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Rick Moen 🇺🇸 🇳🇴 🇬🇧

@unixmercenary.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy
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SRE, Operations/Senior Sysadmin, Big Data, DNS Guy. Used to run an online merchant bank for a while. For my sins, co-author of "How to Ask Questions the Smart […] 🌉 bridged from ⁂ infosec.exchange/@unixmercenary, follow @ap.brid.gy to interact

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
New from me: Michael Lewis provides a timely reminder that even the heroic federal employees who tried to block DOGE grifters could only do so much. If DOGE could not be stopped at the time, accountability must be on the agenda for the future. 🧵 donmoynihan.substack.com/p/blockers-a...
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Blockers and Grifters
What Michael Lewis Reveals About DOGE’s War on Civil Servants
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Nonilex @nonilex.masto.ai.ap.brid.gy · 22h
The kompromat must be bad #Trump Signs #ExecutiveOrder Exempting #Russia From #Sanctions #Legislation The sanctions were part of legislation that was named after Senator #LindseyGraham, the South Carolina Republican who died in July. #law #geopolitics #PutinsPuppet #Ukraine #allies #Europe […]
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Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 16/10/2026
Four sources identify Elon Musk as personally proposing Starshield restrictions to Trump, while three officials trace the order to the White House. Ukraine received no warning. Its interceptor drones were disrupted as Russia launched hundreds of drones and dozens of ballistic missiles.
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Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 16/10/2026
Elon Musk reportedly proposed restrictions that crippled Ukraine’s Starshield drone defences during Russian attacks. Other sources traced the order to the White House. The deliberate slowdown raises questions about possible sabotage of Ukraine’s defences.
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Musk reportedly proposed the Starshield cap that disrupted Ukraine's drone defences, raising sabotage questions
Four sources say Musk proposed the Starshield cap that cut Ukraine's interceptor drones during Russian attacks. US officials trace the order to the White House. Musk blames the military and Trump; Tru...
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Servelan @servelan.newsie.social.ap.brid.gy · 21h
Man Creates DIY Flock-Style Cameras That Only Scan Police Plates And For Some Reason The Cops Are Annoyed By This www.jalopnik.com/2288078/man-diy-fl…
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Man Creates DIY Flock-Style Cameras That Only Scan Police Plates And For Some Reason The Cops Are Annoyed By This
"I wanted to see whether it was feasible and use the irony to illustrate a point..."
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Servelan @servelan.newsie.social.ap.brid.gy · 17/10/2026
"Owned by Axon, the company behind Tasers and body-worn cameras, Fusus enables police to link security cameras, automated license plate readers, doorbell cameras, police dash cameras, drones, and body-worn cameras to a central hub that can use AI, according to the company’s website" Fusus […]
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laura lemay @lemay.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/10/2026
I was going to fold and put away the laundry, but, as you know, cat #Cats #CatsOfMastodon #Caturday
Piles of unfolded laundry on the laundry folding table, as well as one tabby cat turned upside down and being in the way.Cato, a tabby cat, inside the clothes dyer and rubbing his nose against the opening
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Dan Gillmor @dangillmor.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/10/2026
News stories about the weird and corrupt Kimberly Guilfoyle all seem to mention that she was Trump Jr.'s fiance but don't mention that she was married to Gavin Newsom. Both are relevant or neither is relevant. (Both are.)
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Dan Gillmor @dangillmor.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/10/2026
All corruption in Trump world crypto connections, Exhibit 65,020: www.citationneeded.news/issue-111 Latest newsletter from Molly White, who covers this stuff better than anyone else.
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Issue 111 – Back the winners
A Trump crypto adviser’s firm took millions from Tether while he shaped stablecoin rules in their favor, a Senate probe targets Commerce Secretary Lutnick’s not-so-former firm, and crypto’s biggest super PAC plays it safe
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Katelyn Burns @katelynburns.com · 15/10/2026
"[I]t comes just three weeks before the midterm elections in which Republicans across the country have watched hundreds of millions of dollars of trans related attack ads fall flat." www.burnsnotice.com/rfk-jr-deman...
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RFK Jr Demands Medical Orgs Capitulate on Youth Trans Care
HHS letters give WPATH, the American Medical Association, the American Psychiatric Association, American Psychological Association, the Endocrine Society, and others ten days to respond
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Ellen Shapiro @designatednerd.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/10/2026
It’s an icky thing for Tim to donate to this out of his personal cash, but for this to be an official business policy is appalling.
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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 15/10/2026
A girl won the role of Seymour in South Grand Prairie High School in Texas. Then, the district freaked out because of Texas' anti-trans and anti-gay law. So they tried to strip her role and give it to a boy. She refused, so now they are cancelling the play. Subscribe to support our journalism.
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Texas School Kills ‘Little Shop Of Horrors’ After Girl Cast As Seymour, Citing Anti-LGBTQ+ Law
Following backlash, the school gave one young actress’s role to a boy—and told her to share the role of Audrey with another girl as consolation. Then they cancelled it altogether.
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Good News Community @good-news-community.mastodon.cosmicnation.co.ap.brid.gy · 15/10/2026
A Przewalski’s horse has been born in the wild in Kazakhstan for the first time in around 200 years. The foal is an encouraging milestone in efforts to return this once-extinct-in-the-wild species to the landscapes where it once roamed. 🐴🌿 Read more […]
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Glyph @glyph.im · 15/10/2026
Also this is a big argument in the alternative. For technical reasons related to context limits and training data, none of this shit actually works well enough to replace software at any meaningful scale. To paraphrase @pluralistic by way of Jensen Huang: AI will not take your job. A boss using […]
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John M. Gamble @jgamble.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 15/10/2026
Unfortunately the detectives did not get the extra credit problem either. youtu.be/AKuUG7luvQc #TheOnion #Humor #Humour
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Massimo :bot: @rainmaker1973.zpravobot.news.ap.brid.gy · 13/10/2026
Corvids are widely considered some of the smartest animals on Earth, with cognitive abilities that rival those of great apes and young human children. Their problem-solving skills, use of tools, make them standout subjects in animal intelligence research.
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Ed @edcates.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 12/10/2026
Data: - LLMs are killing the planet - LLMs are raising utility prices - LLMs are raising computer prices - LLMs give you teh dums - LLMs show negligible increases in net productivity - LLM costs are going up - LLMs run on stolen content - LLM companies keep breaking laws and saying, "Oopsie!" […]
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 12/10/2026
"Last week, New Jersey fined DataOne $1.1 million for running 45 unpermitted generators. This was the largest enforcement action the state has ever taken against a data center. It’s also a rounding error for a big data firm. Rest unassured, the generators are still running"
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Buying Time, Burning Gas
Why AI companies are paying a premium to go off the grid (and what this costs the rest of us). The race is on to train the next generation of frontier AI models. Staying competitive in this race is…
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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
It’s simply unimaginable that CDC Director Dr. Erica Schwartz has just bowed to RFK Jr. and approved funding for an utterly unethical clinical trial that will withhold the birth dose of HepB vaccine in Guinea Bissau. It is to be conducted by researchers accused of academic misconduct.
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CDC Is Moving Forward With a Previously Shelved Controversial Hepatitis B Vaccine Study
“It’s a wholly unethical trial, and it shouldn’t be allowed,” says Dr. Paul Offit of Guinea-Bissau study
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Mignon Fogarty @grammargirl.zirk.us.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2026
Just got a mass email from our bank that essentially says, "If you give your username and password to an AI agent, you're on your own." You've. Been. Warned. 🤣
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mxk @mxk.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2026
Rest in peace to one of the greatest female heroes in computer science history. 🫡 news.mit.edu/2026/margaret-hamilton…
Lego 3D render of the vignette of Margaret Hamilton standing next to a printed out listing of the Apollo guidance computer listings
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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 08/10/2026
Annie Andrews in 2022: "This does nothing to protect or support women or children in SC. I will always support trans youth" Annie Andrews in 2025: It's wrong to "throw this population under the bus to score political points." Annie Andrews today:
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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 08/10/2026
I'm really sad y'all. I did not go into trans journalism to make "Dem capitulates on trans rights" my daily beat. It was a much better environment when I could count on everyone in our party, even the red state dems, to present a wall on this stuff. It just feels so bleak.
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Anthropy @anthropy.mastodon.derg.nz.ap.brid.gy · 06/10/2026
#DRAM #nand #memory #hardware
"don't make me tap the sign" meme, the sign is titled "DRAM/NAND is artificially price-fixed by a handful of companies that get sued for this every 5-10 years"
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Ian Betteridge @ianbetteridge.vivaldi.net.ap.brid.gy · 04/10/2026
So basically five muppets with a couple of vans is enough to see the US withdraw bombers from Europe? If the USSR had known that, the Cold War might have turned out quite differently. www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cmwyve1…
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I hope someone smarter than me writes about piece for the youngs who may not know this, but Karl Rove's was the last real bid for immigration reform. He knew if the GOP locked up Latino support, they'd run the country. Yet here we are and he's speaking AGAINST GOP in his owns state bc of racism.
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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 02/10/2026
This Wednesday, Elon Musk called for the death sentence for transgender youth care providers. It was in reply to a post calling for full criminalization of all gender-affirming surgery. Musk is becoming even more radicalized in targeting trans people. Subscribe to support our journalism.
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Elon Musk Calls For “Death Sentence” for GAC Providers
Musk’s posts are not just inflammatory rhetoric. They have real-life consequences.
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Stephen Miller Is Destroying the Great America Trump Is Trying to Make emptywheel.net/2026/10/02/s...
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Stephen Miller Is Destroying the Great America Trump Is Trying to Make - emptywheel
Of the 20 Masters of the Universe at Trump's AI summit the other day, 11 are immigrants.
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WorldTravelerAll7 @worldtravelerall7.mastodon.world.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2026
omfg!!! it frightens me how much this could be actually accurate 😅 youtu.be/Yw4-B-zqofE #china #uspol #puppet #puppets #satire #humor #politics
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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
You really can’t make this shit up.
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Szymon Sokół 🇵🇱🇪🇺🇺🇦 @blotosmetek.circumstances.run.ap.brid.gy · 04/03/2026
Unsolicited Programming Suggestion (#UPS): when writing out timestamps as text, ISO 8601 format en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_8601 is an obvious choice; however RFC 3339 format is slightly more readable for humans: > date --iso-8601=s 2026-03-04T22:56:59+01:00 > date […]
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Do yourself a favor and read this for your local elections before you fill our your ballot. It's really useful now and will be really useful after the election.
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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
“She had bought raw goat milk from a farm recommended to her in a Facebook group run by her chiropractor”. “Marris believed she had done her due diligence. She had researched raw milk…” Her baby ended up in the ICU with a life-threatening E. coli infection.
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A Girl Nearly Died After Drinking Raw Milk. The State Did Little to Punish the Unlicensed Farmer Who Sold It.
California is teeming with black-market dairies, propped up by consumer demand fueled by misinformation. With evidence against one raw goat milk farm, regulators could have sought punitive action. But...
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abadidea @0xabad1dea.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 30/09/2026
does this programming language support tables?
a print copy of "Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs" supporting one leg of a table on uneven ground. 

(I took this photo myself at a picnic hosted by a compiler engineer in 2018)
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Glyph @glyph.im · 30/09/2026
I logged in to LinkedIn to see a page full of people praising DHH, got mad, and wrote this. Less than 12 hours later I got an email telling me "Your post doesn’t comply with our Professional Community Policies on bullying and harassment. It’s been removed […] [Original post on mastodon.social]
A LinkedIn post from me that reads "DHH is openly a Nazi. You should not promote anything he is doing or relay his opinions on software development. It is shocking to me when I open this app and see people casually discussing his opinions on AI or interface design or whatever, as if he were a "thought leader". He is an open advocate for mass murder. It doesn't matter what else he thinks, do not promote his ideas." followed by the text "Only you can see this post because this content goes against our Professional Community Policies."
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Jef Poskanzer @jef.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 30/09/2026
So apparently bluesky has an anthropomorphized Torment Nexus account, which is pretty much on-brand for there.
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MrAlanCooper @mralancooper.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 30/09/2026
I still remember the day in 1976 when Gary Kildall typed in "dir" to an "A>" prompt on his hazeltine green-screen character display to show me a directory listing on his 8080-based, eight-bit computer running the first release of CP/M, the first real microcomputer operating system (that Gary […]
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Vee @veroniqueb99.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 29/09/2026
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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 29/09/2026
In response to a slew of anti-trans Democrats pushing hate during the 2026 midterms, Governor Andy Beshear provided principled criticism to the idea that red-state Dems need to adopt anti-trans views to win: "We Don’t Throw Anybody Under The Bus," he said. Subscribe to support our journalism.
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KY Gov. Beshear Has Message For Anti-Trans Dems: “We Don’t Throw Anybody Under The Bus.”
The governor provides a counterpoint to those who believe red state Democrats need to capitulate on transgender rights.
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The Funny Pages @thefunnypages.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 27/09/2026
New Comic Strip Found: Doonesbury - 2026-09-27 www.gocomics.com/doonesbury/2026/09… #comicstrip #doonesbury
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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
For those keeping score, this is the 41st emergency application filed at #SCOTUS by the second Trump administration—matching the (unprecedented) total that the first Trump administration filed across its entire four-year term.
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
But then they say, what else might we learn from that? And they show that this change is particularly pronounced in the South, where people think a post-Callais surge may lead to surprising outcomes. GOP has already given up on GA and NC Sen. But could other states flip? bsky.app/profile/donn...
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Downballot is doing something fairly (entirely?) new in election analysis. Lots of people have tracked primary TURNOUT, which has some relation to election outcome. But they argue that tracking CHANGE in primary turnout is a far more reliable predictor of election outcome. Which could mean blowout.
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Chuck Darwin @cdarwin.c.im.ap.brid.gy · 25/09/2026
Saudi Arabia is in serious trouble. Its global influence primarily comes from its leading position as an oil producer and the money resulting from that role, but now the Middle East is on fire. Today, Saudi tankers are blocked in the Persian Gulf and under threat in the Red Sea, and the […]
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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 24/09/2026
In the latest development among anti-trans wings of the Democratic Party, the Ohio Democratic Party is now deleting criticism from caucus members of Kaptur's anti-trans ad calling transgender people an "ideology." It appears any dissent over the ad is practically banned on caucus social media.
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The Ohio Democratic Party Is Silencing Its Pride Caucus Over Criticism Of Kaptur's "Transgender Ideology" Ad
The Ohio Democratic Party suppressed dissent from within its own Pride Caucus, activists said.
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Nonilex @nonilex.masto.ai.ap.brid.gy · 25/09/2026
Justice #KetanjiBrownJackson Thurs slammed #SCOTUS’ use of its “emergency docket,” suggesting the court has misused [abused] the process to allow the #Trump admin to move forward with a host of controversial policies while challenges “play out” in lower courts. SCOTUS’ emergency docket has been […]
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M.S. Bellows, Jr. @msbellows.c.im.ap.brid.gy · 24/09/2026
I'm so old, I remember when software that spread into the wild and infiltrated other people's computers and did harmful things to them that the users didn't ask it to was called "malware" instead of "AI" and the people that spread it were prosecuted instead of given billions in venture capital […]
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abadidea @0xabad1dea.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 24/09/2026
Postmortem of a little community hobby wiki struggling to survive an extinction-event-tier DDOS purely because they banned one guy for using Claude on the wiki blog.xkeeper.net/the-cutting-room-f…
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Don Marti @dmarti.federate.social.ap.brid.gy · 24/09/2026
Text over photo.

Myth: Big Tech is crooked but there's not effective way for users to complain

Reality: (photo of a California sample ballot, opened to Proposition 40, the billionaire wealth tax)
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