Mark Downie

@poppastring.com

🧑🏾‍💻OSS (dasBlog) 🏢PM @ Microsoft (Visual Studio, Core AI) 🏀📖🎸 ✝️ 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 🇺🇸 poppastring.com/blog

Bluesky's new CEO Toni Schneider on the platform's reputation for being a liberal bubble: "Yes, we definitely want that to change. It is already changing. It certainly wasn’t designed to attract one specific group of people."

FLASH: Justice Dept seeks to dismiss Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool criminal case against former Olympian David Hearn Trump Admin acknowledges: "Damage to the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool in June 2026 was the result of flawed installation by the contractor"

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🧵 Blacksky is looking to buy a server for $30k USD. We'd like the following specs or better: - 384 GB RAM - 80 TB NVMe; ZFS RAIDZ2 in 2 vdevs - 1 Gbps + 10 Gpbs burstable - at least 84 threads for the CPU(s) - Ideally somewhere in the eastern half of North America but open to North America and EU

This is a little garden brag or celebration day. Yesterday I decided to whip up this batch of raspberry/habanero jelly and used a batch of berries I grew this year, a cup from last year from my freezer stock, a cup of the homemade ACV I fermented last year, and store bought peppers + sugar.

Olivia Miles is the fastest player in WNBA history to reach 500 PTS and 150 AST, doing it in just 26 games 🤯 She breaks the previous marks set by Paige Bueckers (28 games) and Caitlin Clark (29 games).

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Burnham may want to find the city regions of Wales and Scotland upon which he can replicate Manchester but, if they exist, they are buried deep and concealed by the competitive tensions within the devolved nations ✍️Paul Griffiths wp.me/p8Mk4U-1puI

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Friend: Anthropic settlement has been approved. Amount per work = $3,127.28 Nnedi: I had 11 works in the settlement. I filled out their stupid forms, sure. But I don't want their damn money. I want them to go back in time and not have used my work to train their AI.