wrosecrans
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Will Rosecrans, @forkazoo on Twitter
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“Come with me if you want to live”
That old line.
“I said, come—“
“I KNOW. I’M THINKING.”
“What, uh, why, I mean, your destiny”
“Siddown, kid”
“There’s no time”
“You’re a time traveler. They could have sent you back with plenty of time to act, but they made it so you’re rushed and […]
That old line.
“I said, come—“
“I KNOW. I’M THINKING.”
“What, uh, why, I mean, your destiny”
“Siddown, kid”
“There’s no time”
“You’re a time traveler. They could have sent you back with plenty of time to act, but they made it so you’re rushed and […]
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aus.social
February 14, 2026 at 12:17 AM
“Come with me if you want to live”
That old line.
“I said, come—“
“I KNOW. I’M THINKING.”
“What, uh, why, I mean, your destiny”
“Siddown, kid”
“There’s no time”
“You’re a time traveler. They could have sent you back with plenty of time to act, but they made it so you’re rushed and […]
That old line.
“I said, come—“
“I KNOW. I’M THINKING.”
“What, uh, why, I mean, your destiny”
“Siddown, kid”
“There’s no time”
“You’re a time traveler. They could have sent you back with plenty of time to act, but they made it so you’re rushed and […]
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There's a default assumption baked into how Silicon Valley builds products,
and it tracks against how urban planners redesign neighbourhoods: that communities are interchangeable,
and if you "lose" one, you can manufacture a replacement;
that the value of a group of people who share space and […]
and it tracks against how urban planners redesign neighbourhoods: that communities are interchangeable,
and if you "lose" one, you can manufacture a replacement;
that the value of a group of people who share space and […]
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c.im
February 12, 2026 at 3:38 AM
There's a default assumption baked into how Silicon Valley builds products,
and it tracks against how urban planners redesign neighbourhoods: that communities are interchangeable,
and if you "lose" one, you can manufacture a replacement;
that the value of a group of people who share space and […]
and it tracks against how urban planners redesign neighbourhoods: that communities are interchangeable,
and if you "lose" one, you can manufacture a replacement;
that the value of a group of people who share space and […]
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"Criminality is so rampant inside #cbp that it has seen one of its own agents or officers arrested every 24 to 36 hours since 2005...
In total, according to CBP’s own discipline reports, over the 20 years from 2005 to 2024 — the last year numbers are available […]
[Original post on newsie.social]
In total, according to CBP’s own discipline reports, over the 20 years from 2005 to 2024 — the last year numbers are available […]
[Original post on newsie.social]
February 2, 2026 at 8:28 PM
"Criminality is so rampant inside #cbp that it has seen one of its own agents or officers arrested every 24 to 36 hours since 2005...
In total, according to CBP’s own discipline reports, over the 20 years from 2005 to 2024 — the last year numbers are available […]
[Original post on newsie.social]
In total, according to CBP’s own discipline reports, over the 20 years from 2005 to 2024 — the last year numbers are available […]
[Original post on newsie.social]
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also I don't know what it is about CSRF and XSS and CORS and CSP etc that make it so hard to remember what they mean, I think it's partly that they all sound exactly the same. Like
- in CSRF the CS is for "cross-site"
- but in XSS "cross-site" is "XS"
- but in CSP the "CS" is for "content […]
- in CSRF the CS is for "cross-site"
- but in XSS "cross-site" is "XS"
- but in CSP the "CS" is for "content […]
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social.jvns.ca
February 2, 2026 at 8:20 PM
also I don't know what it is about CSRF and XSS and CORS and CSP etc that make it so hard to remember what they mean, I think it's partly that they all sound exactly the same. Like
- in CSRF the CS is for "cross-site"
- but in XSS "cross-site" is "XS"
- but in CSP the "CS" is for "content […]
- in CSRF the CS is for "cross-site"
- but in XSS "cross-site" is "XS"
- but in CSP the "CS" is for "content […]
#opentimelineio is a nice simple text based JSON format that is easy to parse, so you can just use simple text processing to get information about a timeline and not need to worry about decoding binary like AAF -- wait What The Hell Adobe?
The place you decided […]
[Original post on mstdn.social]
The place you decided […]
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January 29, 2026 at 3:10 AM
#opentimelineio is a nice simple text based JSON format that is easy to parse, so you can just use simple text processing to get information about a timeline and not need to worry about decoding binary like AAF -- wait What The Hell Adobe?
The place you decided […]
[Original post on mstdn.social]
The place you decided […]
[Original post on mstdn.social]
It's always weird getting to a current events podcast a little late. Listening today to an episode of Lawfare recorded on Friday, "So the Eighth Circuit appellate court stayed an order from a lower court restraining ICE activity, unclear what effect that will have..." Oof, that didn't take long.
January 27, 2026 at 2:25 AM
It's always weird getting to a current events podcast a little late. Listening today to an episode of Lawfare recorded on Friday, "So the Eighth Circuit appellate court stayed an order from a lower court restraining ICE activity, unclear what effect that will have..." Oof, that didn't take long.
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PSA: when the majority is factually incorrect -
“12% of participants followed the group in nearly all of the tests. 26% of the sample consistently defied majority opinion, with the rest conforming on some trials.”
This is good approx stats on conformity. 12% are blind sheep, only 26% have […]
“12% of participants followed the group in nearly all of the tests. 26% of the sample consistently defied majority opinion, with the rest conforming on some trials.”
This is good approx stats on conformity. 12% are blind sheep, only 26% have […]
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mastodon.social
January 25, 2026 at 9:46 PM
PSA: when the majority is factually incorrect -
“12% of participants followed the group in nearly all of the tests. 26% of the sample consistently defied majority opinion, with the rest conforming on some trials.”
This is good approx stats on conformity. 12% are blind sheep, only 26% have […]
“12% of participants followed the group in nearly all of the tests. 26% of the sample consistently defied majority opinion, with the rest conforming on some trials.”
This is good approx stats on conformity. 12% are blind sheep, only 26% have […]
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Same thing every time:
1. Reframe the victim as the villain
2. Make the state the injured party
3. Turn critique into complicity (“oh so you side with terrorists”)
4. Expand blame to an entire out-group
5. Fuse to a larger us-against-them story to keep any alarmed within the base from defecting
1. Reframe the victim as the villain
2. Make the state the injured party
3. Turn critique into complicity (“oh so you side with terrorists”)
4. Expand blame to an entire out-group
5. Fuse to a larger us-against-them story to keep any alarmed within the base from defecting
Noem lies shamelessly: "An individual approached order Patrol officers with a 9mm semi-automatic gun. The officers attempted to disarm this individual, but the armed suspect reacted violently. This looks like a situation where an individual arrived to inflict maximum damage and kill law enforcement"
January 25, 2026 at 12:25 AM
Same thing every time:
1. Reframe the victim as the villain
2. Make the state the injured party
3. Turn critique into complicity (“oh so you side with terrorists”)
4. Expand blame to an entire out-group
5. Fuse to a larger us-against-them story to keep any alarmed within the base from defecting
1. Reframe the victim as the villain
2. Make the state the injured party
3. Turn critique into complicity (“oh so you side with terrorists”)
4. Expand blame to an entire out-group
5. Fuse to a larger us-against-them story to keep any alarmed within the base from defecting
I increasingly think that the "resource curse" in economics is a good model for the AI/Crypto/Adtech bubble that is driving pretty much all of US economic growth. We look more and more like a failing 20th Century petrostate. Frankly, like Venezuela looked not all that long ago, or middle eastern […]
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mstdn.social
January 19, 2026 at 9:09 PM
I increasingly think that the "resource curse" in economics is a good model for the AI/Crypto/Adtech bubble that is driving pretty much all of US economic growth. We look more and more like a failing 20th Century petrostate. Frankly, like Venezuela looked not all that long ago, or middle eastern […]
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RE: https://c.im/@cdarwin/115923688571752430
If police can come to your door in the middle of the night and put you behind bars
based on nothing more than an entirely false and contrived interpretation of a Facebook post,
no one’s First Amendment rights are safe
If police can come to your door in the middle of the night and put you behind bars
based on nothing more than an entirely false and contrived interpretation of a Facebook post,
no one’s First Amendment rights are safe
c.im
January 19, 2026 at 8:48 PM
RE: https://c.im/@cdarwin/115923688571752430
If police can come to your door in the middle of the night and put you behind bars
based on nothing more than an entirely false and contrived interpretation of a Facebook post,
no one’s First Amendment rights are safe
If police can come to your door in the middle of the night and put you behind bars
based on nothing more than an entirely false and contrived interpretation of a Facebook post,
no one’s First Amendment rights are safe
The worst budget airline you ever flew is now more aligned with you having easy access to healthcare than the head of HHS. We are in an era of strange bedfellows.
Airlines to save on fuel as weight-loss pills grow popular, Wall Street says https://share.google/dIt3yVIzn1cG1Y94p
Airlines to save on fuel as weight-loss pills grow popular, Wall Street says https://share.google/dIt3yVIzn1cG1Y94p
Airlines to save big money on fuel as new weight loss pills gain popularity, Wall Street says
Jefferies argued that a 10% reduction in average passenger weight could translate into roughly 2% total aircraft weight savings.
www.cnbc.com
January 15, 2026 at 8:14 PM
The worst budget airline you ever flew is now more aligned with you having easy access to healthcare than the head of HHS. We are in an era of strange bedfellows.
Airlines to save on fuel as weight-loss pills grow popular, Wall Street says https://share.google/dIt3yVIzn1cG1Y94p
Airlines to save on fuel as weight-loss pills grow popular, Wall Street says https://share.google/dIt3yVIzn1cG1Y94p
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photo of the vehicle that contained six children that ICE is accused of filling with smoke after choosing to deploy a military-grade device in a US city
Man says law enforcement threw flashbangs at car containing his 6 children
All of his children were hospitalized after his car flooded with smoke.
bringmethenews.com
January 15, 2026 at 6:49 PM
photo of the vehicle that contained six children that ICE is accused of filling with smoke after choosing to deploy a military-grade device in a US city
Weird AAF SDK observation for the day, it has 256 character file name limits baked in all over in the code I am looking at because it allocates a fixed size buffer for swapping between 8 bit strings and 16 bit wide strings in pretty much any function that handles path names in the file.
January 14, 2026 at 8:30 AM
Weird AAF SDK observation for the day, it has 256 character file name limits baked in all over in the code I am looking at because it allocates a fixed size buffer for swapping between 8 bit strings and 16 bit wide strings in pretty much any function that handles path names in the file.
Weird obscure little AAF SDK archeology tidbit of the day... Why the hell is aafdump so slow? Oh, it reads a bunch of stuff literallty one byte at a time for no reason. Maybe half a reason? It seems afraid that reading a stream will fail part way through, and it […]
[Original post on mstdn.social]
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January 14, 2026 at 12:33 AM
Weird obscure little AAF SDK archeology tidbit of the day... Why the hell is aafdump so slow? Oh, it reads a bunch of stuff literallty one byte at a time for no reason. Maybe half a reason? It seems afraid that reading a stream will fail part way through, and it […]
[Original post on mstdn.social]
[Original post on mstdn.social]
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It would take a two-word amendment to 42 U.S.C. § 1983 to subject ICE agents and other federal law enforcement officers to the same liability for constitutional violations that local and state officers currently face.
If Congress actually cared about what it's seeing, it could pass that overnight.
If Congress actually cared about what it's seeing, it could pass that overnight.
January 12, 2026 at 10:56 PM
It would take a two-word amendment to 42 U.S.C. § 1983 to subject ICE agents and other federal law enforcement officers to the same liability for constitutional violations that local and state officers currently face.
If Congress actually cared about what it's seeing, it could pass that overnight.
If Congress actually cared about what it's seeing, it could pass that overnight.
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Go poop a turd out your fartblaster.
January 1, 2026 at 6:39 AM
Go poop a turd out your fartblaster.
How weirdly obsolete is the most recent version of the official AAF SDK? It declares pointers as near/far like 16 bit DOS programs did.
https://github.com/dneg/aaf/blob/master/Utilities/aafdump/MStructuredStorage.cpp#L36
No wonder this nightmare format doesn't actually work for crap in modern […]
https://github.com/dneg/aaf/blob/master/Utilities/aafdump/MStructuredStorage.cpp#L36
No wonder this nightmare format doesn't actually work for crap in modern […]
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mstdn.social
January 10, 2026 at 12:25 AM
How weirdly obsolete is the most recent version of the official AAF SDK? It declares pointers as near/far like 16 bit DOS programs did.
https://github.com/dneg/aaf/blob/master/Utilities/aafdump/MStructuredStorage.cpp#L36
No wonder this nightmare format doesn't actually work for crap in modern […]
https://github.com/dneg/aaf/blob/master/Utilities/aafdump/MStructuredStorage.cpp#L36
No wonder this nightmare format doesn't actually work for crap in modern […]
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Here's a tracker of all the people (40) ICE has shot, including someone celebrating New Years by shooting his gun who was killed by an off-duty ICE goon.
www.thetrace.org/2025/12/immi...
www.thetrace.org/2025/12/immi...
How Many People Have Been Shot in ICE Raids?
The Trace is tracking gun incidents connected to Trump’s immigration crackdown. Know of one? Please be in touch.
www.thetrace.org
January 7, 2026 at 8:47 PM
Here's a tracker of all the people (40) ICE has shot, including someone celebrating New Years by shooting his gun who was killed by an off-duty ICE goon.
www.thetrace.org/2025/12/immi...
www.thetrace.org/2025/12/immi...
It's January 6th, and the US currently has a head of state sitting in jail facing charges today. So, that's a thing we can do, we just pick and choose who and when. So that's depressing in a depressing world.
January 6, 2026 at 8:32 PM
It's January 6th, and the US currently has a head of state sitting in jail facing charges today. So, that's a thing we can do, we just pick and choose who and when. So that's depressing in a depressing world.
Is LinkedIn going to add a specific category for Enshittification Engineers? Because that seems to be that actual growth job category in tech. No matter what you read about trendy buzzwords in white papers, Enshittification is absolutely booming and businesses all over are looking for people […]
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mstdn.social
January 5, 2026 at 10:07 PM
Is LinkedIn going to add a specific category for Enshittification Engineers? Because that seems to be that actual growth job category in tech. No matter what you read about trendy buzzwords in white papers, Enshittification is absolutely booming and businesses all over are looking for people […]
Why the hell is making scrollbars hard to see such a cornerstone of modern UI design? I just spent like two hours faffing around with my IDE, and apparently it's just kind of impossible to see the scrollbars with a dark theme even if you hack around in XML files to theoretically make them bright […]
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mstdn.social
December 30, 2025 at 1:02 AM
Why the hell is making scrollbars hard to see such a cornerstone of modern UI design? I just spent like two hours faffing around with my IDE, and apparently it's just kind of impossible to see the scrollbars with a dark theme even if you hack around in XML files to theoretically make them bright […]
"I'll just update this *one* thing," he said, like a moron, five hours earlier.
December 28, 2025 at 3:57 AM
"I'll just update this *one* thing," he said, like a moron, five hours earlier.
I've always found it a bit of a shame that Apple was always so belligerent to the "geekier" side of things because their history is full of interesting little tidbits and side stories that could have grown into something neat. In the 90's OSA (roughly speaking […]
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December 24, 2025 at 4:45 AM
I've always found it a bit of a shame that Apple was always so belligerent to the "geekier" side of things because their history is full of interesting little tidbits and side stories that could have grown into something neat. In the 90's OSA (roughly speaking […]
[Original post on mstdn.social]
[Original post on mstdn.social]
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‘Going full North Korean’: Internet erupts after Trump's new battleship announcement #USpol
www.rawstory.com/trump-battle...
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‘Going full North Korean’: Internet erupts after Trump's new battleship announcement
President Donald Trump’s announcement that a new class of U.S. Navy battleships would bear his name quickly set off a firestorm across social media, as critics argued it was the latest example of Trum...
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December 23, 2025 at 3:09 AM
‘Going full North Korean’: Internet erupts after Trump's new battleship announcement #USpol
www.rawstory.com/trump-battle...
www.rawstory.com/trump-battle...