Scoiattolo
@scoiattolo.mountainherder.xyz
Sr. Tech PM building tools and distributed research networks @deptpopmed.bsky.social; Occasional Data Witch; 🚴🏻🏃🏻⛷️ Former goatherd & Data Ethics @HHI_Signal.
Sin-eater for @skywatch.blue
Sin-eater for @skywatch.blue
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Scoiattolo
@scoiattolo.mountainherder.xyz
· May 13
GitHub - skywatch-bsky/skywatch-automod: This is the public release of some of our internal tooling.
This is the public release of some of our internal tooling. - skywatch-bsky/skywatch-automod
github.com
It's not the world's most elegant code (I taught myself TS this winter to do it), but as a general reminder: I have open sourced the code that we use for Skywatch automation, for anyone interested in monitoring the firehose and labeling based on rulesets.
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Yankee (laudatory) is a category that exists, but it's reserved for New Englanders with a ramrod-straight moral compass who would rather break the world than compromise. Exemplars are William Lloyd Garrison, John Brown and Pete Seeger.
November 27, 2025 at 4:10 AM
Yankee (laudatory) is a category that exists, but it's reserved for New Englanders with a ramrod-straight moral compass who would rather break the world than compromise. Exemplars are William Lloyd Garrison, John Brown and Pete Seeger.
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I’d never heard of him, but apparently he ran a site called “Is Anybody Down?” that not only facilitated revenge porn but also extorted money from people to have their intimate photos removed.
The website was supposed to be shut down after an FTC investigation, but he just transferred the content.
The website was supposed to be shut down after an FTC investigation, but he just transferred the content.
![Is Anybody Down?
Article Talk
Is Anybody Down? was a revenge porn website founded by Craig Brittain and Chance Trahan where users could anonymously upload nude photographs along with information identifying the person in the photograph (including full names, addresses, phone numbers, and Facebook screenshots) 111[2] The site also contained a section of nude photographs titled "Anonymous Bounty", where users were offered
"free stuff" if they could provide the Facebook or Twitter information of
any of the people pictured. In concept, the website recapitulated the now-defunct Is Anyone Up?,](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:gvda6fem6r7selm4gzjjww4a/bafkreibrbe7eoysyyvqrkooamoj3qcjqb7lwvhlwkljh6au2vudvrnrxuq@jpeg)
December 11, 2024 at 2:00 AM
I’d never heard of him, but apparently he ran a site called “Is Anybody Down?” that not only facilitated revenge porn but also extorted money from people to have their intimate photos removed.
The website was supposed to be shut down after an FTC investigation, but he just transferred the content.
The website was supposed to be shut down after an FTC investigation, but he just transferred the content.
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So I’ve been put on a block list by someone named Craig Brittain who used to run a revenge porn website, says he’s an anarchist, but seems to be rebranding as a ResistanceLib™️, lmao?
“Bots, Fascists, Cops, Feds, MAGA, Useful Idiots, Russian Assets”
Bad faith actors always exploit mass block lists.
“Bots, Fascists, Cops, Feds, MAGA, Useful Idiots, Russian Assets”
Bad faith actors always exploit mass block lists.
December 11, 2024 at 1:39 AM
So I’ve been put on a block list by someone named Craig Brittain who used to run a revenge porn website, says he’s an anarchist, but seems to be rebranding as a ResistanceLib™️, lmao?
“Bots, Fascists, Cops, Feds, MAGA, Useful Idiots, Russian Assets”
Bad faith actors always exploit mass block lists.
“Bots, Fascists, Cops, Feds, MAGA, Useful Idiots, Russian Assets”
Bad faith actors always exploit mass block lists.
I don't like Yankee being used to describe all Americans because I'm an unreconstructed Yankee
I don’t like being referred to as a Yankee but I’ve realized this is not at all because I’m Southern, but because I specifically resent being associated with traditional New England Protestant culture and its flavorless foods
All people from the U.S. are Yankees. I say this as a person born and raised in The South because pissing off That Specific Kind of Southerner is a moral good.
November 27, 2025 at 3:58 AM
I don't like Yankee being used to describe all Americans because I'm an unreconstructed Yankee
It's wild to me that this guy has reinvented himself as a resist grifter on this website
Senate candidate has history of sending racist, misogynist messages | Arizona Mirror
Arizona U.S. Senate hopeful Craig Brittain made headlines yesterday after he sent racist text messages to a potential campaign vendor.
azmirror.com
November 27, 2025 at 3:53 AM
It's wild to me that this guy has reinvented himself as a resist grifter on this website
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Here’s 5 things the pie discourse taught me about b2b
November 27, 2025 at 3:33 AM
Here’s 5 things the pie discourse taught me about b2b
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You can literally just make two posts
November 27, 2025 at 3:29 AM
You can literally just make two posts
People really don't like the idea of microblogging
Increase Post Character limit to 500. · Issue #2551 · bluesky-social/atproto
Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe. This is a feature request related to product enhancement. Describe the solution you'd like I propose increasing the post character lim...
github.com
November 27, 2025 at 3:19 AM
People really don't like the idea of microblogging
The Natural is such a good motion picture
November 27, 2025 at 3:05 AM
The Natural is such a good motion picture
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I think it's underrated how good a writer Darwin was.
Charles Darwin briefly discussed dogs’ senses of humor in the 2nd edition of ‘The Descent of Man’ 👇 and then fleshed those ideas out further in ‘The Expression of Emotion in Man and Animals’
darwin-online.org.uk/converted/pd...
darwin-online.org.uk/converted/pd...
November 27, 2025 at 2:47 AM
I think it's underrated how good a writer Darwin was.
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not looking forward to the release of z-image
November 27, 2025 at 2:40 AM
not looking forward to the release of z-image
I'm glad I disabled this because now every well meaning lib and leftist on the site is sharing that Erin Reed post about the BBC, which has utterly ruined that dogwhistle as a useful signal for detecting transphobes.
This does a pretty good job with the MAGA label, and it's got a high hit rate with intolerance, but I haven't been able to get it to not label posts mocking anti-trans talking points as intolerance. It can't distinguish tone. High sensitivity but middling specificity.
I've got a tool that every 10 minutes, grabs the prior 10 minutes worth of ozone reports, and sends them off to gpt-oss-safeguard:20b, which can then apply a label if they meet a policy's criteria.
And it's all happening on my home network and barely giving the GPU a workout.
And it's all happening on my home network and barely giving the GPU a workout.
November 27, 2025 at 2:49 AM
I'm glad I disabled this because now every well meaning lib and leftist on the site is sharing that Erin Reed post about the BBC, which has utterly ruined that dogwhistle as a useful signal for detecting transphobes.
Anyway, I find it hard to believe these accounts are real when they're literally developing exploits within a day or two of the old ones being caught and when the timeclock looks like this
November 27, 2025 at 2:32 AM
Anyway, I find it hard to believe these accounts are real when they're literally developing exploits within a day or two of the old ones being caught and when the timeclock looks like this
The spam accounts have adopted some new posting method I can't quite sus out, where they make a post in reply to another post, but it does something odd and the preceeding post won't load in the AppView or in the PostThread view in Ozone:
PDSls
Browse the public data on atproto
pdsls.dev
November 27, 2025 at 2:16 AM
The spam accounts have adopted some new posting method I can't quite sus out, where they make a post in reply to another post, but it does something odd and the preceeding post won't load in the AppView or in the PostThread view in Ozone:
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Oh dang the article that started the avalanche of Biden Old push notifications from every major news outlet was written by a woman who was sleeping with a *different* presidential candidate *at the time*?
Now does everyone understand what I mean by "ratfucking operation"?
Now does everyone understand what I mean by "ratfucking operation"?
November 27, 2025 at 12:29 AM
Oh dang the article that started the avalanche of Biden Old push notifications from every major news outlet was written by a woman who was sleeping with a *different* presidential candidate *at the time*?
Now does everyone understand what I mean by "ratfucking operation"?
Now does everyone understand what I mean by "ratfucking operation"?
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New holiday Normal Men! Gobbling mail with male goblin @golikehellmachine.com. @rickywlmsbong.bsky.social sticks to his guns on stuffing, @ed3d.net has the historical pie perspective, @peark.es gets your goose, and everyone solves drunk-uncle racism.
www.podbean.com/eas/pb-u3xxn...
www.podbean.com/eas/pb-u3xxn...
November 26, 2025 at 8:18 PM
New holiday Normal Men! Gobbling mail with male goblin @golikehellmachine.com. @rickywlmsbong.bsky.social sticks to his guns on stuffing, @ed3d.net has the historical pie perspective, @peark.es gets your goose, and everyone solves drunk-uncle racism.
www.podbean.com/eas/pb-u3xxn...
www.podbean.com/eas/pb-u3xxn...
Oh I see we're getting introduced to some of the more esoteric flavors tonight.
November 27, 2025 at 1:49 AM
Oh I see we're getting introduced to some of the more esoteric flavors tonight.
Sweet dreams, Darth. We'll keep the lights on for you
ok it is time for me to hibernate for the season
i am thankful for all of u keeping me company here on the blue sky during this year
be well
i am thankful for all of u keeping me company here on the blue sky during this year
be well
November 27, 2025 at 1:47 AM
Sweet dreams, Darth. We'll keep the lights on for you
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Congrats to Landon Hughes, winner of the 2025 Aaka Pande & Sumit Majumdar Memorial Award! Recognized for impactful research on gender‑affirming care, his paper “Gender‑Affirming Medications Among Transgender Adolescents in the US, 2018–2022” appeared in JAMA Pediatrics Jan 2025.
tinyurl.com/2arphhaf
tinyurl.com/2arphhaf
November 21, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Congrats to Landon Hughes, winner of the 2025 Aaka Pande & Sumit Majumdar Memorial Award! Recognized for impactful research on gender‑affirming care, his paper “Gender‑Affirming Medications Among Transgender Adolescents in the US, 2018–2022” appeared in JAMA Pediatrics Jan 2025.
tinyurl.com/2arphhaf
tinyurl.com/2arphhaf
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13,000 of the DDoSecrets-released Epstein emails are now public. (again: these are DISTINCT from the Congress-released ones.)
ddosecrets.com/article/epst...
ddosecrets.com/article/epst...
November 27, 2025 at 12:54 AM
13,000 of the DDoSecrets-released Epstein emails are now public. (again: these are DISTINCT from the Congress-released ones.)
ddosecrets.com/article/epst...
ddosecrets.com/article/epst...
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While there are often some ethical issues with making free PDFs of paywalled content, in this case it seems entirely justifiable, given the author, the subject, and the journalistic imperative to provide the widest possible audience for the verb "Michael Wolffed"
gofile.io/d/Ap4v35
gofile.io/d/Ap4v35
November 26, 2025 at 11:06 PM
While there are often some ethical issues with making free PDFs of paywalled content, in this case it seems entirely justifiable, given the author, the subject, and the journalistic imperative to provide the widest possible audience for the verb "Michael Wolffed"
gofile.io/d/Ap4v35
gofile.io/d/Ap4v35
I have some dear friends whose legal status I'm deeply worried about, even more than I was prior to this.
CBS is reporting the suspect ID-ed as 29 year old Afghan national who entered US in 2021.
The path of likely demagoguery seems obvious from here.
www.cbsnews.com/live-updates...
The path of likely demagoguery seems obvious from here.
www.cbsnews.com/live-updates...
2 National Guard members shot in Washington, D.C., suspect in custody, officials say
Two members of the West Virginia National Guard were shot a few blocks from the White House in Washington, D.C., and a suspect is in custody, officials say.
www.cbsnews.com
November 27, 2025 at 12:42 AM
I have some dear friends whose legal status I'm deeply worried about, even more than I was prior to this.
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The kinds of databases:
• Fancy files
• 1970s stays winning
• This would be so cool if it worked at scale
• Oh, that's why google has a monopoly on search
• Fancy files
• 1970s stays winning
• This would be so cool if it worked at scale
• Oh, that's why google has a monopoly on search
November 27, 2025 at 12:26 AM
The kinds of databases:
• Fancy files
• 1970s stays winning
• This would be so cool if it worked at scale
• Oh, that's why google has a monopoly on search
• Fancy files
• 1970s stays winning
• This would be so cool if it worked at scale
• Oh, that's why google has a monopoly on search
The year is 2028. A greater than Carrington level event takes down digital infrastructure across the Northern hemisphere. Bluesky users rejoice, before realizing they can't log on to gloat.
Millions die as unhardened but critical digital infrastructure goes offline.
Millions die as unhardened but critical digital infrastructure goes offline.
here's what's gonna happen w/AI:
• normies are gonna demand fast, free AI BUT also no datacenters.
• the consumer model shifts to home AI rigs.
• electricity usage ⬆️⬆️⬆️. grid still struggles.
• Dems are forced to tax individual consumers or eat the political cost of infinite electric bills, forever.
• normies are gonna demand fast, free AI BUT also no datacenters.
• the consumer model shifts to home AI rigs.
• electricity usage ⬆️⬆️⬆️. grid still struggles.
• Dems are forced to tax individual consumers or eat the political cost of infinite electric bills, forever.
November 27, 2025 at 12:33 AM
The year is 2028. A greater than Carrington level event takes down digital infrastructure across the Northern hemisphere. Bluesky users rejoice, before realizing they can't log on to gloat.
Millions die as unhardened but critical digital infrastructure goes offline.
Millions die as unhardened but critical digital infrastructure goes offline.
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It's not just that the United States has stopped trying to promote liberal democratic ideas internationally. It's that the United States is actively trying to promote the contrary. It's trying to turn more countries into Hungary.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/u...
U.S. to Press Europe and Other Allies on ‘Mass Migration,’ Document Says
www.nytimes.com
November 27, 2025 at 12:06 AM
It's not just that the United States has stopped trying to promote liberal democratic ideas internationally. It's that the United States is actively trying to promote the contrary. It's trying to turn more countries into Hungary.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/u...