Ned Ludd

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I'm trying to find Daria. I like baseball Infosec person. ICT He/him/canine

Me, a huge baseball fan, on a hot Summer Saturday night - I'll watch MLB! X I'll watch USA vs CANADA Women's baseball! XX I'll watch some New England Collegiate League! XXX Hey, basketball in New Zealand. Neat.

Outside of a couple of turn off after use VMs, I don't have anything running a Microsoft OS in the house. When my twins stay at my place, they bring their 2 Windows 11 laptops. The #pihole logs are wild, y'all.

PiHole logs showing the garbage Windows 11 spews

Due to some project work I find myself relistening to what I consider my great gift to the music world -- the set Low did back in the summer of 1994 on my radio show at KUCI in Irvine. It was an honor, from them crashing in my grad dorm room to breakfast at a Bob's Big Boy. RIP Mimi, forever.

Low, Live on 'Ned's Musical Dustbin' on KUCI 88.9 FM, July 1994

During summer 1994, Low toured America with the band the Glee Club, playing a show one evening at UC Irvine, where I was attending graduate school. They needed a place to crash that evening and I happ

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I had a vendor do a major upgrade of their SaaS portal this week. Broke 5 things within the product that directly and adversely effected my ability to use the product. I opened 5 tickets. Reply to each ticket saying QA dept would be investigating. 1/2

Ian Bogost@ibogost.com · 2w ago

Remember Six Sigma? For a long time it seemed very important in business to reduce defects and errors, so much that there was a whole quasi-cult, quasi-science to it. Now maybe nobody cares? Defects and errors are widespread.

"I left feeling a pooling, connective happiness. I went home and realized that I hadn’t looked at my phone for six hours." Sarah Thankam Mathews hangs out with the Luddites, NYC's tech-critical cultural youth front: www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...

Getting Off With the Luddites

They see Big Tech as having eroded commonality: the common good, the social fabric, the institutions of collective interest. Luddism, as they conceive of it, is a communal, spiritual, and political pr...

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I do not have time to write a baseball newsletter, but I have a feeling it’s going to happen anyway. For the moment, here is a one-off about Alan Rangel, who represents one of the less glamorous populations in baseball: the fifth starter. buttondown.com/linda.holmes...

The Fifth Starter

Here are three things that were true about the Philadelphia Phillies as of July 19, 2026, when I watched them play the Mets at Citizens Bank Park. They...

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Every site on the internet: here's a short form video on the thing you are interested in. Me: Can I just read the article though? I very much do not want to watch that, I want to read about it.