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Arkenstone Defense, which is building software to handle back-office work for defense tech startups, emerges from stealth with a $35M seed led by J2 Ventures (Barratt Dewey/Tectonic Defense)
https://www.tectonicdefense.com/exclusive-a…

Exclusive: Arkenstone Emerges With $35M to Build Defense Tech’s Back Office
You know how we say we love the unsexy side of defense? Well, we’re back with some news from the unsexiest place we can imagine—the land of the nitty

Ok so bringing a headphone amp, all set up, when checking out new guitars is pretty genius tbh. @… https://mas.to/@baronvonj/117052433600456688

Reinhold Messner's moving message about the recent death of Nirmal Purja and ten others:
What matters is being there while that person is still alive. Listening, especially in difficult times. Staying present when someone feels lost. Sometimes the greatest gift is simply to let them speak and to be heard.
I know what it feels like to leave someone you love behind in the mountains. A pain so profound it takes your breath away.
And yet l also know that, for some, …

Reinhold Messner on Instagram: "It’s a kind gesture, and everyone grieves and remembers in their own way. What matters is being there while that person is still alive. Listening, especially in difficult times. Staying present when someone feels lost. Sometimes the greatest gift is simply to let them speak and to be heard. I know what it feels like to leave someone you love behind in the mountains. A pain so profound it takes your breath away. And yet I also know that, for some, there is a quiet comfort in knowing they were in the place they loved most, doing what gave their life meaning. My thoughts are with all the families, friends, and everyone who loved them. Pls remember a human being is never an object. A life is measured by presence, not by tributes. #thinking #memories #"
97K likes, 854 comments - reinholdmessner_official on August 2, 2026: "It’s a kind gesture, and everyone grieves and remembers in their own way. What matters is being there while that person is still alive. Listening, especially in difficult times. Staying present when someone feels lost. Sometimes the greatest gift is simply to let them speak and to be heard. I know what it feels like to leave someone you love behind in the mountains. A pain so profound it takes your breath away. And yet I …

Citizenship shall apply automatically at birth
unless someone loud and male on any number of primetime cable news shows feels skin color makes them uncomfortable.
This is not hypocrisy.
Hypocrisy requires a fixed standard. Please keep up. We have moved beyond that.
This, too, is the genius of conservative legal reasoning:
It can stand athwart history yelling breathlessly about original meaning,
then sprint blindly toward the nearest convenient exception

The US Constitution Is for Simple Folk Still Burdened by the Belief That Words Have Meaning
“Every serious legal mind must inevitably face a fundamental choice: Read the Constitution and apply its words as the bedrock laws of the land, or transcend ...

The Mission voted against giving the SFPD drones by 20 points.
Now SFPD is flying more drones here than any other neighborhood.
This is an occupation.
Sources: https://www.sfchronicle.com/crime/article/san-francisco-drones-22325281.php

Barrett Pall shows some problems we have with content theft and influence campaigns: https://www.instagram.com/reel/DbmRIg2qknY/
Part of why non-centralized social media matter. Platforms owned by single-owners (like meta’s [facebook, instagram, threads, whatsapp, etc.], tiktok, twitter, etc.…

BARRETT PALL on Instagram: "It isn’t just #MEN that are stealing EVERYTHING from EVERYONE to sell you other peoples work, image, and reputation anymore. The goal is to get everyone doing this. We have to SLOW DOWN and rebuild our attention spans. Plz follow my 3 click rule. #women #womenempowerment #feminism #feminist"
112K likes, 1,976 comments - barrettpall on August 3, 2026: "It isn’t just #MEN that are stealing EVERYTHING from EVERYONE to sell you other peoples work, image, and reputation anymore. The goal is to get everyone doing this. We have to SLOW DOWN and rebuild our attention spans. Plz follow my 3 click rule. #women #womenempowerment #feminism #feminist".

AeS has better policy positions, HS has a solid legislative record. They BOTH have style issues. This is why I was for McMorrow (good policy & legislative chops) but that was not to be.
The fact that there’s such a breadth of Fash trying to stop AeS is telling. They don’t want him compared to Mike Rogers, the most boring establishment candidate alive.
HS’s style — careful, wooden, scripted, centrist — makes her a shit opponent for Rogers. @…

Bill Cole (@scconsult.com)
It is incredibly annoying to see so much obvious organized *international* tooting/skeeting in the Michigan Democratic Party primary for the US Senate. Especially since most of it seems to be aimed at making them both look bad. Like a German I saw on the Fediverse concern-trolling polls…

Software written today:
- Community events calendar event importer
- LLM chat server
- Web terminal major revision
- Loaf of bread
The loaf of bread (and the oven) is the one I'm most proud of.
Social software has always been my favorite, and open world computing like MUDs have always held a place in my heart.
I mean check this out https://gist.github.com/aredridel/0c5a9dbd796c3c7f00f0e10268138a6a
Bread that rewards you when you finish the loaf, and delights at least the imagination of the senses.

The content of the article is interesting as well. Using a sponge that oxidizes NH4 to NO3 , filters metals, and hosts a diverse microbiome @… https:…

reggie seidman (@ennui.org)
my congratulations to the photographer for capturing a sponge with a very precise anatomical resemblance (cool story too) https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/sep/01/sea-chicken-liver-sponge-filter-pollutants-harbour-spain-costa-brava

This was part of my frustration with working in policy enforcement, a.k.a. Abuse Desk. No one bothers to report abuse. That’s a 2-nines “no one.”
The worst embedded autoplaying horse porn email spammers generate at most single-digit-percentage abuse reports. I’m sure social media is much worse, because people have acclimatized themselves to social media being full of garbage that no one will stop.
#Sysadminnery