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I like to hack code and electronics, take photos and design pretty things. (he/him)

Seattle, Washington
Joined April 2007
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movie idea: Time traveling cupcakes fight the great frosting lord, Frostos, in an effort to save grandma's secret recipe from falling in to the wrong hands and destroying the earth. They must stop him before he can fully harness the power of the Hundreds-and-Thousands gauntlet.
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Guy who just found a 16 year old receipt from KFC sitting in a pile of mold on his bed: Here is how I think the economy should work
Replying to @nmplol
Ok. This is a receipt from when I went to KFC in 2008 If Kamala really cares about me, what is she doing to bring back these prices
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now this is a side project
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Congratulations to Alice Marwick @alicetiara , whose book, The Private is Political: Networked Privacy and Social media, is the winner of the 2024 APSA ITP best book award.
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I've tried to read the captcha with Bing, and it is possible after some prompt-visual engineering (visual-prompting, huh?) In the second screenshot, Bing is quoting the captcha 🌚
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I've edited the engraving from the most recent video into a separate long-form video, be sure to check it out: youtu.be/piqPfPU4l78
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Last year, I paid thousands of dollars for a physical at one of the best hospitals in America I wanted to see how different healthcare was for the ultra-rich, and what this meant for the rest of the healthcare system Here's what I learned:
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Replying to @LinusEkenstam
@LinusEkenstam He was bored so we took him to the local museum.
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These images in the wake of an Earthquake and Hurricane out of Studio City, California are frightening.
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The render distance is pretty short today.
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The smoke is coming people. No joke. #wawx #wawildfire
Here are the latest smoke projections for the Pacific Northwest. #idwx #orwx
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We have identified three new locations for additional cameras as part of the automated enforcement pilot program. These cameras will help monitor cars illegally driving in bus-only lanes and blocking intersections/crosswalks. Read more here: sdotblog.seattle.gov/2023/08…
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lol
Not only is this not the same person but someone ran a traceroute on her website, tiffanygomas(dot)ćom, and it runs through a Washington DC email. Her IP isn't your standard home internet IP address, mostly likely ran through a government server. This was government created.
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
The traceroute in question run through a Level3 hub in Washington, D.C. Level3 is a Internet backbone provider, so that's normal. 192.185.189.181 isn't "a default subnet address for your home router". That would be 192.168.*.*. datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc19… 192.185.*.* is websitewelcome.com, a website hosting company. whois.com/whois/192.185.…
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remembering the mid-late 90s when I first heard this song youtu.be/E3q_ft2VS14 on @kexp and I immediately ran out and picked up the CD.
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Props to REI for helping drive support for the EBIKE Act. Today, electric cars get $7500 subsidies and electric bikes get none. Yet all cars already receive enormous subsidies in the form of roads (which cars then destroy). A subsidy for ebikes is a sensible policy we should all get behind.
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The new flashing X logo reminds me of a Kratom or vape shop style signage.
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"pedestrians have been killed by cyclists who ran stop signs and red lights"
Bicycles breaking the rules of the road are indeed very dangerous. Pedestrians have been killed by cyclists who ran stop signs and red lights. Cyclists running stop signs and red lights can cause cars to swerve or slam their brakes which can cause accidents.
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Slow motion horror show- will be the defining feature of my lifetime I am sure. I hope it drives large scale fixes- worried that can only happen via geopolitical tectonics – at Seattle, WA
Do you remember yesterday's global surface air temperature record? It just got shattered again:
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