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  I want to share with you the gist of a mind-blowing conversation I had with my doctor today at my annual physical. She asked about my mood, which led to a conversation about how AI is ruining everything, which prompted her to mention that she doesn’t use the AI transcription app that her hospital network is encouraging people to use, because she finds it’s too time-consuming for her to read and correct the AI transcriptions instead of just writing down her own notes. #healthcare 1/5

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  Yet another example of why we do not want or need #GavinNewsom in 2028. https://techcrunch.com/2026/10/01/california-governor-vetoes-bill-banning-use-of-pervert-glasses-to-secretly-record-people/ No-adwall version: https://archive.ph/Q5Xif #privacy #politics #USPol #CAPol #PervertGlasses

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  Hello my #American #progressive and #leftist friends! I want to make sure you all understand that #MedicareForAll is just a stepping stone on the path to #UniversalHealthcare. It’s not the end goal. Medicare For All just replaces insurance companies deciding what to pay for and how much, with the government deciding what to pay for and how much. And Medicare reimbursement rates are not high enough for doctors and hospitals to survive on. #healthcare #politics #USPol 1/3

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  Today’s new, ridiculous #1Password bug which should never have gotten past QA and released (actually a series of interwoven bugs)… Background: I am on macOS. I have two 1Password accounts accessible through the app and browser extension, my work account which is authenticated through our SSO IdP and my personal account which is authenticated with a password. #infosec #PasswordManagers 1/12

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  RE: https://floss.social/@kde/117322549131682125 This article claims that #Framework has severed its relationship with #DHH and #Omarchy. I was unaware of this. Questions I could use help answering if you know anything: 1) Can anybody point at any evidence that Framework has actually done that? I'm glad to hear it if it's true, but saying it doesn't make it so. 2) Remind me, was there anything else we were upset about regarding Framework, other than giving money to DHH and Omarchy...

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  I've become cynical about the theology surrounding atoning for sins by afflicting oneself and praying communally for forgiveness, i.e., about #YomKippur, which is today. I've come to believe more and more that, as Karl Marx said, religion is the opium of the masses. I think Yom Kippur is performative for most people. I don't think observing it leads most people to change for the better; I think it just makes them feel better about continuing to behave the same way. #religion #Judaism...

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  There's this thing I'm seeing more and more websites doing, where if you were previously logged in and you revisit the site after the login timeout has elapsed, it briefly flashes the logged-in page, including content that should only be visible to you when you're logged in, before logging you out and taking you back to the login page. Wow, what an anti-pattern. If my login has timed out I obviously shouldn't be able to see private data for even a fraction of a second. #infosec 1...

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  When I was doing my "media tour" after DOGE fired me in February 2025, the people interviewing me would always ask what I was worried about DOGE doing with all the data they were gaining access to at federal agencies. I repeatedly warned that fascism requires enemies to survive, and trans people are one of the enemies for Trump Fascism™, so it's inevitable that the data would eventually be used to go after trans people. And here we are. #politics #USPol #TransRights https://federal...

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  #3GoodThings @3goodthings@fedigroups.social 1. It's a beautiful day today, sunny and 80°F. 2. Picnic lunch date on the #motorcycle with Spouse, eating lunch and then walking by the river, culminating in… 3. Discovered a new ice cream place, https://www.naturalfruttiberri.com, which has absolutely amazing Saffron & Rose soft serve. #Boston #BostonMA #Watertown #WatertownMA #food

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  #3GoodThings @3goodthings@fedigroups.social 1. Dropped off child #5 this morning for his first year of college. Much excitement. 2. Had a nice lunch with Spouse at a restaurant with outdoor seating to celebrate our last first day of college, and the rain held off just until we got home. 3. My new 4-PC USB 3.0 switch is working perfectly (the old switch was a bit flaky) and is a pleasantly solid little box.

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  I'm happy for Karen Attiah and grateful to her for sticking up for what's right at great personal cost. There are a lot of positive lessons to draw from this. One of the most important is that this is why we need labor unions, and this is why the fascists are so desperate to destroy and disempower them. #KarenAttiah #WashingtonPost #journalism #unions Arbitrator orders Washington Post to reinstate Karen Attiah with full back pay and benefits https://www.democracydefendersfund.org/news/ka...

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  New: WP+Masto POSSE — publish to both WordPress and Mastodon A few days ago, I asked the fediverse if anyone knew of a tool I could use to publish an article on my blog and publish the same article as a thread on Mastodon. I already have a way to post summaries of and links to my blog postings into my Mastodon account. I’ve also already set up my WordPress server as an ActivityPub server. These aren’t what I want. #fediverse #Mastodon #WordPress #POSSE #FOSS 1/8

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  I'm tired of the saying that people get more conservative as they get older. Reality check: people get more conservative as they get more wealthy. The people saying "people get more conservative as they get older" are white people living in a privileged bubble in which, in the generations since WW2, people like them typically amassed more wealth as they aged. #politics #economics #collapse #racism 1/2

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  Shot: Chaser: #politics #USpol #economics #unemployment

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  RE: https://ohai.social/@thatkatharine/117032607273740859 "If I had my way, that is how everyone should treat Rowling’s output in light of her pivot to full-time anti-trans crusading: as a regretfully significant cultural artifact of a moment in time, with which any present-day engagement should be treated as deeply embarrassing and problematic." #TransRightsAreHumanRights #JKRowling #HarryPotter #TimHortons

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  #awkward situation of the day… the rabbi at my former synagogue (which my wife still attends, but I do not, because reasons) just emailed and said it was great seeing me on Shabbat and asking if I was interested in attending the synagogue at other times. Except I wasn't there on Shabbat, I was at a different synagogue. I replied and pointed that out, as well as explaining briefly _why_ I no longer attend the synagogue*, since I suspect no one filled him in when he took the job of rabbi t...

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  I know this isn't productive thinking, but a thought that keeps popping into my head over and over as I read the news is, "We fucking told you this would happen." A lot of the same dummies who couldn't understand harm reduction in 2016 also couldn't understand harm reduction in 2024, and here we are. I will never not be mad at anyone who could have voted for Clinton or Harris and didn't. Many of them still think they did the right thing. Shmucks....

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  #FirstManufacturing now says they are investigating how the unique email address I gave only to them ended up in the hands of another merchant, #LeatherNewYork. They also continue to deny any information was leaked, which is clearly false, and I wrote back and told them so. Additional details here if you're curious: https://blog.kamens.us/2026/07/18/first-manufacturing-co-selling-customer-email-addresses-in-violation-of-its-own-privacy-policy/#update0804 #infosec #privacy #spam #breach

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  RE: https://mastodon.stevesworld.co/@steter/117034068064687908 I hope people understand that there are, right now, in the United States, concentration camps where people the U.S. government doesn't like or finds convenient to scapegoat are being sent to die. Because maybe if people understand that, then they will also understand that our last chance to put the brakes on this without at best a hot civil war, and at worst a world war, is FOR EVERY VOTER IN EVERY STATE TO SHOW UP IN NOVEMBER A...

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  Everybody understands how this works, right? 1) #ToddBlanche says whatever he needs to say to allow the GOP to save face. 2) The media credulously reports it with no acknowledgment that it's meaningless. 2) The GOP confirms Blanche as AG. 3) Blanche does whatever the fuck he wants, including things that directly contradict what he said before confirmation. 4) The GOP does piss-all about it. They sure as hell ain't going to impeach him, that's for sure! #politics #USPol https://www.np...

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  I would like to believe that a few GOP senators have grown enough of a spine to stop Todd Blanche from being confirmed as attorney general. But I'm not Charlie Brown getting ready to kick Lucy's football. We've seen this form of kabuki theater many times before. I'll believe Todd Blanche is out when someone else is confirmed for the position and not a moment sooner. #politics #USPol #ToddBlanche

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  The #Massachusetts legislature continues to respond robustly to the threats posed by our fascist federal government. They certainly haven't done everything I think they should, but the stuff they're doing is real and substantive. This is important legislation that was just passed and is on its way to the governor's desk for her signature: https://malegislature.gov/PressRoom/Detail?pressReleaseId=1458 #politics #USPol #MAPoli #MALeg

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  #TechIsShitDispatch #AI #slop Like so many other colleges and universities, the uni my son is attending in the fall has partnered with https://www.campusesp.com to build their "family hub" site, which is supposed to be our one-stop shop for getting info we need. Like so many other shitty companies, #CampusESP has removed the search box on their website and replaced it with an AI chatbot. 😡 (1/4)

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  #3GoodThings @3goodthings@fedigroups.social 1) Free street parking in #CambridgeMA before 9am (if you know where to look!). 2) Delicious chocolate croissant and hot chocolate at Paris Baguette for breakfast. 3) Breakfast with Spouse before we each go about our days.

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  Friends, this is the time of year when I remind you that #BostonMA always needs poll-workers. You don't need to live in #Boston to be one, you just need to be a registered voter in #Massachusetts. Democracy doesn't work without elections, and elections don't work without poll-workers, so please consider signing up. Start at https://boston.gov/pollworker if you might be interested.

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  Technical support reps who don't read the actual problem description you sent them, with actual, copy-pasted error messages illustrating the problem, and instead send you a stock reply which does not address what you wrote to them about piss me off.

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  #TechIsShitDispatch A few days ago, I placed an order in a restaurant that uses #Toast for its point-of-sale terminals and entered my email address to receive a receipt via email. The receipt never arrived. I figured it was a one-off, maybe I typed my email address incorrectly, and shrugged it off. Today I placed an order at another restaurant that uses Toast. Again, I asked for an email receipt and it never arrived. It's not me. I checked my mail server logs. The receipts are not there. (1/...

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  RE: https://infosec.exchange/@patrickcmiller/116909416159340074 "We cannot choose to become idiots." There it is. AI is dramatically accelerating a trend we were already seeing in society: more and more, people have been "choosing to become idiots." A population that does not know how to think is a population that can be easily manipulated and controlled. This will not end well. Heck, already it isn't middling well either. #AI

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  Yesterday I got email from MyRegistry.com offering free Ethereum. Today, I got email from them saying that email didn't come from us, this was just "an unauthorized party accessing our email marketing platform." "There is no evidence that any MyRegistry.com member accounts were compromised." Perhaps not yet, but now that they've got your user list they can do a password-spraying attack? Sounds like a breach to me. Maybe you should treat it that way. #infosec #breach #...

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  Any bank employee or contractor who is too stupid to realize that their activities within the bank's systems are being monitored deserves to be sacked and put in the dock. Any bank which doesn't have active monitoring in place to detect anomalous access within its systems is malfeasant. Kudos to Commonwealth Bank of Australia for getting this right. #infosec #banking #privacy https://www.skynews.com.au/business/finance/prime-minister-anthony-albaneses-personal-banking-details-allegedly-a...