dan-oz.bsky.social

dan-oz.bsky.social

@dan-oz.bsky.social

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"We noticed you're using an ad blocker. Ads are important to us. Blah blah blah." I HAVE A SUBSCRIPTION TO YOUR SITE. Can we please, please collectively move on from the supreme importance of being bombarded by low quality suggestions to buy something as a critical pillar of general interaction?

If nothing else, some meaningful steps to disentangle the process of ad service from being as much about tracking people's attention and sentiment as selling them things. That'd be great.

Front door guy at Best Buy goes, "Can I help you find anything in particular?" I say, "A way to make my wife and daughter leave Nordstrom Rack in a reasonable amount of time? If not I'm just browsing." Dude says, "The store is yours my brother..." and holds out his fist for drive-by bump. #bro

Place I volunteer with here in Durham can tell you what they didn't get, too. Locals have stepped up to fill gaps, but that's an entirely different scale so each dollar's not going as far. Still, glad Durham has a big heart.

ProPublica@propublica.org

#ICYMI: ProPublica obtained records from the Department of Agriculture that detailed the millions of pounds of food, down to the number of eggs, that never reached food banks because of the Trump administration’s cuts to an aid program. (Published Oct. 2025)

Microsoft said, "10 is dead and you can't 11 without the AI BS!" I said, "OK fine, you seem not to have paid attention to Linux gaming lately." While the gaming on Fedora has been fine, I forgot that every cloud service in the universe was going to bury me under "new signin" alerts. 😅

We're giving up academia and tech. We're starting a late-midlife husband/wife pro wrestling duo. We shall be Sugar Cain, whose finishing move is the Insulin Shocker, and Pol-karnage who finishes opponents with the Kill-basa. Deducing which is whom, we leave to the reader.

I've given the algorithm no evidence that I care a whit about tennis, but it DESPERATELY wants me to know that an American won the French Open. Sure, I like a good sport clip from anything on The Ocho - but this is just "American win yay." Thx? Nationalism FTW, I guess?

Congrats, BTW, to the athlete in question. I bet she's a badass tennis player and there are probably some sweet highlights - but the winning point clip isn't exactly making me go "OMG how have I slept on tennis all these years???" :)

Place I volunteer is serving about 30% more meals than they were, previously. Assistance agencies are losing dollars at the same time that a lot of "just getting by" folks are getting hit from different directions. Buckle up, it feels like the snowball has started rolling downhill. :/

When I was part of the vanguard for "coming out" announcements multiple times, I had a moment. I'm an accepting guy but not, like, a snuggly and supportive guy. I realized that if my honest, respectful, baseline acceptance put me at the leading edge of treating them nicely ... they were owed better.

Mike Nichols@tallmiken.bsky.social

I like people in general and I hate bullies and busybodies. Later, as I got to know more trans folks, I realized that the ones I met just wanted to live the quiet, unobtrusive life that I took for granted. And that honestly made me want to help more.

Yes, pride is a deadly sin. But when your 13 year old daughter is recounting how she wrecked her friends in Mario Kart and they set it to 200ccs hoping everyone would suck... only for her to keep wrecking them? It can be forgiven. Even Dante would be like "No you go, that there's just human."

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Elon Musk’s team posted an online “wall of receipts,” celebrating how much it had saved by canceling federal contracts. Now it has deleted all of the five biggest “savings” on that original list, after The New York Times and other media outlets pointed out they were riddled with errors.

nytimes.comDOGE Quietly Deletes the 5 Biggest Spending Cuts It Celebrated Last WeekThe cuts, highlighted on an earlier version of the “wall of receipts” posted by Elon Musk’s team, contained mistakes that vastly inflated the amount of money saved.

We got about .5 extra inches this morning. North Carolina really isn't built for this so thank goodness it'll be in the 40s for the next day or two. That's somewhere between 3 and 4 inches, depending on the spot in our yard. :)

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Ghost Dog is a movie that sounds like some sort of fever dream when you describe it to people. "Forrest Whittaker plays a samurai who works for elderly Italian mobsters. He raises pigeons and his best friend is a Haitian ice cream salesman who speaks only French."

Allow me to interpret a relatively technical post for y'all. cyberintel.substack.com/p/doge-expos... "DOGE bros wanted to firehose government data into their snake-oil AI bullshit, but networking is hard, so they just hooked up crazy sensitive servers to the interwebs." (12ft.io helps you read)

cyberintel.substack.comDOGE Exposes Once-Secret Government Networks, Making Cyber-Espionage Easier than EverA new investigation shows nuclear secrets and government servers are dangerously exposed to nation-state hackers.

To be clear - these people are hacks. If they were carpenters you'd shun their houses. Here's an example of "genius tech bros" striking out. Context is important and it's something these idiots completely lack. They're relying on AI because it does everything! Right? RIGHT? 🙄

Recently, I climbed a v4 bouldering course - a personal best. To celebrate I started looking through my old pics of notable routes, and this one is the oldest. I have to assume I was looking at the pink route, but I've grown enough that that's a total guess! 😅 I take that as a good thing.

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