Historian of technology, occasional dad jokes. www.marhicks.comhttps://bsky.app/profile/histoftech.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/histoftech.bsky.social/post/3mt5gu7dds22wDid you know: bunnies can’t use qtips so he has to clean his ears like this15 Aug 2026 19:47 +0000at://did:plc:wpsspp55o7w6muawlnmknobc/app.bsky.feed.post/3mt5gu7dds22whttps://bsky.app/profile/histoftech.bsky.social/post/3mtki3fuhkk2w“August is solidly Covid season,” said Dr. Caitlin Rivers, at Johns Hopkins. “Right now, the South and the West are sort of the leading edge of this Covid season.” “The traditional respiratory virus season hasn’t started, but Covid is already climbing” https://www.cnn.com/2026/08/20/health/covid-summer-wave21 Aug 2026 00:13 +0000at://did:plc:wpsspp55o7w6muawlnmknobc/app.bsky.feed.post/3mtki3fuhkk2whttps://bsky.app/profile/histoftech.bsky.social/post/3mtkhab7klc2x“These images, which I’ve started calling subtlefakes, are not as clearly offensive, but are a lot more convincing. The concerning implication is it’s not just the tech that is advancing now, but that people who wield it maliciously are getting more sophisticated.” https://www.404media.co/subtlefakes-slightly-altered-nonconsensual-ai-images-are-taking-over-x/20 Aug 2026 23:58 +0000at://did:plc:wpsspp55o7w6muawlnmknobc/app.bsky.feed.post/3mtkhab7klc2x