@bdowney
Infosec professional, photographer, math enthusiast, occasional augmented reality warlord. Peculiar but refined tastes in triangles, cinema, and cocktails. Some skill with Azad. Signal: bdowney.23 Opinions are my own and not those of my employer
My wife (who does not read Stancil): "Should we go get gas tonight? What if the price goes up? What if there's a line in the morning?"
I live in Silicon Valley. We engineered a run on our own bank in a telegram chat. Gas lines should be NBD to manifest.
Gas shortages but with human rights violations.
Get in gang, we’re doing a Waluigi Carter admin.
Thank god Stancil is just trying to manifest gas lines and he's off philosophy posting; situation normal.
And you handed me the raw materials for a nuke?
It might just be over. Seriously.
Maybe the better angels of the people around me would stay my hand, but who else of his family & friends have died already?
What reason have we given this guy to moderate?
I'm an atheist, and I try to reign in my autocratic impulses. If you dropped a global alliance of my enemies dropped a bomb on my wife and killed her, I think 'devoting my life to vengeance' is on the table.
If I were religious, and would receive the acclaim of my peers for dispensing justice?
Some version of this is absolutely happening in the WH tonight.
Fortunately I'm not a cleric or an autocrat, but I got married less than two years ago. Like if they really had nukes? Dawg it might just be over.
Fortunately the US & Israel are going to try to kill this guy and the next one will be more moderate.
Right?
News to me: We killed his _wife_ too.
I just wanted to say that if you killed my wife and I was handed absolute power over a theocracy with 90M people, it just would not end well.
Like making sure my enemies cars shut down from lack of gas before they died of thirst would be like table stakes.
Iran’s new Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei
• More hardline than father
• He’s the IRGC candidate
• Relatively young: 56
• Avoids public
• Trusted by father, clerics
• Was in military during Iraq-Iran war
• His wife, Zahra, killed in Israeli airstrike w his father
Make it $6. At least then you're either in the eastern Sierra or in GW3.
Californian here: Can't see this sticker without thinking it might actually be put up by someone supporting Trump because the price is still too low. :P
Now would be a good time to read @graemewood.bsky.social on Mojtaba Khamenei:
www.theatlantic.com/internationa...
Ubi solitudinem faciunt, pacem appellant.
OpenAI execs resigning over their deal with the Pentagon makes it obvious that the deal with Hegseth is just to pinky swear that he won’t use ChatGPT to spy on Americans or build weapons that kill without human oversight.
And if he breaks the promise? Oops. 🤷🏾♂️
somehow, Khamenei returned
Now getting to a place where I can comment on sign design with other protesters.
"That's bone".
Small crowd of people with pro-science signs on the corner of Castro Street & El Camino in Mountain View.
Woman with a sign saying "You Wanted Cheap Eggs but Got Measles Instead". The sign is in green with red dots glued on it, and I'm a little jealous of the presentation.
Me, holding a sign that says 'Fund Labs Not Lies!'.
Stand Up for Science today in Mountain View.
My wife & I found out about this a little late (noticed it on Together We Will), but made it here for 45 minutes. Good energy, and it was the organizer's first protest.
trump at the handover ceremony
January 2021 was the deadliest month of the pandemic. 3000 Americans died daily, 95,000 in total.
And Prasad was *mocking* people for avoiding COVID.
Shame on anyone who treated him as a good faith actor or serious thinker.
Let’s be honest about his record.
Tesla stock surges on news that Tesla has now fallen seven years behind Waymo in its quest for truly autonomous driving.
"Brain as smooth as a pearl".
Critical support for Caitlin.
Any scrap of principle from people who will stand up against technology used for authoritarian ends is one we should laud.
They blew up an elementary school Tom
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
Singing hydrogen too cheap to meter.
Jasmine Crockett never hired a campaign manager.
So we have yet another incident where a US citizen was shot and killed by ICE, and the official ICE account differs from bodycam footage.
This is the story that took nearly a year to break and now we have the bodycam footage.
Reading posts is a human right.
Poasting though...
Let me give you my perspective as someone who's been in infosec for a quarter century. [1]
"Saying an AI can't code is like saying a 3d printer can't extrude a ghost gun".
[1] Also event planner for my wedding as a bonus.
This disclaimer needs to go on every Bluesky post. :P