Noah 🚎

Noah 🚎

@noahsbwilliams.com

Union transit advocate ✊ | Electric Trolley / Zero Emissions | Parallel hybrid bike operator πŸ”‹πŸš² | Cyber Mechanic (DevOps/SRE:) | Proudly Cascadian 🌲🟦⬜️🟩

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MC Squared
@mcsquared.bsky.social

We don’t need razors with 9 blades, 37 different kinds of bbq sauce or a refrigerator that connects to wifi, we need healthcare and affordable groceries

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Molly White
@molly.wiki

truly a wild time to be alive when the cryptography world is split between those worried about quantum computers and those whose private key is β€œ4”

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Bailey Townsend πŸ¦€
@pds.dad

Patch is live www.php.net/archive/2026...

php.netPHP: News Archive - 2026PHP is a popular general-purpose scripting language that powers everything from your blog to the most popular websites in the world.
Bailey Townsend πŸ¦€@pds.dad

Looking like the exploit has been found. Seeing writeups and videos of people popping shells. If you have a device you even think is running php for some panel or a site you forgot probably best to turn that off till tomorrow.

Noah 🚎
@noahsbwilliams.com

To everyone asking why my hair is on fire today ⬇️

the autumn and the scarlet 🍁@marcy.beneprism.rip

Two extremely bad computer things came out today. For normies, one of them is "install software updates ASAP", and the other is strictly nerd business. Both of them are going to be enormous pains in the ass for security people and there will probably be some Big Crimes over the next year or so.

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the autumn and the scarlet 🍁
@marcy.beneprism.rip

Replying to @opinionhaver.bsky.social

Two extremely bad computer things came out today. For normies, one of them is "install software updates ASAP", and the other is strictly nerd business. Both of them are going to be enormous pains in the ass for security people and there will probably be some Big Crimes over the next year or so.

Noah 🚎
@noahsbwilliams.com

This beef is stupid and I wouldn't have let a third party account assert itself as the face of it in a comms sense if I were running it. The lefty cheat sheet itself is pretty useful, it provides a criteria for voting based on org endorsements and record. What is the fight even over, jeez?

Erica C. Barnett@ericacbarnett.bsky.social

Just flailing. Endless posts with personal attacks and dark insinuations about me and my "consultant friends." It's ironic that many of the posts claim the anonymous whoevers who made this site can't be public because they're scared of attacks. From the person who is obsessively attacking me.

Noah 🚎
@noahsbwilliams.com

Either way, @ericacbarnett.bsky.social I think you're going to have to contend with the fact that there's a genuine frustration with the consultant class that is real. Not all of their candidates are even bad, they just a primary challenge to any as an existential threat rather than lefty pressure.

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kenofseattle
@kenofseattle.bsky.social

The ICE cowards have yet to kidnap one violent criminal or cartel member, because they can fight back.

Raider@iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social

ICE kidnaped hard working landscapers karma will come for these goons

Noah 🚎
@noahsbwilliams.com

Fighting facists to famine! Hello and good evening from an EMD 567. This locomotive engine was used in World War II by allied forces in LSTs for many landings, including on D-day. Here, this one calmly completes the task of feeding thousands, as it switches cars at the grain terminal in Seattle.

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M Mallon
@mmallon.com

β€œThe Regional Transit Measure will dramatically improve VTA service to offer faster, more frequent service and improved efficiency to bring back riders and take more cars off the roads.” www.mercurynews.com/2026/10/16/c...

mercurynews.comCohen: Santa Clara County and, especially, San Jose will benefit from Bay Area transit taxβ€˜The survival of our regional transit systems is critical to San JosΓ©. Our systems depend on one another.’
Noah 🚎
@noahsbwilliams.com

In the age of drones, CNG (methane) buses are unsafe as a concept and shouldn't be used. That includes Hydrogen buses, which combine the worst of CNG and electric buses. The safety valves worked on this bus. That may not be true the first time one is hit with a drone. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

cbc.ca3 dead, several injured after fiery bus crash in Calgary | CBC NewsThree people are dead and 16 others were injured in a collision involving a city bus in Calgary on Thursday, according to officials.

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Sam
@samd.bsky.social

Karen Bass vs. Nithya Raman in a nutshell

Kenny Uong@kennyuong.bsky.social

Major gotcha moment from the NBC Los Angeles mayoral debate: Mayor Bass says many supporters of Nithya Raman's campaign are advocates for bike lanes!! Duh!! Of course! Bike lanes save lives! 🚲🌴

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Tom Flood
@tomflood.bsky.social

Please remember these moments when we hear authorities preaching road safety to our kids or thoughts and prayers to those families who have lost someone to road violence.

Tom Flood@tomflood.bsky.social

Toronto is not having it.

Noah 🚎
@noahsbwilliams.com

Just had a driver in a grey Prius try to roll a right turn without yielding to oncoming traffic, including myself on a bike and a bunch of cars. He almost ran over a family crossing with the light. I yelled "What is wrong with you, dude!?" and he then followed me and demanded *I* pull over.

Noah 🚎
@noahsbwilliams.com

I stopped in a parking protected bike lane that he couldn't access with his car and waited for him to leave (he had nothing else to do with traffic behind him). I'm fine. But he should get his license revoked.

Noah 🚎
@noahsbwilliams.com

Road rage (the kind where you're at fault for your own negligence and aggression, not the "you almost killed me so I honked" kind which is not the same) is so poorly handled it's a joke.

Noah 🚎
@noahsbwilliams.com

Hey y'all! Sr. DevOps Eng / SRE here, let's talk about the Russian bot issue! You're probably hearing a lot of conflicting narratives on this, and I'm here to tell you they're not mutually exclusive! Both search crawlers and influence bots have been destroyed and degraded!

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Noah 🚎
@noahsbwilliams.com

Make no mistake: The bots will be back. Russia and other foreign actors are hard at work shoring up their influence networks. They'll rebuild in other datacenters and probably do so in other friendly countries. But Ukraine just made that harder and more expensive πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡¦βœŠ

Noah 🚎
@noahsbwilliams.com

And in so doing, they demonstrated to the world that a lot of the rhetoric we thought was homegrown hate, may actually be foreign influence trying to harm democracy. Take that as a lesson the next time some transphobe or racist tries drawing you into a knock-down, drag-out: They may not be real!

Noah 🚎
@noahsbwilliams.com

Hey y'all! Sr. DevOps Eng / SRE here, let's talk about the Russian bot issue! You're probably hearing a lot of conflicting narratives on this, and I'm here to tell you they're not mutually exclusive! Both search crawlers and influence bots have been destroyed and degraded!

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Noah 🚎
@noahsbwilliams.com

The absolute number may be less impressive than the initial headlines by raw numbers, but the effect is the same. I don't think we should write off the effects of these kinetic strikes on public sentiment.

Noah 🚎
@noahsbwilliams.com

But how do we measure it? Social media companies stand to loose a lot of (fake, but still profitable) engagement on their platforms, and will likely be very tight lipped about the metrics they've collected around this incident. Getting an accurate big-picture sense won't be easy.

Noah 🚎
@noahsbwilliams.com

Hey y'all! Sr. DevOps Eng / SRE here, let's talk about the Russian bot issue! You're probably hearing a lot of conflicting narratives on this, and I'm here to tell you they're not mutually exclusive! Both search crawlers and influence bots have been destroyed and degraded!

View full thread
Noah 🚎
@noahsbwilliams.com

This is, IMO, a total red herring by Russia to muddy the waters, and the only reason it's getting traction is because of a lack of technical understanding by the American media.

Noah 🚎
@noahsbwilliams.com

You can take out 1,000,000 search crawlers for every one political bot. If that same strike takes out 100 political influence bots, it's still an effective strike. 100 instances of an LLM-based chatbot can post thousands of times per hour, exerting significant influence over online sentiment.

Noah 🚎
@noahsbwilliams.com

Hey y'all! Sr. DevOps Eng / SRE here, let's talk about the Russian bot issue! You're probably hearing a lot of conflicting narratives on this, and I'm here to tell you they're not mutually exclusive! Both search crawlers and influence bots have been destroyed and degraded!

View full thread
Noah 🚎
@noahsbwilliams.com

But in practice, it often doesn't work like that. Regulatory rules like GDPR increasingly force companies to story user data in the jurisdiction they reside in. In Russia's case, few hosting providers at the scale of Yandex/AWS will willingly allow them to host botnets outside the country.

Noah 🚎
@noahsbwilliams.com

It's typically against the terms of service of major hosting providers to do so, and you'll be kicked off the platform with enough complaints. So what about the "it's all just search crawlers" claim Yandex is making?

Noah 🚎
@noahsbwilliams.com

Hey y'all! Sr. DevOps Eng / SRE here, let's talk about the Russian bot issue! You're probably hearing a lot of conflicting narratives on this, and I'm here to tell you they're not mutually exclusive! Both search crawlers and influence bots have been destroyed and degraded!

View full thread
Noah 🚎
@noahsbwilliams.com

Typically, when we architect anything important (think: banking, medical records, safety sensitive systems) we design our application to run in multiple regions at once. A region is typically comprised of at least 3 availability zones.

Noah 🚎
@noahsbwilliams.com

A common pattern for an international company, operating across regulatory jurisdictions, is 2 regions in each country. Theoretically, this would take the destruction of 12 datacenters across multiple countries, to fully knock out.

Noah 🚎
@noahsbwilliams.com

Hey y'all! Sr. DevOps Eng / SRE here, let's talk about the Russian bot issue! You're probably hearing a lot of conflicting narratives on this, and I'm here to tell you they're not mutually exclusive! Both search crawlers and influence bots have been destroyed and degraded!

Noah 🚎
@noahsbwilliams.com

Let's start with the basics: Yandex is essentially the Google + AWS in Russia. Both a search engine and a public cloud provider in one company. Ukraine blew up several of their datacenters (we call them "availability zones") which dramatically disrupted a myriad of different industries using them.

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Ryan Packer
@typewriteralley.bsky.social

You can't tell me we have to expand the UGB when places like Medina are maintaining 16,000 to 20,000 square foot lot size minimums, cranking up side setbacks, and removing density bonus programs.

Ryan Packer@typewriteralley.bsky.social

While Seattle's growth plan remains paralyzed by legal appeals, the former Reagan Dunn staffer helping Sara Nelson run her new op-ed site is advocating for moving Washington's Urban Growth Boundary. Three percent of SEATTLE is zoned for mid-rise housing.

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Bob Svercl (he/him)
@bobco85.bsky.social

Update on S Henderson St protected bike lanes in South Seattle: I checked them out this morning, & the Toronto style concrete mini jersey barriers & concrete curbs all appear to be complete. The bicycle signals are installed & operating but covered up. I think we’re close to them officially opening!

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Seattle Bike Blog
@seattlebikeblog.com

Walking through Pike Place Market just now, a confused tourist in a rental car (presumably) rolled up behind a woman standing in the street talking to friends. She yelped with surprise and jumped out of the way when she saw it was right behind her, then said, β€œI thought this street was car-free!”

Noah 🚎
@noahsbwilliams.com

There's a good chance you've flown on this plane, consensually. N630VA was delivered to Virgin America by a lessor in 2007, and flew for VX and Alaska until being returned and re-leased to GlobalX in 2023. It is now being (ab)used by GlobalX to facilitate state-sanctioned human trafficking.

JJ in DC@jjindc.bsky.social

🧊✈️ SEATTLE: A girl in chains boards an ICE-chartered GlobalX airplane (tail: N630VA) at Boeing Field, to be transported south to Arizona πŸ‘€

Noah 🚎
@noahsbwilliams.com

IMO, Airbus should refuse parts and technical support for this operator. And so should NFI group, the parent company of Motorcoach Industries, who builds the D4500 ISTV buses visible in the foreground.

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JJ in DC
@jjindc.bsky.social

🧊✈️ SEATTLE: A girl in chains boards an ICE-chartered GlobalX airplane (tail: N630VA) at Boeing Field, to be transported south to Arizona πŸ‘€

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Cascadia Journal
@cascadiajournal.bsky.social

This needs to stop now.

JJ in DC@jjindc.bsky.social

🧊✈️ SEATTLE: A girl in chains boards an ICE-chartered GlobalX airplane (tail: N630VA) at Boeing Field, to be transported south to Arizona πŸ‘€

Noah 🚎
@noahsbwilliams.com

You haven't lived until you've tried @mmallon.com's butternut squash & tomato soup with kale chips and roasted chickpeas + squash seeds 🀀πŸ₯£

M Mallon@mmallon.com

First soup of the szn πŸ₯£πŸ‚πŸ§…πŸ§„ @noahsbwilliams.com

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M Mallon
@mmallon.com

Last month, VTA bus ridership was 6.7% higher than pre-pandemic and 7.9% higher than September 2025!!!

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Through the Static
@throughthestatic.bsky.social

OIG analysis of Seattle’s surveillance systems finds gaps in guardrails, activists demand redirection ofΒ funds by Hannah Saunders The long-awaited analysis of Seattle's technological surveillance systems, like CCTV cameras, automatic license plate readers (ALPRs), and the Real-Time Crime Center…

throughthestatic.orgOIG analysis of Seattle’s surveillance systems finds gaps in guardrails, activists demand redirection ofΒ fundsby Hannah Saunders The long-awaited analysis of Seattle's technological surveillance systems, like CCTV cameras, automatic license plate readers (ALPRs), and the Real-Time Crime Center (RTCC) software, was released by the Office of Inspector General (OIG) on Sept. 30. The 23-page report uncovered gaps in certain protective measures, and the Community Not Cameras Coalition (CNCC) is continuing to demand that the City redirect surveillance funds towards proven anti-violence programs and resources.
Noah 🚎
@noahsbwilliams.com

83%!?!?! That's a bigger percentage service increase than Metro's long term plan, Metro Connects, which calls for a 70% long term increase (though our baseline is much higher) This is GOLD, the kind of thing anyone with political wits should be shouting from the rooftops.

M Mallon@mmallon.com

It was so dumb to see the VTA Board come up with a plan to increase service by 83%, get support from the cities, approve the first phase, and then never talk about it again 🀦🏻 Piece I wrote about the full plan: sanjosespotlight.com/mallon-vta-h... Phase 1: santaclaravta.iqm2.com/Citizens/Det...

sanjosespotlight.comMallon: VTA has a vision for a better transit system - San JosΓ© SpotlightLast month, the VTA board unanimously approved the Visionary Network, a bold vision for transit service in Santa Clara County that aims to bring service levels up to what’s appropriate for today’s mar...