Tyson, Chicken Rancher πŸ“

Product marketing at Dropzone AI and lay pastor. Servant of the Secret Fire, wielder of the flame of Anor. Cursed with ability to see nuance. Trying not to let the bastards grind me down.

I'm married and father to three. I live in the Cascade foothills outside Seattle with my family and small flock of chickens.

I'm a startup junkie who tries to learn from good and bad examples.

Interests outside work:
#troutfishing #backpacking #backyardchickens #homesteading #chess #LOTR #Tolkien #CSLewis #Earthsea #romanbritain #churchhistory

In 2002, Larry Wall, the inventor of Perl, answered a reader question on Slashdot: "How can a scientific or at least technical mind believe in God?" I hope you enjoy his answer as much as I did: interviews.slashdot.org/story/

Avatar: Bearded guy in a beanie and orange puffy jacket chopping wood.

Header image: Man wearing waders standing in a swollen river fishing.

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lcamtuf :verified: :verified: :verified:lcamtuf@infosec.exchange
2025-06-12

You youngsters take it for granted, but it was fiendishly difficult to get angry at strangers before the invention of the internet

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They hunt us. We feed you. Did you eat today?

Nos cazan. Te alimentamos. ΒΏComiste hoy?

#SoyEsencial

Tyson, Chicken Rancher πŸ“tsupasat@infosec.exchange
2025-06-11

@vwbusguy They’ll deny it, but a lot of the things the MAGA crowd say sound very much like what a white supremacist would say.

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Ericka SimoneErickaSimone
2025-06-11

Building on what @GeePawHill mentioned yesterday. I don’t think I’ve seen a β€œriot” with the trailer tractor portable stage driving the mariachi band down Olvera Street.

Don’t let them shift the narrative; don’t let the β€œanarchists” (armchair or otherwise) or the antagonists make it seem as if the people as a whole are violent. will be fine.

Tyson, Chicken Rancher πŸ“tsupasat@infosec.exchange
2025-06-11

@andrewbriscoe @intrepidhero Thanks for the positivity and encouragement on this climb!

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Andrew Briscoeandrewbriscoe
2025-06-11

I had an amazing and life-changing day with @tsupasat and @intrepidhero climbing Mount Adams on Sunday. Everything about the trip was an exciting challenge from the treacherous road to the endless ascent and the 2,000 FT almost continuous glissade. I really didn’t think we would make it with the temperatures in the valley below rising close to 100 F but the snow was mostly firm until we reached the summit.

An evening view of Mount Adams from just below tree line. A mix of live green and gray burned subalpine fir are nestled between snow fields. The volcano is mostly covered in white snow with only the sharp exposed ridges showing through. The climbing route ascends a tall white snow field on the right face. Light blue skies.A view of Mount Saint Helens at sunrise from the side of Mount Adams. The snow covered volcano has a flattish top after erupting in 1980. A white snow field and dark rocky ridge are in the foreground. The skies shade from pinks to yellows to greens.A view looking up a seemingly endless snowy ascent as mountaineers use trekking poles, ice axes, micro spikes, and/or crampons to trudge toward a false summit. Icy glissade chutes run from top to bottom. Dark blue skies.Mountaineers zigzag across and up the final slopes to reach the true summit of Mount Adams. Most of the volcano is covered in snow at this elevation. The smell of sulfur fills the air at times. Dark blue skies.
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2025-06-10

Married couple resting by the riverside. #NYC

Two mallard ducks, perched on a wooden rail overlooking the Hudson River. Both are in a one-legged resting pose. The male is gazing out over the water while the female sleeps with her head tucked under wing.
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Dare Obasanjocarnage4life@mas.to
2025-06-10

Chinese tech companies have temporarily disabled features of popular AI chatbots such as image recognition to prevent student from cheating in the annual nationwide college entrance exams.

We are in a transitional period where AI has broken our usual measures of evaluating intellectual comptence.
theverge.com/news/682737/china

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Alison Pitt :blobcatcoffee:adastra1930
2025-06-10

Today I found out that the Merlin Bird ID app (my favorite app, btw) is hiring a Product Designer (Mobile Apps). This is not my wheelhouse but I’m hoping my wider network knows someone!! Merlin is great, and as a Cornell alum, I can say the company is great too ❀️


cornell.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/

Tyson, Chicken Rancher πŸ“tsupasat@infosec.exchange
2025-06-09

I was driving through Klicitat County over the weekend and saw the most stunning forest. It was Ponderosa Pine and Garry Oak (Oregon White Oak), with some Douglas Fir here and there.

I observed it on Highway 97 coming down out of the Simcoe Mountains from Yakima to Goldendale. The most dramatic views were where the highway went along the side of a river canyon and you could see these beautiful trees just cover the rocky hillsides.

Below are some photos I took of nice specimens along the road, but they really don't do it justice.

I became interested in Garry Oak when I learned it's the only oak native to the Pacific Northwest and planted a few young ones around my house.

#pnw

Close up of bunches of deep green oak leaves.Large garry oak tree leaning over while there are tall mature ponderosa pines behind it.Photo of mature garry oaks with ponderosa pine.Photo of mature garry oaks with ponderosa pine.
Tyson, Chicken Rancher πŸ“tsupasat@infosec.exchange
2025-06-09

@drdirtbag @intrepidhero @andrewbriscoe @drdirtbag @intrepidhero @andrewbriscoe I was very curious to see the building as well. Here's what I could see of the structure on the summit of Mt Adams. The wood's actually not in too bad of shape. I can't believe they lugged all the materials up there! I'm tired just thinking about it!

Guy with a short beard and ball cap smiling in front of a pile of snow with some old wood exposed.Really old post and beam exposed from the snow. There's some thick wood shingle on the top.
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2025-06-09

Got #mountainmonday? You betcha! Here's a photo dump from a truly epic day on Pahto (Mt Adams) with @tsupasat and @andrewbriscoe

Despite absurdly warm conditions the snow was pretty great. Firm in the morning and perfect for glissading on the way down.

#pnw #hiking

Two men with mountaineering gear smile at the camera while standing on snow. A peak is visible on the hazy orange horizon.A mountaineer stands on a snowy ridge in predawn light.Two mountaineers rest on rocks with snow all around.Looking at an eastern ridge just before sunrise. The sky is just starting to turn orange along the edge of the ridge.
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2025-06-07

#liberatedmemes #memes #degrowth

Remember when the Internet was awesome and your phone wasn't a tracking device?

A cartoon of two men standing next to each other holding their cell phones. A giant constrictor snake is wrapped around one of them. The other man is saying " Go into settings, privacy, activity controls, Web activity, and deselect giant snake."
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2025-06-07

Which is your preferred New York City Airport?

And yes, I know this is like asking which is your preferred way to get punched in the face.

Tyson, Chicken Rancher πŸ“tsupasat@infosec.exchange
2025-06-07

"It's hot out" is relative. Case in point, we have a heat advisory in the Seattle area. It's going to be in the 80s this weekend. #pnw

Screenshot of a phone interface with an alert from the National Weather Service of a Heat Advisory. The temperature shows that it's 76 degrees F.
Tyson, Chicken Rancher πŸ“tsupasat@infosec.exchange
2025-06-05

In ancient Athens, once a year citizens could decide to send someone into exile for 10 years without charge or trial. The person would be chosen through a blind vote. It was meant to protect against dictators and other people who were dangerous to society.

Kind of wishing we had that today.

Read about the practice of ostracism: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ostracism

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Greg JohnstonGPJohnston
2025-06-05

Nice morning light in the woods on today's hike through one of our local parks. If you're allergic to the color green this place will give you hives.

Hiker with long hair walks along a dirt path through underbrush of mostly big sword ferns and above, towering maple and conifer trees. Close photo of the wide trunk of a very old Douglas fir tree, with thick,  gnarly, furrowed, mossy bark. In the background are very green bushes and deciduous trees.A mature bigleafed maple tree towers in a very green forest, illuminated by angled morning light, its long limbs reaching quite far horizontally.
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2025-06-05

a screenshot from my forthcoming company security awareness training video, a 1920's/30's British Pathe film entitled 'Electronic Whizbang Security for the Modern Discerning Employee'

A MacBook Pro with 'protected by Crowdstrike Electronic Medicines' written on it
Tyson, Chicken Rancher πŸ“tsupasat@infosec.exchange
2025-06-05

@chrissanders88 At Dropzone AI, the most valuable players are our security engineers on staff.

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Catalin Cimpanucampuscodi
2025-06-05

Something I missed yesterday was that the State Department has offered a $10mil reward for the RedLine infostealer developer

The most interesting part is that the US believes he acted "at the direction or under the control of a foreign government."

rewardsforjustice.net/rewards/

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