Cory Dransfeldt

Cory Dransfeldt

@coryd.dev

Husband, dad, developer, music nerd. Engineering, music, automation, general nerdery, #tattoos and rescue dogs. Pronouns: he/him/his

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Cory Dransfeldt
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📖 Hyperscale by Paris Marx (★★★★★) #business #politics #tech An eye-opening account of how the data center boom is pushing our planet past its breaking point Underlying our seamless access to AI, cryptocurrency, and unlimited cloud... https://www.coryd.dev/reading/books/9781805227472/hyperscale

coryd.devHyperscaleAn eye-opening account of how the data center boom is pushing our planet past its breaking point Underlying our seamless access to AI, cryptocurrency, and unlimited cloud storage is a hulking, costly physical infrastructure. Massive data centers full of energy-hungry chips and processors power everything we do online. Scrambling to meet dubious market demand, the tech giants have leveraged our planet in pursuit of a market monopoly. In Hyperscale , journalist Paris Marx uncovers the excesses of hyperscale data processing. He exposes the deceptive, exploitative ways tech companies are siphoning energy and resources from vulnerable communities in their pursuit of digital power, abandoning the pretense of social responsibility. Amid energy shortages and tech-induced battles over drinking water, Marx makes a powerful case for technology that promotes the social good over the bottom lines of tech billionaires. He joins the incredible efforts of people and movements pushing back against the profit-driven interests of Big Tech, illuminating a path toward the sustainable future we all deserve. The AI boom and its infrastructural demands have accelerated our many modern catastrophes. With razor-sharp reporting and incisive analysis, Marx shows us that the greatest threat is not the specter of AI overlords but a global environmental disaster already in the making.

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C)
@doctorow.pluralistic.net

This analyst's report from Apollo about AI uses the term "S&P 493" to refer to the "S&P 500 minus the Mag 7" - because if you take out the AI companies, the S&P 500 is tanking. www.apollo.com/wealth/insig...

apollo.comNo Signs of AI Payoff Outside the Tech Sector | The Daily SparkDespite massive investments and widespread hype around artificial intelligence, the technology has delivered zero financial payoff to corporate America outside of tech. Subscribe for daily updates.
Cory Dransfeldt
@coryd.dev

No redemption story for this asshole. You destroyed families, live with the guilt.

Taniel@taniel.bsky.social

Startling stat — a police officer in a small Texas town handed arrested and handed over immigrants to ICE at such volume that the total number is the equivalent of 10% of his town's population. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/25/m...

nytimes.comHe Helped Deport 200 People. Now He Has Misgivings.A deputy in small-town Texas became the local face of ICE’s national crackdown.
Cory Dransfeldt
@coryd.dev

Vile, vile stuff

Carl T. Bergstrom@carlbergstrom.com

If you thought Ben Lamm was a shithead, you underestimated him. He's worse. Genetically engineering any creatures, but dogs especially, to be weapons of war — it's unspeakable. www.forbes.com/sites/amyfel...

forbes.comBillionaires Palmer Luckey And Ben Lamm Spin Up Startup To Genetically Engineer Military DogsBen Lamm of de-extinction startup Colossal has teamed up with Palmer Luckey’s team at Anduril to create a dog that’s optimized for military use. The new “warhounds” will be cloned and gene edited.

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Pavel
@spavel.bsky.social

AI has finally used up all the money

Christopher Mims@mims.bsky.social

Wall Street is bailing on the AI trade. “Signals from Meta that it could soon go on a cash-raising spree helped trigger another massive rotation trade on Thursday, with investors dumping stocks connected to the AI boom and piling into almost everything else“ www.wsj.com/finance/stoc...

wsj.comMeta’s Hunt for AI Capital Strikes a Raw Nerve on Wall StreetThe tech-heavy Nasdaq fell 2.6%, while Treasury yields posted its biggest drop since 2023.

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darth™️
@darthbluesky.bsky.social

of course the worst people in the world see dogs as nothing more than part of their death cult fantasies just absolute pieces of shit

Amy Feldman@amyfeldman7.bsky.social

*NEW* Colossal Biosciences’ Ben Lamm and Anduril’s Palmer Luckey team up on a new startup to genetically engineer war dogs for the military. Warhound comes out of stealth at $1.2B valuation For @forbes.com with @iainmartin.bsky.social and @mhunterhart.bsky.social www.forbes.com/sites/amyfel...

forbes.comBillionaires Palmer Luckey And Ben Lamm Spin Up Startup To Genetically Engineer Military DogsBen Lamm of de-extinction startup Colossal has teamed up with Palmer Luckey’s team at Anduril to create a dog that’s optimized for military use. The new “warhounds” will be cloned and gene edited.
Cory Dransfeldt
@coryd.dev

We sit in the house, and slowly the world we are living in is getting smaller, and all we say is, "Please, at least leave us alone in our living rooms. Let me have my toaster and my TV and my steel-belted radials and I won't say anything. Just leave us alone."

Cory Dransfeldt
@coryd.dev

If you put a show password checkbox instead of a remember me checkbox on the bottom left of your login form I'm going to scream at you

Cory Dransfeldt
@coryd.dev

Passkeys are awesome. Password managers are awesome. Two-factor auth is awesome (unless it's a code sent via SMS/email). Yubikey/physical security keys are awesome. OIDC is awesome. OIDC that uses passkeys and security keys is awesome.

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Anil Dash
@anildash.com

Much of the modern digital world only exists because of human social norms. The Internet's backbone exchanges data at light speed because a bunch of regular folks, essentially, shake hands & agree to do so. Lots of fragile, vital infrastructure only survived because nobody decided (yet) to knife it.

Jason Koebler@jasonkoebler.bsky.social

Security through obscurity is a terrible principle but in practice a lot of things didn't get hacked bc people ignored them, or didn't know they existed, or just generally got missed. AI makes it easy to probe all of these things at scale + makes it easier to find/develop exploits

Cory Dransfeldt
@coryd.dev

🔗 disconnecting from feeling hopeless via reject complexity #politics My family and I went to our neighborhood meeting tonight. It was maybe ~30 people but the mayor of Long Beach came anyway and gave his time to talk to... https://rejectcomplexity.com/posts/disconnecting-from-feeling-hopeless

rejectcomplexity.comdisconnecting from feeling hopelessMy family and I went to our neighborhood meeting tonight. It was maybe ~30 people but the mayor of Long Beach came anyway and gave his time to talk to people and answer questions. It was a mostly positive gathering with some hard questions about homelessness and funding cuts for our schools.

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Chat Pile
@chatpileband.bsky.social

I still post here from time to time despite the fact that Bluesky users don't know what music is and only listen to political podcasts they disagree with

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dan sinker
@dansinker.com

deeply fucked up

Gillian Brockell@gillianbrockell.com

ICYMI, LA Taco has parted ways with two of its most fearless ICE reporters, Memo Torres and Izzy Ramirez (@eltragon.bsky.social and @izzymirez.bsky.social on here). Neither says why, but it sounds like it was sudden and involuntary.

Cory Dransfeldt
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📖 When the Clock Broke by John Ganz (★★★★☆) #politics #history #nonfiction One of The New York Times 's 100 Notable Books of 2024 Longlisted for the National Book Critics Circle Award A Barack Obama summer reading pick One of... https://www.coryd.dev/reading/books/1250390419/when-the-clock-broke

coryd.devWhen the Clock BrokeOne of The New York Times 's 100 Notable Books of 2024 Longlisted for the National Book Critics Circle Award A Barack Obama summer reading pick One of Publishers Weekly 's ten best books of 2024 A revelatory look back at the convulsions at the end of the Reagan era—and their dark legacy today. With the Soviet Union extinct, Saddam Hussein defeated, and U.S. power at its zenith, the early 1990s promised a “kinder, gentler America.” Instead, it was a period of rising anger and domestic turmoil, anticipating the polarization and resurgent extremism we know today. In When the Clock Broke , the acclaimed political writer John Ganz tells the story of America’s late-century discontents. Ranging from upheavals in Crown Heights and Los Angeles to the advent of David Duke and the heartland survivalists, the broadcasts of Rush Limbaugh, and the bitter disputes between neoconservatives and the “paleo-con” right, Ganz immerses us in a time when what Philip Roth called the “indigenous American berserk” took new and ever-wilder forms. In the 1992 campaign, Pat Buchanan's and Ross Perot’s insurgent populist bids upended the political establishment, all while Americans struggled through recession, alarm about racial and social change, the specter of a new power in Asia, and the end of Cold War–era political norms. Conspiracy theories surged, and intellectuals and activists strove to understand the “Middle American Radicals” whose alienation fueled new causes. Meanwhile, Bill Clinton appeared to forge a new, vital center, though it would not hold for long. In a rollicking, eye-opening book, Ganz narrates the fall of the Reagan order and the rise of a new and more turbulent America.
Cory Dransfeldt
@coryd.dev

Never thought I'd see the day when 2 iOS app updates make it through review before my one macOS app even enters review.

Cory Dransfeldt
@coryd.dev

🎥 Spider-Man: Brand New Day (★★★★☆) #scifi #action #adventure A brand new day starts now. Fighting crime full-time as Spider-Man in a world that doesn't remember him—and the pressure of seeing his old friends move on without... https://www.coryd.dev/watching/movies/spider-man-brand-new-day-2026

coryd.devSpider-Man: Brand New DayA brand new day starts now. Fighting crime full-time as Spider-Man in a world that doesn't remember him—and the pressure of seeing his old friends move on without him—sparks a change in Peter Parker he may not have the power to control. But that transformation might also be the only thing that can stop a shocking new threat to the city and those he loves - a powerful villain no one can even see.

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Hilary Baumann 💻 🥃
@hilarybaumann.com

👀

MacRumors.com@macrumors.bsky.social

EFF's Privacy Badger Anti-Tracking Extension Expands to Safari

macrumors.comEFF's Privacy Badger Anti-Tracking Extension Expands to SafariThe Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) today announced the launch of Privacy Badger for Safari on macOS. The free browser extension allows Safari users to block ad trackers to prevent companies from spying on your web browsing and tracking you across the web. Privacy Badger has been available on other platforms like Chrome, Edge, and Firefox, but it is new to Safari. It requires Safari 26.5 or later. The EFF says Privacy Browser can automatically learn to block hidden trackers on the web. It uses algorithmic methods to determine what is and isn't tracking, and it doesn't block ads unless those ads are also trackers. Safari already limits the amount of information that trackers can access, but it lets trackers load. Privacy Badger blocks the trackers from loading and techniques that bypass Safari's protections don't work. The extension is also able to block cookies and remove link click tracking from outgoing links on Facebook and Google. This article, "EFF's Privacy Badger Anti-Tracking Extension Expands to Safari" first appeared on MacRumors.com Discuss this article in our forums
Cory Dransfeldt
@coryd.dev

Ugh, dammit. Dude seemed like he was in a good spot.

Shams Charania Tweets@shamsbot.bsky.social

Just in: Sacramento Kings guard Ben Simmons is believed to have sustained a torn Achilles tendon at practice Sunday, sources tell ESPN. A suspected season-ending injury for Simmons after rejuvenated and impressive training camp and preseason performances.