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@rmaud.io
He/him. Sober, coder, graying bisexual, and happy to chat about any of that.
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Psst! Registration ends in a few days!
I'll be doing an online workshop on character creation and development for Blue Stoop on December 7th! Interested? Register and pay here: www.bluestoop.org/classes/p/nk...
Finding the Heart of Your Story, a masterclass with N.K. Jemisin — Blue Stoop
Building a character is building a world of one; defining them, shaping them, and changing them is what a story is for. In this craft-first virtual masterclass, award winning author N. K. Jemisin will...
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December 2, 2025 at 1:52 AM
Psst! Registration ends in a few days!
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In the horror of things, please yeet your Oura into a bin and then light it on fire. They're in violation of privacy and HIPAA laws.
I wrote about Oura's security and privacy practices earlier this year for this.weekinsecurity.com, and found:
• Oura rings *don't* end-to-end encrypt users' health data;
• Oura *can* access its users' data;
• Oura told me that the company *has* received U.S. government demands for users' data.
• Oura rings *don't* end-to-end encrypt users' health data;
• Oura *can* access its users' data;
• Oura told me that the company *has* received U.S. government demands for users' data.
December 2, 2025 at 2:58 AM
In the horror of things, please yeet your Oura into a bin and then light it on fire. They're in violation of privacy and HIPAA laws.
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ICE raids are cruel, inhumane, and do nothing to serve public safety.
My responsibility is to be the mayor to each and every person that calls this city their home. That includes millions of immigrants— of which I am one.
My responsibility is to be the mayor to each and every person that calls this city their home. That includes millions of immigrants— of which I am one.
December 2, 2025 at 2:18 AM
ICE raids are cruel, inhumane, and do nothing to serve public safety.
My responsibility is to be the mayor to each and every person that calls this city their home. That includes millions of immigrants— of which I am one.
My responsibility is to be the mayor to each and every person that calls this city their home. That includes millions of immigrants— of which I am one.
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They're not hiding it, folks—straight up neo-Nazi advertising, from the font to the language to the 11 stars for the Confederacy. Then you have the DHS openly using white nationalist language of "remigrate", which means ethnic cleansing.
This is who MAGA is now.
This is who MAGA is now.
November 30, 2025 at 6:43 AM
They're not hiding it, folks—straight up neo-Nazi advertising, from the font to the language to the 11 stars for the Confederacy. Then you have the DHS openly using white nationalist language of "remigrate", which means ethnic cleansing.
This is who MAGA is now.
This is who MAGA is now.
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An issue we're seeing at all levels of university is that many students are simply refusing to do *anything*. They aren't reading the syllabus, aren't following assignment guidelines, aren't engaging with material, ignoring deadlines. And this might seem like old news, but it truly has ramped up.
November 28, 2025 at 10:15 PM
An issue we're seeing at all levels of university is that many students are simply refusing to do *anything*. They aren't reading the syllabus, aren't following assignment guidelines, aren't engaging with material, ignoring deadlines. And this might seem like old news, but it truly has ramped up.
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Seconded. If you write and are vocally anti-LLM, I'm more inclined to check out your books
Conversely: if you both-sides "AI" or - god forbid - actively embrace or defend its use... you're off the TBR, permanently
Happy to say, most readers seem to feel the same
Conversely: if you both-sides "AI" or - god forbid - actively embrace or defend its use... you're off the TBR, permanently
Happy to say, most readers seem to feel the same
They say nothing good comes from hate, but when I see artists hating on AI, it makes me immediately like them and want to check out their work.
November 28, 2025 at 2:04 PM
Seconded. If you write and are vocally anti-LLM, I'm more inclined to check out your books
Conversely: if you both-sides "AI" or - god forbid - actively embrace or defend its use... you're off the TBR, permanently
Happy to say, most readers seem to feel the same
Conversely: if you both-sides "AI" or - god forbid - actively embrace or defend its use... you're off the TBR, permanently
Happy to say, most readers seem to feel the same
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AI is a very general term, you have to be more specific. Do you mean the AI that stole my copyright, the chatbot causing teen suicide and psychosis, the deepfake porn of women without their consent, the bots driving political division or the ones polluting communities and driving electric bills up?
November 26, 2025 at 9:32 AM
AI is a very general term, you have to be more specific. Do you mean the AI that stole my copyright, the chatbot causing teen suicide and psychosis, the deepfake porn of women without their consent, the bots driving political division or the ones polluting communities and driving electric bills up?
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The CDC has turned off its vaccine search tool.
The vaccines.gov site now gives an error when you enter a valid zip code.
They also removed text saying “Vaccines can help you stay healthy” and added a banner saying the site is being updated.
The vaccines.gov site now gives an error when you enter a valid zip code.
They also removed text saying “Vaccines can help you stay healthy” and added a banner saying the site is being updated.
November 26, 2025 at 5:50 AM
The CDC has turned off its vaccine search tool.
The vaccines.gov site now gives an error when you enter a valid zip code.
They also removed text saying “Vaccines can help you stay healthy” and added a banner saying the site is being updated.
The vaccines.gov site now gives an error when you enter a valid zip code.
They also removed text saying “Vaccines can help you stay healthy” and added a banner saying the site is being updated.
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A note to say @blackamazon.bsky.social and her colleagues warned about this sort of thing many years ago.
"The only thing revealed by this transparency is that social media companies do not give a f*ck about this."
Our attention is the product
There are tutorials in many languages on how to exploit that for profit, not just to stir the pot
AI makes it so easy to exploit now and everyone wins but you
Our attention is the product
There are tutorials in many languages on how to exploit that for profit, not just to stir the pot
AI makes it so easy to exploit now and everyone wins but you
America’s Polarization Has Become the World's Side Hustle
The 'psyops' revealed by X are entirely the fault of the perverse incentives created by social media monetization programs.
www.404media.co
November 25, 2025 at 12:47 PM
A note to say @blackamazon.bsky.social and her colleagues warned about this sort of thing many years ago.
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The fact that the "Gaza Humanitarian Foundation" can just pack up and go home is some of the most insane shit I've ever seen in the history of genocide studies.
Mercenaries hired from an explicitly racist American biker gang openly slaughter hundreds, participate in the deaths of tens of thousands.
Mercenaries hired from an explicitly racist American biker gang openly slaughter hundreds, participate in the deaths of tens of thousands.
November 25, 2025 at 11:45 AM
The fact that the "Gaza Humanitarian Foundation" can just pack up and go home is some of the most insane shit I've ever seen in the history of genocide studies.
Mercenaries hired from an explicitly racist American biker gang openly slaughter hundreds, participate in the deaths of tens of thousands.
Mercenaries hired from an explicitly racist American biker gang openly slaughter hundreds, participate in the deaths of tens of thousands.
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American public opinion is largely generated by foreigners who make money by lying to Americans over unregulated social media. Out of respect to those entrepreneurial foreigners, we will continue to treat their commodified fictions as one side of a reasoned American debate.
-The Editorial Board
-The Editorial Board
November 25, 2025 at 3:16 PM
American public opinion is largely generated by foreigners who make money by lying to Americans over unregulated social media. Out of respect to those entrepreneurial foreigners, we will continue to treat their commodified fictions as one side of a reasoned American debate.
-The Editorial Board
-The Editorial Board
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It was better in @theonion.com with Obama at my hometown Denny’s in Manassas.
(Paging @bencollins.bsky.social)
(Paging @bencollins.bsky.social)
November 24, 2025 at 8:47 PM
It was better in @theonion.com with Obama at my hometown Denny’s in Manassas.
(Paging @bencollins.bsky.social)
(Paging @bencollins.bsky.social)
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Secrecy is a tool of authoritarianism.
The Trump administration has canceled the jobs report, the inflation report, and now GDP report. What are they hiding?
The Trump administration has canceled the jobs report, the inflation report, and now GDP report. What are they hiding?
November 24, 2025 at 9:50 PM
Secrecy is a tool of authoritarianism.
The Trump administration has canceled the jobs report, the inflation report, and now GDP report. What are they hiding?
The Trump administration has canceled the jobs report, the inflation report, and now GDP report. What are they hiding?
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Trump wrongly indicted me. I’ll rightly impeach him.
Impeachment isn’t just an option, it’s a necessity. I know firsthand the lengths Trump is willing to go in order to silence dissent — but is it working?
Impeachment isn’t just an option, it’s a necessity. I know firsthand the lengths Trump is willing to go in order to silence dissent — but is it working?
November 24, 2025 at 8:19 PM
Trump wrongly indicted me. I’ll rightly impeach him.
Impeachment isn’t just an option, it’s a necessity. I know firsthand the lengths Trump is willing to go in order to silence dissent — but is it working?
Impeachment isn’t just an option, it’s a necessity. I know firsthand the lengths Trump is willing to go in order to silence dissent — but is it working?
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I’m not mad DOGE is gone early.
I’m mad they slinked off like criminals in the night after ensuring 14 million people will die worldwide by 2030 and facing no repercussions for it.
Over half a million are already dead from USAID being cut.
And the majority of those dying are children.
I’m mad they slinked off like criminals in the night after ensuring 14 million people will die worldwide by 2030 and facing no repercussions for it.
Over half a million are already dead from USAID being cut.
And the majority of those dying are children.
November 24, 2025 at 6:34 AM
I’m not mad DOGE is gone early.
I’m mad they slinked off like criminals in the night after ensuring 14 million people will die worldwide by 2030 and facing no repercussions for it.
Over half a million are already dead from USAID being cut.
And the majority of those dying are children.
I’m mad they slinked off like criminals in the night after ensuring 14 million people will die worldwide by 2030 and facing no repercussions for it.
Over half a million are already dead from USAID being cut.
And the majority of those dying are children.
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I don't understand how anyone can watch how blatantly Grok is manipulated to answer the way ownership desires it to and then act like the other LLM chatbots couldn't possibly be similarly but less obviously compromised to produce responses in whatever way corporate interests and priorities dictate.
November 23, 2025 at 7:13 PM
I don't understand how anyone can watch how blatantly Grok is manipulated to answer the way ownership desires it to and then act like the other LLM chatbots couldn't possibly be similarly but less obviously compromised to produce responses in whatever way corporate interests and priorities dictate.
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I once knew a Federal bank examiner, and one time someone asked him why we had to KEEP inspecting banks over and over. He basically said every new batch of business school grads invents bank fraud from first principles.
AirBnB CEO calling it “vibe revenue” just 👨🍳 😘
The underlying cause of every bubble - debt masquerading as financial innovation - depends on not just short financial memory & speculative neophytism, but reinventing jargon of finance, like how each generation of kids has new ways to say same things.
The underlying cause of every bubble - debt masquerading as financial innovation - depends on not just short financial memory & speculative neophytism, but reinventing jargon of finance, like how each generation of kids has new ways to say same things.
November 22, 2025 at 6:02 PM
I once knew a Federal bank examiner, and one time someone asked him why we had to KEEP inspecting banks over and over. He basically said every new batch of business school grads invents bank fraud from first principles.
Also disable “smart feaures”
Oh wait! Figured out how to get rid of the garbage Gemini button in Chrome:
- Right-click
- Unpin
Gone!
- Right-click
- Unpin
Gone!
November 23, 2025 at 9:19 AM
Also disable “smart feaures”
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Utterly lawless
November 23, 2025 at 2:55 AM
Utterly lawless
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Google defaulting all Gmail users to a setting that enables Google to harvest all your emails into chatbot training is straight-up evil and invasive.
www.huffpost.com/entry/opt-ou...
www.huffpost.com/entry/opt-ou...
If You Use Gmail, You're Going To Want To Turn Off This 1 Automatic Setting ASAP
Plus: a quick guide to the two-step process for opting out.
www.huffpost.com
November 22, 2025 at 5:16 AM
Google defaulting all Gmail users to a setting that enables Google to harvest all your emails into chatbot training is straight-up evil and invasive.
www.huffpost.com/entry/opt-ou...
www.huffpost.com/entry/opt-ou...
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This is an amazing fact
8675309 is prime, and so is 8675311, so if you ever need a middlin'-large pair of adjacent primes to test your cryptographic suite, all you need is a 1980s earworm and a +2 and you're all set.
Man, everything is so bleak, anyone got a fun fact or little bit of trivia they want to share
November 21, 2025 at 4:50 AM
This is an amazing fact
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In 2020, the Virginia General Assembly passed my resolution HJ 85 to recognize Nov. 20 of each year as Transgender Day of Remembrance to memorialize those who died for daring to simply exist.
Some years are especially hurtful and *so* painful — and yet our resilience remains. It always has. #TDOR
Some years are especially hurtful and *so* painful — and yet our resilience remains. It always has. #TDOR
November 20, 2025 at 4:03 PM
In 2020, the Virginia General Assembly passed my resolution HJ 85 to recognize Nov. 20 of each year as Transgender Day of Remembrance to memorialize those who died for daring to simply exist.
Some years are especially hurtful and *so* painful — and yet our resilience remains. It always has. #TDOR
Some years are especially hurtful and *so* painful — and yet our resilience remains. It always has. #TDOR
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The Big Bad Betrayal Bill will cost $3.4 TRILLION over the next ten years. Extending ACA tax credits would cost $350 billion over ten years — a fraction of the cost.
Republicans would rather give tax breaks to billionaires than make health care affordable for American families.
Republicans would rather give tax breaks to billionaires than make health care affordable for American families.
November 20, 2025 at 2:35 PM
The Big Bad Betrayal Bill will cost $3.4 TRILLION over the next ten years. Extending ACA tax credits would cost $350 billion over ten years — a fraction of the cost.
Republicans would rather give tax breaks to billionaires than make health care affordable for American families.
Republicans would rather give tax breaks to billionaires than make health care affordable for American families.
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This week have a DV family I'm helping stay in short-term housing & providing groceries. We're currently at $35/$300 if you'd like to help. Please RT for reach. Thanks so much! 🫡😍
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November 20, 2025 at 2:46 AM
This week have a DV family I'm helping stay in short-term housing & providing groceries. We're currently at $35/$300 if you'd like to help. Please RT for reach. Thanks so much! 🫡😍
C: $Lockdownyourlife
V: lockdownyourlife
www.ko-fi.com/lockdownyour...
C: $Lockdownyourlife
V: lockdownyourlife
www.ko-fi.com/lockdownyour...
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Gaza is still suffering. The U.S. must restore support for UNRWA and demand full aid access now.
@unrwausa.bsky.social
@unrwausa.bsky.social
November 19, 2025 at 9:45 PM
Gaza is still suffering. The U.S. must restore support for UNRWA and demand full aid access now.
@unrwausa.bsky.social
@unrwausa.bsky.social