Kent Taylor
@pversusnp.bsky.social
Software developer. Cyclist. Urbanist Enthusiast.
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This is a photo of someone being tortured, not someone being restrained
An observer arrested in Suth Minneapolis. Photo by Richard Tsong-Taatarii/The Minnesota Star Tribune
January 21, 2026 at 9:32 PM
This is a photo of someone being tortured, not someone being restrained
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hypercentralizers are not having a good day today -- #github has joined #cloudflare to block or slow down millions of folks from doing stuff.
Maybe a good time to checkout out this new ACLU article about the current Apple/Google app-store oligopoly […]
[Original post on chaos.social]
Maybe a good time to checkout out this new ACLU article about the current Apple/Google app-store oligopoly […]
[Original post on chaos.social]
November 18, 2025 at 10:07 PM
hypercentralizers are not having a good day today -- #github has joined #cloudflare to block or slow down millions of folks from doing stuff.
Maybe a good time to checkout out this new ACLU article about the current Apple/Google app-store oligopoly […]
[Original post on chaos.social]
Maybe a good time to checkout out this new ACLU article about the current Apple/Google app-store oligopoly […]
[Original post on chaos.social]
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Meanwhile in Catholic schools, the environment is getting even worse for trans and queer people.
It never was good to start with but this is horrific.
www.them.us/story/ursuli...
It never was good to start with but this is horrific.
www.them.us/story/ursuli...
Catholic Teachers Allowed Slurs and Food Hurled at Gay Student, New Lawsuit Alleges
Reports indicate the student was called “f***ot," even in the precence of teachers.
www.them.us
November 19, 2025 at 7:19 PM
Meanwhile in Catholic schools, the environment is getting even worse for trans and queer people.
It never was good to start with but this is horrific.
www.them.us/story/ursuli...
It never was good to start with but this is horrific.
www.them.us/story/ursuli...
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ICYMI: it's possible in @kubernetes.io 1.33+ to update pod resource limits in-place without recreating the pod! kubernetes.io/docs/tasks/c...
This *dramatically* lowers the amount of effort it takes to do load testing and capacity planning. You can just take away resources until breakage occurs.
This *dramatically* lowers the amount of effort it takes to do load testing and capacity planning. You can just take away resources until breakage occurs.
Resize CPU and Memory Resources assigned to Containers
FEATURE STATE: Kubernetes v1.33 [beta] (enabled by default: true) This page explains how to change the CPU and memory resource requests and limits assigned to a container without recreating the Pod.
T...
kubernetes.io
November 15, 2025 at 12:33 AM
ICYMI: it's possible in @kubernetes.io 1.33+ to update pod resource limits in-place without recreating the pod! kubernetes.io/docs/tasks/c...
This *dramatically* lowers the amount of effort it takes to do load testing and capacity planning. You can just take away resources until breakage occurs.
This *dramatically* lowers the amount of effort it takes to do load testing and capacity planning. You can just take away resources until breakage occurs.
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It’s more than just bad priorities. It’s about lack of basic decency.
October 25, 2025 at 8:30 PM
It’s more than just bad priorities. It’s about lack of basic decency.
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This is a welcoming account.
October 21, 2025 at 10:30 PM
This is a welcoming account.
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When couples have trouble conceiving a baby or lose a pregnancy, they often undergo routine tests, which can turn up a shock: One of the prospective parents may be missing a chromosome.
Scientists are finding clues to better understand it.
Scientists are finding clues to better understand it.
A genetic anomaly linked to infertility was a puzzle. Scientists solved it.
By examining “junk DNA,” scientists are finding clues to understanding human biology.
www.washingtonpost.com
September 25, 2025 at 12:00 AM
When couples have trouble conceiving a baby or lose a pregnancy, they often undergo routine tests, which can turn up a shock: One of the prospective parents may be missing a chromosome.
Scientists are finding clues to better understand it.
Scientists are finding clues to better understand it.
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Freelens is a free, opensource user interface designed to simplify the management of Kubernetes clusters. It's a standalone application that works with macOS, Windows, & Linux. The application's main goal is to make Kubernetes easier to handle by providing a user friendly GUI
GitHub - freelensapp/freelens: Free IDE for Kubernetes
Free IDE for Kubernetes. Contribute to freelensapp/freelens development by creating an account on GitHub.
github.com
September 14, 2025 at 8:43 PM
Freelens is a free, opensource user interface designed to simplify the management of Kubernetes clusters. It's a standalone application that works with macOS, Windows, & Linux. The application's main goal is to make Kubernetes easier to handle by providing a user friendly GUI
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I've been working on the PROOF Threat Index—which ranks the Top 100 threats to our democracy—and working through exactly where to put each of the right-wing Supreme Court Justices (or whether to even put all of them in the Top 100).
I decided last week that all had to go in. Looks like I was right.
I decided last week that all had to go in. Looks like I was right.
Chief Justice John Roberts on Wednesday night said that the U.S. Agency for International Development and the State Department did not need to immediately pay for more than $1.5 billion in already completed aid work.
Supreme Court Blocks Judge’s Order to Quickly Unfreeze Foreign Aid Work Payments
Administration lawyers had said the government would miss the judge’s deadline to restart payments for past aid work and sought a late intervention from the Supreme Court.
www.nytimes.com
February 27, 2025 at 4:53 AM
I've been working on the PROOF Threat Index—which ranks the Top 100 threats to our democracy—and working through exactly where to put each of the right-wing Supreme Court Justices (or whether to even put all of them in the Top 100).
I decided last week that all had to go in. Looks like I was right.
I decided last week that all had to go in. Looks like I was right.
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I’m George Takei and I approve of this message.
February 19, 2025 at 3:47 PM
I’m George Takei and I approve of this message.
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Boo away, Canadians. Don't blame you.
Grew up in Michigan & went to Windsor often. Spent a couple months in Toronto on a job, have vacationed in Vancouver.
Always loved Canada & the Canadian people. It appalls me Cheetos Mussolini is treating the best neighbors a country could ask for so poorly.
Grew up in Michigan & went to Windsor often. Spent a couple months in Toronto on a job, have vacationed in Vancouver.
Always loved Canada & the Canadian people. It appalls me Cheetos Mussolini is treating the best neighbors a country could ask for so poorly.
February 18, 2025 at 1:24 AM
Boo away, Canadians. Don't blame you.
Grew up in Michigan & went to Windsor often. Spent a couple months in Toronto on a job, have vacationed in Vancouver.
Always loved Canada & the Canadian people. It appalls me Cheetos Mussolini is treating the best neighbors a country could ask for so poorly.
Grew up in Michigan & went to Windsor often. Spent a couple months in Toronto on a job, have vacationed in Vancouver.
Always loved Canada & the Canadian people. It appalls me Cheetos Mussolini is treating the best neighbors a country could ask for so poorly.
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“We’re not going anywhere. What’s more: we’re expanding.”
Nearly a dozen of Minnesota’s foremost experts on gender-affirming care collaborated on this beautiful op-ed in today’s Strib. No paywall.
Nearly a dozen of Minnesota’s foremost experts on gender-affirming care collaborated on this beautiful op-ed in today’s Strib. No paywall.
Those of us who work in gender medicine are not going anywhere
What’s more, we’re expanding.
www.startribune.com
February 15, 2025 at 7:17 PM
“We’re not going anywhere. What’s more: we’re expanding.”
Nearly a dozen of Minnesota’s foremost experts on gender-affirming care collaborated on this beautiful op-ed in today’s Strib. No paywall.
Nearly a dozen of Minnesota’s foremost experts on gender-affirming care collaborated on this beautiful op-ed in today’s Strib. No paywall.
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I’d just like to shout out humans for at least seeing through NFTs as the most idiotic idea possible.
February 11, 2025 at 3:51 PM
I’d just like to shout out humans for at least seeing through NFTs as the most idiotic idea possible.
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She's gone!
Pamela Paul, according to the intelligencer, is out at the Times this spring due to job cuts at the NYT.
She had previously published egregious falsehoods about transgender care and got upset with our outlet Erin In The Morning when challenged.
nymag.com/intelligence...
Pamela Paul, according to the intelligencer, is out at the Times this spring due to job cuts at the NYT.
She had previously published egregious falsehoods about transgender care and got upset with our outlet Erin In The Morning when challenged.
nymag.com/intelligence...
Good-bye, Pamela Paul
The contrarian columnist showed us the intolerable side of liberalism.
nymag.com
February 8, 2025 at 5:21 PM
She's gone!
Pamela Paul, according to the intelligencer, is out at the Times this spring due to job cuts at the NYT.
She had previously published egregious falsehoods about transgender care and got upset with our outlet Erin In The Morning when challenged.
nymag.com/intelligence...
Pamela Paul, according to the intelligencer, is out at the Times this spring due to job cuts at the NYT.
She had previously published egregious falsehoods about transgender care and got upset with our outlet Erin In The Morning when challenged.
nymag.com/intelligence...
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Resisting Trump and Project 2025 in Austin, TX
Please SHARE because the MSM is mostly silent on these protests
abcnews.go.com/live/video/s...
Please SHARE because the MSM is mostly silent on these protests
abcnews.go.com/live/video/s...
Video Protest against Pres. Trump and Project 2025 in Austin, TX
Protest against Pres. Trump and Project 2025 in Austin, TX
abcnews.go.com
February 5, 2025 at 7:07 PM
Resisting Trump and Project 2025 in Austin, TX
Please SHARE because the MSM is mostly silent on these protests
abcnews.go.com/live/video/s...
Please SHARE because the MSM is mostly silent on these protests
abcnews.go.com/live/video/s...
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At a protest called to decry NYU Langone’s cancellation of medical appointments for young trans patients, now filling St. Vartan Park in Manhattan.
February 4, 2025 at 12:00 AM
At a protest called to decry NYU Langone’s cancellation of medical appointments for young trans patients, now filling St. Vartan Park in Manhattan.
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1. Multiple hospital systems are complying with an unlawful executive order with dubious enforcement mechanisms and pulling their trans kids off care.
While most have not, those that have are harming their trans patients.
The latest from Mira Lazine.
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While most have not, those that have are harming their trans patients.
The latest from Mira Lazine.
Subscribe to support our journalism.
Handful Of Hospitals Complying With Trump's Illegal Order To Stop Trans Care Under 19 Years Of Age
A small handful of hospitals nationwide have put fear of President Trump over the needs of their transgender patients, and are withdrawing trans youth from care due to a recent executive order.
www.erininthemorning.com
February 3, 2025 at 12:51 AM
1. Multiple hospital systems are complying with an unlawful executive order with dubious enforcement mechanisms and pulling their trans kids off care.
While most have not, those that have are harming their trans patients.
The latest from Mira Lazine.
Subscribe to support our journalism.
While most have not, those that have are harming their trans patients.
The latest from Mira Lazine.
Subscribe to support our journalism.
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> Most critically, “rolling your own crypto” means spending any innovation tokens at any level of abstraction on cryptography without adequate assurance of correctness and/or peer review from cryptography experts (preferably ones with at least some experience breaking other implementations).
Hell Is Overconfident Developers Writing Encryption Code
Overconfident developers that choose to write their own cryptography code have plagued the information security industry since before it was even an industry. This in and of itself isn't inherently a bad thing, despite the infosec truisms…
Overconfident developers that choose to write their own cryptography code have plagued the information security industry since before it was even an industry. This in and of itself isn't inherently a bad thing, despite the infosec truisms…
Hell Is Overconfident Developers Writing Encryption Code
Overconfident developers that choose to write their own cryptography code have plagued the information security industry since before it was even an industry. This in and of itself isn't inherently a bad thing, despite the infosec truisms about never doing exactly that. Writing crypto code (but not deploying or publishing it!) is an important first step to understanding the algorithms…
soatok.blog
February 1, 2025 at 8:57 AM
> Most critically, “rolling your own crypto” means spending any innovation tokens at any level of abstraction on cryptography without adequate assurance of correctness and/or peer review from cryptography experts (preferably ones with at least some experience breaking other implementations).
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In my years of reporting on LGBTQ news this was by far the hardest.
But we are still here. You made it to Friday. You lived. Good job. That wasn’t easy.
Through a diversity of tactics, we will continue to live.
Rest up, drink water, find community, so that we can all be here tomorrow too.
But we are still here. You made it to Friday. You lived. Good job. That wasn’t easy.
Through a diversity of tactics, we will continue to live.
Rest up, drink water, find community, so that we can all be here tomorrow too.
January 31, 2025 at 10:17 PM
In my years of reporting on LGBTQ news this was by far the hardest.
But we are still here. You made it to Friday. You lived. Good job. That wasn’t easy.
Through a diversity of tactics, we will continue to live.
Rest up, drink water, find community, so that we can all be here tomorrow too.
But we are still here. You made it to Friday. You lived. Good job. That wasn’t easy.
Through a diversity of tactics, we will continue to live.
Rest up, drink water, find community, so that we can all be here tomorrow too.