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David Sloane
@davidcsloane.bsky.social
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Tech stuff, nerd stuff, Dem stuff
Boston-ish
He/Him, BLM, 🏳️‍🌈, 🏳️‍⚧️, ☮️, 🗽, 🐈
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It was worth it
Bronze statue of a giant octopus with animals sitting on its arms in Charlestown Massachusetts
October 26, 2025 at 6:52 PM
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Community blocklists remain undefeated
Bluesky screenshot of White House 47 account, already blocked by a couple of lists
October 18, 2025 at 12:04 AM
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Greetings and safe travels from two good cats
A standard brown, black and gray cat, and a Calico cat, sitting on a bed
October 15, 2025 at 5:45 PM
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Something about this "I Tried the Trend: My Personal Experience with Metal Hair Bands for Men" web page feels wrong
The end of the web page titled "I Tried the Trend: My Personal Experience with Metal Hair Bands for Men" reads "In Conclusion I hope this buying guide has been helpful in choosing the perfect metal hair band for men! Remember to consider the material, size, design, comfort level, durability, and price before making a purchase. With these factors in mind, you’ll surely find a stylish and durable metal hair band that suits your needs perfectly! Author Profile [Photo of a smiling, bald white man wearing a suit] Adam Friedland Adam, a seasoned professional with a rich history in the retail and telecommunications industries, brings a wealth of experience to Spark Wireless. His journey began in 2010, after retiring from a distinguished 30-year career at RadioShack, where he excelled in developing and growing top-"
October 3, 2025 at 8:28 PM
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Interesting note in their privacy policy - www2.arccorp.com/site-privacy...

Feels like this count will go up after 404 Media's reporting
In fiscal years 2023 and 2024, ARC received no requests to delete personal information, no requests to know or access what personal information we were collecting, no requests to what information we sold or shared and to whom, and no requests to opt out of the sale or sharing of personal information.
September 15, 2025 at 4:54 PM
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Android's "Notification History" also has them
A screenshot of Android's Notification History showing several weather alerts from the "Google" app
September 7, 2025 at 7:32 PM
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With alt text
Trump Family Amasses $6 Billion Fortune After Crypto Launch -- WSJ By Angus Berwick (Wall Street Journal) -- The Trump family notched as much as $6 billion in paper wealth on Monday after its flagship crypto venture opened trading of a new digital currency. The launch is akin to an initial public offering, in which the cryptocurrency. called WLFI, can now be bought and sold on the open market like a listed company's shares. Beforehand, people who had privately bought WLFI from the Trump venture, World Liberty Financial, hadn't been able to exchange their tokens. The trading debut was most likely the biggest financial success for the president's family since the inauguration. The Trump family, including President Trump himself, holds just under a quarter of all WLFI tokens in existence. Trump's three sons are co-founders of World Liberty, while it names the president a "Co-Founder Emeritus." World Liberty says founders and team members' tokens remain "locked," meaning they still can't sell them. But the trading launch now puts a real-world valuation on their holdings, which previously were valued based on private sales. WLFI is likely now the Trumps' most valuable asset, exceeding their decades- old property portfolio. While the president's family has continued to pursue property deals around the world since taking office, the fast-moving crypto business has had the biggest early impact.
September 1, 2025 at 9:00 PM
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How is this relevant? Are Sanders' economic policies about to be implemented?
@lincolnsquare.media who is this for? How is it fighting Trump and the GOP?
Is the point of the Lincoln Project, and affiliates like Lincoln Square, to stop Trump? Or to fragment the not-Trump coalition?
lincolnsquare.media substack post "Bernie’s Working-Class Fairy Tale Has a Big Blindspot The progressive folk hero's mantra has always been: "Fix the economy, and magically racism goes away!" Except it doesn’t, and Black voters know better. Kristoffer Ealy Sep 01, 2025"
September 1, 2025 at 5:13 PM
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Butterfly meme with butterfly description "Saeed Vacay Declaration" and "Is this a general strike?"
August 20, 2025 at 5:26 PM
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Quote this with a book you read way too young that explains why you are the way you are.

(unlike other campers, I read this and LOTR trilogy at camp, the summer after 6th grade)
Yellow, green and black book cover for "Damien the Leper" by John Farrow Doubleday Image Book - 85cents "The adventure of Father Damien is so romantic as to be almost unbelievable." - Hugh Walpole
August 12, 2025 at 4:09 AM
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Seems legit
A Matthew McConaughey profile with a post reading Hello fans, I hope you're all having productive and peaceful weekend and you're having some good rest plans to meet with me during the vacation by next weekend If you need my membership card or my appointment card to enable us to meet in person kindly write me direct message
July 27, 2025 at 2:52 AM
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Ladies, are you tired of garden hoses for men?
A blue "SoftTOUCH" brand garden hose, with a picture of a white woman using the product Additional text: 5/8in x100Ft FLEXIBLE HYBRID COMPOUND FOR ALL WEATHER FLEXIBILITY Limited Lifetime Warranty 400 PSI OSWAN SoftTOUCH Abrasion Resistant Jacket Ergonomic Female Grip 360° SpinMALE™ Eliminates Twists
July 21, 2025 at 11:14 PM
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Happy Canada Day 🍁
A photo of Toronto's CN Tower on a clear day that I took in 2018
July 1, 2025 at 1:05 PM
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"AI is good for optical character recognition" they said
An AI prompt in which the operator asks "There are many duplicates, and many missed entries. What happened?" and the AI response is "It seems like the data was collected in a way that resulted in many duplicates and missed entries. The data was collected in a way that resulted in many duplicates and missed entries." It then repeats "The data was collected in a way that resulted in many duplicates and missed entries." dozens of times
June 14, 2025 at 4:39 PM
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Many thanks from this cat
A standard issue cat, brown and black, almost tortoise-shell asleep on abed with blur sheets, front paws wrapped in some cloth he was playing with
June 13, 2025 at 11:46 PM
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Absurd theatrics can be powerful. How many thousands of these can we get?
A human torso featuring a full head chicken (rooster?) mask
June 3, 2025 at 11:05 PM
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There was some excitement
June 3, 2025 at 2:42 AM
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We are having a baseball time
A view of a baseball game - Red Sox vs. Angels from right field, box 43
June 3, 2025 at 1:13 AM
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Okay Activision
Several free, Pride-themed game objects in Activision's Call of Duty Black Ops 6 first-person shooter, available today
June 2, 2025 at 1:01 AM
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The JFK Jr. Forum at @harvardkennedy.bsky.social, displaying flags which represent students from ~100 countries
The John F. Kennedy Jr. Forum at Harvard Kennedy School, a three story event space, displaying flags from many countries.
May 27, 2025 at 4:07 PM
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Another band!
May 10, 2025 at 5:07 PM
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Somerville Porchfest
May 10, 2025 at 4:36 PM
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Every day I see a new worst-scam-profile-to-date and today was no exception
A poorly implemented Publishers Clearing House account, featuring a white woman with brown hair. Her profile picture includes a person holding a tablet, showing a Facebook page, with the same woman. Text reads: I'm Daniella Lam from the Publishers Clearing House Prize Patrol (Am surprised you haven't been contacted headquarters based in the Jericho NY, USA. I'm an Elite PCHClaim Coordinato.... nice meeting you,
May 2, 2025 at 11:25 PM
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I like archive.ph, I use it often and recommend it.
And its pages refer to something that looks like a visit/page counter, hosted at top-fwz1.mail dot ru, which feels like bad #infosec. Weird, right?
I'm not a #JavaScript expert, but this feature could be provided by lots of other services, no?
archive.ph aka archive.today screenshot with Firefox debugger, showing JavaScript that points to top-fwz1.mail.ru ( function (d, w, id) { if (d.getElementById(id)) return; var ts = d.createElement('script'); ts.type = 'text/javascript'; ts.async = true; ts.id = id; ts.src = (d.location.protocol == 'https:' ? 'https:' : 'http:') + '//top-fwz1.mail.ru/js/code.js'; var f = function () { var s = d.getElementsByTagName('script') [0]; s.parentNode.insertBefore(ts, s); }; if (w.opera == '[object Opera]') { d.addEventListener('DOMContentLoaded', f, false); } else { f(); } } ) (document, window, 'topmailru-code');
April 16, 2025 at 4:11 PM
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When you have no idea how people use your application
A Windows Notepad screenshot with the Copilot menu expanded, to show a series of absurd options: Rewrite Ctrl+I Summarize Ctrl+M Make shorter Make longer Change tone > Change format > Under "Change Tone", the selected option, you can choose from Formal Casual Inspirational Humor
April 8, 2025 at 10:50 PM