@seriesoftubes.bsky.social
Baby, why am I worried now?
Did someone make a fool of me
Before I could show 'em how it's done?
-Neko Case
Did someone make a fool of me
Before I could show 'em how it's done?
-Neko Case
Pinned
Series of tubes
Except “series of tubes” was more or less apt (network engineers routinely refer to long-haul circuits as “pipes”).
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Meta thinks its camera glasses, which are often used for harassment, are no different than any other camera.
Here's 404 Media's guide to the PR team at Meta:
www.404media.co/whats-the-di...
Here's 404 Media's guide to the PR team at Meta:
www.404media.co/whats-the-di...
What’s the Difference Between AI Glasses and an iPhone? A Helpful Guide for Meta PR
Meta thinks its camera glasses, which are often used for harassment, are no different than any other camera.
www.404media.co
December 26, 2025 at 12:30 AM
Meta thinks its camera glasses, which are often used for harassment, are no different than any other camera.
Here's 404 Media's guide to the PR team at Meta:
www.404media.co/whats-the-di...
Here's 404 Media's guide to the PR team at Meta:
www.404media.co/whats-the-di...
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I guess it’s possible Randi wasn’t paid off by ai companies to push slop on our kids and is just a boomer who likes ai slop.
December 25, 2025 at 3:16 PM
I guess it’s possible Randi wasn’t paid off by ai companies to push slop on our kids and is just a boomer who likes ai slop.
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Scoop: The lone employee behind CISA's Pre-Ransomware Notification Initiative resigned on Friday rather than take a forced reassignment to FEMA.
CISA says PRNI will continue, but sources said David Stern's loss will be a major setback for it.
My story: www.cybersecuritydive.com/news/cisa-ra...
CISA says PRNI will continue, but sources said David Stern's loss will be a major setback for it.
My story: www.cybersecuritydive.com/news/cisa-ra...
December 23, 2025 at 3:50 PM
Scoop: The lone employee behind CISA's Pre-Ransomware Notification Initiative resigned on Friday rather than take a forced reassignment to FEMA.
CISA says PRNI will continue, but sources said David Stern's loss will be a major setback for it.
My story: www.cybersecuritydive.com/news/cisa-ra...
CISA says PRNI will continue, but sources said David Stern's loss will be a major setback for it.
My story: www.cybersecuritydive.com/news/cisa-ra...
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This is an excellent piece on the ecological catastrophe associated with El Salvador's obsession with Bitcoin -->>
www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
‘They turned our home into a cemetery’: the high price of El Salvador’s Bitcoin City dream
Mangroves are being destroyed and residents displaced to make way for an airport to serve president Nayib Bukele’s vision of a tax-free economic hub
www.theguardian.com
December 22, 2025 at 8:23 AM
This is an excellent piece on the ecological catastrophe associated with El Salvador's obsession with Bitcoin -->>
www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
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Cool analysis here looking at different global scenarios for AI growth. The 'abundance' scenario naturally does the most damage to ecosystems, resources and planetary boundaries
www.se.com/ww/en/insigh...
www.se.com/ww/en/insigh...
December 21, 2025 at 7:34 PM
Cool analysis here looking at different global scenarios for AI growth. The 'abundance' scenario naturally does the most damage to ecosystems, resources and planetary boundaries
www.se.com/ww/en/insigh...
www.se.com/ww/en/insigh...
We’re living in Alexander Hamilton’s America, where capital dominates and the President exercises powers just shy of a monarch’s (including extensive intervention in industry on behalf of elite interests).
It’s unfortunate that Miranda’s silly musical warped the public’s understanding of Hamilton.
It’s unfortunate that Miranda’s silly musical warped the public’s understanding of Hamilton.
December 21, 2025 at 5:40 PM
We’re living in Alexander Hamilton’s America, where capital dominates and the President exercises powers just shy of a monarch’s (including extensive intervention in industry on behalf of elite interests).
It’s unfortunate that Miranda’s silly musical warped the public’s understanding of Hamilton.
It’s unfortunate that Miranda’s silly musical warped the public’s understanding of Hamilton.
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From @science.org Breakthrough of the Year: Solar Energy
December 21, 2025 at 1:48 PM
From @science.org Breakthrough of the Year: Solar Energy
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a power outage is unusual, but not so unusual it can be waved away as an "edge case"... these vehicles should be pulling over and parking if they can't operate safely, not piling up in intersections and clogging roads
“Traffic lights across the city were down, seemingly confusing the driverless cars — and halting them in their tracks. Riders and pedestrians posted videos of Waymos stuck at intersections, long lines of drivers behind them.” missionlocal.org/2025/12/sf-w...
Waymo halts service during massive S.F. blackout after causing traffic jams
Numerous autonomous vehicles caused traffic jams across San Francisco after a PG&E outage hit 1/3 of the city.
missionlocal.org
December 21, 2025 at 4:47 PM
a power outage is unusual, but not so unusual it can be waved away as an "edge case"... these vehicles should be pulling over and parking if they can't operate safely, not piling up in intersections and clogging roads
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This Yglesias piece in the NYT is horrifically bad. Almost every "fact" it cites is provably false. At best it is cocktail party banter from a pundit who knows nothing of energy. At worst, it was cut/paste from oil industry talking points. So, a rebuttal: www.nytimes.com/2025/12/18/o...
Opinion | Obama Supported It. The Left in Canada and Norway Does. Why Don’t Democrats?
www.nytimes.com
December 20, 2025 at 2:57 PM
This Yglesias piece in the NYT is horrifically bad. Almost every "fact" it cites is provably false. At best it is cocktail party banter from a pundit who knows nothing of energy. At worst, it was cut/paste from oil industry talking points. So, a rebuttal: www.nytimes.com/2025/12/18/o...
Most people don’t! There’s lots of other deeply disturbing stuff about RFK and JFK most people don’t know, because Kennedy hagiography is so strong.
I did not know that Bobby Kennedy, father of Trump’s anti-vaccine health secretary, RFK Jr., once worked for Joseph McCarthy.
(from: “Ghosts of Iron Mountain”)
(from: “Ghosts of Iron Mountain”)
December 20, 2025 at 11:24 PM
Most people don’t! There’s lots of other deeply disturbing stuff about RFK and JFK most people don’t know, because Kennedy hagiography is so strong.
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The Abundance movement often points to environmental groups as the obstacles to building. But who actually files the lawsuits blocking projects? It’s not environmental groups. It’s been lawyered-up HOAs protecting property values all along. Regulation by litigation is the problem.
December 20, 2025 at 7:57 PM
The Abundance movement often points to environmental groups as the obstacles to building. But who actually files the lawsuits blocking projects? It’s not environmental groups. It’s been lawyered-up HOAs protecting property values all along. Regulation by litigation is the problem.
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To grow its ad biz in China, Meta has relied on ad agency partners given the power to create special enforcement-protected ad accounts and share them with resellers. The system produces so much fraud that Meta internally calls China its top “scam exporting nation.”
www.reuters.com/investigatio...
www.reuters.com/investigatio...
Meta tolerates rampant ad fraud from China to safeguard billions in revenue
A Reuters investigation reveals the owner of Facebook, Instagram and Whatsapp decided to accept high levels of fraudulent advertisements from China. Internal company documents show Meta wanted to mini...
www.reuters.com
December 15, 2025 at 1:24 PM
To grow its ad biz in China, Meta has relied on ad agency partners given the power to create special enforcement-protected ad accounts and share them with resellers. The system produces so much fraud that Meta internally calls China its top “scam exporting nation.”
www.reuters.com/investigatio...
www.reuters.com/investigatio...
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Days after FIFA awarded Trump a fake peace prize, DOJ moves to drop charges in FIFA corruption case www.nytimes.com/2025/12/10/n...
U.S. Moves to Drop Charges in International Soccer Corruption Case
www.nytimes.com
December 11, 2025 at 1:09 AM
Days after FIFA awarded Trump a fake peace prize, DOJ moves to drop charges in FIFA corruption case www.nytimes.com/2025/12/10/n...
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"the USPS is a miracle. it's in the constitution. for the price of a single stamp you can send a letter across the country, from Hawaii to Maine. Trump is trying to take that away from you. He's attacking Christmas cards and wedding invitations. It's un-American and it has to stop."
February 21, 2025 at 10:32 PM
"the USPS is a miracle. it's in the constitution. for the price of a single stamp you can send a letter across the country, from Hawaii to Maine. Trump is trying to take that away from you. He's attacking Christmas cards and wedding invitations. It's un-American and it has to stop."
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Historian of eugenics here. I don't normally like to retweet bad arguments, but this is such a fundamental misunderstanding of eugenics, I think it's important to point out. I don't have time to debunk all of the ways this is inaccurate, but I'll highlight a few things and then recommend some books🧵
December 4, 2025 at 12:44 PM
Historian of eugenics here. I don't normally like to retweet bad arguments, but this is such a fundamental misunderstanding of eugenics, I think it's important to point out. I don't have time to debunk all of the ways this is inaccurate, but I'll highlight a few things and then recommend some books🧵
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Wild how the Fed chair saying that *entire regions of the United States* won’t be able to get a mortgage in the next decade barely registered as a news event
June 18, 2025 at 8:14 PM
Wild how the Fed chair saying that *entire regions of the United States* won’t be able to get a mortgage in the next decade barely registered as a news event
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Bloomberg has upped its projections of data centre demand in the US by 36% (!!!!!)
And most new projects are popping up next to old projects: meaning the local effects will be even worse
about.bnef.com/insights/cle...
www.semafor.com/article/12/0...
And most new projects are popping up next to old projects: meaning the local effects will be even worse
about.bnef.com/insights/cle...
www.semafor.com/article/12/0...
December 2, 2025 at 1:48 PM
Bloomberg has upped its projections of data centre demand in the US by 36% (!!!!!)
And most new projects are popping up next to old projects: meaning the local effects will be even worse
about.bnef.com/insights/cle...
www.semafor.com/article/12/0...
And most new projects are popping up next to old projects: meaning the local effects will be even worse
about.bnef.com/insights/cle...
www.semafor.com/article/12/0...
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I cannot emphasise enough how much I hate stuff that turns pedestrian spaces into roads
(also see: sleazy silicon valley e-scooter rental companies + chaddy going max speed in the dark)
(also see: sleazy silicon valley e-scooter rental companies + chaddy going max speed in the dark)
Just as you thought food delivery companies couldn't inflict any more misery on society:
Instead of using lowly-paid gig economy contractors to deliver groceries, they're replacing humans with robots, who, in turn, force humans off the pavement into road traffic.
Instead of using lowly-paid gig economy contractors to deliver groceries, they're replacing humans with robots, who, in turn, force humans off the pavement into road traffic.
November 28, 2025 at 8:17 PM
I cannot emphasise enough how much I hate stuff that turns pedestrian spaces into roads
(also see: sleazy silicon valley e-scooter rental companies + chaddy going max speed in the dark)
(also see: sleazy silicon valley e-scooter rental companies + chaddy going max speed in the dark)
As Zeynep has argued, this smug view - which is fed by a bunch of Koch-funded social scientists - is predicated on a false confidence that we can precisely measure these effects.
It’s also hilarious when prominent members and shapers of The Discourse portray themselves as arms-length from it.
It’s also hilarious when prominent members and shapers of The Discourse portray themselves as arms-length from it.
Fitting, since the circa 2016 Russian Facebook activity got orders of magnitude more traction in the Discourse than it did among regular people.
I'm deeply skeptical of mainstream disinformation discourse, and it's pretty clear that most of the foreign X accounts are just engagment farming. But to the extent they're politically important, it's to X's gathered elites, not the masses nymag.com/intelligence...
November 26, 2025 at 6:33 PM
As Zeynep has argued, this smug view - which is fed by a bunch of Koch-funded social scientists - is predicated on a false confidence that we can precisely measure these effects.
It’s also hilarious when prominent members and shapers of The Discourse portray themselves as arms-length from it.
It’s also hilarious when prominent members and shapers of The Discourse portray themselves as arms-length from it.
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'the economy' is people burning through slabs of glass and silicon at an absurd rate even though they don't need or want to
November 25, 2025 at 7:58 AM
'the economy' is people burning through slabs of glass and silicon at an absurd rate even though they don't need or want to
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Deeply absurd. This Google PDF published on a blog (arxiv, not peer reviewed) claims an LLM is "PhD level" but in most cases the MAJORITY of reference URLs were invalid or inaccessible.
A PhD sitting down and just fabricating >50% of sources = career ending
arxiv.org/abs/2511.11597
A PhD sitting down and just fabricating >50% of sources = career ending
arxiv.org/abs/2511.11597
November 24, 2025 at 7:36 PM
Deeply absurd. This Google PDF published on a blog (arxiv, not peer reviewed) claims an LLM is "PhD level" but in most cases the MAJORITY of reference URLs were invalid or inaccessible.
A PhD sitting down and just fabricating >50% of sources = career ending
arxiv.org/abs/2511.11597
A PhD sitting down and just fabricating >50% of sources = career ending
arxiv.org/abs/2511.11597
The meeting between Trump and Mamdani - both fans of Pro Wrestling - shows that populist politics is just WWE by another name now.
These people need each other, desperately.
These people need each other, desperately.
November 23, 2025 at 2:19 PM
The meeting between Trump and Mamdani - both fans of Pro Wrestling - shows that populist politics is just WWE by another name now.
These people need each other, desperately.
These people need each other, desperately.
Our country’s politics, culture, and economy would be well-served if we reduced the stranglehold New York City has over each of them.
November 22, 2025 at 1:11 AM
Our country’s politics, culture, and economy would be well-served if we reduced the stranglehold New York City has over each of them.
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POLITICO: “.. Among those who received the ‘full, complete and unconditional’ pardons were Rudy Giuliani .. Mark Meadows, .. John Eastman and Kenneth Chesebro, .. Boris Epshteyn .. and Sidney Powell ..”
@politico.com @kyledcheney.bsky.social
www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
@politico.com @kyledcheney.bsky.social
www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
November 10, 2025 at 10:58 AM
POLITICO: “.. Among those who received the ‘full, complete and unconditional’ pardons were Rudy Giuliani .. Mark Meadows, .. John Eastman and Kenneth Chesebro, .. Boris Epshteyn .. and Sidney Powell ..”
@politico.com @kyledcheney.bsky.social
www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
@politico.com @kyledcheney.bsky.social
www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
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Meta annually earns $16 billion (with a "b") on ads built to defraud people.
It's so bad that Meta itself admits that its advertising tools and platforms have made it a pillar of the global scam economy.
Reporting by Reuters.
www.reuters.com/investigatio...
It's so bad that Meta itself admits that its advertising tools and platforms have made it a pillar of the global scam economy.
Reporting by Reuters.
www.reuters.com/investigatio...
November 6, 2025 at 12:34 PM
Meta annually earns $16 billion (with a "b") on ads built to defraud people.
It's so bad that Meta itself admits that its advertising tools and platforms have made it a pillar of the global scam economy.
Reporting by Reuters.
www.reuters.com/investigatio...
It's so bad that Meta itself admits that its advertising tools and platforms have made it a pillar of the global scam economy.
Reporting by Reuters.
www.reuters.com/investigatio...