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Interesting to compare the author Neal Stephenson's profiles on X/twitter vs. Bluesky.
He has 89,4 K followers on X, where he still posts, but just under 10 K on Bluesky, where he doesn't post at all.
He has many fans on the fediverse who discuss his books, but he is not here.

Unimaginable that any FBI Director is as shameless as Kash Patel
as well as incompetent and greedy.

Equally unimaginable are the Senators who confirmed his appointment.
https://bsky.app/profile/macfarlanenews.bsky.social/post/3mqa5ma2h5c2u…

Scott MacFarlane (@macfarlanenews.bsky.social)
NEW: DC judge orders FBI to respond by July 30 to a lawsuit by watchdog group Democracy Forward, which seeks records/communications from Kash Patel's security team including the following terms: Alcohol Asleep Drunk Drinking Hungover Inebriated Intoxicated et al

H-Net reviews posted to the H-Net Commons 29 Jun 2026 - 06 Jul 2026
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The people in the trenches at Apple are likable, normal people doing great work and coming across as genuine in the video but the C-suite is trying to be funny and completely failing

Analysis: Meta removed code for an unreleased face-recognition system in the Meta AI app for its smart glasses, following a report on the code's existence (Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/meta-removes-face-recognition-code-meta-ai-app-smart-gl…

Meta Deletes Face-Recognition System From Its Smart Glasses App After WIRED Report
The code WIRED identified is gone from the latest version of Meta AI, the companion app for the company’s smart glasses. Meta won’t say why or whether it’s coming back.

NFL veterans that are in danger of losing their spot with 2026 rookie class coming in

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/2026-nfl-draft-veterans-rookies-depth-chart/

I would go as far as to say maybe just don't retweet Elon Musk at all,
but what do I know?
I'm not the vice president of communications for the Milwaukee Brewers.
Tyler Barnes is, and on Tuesday he popped onto Twitter after a two-year hiatus to weigh in on British politics
by retweeting Elon Musk's white genocide propaganda.

Why Did The Brewers' VP Of Communications Retweet This Racist Crap? | Defector
With the Milwaukee Brewers sitting comfortably at the top of the NL Central, you might think that it’s an easy time to be their vice president of communications. Post the Jake Bauers highlight reel, oversee some decent memes featuring Bernie Brewer, and let the good vibes keep on flowing. All you have to do is…

Just pulled a now empty PDU and tidied up a few cables. Main IT rack is looking pretty good now.
Everything below the 1GbaseT switches (except the PoE injector) is pulling a combined total of just under 1 kW; the rest isn't metered yet.

The first half of 2026 was the 5th warmest on record here in the central Netherlands.
Just following the forecast for the coming 2 weeks, and then the 1991-2020 average (cool by now) would already bring this year into the top-3 warmest since 1901.

Servers operated by Ubuntu and its parent company Canonical have been down for more than a day, following a "sustained, cross-border attack" (Dan Goodin/Ars Technica)
https://arstechnica.com/security/2026/05/ubuntu-infrastructure-ha…

Ubuntu infrastructure has been down for more than a day
The outage has hampered communication concerning a critical vulnerability that gives root.