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@walsh.bsky.social @lukeburbank.bsky.social The little handcuffs are definitely huge chef's kiss on the design of the new shirt and hoodie. ^_^

#TBTL

‘Rare and unique’: Oregonians celebrate retirement of the original MAX train The Type 1 trains had been in service for 40 years. Residents said they’re an iconic part of Oregon history.

Thousands of people gathered at Holladay Park in Portland on Saturday to say goodbye to a piece of Oregon history.

FYI:

The robotic sing-songy voice in the videos that @lukeburbank.bsky.social and @walsh.bsky.social used to play of place names uses the "pipe organ" voice from macOS' text to speech program called "say".

#TBTL

Oregon measles outbreak grows, with more community transmission The situation in Oregon is not yet on par with major outbreaks in states like Utah and South Carolina. But state health officials say they are worried about cases that are going unreported, and about the spread of the virus to schools and urgent care clinics this week.

Health officials in Oregon are concerned they may not be able to contain a small but growing measles outbreak, and on Friday they asked for the public’s help in turning the tide.

New episode from Live Wire with Luke Burbank: Chuck Klosterman, Sasha Debevec-McKenney, and Laura Gibson

Author and essayist Chuck Klosterman tackles the game of football in his economically titled new boo...

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The Final Fantasy Battle Engine: A Dissection of Physical Attacks - Behind the Code YouTube video by Displaced Gamers

#VideoGames #FinalFantasy

Microsoft and Stellantis want to use AI to help car owners Digital services for brands from Jeep to Peugeot will feel the presence of AI.

Umm, eww on all counts.

Thursday by the lake. Theater by the lake.

There's something about that... Give me a week to figure that out.

TBTAI? 🙃

Measles has reached a Portland school. Here’s why health officials think they can stop it State health officials say that people who were at Centennial Middle School in early April may have been exposed to the virus.

Hundreds of people who were at Centennial Middle School in Southeast Portland this month may have been exposed to measles, according to state and county public health officials.

Winter storm warning for heavy snow in the Cascades starting Tuesday Snow and wind gusts in the Cascade passes could make travel difficult Tuesday evening through Thursday morning, the National Weather Service says.

A winter storm warning is in place for heavy snow in the Oregon and Washington Cascades from 5 p.m Tuesday through 5 a.m. Thursday. Snow and wind gusts in the Cascade passes could make travel difficult during that time, according to the National Weather Service.

a picture of a robot with the words " this is the age of steel " below it Alt: a picture of a robot with the words " this is the age of steel " below it

Probably conspiracies about his brain still being kept alive in a Krang-like or automaton or a Cyber Controller body.

New post: TEN 577 | Volkswagen Kills US EVs, BMW + Rimac Work Together On i7, R2 EPA Figures Leak www.transportevolved.com/2026/04/11/ten-577-volks...

At least Splooch wasn't an upper decker kind of turtle

Given the improvements in foods that are made for space flights in the past decades, it's probably gotten to be much better than the two peanuts or pretzels we as "treats" now.

Southern Oregon public broadcasting station

Super Mario Bros. "ACE" TAS Showcase and Console Verification YouTube video by Kosmic 2

Nintendo Famicom Disk System ACE-ception

#VideoGames #Nintendo

New episode from Live Wire with Luke Burbank: Karen Russell, Sam Miller, and David Ramirez

Award-winning author Karen Russell takes us inside her "dust bowl epic" novel The Antidote, which em...

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Don't call it open source if it's source available, non-commercial folks...

#Keychron

Audi is too chicken to bring out any wagon variants now that the A6 allroad and RS 6 Avant are toast here.

I ended up ordering a Subaru Trailseeker for a more wagon-like EV.

It's been painful to see the Volkswagen group kind of squander their chances here in the US and sort of late to the game overall.

I was pretty excited when they announced the wagon ID concept and Audi's A6 Avant e-tron concept. But then VW gave up on the ID.7 for the US and...

Researchers detail how a prompt injection attack bypassed Apple Intelligence protections A now corrected issue allowed researchers to circumvent Apple’s restrictions and force the on-device LLM to execute attacker-controlled actions. Here’s how they did it. more…

Researchers detail how a prompt injection attack bypassed Apple Intelligence protections

Volkswagen drops all-electric ID.4 in the US in pivot back to gas SUVs | TechCrunch All resources at its U.S. factory are aimed at the upcoming Atlas SUV.

Sigh...

Just a follow up to @dosnostalgic.bsky.social's thread about islamophobia peddling grifter Jesse "TechJesse" Petrilla who's been trying to make a name recently. He has started using a sock puppet account on other social media platforms to try and hide who he is.

I confronted him about it.

Microsoft Abruptly Terminates VeraCrypt Account, Halting Windows Updates Updates to VeraCrypt, a popular and long-running piece of encryption, are now thrown into doubt because of a seemingly unexplained Microsoft decision.

NEW: Microsoft has terminated an account associated with VeraCrypt, a popular and long-running piece of encryption software, throwing future Windows updates of the tool into doubt, VeraCrypt’s developer told 404 Media.

“I didn't receive any emails from Microsoft nor any prior warnings."

Firm quietly boosts H.264 streaming license fees from $100,000 up to staggering $4.5 million — backbone codec of the internet gets meteoric increase, AVC hikes follow disastrous H.265 licensing increa... Existing licensees are grandfathered.

Cancers inflicted on humanity, especially in the post-capitalism hellscape: private equity *and* software patents.

One hopes images like this, when paired with the knowledge that everything we burn ends up in that tiny slice of gasses, would help contextualize why we need to move away from energy sources we set on fire.

One hopes. Climate communicators should make some hay of this.