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Ryan O'Horo @redteamwrangler.bsky.social · 16m

> MULTIPLE CMEs ARE APPROACHING EARTH: As many as 3 CMEs are approaching Earth. According to a NOAA model, they could spark G2-class geomagnetic storms when they arrive on Oct. 16-17. High-latitude sky watchers should be alert for auroras. Full story @ Spaceweather.com

SpaceWeather.com -- News and information about meteor showers, solar flares, auroras, and near-Earth asteroids

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Ryan O'Horo @redteamwrangler.bsky.social · 18m

Hays is the first county in Texas to terminate its Flock Safety contract.

We win battles every day against mass surveillance.

Help out by opposing Flock Safety in your area.

www.kxan.com/news/hays-co...

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Ryan O'Horo @redteamwrangler.bsky.social · 1h

SteamOS hopefully becomes more desktop mature and gets more reliable NVIDIA support. Will help lift other Linux boats.

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pfft I know right... Autodesk

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Ryan O'Horo @redteamwrangler.bsky.social · 6h

I try not to share a lot of doom news, but I think it's important to acknowledge that this administration has murdered 27 people in the Caribbean after a total of 5 attacks on boats in international waters.

They should be held accountable for every one of these crimes against humanity.

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Ryan O'Horo @redteamwrangler.bsky.social · 6h

When they ban people, they hide posts in the AppView, which affects other PDSes, beyond their moderation scope.

Visibiity can be done in AppView, they just don't want to.

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Bo Thompson @gaudipern.bsky.social · 9h

The use of AI to marionette a woman whose tortured existence was spent trying to carve her own life and identity out of the space men forced her into is both damningly macabre and a surprisingly perfect encapsulation of the problems with this ghoulish use of technology.

Scientific American @sciam.bsky.social · 1d

Despite early, and familiar, copyright growing pains, Sora may be the prelude to AI-generated on-demand TV and movies

Want to See Marilyn Monroe in Game of Thrones? AI Could Make It Soon

Despite early, and familiar, copyright growing pains, Sora may be the prelude to AI-generated on-demand TV and movies

www.scientificamerican.com

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Cayman Pumpkins @caymanwent.bsky.social · 6h

Let it be known that the Denver city council voted 12-0 to BLOCK funding for surveillance devices from this particular torment nexus. Mayor Johnston simply dropped the requisitioned amount from $500K to $499K, below the threshold for a vote, and pushed it through anyways

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 7h

“Flock is the $7.5 billion company whose cameras capture license plate data for Denver Police and other agencies across the nation. It has drawn criticism because immigration enforcement agents have tapped into its national network.”

Denver Police has a contract with Flock for drone first responders

The company’s surveillance cameras have drawn civil rights concerns.

denverite.com

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 6h

In 2023, a program connecting Utah farmers and ranchers to free therapy vouchers was so successful, the federal money ran out in four months.

“I want you to know,” the program director recalled one recipient telling him, “that this saved my life.”

(Published April with @sltrib.com)

Utah Farmers Signed Up for Federally Funded Therapy. Then the Money Stopped.

Farmers are dying by suicide at the third-highest rate by vocation in Utah. But after a federal program offering mental health support ran out of money, the state did not continue it.

www.propublica.org

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Wedge LIVE!™ @wedge.live · 6h

Hard to find a large American city that hasn't struggled with the same intractable debate over whether to continue flushing piles of money on police horses.

Chicago Tribune @chicagotribune.com · 7h

From the Editorial Board:

As Mayor Brandon Johnson prepares to give his budget address Thursday, one idea should get tossed aside: eliminating Chicago’s mounted police unit.

Editorial: Chicago budget should not cut mounted police nor sell off their horses

Is Chicago really going to sell off the horse named for Officer Ella French?

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Ryan O'Horo @redteamwrangler.bsky.social · 7h

Seems like an understatement.

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Ryan O'Horo @redteamwrangler.bsky.social · 7h

Today's Art Challenge: The missing parts

A broken pocket screw drill with the tip broken next to one that's intact. Hand holding them. Plywood background

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Ryan O'Horo @redteamwrangler.bsky.social · 9h

All buildings vacant for more than 6 months must become artist studios with services funded by the city, sorry that's just how this works.

www.startribune.com/minneapolis-...

Minneapolis hopes a tougher vacancy policy will clean up its most stubborn nuisance properties

The new ordinance imposes a time limit and higher fees on property owners holding on to vacant buildings.

www.startribune.com

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Don’t Post About Crimes @katerosebee.bsky.social · 10h

Big moment for me, my first-ever publication credit!
The Digital Defense Fund team contributed to this paper on practical data privacy practices for research with abortion seekers, including those facing the most serious threats. Just out in Contraception:
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Society of Family Planning Research Practice Support: Digital and data security for abortion research in a post-Dobbs era—A primer for qualitative researchers

Abortion is banned or severely restricted in nearly half of the United States. Research on the impact of these restrictions and abortion care has neve…

www.sciencedirect.com

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Ryan O'Horo @redteamwrangler.bsky.social · 13h

Is an ideal body type and restrictive diet a value judgement? Don't ask La Croix.

La Croix packaging for "Pure"

"0 calorie 0 sweetener 0 sodium INNOCENT!"

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Ryan O'Horo @redteamwrangler.bsky.social · 13h

I use my programmable thermostat to raise the temperature around my alarm time. It's pretty good at kicking me out of bed.

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Ryan O'Horo @redteamwrangler.bsky.social · 14h

While also introducing plausibile deniability due to the nature of LLM based agents and the vendors that create them 🫠

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Ryan O'Horo @redteamwrangler.bsky.social · 15h

Person in an inflatable t-rex costume with a sign on a stick that says "I AM ANTIFA"

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daviss @chaddavis.photography · 16h

Very first light rail vehicle through West 21st Street Station in Minneapolis!

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Ryan O'Horo @redteamwrangler.bsky.social · 1d

land back land back land back

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Jessica Kerr @jessitron.bsky.social · 1d

More information, more summaries, more information, more summaries, and more entropy at every crank of the handle. It’s a singularity, yes, but a singularity of busywork.

- Duncan Brown

mechanicalsurvival.com/blog/team-dy...

Team dynamics after AI

Small giants and real giants

mechanicalsurvival.com

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Ryan O'Horo @redteamwrangler.bsky.social · 1d

> Denver Mayor Johnston unilaterally extended the previously expired contract with Flock Safety on July 7, 2025 for $498,500, skirting just under the council threshold for contract approval after council unanimously voted down the contract extension on May 5, 2025.

www.aclu-co.org/press-releas...