Bobbie Chen

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A VCR with several VHS tapes, plugged into a capture card device. The tape inserted is labeled August 2001.
Movie theater. Serena stands at the speaker podium. The giant screen shows a title slide: what happened to the lock icon? bsides sf 2026 - serena chen
BSides The Musical (San Francisco 2026) The Phantoms of the Fraudpera: An Overview of Anti-Detection Tooling Bobbie Chen / bobbie@digitalseams.com / @bobbiechen.com (Bluesky)
Disco Elysium screenshot RHETORIC [Heroic: Failure| - Alright, here we go. We're devoting all your available brain cells to coming up with a question about communism. Scratch that, to coming up with the question about communism, the alpha and omega of communism questions, and that question is: 1. - (Whisper.) "Are tech employees bourgeois?" 2. - Oh god, that's bad. Surely I can think of something better.
Pavlok is a wrist band that gives you electric shocks by remote control: “I have been biting my nails for 25 years…I shocked myself every time I bit my nails… my husband had a good time shocking me when he caught me biting my nails… this helped with … quitting nail.” Those ellipses… doing a lot of work… on… the “how it works” page. Also, husband. You know that friend who won’t eat Taco Bell anymore after she got a terrible case of food poisoning? That’s how it works: "That’s aversive conditioning. We’ll help you use it to your advantage." Well why not. The wrist band also has an alarm clock function.
During his study in 1939, Dantzig solved two unproven statistical theorems due to a misunderstanding. Near the beginning of a class, Professor Spława-Neyman wrote two problems on the blackboard. Dantzig arrived late and assumed that they were a homework assignment. According to Dantzig, they "seemed to be a little harder than usual", but a few days later he handed in completed solutions for both problems, still believing that they were an assignment that was overdue.[4][6] Six weeks later, an excited Spława-Neyman eagerly told him that the "homework" problems he had solved were two of the most famous unsolved problems in statistics.[2][4] He had prepared one of Dantzig's solutions for publication in a mathematical journal.[7] From a Wikipedia screenshot
Log output: various AT URIs like at://did:plc:ltur3l43nt53imyqqbdrl5j6/app.bsky.feed.post/3mapiuei2r22c. Most are empty, but three have the following text: 1. Elezen man with unicorn ears, horn, and tail. He wears a red sweater with a gingerbread man image overlaid on a coffee cup with text that says “Shimmy Shimmy Cocoa What.” He’s also wearing white leggings and candy-themed high heels. 2. Kitty sitting on her cardboard castle 3. Northern view into Colpoys Bay through some evergreen trees. // Image captured at: 2025-12-24 05:09:12 UTC (about 3 min. prior to this post) // Image sourced from: windy.com // Current Temp in Wiarton: 35.88 F | 2.16 C // Precip: overcast clouds // Wind: NW at 19.551 mph | 31.46 kph // Humidity: 71%
Experienced bird-watchers develop similar skills. After a great deal of practice, many bird-watchers can identify a bird by the ‘way it looks’, even when the bird is glimpsed too briefly, or is too far away, to allow individual features to be identified. They even have a name for this brute property, which they call the bird’s ‘jizz’. This skill takes some time and effort to develop, and is similar to chicken sexing in that birdwatchers perceive the jizz as a gestalt, but cannot say what the features are that make up the whole. Although identifications made on the basis of jizz are reliable, they are generally regarded by bird-watchers as requiring some objective verification.
A depiction of Odysseus sailing between Scylla and Charybdis. One side is labeled "life is devastatingly meaningless", while the other is labeled "life is excruciatingly meaningful". Odysseus's boat passes through the middle, labeled "ayy lmao"
A domain registrar listing for everyjsonstring.com. It's available for $11.28 per year.
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In the Bluesky settings Accessibility section, the "Require alt text before posting" checkbox is checked.
A photo of the Singapore Merlion being pinched from afar
*What they're saying*: The original Google research paper warned about this exact trajectory in 1998. * “The goals of the advertising business model do not always correspond to providing quality search to users,” wrote Sergey Brin and Larry Page. “We expect that advertising funded search engines will be inherently biased towards the advertisers and away from the needs of the consumers.” From The AI lifestyle subsidy is going to end - Digital Seams https://digitalseams.com/blog/the-ai-lifestyle-subsidy-is-going-to-end
Kim Kitsuragi - "What are you doing?" the lieutenant asks when he sees you climb half-way inside the furnace. You - "I'm hallucinating."
It should not be necessary to learn a programming language like C or BASIC. Instead, the user should be able to instruct the computer to "Watch what I do", and the computer should create the program that corresponds to the user's actions. Allen Cypher, Watch What I Do: Programming by Demonstration
Family of California quails on the ground. Two adults with the head crest, and two smaller birds nearby.
The disposable email checker flags "bobbie+alias@10minutemail.com" as using a known disposable domain, as well as a "plus alias".
"I think they just got gif mixed up with jpg. The letters have the same pattern in qwerty and one could have autocorrected to the other." A comment by Hacker News user Izkata.
A street sign that reads, "New New Montgomery Final". This is a photo of New Montgomery Street in San Francisco, which branches off of Montgomery Street.
Blackout poetry of the quoted post. It reads: ART Alert ART is recovering here in a Pleasant activity.
Blackout poetry of the original post from Pavel. The new version reads: "avoid people 10 tips to get started 👇"
Blackout poetry: A COMPUTER CAN NEVER BE HELD. THEREFORE COMPUTER SAD -- IBM training manual (1979)
Blackout poetry: Every mess will be a way to receive love, and it's real excelint
Blackout poetry: Artists quickly die off after their work is done so plan ahead, avoid ending
A musical note with a "doit", a curved line from the note head extending up and to the right
The "doit" wordmark logo on a dark background. The "do" is white, while the "it" is red.
An interactive tool for decoding semaphore flag signals. Eight potential flag positions extend radially from a center point. Two flag positions are highlighted, pointing to the bottom-right and bottom, which is decoded to the letter "A".
A robot waiter with a smiling cat face, painted like it is wearing overalls. It has a cylindrical body about four feet tall, with three levels of trays to place dishes on. Pudu's Bellabot.
A video game character runs off of a ledge and briefly hangs in the air, before jumping (off of nothing) to the next ledge. This clip is from Celeste and illustrates a forgiveness mechanic known as "coyote time". From https://blogs.bsu.edu/teaching-innovation/2023/11/15/coyote-time-games-teach-forgiveness-learning/
Screenshot of Gmail's mobile interface. A banner indicating a message has been "Sent" now includes an "Undo" button.
Image transcription of a tweet from Heather Hogan @theheatherhogan: “A friend I loved very very much died a few years ago from cancer. She left up her GoodReads. I’m so glad because every few months when I’m looking up a book, I’ll find a review she left and her voice is so strong and funny and warm and I want to keep hearing it forever.”
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