Best laid plans of mice and Bren…
@cybrid.bsky.social
He/him. Data Protection guy. Wanderer who doesn’t do much wandering anymore. Worst fly fisher ever. Learned history and now forced to watch others repeat it.
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Do you remember in movies when the good guys could get either to a TV station or a senator’s office with their whistleblowing vital info and it would get aired or fixed and the bad guys went to jail ?
I know Hollywood dabbled in fantasies.
I know Hollywood dabbled in fantasies.
December 11, 2025 at 8:19 PM
Do you remember in movies when the good guys could get either to a TV station or a senator’s office with their whistleblowing vital info and it would get aired or fixed and the bad guys went to jail ?
I know Hollywood dabbled in fantasies.
I know Hollywood dabbled in fantasies.
Not my photo but this is the upper Skagit river near my place. Washed out again. Compound that down the whole system with a lot of additional feeds and yeah I feel for folks in Washington state.
December 11, 2025 at 10:32 PM
Not my photo but this is the upper Skagit river near my place. Washed out again. Compound that down the whole system with a lot of additional feeds and yeah I feel for folks in Washington state.
Some localized flooding in the area, but I’m not directly affected. 1 of the 2 highways west to civilization is closed due to a rockslide. Not terrible, but things could change rapidly here. Downstream / south of the border sounds worse at the moment. Lots of water coming off the mountains.
December 11, 2025 at 3:49 AM
Some localized flooding in the area, but I’m not directly affected. 1 of the 2 highways west to civilization is closed due to a rockslide. Not terrible, but things could change rapidly here. Downstream / south of the border sounds worse at the moment. Lots of water coming off the mountains.
I live a short drive from the Skagit headwaters and it is raining to beat hell here. Compound that along the river’s length into the states and it’s going to be a bad time.
Skagit County, WA: "ALL RESIDENTS LIVING WITHIN 100-YEAR FLOOD PLAIN AT
LEVEL 2: GET SET FOR IMPENDING EVACUATION "
#flooding #wawx #skagitcounty
LEVEL 2: GET SET FOR IMPENDING EVACUATION "
#flooding #wawx #skagitcounty
December 11, 2025 at 1:33 AM
I live a short drive from the Skagit headwaters and it is raining to beat hell here. Compound that along the river’s length into the states and it’s going to be a bad time.
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SKULL OF THOMAS AQUINAS: TAKE A LEFT NOW
PRIEST: No, the GPS says we have to keep going—
SKULL: I KNOW A SHORTCUT
PRIEST: Do you remember the last ti—
SKULL: FOR THOSE WITH FAITH, NO EVIDENCE IS NECESSARY; FOR THOSE WITHOUT IT, NO EVIDENCE WILL SUFFICE
PRIEST: No, the GPS says we have to keep going—
SKULL: I KNOW A SHORTCUT
PRIEST: Do you remember the last ti—
SKULL: FOR THOSE WITH FAITH, NO EVIDENCE IS NECESSARY; FOR THOSE WITHOUT IT, NO EVIDENCE WILL SUFFICE
'Skull of St. Thomas Aquinas being transported to Fossanova Abbey.'
Photograph by Daniel Ibanez
Photograph by Daniel Ibanez
December 10, 2025 at 5:10 PM
SKULL OF THOMAS AQUINAS: TAKE A LEFT NOW
PRIEST: No, the GPS says we have to keep going—
SKULL: I KNOW A SHORTCUT
PRIEST: Do you remember the last ti—
SKULL: FOR THOSE WITH FAITH, NO EVIDENCE IS NECESSARY; FOR THOSE WITHOUT IT, NO EVIDENCE WILL SUFFICE
PRIEST: No, the GPS says we have to keep going—
SKULL: I KNOW A SHORTCUT
PRIEST: Do you remember the last ti—
SKULL: FOR THOSE WITH FAITH, NO EVIDENCE IS NECESSARY; FOR THOSE WITHOUT IT, NO EVIDENCE WILL SUFFICE
I went for a bit of a mental health walk earlier today. No word on whether it actually helped but it did look very west coast.
December 10, 2025 at 10:38 AM
I went for a bit of a mental health walk earlier today. No word on whether it actually helped but it did look very west coast.
This is time and useful considering I just started John Dolan’s new book “They Should Have Been Hanged”
every fucking time I go back to thinking about a civil war battle I inevitably think of this post. cursed forever
ever wondered about what ranking officers in the us civil war were like? good news. there's not that many types of them. here you go
December 8, 2025 at 7:30 PM
This is time and useful considering I just started John Dolan’s new book “They Should Have Been Hanged”
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I can’t believe a technical solution to a complex social problem didn’t work. Ah well, nevertheless
One Laptop Per Child, 10 years later: "we find no significant effects on academic performance but some evidence of negative effects on grade progression... computer access significantly improved students’ computer skills but not their cognitive skills" www.nber.org/papers/w34495
Laptops in the Long Run: Evidence from the One Laptop per Child Program in Rural Peru
Founded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, an...
www.nber.org
December 7, 2025 at 9:26 PM
I can’t believe a technical solution to a complex social problem didn’t work. Ah well, nevertheless
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This technology cannot be made safe, it cannot be made useful at scale, it cannot be made ethical and it cannot be made benign. The only real choice is to avoid it and reject it to the extent that remains possible to us, and treat it all as a warning to value, and sharpen, our own human minds.
December 7, 2025 at 5:05 PM
This technology cannot be made safe, it cannot be made useful at scale, it cannot be made ethical and it cannot be made benign. The only real choice is to avoid it and reject it to the extent that remains possible to us, and treat it all as a warning to value, and sharpen, our own human minds.
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Biggest commitment to a 3 second joke I've ever seen
April 9, 2025 at 6:33 AM
Biggest commitment to a 3 second joke I've ever seen
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Anniversary of halifax explosion so obligatory
"Hold up the train. Ammunition ship afire in harbour making for Pier 6 and will explode. Guess this will be my last message. Good-bye boys."
- Vincent Coleman
saved like 300 people on a train, and started the emergency response. Died for it
"Hold up the train. Ammunition ship afire in harbour making for Pier 6 and will explode. Guess this will be my last message. Good-bye boys."
- Vincent Coleman
saved like 300 people on a train, and started the emergency response. Died for it
December 6, 2025 at 11:12 PM
Anniversary of halifax explosion so obligatory
"Hold up the train. Ammunition ship afire in harbour making for Pier 6 and will explode. Guess this will be my last message. Good-bye boys."
- Vincent Coleman
saved like 300 people on a train, and started the emergency response. Died for it
"Hold up the train. Ammunition ship afire in harbour making for Pier 6 and will explode. Guess this will be my last message. Good-bye boys."
- Vincent Coleman
saved like 300 people on a train, and started the emergency response. Died for it
As a data protection and disaster recovery guy who came from an ops background, this made me realize that I really should have committed more of the experience to writing. Lots of metrics and best practices, not so much about the times in the trenches.
Apropos of nothing: do we have any written experience reports of what it’s *like* as an engineer to be on call for various nines of availability?
I know the math for them, but I realised I don’t know if we have a collective idea of what it FEELS like to operate each of at those levels
Anyone? 👀
I know the math for them, but I realised I don’t know if we have a collective idea of what it FEELS like to operate each of at those levels
Anyone? 👀
December 5, 2025 at 9:43 AM
As a data protection and disaster recovery guy who came from an ops background, this made me realize that I really should have committed more of the experience to writing. Lots of metrics and best practices, not so much about the times in the trenches.
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Happy "Cloudflare is fucked again" day to all who celebrate.
Seems to come round earlier every month these days.
Seems to come round earlier every month these days.
December 5, 2025 at 9:09 AM
Happy "Cloudflare is fucked again" day to all who celebrate.
Seems to come round earlier every month these days.
Seems to come round earlier every month these days.
Perhaps not a suitable daily driver, but I bet I could do a rousing business leasing it out for “Tank Girl For A Day” purposes
bringatrailer.com/listing/1962...
bringatrailer.com/listing/1962...
c.1962 Centurion Mk 13 Main Battle Tank
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December 5, 2025 at 4:42 AM
Perhaps not a suitable daily driver, but I bet I could do a rousing business leasing it out for “Tank Girl For A Day” purposes
bringatrailer.com/listing/1962...
bringatrailer.com/listing/1962...
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Tzeentch. For AI slop is forever changing and none of what you see can be trusted to be the truth. Ask an AI the same question 10 times and you may get ten different answers. Look at the pictures and count the fingers and limbs. Mutation abounds.
I think it's time to ask the professionals, like @learninglaser.bsky.social & @aotearoabadger.bsky.social, which of the Ruinous Powers best represented by AI slop so that it may be offered to their throne. I fear we may have manifested a new one.
December 4, 2025 at 2:29 AM
Tzeentch. For AI slop is forever changing and none of what you see can be trusted to be the truth. Ask an AI the same question 10 times and you may get ten different answers. Look at the pictures and count the fingers and limbs. Mutation abounds.
Canadian moment: putting on a new pair of flannel lined jeans just out of the dryer before going out on a cold day.
December 2, 2025 at 6:26 PM
Canadian moment: putting on a new pair of flannel lined jeans just out of the dryer before going out on a cold day.
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Wisdom update! Her mate is back, too! Wisdom is *at least* 75 years old, the oldest living wild bird that we know of. Birds are amazing!
#birds #albatross #conservation
#birds #albatross #conservation
November 30, 2025 at 10:47 PM
Wisdom update! Her mate is back, too! Wisdom is *at least* 75 years old, the oldest living wild bird that we know of. Birds are amazing!
#birds #albatross #conservation
#birds #albatross #conservation
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This was well done and also what I’ve been saying for years, glad to see more people on it
"All of this falls apart if humans don't adopt the tech. This is why you've seen Meta cram its lame chatbots into WhatsApp and Instagram. This is why Notepad and Paint now have useless Copilot buttons on Windows. This is why Google Gemini wants to "help you" read and reply to your emails."
Analysis: OpenAI is a loss-making machine, how can it survive?
Don't call it a bubble! Loss-making monster OpenAI is on the hook for $1.4 trillion (with a T) in compute commitments. How can this go on?
www.windowscentral.com
November 30, 2025 at 8:17 PM
This was well done and also what I’ve been saying for years, glad to see more people on it
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Streamins service UI is increasingly bad deliberately. It's dark UX patterning as access to show catalogues narrows.
If you let the user search, they will look for shows you no longer have (or never had).
The goal is to hijack that journey and force a show they'll feel is 'okay' in front of them.
If you let the user search, they will look for shows you no longer have (or never had).
The goal is to hijack that journey and force a show they'll feel is 'okay' in front of them.
is there a reason why every single paid streaming service UI has only gotten incredibly worse and less usable over time
November 30, 2025 at 8:59 AM
Streamins service UI is increasingly bad deliberately. It's dark UX patterning as access to show catalogues narrows.
If you let the user search, they will look for shows you no longer have (or never had).
The goal is to hijack that journey and force a show they'll feel is 'okay' in front of them.
If you let the user search, they will look for shows you no longer have (or never had).
The goal is to hijack that journey and force a show they'll feel is 'okay' in front of them.
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Vintage Stoppard as performed by Oldman & Roth. Delightful stuff. youtu.be/u3xIs0aajN4?...
Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead (1990) - Playing Questions Scene (2/11) | Movieclips
YouTube video by Movieclips
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November 29, 2025 at 5:27 PM
Vintage Stoppard as performed by Oldman & Roth. Delightful stuff. youtu.be/u3xIs0aajN4?...
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Did you know that BC almost left Canada. Watch our latest video to learn more... #canada
youtu.be/cbcCSh-pXZg?...
youtu.be/cbcCSh-pXZg?...
B.C. Almost Left Canada?! The Shocking History Behind the E&N Rail Trail Near Portage Park
YouTube video by Walking Vancouver Island
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November 29, 2025 at 6:57 PM
Did you know that BC almost left Canada. Watch our latest video to learn more... #canada
youtu.be/cbcCSh-pXZg?...
youtu.be/cbcCSh-pXZg?...
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For some reason "no one" knows stoppard co-wrote Brazil
November 29, 2025 at 6:20 PM
For some reason "no one" knows stoppard co-wrote Brazil
Going through dad’s stuff hasn’t been easy, and there’s so much more to go. Hooking up his little Spatley boat to my car to take home really hit me hard though. Lot of memories anchored up off a shoal #flyfishing with him and talking. I really miss that. I’ll have to find folks to go fishing with.
November 29, 2025 at 1:31 AM
Going through dad’s stuff hasn’t been easy, and there’s so much more to go. Hooking up his little Spatley boat to my car to take home really hit me hard though. Lot of memories anchored up off a shoal #flyfishing with him and talking. I really miss that. I’ll have to find folks to go fishing with.
Watching this (listening to this?) now
Doing a practice stream in 4 hours! twitch.tv/unwoman
Also considering doing a stream on New Year's Eve to celebrate the new album.
Also considering doing a stream on New Year's Eve to celebrate the new album.
Twitch
Twitch is the world
twitch.tv
November 28, 2025 at 5:43 AM
Watching this (listening to this?) now
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Ittttttts Gävlebocken time! Straw goats for all!
People, the goat survived last year. *gestures at 2025*. We cannot let this happen again.
People, the goat survived last year. *gestures at 2025*. We cannot let this happen again.
“ Det doftar halm i luften och julkänslan gör entré. Movember ut, bockember in! ✨🐐
You can smell the straw in the air and the christmas spirit makes its entrance. Movember out, bockember in! ✨🐐” #gavlebocken #gavle
You can smell the straw in the air and the christmas spirit makes its entrance. Movember out, bockember in! ✨🐐” #gavlebocken #gavle
November 27, 2025 at 10:59 PM
Ittttttts Gävlebocken time! Straw goats for all!
People, the goat survived last year. *gestures at 2025*. We cannot let this happen again.
People, the goat survived last year. *gestures at 2025*. We cannot let this happen again.