Matt McKeon
@mrmckeon.bsky.social
Goth, punk, metalhead, too old & tired to dress like it. Love bikes, nature, kids, comics, games, all things spooky. Software engineer & manager, formerly of IBM and Google, with CS/UX degrees. I like making things for people; mobile and datavis are my jam
"Today is August 4th, 2026" Read this classic story here: www.btboces.org/Downloads/7_...
Adam Rawnsley@arawnsley.bsky.social · 2d agoToday, August 4, 2026, is the setting of Ray Bradbury’s short story “There Will Come Soft Rains” about a fully automated house continuing on after the family who lived there and the world around it died in a nuclear blast.
There is a substantial cohort of red state university presidents who think if they compromise on political independence and allow the party in power to have some say in their curricula / admissions / faculty hire, they can "ride this out".
Liam Knox@liamknox.bsky.social · 3d agoScoop: The Trump administration is sending a letter to college presidents asking them to pledge a series of policy changes by the end of the year. Unlike last year's Compact, this effort was devised with input from higher ed leaders. Free link to my exclusive: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
When I worked at Google, we had a strict policy requiring privacy training, proof of need to know, and full case history references to look at the logs for a single search query. People got fired for taking shortcuts. Flock lets cops search for anyone's movements with no oversight or auditing.
How rogue officers turned a nationwide camera network into a tool for stalking
Flock’s array of license-plate cameras was built to fight crime. But at least 50 law enforcement officers were charged with or accused of misusing it and other systems.
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"Do you know how hard you need to abuse a mammal to make them not have children?" www.youtube.com/watch?v=m1xB...
The Wild West of digital technology in a capitalist system
YouTube video by Nexus Institute
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I'm pretty sure AI interviews are the Torment Nexus from the groundbreaking science fiction novel "Don't Invent The Torment Nexus" www.instagram.com/reel/DX5KTuP...
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The entirety of the US equities market is a Keynesian beauty contest. Commodity futures are blatantly manipulated across the board by insiders. Bond markets are directed by whoever controls the central bank of the global reserve currency. Just buy land I guess.
Hard to watch Messi cry but his team were the villains here. Violent thugs who were outmaneuvered even as their shithousery was abetted by the ref. It was satisfying to see them so decisively outplayed. Still, credit to the Argentine defense for stonewalling the inevitable until the 106th minute.
Ian Dunt@iandunt.bsky.social · 2w agoNever has a team more richly deserved to lose than Argentina.
Pete Hegseth: "We need our warriors to embrace the Spartan mindset" U.S. Military: *suffers crushing defeat to the Persians*
Between the stupid halftime show, poisonous air, and kleptocrat-in-chief the end of the World Cup was feeling kind of anticlimactic. Screw all that. England vs France was the real final. Amazing soccer and why I love the game.
I love hobo YouTube. It's not just the sunsets, the scenery, the pure Americana, it's also the part where he figures out his section of the train is headed to Kansas City based on how low the empty soybean cars are riding on the springs. 🤌 www.youtube.com/watch?v=sEPr...
Taming the DRAGON | Catching Out from Flagstaff.
YouTube video by American Hobo - Train Riding
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It's a very good read, both a gossipy expose of the shitty people who run Meta and also a detailed review of how social media evolved as a tool of authoritarian control to subvert representative government. apnews.com/article/meta...
Former executive sues Meta over attempts to 'silence' her memoir, 'Careless People'
A former Meta executive whose memoir, “Careless People,” provides an explosive insider account of her time at the social media giant, has sued the company for attempting to “silence” her.
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Everything I wanted to build when I was a datavis researcher 20 years ago. Inlining visualization with lexical expression to help programmers see the abstractions they're working with. The REPL is called Strudel and it's pretty neat. strudel.cc
Switch Angel on Instagram: "Making club trance dance music with code from scratch…again! #livecode #algorave #electronicmusic"
184K likes, 4,326 comments - _switch_angel on November 10, 2025: "Making club trance dance music with code from scratch…again! #livecode #algorave #electronicmusic".
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if you're not etching cryptic warnings into the spires that surround your hidden entrance, what are you even doing on a dating app
Jana H-S (she, like a knife)@jana-aych-ess.bsky.social · 2y agoyou people need to step up your game, is my point
This guy drives a 1979 Elektrek every day (manual transmission!). My favorite is the owner's manual that says you should keep a fire extinguisher in the car at all times. Also, the carpeted steering wheel. www.youtube.com/watch?v=iGfa...
Here's How I Daily A 40 Year Old Electric Car
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I saw this hanging on a wall at Harvard and now I want to try to read it.
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Thursday Boot Company: looks great, good customer service, badly designed and uncomfortable. yotpo.com/go/jgPNhwDm
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Yes yes I should be focused on local activism and supporting my community via direct action in the face of creeping fascism at the national level. But have you *seen* the shitshow that is local politics? I'm exhausted just thinking about it.
Completed the dog-day cicadas before the dog-days of summer, named for the 1st day Sirius can be seen to rise above the horizon at dawn. The Tibicen canicularis, also known as dog-day cicada, is common in North America and its power-saw like buzzing song is taken as a sign of summer. 🧪🐡
Well this is embarrassing. conduition.io/coding/ticke... Ticketmaster could have used an OS wallet and gotten rotating barcodes without exposing their secrets to hackers (e.g. developers.google.com/wallet/ticke...) but they had to force people to install their app I guess. #mobile #android #dev
Reverse Engineering TicketMaster's Rotating Barcodes (SafeTix)
“Screenshots won’t get you in”, but Chrome DevTools will. Click here to skip the rant and go straight to the nerdy stuff. I recently purchased tickets to a concert from TicketMaster. If they had issue
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🍄📷 Green russala, Baxter State Park, Maine I didn't think to sniff it to see if it was a parsley-scented russala, but it could have been based on the appearance and location.
Saying "Of course I'll review your self-published Kindle nonfiction" and sending you finicky copyediting redlines is my love language.
Check out this great zoology-themed colorbook I picked up at Topo Paper & Post in Camden, ME. 450 palettes, each inspired by a different species, with RGB and CMYK values. I really like the organic shapes they use on each facing page to help you see how different elements work together. #SciArt
🍄📷 Lovely Northern Tooth found in the woods in midcoast Maine.
This beautiful parrot mushroom, Gliophorus psittacinus, was in a great spot to soak up some bright, diffused sunlight, making the colors on it and everything surrounding it the perfect amount of highlighted and vibrant 🟢💛💚🍄📷📸🎞
Completed a detailed drawing of a northern giant hornet (Vespa mandarinia), also known as the murder hornet, with Pentel pencils (0.2, 0.3, 0.5 mm), a blender, and Blu Tack. 🐝 #sciart
More 🍄📷s on this foggy day in coastal Maine. Ivory coral, also taken in Baxter State Park.
