2026

I finally got around to reading the Ted Chiang piece in The Atlantic about how LLMs aren’t conscious. It is excellent. Everyone should read it. www.theatlantic.com/philosophy/2026…

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Artificial intelligence is not conscious – Ted Chiang

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Ted C. Howard @tedchoward.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 06/06/2026

Cory Doctorow: "What we make of this new fact is controversial. For many people (myself included), this is a refinement: it tells me that behaviors that are indistinguishable from “creativity” can, at least some of the time, be created by mechanical processes, and the mere fact that a machine […]

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Pablonius Monk 🇺🇦 @pabloniusmonk.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 04/06/2026

Sports scribe Tim Cowlishaw bringing much needed perspective to all the downtown Dallas panic Mavericks, Stars abandoning American Airlines Center feels like the death of downtown Dallas 🏀 🏒 🎸 The Stars and Mavericks each picked sites for new arenas outside […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

The Mavericks and Stars are planning to leave the American Airlines Center when the lease expires in 2031.

Michael Hogue/Staff Artist

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Pablonius Monk 🇺🇦 @pabloniusmonk.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 04/06/2026

Pride Month Is Here: How To Celebrate Across Dallas-Fort Worth 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ Pride kicks off this week and lasts throughout the month of June. We introduce you to the local history of the celebration and highlight the month’s best events […]

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Ted C. Howard @tedchoward.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/06/2026

“I fought it as a reporter. Then I fought it as a councilmember and mayor. There’s only one way to beat City Hall. Dallas must go strong mayor.” www.dmagazine.com/publications/d-ma…

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abadidea @0xabad1dea.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 31/05/2026

psst hey you, with the eyes 👀 stop being stubborn and increase your computer's default font size. magnify that web page you're reading a bit maybe try a different display font, most things default to sans fonts these days but I personally find serifs much easier to read, especially at, ahem […]

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Pablonius Monk 🇺🇦 @pabloniusmonk.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 22/05/2026

World Cup v. Whales: Why the removal of a Dallas mural has caused such a stir 🐋 🖌️ "Losing the mural touched nerves that were already tender: Dallas is months into a debate about whether to preserve its I.M. Pei-designed city hall building or to demolish it and redevelop the high-value land […]

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