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Time flies like an arrow, but fruit flies like bananas.
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For real, the lean into AI and LLMs is just part and parcel of the general replacement of reality with kayfabe.

#WrestlingWithReality

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faving a toot like bless your heart

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#exponentile

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Aside: Admittedly small potatoes in the scheme of things, but it is awfully nice of TM to use sequential ids rather than random uuid's to identify users. Might usefully clarify the onboarding timeline.

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This slide, from @micahflee@infosec.exchange's engaging presentation, available on youtube:

"We are currently clean on OPSEC": The Signalgate Saga (DEFCON 33).

#SignalGate #OSINT #DEFCON33

Screenshot of the Validations table from Micah Lee's Telemessage Explorer (suitably redacted). The columns are ID, Username (here, phone number, of which area code is visible), Email (of which domain is visible), and counts of users, messages, and groups).

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It's not a double negative,
it's just negative concord.

#Linguistics #Languages

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Escaping Saussignac.

#SilentSunday #Photography

A country road. A meadow. A road sign indicating bends in the road. Another road sign indicating that we are leaving Saussignac.

Photo: Brad Rubenstein (2025)

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Apropos nothing, something like 45% of the U.S. population is already covered by single-payer (government) healthcare.