Rocky G
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brunopedro.com
Do you maintain one or more public APIs? I do.

I'd love to share some thoughts with other API producers so we can learn what works and what doesn't. Let me know if you'd like to chat.
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iid.bsky.social
it's so funny that all these economic pieces are like 'could it be that silicon valley has made a bad bet?' and then the bet is that a text prediction software will achieve consciousness
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lizthegrey.com
Classic failure mode: integration tests for our Terraform Module IaC created what were supposed to be ephemeral cattle but became very expensive pets when terraform destroy silently failed. No monitoring (sandbox account), no alerts, no monthly cost reviews detailed enough to catch steady $250/month
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lizthegrey.com
I stumbled into it while digging into which account was provisioning real RDS instances for tests, making the CI sluggish. Curiosity leads to unexpected places, so instrument your infrastructure lifecycle, not just applications. Tonight's team dinner (and then some) was earned the hard way! [AIL 3]
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opensource.org
OSI's Deep Dive: Data Governance virtual event is happening October 1-3. Sal Kimmich will share "Sovereign by Design: A Blueprint for Federated, Consent-Based AI Systems". Register for free at: https://opensource.org/datagovernanceconf
rockygrober.bsky.social
I thought debt and debit were the same until I saw debit on print
rockygrober.bsky.social
Debt was first deb-t then deb-it for me because I heard debit on the news, then finally saw it in the paper and figured out they were two different words. Don't remember how I learned to connect it to det.
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thetnholler.bsky.social
Context: The guard is picking up trash in DC because Trump and the Republicans gutted DC & the parks budgets.
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bellingcat.com
Know how to code and want to do some good? Join us live tomorrow to find out how you can get involved with building tools for online investigations. Have a project already and stuck on something? Come along and ask your questions! discord.gg/HH3GHDhj?eve...
bellingcat.com
Ever wondered how to build a dependable and useful tool for online research? Bellingcat's @galen.reich.me.uk is coming into our Discord Server next week to share his tips and tricks for building just that. Join us live on Thursday at 5pm CEST/11am EDT. discord.gg/HH3GHDhj?eve...
Building Tools for Research with Galen Reich, Tech community facilitator Bellingcat. Bellingcat Stage Talk, Thursday 28/08 5pm CEST/11am EDT. Join us live: discord.com/invite/bellingcat
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johnpfaff.bsky.social
It’s wild, absolutely wild, how for EVERY. SINGLE. CITY. Trump wants to militarize I can post data showing how crime is plummeting in all of them without any federal invasion…

… and the press KEEPS stenographing the naked bad-faith claims about “fighting crime!” in the headlines.

Infuriating.
johnpfaff.bsky.social
Giant YTD drops in Chicago for basically all crimes.

Huge 4-reductions in Chicago for all violence. Murders are down FIFTY PERCENT.

Property crimes are dropping, tho still higher than before. But MRAPs don’t stop theft.

This is all pretext. Yet the WaPo subhed frames it as a “crime” issue.
CPD CompStat showing huge drops.
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thetnholler.bsky.social
🇺🇸 National Guard soldier speaks out: “I swore an oath to defend our constitution… seeking refuge is not an act of violence. Locking people up for it is.”
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aclu.org
ACLU @aclu.org · Aug 14
Taking photos and video of law enforcement officers performing their duties in public is our constitutional right.

This includes police, FBI, National Guard troops, ICE agents, and other government officials.
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citizensforethics.org
Repost if you think Trump's deployment of federal law enforcement in DC is not about making the city safe, but rather an attempt to exert power. 🔁
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astrokatie.com
I realize broad science-literacy problems cannot generally be solved just by shoving more facts at people but I really wish more people understood that the entire purpose and mechanism of a vaccine is to educate your OWN immune system, making it about the most "natural" medical intervention possible
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trincolllibcam.bsky.social
Lise Meitner (1878-1968) was an Austrian physicist whose pioneering work led to the discovery of nuclear fission. Find out all about her story in our latest blog post!

trinitycollegelibrarycambridge.wordpress.com/2025/08/01/s...
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prchovanec.bsky.social
It's simply amazing to me that the U.S. spent 70 years (1945-2015) constructing a post-WW2 military, economic, and social world order to its liking, only to turn around and decide it was actually the victim of this order the entire time.
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opalescentopal.bsky.social
With Tom Lehrer's passing, I suppose this is a moment to share the story of the prank he played on the National Security Agency, and how it went undiscovered for nearly 60 years.
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alexip718.com
“I’m plainly convinced that my situation in this ICE jail is direct retaliation for my coverage,” Mario Guevara told @ajc.com in an exclusive interview from the Folkston, Georgia ICE detention center where he is currently detained, despite a judge's bail order. “I haven’t committed any crimes.”
Hispanic journalist in Atlanta detained by ICE speaks out
Mario Guevara tells the AJC about his month behind bars, and his once positive feelings toward Donald Trump.
www.ajc.com