Tom Casavant

Tom Casavant

@tomkahe.com

I run the Mastodon/Bluesky Surrender Index bots. Primary account is @tom.tomkahe.com (@tom@tomkahe.com), but one day they will be one and the same. @surrender-idx90.tomkahe.com @surrender-index.tomkahe.com @ohgo.tomkahe.com

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Replying to @cara.city

this is coming from someone who also thinks we need to have frank discussions about ethical use of this tech: this take does not work towards that end

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incredible strategic error by Pat McAfee to reveal he is deeply bothered by relatively mild mockery from college students despite a key component of his job being "standing on a stage in front of college students for 3 hours a week"

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releasing this statement is the thing that's going to kill Utah's undefeated football season, I can feel it

Chris Vannini@chrisvannini.com

Statement from Utah's university PR about Pat McAfee and College GameDay. Free story: www.nytimes.com/athletic/772...

Tom Casavant reposted

just print this out and put it on your gameday sign for the rest of the year

Chris Vannini@chrisvannini.com

Statement from Utah's university PR about Pat McAfee and College GameDay. Free story: www.nytimes.com/athletic/772...

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Replying to @amybrown.xyz

imagine 2000 alumni of your high school agreeing on anything. he's cooked

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someone at Polymarket is drafting a tweet about how their users accurately predicted the Brazilian election result within one point

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sorry, but it's very hard to take your warnings of existential risk seriously when you are simultaneously throwing up to $120 billion at Elon Musk

ESG Hound@esghound.com

*ANTHROPIC AGREED TO SPEND UP TO $120.5B ON SPACEXAI DEALS - for you @ed3d.net

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The Ramaswamy ad has pushed the largest newspaper in Ohio, the Cleveland Plain Dealer, to reverse its position on endorsements. "A candidate who uses childhood sexual abuse as a weapon against the person who endured it has crossed a line that Ohioans should defend, whatever their party."

cleveland.comPlain Dealer/cleveland.com endorses Amy Acton for Ohio governorThe Plain Dealer editorial board endorses Democrat Amy Acton for Ohio governor, citing her preparedness and community engagement, while condemning opponent Vivek Ramaswamy's weaponizing of Acton's chi...

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The plan: Instead of giving Knicks employees championship rings, use them as a lure to see who needs mandatory cybersecurity training

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Woah - boards of service in the Marines and the Navy are ignoring Donald Trump and Pete Hegseth's order to purge transgender troops from the military. "Navy and Marine Corps boards have voted to retain trans members in nine of 12 cases." www.nytimes.com/2026/10/23/u...

nytimes.comMilitary Boards Are Defying Orders and Letting Trans Troops Serve (Gift Article)The service members at Navy and Marine Corps hearings are finding ways to keep trans troops in uniform.

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70 percent of the internet was vulnerable yesterday to very bad security flaws inside a coding language. Turns out, *one volunteer* is mostly responsible for maintaining that code & helping push updates. Yesterday Ondřej Surý saved the internet. So I called him up www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...

theatlantic.comThe Man Who Saved the Internet YesterdayOndřej Surý was a relatively anonymous volunteer working on PHP security. Then the internet exploded.

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Replying to @juliaserano.bsky.social

...so I'm getting some questions about this (particularly the unsubscribing on December 1st part), so I thought I'd clarify. the #1 thing we all should do is not watch the new Harry Potter series, even pirated versions, as those apparently count towards viewing...

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Replying to @ketanjoshi.co

The amazing thing is that he isn't getting Copilot to do it from scratch - it is very much the direct plagiarism thing I have been talking about!!! bsky.app/profile/keta...

KetAnthropic JoshAI@ketanjoshi.co

This is a good illustration of how so much of AI theft isn't indirect (ie, data sucked into a model to train the chatbot) - it's actually **direct** copying, but *enabled* by GenAI. Of course it is: chatbots absolutely suck at creating good, new stuff.

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ok non-tech ppl might be hearing some scary things about "critical vulnerabilities" involving certificates. the main thing you need to know, without getting down in the weeds about it, is that the fourth seal is broken. lo, a rider approacheth upon a pale steed, and his name is Death

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Dr. Amy Acton's campaign is out with a statement:

The Rooster@rooster.info

Wrote last week on The Rooster about Conman cutting an ad with Amy Acton's estranged mother as his "October surprise." Well, here it is. Polling on it just went out.

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they're coming out with a new grand theft auto game just in time for christmas, but you'll have some sad little elves on your hands unless your kids have the newest model of nintendo. be sure to pick up some joysticks, carrying cases, and cleaning kits as well – and don't forget the rf modulator

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Lots of questions here, chief of which is: Did *anyone* step in and say this seems like a bad idea?

Ian Rapoport@rapsheet.bsky.social

Eagles QB Jalen Hurts, who is out for the season after several blood clots were revealed in his lungs. Before the London game, Hurts was in the hospital until 4 am and did not sleep because sleep was a risk. He played the game without having slept. Crazy.

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“you can see everything” should have been called “you can see the movie.” as a matter of fact, that should be the title of every movie