K Dot delivers in a single bar

Reminder to enable the Advanced Data Protection for iCloud setting for end-to-end encryption support.apple.com/en-us/108756

News: The CIA is offering its entire workforce the same “deferred resignation” buyout made to civilian agencies last week, in a bid to make the spy agency more aligned with Trump and his priorities. Ratcliffe personally asked WH to make the offer. www.wsj.com/politics/nat...

Our deep dive into Musk's takeover: Even some officials who like what Musk is doing feel helpless to hold him accountable. His allies are diving in to agencies, gaining access to systems, planning layoffs, and proposing a sweeping AI initiative to review contracts. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/03/u...

Scoop: Jim Acosta is expected to leave CNN. Details in @status.news: www.status.news/p/jim-acosta...

Pebble is back repebble.com

After over 20 years on Verizon, I made the switch to Visible (Verizon’s own MVNO). Exact same service but only $30/mo.

VICTORY! After over a decade, a federal court has declared that warrantless backdoor searches of US person’s communications collected under Section 702 of FISA is unconstitutional.

Trump Pardons Ross Ulbricht, Creator of Silk Road Drug Marketplace www.nytimes.com/2025/01/21/t...

TikTok now alerting users via the app that it will temporarily make services unavailable on Jan 19th

New statement from the White House: TikTok's declaration that it will have to go dark on Sunday is "a stunt, and we see no reason for TikTok or other companies to take actions in the next few days before the Trump Administration takes office on Monday."

Trump appears to have launched a memecoin 3 days before taking office

Just in: TikTok says it plans to shut itself down Sunday unless Biden publicly pledges non-enforcement. TikTok wants everyone to be sure Biden is to blame, which conveniently also curries favor with Trump.

NEWS: The massive Chinese hack of U.S. telecoms breached firms Charter, Consolidated and Windstream as part of a historic espionage campaign. Security vendor Fortinet was a key intrusion point. Investigators are still grappling with the damage. That and much much more: www.wsj.com/tech/cyberse...

Who is Vexbolts and why are we unfollowing him at 11:59pm tonight?

A Conversation with Larry David was fantastic tonight in Portland. A true comedy legend.

He’s a good boy

Super easy to change my handle to a custom domain, @cauchon.net. Instructions here: bsky.social/about/blog/4...

I don’t know much about boxing, but I do believe Serrano should have won that fight.

Competition is heating up

this screencap is my new most valuable possession

Took me a few minutes to reach Elon’s ridiculous 600 posts limit

AP finally got a redesign and it’s a huge improvement!

Justice Samuel Alito Took Luxury Fishing Vacation With GOP Billionaire Who Later Had Cases Before the Court https://www.propublica.org/article/samuel-alito-luxury-fishing-trip-paul-singer-scotus-supreme-court

NYTimes’ highly specific, clearly subjective taxonomy of what today’s dads can’t stop wearing, reading, and talking about https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2023/06/16/style/millennial-dad-style-culture.html

On paternity leave, every day feels likes Saturday.

It looks like more than 3,000 subreddits have signed onto the upcoming Reddit blackout .. including several with 1 million or more subscribers

Apple Vision Pro hands-on https://www.engadget.com/apple-vision-pro-hands-on-a-new-milestone-for-mixed-reality-060943291.html

Happy National Donut Day!

No one is trying to turn your straight kid gay… they are trying to teach respect for all so you don’t turn out like Ben Shapiro and Matt Walsh. Making fun of LGBTQ+ people is cruel.

I’ve finally hit the point where I’ve deleted the Twitter app.

Some personal news… we welcomed our first born into the world two days ago. Josie is absolutely perfect.

What’s happening in Rikers is criminal IMO https://www.ny1.com/nyc/all-boroughs/news/2023/05/27/report-reveals-violent--life-altering-incidents-at-rikers

My iOS 17 feature wishlist… mark 2FA text as read when I use the auto fill feature.

Well, looks like I got Generative AI for Google Search. Let’s give it a try.

NEW: The FBI improperly used FISA 702 to search for information on Americans suspected of a having a role in the Jan. 6 attack or George Floyd protests as well as 19,000 donors to a congressional candidate in foreign intelligence database. That and much more:

This is worth a read. Great reporting from The Marshall Project. https://www.themarshallproject.org/2023/05/19/new-york-prison-corrections-officer-abuse-prisoners

Josie is coming June 3rd. Exciting times!

These autogenerated autoplaying videos that take up a third of the mobile viewport have to go. That is my first impression of The Messenger.

Up next, Traffic by @semaforben.bsky.social

I see a lot of normal people joining Bluesky now. Please respect the community that we have built here together over the last four days

Beautiful view of the San Francisco sunset last night

Tito is enjoying this fine Spring evening

I was in NYC last month and it must be stated that no city has better bagels.

Doing some packing today and found a bunch of old BlackBerry test units from my days reviewing smartphones

👋My first post!