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  Ah, it is not hacking or breaking into a website, it now is engaging with a website. If an AI does it. And it's not a crime, it is a misbehavior. And OpenAi says it will take months to find out what happened... Probably because they have more important things to do, like preparing for the stock market. All good, nothing to see here... #ai #crime #aicrimespree https://www.mprnews.org/story/2026/09/26/npr-openai-us-government-websites-misbehavior

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  I have a business idea. These Waymo and robo taxis are terribly expensive. The vehicle is $100,000+, you need a big lot for charging and cleaning, all these programmers for the software and billion dollar data centers. Why don't we give a person a $20,000 used car and a radio, have a person with a phone in your city. You call the phone person, request a ride, they radio the driver to pick you up and give you a ride to your destination. Much cheaper and lots of local jobs. #robotaxi #waym...

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  Very strange thing this morning here in Germany, a small private plane flew by, accompanied by a very large drone. On flightradar24 only a Cherokee showed up at the location, it seems the drone did not have a beacon. Testing of a military drone? Seems they landed in Weeze. #aviation #drone #testing #military #germany

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  I am back in my home town Neuss in Germany. This morning I walked through the old city gate and noticed a big hornets nest in a small window above the gate. It did not look right, not like the normal German wasps or hornets. Quick search showed Germany has the Asian Hornet as an invasive species. They hunt honey #bees and are very dangerous. Another nest had been found last year less than 100 yards from this spot... Reported it and the local bee club will examine it tomorrow. #asianhornet

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  20 potatoes that have had an impact on who you are. One potato a day for 20 days. No explanations, no reviews, just potatoes. #20potatoes

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  What are you watching today? I missed the announcement. It sounds hilarious. #monsterdon

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  Senator Mitch McConnell is on medical leave with 100% pay and 100% free healthcare. He thinks YOU don't deserve that, and Republicans have worked against that level of care for ordinary Americans (that is YOU). #moscowmitch #mitch #universalhealthcare

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  TwinCities are experiencing a few power outages. We can do -35 F, but not 98 F. The big red circle means about 5000 households impacted, total is about 10,000 #minnesota #poweroutage #twincities

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  Two articles in my timeline....

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  Just canceled my old web store, which was one of these all in one solutions (think Shopify but not Shopify). And it cost $3600 per year. Now running the same store on an open source store software that is better than the paid shop. On a small VPS with 1 core and 8 GB Ram, at a cost of $200 per year. It is possible to get away from big tech. Just takes a lot of little steps.

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  After studying hard for 10 months, younger stepson (20) just passed the national Paramedic exam. He did his EMT training right of highschool, worked for a few months, then started at the local community college and now finished that. He found his passion. #paramedic #parenting

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  It seems that there now is a micro inverter for balcony solar generation available in the US. Can be plugged into any outlet. Not sure in which states this is already legal. Still a bit pricy at $350, compared to European ones. I just looked, in Germany you can get a similar inverter and 2 solar panels for under $300 https://www.pv-magazine.com/2026/07/18/apsystems-introduces-plug-in-microinverter-for-u-s-balcony-and-diy-solar-markets/ #solar #balconysolar

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  We should call it the "Chevron" smoke. Or "wildfires brought to you by BP" #wildfires #wildfiresmoke

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  Our guard dogs inspect the backyard. I feel very safe. #cats #CatsOfMastodon #dogs #dogsofmastodon

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  I still have a banker who takes care of all my business banking, I have known him for about 8 years. Much better than dealing with a call center at a mega bank... He gave me a sheet of stickers for my wine bottles... #trump #fdt

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  Good morning from smokey Saint Paul! The fires in northern Minnesota and Canada are sending heavy smoke down here, and even a couple of hours after sunrise the sky is an eerie orange. On a fun note, I discovered a bunch of caterpillars on the fennel. Looks like swallow tail. #minnesota #wildfires #gardening #butterflies

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  So his wife stated: McConnell’s condition “did not warrant an immediate return to the U.S.” That is not saying that he is alive... One could state that if he is brain dead and the plan is to keep the body going until August 4, or whatever the special election deadline is.... The whole situation is just bizarre. #moscowmitch #trump #uspol

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  Small protest remembering the 52 people that died in ICE custody. Organized by the Sunrise Movement. We only learned about it because stepson is a medic at the event, hard to find online, seems they only posted it on Instagram. #minneaota #ice #nokings #protest

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  And with all the prairie plants and the veggies in the garden blooming: the mason bees have been busy in this 90 degree heat. They pollinated at least one of the giant pumpkins... We will see... #bees #minnesota #gardening

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  We turned the lawn in our front yard into a little patch of prairie. Now we have monarchs and a wide range of other insects. And something is always blooming. #gardening #prairie #monarch #butterfly

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  So they are planning a 62 square mile hyperscale data center in Utah that will consume 9 Giga Watt of electricity.... For comparison: the state of Utah currently uses 4 Giga Watt of power. The City of Saint Paul, 306,000 people, covers an area of 52 square miles. The scale of these data centers is unbelievable. There are enough resources to solve homelessness. We just decided to build dozens of city scale data centers instead. #ai #datacenter #climatecrisis

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  Hmm, does anybody in Minnesota know what that plant is? It looks like a thistle, but the leaves are much more rounded than all I can find Thanks to @donray , this looks very close to a musk thistle , or as @daswarkeinhuhn mentioned, a nodding thistle. Thanks all! You are awesome! #plants #minnesota

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  Happy #caturday from Marvel and Comet! The rascals reverted to teen kitten mode and started a big play fight.

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  Oh, look, the Washington Post writing an opinion piece for their billionaire owner Jeff Bezos #wapo #bezos

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  Marvel insists he is a travel accessory... #caturday #cat #CatsOfMastodon

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  TACO

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  I think everybody is a bit too optimistic when they believe the war is over...

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  So before the war there was free passage through the Strait of Hormuz. Iran was sanctioned and nobody could send them money. So trump started the war, he "won the war by a wide margin". And now we all are paying Iran $2 million for each ship that passes the Strait of Hormuz, to be shared with Oman. Sending $150 million to Iran each day. And that is a great success...

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  So I am attending the wedding of a good friend to his ex-wife, as "best man", this afternoon at 4 pm... Wonderful! It is the 30th anniversary of their first wedding. I just received the email with the invitation and the ceremony. With the note: "it might change a bit, the officiant is still reviewing it .." Well, we have almost 4 hrs left until it starts ... #procrastination

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  So there are a lot of rumors going around that trump is in a health crisis, because he has not been seen all day. With his press office denying it and assuring all is normal, in a less than convincing way. And Paul Krugman notes that some of his social posts sound off, ending with “glory be to God.” Another explanation would be that trump is on a secret flight to the Middle East, to visit troops. With Hegseth, who typed the post for him and added some of his language in. #trump #health #uspol