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A murky, deeply troublesome situation has been unfolding in Chicago overnight. It appears CBP detained an American citizen at O’Hare, took her to an ICE detention facility in Chicago. She hasn’t been

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@a_cubed@mastodon.social · Mar 07, 2026

@heidilifeldman@mastodon.social They're juat straight up disappearing citizens. https://time.com/7379166/ice-native-american-arrests-minneapolis-oglala-sioux-tribe/

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Current snow forecast for DC is for up to about 20" over the weekend, which is double the level at which cannibalism becomes temporarily legal under local law.

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@a_cubed@mastodon.social · Jan 22, 2026

@mattblaze@federate.social @tsturm@famichiki.jp Paging @lowqualityfacts@mstdn.social

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The hyperloop would have been like, WAY cooler if it was used to distribute burritos.

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@octothorpe@mastodon.online Burritos would be just the rightsizeforyhis technology: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paris_pneumatic_post

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@a_cubed@mastodon.social may I offer … https://idlewords.com/2007/04/the_alameda_weehawken_burrito_tunnel.htm

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@a_cubed@mastodon.social · Dec 30, 2025

@octothorpe@mastodon.online Fun concept. Pity it fails basic physics since alumin(i)um is paramagnetic, not magnetic.

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The hyperloop would have been like, WAY cooler if it was used to distribute burritos.

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@a_cubed@mastodon.social · Dec 30, 2025

@octothorpe@mastodon.online Burritos would be just the rightsizeforyhis technology: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paris_pneumatic_post

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@Lightfighter@infosec.exchange @Photo55@mastodon.social Russia already has a hate on for the EU; they're likely to declare peace hastily in Ukraine then send their armies west (while they still have t

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@cstross@wandering.shop @Photo55@mastodon.social Russia has no armies left. They have few tanks or APC's, and they can't build them faster than Ukraine destroys them. The troops are old drunks. Trying

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@Lightfighter@infosec.exchange @Photo55@mastodon.social Yup. And meanwhile Poland is re-arming ridiculously fast: they don't want a repeat of 1939. The Baltics are irate. Even Germany is bestirring it

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@a_cubed@mastodon.social · Dec 28, 2025

@cstross@wandering.shop @Lightfighter@infosec.exchange @Photo55@mastodon.social https://theaviationist.com/2025/12/28/poland-counter-drone-network-eastern-border/ Poland may be too late, but it's at least aware that it has a problem.

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@Lightfighter@infosec.exchange @Photo55@mastodon.social Russia already has a hate on for the EU; they're likely to declare peace hastily in Ukraine then send their armies west (while they still have t

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@a_cubed@mastodon.social · Dec 28, 2025

@cstross@wandering.shop @Lightfighter@infosec.exchange @Photo55@mastodon.social See also Belorus' mobilisation on the EU border. and Poland building anti-rank and drone defenses on that border.

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Cathedral of Learning, University of Pittsburgh, 2023. Highly educated pixels at https://www.flickr.com/photos/mattblaze/52977939495 #photography

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Captured with the Rodenstock 50mm Digaron lens and about 13mm of vertical shift to maintain the geometry (but several architectural features - setbacks and tapers in the building design - still make i

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@a_cubed@mastodon.social · Dec 27, 2025

@mattblaze@federate.social The national classrooms kitted out along traditional styles from a large variety of places are also fascinating.

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Look what just arrived!

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@a_cubed@mastodon.social · Dec 22, 2025

@cstross@wandering.shop Yay!

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Heads up for those who, like me, worry about giving or receiving COVID-19 and flu: The new version of the Aptitude molecular test (for both COVID and flu) is now available at retail. It requires a re-

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No, I'm not connected with them in any way. Yes, it's expensive, prohibitively for many. But still useful assurance if you can swing it.

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I still wear a mask to class, on trains and planes, and when in crowded indoor spaces, because I am human who relies on a human body, and am addicted to regular respiration.

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@a_cubed@mastodon.social · Nov 23, 2025

@mattblaze@federate.social I wear a mask because I like my brain how it is. Working reasonably well. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s44192-025-00189-3

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@a_cubed@mastodon.social · Nov 17, 2025

Sometimes my Mastodon timeline really gets it right. (Pic: three consecutive posts, the first news about AI polluting online social science surveys, the second bemoaning the general impact of AI, the third MurderbotBot about shutting down due to catastrophic damage)

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One of the themes of my work is "quietly heroic infrastructure". ICBMs are pretty much the opposite of that. Perhaps the worst infrastructure we ever built.

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@mattblaze@federate.social I take your point but, given that an ICBM has never* been used in combat, I would argue that they classify as “quietly heroic infrastructure”. Regardless, your shots are imp

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@daniel@colquitt.xyz Sorry, but the fact that we haven’t actually collectively used it after just 60 or so years of the ability to exterminate hundreds of millions of lives at the push of a few button

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@a_cubed@mastodon.social · Nov 14, 2025

@mattblaze@federate.social @daniel@colquitt.xyz Prisoner's dillemas are called dilemmas for a reason. Just imagine if Putin had nukes and no one else did. Of course the overkill on potential retaliation was and is really stupid.

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