I'm starting my search for a new pup after losing Sofie at the beginning of the year. Kitsap and Seattle, what rescue orgs are responsive and responsible? I'm not doing a transport because I want to meet the dog before I adopt. Prefer an adult dog and like a sassy, active dog that can be trained.

Y'all!!! I got a job teaching in a Pilates studio! I decided to do teacher training a couple of years ago as a way to challenge myself, and it's been a nice counterpoint for a life lived mostly on my computer worried about bad things. I still can't tell my left from my right though.

After just five episodes, The Interface is now the 31st top podcast in the US, per the analytics company Rephonic At this rate can you afford not to listen?

I've driven an electric car for the last 11 years and all of this is true. But many of the issues will absolutely change as more people adopt EVs. And I would never go back to driving a gas car. Kind of like I would never go back to using a typewriter.

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My thoughts on the new cyber strategy in a piece by @robpegoraro.com for @pcmag.com It eases reqs on industry & threatens kinetic action for cyber attacks against the US. @brysonbort.bsky.social points out no mention of CISA & I’m concerned with escalation we’ll pay for www.pcmag.com/news/white-h...

Han dynasty tomb horses like this were meant to accompany the dead into the afterlife. The exaggerated open mouths and flared nostrils were deliberate. They were showing the horse mid-whinny to prove it was alive and spirited enough to serve its owner forever.

I love riding the ferry on Comic Con weekend. Great costumes so far Kitsap!

Look at this incredibly enthusiastic, 2,000-year-old terracotta horse at the Seattle Art Museum. I love a derpy animal sculpture.

Is it possible to take a bad WSDOT ferry photo? Maybe.

Y'all, the FCC is celebrating National Consumer Protection Week. A fact I found surprising given the steps it has taken to make Broadband Labels less useful, slowing down the cybersecurity label for IoT devices, and essentially turning the public airwaves for broadcast TV into a corporate asset.

For $1,200 I need a lot more details on the physics-based research that makes this device work. "Unlike traditional signal jammers that rely on strong radio interference, the device uses artificial intelligence, signal processing, and physics based research to target microphones directly."

If we survive this kakistocracy we really are probably going to have to completely rebuild the entirety of U.S. IT infrastructure

The reason for the delay is unclear. Ordinarily, the city has provided a .csv file within weeks of my request, but this time, they're saying it will be at least April, or 10 months after I requested a directory that was current as of last June.

If anyone has wondered why PubliCola hasn't updated our City of Seattle employee directory, which we've maintained ever since ex-mayor Jenny Durkan took it off the city's website 5 years ago), it's because the city hasn't provided the records. I asked in June, and just got another delay notice.

Is it possible for a cellular provider to be private? They must know where your phone is, but can they not know who owns it? I ask Nick Merrill, founder of MVNO @phreeli.bsky.social, about their Double Blind Armadillo #privacy protocol. podcast.firewallsdontstopdragons.com/2026/03/02/d...

Oh it's Thursday! I need to check in on the cyber attack going down on The Pitt.

Truly idiotic #ProductDesign: you need a special screwdriver to change the #Logitech Keys-to-Go 2 batteries. They die soon, with little warning. What if you’re traveling? This should be taught at design school as an exemplary #fail. #engineering

This story from @jank0.bsky.social detailing how Bright Data is turning smart TVs into the backbone of a giant residential proxy network for scanning public web pages has me wondering about the potential harms. It feels like turning consumers into digital drug mules of a sort.

ADT buying Origin Wireless is a big move for the alarm company into Wi-Fi sensing. This is a potential privacy alarm bell, because Origin's software turns Wi-Fi products into sensors. And those sensors can be used to infer a lot!

This is a good answer for the kettle question.

Please help with a domestic quibble. When you use the last of the water in a kettle, do you immediately refill it, or leave the empty kettle for the next person to fill? Refilling it immediately seems more considerate, but then the water gets stagnant?

Too many apps collect our location data and sell it to the highest bidder, from data brokers to even potential stalkers. Help @consumerreports.org stop these creepy companies and fight for laws that ban the sale of your geolocation data. action.consumerreports.org/sm-20260211-...

This video of skater Alysa Liu's coaches is the vibe I want to bring to the world. Everyone should have a person or people like that cheering for them to succeed. youtu.be/McTl066rQww?...

I relaxed just seeing this.

Last night, I was notified that another person has died in ICE custody. That’s 39 people who have died on ICE’s watch during Trump’s second term. We cannot grow numb to this. There must be immediate oversight and accountability.

I was so excited to see that Ambiq Micro, a company I had covered from its inception, provided its low-power microcontroller for a pair of fart-sensing smart underwear as covered by @mims.bsky.social . Sure, Ambiq went public last year, but this is a real milestone for Ambiq and the IoT!

I completely forgot how words work while discussing privacy, smart home surveillance and my strategy to avoid getting sucked into binge watching a show that's heavy on cliffhangers.

Screaming: TP-Link routers represent no more of a security risk than other routers, which is to say, they are all filled with crummy firmware and never get updated. www.csoonline.com/article/3504... Texas sues TP-Link, alleging it allows China to hack into routers therecord.media/texas-sues-t...

The combination of a migraine and my neighbor getting a new roof is a level of hell I was not prepared for today.

ICYMI: Open source registries don't have enough money to implement basic security

This!! Also, the people selling you AI believe their own hype, and think that AI is a neutral solution to all the complicated ills that shitty humans perpetuate. But behind every AI is people. Either building the models with their own biases or acting on the alerts with their own biases.

New Podcast Episode: This Week in Tech: Image Pickles Are Social Platforms Addictive or Just Too Good? with @leolaporte.me, @wesley83.bsky.social, @gigastacey.bsky.social, Thomas Germain

File this story in the Men Will Do Anything to Avoid Feminine Coded Activities folder. Although I am relieved that people who don't mind being feminine get custody of food that tastes good. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/09/s...

Modern high-performance chips simply won't work in space. People should educate themselves on the effects of cosmic radiation on electronics, the process of radiation hardening, and why shielding is ineffective. The very trends that enable modern GPUs on Earth are what render them unusable in space.

This guy! Writing in email things I would never even type into a search engine!

One of the worst smells I've ever smelled, and one of the best bonding moments of my life, happened when my child and I sniffed the imagined breath of a Tyrannosaurus Rex at the Victoria science museum. We still reference that smell today.

A few years ago I did an interview with a Nokia scientist about building an LTE network on the moon. One of the things he told me was that the radiation in space is terrible for electronics and bits start flipping inconsistently over time. This seems bad for data centers in space. Also, latency.

Every "smart" tool is a tool of surveillance. Every tool of surveillance is a tool of control. And that goes for tools with "intelligence" too.

“Healthcare apps rolled out by AI firms are raising new privacy concerns in the absence of federal standards, according to the CDT, which urges the companies to limit the data they collect while warning consumers to carefully consider their uses of such tools.” insideaipolicy.com/s...

New Podcast Episode: TWiT+ Club Shows: Stacey's Book Club #21: The Heist of Hollow London Corporate Dystopias, Clones & Capers with @leolaporte.me, @gigastacey.bsky.social, @ozoneartfoundry.com This episode is exclusive to Club TWiT. Join at https://twit.tv/clubtwit

I am so sick of people trying to claim that AI is now infrastructure. You don't roll out infrastructure without testing it for safety, implementing guardrails and ensuring it behaves consistently. The point of infrastructure is that it is robust, resilient and reliable. You can build on it.

While crafting legislation with a really good legislative drafter, I realized that law is engineering except you are using words instead of physics principles and equations. Now I wonder if 48 is too old to go to law school.

Before you head back to #TikTok, read this: www.voidifremoved.co.uk/p/political-... To quote @charlesarthur.bsky.social, “this is a fantastic piece which explains… how #SocialMedia algorithms work in a multi-dimensional framework to fit you into boxes you didn’t even know you could fit into.”

Great news for IoT fans. Massachusetts lawmakers have introduced bills that would require manufacturers to disclose up front how long they plan to support connected devices. So when you buy that Samsung Family Hub fridge, Samsung has to tell you how long before they brick it or kill functionality.

Passkeys are a Potemkin Village of UX promises. They appear on the outside to solve every problem but when you try and use them, it's like, no... not that way. My latest faceplant was using a passkey in chrome profile A disappearing in profile B. I assumed they were stored at the OS level!

You know what's going to wreck the economy even more? THE ONGOING INVASION OF OUR CITIES BY THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT. It is my, granted, anecdotal impression that entire cities shut down by fear, violence, & the need to form human chains to protect toddlers DON'T CONTRIBUTE POSITIVELY TO THE ECONOMY.

ive seen more articles this week about how the phrase “abolish ice” could hurt dems in the midterms than ive seen articles about how paramilitary death squads terrorizing cities will hurt republicans in the midterms

I'm just sitting here, trying to figure out how to threat model for armed, masked thugs who may kidnap you off the street, then steal, and possibly sell your phone.