John Kestner
@jkestner.bsky.social
Saved up all my returns for today so I’m net positive for Black Friday. Am I doing it right?
November 28, 2025 at 10:55 PM
Saved up all my returns for today so I’m net positive for Black Friday. Am I doing it right?
“My dream is a social media universe where knowing what network someone is using is just a weird curiosity. It’d be like knowing which cell phone carrier your friend is using when you give them a call.” arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025...
Yes, everything online sucks now—but it doesn’t have to
Ars chats with Cory Doctorow about his new book Enshittification.
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November 16, 2025 at 9:27 PM
“My dream is a social media universe where knowing what network someone is using is just a weird curiosity. It’d be like knowing which cell phone carrier your friend is using when you give them a call.” arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025...
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people will use this to abuse others and the way to deal with that issue is to not collect thisdata at all, not to keep it inaccessible to anyone other than police
New: A judge in Washington has ruled images from Flock surveillance cameras are public records and that anyone can request them. Highlights the pervasiveness of this tech and just how much surveillance is being done. Very notable ruling
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Judge Rules Flock Surveillance Images Are Public Records That Can Be Requested By Anyone
A Washington judge said images taken by Flock cameras are "not exempt from disclosure" in public record requests.
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November 12, 2025 at 3:41 PM
people will use this to abuse others and the way to deal with that issue is to not collect thisdata at all, not to keep it inaccessible to anyone other than police
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Wrote about PHEEther. Napheesa Collier framed the battle for the soul of American pro women's basketball in a piece of brilliant rhetoric. It's a hell of an opening salvo. www.teamziller.com/napheesa-col...
Phee your mind
Napheesa Collier, a top-3 player in the WNBA, union officer and co-founder of Unrivaled, puts WNBA leadership on blast by name. It is the WNBA rank-and-file's final blow of the revolt against bad offi...
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October 1, 2025 at 12:54 PM
Wrote about PHEEther. Napheesa Collier framed the battle for the soul of American pro women's basketball in a piece of brilliant rhetoric. It's a hell of an opening salvo. www.teamziller.com/napheesa-col...
Maybe James can make sour gummy beards that taste better than Shaq’s… face.
September 30, 2025 at 7:42 PM
Maybe James can make sour gummy beards that taste better than Shaq’s… face.
Wonder when the next TikTok will emerge to take the users unhappy with a state-controlled algorith.
Musk paid $44 billion for Twitter. Trump allies are closing in paying $14 billion for TikTok US. Russia-levels of crony capitalism. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/25/t...
Trump Clears Way for American-Owned TikTok Valued at $14 Billion
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September 26, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Wonder when the next TikTok will emerge to take the users unhappy with a state-controlled algorith.
I want to be more like this Steve
Steve Shirley escaped the Holocaust as a child & went on to found one of the earliest software startups. The really impressive part? She employed women programmers who had been pushed out of the workforce after having kids, & allowed them flexible, family friendly, work from home jobs—in the 1960s!
@histoftech.bsky.social Am obit of interest that you might have seen already. Gift link:
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/20/b...
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August 22, 2025 at 1:40 PM
I want to be more like this Steve
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this is going to put owning a complete dinosaur skeleton totally out of reach for the average American family
Earlier this summer, I broke the news that Sothebys — after smashing records for a private fossil sale in 2024 — was bringing a Ceratosaurus that had previously been in a museum to market. It just sold for $30 million, the third highest price ever.
The age of sky-high dinosaur prices is here.
The age of sky-high dinosaur prices is here.
Ceratosaur Fossil Auctioned for $30.5 Million by Sotheby’s
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July 17, 2025 at 2:23 PM
this is going to put owning a complete dinosaur skeleton totally out of reach for the average American family
My kids introducing a friend to Studio Ghibli films by describing Grave of the Fireflies.
July 14, 2025 at 3:57 PM
My kids introducing a friend to Studio Ghibli films by describing Grave of the Fireflies.
Empirically, “Heavy Steps” is about running on old knees while listening to Comeback Kid.
July 6, 2025 at 3:28 PM
Empirically, “Heavy Steps” is about running on old knees while listening to Comeback Kid.
@clivethompson.bsky.social Finally read your 2021 Tech Review article on ASML. I’m a sucker for process porn. Thanks for a detailed yet entertaining piece of writing (not to discount the great photos).
June 24, 2025 at 11:42 PM
@clivethompson.bsky.social Finally read your 2021 Tech Review article on ASML. I’m a sucker for process porn. Thanks for a detailed yet entertaining piece of writing (not to discount the great photos).
When you cross HAL 9000 and Jack Torrance.
when the AI bubble pops and corporations stop forcing AI down our throats i'll miss stuff like this
June 2, 2025 at 11:16 PM
When you cross HAL 9000 and Jack Torrance.
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Gifts in the mail! We're adjusting from injection molding to MJF printed parts. These can't do the same level of detail so these prints are helping me tune things, but they look great! Additive manufacturing has come far. blog.supermechanical.com/2025/05/12/a...
May 27, 2025 at 4:27 PM
Gifts in the mail! We're adjusting from injection molding to MJF printed parts. These can't do the same level of detail so these prints are helping me tune things, but they look great! Additive manufacturing has come far. blog.supermechanical.com/2025/05/12/a...
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The DC shooter's neighbor was perfectly on message. Solidarity, sir.
May 23, 2025 at 3:31 AM
The DC shooter's neighbor was perfectly on message. Solidarity, sir.
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Alan Ritchson is the only guy who can eat and replace John Fetterman. He is the best hope for our nation’s future.
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'"He spoke out against his former classmate Matt Gaetz. Ritchson and the politician attended school together after the actor’s family moved from Illinois to Niceville, Fla.
“That motherfucker. We are adversaries,” Ritchson said.'
I stand with America's largest son.
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“That motherfucker. We are adversaries,” Ritchson said.'
I stand with America's largest son.
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‘Reacher’ Star Alan Ritchson Says Fellow Christians Call Him Out: ‘How Dare You Have Unmarried Sex Scenes on TV and Then Talk About Jesus?’
"Reacher" star Alan Ritchson confronts fellow Christians who are outraged over him having unmarried sex on television.
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February 25, 2025 at 1:25 PM
Alan Ritchson is the only guy who can eat and replace John Fetterman. He is the best hope for our nation’s future.
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Need them to put that Tazer tracking confetti in dog food so we can find out who’s not picking up poop.
February 24, 2025 at 1:54 PM
Need them to put that Tazer tracking confetti in dog food so we can find out who’s not picking up poop.
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It's hard to make hardware in America when you're small. How we're making the supply chain for our environmental monitor:
blog.supermechanical.com/2024/12/23/t...
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December 31, 2024 at 6:19 PM
It's hard to make hardware in America when you're small. How we're making the supply chain for our environmental monitor:
blog.supermechanical.com/2024/12/23/t...
blog.supermechanical.com/2024/12/23/t...
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When you're making a hardware product, you're really making two products. Been wanting to write about the experience of building a supply chain for a while.
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The small link at the end of the chain
This update’s for the logistics nerds instead of the techies.
Your first product is a supply chain
You may have wondered why businesses can be built on importing existing products from overseas ...
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December 23, 2024 at 9:06 PM
When you're making a hardware product, you're really making two products. Been wanting to write about the experience of building a supply chain for a while.
blog.supermechanical.com/2024/12/23/t...
blog.supermechanical.com/2024/12/23/t...
Don’t pervert the gums God gave you at birth by growing hard, glistening teeth.
December 13, 2024 at 2:27 PM
Don’t pervert the gums God gave you at birth by growing hard, glistening teeth.
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Pickup update #11 is a little dull unless you're into the nitty gritty of hardware production. Always fun ("fun"?) to get your first batch of boards to start analyzing the failures! (3 out of 50, but easy fixes.)
blog.supermechanical.com/2024/11/14/b...
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Boards, bugs, better interface
Hi — after getting shiny new boards last month, this month we’ve been back to grinding on code. I’ll do my best to make this interesting, but no promises.
Hardware
We got around to testing all o...
blog.supermechanical.com
November 19, 2024 at 3:12 PM
Pickup update #11 is a little dull unless you're into the nitty gritty of hardware production. Always fun ("fun"?) to get your first batch of boards to start analyzing the failures! (3 out of 50, but easy fixes.)
blog.supermechanical.com/2024/11/14/b...
blog.supermechanical.com/2024/11/14/b...
40 is the new 60 in pentadecimal
November 10, 2024 at 6:10 PM
40 is the new 60 in pentadecimal
Throwback to 2002. 🇱🇰
November 8, 2024 at 4:36 PM
Throwback to 2002. 🇱🇰
It’s like the Norway seed vault but for Mad Max. www.hagerty.com/media/automo...
Since the '60s, Ford Has Stored Cars Underground in a Kansas City Cave - Hagerty Media
You may have seen a photo floating around the Internet that depicts a gaggle of Mavericks—not the pickup, but the econo-coupe that preceded it—lurking in what appears to be some type of natural cave. ...
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November 8, 2024 at 3:37 AM
It’s like the Norway seed vault but for Mad Max. www.hagerty.com/media/automo...
