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Another flight of an aircraft with no call sign circling above anti-ICE protests. It took off from March Air Reserve Base, circled above Paramount, and is now circling above downtown LA (the National Guard is moving protesters away from the Metropolitan Detention Center downtown)

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I love this tree because it’s a reminder that you can still live a full life after a disaster:

A moss-covered tree that has fallen but continued growing. The main trunk is horizontal, with a mass of exposed roots at one end. At the other end three branches are growing vertically, each looking like a full tree. In the background are various younger trees, with greenery filling the frame.

@mattgriffin that soundtrack is a powerful spell

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Incapable of not saying "Hoboken" in the "Hadoken" voice

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Signal (and many other messengers) stores push tokens in their database in plain text. Which allows law enforcement to subpoena them (though signal has never publicly admitted this happening) and then law enforcement uses these push tokens to subpoena apple to get personal information associated with it like your full name, address, phone number etc.

This way Law Enforcement can correlate your personal information with your signal account which means participants in conversations are deanonimzed. (Though content is still encrypted).

If you organize in large signal groups (or any Messaging app using push notifications) there is a high chance law enforcement and intelligence agencies can tell that you're part of a group or not.

I don't understand why nobody is talking about this more. It's extremely problematic.

Apple started publishing stats on how often this happens now. They were gag ordered to not speak about it before but they have changed course (https://www.reuters.com/technology/cybersecurity/governments-spying-apple-google-users-through-push-notifications-us-senator-2023-12-06/)

You can find the stats here:

https://www.apple.com/legal/transparency/push-token.html

@mattgriffin I play it casual but I also have my popcorn

without lifting head from newspaper *

“Well of course, I mean what did you expect with those two”

ruffles newspaper to turn page, continues reading comics *

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Day 5, Wednesday: North Beach Park, Burlington, VT to Montréal hostel/hotel

Weather: very warm, very sunny
Of note: super-flat most of the way, bike ferry, no shade at the border, difficult-to-spot entrance to rail trail in Quebec, shadflies along St Lawrence seaway

#Bostréal

A scene at the bike ferry along the Island Line Trail: about 20 bicycles are arranged in bike racks on part of the ferry and visible outside the ferry on the dock are about a dozen cyclists who will be waiting their turn after the ferry returns.

A cyclist in a red-and-white Bostréal jersey and black shorts is riding on a bike lane of a bridge with the sun above in a whispy-cloudy sky and the cityscape of Montréal in the distance. The sun is low and the lighting almost silhouettes the cyclist.

Three smiling cyclists wearing red-and-white Bostréal jerseys are standing behind their bikes next to a grey-brick wall of a building holding signs that read: “Bostréal .. I biked 400 miles form Boston to Montréal .. bostoncyclistsunion.org”

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Day 4, Tuesday: Lake Dunmore, Branbury State Park, Salisbury, VT to North Beach Park, Burlington, VT

Weather: warm, sunny
Of note: sunburn on calves, surprise at arrival

#Bostréal

A cyclist in a black HUP jersey and teal shorts is riding on a hilly road with farm houses and farm buildings off to either side. In the far distance is another cyclist in high-visibility clothing climbing a hill.

A corrugated metal tunnel passes underneath the Island Line Trail as the pedestrian access to part of the North Beach Park campgrounds. Silhouetted near the end of the tunnel is a cyclist walking their bike.

Two cyclists and the parents of one of the cyclists are standing and facing the camera, the parents were there to surprise their son and are holding a sign which reads “Strong Haul for Bost/real Dan & Jessie”. In the background is a car, one of the support vans for the Bostréal ride, and some cyclists setting up tents on the campground.

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Day 3, Monday, Memorial Day: Townshend, VT to Lake Dunmore, Branbury State Park, Salisbury, VT

Weather: warm, partly cloudy, a couple of rain events
Of note: climb all the hills

#Bostréal

A cyclist wearing a yellow and grey jacket, black pants, and riding a yellow bike with purple rims is riding on a covered wooden bridge just outside the Townshend State Park Campground. Sunlight is coming in through a gap near the top of the walls and the roof structure.

Three cyclists are facing toward the camera while posing midway up a 3-mile long climb, pointing up the road that still is ahead of them. There are trees to the left of the road, grass and trees to the right, and above is partly cloudy blue sky.

A hand is holding a bottle of “Day-Four-Fire” spicy seasoning. The bottle label is home made and depicts a silhouette of a cyclist pedaling up a climb with fire blasting out of their butt like a rocket engine.

A picture of a sunset at a lake. There is a grassy field that leads up to a dock with a couple of boats and a person sitting with their feet in the water, and there are a few trees along the perimeter of the lake. The sun is kissing the top of a mountain top in the distance, and other mountains are visible as well. The sky is clear except at the horizon where there are some thin clouds reflecting the sunlight. Light rays are streaming from the sun.

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Day 2, Sunday: Otter River State Forest, MA to Townshend State Park Campground, Townshend, VT

Weather: chilly, mostly cloudy
Of note: off road (trails) option was well worth it

#Bostréal

A cyclist wearing a black HUP kit jersey, yellow and grey jacket, black pants, and riding a yellow bike with purple rims is riding on a rural road and waving to a cyclist wearing high-visibility jacket and light blue bike going in the opposite direction. There are forest trees to the left of the road and the Ashuelot River to the right.

A cyclist wearing a black HUP kit jersey, yellow and grey jacket, black pants, and riding a yellow bike with purple rims is riding on a dirt path surrounded by low brush and trees. This is on part of an “Inactive Railroad Road” (Ashuelot Recreational Rail Trail) starting in Ashuelot, NH and continuing to Hinsdale, NH, along the border of NH and VT.

A cyclist wearing a black HUP kit jersey, yellow and grey jacket, black pants, and riding a yellow bike with purple rims is riding on an off-road route of field and grass adjacent to a road. There is a sculpture of a Big Foot, roughly 5 feet tall and made of what looks like concrete off to the left of the trail, and someone has put a black glove on one hand. This is on part of an “Inactive Railroad Road” (Ashuelot Recreational Rail Trail) starting in Ashuelot, NH and continuing to Hinsdale, NH, along the border of NH and VT.

A cyclist wearing a black HUP kit jersey, yellow and grey jacket, black pants, and riding a yellow bike with purple rims is riding on a dirt and gravel rail trail path outside of Brattleboro, VT next to the West River on the West River Trail. To the right of the trail is exposed rock with moss and some water running down the face of it, and to the left of the trail is some trees and foliage that descends a slope down to a river.

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Day 1, Saturday: Boston, MA to Otter River State Forest, MA

Weather: chilly, mostly cloudy
Of note: some nervous energy, minor body malfunctions, but jovial start

#Bostréal

A gathering of cyclists at a park in Concord, MA. There are red and grey bricks that perimeter a grassy and tree-inhabited park, and there is a stone-encased drinking water fountain. There are about 20 cyclists, most wearing a red-and-white jersey that says Bostréal 2025 on it, and they are socializing and getting snacks out of a white van that is parked adjacent to the park.

A cyclist wearing a yellow and grey jacket, black pants, and riding a yellow bike with purple rims is riding on a rural road that a single yellow line down the middle for a little distance before a town line when the yellow line ends. In the distance are two other cyclists. This is at the edge of Concord, MA and Carlisle, MA on Strawberry Hill Rd.

An outdoor campsite in Otter River State Forest that has been set up as a group dinner location. There are over 20 people sitting and standing around the food tables, campfire, camp grill, and in areas to socialize and chat. The food table has an assortment of prepared, uncooked food and aluminum foil which acted as both cooking vessel for the grill and bowl/plate.

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We rode bikes from Boston to Montréal over five days to raise $ for the Boston Cyclists Union

Protip for these posts: read the alt-text

Consolidated ride report: https://tanagra.space/blog/2025/06/Bostreal%202025.html

#Bostréal

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I AM THE UNKNOWN GLITCH, CATCH ME IF YOU CAN

JANUARY 1974
https://wholeearth.info/p/ii-cybernetic-frontiers-january-1974?format=spreads&index=63

A close-up photo of a book page describing an early ARPA computer program called "The Unknown Glitch" from Project MAC, quoting Alan Kay about its random behavior and self-relocation in memory, with a highlighted phrase "I AM THE UNKNOWN GLITCH. CATCH ME IF YOU CAN."

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It's really disheartening how much the internet has taken a step back in accessibility for epileptics. 5 years ago, the setting to turn off autoplay on videos in Firefox worked perfectly. Now, it's situational. 5 years ago, on Chrome, I could install extensions to stop autoplay and stop GIFs from animating. Now, none are supported because it's not "best practices". The internet is so much worse for epileptics now when it had been getting so good. It's so depressing.

@mattgriffin https://youtu.be/gIrIK6Z8ybg?si=MqgZ5L67EwW6SBQI

@mattgriffin I watched the first season, did not continue - they don’t even have the full rights to it IIRC

The show had some hiccups, the last season has been good to really good (still have a couple episodes to watch to complete the season)

Not happy it won’t bring the stories through to the end
https://mastodon.social/@verge/114559156716758927

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Welp, I have just cancelled my Microsoft Office 365 recurring subscription.

Two reasons.

1. I only ever use it to check tracked changes to the copy edits on novels—once a year—which my publishers process in Word. As of this month, LibreOffice is good enough for the job (just tested at book length).

2. CoPilot in Office would open me up to accusations of breach of contract—my book contracts warrant that they're all my own work: CoPilot brings that into question.

So good riddance to Office365!

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Noticing that Unbreaking has launched:

https://unbreaking.org

“The United States is experiencing institutional collapse at a speed and scale that are difficult to understand, especially through feeds and updates designed to atomize our attention. We believe that mapping the damage done and its human costs—and the pushback and resilience work already underway—is necessary groundwork for building and retaining political agency.”

Their newsletter has more details:

https://newsletter.unbreaking.org/archive/laying-the-groundwork/

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