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Derek 🗽

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</>🏕️🥏🎮💪 🏈🌱🗽🌍 Here for the humor, sports, tech, conversation, and zeitgeist. Joy as an act of resistance. Denver, CO. Also available on https://ohai.social/@blowndiodes. Old posts periodically deleted for timeline cleanliness.

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Derek 🗽 @blowndiodes.bsky.social · Jun 10

kill -9 2025

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Andrew Sinclair @jandrewsinclair.bsky.social · 2h

David Brooks joins the resistance. “So why are we doing so little? Are we just going to stand in passive witness to the degradation of our democracy?” www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...

America Needs a Mass Movement—Now

Without one, America may sink into autocracy for decades.

www.theatlantic.com

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ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 2h

brooks dunking on schumer ought to be morbidly embarrassing for him

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Derek 🗽 @blowndiodes.bsky.social · 2h

(by the way, I’m not targeting you in any way here, just griping more generally)

Derek 🗽 @blowndiodes.bsky.social · 2h

100%. Which is why I’m hoping we collectively realize this and at least attempt to pivot to more direct, aggressive nonviolent action. We keep leaning on the very things you’ve described that have proven ineffective in dealing with this monster. The end game doesn’t look very good right now.

Derek 🗽 @blowndiodes.bsky.social · 2h

a man in a suit and bow tie is standing in front of a microphone with the words `` oh snap '' written on it .

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Derek 🗽 @blowndiodes.bsky.social · 2h

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Derek 🗽 @blowndiodes.bsky.social · 2h

And incessantly pointing out contradictions and law breaking while they steamroll us.

Derek 🗽 @blowndiodes.bsky.social · 3h

Gotta be the latter. I can't imagine those neurons are set to rapid fire when married to, eh, that fellow.

Derek 🗽 @blowndiodes.bsky.social · 8h

Can't help but notice that's quite a few talented, highly technical, now (I assume) pissed off people with sensitive insider knowledge.

Karly Kingsley @karlykingsley.bsky.social · 4d

The RIFs that began Friday will reportedly cut 65% of CISA’s 2,540 employees, one of the dumbest and most dangerous moves imaginable. CISA defends the nation’s cyber and critical infrastructure. Destroying it now only makes sense if you’re afraid of election integrity.

Derek 🗽 @blowndiodes.bsky.social · 8h

That's a lot of Schrute Bucks.

web3 is going just great @web3isgoinggreat.com · 8h

Paxos accidentally mints more than twice the global GDP in PayPal stablecoins

October 15, 2025
https://www.web3isgoinggreat.com/?id=paxos-accidental-mint

Paxos accidentally mints more than twice the global GDP in PayPal stablecoins
Paxos, the issuer of PayPal's PYUSD stablecoin, accidentally minted 300 trillion of the supposedly dollar-pegged token. For context, this is approximately 2.5x the global GDP, and around 125x the total number of US dollars actually in circulation.
Paxos later announced that the mint was an "internal technical error", and that they had burned the excess tokens.
While PayPal promises its customers that "Reserves are held 100% in US dollar deposits, US treasuries and cash equivalents – meaning that customer funds are available for 1:1 redemption with Paxos," there clearly isn't much in the way of safeguards to ensure that is always the case. As with most stablecoin issuers, Paxos merely issues self-reported and unreviewed portfolio reports, and monthly third-party attestations (not audits) of reserves.

Derek 🗽 @blowndiodes.bsky.social · 9h

SF rolling up to every game

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Derek 🗽 @blowndiodes.bsky.social · 9h

Vote NO until they start obeying the law, too.

Hold the line.

Derek 🗽 @blowndiodes.bsky.social · 9h

Ok but what if this ends up being more sinister and they simply never reconvene?

Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 12h

Mike Johnson has now had the House adjourned for 72 of the last 84 days.

Epstein Shutdown.

Derek 🗽 @blowndiodes.bsky.social · 16h

Err 16 fewer targets, per Heath Cummings.

Derek 🗽 @blowndiodes.bsky.social · 16h

I caught a recent stat along the lines of Burden having something like 7 yards more receiving than Zaccheaus despite 16 fewer receptions. He's going to be too hard to ignore.

Derek 🗽 @blowndiodes.bsky.social · 1d

They’ll be in CO soon enough, @hickenlooper.bsky.social. They give zero fucks about your healthcare premium proposals.

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PritzkerPosting @pritzkerposting.bsky.social · 1d

Chicago: Zero Regard for Safety, ICE Escalation in Chicago Leaves Baby in Harm’s Way

Derek 🗽 @blowndiodes.bsky.social · 1d

Fog is the best. More fog please.

Derek 🗽 @blowndiodes.bsky.social · 1d

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Derek 🗽 @blowndiodes.bsky.social · 1d

We're going to keep reminding you:

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Travis @coloradotravis.bsky.social · 14d

I cannot emphasize enough that this administration shouldn’t get 𝘰𝘯𝘦 𝘴𝘪𝘯𝘨𝘭𝘦 𝘷𝘰𝘵𝘦 from the Dems until they start obeying the law.

Not. One.

Optics matter: if you want people to turn out next election despite troops in the streets, then show them it matters.

Do your goddamn jobs and hold the line.

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Derek 🗽 @blowndiodes.bsky.social · 1d

*US in the throws of a violent fascist takeover while labeling Dems as terrorists to further this aim*

Hick, living in a bygone reality: "Let's negotiate with Republicans on healthcare premiums!"

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Jesse Felder @jessefelder.bsky.social · 1d

‘The demand for tokens has been driven in part by the fight against the “hallucinations,” or incorrect or nonsensical outputs stated as if they are true, notoriously produced by generative AI models.’ www.wsj.com/articles/ai-...

AI Economics Are Brutal. Demand Is the Variable to Watch.

It’s hard to predict how the artificial-intelligence bubble will play out, but here’s a clue. Keep an eye on usage of AI, measured in units known as ‘tokens.’ It’s soaring.

www.wsj.com

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Derek 🗽 @blowndiodes.bsky.social · 1d

Seems like a savvy actor is more likely to use an unrestricted LLM rather than spend timing tricking ChatGPT, but I'm making assumptions about training data parity and param counts.

Derek 🗽 @blowndiodes.bsky.social · 1d

A redundant heads-up for the upcoming #NoKings protests.

Please take mobile phone security precautions. Assume ICE is both trying to identify if you're at a protest and plans on using that information for malicious purposes.

techcrunch.com/2025/10/07/i...

ICE bought vehicles equipped with fake cell towers to spy on phones | TechCrunch

The federal contract shows ICE spent $825,000 on vans equipped with “cell-site simulators” which allow the real-world location tracking of nearby phones and their owners.

techcrunch.com

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Derek 🗽 @blowndiodes.bsky.social · 2d

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