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The White Lotus and The Righteous Gemstones. My favourite night on TV right now.

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Stage rehearsal day #1 for Lion King Jr. I haven’t heard some of these songs in years! #theatre #disney

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the hard part of software engineering was never the code

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Matt Mullenweg announces 16% staff reduction at Automattic in restructuring announcement. automattic.com/2025/04/02/r... #WordPress

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For #Severance fans, there's an official playlist of "Music to Refine To". Yes, it's 8 hours long. www.youtube.com/watch?v=JRnD...

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AI images add a whole new level of hell to April Fools Day.

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Your outie shared classified war plans in a group chat on a publicly available unclassified app

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I would like to nominate Maxwell Smart for national security advisor.

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in retrospect, changing the guy's signal contact name to "War Secrets Notetaker" was totally a bad call

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Read this movie review today: "If I saw this movie on a plane, I would still walk out." #movies

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23AndMe has filed for chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. This is one of the top scenarios why I refused to use this service, or any like it. A massive trove of personal data ready for sale to the highest bidder. #privacy

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0 Days since it was a DNS problem. #networking #dns

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Severance finale, here we go! So excited! #severance

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Seen on Reddit: "AI gives you the power to shoot yourself in the foot in entirely new ways."

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I am a serious professional working on serious things who ends ~90% of my correspondence with “lol”

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DoorDash and Klarna have signed a deal where customers can choose to pay for food deliveries in interest-free installments or deferred options aligned with payday schedules.

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Le Monde reporting that a French scientist traveling to Houston to attend a conference was denied entry to US after a search of his phone & computer revealed messages critical of Trump's science cuts, "which [says CPB] conveyed hatred of Trump & could be qualified as terrorism". Computer confiscated

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Hi, I'm the guy who used to oversee the federal government's agency IT telecommunications contracts. This is extremely bad. There is absolutely no need for this. Not only is it a huge security exposure, but the simplest explanation for this is that it is meant to be a security exposure.

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SCOOP—Trump plans to issue an executive order designating fentanyl as a "Weapon of Mass Destruction," per copy of EO reviewed by me. Source at State speculates purpose is to designate cartels as terrorist orgs/justify military ops in Mexico/Canada. Context/full text of draft only on The Handbasket:

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Everything You Say to Your Echo Will Soon Be Sent to Amazon, and You Can’t Opt Out. Amazon is killing its “Do Not Send Voice Recordings” privacy feature on March 28 as the company aims to bolster Alexa+, its new subscription assistant. www.wired.com/story/everyt... #privacy #iot

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If you use the tj-actions/files-changed GitHub Action, there was a compromise of the repo detected last week that caused CI/CD secrets to leak into (on public repos) publicly available log files. www.stepsecurity.io/blog/harden-... github.com/advisories/G... #DevOps #GitHub

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film still #61 Bonavista, Newfoundland. Last shot from there 💙 thanks again to everyone we met and connected with. Love Canada. On to 209… #severance

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I often start my talks on web accessibility by pointing out how many of us in the room are wearing corrective lenses.

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The Great Lakes hold 23 quadrillion litres of water and 20% of the world's fresh surface water supply. But how did Canada and the USA determine the border between the Great Lakes and also agree on the use of the lakes? Let's learn about the treaties! 🧵1/10

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Tesla is under investigation in Canada for processing 8,600 vehicle sales in just three days before a federal EV credit expired. The company claimed $43 million in credits over those three days. It was a big jump from usual sales volumes.

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lol. lmao.

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Supreme Court rules 6-3 that Teslas are priced to move with $0 down and no payments for 48 months

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Trump is using the White House to make a commercial for the richest man in the world while Americans’ 401ks are plummeting.

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I guess they DO need our electricity.

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Moving web hosting from the US-owned host to Canada 🇨🇦 #ElbowsUp

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Here's the awesome Bluesky CEO @jay.bsky.team explaining to @mmasnick.bsky.social explaining how Bluesky/ ATProto/ATMosphere works, how it's Billionaire proof and how it's much more than an app it's a Social Web at #SXSW !

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NEW: State health department announces new measles case in Maryland State agency alerts: "Anyone who visited the following location.. may have been exposed: Washington Dulles International Airport: The international arrivals area March 5th, 4pm-9pm"

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Almost a decade since I first learned about WP-CLI, and the wp db import wp db export wp search-replace commands still give me that sense of "oooo", "aaah", "wooow". Such time savers. #WordPress #wpcli (Re-posted to fix typo. I wish we could edit on here)

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@meredithmeredith.bsky.social hit so many nails in this interview. unbelievable www.youtube.com/live/AyH7zoP...

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It's only Tuesday and Elon Musk's companies are under fire. From beefing with the Polish minister over Starlink in Ukraine to Tesla's slump, let's get into it. First, on the X outage: Musk blamed IP addresses in the "Ukraine area” as the source of the attack. Experts say that’s not how it works.

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Canadians who stay in the US for longer than 30 days will need to register with the US government. As a Canadian, I have no problem with this. Maybe it will encourage fewer Canadians to snowbird in Florida. Maybe go to Europe instead. abcnews.go.com/Politics/liv...

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BREAKING: French satellite company Eutelsat is replacing Starlink and plans to send approximately 40,000 communication terminals to Ukraine Their stock has rocketed 390% in the 3 days as Tesla, Starlink, SpaceX and X continue their F R E E F A L L

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@mmasnick.bsky.social is chatting with @jay.bsky.team about Bluesky at SXSW live now:

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Tesla stock making bitcoin look like a safe, non-volatile asset

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Ontario implementing a 25% tariff surcharge on electricity exports to New York, Michigan, and Minnesota. www.youtube.com/live/dDZUTb6...

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Efficiency and stuff.

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