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Sean k
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ops privateer, harbinger of outages, thanos of the datacenter.
If you know me from work, no you don’t.
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emru.bsky.social
it’s only “tech debt” if it comes from the tech region of business, otherwise it’s just sparkling cutting corners.
November 17, 2025 at 10:20 PM
logik.al
full-screen 4k screen-sharers (like in zoom or gmeet)
who hurt you, and why do you lack empathy?
November 17, 2025 at 7:07 PM
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measuredandslow.bsky.social
Hey so “underage girls” are…children. The word you’re looking for is children. They’re not like, women-in-waiting or women-lite or whatever. They’re children. I think some of you are very uncomfortable with what that means for you but it is still true.
November 12, 2025 at 11:05 PM
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soulcatcher.evilsoft.org
I wrote an MCP server that you can install that lets you chat with Claude about the Epstein document drop. it can search all the documents, and retrieve the full text from any doc.
What documents mention Peter Thiel? I found 20 documents that mention Peter Thiel. Most are emails, with one large narrative document (HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_019874) that's over 9,000 lines long. The documents range from brief 9-line emails to extensive multi-page documents. Would you like me to: Retrieve specific documents to see what they say about Peter Thiel? Search for specific topics related to Peter Thiel (like donor information, specific time periods, or connections to other people)? Start with one of the shorter, high-confidence documents to get a sense of the content? Show me the full text of HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_032827 Here's the full text of document HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_032827: This is a brief email exchange from November 2018 between Peter Thiel and someone identified as "J" (using the email jeevacation@gmail.com). Key details: Date: November 6-7, 2018 (the day after the 2018 midterm elections) From J to Thiel: "Are you enjoying la? I liked your trump exaggerations not lies" Thiel's response: "Can't complain thus far..." The email appears to reference something Thiel said about Trump, with the correspondent "J" noting they liked Thiel characterizing Trump's statements as "exaggerations not lies." The email includes a standard confidentiality footer claiming attorney-client privilege and copyright from "JEE." Would you like me to look at other documents mentioning Peter Thiel, or search for more context about this exchange? Search for documents about 'Gates Foundation' and 'donor' I found 9 documents mentioning both "Gates Foundation" and "donor". The most relevant appear to be documents HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_025875, 026348, and 026351, which all contain identical questions about: A Sunday night discussion hosted with Bill Gates, Mort Zuckerman, and Peter Thiel in late September Whether they were discussing a possible Gates Foundation donor advised fund A meeting with Sheikh Hamad Bin Jassim from Qatar Additionally, HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_022894 appears to be a narrative document that discusses Epstein's concept for a "donor advised fund" for the Gates Foundation, describing it as something that could lend Gates' expertise to other billionaires. Would you like me to retrieve the full text of any of these documents to see more details? The documents labeled as "email" appear to be questionnaires or interview questions, while the narrative documents seem to provide more context about the donor advised fund concept. List all tracked entities and how many documents mention each Here are all the tracked entities and document counts: Donald Trump - 2,001 documents Jeffrey Epstein - 1,098 documents Bill Clinton - 342 documents Michael Wolff - 192 documents Ghislaine Maxwell - 164 documents Landon Thomas - 149 documents Bill Gates - 53 documents Peter Thiel - 33 documents Elon Musk - 25 documents Donald Trump has by far the most mentions (2,001), which makes sense given the scale of the document collection. Jeffrey Epstein naturally appears frequently (1,098) as these are documents related to him. Bill Clinton has a substantial number of mentions (342), while Bill Gates, Peter Thiel, and Elon Musk have relatively fewer mentions. Would you like to explore documents mentioning any particular entity, or search for connections between multiple people?
November 13, 2025 at 7:10 AM
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bgrueskin.bsky.social
Kyle Kingsbury is not a journalist. He is not an op-ed writer.

He is a computer safety researcher.

And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.

In under 1600 words.

aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...
I Want You to Understand Chicago Politics Chicago 2025-11-08 I want you to understand what it is like to live in Chicago during this time. Every day my phone buzzes. It is a neighborhood group: four people were kidnapped at the corner drugstore. A friend a mile away sends a Slack message: she was at the scene when masked men assaulted and abducted two people on the street. A plumber working on my pipes is distraught, and I find out that two of his employees were kidnapped that morning. A week later it happens again. An email arrives. Agents with guns have chased a teacher into the school where she works. They did not have a warrant. They dragged her away, ignoring her and her colleagues’ pleas to show proof of her documentation. That evening I stand a few feet from the parents of Rayito de Sol and listen to them describe, with anguish, how good Ms. Diana was to their children. What it is like to have strangers with guns traumatize your kids. For a teacher to hide a three-year-old child for fear they might be killed. How their relatives will no longer leave the house. I hear the pain and fury in their voices, and I wonder who will be next. Understand what it is to pray in Chicago. On September 19th, Reverend David Black, lead pastor at First Presbyterian Church of Chicago, was praying outside the ICE detention center in Broadview when a DHS agent shot him in the head with pepper balls. Pepper balls are never supposed to be fired at the head because they can seriously injure, or even kill. “We could hear them laughing as they were shooting us from the roof,” Black recalled. He is not the only member of the clergy ICE has assaulted. Methodist pastor Hannah Kardon was violently arrested on October 17th, and Baptist pastor Michael Woolf was shot with pepper balls on November 1st. Understand what it is to sleep in Chicago. On the night of September 30th, federal agents rappelled from a Black Hawk helicopter to execute a raid on an apartment building on the South Sho…
November 9, 2025 at 8:49 PM
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amyhoy.bsky.social
i know lots of you have adhd too so if you’re on vyvanse (incl generic) please click the link
November 6, 2025 at 2:30 AM
logik.al
Only today did I realize there’s no guillotine emoji.
I am more upset by this than I should be.
November 5, 2025 at 2:03 AM
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lookitup.baby
who called it arson and not crime brûlée
October 31, 2025 at 10:21 PM
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jamellebouie.net
also pulls the trick of "the birthright clause was meant to instantiate the civil rights act of 1866, which means the language of the act controls the language of the clause." simple response: if they were supposed to mean the same thing, why didn't they write the same thing?
October 24, 2025 at 6:49 PM
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lizthegrey.com
because it would otherwise cost our clients an absurd amount of money to send us data! again, data has gravity. intra-region costs are under 0.4 cents per GB with privatelink, cross-region costs vary from 1 to 14 cents per GB.
October 22, 2025 at 4:33 PM
logik.al
The slogans available for this HRT/GAC case are amazing.

ANTIBOYOTICS
ANTICISTAMINES
TRANS MISSION FLUID
etc.

🤣

You should get one.

www.etsy.com/listing/4346...
An Etsy listing for a case for HRT in the trans flag colors. A menu is open with different slogans the box can be customized with: CUSTOM ANTIBOYOTICS ANTICISTAMINES BEAR NECESSITIES BOY JUICE BUSSTROGEN CHEMICAL X CIS TEARS ESTRADOLL EUPHORIA The list can scroll for more options.
October 22, 2025 at 5:26 AM
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melkt.art
Beyoncé: who runs the world?
Today: ̶g̶i̶r̶l̶s̶ AWS
October 21, 2025 at 12:20 AM
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melkt.art
Whenever devs talk about “pushing” I just think of a dude lying on a hospital bed in a medical gown with a laptop on his belly pushing a watermelon out of himself.
October 16, 2025 at 11:28 PM
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extruded.fyi
Have a #BambuLab printer and wondered what the difference between Flow Rate and Flow Dynamics is?

Flow Rate/Ratio makes surfaces look better in the middle of a surface.

Flow Dynamics makes corners, edges and turn backs look better.

More info: extruded.fyi/tyl/flow-rat...

#3dprinting #filament
Flow Rate and Dynamics
What's the difference between flow rate and dynamics?
extruded.fyi
October 15, 2025 at 3:03 PM
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extruded.fyi
Wrote about how to track filament, including labels, locations, and scales.

https://extruded.fyi/topics/filament/filament-tracking/

Big shout out to https://3dfilamentprofiles.com/ !
October 9, 2025 at 4:30 PM
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usili.bsky.social
how do people only have 2-5 tabs open at once

what the fuck
yougov.co.uk YouGov @yougov.co.uk · Oct 8
How many browsing tabs do you typically have open?*

1: 6%
2-5: 54%
6-10: 14%
11-20: 8%
21-30: 2%
More than 30: 3%

*across all windows, on desktop/laptop

yougov.co.uk/topics/techn...
October 8, 2025 at 5:52 PM
logik.al
3d printing as an outlet to have some control over the world I live in.

Gonna start the other shoe tonight.
A BRIGHT-ASS ORANGE shoe inside the spaceship-looking interior of a 3d printer. It has many ridges on the top of the shoe that add visual texture, and is near completion.
October 9, 2025 at 2:17 AM
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extruded.fyi
Added a section for slicer tips tonight.

First post is a tip for how to print lots of objects in different filaments on the same plate without wasting time and purging a ton.

extruded.fyi/topics/slice...

#3dprinting #Bambu
Reduce Filament Swaps by Merging Objects
Advanced slicer techniques and tricks to improve your 3D prints
extruded.fyi
October 8, 2025 at 1:41 AM
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docbaty.bsky.social
Back in August several academics raised concerns that a Deloitte report to government may have been generated using AI. Deloitte denied this and put the citation errors down to poor editing.

Anyway, Deloitte are refunding the government $440,000 for a report that was written using AI.
October 6, 2025 at 3:58 AM
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lus.is
I love how companies just don't even pretend to care about users anymore.

today it's IntelliJ saying that they're going to collect your code by default to train private intellij-only models.

so scummy
October 6, 2025 at 4:13 PM
logik.al
Also, I am going to get back on my “move to my own PDS cuz it’s cool” wagon.

Has anything changed since like… March 2025 there, before I descend into the rabbit hole?
October 5, 2025 at 2:05 AM
logik.al
Hi, I’ve been away for a bit, wb me. I assume this place has been reasonable while I’ve been gone?

*Reads some Catchup*

Oh.

Thank goodness for the fun feeds I guess.
October 5, 2025 at 2:04 AM
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extruded.fyi
Added “Today you Learned” section tonight.

extruded.fyi/tyl/

Quick tidbits of things that might help you be one of today’s 10,000. (xkcd.com/1053/)
TYL
Today You Learned - Quick reference single-item 3D printing tips and tricks
extruded.fyi
October 4, 2025 at 3:47 AM
logik.al
The rise of Discord for product support and YouTube for howto content really sucks.

I’ve been starting a website to try to compile no-frills reference material for 3D printing with a focus on the Bambu Lab ecosystem.

Check it out?

extruded.fyi

#3dprinting #bambulab
extruded.fyi
A reference site for 3D printing
extruded.fyi
October 4, 2025 at 3:38 AM
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apenwarr.ca
Okay, it's very nearly criminal that iOS will offer to wipe your old device after transferring to a new one, when they know perfectly well that they have completely failed to transfer half the keychain (or whatever apps, including 2FA authenticators, use for their private stuff)
September 19, 2025 at 8:55 PM