Owen O’Malley
@owenomalley.bsky.social
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Tonight was a very bad night.
November 10, 2025 at 3:09 AM
Tonight was a very bad night.
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The benevolent dictator model feels tempting for #OSS - faster, fewer debates. Then a PR argument with the single person in charge reminds me:
Speed isn’t health. Community is.
Speed isn’t health. Community is.
November 7, 2025 at 7:48 PM
The benevolent dictator model feels tempting for #OSS - faster, fewer debates. Then a PR argument with the single person in charge reminds me:
Speed isn’t health. Community is.
Speed isn’t health. Community is.
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Court papers filed Wednesday state that Mr. Abrego Garcia was beaten, deprived of sleep, and subjected to psychological torture during the nearly three months he spent in Salvadoran custody. It is unacceptable to send people to other countries to be tortured!
July 4, 2025 at 2:06 AM
Court papers filed Wednesday state that Mr. Abrego Garcia was beaten, deprived of sleep, and subjected to psychological torture during the nearly three months he spent in Salvadoran custody. It is unacceptable to send people to other countries to be tortured!
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I tend to agree that ranked choice voting is widely preferable to our (general) current system in the US, but I think it's important to note every electoral system has quirks and vulnerabilities and ranked choice doesn't mean bad/incompetent/just plain evil folks can't still win elections/majorities
Getting away from winner-takes-all voting is probably the only way to save democracy in the long term, so any alternative would be an improvement.
June 23, 2025 at 8:17 PM
I tend to agree that ranked choice voting is widely preferable to our (general) current system in the US, but I think it's important to note every electoral system has quirks and vulnerabilities and ranked choice doesn't mean bad/incompetent/just plain evil folks can't still win elections/majorities
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Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.
June 19, 2025 at 11:21 AM
Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.
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There is no bigger story right now than the White House asserting that California residents are in a state "of rebellion against the authority of the Government of the United States."
Department of Defense Security for the Protection of Department of Homeland Security Functions
MEMORANDUM FOR THE SECRETARY OF DEFENSE THE ATTORNEY GENERAL
www.whitehouse.gov
June 8, 2025 at 9:33 AM
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A Friendly Reminder...
June 4, 2025 at 11:54 AM
A Friendly Reminder...
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NEW: The US government has collected DNA samples from 133,000+ migrant children and teenagers and uploaded them into CODIS, a national criminal database originally built for convicted sex offenders and violent criminals, according to documents reviewed by WIRED.
The US Is Storing Migrant Children’s DNA in a Criminal Database
Customs and Border Protection has swabbed the DNA of migrant children as young as 4, whose genetic data is uploaded to an FBI-run database that can track them if they commit crimes in the future.
www.wired.com
May 29, 2025 at 12:49 PM
NEW: The US government has collected DNA samples from 133,000+ migrant children and teenagers and uploaded them into CODIS, a national criminal database originally built for convicted sex offenders and violent criminals, according to documents reviewed by WIRED.
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Wrote a piece for @opensource.org based on my experiences in open source over the last 20 years (!).
May 22, 2025 at 12:06 PM
Wrote a piece for @opensource.org based on my experiences in open source over the last 20 years (!).
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A man who holds the title of President of the United States, who took an oath to protect and defend the Constitution, who then says he doesn’t know if he’d uphold the Constitution, is unfit to be president and should be removed.
May 6, 2025 at 3:30 AM
A man who holds the title of President of the United States, who took an oath to protect and defend the Constitution, who then says he doesn’t know if he’d uphold the Constitution, is unfit to be president and should be removed.
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The 5 largest single day $DJIA drops and their corresponding President.
There seems to be a pattern here but I can’t quite figure it out.
There seems to be a pattern here but I can’t quite figure it out.
April 4, 2025 at 2:24 PM
The 5 largest single day $DJIA drops and their corresponding President.
There seems to be a pattern here but I can’t quite figure it out.
There seems to be a pattern here but I can’t quite figure it out.
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And yet Joe Rogan puts guests on who say "Vaccines aren't actually responsible for the reduction in infectious diseases.”
March 30, 2025 at 5:30 PM
And yet Joe Rogan puts guests on who say "Vaccines aren't actually responsible for the reduction in infectious diseases.”
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Breaking News: The top vaccine official at the FDA abruptly resigned, saying that Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s “misinformation and lies” were irresponsible.
Top FDA Vaccine Official Resigns, Citing Kennedy’s ‘Misinformation and Lies’
Dr. Peter Marks, a veteran of the agency, wrote that undermining confidence in vaccines is irresponsible and a danger to public health.
www.nytimes.com
March 29, 2025 at 1:37 AM
Breaking News: The top vaccine official at the FDA abruptly resigned, saying that Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s “misinformation and lies” were irresponsible.
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I think the way to paraphrase would be: “Signal does not put our military personnel at risk. Stupid people not knowing how to use Signal puts our military personnel at risk.”
March 26, 2025 at 4:49 PM
I think the way to paraphrase would be: “Signal does not put our military personnel at risk. Stupid people not knowing how to use Signal puts our military personnel at risk.”
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Right now there are a lot of new eyes on Signal, and not all of them are familiar with secure messaging and its nuances. Which means there’s misinfo flying around that might drive people away from Signal and private communications. 1/
March 25, 2025 at 10:52 PM
Right now there are a lot of new eyes on Signal, and not all of them are familiar with secure messaging and its nuances. Which means there’s misinfo flying around that might drive people away from Signal and private communications. 1/
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🔑 under-discussed point — why they were on signal:
March 25, 2025 at 11:59 AM
🔑 under-discussed point — why they were on signal:
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Corey Doctorow: "Even by Amazon standards, this is extraordinarily sleazy: starting March 28, each Amazon Echo device will cease processing audio on-device and instead upload all the audio it captures to Amazon's cloud for processing, even if you have previously opted out of cloud-based processing"
Everything you say to your Echo will be sent to Amazon starting on March 28
Amazon is killing a privacy feature to bolster Alexa+, the new subscription assistant.
arstechnica.com
March 15, 2025 at 4:06 PM
Corey Doctorow: "Even by Amazon standards, this is extraordinarily sleazy: starting March 28, each Amazon Echo device will cease processing audio on-device and instead upload all the audio it captures to Amazon's cloud for processing, even if you have previously opted out of cloud-based processing"
Happy π Day! It is annoying that I need the Greek keyboard installed on my phone to get the Greek letters. At least the common ones like π should be available as alternatives like ö.
March 14, 2025 at 4:42 PM
Happy π Day! It is annoying that I need the Greek keyboard installed on my phone to get the Greek letters. At least the common ones like π should be available as alternatives like ö.
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Love Signal. Recently got my mom on it as well.
March 12, 2025 at 10:42 PM
Love Signal. Recently got my mom on it as well.
As I fear not the child with a weapon he cannot lift, I will never fear the mind of a man who does not think.
— Wind & Truth
This quote seems hopelessly optimistic given how dangerous Trump is. Sigh.
— Wind & Truth
This quote seems hopelessly optimistic given how dangerous Trump is. Sigh.
March 12, 2025 at 10:34 PM
As I fear not the child with a weapon he cannot lift, I will never fear the mind of a man who does not think.
— Wind & Truth
This quote seems hopelessly optimistic given how dangerous Trump is. Sigh.
— Wind & Truth
This quote seems hopelessly optimistic given how dangerous Trump is. Sigh.