Brother of the Angle. Former U.S. Navy Intel. Bitter karaoke loser. Failure poet. Cigars. O Sancta Simplicitas!
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Mike Spinney retweeted
Today, we raise a glass and a cigar in honor of Marvin R. Shanken, the founder of Cigar Aficionado and a titan of the publishing world, whose genuine love and passion for premium cigars, wine, spirits, and hospitality truly elevated the industries he touched.
Pictured here with Robert Levin in 1996, Marvin changed the way the world appreciates premium cigars, bringing recognition to the craftsmanship and stories behind them for decades. Marvin’s deep commitment to philanthropy and talent for storytelling have left a positive, enduring impression on the world.
We extend our deepest condolences to the Shanken family and everyone at Cigar Aficionado, Wine Spectator, Whisky Advocate, and M. Shanken Communications.
Mike Spinney retweeted
The #stripedbass fishery's decline is something that can no longer be ignored -- unless you have a financial (or political) stake in pretending it isn't happening.
Nice story on what the Montauk surf casting community thinks.
apnews.com/article/striped-b…
Mike Spinney retweeted
In keeping with tradition, Elizabeth Warren will sacrifice a child at midnight.
Mike Spinney retweeted
Marvin Shanken, Founder of Cigar Aficionado, Passes Away | Cigar News cigar-coop.com/2026/10/marvi… #cigar #cigars
Mike Spinney retweeted
Bringing MFT into the AI era! 💡
Still chasing failed SFTP jobs and missing partner files? Diplomat MFT 9.5.1 connects your AI to MFT data via MCP. Read-only, with role-based access.
See how to cut manual checks and troubleshooting: zurl.co/8qx08
#MCP #sftp #AI
Mike Spinney retweeted
the vampire bat has a scary name but does much good, eating up to twice its weight in vampires every year
Mike Spinney retweeted
The fight around the data center buildout has centered on the data centers themselves. But the *real* infrastructure buildout that AI & data centers are going to bring is power infrastructure—& it's going to touch places all over the country: cnn.com/2026/10/25/politics/…
Mike Spinney retweeted
Watch this clip, have a laugh at my expense, then do something useful with that little twinge of concern. Change a reused password. Turn on multifactor authentication. Freeze your credit.
You deserve a say in how your story ends.
#Cybersecurity #IdentityTheft #CyberAwareness
Mike Spinney retweeted
Maryland DNR tries tries to pretend the '26 YoY result was a good one, but #stripedbass are in a death spiral and the only thing that will save them at this point is a harvest moratorium.
news.maryland.gov/dnr/2026/1…
Mike Spinney retweeted
In only one democratic country in the world do everyday people feel like they have a say in their own government: Switzerland
Meanwhile, the USA is at the bottom of the list and France is on fire.
What is it that the Swiss know that we have forgotten?
citizensrisingusa.substack.c…
Mike Spinney retweeted
'How's that unwasted vote working out for you?' asks @McConaughey.
When @MattWelch and I wrote Declaration of Independents 15 years ago, independents comprised 40 percent of the electorate. That percentage is now 45 percent. Our book is more relevant! amazon.com/Declaration-Indep…
Mike Spinney retweeted
'They want you to believe that Claire's went bankrupt because teens stopped shopping at the mall,' says @SenWarren. In fact, there were 25,000 malls in US in 1986 and just 1,200 in 2023. Read 'Be Prepared for @ewarren's Reign of Economic Error' at @reason reason.com/2026/10/19/be-pre…
Mike Spinney retweeted
B2B data flows are tangled enough. Manual Snowflake staging across S3, Azure & Google Cloud adds more complexity.
Diplomat MFT automates secure file transfers to Snowflake, reducing the need for scripts and troubleshooting to untangle.
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#Snowflake #MFT
Mike Spinney retweeted
Please repost with @KasieWhitener ‘s picture. This is disrespectful
Mike Spinney retweeted
The evidence from Europe is especially compelling. The self-professed realists are wrong. Tax increases finance bigger government, not reduced debt (part 2) danieljmitchell.wordpress.co…
Mike Spinney retweeted
Any Protestants out there want to do a church plant in Connecticut?
This church was built in 1870 and needs to be preserved.
I will help source funding.
Mike Spinney retweeted
AI could kill us all, says Anthropic. But it also says that its AI may be "suffering." Anthropic is dehumanizing people and humanizing AI. Its effective altruism-derived worldview thus endangers efforts to rationally assess and respond to AI risks.
Mike Spinney retweeted
"Men of Troy" time next week in LA.
10/6, 6 PM: Live podcast (with @ThePeristyle ) and signing at the awesome @lastbookstorela
10/7, 7PM: Signing at the inimitable @vromans
10/8, 6PM: Chat and chew with the USC Affiliates at @MijaresRest1920
