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Dwight Silverman @dwightsilverman.com · 5h

In which @ernie.tedium.co details early problems with RF and TVs, CBs and PCs. Alphabet soup that’s worth your time to read!

Not mentioned, but my favorite RF interference experience: early cell phones used to cause my computer speakers to buzz when calls came in. 😀

RF Shielding History: When The FCC Cracked Down On Computers

The FCC took a hard line on the radio frequency interference that computers created—creating huge headaches for early PC-makers. Why? Blame the CB radio fad.

tedium.co

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Dwight Silverman @dwightsilverman.com · 8h

Did the democracy thing. How about you?

Usually, I vote by mail, but today I did it in person. Affirming! #houstonvotes

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Dwight Silverman @dwightsilverman.com · 8h

At least when I tried!

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Dwight Silverman @dwightsilverman.com · 9h

AWS outage still impacting Amazon Alexa but I can use my phone app to control lights etc. And the NYT’s Connections game appears to be affected. 😿

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Dwight Silverman @dwightsilverman.com · 11h

Thanks. Being able to collapse the details on the page I linked to helps but it still generates way to much paper. I got it down to 1 1/4 pages by copying/pasting and deleting unneeded lines.

Dwight Silverman @dwightsilverman.com · 11h

@houstonchronicle.com In the past, the Chronicle has offered a printer-friendly list of endorsements to take into the voting booth, since TX law won't allow you to consult your smartphone. How about a text-only version, @evan7257.bsky.social? Or is it there and I'm not finding it?

Texas Voter Guide: See which candidates are endorsed by our editorial board

See which candidates for the 2025 Texas election on Nov. 4 are endorsed by the Houston Chronicle Editorial Board.

www.houstonchronicle.com

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Don Linn @donlinn.bsky.social · 1d

Excellent stuff.

Just the kind of thing we need.

Become ungovernable through direct community action.

#Resist

Gabrielle Hecht has no more spoons @gabriellehecht.bsky.social · 2d

Purdue to the rescue of IU student newspaper, whose institution was attempting censorship. Details in alt!

Sara Whitmer
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I'm sure many of you have heard by now that earlier this week, IU k*lled the print edition of its student paper, the IDS. The issue that was supposed to print this week contained criticism of the Whitten regime and IUs further slide into scist control, and they couldn't allow that to happen during Homecoming, when all the rich alumni are in town.
Enter Purdue! The Purdue student paper, The Exponent, owns its own presses. Yesterday, in an act of tremendous solidarity with their biggest rival school, they printed the forbidden issue of the IDS. They then drove it to Bloomington overnight and stocked all of the IDS boxes on campus, just in time for Homecoming.
Solidarity is what makes us stronger, and solidarity will be what ultimately allows us to triumph, if we can ever truly get it together. I hope everyone has a fun, safe day if they're going out today, and I hope we can think about what acts of solidarity we can begin taking to really make this movement MOVE - beyond a permitted expression of upset into more active resistance.
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Space City Weather @spacecitywx.bsky.social · 1d

Houston will experience its chilliest night of the season on Sunday, with much of the area dropping into the 50s. But alas, it will not last.

#houwx

Houston to see coldest night of the season, but the chill won’t last

In brief: Houston will experience its chilliest night of the season on Sunday, with much of the area dropping into the 50s. But alas, it will not last. Cold front arrives Good morning everyone. Jus…

spacecityweather.com

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Jenny Staff Johnson @htownjenny.bsky.social · 2d

Houston #NoKings 📸 by @htownmark.bsky.social

Large crowd, signs like no kings, justice for all, couple of inflatable frogs

Close-up of the head of a large inflatable frog with a crown it

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Dwight Silverman @dwightsilverman.com · 4d

Did you buy one of the Google Pixel 10 phones? If you live in Texas or Illinois, one of the device's most-touted features is MIA, and Google won't say why.

#pixel10

Google's Pixel 10 Ask Photos feature is missing in Texas and Illinois

Google's Pixel 10 line of smartphones, introduced in August, is bristling with cool and useful AI-based features. But one of the most touted ones isn’t to be found on the devices used in Texas.

www.houstonchronicle.com

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Dwight Silverman @dwightsilverman.com · 4d

Did you buy one of the Google Pixel 10 phones? If you live in Texas or Illinois, one of the device's most-touted features is MIA, and Google won't say why.

#pixel10

Google's Pixel 10 Ask Photos feature is missing in Texas and Illinois

Google's Pixel 10 line of smartphones, introduced in August, is bristling with cool and useful AI-based features. But one of the most touted ones isn’t to be found on the devices used in Texas.

www.houstonchronicle.com

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Space City Weather @spacecitywx.bsky.social · 5d

We have more information on the Houston region’s burgeoning drought, and explain why scattered showers to end this week are unlikely to bring relief. Also: September-like humidity returns for a couple of days before a front on Sunday.

#houwx

Houston likely to see some rain showers later this week, but they will provide scant relief

In brief: Today’s post provides some more information on the region’s burgeoning drought, and why scattered showers to end this week are unlikely to bring any relief. We also discuss th…

spacecityweather.com

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Dwight Silverman @dwightsilverman.com · 5d

Messages syncing between devices is very broken for me in the 26.1 public betas.
#apple

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Dwight Silverman @dwightsilverman.com · 7d

Nice use of Liquid Glass on Apple TV 4K on tvOS 26.1 beta. Portraits screensaver pulls from the camera roll. That photo from Memorial Park in Houston was actually taken by a Pixel 10 Pro XL. 😆

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Space City Weather @spacecitywx.bsky.social · 7d

We’ve got more information about our forthcoming Fall Day Celebration, to which you're invited to bring your dogs. 🐕 We also discuss our not-quite-summer but not-quite-fall weather for this week, and the potential for a front on Sunday to bring showers to the Houston region.

#houwx

More Fall ‘lite’ weather this week, with the potential for some rain showers this weekend

In brief: In today’s post we provide more information about our forthcoming Fall Day Celebration, to which you’re invited to bring your dogs. We also discuss our not-quite-summer but no…

spacecityweather.com

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Dwight Silverman @dwightsilverman.com · 8d

No relation.

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Maureen Johnson @maureenjohnsonbooks.com · 9d

THIS. THIS. This is what we've been waiting for. A candidate who is talking abut the specifics of Queer history in NYC and advocating a plan to immediately protect trans persons. THIS IS HOW YOU DO IT.

Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 9d

UNTIL IT’S DONE, Ep. 4: Sylvia Rivera

In the 1970s, queer New Yorkers had been pushed to the margins of NYC. Our trans neighbors faced immense cruelty. But in Sylvia Rivera, they found a champion.

As we combat Trump’s politics of darkness, her legacy can light the path forward.

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Dwight Silverman @dwightsilverman.com · 9d

The author is Calder McHugh. Don't know him. Why would you think he's a relative?

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Dwight Silverman @dwightsilverman.com · 9d

What specifically doesn't work well on your iPad that you need?

Dwight Silverman @dwightsilverman.com · 9d

Wow, thanks for the kind words, Karl!

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Dwight Silverman @dwightsilverman.com · 9d

Every now and then I run across an app or a website that is both useful and delightful. Got five for ya.

Declutter your photo roll and have fun doing it. Google Desktop's tenuous return. A screensaver worth paying for. Will that monitor fit on your desk? AI news you can use.

Four apps and a website that make daily life easier — and more fun

Discover four standout apps and a handy website — from Shutter Declutter to Particle News — that boost your daily flow on iPhone, Mac and PC.

www.houstonchronicle.com

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 10d

BREAKING: Federal judge finds the Trump admin likely violated the First (viewpoint discrimination) and Fifth (vagueness) Amendments in a case over changed domestic violence grant conditions.

Preliminary injunction issued.

(A TRO previously was issued.)

storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Case 1:25-cv-00342-MRD-PAS
Document 72
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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
FOR THE DISTRICT OF RHODE ISLAND
RHODE ISLAND COALITION
AGAINST DOMESTIC VIOLENCE, et al.,
Plaintiffs,
v.
ROBERT F. KENNEDY, JR. in his official capacity as Secretary of the United States Department of Health and Human Services, et al.,
Defendants.
C.A. No. 25-cv-342-MRD-PAS
MEMORANDUM AND ORDER
Melissa R. DuBose, United States District Judge.

Over twenty non-profit coalitions that receive federal grant money to help
support survivors of domestic violence and sexual assault as well as members of
society who are unhoused or without stable housing filed suit against the United
States Departments of Health and Human Services ("HHS") and Housing and Urban
Development ("HUD") as well as various administrators and subagencies who fall
under and within these agencies (hereinafter the "Coalitions" or the "Plaintiffs").
Compl. at 1-4. The Plaintiffs allege that the Defendants are springing new conditions
on them as grantees and are requiring compliance with new spending restrictions on grant funds (the "Grants"), all in violation of the Administrative Procedures Act (the
"APA"), 5 U.S.C. § 706, the U.S. Constitution's clearly articulated separation of
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powers principles such as the Article I Spending Clause, the First Amendment, and the Due Process Clause under the Fifth Amendment. Id. 11 4, 66-89. The new
conditions and certifications foisted upon the grantees are focused on compelling
compliance with sweeping changes imposed by the executive branch by way of Executive Orders ("E.O.s") aimed at eliminating programs that are perceived as promoting gender ideology; diversity, equity, and inclusion; elective abortions; and
antidiscrimination. Id. 11 21-31, MPI at 73-74.

IV. CONCLUSION
As stated, the Court determines that the Plaintiffs have met their burden as
to the preliminary injunction factors and finds them entitled to relief. Pursuant to Section 705 of the APA, the Court finds that it is necessary and appropriate to grant
the Plaintiffs' request for a preliminary stay of the Challenged Conditions.
See 5
U.S.C. § 705 (permitting a reviewing court to "issue all necessary and appropriate
process to postpone the effective date of an agency action or to preserve status or
rights pending conclusion of the review proceedings on such conditions as may be
required and to the extent necessary to prevent irreparable injury").
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IT IS SO ORDERED.
Melissa R. DuBose
United States District Judge
October 10, 2025

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Dwight Silverman @dwightsilverman.com · 10d

It's #BurgerFriday on @alisoncook.bsky.social's newsletter, and I'm all in. This sounds divine. And I love me some touchscreen ordering, because really, who wants to talk to other people?

Burger Friday: Narwhal Jousting Club

Sorry, Cantina Barba. You'd slipped the last time I ordered your cheeseburger, and now I've got a new Houston fave in the affordable category. It's the gutsy number at the Narwhal Jousting Club, a ma...

alison-cooks-htown.ghost.io

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The Eyewall @theeyewallwx.bsky.social · 10d

A whole heck of a lot to cover today on the coastal storm this weekend in the Mid-Atlantic. Impacts in NJ and Delaware could be the worst since January 2016 or Hurricane Sandy south of Long Beach Island. Expected impacts and more below and at theeyewall.com

Worst impacts since January 2016 or Sandy possible for Southern New Jersey & Delaware from East Coast storm Sunday & Monday

Flooding likely in the Desert Southwest as well

theeyewall.substack.com

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Dwight Silverman @dwightsilverman.com · 10d

ISPs went whining to the Carr-era FCC about being forced to disclose the fees they charge, and now the commission is likely to drop that requirement in the Broadband Facts labels. Consumer lose: expect surprises that didn't have to be surprises on your bill.

ISPs created so many fees that FCC will kill requirement to list them all

ISPs complained about Biden-era rule, said listing every fee was too hard.

arstechnica.com

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