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Powderhorn

@ Powderhorn @beehaw.org

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Unemployed journalist, burner, raver, graphic artist and vandweller.

I read news so you don't have to (but you still should).

  • When then one who got away calls from the hospital

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  • Fuck, that's a blast from the past. But at least it's confirmed that I'm not full of shit.

    I've tried reaching out to her over the past couple of days, but it's been (no pun intended) radio silence. I have no idea how the kid is doing.

  • News Publishers Are Now Blocking The Internet Archive, And We May All Regret It

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  • When I took on a job as an editor for a paper in a tourist town, one of the first things I told the publisher was "what is going on with this map? This road doesn't exist!"

    Well, me being me, I decided we needed entirely new maps, and I was going to be the one who did them.

  • Drink Whole Milk, Eat Red Meat, and Use ChatGPT

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  • It's got what plants crave!

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    News Publishers Are Now Blocking The Internet Archive, And We May All Regret It

    www.techdirt.com /2026/02/13/news-publishers-are-now-blocking-the-internet-archive-and-we-may-all-regret-it/
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    Ring cancels Flock deal after dystopian Super Bowl ad prompts mass outrage

    arstechnica.com /tech-policy/2026/02/after-creepy-super-bowl-ad-sparks-outrage-ring-abandons-flock-deal/
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    Drink Whole Milk, Eat Red Meat, and Use ChatGPT

    www.theatlantic.com /technology/2026/02/rfk-jr-hhs-ai-chatbots/686007/
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    Chief mouser Palmerston dies after swapping Foreign Office for Bermuda

    www.theguardian.com /lifeandstyle/2026/feb/14/cat-chief-mouser-uk-foreign-office-dies-bermuda-palmerston

  • OpenAI retired its most seductive chatbot – leaving users angry and grieving: ‘I can’t live like this’

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  • It's not the Voltaires that kill you, it's the Ampaires.

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    OpenAI retired its most seductive chatbot – leaving users angry and grieving: ‘I can’t live like this’

    www.theguardian.com /lifeandstyle/ng-interactive/2026/feb/13/openai-chatbot-gpt4o-valentines-day

  • Shares in trucking and logistics firms plunge after AI freight tool launch

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  • I personally reduced trade-show receiving times by 75% per item by designing a Microsoft Form for warehouse employees to upload photos of shipping labels, where 10 lines of JS pulled all the relevant info from the sheet being populated by the form. This replaced hand-writing complex triplicate forms, allowed us to send reports before close of business, and the client was thrilled.

    My boss absolutely hated the new workflow, as she couldn't read code and therefore didn't trust that my system worked, all client satisfaction to the contrary. Absolutely absurd.

    And this before LLMs were a thing. "AI" is not doing significant automation that hasn't already been being done for decades.

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    I Tried RentAHuman, Where AI Agents Hired Me to Hype Their AI Startups

    www.wired.com /story/i-tried-rentahuman-ai-agents-hired-me-to-hype-their-ai-startups/
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    Shares in trucking and logistics firms plunge after AI freight tool launch

    www.theguardian.com /business/2026/feb/13/trucking-logistics-shares-ai-freight-tool-launch-semicab-algorhythm
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    When then one who got away calls from the hospital

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    Canadian police identify suspect in school massacre that left nine dead

    www.theguardian.com /world/2026/feb/11/tumbler-ridge-canada-shooting-school-mark-carney
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    Archive.today CAPTCHA page executes DDoS; Wikipedia considers banning site

    arstechnica.com /tech-policy/2026/02/wikipedia-might-blacklist-archive-today-after-site-maintainer-ddosed-a-blog/
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    When you just can't break free: The ongoing struggle with figuring out where my ex-wife fits in my life.

  • Discord roll out global age verification system, including an "age inference" model that runs in the background

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  • Always assume anything you post outside of some messaging apps has hit the public domain and will be used, sold and targeted. This is scarcely a Discord-only problem.

  • Discord faces backlash over age checks after data breach exposed 70,000 IDs

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  • So, after reading several sources on this, it sounds like it's going to be harder to access furry hentai, which one shouldn't be doing on Discord in the first place.

    That has never been a private space. You want E2EE for anything spicy.

  • Discord roll out global age verification system, including an "age inference" model that runs in the background

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  • I don't use Discord for adult content, so it sounds like I won't really be affected. But they're sure as hell not getting my face or ID.

  • I've been seeing a lot on /r/journalism where people are just saying "if we break up the conglomerates, things will revert to normal"

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  • While I agree with your point, that is an absurdly simplified graphic. I grew up with Mountain Bell; the breakup happened when I was 5. I honestly thought "Ma Bell" was shorthand for Mountain Bell. Then the mergers started. Just like with banks.

    You've basically illustrated one leg of an octopus.

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    I've been seeing a lot on /r/journalism where people are just saying "if we break up the conglomerates, things will revert to normal"

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    Counting the waves of tech industry BS from blockchain to AI

    www.theregister.com /2026/02/08/waves_of_tech_bs/
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    Three AI engines walk into a bar in single file...

    www.theregister.com /2026/02/08/llama3pure_incorporates_three_inference_engines/

  • Western Digital details 14-platter 3.5-inch HAMR HDD designs with 140 TB and beyond

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  • Imagine if we were still doing full-height 5.25" HDDs!

  • Western Digital details 14-platter 3.5-inch HAMR HDD designs with 140 TB and beyond

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  • So, rebuild the array offsite after swapping in the good drive?

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    Western Digital details 14-platter 3.5-inch HAMR HDD designs with 140 TB and beyond

    www.tomshardware.com /pc-components/hdds/western-digital-details-14-platter-3-5-inch-hamr-hdd-designs-with-140-tb-and-beyond

  • How's your week going, Beehaw?

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  • If you've got data, reach out the either ProPublica or The Guardian. Sucks to lose the single byline, but they have far more resources.

  • How Big Tech Killed Online Debate

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  • I only use my phone under duress. The screen is entirely too small. It's a phone. It's meant for calls and texting.

  • How Big Tech Killed Online Debate

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  • There's a time and a place for everything, with apologies to John Lennon.

    Lemmy is a great place for longform discussions, but the vast majority of my posts and comments tend to be of the one-line, weary-columnist snark variety.

    Much of the news this days is "this is objectively bad," making attempts at discourse difficult.

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    Hail our new robot overlords! Amazon warehouse tour offers glimpse of future

    www.theguardian.com /technology/2026/feb/06/amazon-georgia-warehouse-tour-robots
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    Why Elon Musk’s Latest Mega Merger Is Little More than Vaporware

    www.thenation.com /article/economy/elon-musk-xai-spacex-merger/

  • Turns Out They Didn’t Really Want You To Bring Your Whole Self To Work

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  • I mean, most services have decided to price themselves out of the business. A great example is fast food. I remember the 99-cent Whopper and $1 McDoubles. At that price, it was acceptable food. It got the job done.

    That any chain claims to still have a "value menu" befuddles me. And don't get me started on $3.79 fountain drinks.

    The problem isn't RTO, it's that there's simply no value anymore. Time was, grabbing a burger on the way home was cheaper than making dinner. Those times have passed, and if you have to drive for an hour, why pay $7 for something you can make at home for $2?

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    Turns Out They Didn’t Really Want You To Bring Your Whole Self To Work

    www.techdirt.com /2026/02/03/turns-out-they-didnt-really-want-you-to-bring-your-whole-self-to-work/
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    US and Iran talks brought back from the brink after White House relents on move to Oman

    www.theguardian.com /world/2026/feb/04/us-iran-talks-risk-collapse-oman-move-rejected

  • CATL unveils battery with 12-minute charging and 1.5 million mile life

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  • OK, but where are the data that they're inflating claims? From where I'm looking, they keep iterating. Your approach feels like sinophobia. What are we doing here in the states? Certainly not announcing new batteries.

  • CATL unveils battery with 12-minute charging and 1.5 million mile life

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  • I've been living exclusively off Chinese-made solar panels and batteries for nearly two and a half years. I don't exactly view them as liars.

    Also, your link is irrelevant. We're talking about CATL here.

  • CATL unveils battery with 12-minute charging and 1.5 million mile life

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  • I first ran into this story on /r/energy (yeah, I cheated on Beehaw because I had to see what was going on in /r/journalism with the Post news), and while most comments were useful, there was also a tinge of "but it's China, so that's bad."

    Well, we were on our way to building up production and infrastructure here in the U.S., which I know because I fucking covered federal grants for green-energy projects and battery production until being laid off Jan. 20, 2025.

    I mean, this is like complaining that another kid has a chocolate bar on the playground and you don't. China invests for the long term. The U.S. needs quarterly returns. We did a lot better at advancing the state of the art in everything when we had robust corporate R&D departments than we do going with share buybacks.

    We have lost our edge. Period, graf.

  • Adobe Animate was shutting down next month - Adobe Animate is in maintenance mode.

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  • And nothing of value was lost. Fuck Adobe. You want me to pay you monthly? Prostitutes have better terms.

    Not that I'm bitter.