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Posts by Aaron Hockley

Not that I’m a nerd but I spent lunch using a cable tester and tested approx 25-30 different USB-C cables and ended up with 7 different groupings of power and data transfer capabilities.

USB-C: How do I love thee? Let me count the ways...

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The first Minnesota murder, they refused to let a medical professional help the woman they shot. The second Minnesota murder, they simply shot the medical professional.

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I just sent her a very direct email expressing my, um, displeasure.

At least Joe Kent was pretty honest about being a shithead.

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This is why we celebrate the Boston Substack Party, when the patriots wrote strongly worded pamphlets about tea.

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Into #photography? Get my weekly email where I try to make sense of it in our very-tech world.

focusing.techphotoguy.com

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What is this "caught up" thing?

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Photo in a casino interior with stained glass of a train and the words "Boulder Station."  Several table games are in the foreground with slot machines in the background.

Photo in a casino interior with stained glass of a train and the words "Boulder Station." Several table games are in the foreground with slot machines in the background.

Boulder Station Casino Stained Glass and Table Games
Las Vegas, NV
#photography

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Screenshot of headline saying "January brings final supermoon before budget cuts threaten Washington space industry"

Screenshot of headline saying "January brings final supermoon before budget cuts threaten Washington space industry"

You know the budget cuts are bad when they cancel the supermoon.

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Things are going great on The Everything App with MechaHitler in charge.

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Are you into #photography and of the Pinterest persuasion? You might like this:

pinterest.com/techphotoguy

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sandwiches packaged some say "club"and some say "clud"

sandwiches packaged some say "club"and some say "clud"

what's a matter babe you hardly touched your clud sandwich

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Adobe Photoshop 1.0 source code now available The Computer History Museum is doing an amazing job trying not just to preserve the history of the computer revolution, but to keep it alive by getting permission to release source code for classic…

Getting retro with #photoshop
sixcolors.com/link/2025/12...

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A Crooked Cop at Christmas Making use of Safe Exchange Zones at police stations actually is a smart idea.

ACAG
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Adobe Announces Image and PDF Integration with ChatGPT Adobe announced today that it has teamed up with OpenAI to give ChatGPT users access to Photoshop, Express, and Acrobat from inside the chatbot. The new integration is available starting today at no a...

OpenAI gets powerful image editing tools, and Adobe sidesteps building its own natural language interface for now.

www.macstories.net/news/adobe-a...

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How ICE’s Plan To Monitor Social Media Threatens Not Just Privacy, But Civic Participation When most people think about immigration enforcement, they picture border crossings and airport checkpoints. But the new front line may be your social media feed. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enfor…

He says... on social media...

www.techdirt.com/2025/12/09/h...

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The Resonant Computing Manifesto Technology should bring out the best in humanity, not the worst—a manifesto for resonant computing built on five principles that reject hyper-scale extraction for human flourishing.

Remember when the internet wasn't awful? We can go back to that.

Some friends and I have released the Resonant Computing Manifesto: a call to bring back such a time, to see if we can bring back a world where technology works for us, rather than against us.

resonantcomputing.org

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AI-generated image of a banana with a sad face, under a yellow umbrella on a city street in the rain.

AI-generated image of a banana with a sad face, under a yellow umbrella on a city street in the rain.

Current #Portland weather: raining nano bananas.

#pdxtst

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After this weekend's racist attacks on the EU, I've written a column about the moral obligation to stop posting on X.

Oh no, wait, I wrote it *two years ago* when it was blatantly obvious what was going on and how it would get much much worse.

www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

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Apple Has Removed Night Mode From Portrait Mode on the iPhone 17 Pro Even though it's available on older models.

If it were that important, we'd have seen folks getting worked up about it in the first two months of the phone's release.

Instead, it's just now coming to light...

petapixel.com/2025/12/04/a...

#photography

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Any #beer can be a sour beer if you store it wrong enough.

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#doingitwrong

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Why?

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It's my birthday, and Leica just dropped this. Coincidence?

www.adorama.com/lc19200.html

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Chuck Schumer Helps Pull Democrats Back From Brink Of Courage

Chuck Schumer Helps Pull Democrats Back From Brink Of Courage

Chuck Schumer Helps Pull Democrats Back From Brink Of Courage

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Maybe dumping poop on voters from an airplane is not a surefire electoral strategy

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Pro tip: if you want me to do something that I normally charge money for, but want me to do it for free, starting your pitch with "Hey David, would you be able to..." is not a great way to do it.

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Inconceivable!

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Quarterly board meeting this weekend for a professional organization I lead.

Heavy on my mind is how we should be acting to serve our members' interests as our country does... whatever this is called.

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A picture of the garden in front of the east wing of the White House. A mix of colorful flowers and small trees

A picture of the garden in front of the east wing of the White House. A mix of colorful flowers and small trees

NEW: NBC News confirms that the Jacqueline Kennedy Garden, on the east side of the White House, has been destroyed as part of the demolition of the East Wing.

(📸 Getty Images)

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