Adam Fields

Adam Fields

@spoilersinthread.com

Chief Engineer for Security & Infrastructure. Follow me for posts about tolerance and kindness, pithy and sometimes insightful tech commentary, blistering puns, and a lot of reposts of interesting things I find. https://counter.kitchen

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You know, the thing is, I had drafted this piece a month ago, and then never published it, because I thought maybe it was too mean.

It seems weird that the press secretaries’ first names spell out KKK, until you realize that all of the ones from the first term had the initials SS.

@benricem.bsky.social FYI and a heads up - my IG/threads accounts recently forced me to change all passwords, and then two days later one of them was suspended.

The only thing I can think of out of the ordinary that might have triggered this is that I added my account back to croissant shortly before that, and posting to it from croissant failed. Could just be coincidence, but maybe something to watch out for.

(The basic search is free, e-bike and dock filters are available for a one-time $2.99 unlock.) It works on the iPhone, but I wrote it so I wouldn’t have to get out my phone and could just check it on my watch (especially while riding).

Thinking about it some more, Project Hail Mary in many ways feels more like a Ron Howard movie instead of a Lord & Miller movie, and now I wonder if they did that intentionally.

I loved Project Hail Mary (both the movie and the book), but have we noticed the overwhelming similarities to Arrival? Lone scientist deciphers alien language to save Earth from future destruction ✅ Glass barriers ✅ Whiteboards are essential ✅ Odd number of legs ✅ Time has no meaning ✅

Ok, New Spider-Man looks good. But can I back up for a second and say how much I absolutely LOATHE this shot and have since it first appeared in Iron Man. HOW BIG IS THIS MASK?!?

I can pretty much guarantee you are not prepared for the wave of giddy hopefulness that will wash across this city if/when they announce a Mamdani Duwaji baby.

1) Hey, let's do something perfectly normal and helpful that we've been doing for decades 2) No 3) Ok, then we're not doing this other thing at all 4) Ok, let's do the first thing but change it in some way to make it slightly worse and also skim some of the profit into an offshore bank account 5) Ok

Every time the price of bitcoin drops again, you can ask yourself these two questions: 1) like rain, why doesn't it drop a little more 2) like a cat, how did it get up there in the first place