Simon Vandore
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Simon Vandore
@simonvandore
Homepage Editor and stuff at @SBS. Ex-editor of long reads. Began on Gen X student newspapers. Mzungu. Born a Scot. Probably on a bicycle.
Sydney Katılım Mayıs 2009
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@WilliamShatner @marychastain You look 60. What are you eating???
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All flights to and from Dubai have been temporarily suspended.
Please do not go to the airport.
Emirates will share updates when available. We would like to thank our customers for their understanding and patience.
The safety of our passengers and crew is our highest priority and will not be compromised.

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@supremeMilo @TheRickWilson @NickMorin8 Even if you have 600, that's 170 days' supply at the rate of damage in the past 2 days.
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@TheRickWilson @NickMorin8 I thought the same and then I found out we have 600.
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@WarshipCam Minefield clearing ships need names like USS Leroy Jenkins
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The 4 minesweepers we had in the Gulf arrived in Philadelphia yesterday to be scrapped and decommissioned.
WarshipCam@WarshipCam
Merchant vessel Seaway Hawk transporting decommissioned U.S. Navy Avenger-class Mine Countermeasures Ships USS Devastator, USS Dextrous, USS Gladiator and USS Sentry in the Delaware Bay to unload in Philadelphia tomorrow - March 9, 2026 SRC: FB- Delaware River Shipping / Andy Wyrick 📷
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NBC EXCLUSIVE: Trump has privately shown serious interest in US ground troops in Iran
His comments have been focused on the idea of a small contingent of troops that would be used for specific purposes, sources tell @ckubeNBC @katiadoyl @glubold & me nbcnews.com/politics/white…
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This story is actually insane:
• dude drops $2000 on a DJI robot vacuum like a lunatic
• refuses to use the normal app like a peasant
• Sammy Azdoufal fires up Claude to crack the API so he can drive it with an xbox controller
• Claude delivers the goods
• pulls an auth token from their servers, connects successfully
• except the system thinks he controls 7000 vacuums
• checks again
• yep, seven thousand
• DJI built authentication with zero device ownership verification
• any valid token works for any unit on the planet
• Sammy now has eyes inside homes across 24 countries
• live vacuum camera feeds everywhere
• full floor plans from the mapping data
• some guy in germany eating cereal at 3am, unaware his roomba is snitching
• one API call away from being the most informed burglar in history
• all he wanted was to steer his vacuum with a joystick
• does the right thing and reports it
• DJI fixes it in two days
• back to normal life with his stupidly expensive floor cleaner
• IoT companies stay undefeated at shipping garbage security

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It would be nice if some of the Twitter diaspora returned. So many creatives, but also many developers, that generally enriched the experience are no longer active.
Those that performatively left and those with a seething hatred of Elon probably won’t be back soon, but a lot of people just disengaged on vague cultural grounds that can be reevaluated.
There are probably some technical tweaks to the algorithm that could make them more comfortable. I don’t mind the existence of independent echo chambers that people are happy within. There is only a problem when some echo chambers are allowed and others aren’t.
Reach out to lapsed friends!
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No. I will enter the new year and exit on 12/31/26 like everyone else. 😑
Zander Ruth@yo_mamba16
@WilliamShatner Happy Sunday Bill! Exited for the new year?
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