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Vyki Englert

@vykster.bsky.social
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 7h
to me, a layup sensible AI regulation is "do not allow the AI agent to make phone calls for any reason"
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Cyrus Hall @cyrushall.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
A friend of mine bought a set of wood working tools off eBay. Four months later, he's pieced together the life of the man who created the toolbox. It's a fascinating look at life at the turn of the 20th century. journal.spencerwnelson.com/entries/who_...
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The life and tools of H. C. Fackelman
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Urban Land Rent 🇸🇴🚰 @urbanlandrent.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
People will look at you in the eyes and tell you speeding isn’t a big enough problem to justify cameras.
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Yael Schacher @yaelschacher.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
I was writing fast so what I meant above was that the deported people have most of their families in the U.S., including sometimes their children, more frequently their siblings and spouses. And on the property: deported Haitians had cars, bank accounts. All inaccessible.
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Yael Schacher @yaelschacher.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Their treatment by the US immigration authorities is just unconscionable. Also: many of them have most of their relatives there. And so much property just impounded and stolen by our government.
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LAist @laist.com · 10/10/2026
Metrolink, Southern California’s regional commuter rail service, is planning for major service cuts — slashing 29% of weekday trains and 40% of weekend trains. Those cuts could go into effect as soon as next month. 🔗 More details: vist.ly/5msfq ✍️ Destiny Torres 📸 Courtesy Metrolink
A Metrolink train at a station with text about service cuts.
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Jason D. Salvagni @salvagni.org · 07/10/2026
h/t to @slack2thefuture.bsky.social for letting me know you can delete the "customer personalization" data in your Amazon account and enter anything you want. Like this.
Fucking with Amazon "customer personalization"
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Stephen Jacob Smith @stephenjacobsmith.com · 01/10/2026
This is an insane restriction for a city that draws its multifamily zoning envelopes such that an apartment in a five-story building in effect must have its only windows looking directly into another five-story building that’s six feet away
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Vyki Englert @vykster.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Service Level Agreements, but for escalators instead of servers?
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Vyki Englert @vykster.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Didn't know they made label makers this big.
City of Los Angeles Department of Public Works sign with name of new council member pasted over their predecessor in a mix of uppercase and titlecased words
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Stephen Jacob Smith @stephenjacobsmith.com · 22/09/2026
Meanwhile, in Spain:
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Greg Pierce @gregspierce.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
The new parking- local public finance- deportation contractor nexus.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 14/09/2026
In states with abortion bans, medical providers are hesitating or flat-out refusing to terminate ectopic pregnancies, lawsuits allege. “I genuinely thought I was going to die,” said Kyleigh Thurman, who couldn’t get care in Texas.
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Ectopic Pregnancy Deaths Have Nearly Doubled. It’s Worse in States With Abortion Bans.
With prompt and appropriate medical care, experts say, people shouldn’t die from an ectopic pregnancy. Women in Texas and Oklahoma have sued over delays in care, which, coupled with our new analysis, ...
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Banned Randy 🇩🇰 @bannedrandy.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
When thinking of the #CarryShitOlympics, I totally forgot about the hotel porters on Mackinac Island. These guys are seriously professional. @americanfietser.bsky.social
Dude on a cruiser bike schlepping no less than seven suitcases.
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
It's very easy to wear a suit and tie in any major city, even if the aesthetic has mostly disappeared from daily life, because there are people outside wearing pink tutus with Army boots. As usual, your liberation is connected to other people's liberation.
Bobby Mars on Twitter writes: "If you wear a collared shirt and nice shoes out to the bar in the rust belt, multiple people will ask you if you just came from a wedding. Aesthetic standards for men’s attire are horrendously low"
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Waldo Jaquith @waldo.net · 13/09/2026
I just got an email inviting me to opt into a class-action settlement for some CVS privacy violation thing, which can provide me with a cash payment of $5, or $10 if I can substantiate my claim. Hell of a society we're running here.
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Lee West @whodat35.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
The hottest summer in American history is no longer 1936; it is now officially 2026. #ClimateChange
America Just Had Its Hottest Summer on Record

Chart shows Contiguous U.S. June-August temperature, difference from the 1901-2000 average
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1936, the Dust Bowl summer, held the record for 90 years
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ashley fairbanks @ziibiing.com · 12/09/2026
i am incredibly excited to share our research about how paying people’s rent through mutual aid made an impact on minnesota this year we accidentally collected more data than anyone ever has for an effort like this, and can very seriously say we prevented an eviction bubble that everyone expected
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Evan Greer @evangreer.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Age verification makes everyone less safe. Age verification makes everyone less safe. Age verification makes everyone less safe. Age verification makes everyone less safe. Age verification makes everyone less safe. Age verification makes everyone less safe.
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Hackers Had A Live Feed Of Every ID This Verification Company Scanned. For Over A Year.
From the very beginning of this recent obsession with identifying everyone online (yes, they like to call it "age" verification, but it always ends up as identity verification), we've been pointing out that it was a huge privacy nightmare waiting to happen. Or maybe it wasn't waiting. Maybe it was already happening. This week a...
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Dan Hon @danhon.com · 18/08/2026
new "we didn't start the fire 2026" verse just dropped
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Landon Palmer @landonpalmer.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
everybody loves our Plagiarism Factory except for our Plagiarism Factory logo
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Alissa Walker @awalkerinla.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
🤘🏼 YOU'VE WAITED 10 MONTHS FOR THIS 🤘🏼 Discussion on the city service agreement (ECMRA) with LA28 is starting now. LA28 officials are here and making their way to the front. Here's the CLA/CAO presentation LA city officials are making right now: cityclerk.lacity.org/onlinedocs/2...
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Regular City Council - 8/12/26
YouTube video by LACityClerk
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Dr Grace S Peng @gspeng.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Ebikes
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Lex Roman @lexroman.com · 05/08/2026
After I posted about the Bending Spoons/Airtable buyout, Ted Fickes shared that his pricing for Harvest (bought by Bending Spoons in 2025) is going up 1000% next month. From $12 to $122 PER MONTH I may be a hyperbolic cynic but I am not wrong about the need for an exit plan
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Rob Toftness @nosquish.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Protected bike lanes ensure this kind of delivery behavior. Build more of them.
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Katie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 04/08/2026
(•_•) <) )╯ban / \ ( •_•) \( (> the / \ (•_•) <) )╯pervert glasses / \
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Alissa Walker @awalkerinla.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Transit riders will have to travel outside the perimeter to ride buses during the transit-first games 🙃
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Alissa Walker @awalkerinla.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
The county estimates 1,600 homeless people will be displaced by these perimeters. But think carefully about who else will be impacted: vendors, day laborers, even residents in their homes. What kind of outreach is starting now to inform people about how their lives will look two years from now?
Brandon Dean, the chief of special operations for the LA. County Sheriffs Department, told LAist security perimeters will be divided into "red" zones directly around venues where people and vehicles will be screened before entering, and "yellow" zones marking a larger outer perimeter. Dean said he expected that unhoused people would
be able to remain in yellow areas, but not red zones.
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Lex Roman @lexroman.com · 31/07/2026
It's the end of the week and I'm stuck at home recovering from illness so let's recap this week in small business, shall we? Every week, I pull the most important stories small business owners need to know. Here's what I flagged this week...
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Jon of The North @krauza.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
I don't want a "Smart Fridge" that orders milk for me. I want a fridge that lasts 25 years and doesn't have a privacy policy that allows it to share my late-night snacking habits with my health insurance provider.
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Vyki Englert @vykster.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
dude that looks like fun
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Vyki Englert @vykster.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
really digging Sunsama right now
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Alex Spahn 🌋🌪️☄️ @spahn711.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
I put a Spotify code on my rear window. Today, at a red light, I saw someone take a photo of it and proceed to laugh their a** off. This is what the code plays. 🦭
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Next door in Silicon Valley @nextdoorsv.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
"Ownership has filed an SB79 application to develop a 3-story, 6-luxry condo project" Well... there you have it. SB79 is gentrifying Palo Alto out of affordability.
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Cargo Bike NELA @vmsev.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
Make DASH buses free first: fully city run (no excuses about needing the necessary votes), only costs 50 cents a ride or 35 cents if pay with TAP (annual operating budget of $3M if I recall correctly) and was free for 4 years during covid. DASH didn’t have same safety issues as Metro when made free.
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Yang Jun-Dah @yangjundah.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
"The agency said about 443,000 vaccine doses remain in stock, including Moderna... Novavax vaccines will expire July 31 and be discarded afterward. The next batch of COVID-19 vaccines is not expected to become available until October, the CDC said." (Focus Taiwan) focustaiwan.tw/society/2026... 🧋
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Taiwan extends free COVID-19 vaccinations through Sept. 28 - Focus Taiwan
Taiwan's Centers for Disease Control (CDC) on Saturday extended its publicly funded COVID-19 vaccination program through Sept. 28, citing a new wave of infections and persistently low vaccination rate...
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Sean Beckner-Carmitchel @acatwithnews.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Greetings! I’m in Madison, WI to cover the Corey Ruiz shooting. A planned community listening session has been postponed. I’m told council president Sabrina Madison will be at the vigil. (On my way to the vigil)
A notice of postponement for a vigil for Corey Ruiz
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Alex @mplsalex.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Every time I think “I bet my kids could bike this mile to camp on slow, calm, neighborhood streets by themselves” some impatient asshole in an SUV nearly kills us all and I realize - nope. Guess not.
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Musicology Duck @musicologyduck.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
DoorDash trying to end home rule for 700,000 people over a TWENTY CENT FEE
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Spooky Surge Corwin @drsurgeonguy.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
I hope we live in the timeline where Taco Bell sues the US Government.
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Sarah Taber @sarahtaber.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Hear me out: this is even wilder than it looks. Out in the ag world, Taylor Farms was THE instigator for a lot of the big food safety moves for lettuce over the last 20 years. That's a legacy that just should NOT have ended up like this.
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Sarah Taber @sarahtaber.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
The discovery phase of the next 2-3 years of lawsuits are gonna be WILD What an incredible day to be Bill Marler
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Sarah Taber @sarahtaber.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
A quick word on Taco Bell: That's where we found the suspected lettuce, and it's not bc Taco Bell is gross. It's bc Taco Bell is REALLY GOOD at tracing product! Keeping track of exactly where they got their ingredients, & exactly what restaurants each shipment of ingredients went to!
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More like I-ACK @mumbly-joe.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
Yo quiero contact tracing
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Nican @nican.net · 16/07/2026
The 1.5GB Android update. I do not want any of those features.
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Alissa Walker @awalkerinla.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Situational Awareness 7/16 — STILL HOT 🌡️ 🚫 No matches 🚫 Which is kind of a good thing because it was downright blistering on the pavement at the fan zone in Pomona yesterday. Luckily, they had everyone watching the matches indoors in these very fun beer hall-esque viewing areas
Me holding a heat gun pointed at the pavement with my red shoes visible below and it reads 147.3 degreesA large barrel-roof warehouse structure with flags and flower chandeliers and rows and rows of people at picnic tables watching the world cup which is on a large screen at the center
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Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Brits are like “Look who’s boiling vegetables now.”
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Vyki Englert @vykster.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Trees! 🌲🌳🌴🎋🪾 I'll be downtown next week hanging out with some tree people, join me.
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tweety fish oh wow like a chimera or something spoooky @sifu.tweety.fish · 13/07/2026
really the heuristics are straightforward: if an automated classifier system is purporting to do a task where -- trained humans can't reliably do it -- the classes are hugely imbalanced in the real world (e.g. one outcome is very rare) -- collecting a massive dataset is impractical it's ~bullshit
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