M.A. Crawford

The internet sucks and we're making it better. Dad. Cult Leader at Violet Graf. Sawing bones & writing hashes.

[M.A. Crawford @adasound_io]

@Snowden Ever spat out your morning coffee? My first time was July 22 of this year, when I read a @nytimes opinion piece by a Dr. Prasad. "They're dialing down our accounts again, we should go to Wal-Mart soon"..

[GitHub @github]

1/ We are sharing additional details regarding our investigation into unauthorized access to GitHub's internal repositories.

Yesterday we detected and contained a compromise of an employee device involving a poisoned VS Code extension. We removed the malicious extension version, isolated the endpoint, and began incident response immediately.

[GitHub @github]

We are investigating unauthorized access to GitHub’s internal repositories. While we currently have no evidence of impact to customer information stored outside of GitHub’s internal repositories (such as our customers’ enterprises, organizations, and repositories), we are closely monitoring our infrastructure for follow-on activity.

[M.A. Crawford @adasound_io]

agree

[toki @tokifyi]

hot take: we need to replace stanley park with canada’s largest data centre

[M.A. Crawford @adasound_io]

My man

[masato_alexander @masatoalexander]

architects, doctors, engineers (the structural kind) carry personal liability for their work: the corporate veil doesn't save them.

why do software engineers, who ship products demonstrably harming millions, get full indemnity?

genuine question.

[M.A. Crawford @adasound_io]

@CalgaryPolice Start focusing on tailgating in Alberta . Speed doesn't matter on its own . Most vehicles can safely go that fast in the absence of other vehicles .

[M.A. Crawford @adasound_io]

@CityofVancouver Vancouver parking is a scam at baseline

[Brian Armstrong @brian_armstrong]

An estimated $60 billion was spent on remittance fees in 2025.

This could be almost zero with stablecoins.

[Mushtaq Bilal, PhD @MushtaqBilalPhD]

Sci-Hub is an evil website that pirated 85M+ research papers and made them freely available

And now they've added AI to their database to make Sci-Bot.

It answers your questions using latest, full-text articles.

But DO NOT use it. We should all try to make billion-dollar academic publishers richer.

I'm putting the link below so you know how to avoid it.

[M.A. Crawford @adasound_io]

@saltynutbutter @davidportier Not fully retarded is the bar now

[M.A. Crawford @adasound_io]

@shub0414 Don't

[M.A. Crawford @adasound_io]

@icanvardar "Programmer" is not a job now

[M.A. Crawford @adasound_io]

@Goosewin JFC

[M.A. Crawford @adasound_io]

LOL

[goosewin @Goosewin]

swe in 2026

[M.A. Crawford @adasound_io]

@rezoundous nice

[M.A. Crawford @adasound_io]

This app is frigged

[M.A. Crawford @adasound_io]

The fight is Privacy, Security and Autonomy vs Intelligent Machines . There's only one round and winner takes all

[M.A. Crawford @adasound_io]

@wanted4mogging sir this is a Tim Hortons

[M.A. Crawford @adasound_io]

yes

https://t.co/dfsk6fDksM

[M.A. Crawford @adasound_io]

Cardano should be exclusively focused on Bitcoin right now.

[M.A. Crawford @adasound_io]

@DaveXCrypto DEPLOYGIN MORE CAPITALS STEADY LADS