Rob Lion

@rnlion.bsky.social

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Mechanical engineer building quantum computers. Technology and infrastructure history; reverse engineering. Cats. He/him.
Also @rnlion@Twitter and @[email protected]

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this is a bit of an edge case but absolutely sucks for some orgs security posture lol

Anyone can Access Deleted and Private Repository Data on GitHub ◆ Truffle Security Co.trufflesecurity.com You can access data from deleted forks, deleted repositories and even private repositories on GitHub. And it is available forever. This is known by GitHub, and intentionally designed that way.

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rahaeli

Do you trust a chat service run by Texas to not illegally scan all your messages for you arranging mifepristone to be mailed to you from out of state for your urgently needed abortion, then using parallel construction to find an excuse to arrest you? Because I fucking don't, and neither should you.

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more: www.adn.com/alaska-news/...

Federal charges: Palmer man who almost caused midair collision said he was ‘free citizen’ who didn’t need pilot license, registrationwww.adn.com According to court filings, the pilot ascribes to beliefs connected to the sovereign citizens movement. He pleaded not guilty to three charges in court Tuesday.

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Kamala’s menu of potential VPs

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Ray Newman

Most of them have a double letter too. I wondered if it was an attempt to fix ligature special characters (like the ‘coffin’ cracker joke that comes up every Christmas in the UK), but seems unlikely. glennf.medium.com/dont-coffin-...

Don’t Coffin Me, It’s Crackersglennf.medium.com A joke went awry because of ligatures, an element of typography that’s one of the many things Gutenberg pioneered. But why?

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Dem project 2025 (destroy gop edition) *Incentivize car manufacturers to adopt direct sales *Amend Supplement Labeling Act *Aggressive IRS audits over $10mm *Aggressively enforcing FARA *Aggressive SEC, IRS, FTC, and DOJ investigations against VCs/tech *Banning MLMs, criminal charges if applicable

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Emily

Yeah, I have a separate post on nasal barrier sprays! synecdochic.dreamwidth.org/800951.html There's several different types that seem to help there.

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Sorry, I meant the @davidjroth.bsky.social and @osullyville.bsky.social exchange

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this is a truly weird country, where we find ourselves saying things like, "oh, is that all? oh he was just a normal spree killer? oh no worries then" like that's not a normal thought to have but here we are

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Sixty-five years ago today, a clogged coolant channel led to the meltdown of 30 percent of the fuel elements in the core of the uncontained 20-Megawatt Sodium Reactor Experiment nuclear reactor at the Santa Susana Field Laboratory, about 30 miles northwest of downtown Los Angeles above Simi Valley.

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The simmering rage against tech is partly because what they are doing is impeding the really cool shit that happens online. The internet rocks, I have made incredible friendships online that have lasted 15+ years, built a business, made art, and I hate how badly they've hurt being online.

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A direct call to action:

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"no negligence on the part of the driver" except for casually ending someone. no big deal

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we have to reckon with the fact that, in the past, a lot of people actually worked their way up to leadership positions. yes, yes, peter principle, not perfect, blah blah. but now, they all come straight from business school, where they are filled to overflowing with nothing but absolute bullshit

I'm reading memos and letters to the university community from presidents who are implementing draconian budget cuts this year (for a project I'm working on) and good god the amount of obfuscatory and weasel-wordy business-speak in these things is making me grind my teeth into dust

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this absolutely blew my mind it's the coolest thing i've read in a minute www.smithsonianmag.com/history/hidd...

Fascinating site they’re excavating in Egypt on the Red Sea.

A Buried Ancient Egyptian Port Reveals the Hidden Connections Between Distant Civilizationswww.smithsonianmag.com At the site of Berenike, in the desert sands along the Red Sea, archaeologists are uncovering wondrous new finds that challenge old ideas about the makings of the modern world

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since reddit is dying i want to share my favourite post about one of my favourite guys ever. i never really posted on reddit, just read stuff, but this post is now behind a locked wall. alt text to follow in a thread since it’s too long to fit in the alt text on the image

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Well this is grim

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Mar Hicks

Things are so much worse at many of these places than it seems. There’s a whole bunch of R2 universities rn that have been mismanaged almost into the ground that are barely surviving, but you’d never know it from the outside. In some cases their US News rankings have actually gone way UP, bizarrely.

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Mar Hicks

And a LOT of this has been caused by an entire class of corporate-style administrators who hollowed out these institutions prior to the twin shocks of trmp’s first term & the ongoing pandemic, making the schools soo brittle as US colleges became less desirable destinations both globally & nationally

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I'm not going to litigate the specifics of this situation, but there are some critical lessons here for people who are thinking of running a labeler (and to some extent they're the lessons of T&S in general, but they are even more important given the paradigm of composable moderation).

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This is a war between management consultants and the rest of the world. They have harnessed the tech industry as a means of prolonging the growth-at-all-costs rot economy. The poison of growth has taken big tech down a very dark path. They must have more.

Our tech overlords would like to make clear that your fantasies of universal health care and affordable housing are childish while their fantasies of infinite energy to power their AI girlfriends are reasonable expectations and will come true imminently. www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

AI is exhausting the power grid. Tech firms are seeking a miracle solution.www.washingtonpost.com Some data centers need as much energy as a small city, turning companies that promised a clean energy future into some of the most insatiable guzzlers of power

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Sarah Winnicki, PhD

Contacted a friend who rescues angry feral cats, she recommended this hand gesture, which they call the Llama of Friendship It may mimic non-threatening inquisitive cat ears, but regardless of the mechanism I have learned I will not be attacked as long as one hand is llama-shaped

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there are a lot of ways for the state to suppress dissident speech. one particularly bad one is by having armed agents of the state stand by and do nothing while partisan-aligned thugs or paramilitary groups beat you because of your speech, and then have the DA decline to prosecute the assaulters.

LA's District Attorney George Gascon has declined to charge Edan On, the man who injured several people in an hours-long brutal attack on UCLA students' pro-Palestine encampment last month. On was featured by name in a CNN report after his mother celebrated his crimes. www.cnn.com/2024/06/21/u...

LA County declines to charge man recorded attacking pro-Palestine protesters at UCLA, refers case to city attorney’s office | CNNwww.cnn.com The case against Edan On, the 18-year-old accused of attacking pro-Palestinian protesters at UCLA in April, has been referred to the Los Angeles City Attorney’s Office for misdemeanor filing considera...

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Interurban Era

if large scale long distance space travel ever becomes a thing, software industry is going to have a hard time going back to the days of "it needs to work perfectly out of the box" after years of "we're going to launch incomplete software and patch it over the internet"

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Starfish Who Can’t Think Something Witty

The U.S. Constitution is an extremely impressive document, but for the opposite reasons people think. It’s not the wisdom of philosopher god-kings, it’s something made by guys like you and me under immense pressure in a hot summer with no AC who didn’t even like each other that kinda worked somehow.

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this has to be the least compelling pitch of all time

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Nash

"AI" is not going to be so valuable to me that I somehow poop out one THOUSAND American dollarydoos every single year for a new smartphone. These tech execs are high on their own supply and the crash is going to make a K-hole look like Mr. Toad's Wild Ride.

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GOLIKEHELLMACHINE

if i had lottery money, one of the things i would do would be to stand up a website that’s just random slice-of-life interviews with working experts in every field i could imagine and letting them run wild about what they study / do / are interested in

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