Keith Lawson
@keithlawson.me
Reposted by Keith Lawson
Utah is the first state to allow AI to renew prescriptions without doctor involvement
www.politico.com/news/2026/01...
www.politico.com/news/2026/01...
Artificial intelligence begins prescribing medications in Utah
Pilot program will test how far patients and regulators are willing to trust AI in medicine.
www.politico.com
January 6, 2026 at 11:44 PM
Utah is the first state to allow AI to renew prescriptions without doctor involvement
www.politico.com/news/2026/01...
www.politico.com/news/2026/01...
Some good reminders on taking care of yourself, mindfulness and setting boundaries from @joelleadams.bsky.social as we start the new year.
#values #mindfulness #wellbeing
medium.com/@jjoelleadam...
#values #mindfulness #wellbeing
medium.com/@jjoelleadam...
Aligning to Authenticity for Well-being: steps for overcoming burnout and reclaiming joy
“It’s the first week of the semester and I already feel exhausted,” a colleague recently opined.
medium.com
January 6, 2026 at 12:47 PM
Some good reminders on taking care of yourself, mindfulness and setting boundaries from @joelleadams.bsky.social as we start the new year.
#values #mindfulness #wellbeing
medium.com/@jjoelleadam...
#values #mindfulness #wellbeing
medium.com/@jjoelleadam...
Snow Crash has been on my reading list since the early 2000s so I decided to finally read it over the holidays. It sure seems a lot less fictional today than it did when read the start in 2006! The Librarian basically exists now. Wild.
January 5, 2026 at 2:10 AM
Snow Crash has been on my reading list since the early 2000s so I decided to finally read it over the holidays. It sure seems a lot less fictional today than it did when read the start in 2006! The Librarian basically exists now. Wild.
🎵 This week:
Nothin' — Guns N' Roses (x4)
Dive Into The Ocean (Prod. By Alok) — Alok (x4)
Green Fuzz — Naked Giants (x2)
📀 SHISH
#NowPlaying #Music
Nothin' — Guns N' Roses (x4)
Dive Into The Ocean (Prod. By Alok) — Alok (x4)
Green Fuzz — Naked Giants (x2)
📀 SHISH
#NowPlaying #Music
January 4, 2026 at 11:00 PM
🎵 This week:
Nothin' — Guns N' Roses (x4)
Dive Into The Ocean (Prod. By Alok) — Alok (x4)
Green Fuzz — Naked Giants (x2)
📀 SHISH
#NowPlaying #Music
Nothin' — Guns N' Roses (x4)
Dive Into The Ocean (Prod. By Alok) — Alok (x4)
Green Fuzz — Naked Giants (x2)
📀 SHISH
#NowPlaying #Music
Man I miss Chris Cornell. Wish he were here to see this induction.
I “want to put a flannel shirt on, run into the streets and shout ‘my mother smoked during pregnancy’”!
#soundgarden
youtu.be/I-TsffhGQIg?...
I “want to put a flannel shirt on, run into the streets and shout ‘my mother smoked during pregnancy’”!
#soundgarden
youtu.be/I-TsffhGQIg?...
Jim Carrey Inducts Soundgarden into Rock & Roll Hall of Fame | Rock Hall 2025 Induction
YouTube video by Rock & Roll Hall of Fame
youtu.be
January 3, 2026 at 7:01 PM
Man I miss Chris Cornell. Wish he were here to see this induction.
I “want to put a flannel shirt on, run into the streets and shout ‘my mother smoked during pregnancy’”!
#soundgarden
youtu.be/I-TsffhGQIg?...
I “want to put a flannel shirt on, run into the streets and shout ‘my mother smoked during pregnancy’”!
#soundgarden
youtu.be/I-TsffhGQIg?...
Interesting article that demonstrates the power of a coding agent (Claude) in the hands of an experienced engineer.
www.theregister.com/2026/01/03/c...
www.theregister.com/2026/01/03/c...
Rust vet making new Rue language with help from Claude
: Rust veteran Steve Klabnik is using an LLM to explore memory safety without garbage collection
www.theregister.com
January 3, 2026 at 4:48 PM
Interesting article that demonstrates the power of a coding agent (Claude) in the hands of an experienced engineer.
www.theregister.com/2026/01/03/c...
www.theregister.com/2026/01/03/c...
#IsmuasMonthOfMusic
#MusicChallenge
#MusicSky
Day 2 - A song that has aged beautifully
Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here
youtu.be/txJK9CPvV4o?...
#MusicChallenge
#MusicSky
Day 2 - A song that has aged beautifully
Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here
youtu.be/txJK9CPvV4o?...
Wish You Were Here
YouTube video by Pink Floyd - Topic
youtu.be
January 2, 2026 at 12:37 PM
#IsmuasMonthOfMusic
#MusicChallenge
#MusicSky
Day 2 - A song that has aged beautifully
Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here
youtu.be/txJK9CPvV4o?...
#MusicChallenge
#MusicSky
Day 2 - A song that has aged beautifully
Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here
youtu.be/txJK9CPvV4o?...
This is the real deal. Drop everything and patch!
patch ye MongoDB, there's an exploit for a vuln which has been in the product for over a decade that allows the remote, unauth read of any memory - which includes plaintext creds.
Somebody posted an exploit on Christmas Day, Merry Christmas!
doublepulsar.com/merry-christ...
Somebody posted an exploit on Christmas Day, Merry Christmas!
doublepulsar.com/merry-christ...
Merry Christmas Day! Have a MongoDB security incident.
Somebody from Elastic Security decided to post an exploit for CVE-2025–14847 on Christmas Day.
doublepulsar.com
December 29, 2025 at 12:52 AM
This is the real deal. Drop everything and patch!
🎵 This week:
No More Love — God Lives Underwater (x2)
All Her Favorite Songs (with Little Stranger) — The Elovaters (x2)
Ooh La La — Faces (x2)
📀 Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (Remastered)
#NowPlaying #Music
No More Love — God Lives Underwater (x2)
All Her Favorite Songs (with Little Stranger) — The Elovaters (x2)
Ooh La La — Faces (x2)
📀 Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (Remastered)
#NowPlaying #Music
December 28, 2025 at 11:00 PM
Reposted by Keith Lawson
Love Privacy Badger? Hate data brokers? Join EFF in the fight against online surveillance by sharing Privacy Badger with your loved ones this holiday season. privacybadger.org/
Privacy Badger
privacybadger.org
December 26, 2025 at 6:02 PM
Love Privacy Badger? Hate data brokers? Join EFF in the fight against online surveillance by sharing Privacy Badger with your loved ones this holiday season. privacybadger.org/
Altmans claims are getting more outlandish.
December 25, 2025 at 9:16 AM
Altmans claims are getting more outlandish.
Doesn’t feel to me like AI safety is where it needs to be for humanity to be comfortable with autonomous weapons!
www.businessinsider.com/ukraine-appr...
www.businessinsider.com/ukraine-appr...
Ukraine just approved its first ground robot equipped with key grenade launchers, maker says
Ukraine uses ground robots to fire at Russian targets and attack positions while its own soldiers stay at a safer distance.
www.businessinsider.com
December 24, 2025 at 6:11 PM
Doesn’t feel to me like AI safety is where it needs to be for humanity to be comfortable with autonomous weapons!
www.businessinsider.com/ukraine-appr...
www.businessinsider.com/ukraine-appr...
Trying out a new wax. I’ve only had training wax up to this point. Hoping for a speed improvement.
#snowboarding
#snowboarding
December 23, 2025 at 2:11 PM
Trying out a new wax. I’ve only had training wax up to this point. Hoping for a speed improvement.
#snowboarding
#snowboarding
The lifetime of publicly signed certificates is being reduced to 45 days. Let’s Encrypt is making this change dead easy for us and we have over 2 years to make this change. Plenty of time. Don’t ignore this until the last minute 😉
#cybersecurity
letsencrypt.org/2025/12/02/f...
#cybersecurity
letsencrypt.org/2025/12/02/f...
Decreasing Certificate Lifetimes to 45 Days
Let’s Encrypt will be reducing the validity period of the certificates we issue. We currently issue certificates valid for 90 days, which will be cut in half to 45 days by 2028.
This change is being m...
letsencrypt.org
December 22, 2025 at 2:20 PM
The lifetime of publicly signed certificates is being reduced to 45 days. Let’s Encrypt is making this change dead easy for us and we have over 2 years to make this change. Plenty of time. Don’t ignore this until the last minute 😉
#cybersecurity
letsencrypt.org/2025/12/02/f...
#cybersecurity
letsencrypt.org/2025/12/02/f...
This is alarming for sure but the NTP protocol accounts for inaccurate time sources. Providing you have your systems configured to use multiple servers of course.
www.theregister.com/2025/12/21/n...
www.theregister.com/2025/12/21/n...
NIST warns of NTP inaccuracy after blackouts across Colorado
: A rare case of deliberately trying to induce an outage
www.theregister.com
December 21, 2025 at 11:58 PM
This is alarming for sure but the NTP protocol accounts for inaccurate time sources. Providing you have your systems configured to use multiple servers of course.
www.theregister.com/2025/12/21/n...
www.theregister.com/2025/12/21/n...
Reposted by Keith Lawson
Sorry my computer’s late. It woke up and the NIST atomic clock was blinking 12:00.
December 21, 2025 at 3:38 AM
Sorry my computer’s late. It woke up and the NIST atomic clock was blinking 12:00.
🎵 This week:
Nothin' — Guns N' Roses (x2)
Don't Wanna Fight — Alabama Shakes
You Really Got Me — The Kinks
📀 Burn To Shine
#NowPlaying #Music
Nothin' — Guns N' Roses (x2)
Don't Wanna Fight — Alabama Shakes
You Really Got Me — The Kinks
📀 Burn To Shine
#NowPlaying #Music
December 21, 2025 at 11:00 PM
“43% of Americans 18-29 get their news from TikTok”. That can’t be right. Forty three percent?
podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/t...
podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/t...
No Mercy / No Malice: 2026 Predictions
Podcast Episode · The Prof G Pod with Scott Galloway · 2025-12-20 · 24m
podcasts.apple.com
December 21, 2025 at 5:08 PM
“43% of Americans 18-29 get their news from TikTok”. That can’t be right. Forty three percent?
podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/t...
podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/t...
The cloud isn’t a magic solution. It brings convenience and scale but with a trade off of complexity and entirely new failures/single points of failures. “We didn’t eliminate failure, we concentrated it.”
#AWS #Azure #Cloud
youtu.be/13IaHGr_FJA?...
#AWS #Azure #Cloud
youtu.be/13IaHGr_FJA?...
The BIG Outage: The One System That Can Take Down Everything
YouTube video by Dave's Garage
youtu.be
December 20, 2025 at 9:04 PM
The cloud isn’t a magic solution. It brings convenience and scale but with a trade off of complexity and entirely new failures/single points of failures. “We didn’t eliminate failure, we concentrated it.”
#AWS #Azure #Cloud
youtu.be/13IaHGr_FJA?...
#AWS #Azure #Cloud
youtu.be/13IaHGr_FJA?...
So far the most challenging task in building my own feed is filtering out political content! To be fair the filter is really trivial but political content in firehose is overwhelming 🙄
#genx #music
bsky.app/profile/keit...
#genx #music
bsky.app/profile/keit...
December 20, 2025 at 5:18 PM
So far the most challenging task in building my own feed is filtering out political content! To be fair the filter is really trivial but political content in firehose is overwhelming 🙄
#genx #music
bsky.app/profile/keit...
#genx #music
bsky.app/profile/keit...
I wanted to play around with implementing a custom feed server so I'm testing it out with a gen X music feed. My filter obviously needs some tweaking but it's working.
#genx #grunge
bsky.app/profile/did:...
#genx #grunge
bsky.app/profile/did:...
December 19, 2025 at 5:37 PM
I wanted to play around with implementing a custom feed server so I'm testing it out with a gen X music feed. My filter obviously needs some tweaking but it's working.
#genx #grunge
bsky.app/profile/did:...
#genx #grunge
bsky.app/profile/did:...
A recent conversation between @jessicatarlov.bsky.social and @profgalloway.com about rage bait and the effects that the toxicity of the internet have on them got me thinking about steps I've taken to get better value out of the internet. blog.9600baud.net/detoxing_fro...
When Platforms Monetize Anger: Reclaiming Attention in a Broken Internet
blog.9600baud.net
December 18, 2025 at 10:08 PM
A recent conversation between @jessicatarlov.bsky.social and @profgalloway.com about rage bait and the effects that the toxicity of the internet have on them got me thinking about steps I've taken to get better value out of the internet. blog.9600baud.net/detoxing_fro...
Excellent write up on new attack vectors from AI coding agents through implicit trust of IDEs by Ari Marzuk.
More confirmation bias for me that vim is the only IDE I’ll ever need! 😂
#vim
https://maccarita.com/posts/idesaster/
More confirmation bias for me that vim is the only IDE I’ll ever need! 😂
#vim
https://maccarita.com/posts/idesaster/
December 18, 2025 at 10:01 PM
Excellent write up on new attack vectors from AI coding agents through implicit trust of IDEs by Ari Marzuk.
More confirmation bias for me that vim is the only IDE I’ll ever need! 😂
#vim
https://maccarita.com/posts/idesaster/
More confirmation bias for me that vim is the only IDE I’ll ever need! 😂
#vim
https://maccarita.com/posts/idesaster/
I wrote a little cross poster command line tool to post to Mastodon, Bluesky and Twitter so I can test all 3 and see where I get the best experience.
https://github.com/j-klawson/crossposter
https://github.com/j-klawson/crossposter
November 30, 2025 at 2:13 PM
I wrote a little cross poster command line tool to post to Mastodon, Bluesky and Twitter so I can test all 3 and see where I get the best experience.
https://github.com/j-klawson/crossposter
https://github.com/j-klawson/crossposter