Danya Henninger

Penn email system gets hacked, message calls university ‘elitist institution’ with ‘terrible security practices’ In their message, which appeared to go out across the school community, the hackers took issue with Penn’s hiring and admission practices, and threatened to leak data.

Welp, the security practices comment likely holds technical.ly/civics/penn-...

A four-panel xkcd comic shows two stick figure characters: one standing and one sitting at a computer. Panel 1: The standing character points to a small box on the floor with a cord coming from it. Standing character: “What’s this?” Sitting character: “The cloud.” Panel 2: The standing character looks confused. Standing character: “Huh? I always thought ‘the cloud’ was a huge, amorphous network of servers somewhere.” Sitting character replies: “Yeah, but everyone buys server time from everyone else. In the end, they’re all getting it here.” Panel 3: The standing character asks: “How? You’re on a cable modem.” The sitting character responds: “There’s a lot of caching.” The standing character, now looking at the long cord stretched across the room, asks: “Should the cord be stretched across the room like this?” Sitting character answers: “Of course. It has to reach the server, and the server is over there.” Panel 4: The cord stretches across the floor between them. Standing character: “What if someone trips on it?” Sitting character: “Who would want to do that? It sounds unpleasant.” Standing character: “Uh. Sometimes people do stuff by accident.” Sitting character: “I don’t think I know anybody like that.” (alt text by ChatGPT)

#XKCD readers know what happened to #AWS ...

https://xkcd.com/908/

Excited for @freespeechproject.bsky.social's two-day event in Philadelphia — we had a prep call yesterday for my panel and whew, there is a lot to discuss

Free RSVP freespeechproject.georgetown.edu/free-speech-...

Join us in two weeks for our "Free Speech at the Crossroads: a Keystone Dialogue," an event co-hosted by Temple University. The event will feature discussions of campus protest, artificial intelligence, and much more.

RSVP via this link: freespeechproject.georgetown.edu/free-speech-...

According to Oregon, Trump got the idea that Portland is on fire because Fox News illustrated a September 5 story on protests of ICE with video from the George Floyd riots in 2020.

storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

“Life is precious but not promised… [Now that I’m no longer mayor] I don’t do anything I don’t want to do.

“Sorry but I’m never walking in another fucking parade.”

— Lori Lightfoot

#gplex2025

Former Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s advice to Philly Mayor @cherelleparker.bsky.social:

“Do everything you can to build up the well of goodwill now. This crisis is different than COVID... It’s not enough to just be anti-Trump. Articulate a vision.”

#gplex2025

The Sunday — September 7 This is the Tangle Sunday Edition, a brief roundup of our independent politics coverage plus some extra features for your Sunday morning reading.  What the right is doodling. What the left is dood...

The Sunday roundup from @tanglenews.bsky.social is very useful. Love the reader surveys after each day's story recap

www.readtangle.com/the-sunday-s...

Philadelphians once destroyed HitchBOT, so its reaction to Waymo probably won’t surprise you Residents say they'll still prefer human drivers if the self-driving cars stick around — unless, of course, it's cheaper to choose the latter.

Philadelphians once destroyed HitchBOT, so its reaction to Waymo probably won’t surprise you technical.ly/entrepreneur...

Bringing internet to the Appalachians: How Garrett County navigates funding, terrain and tech  The decades-long struggle to expand broadband in Maryland’s westernmost county forces residents and ISPs to work around mountains, sparse populations and shifting government funding rules.

Bringing internet to the Appalachians: How Garrett County navigates funding, terrain and tech  technical.ly/civics/garre...

Opinion | We Ran the C.D.C.: Kennedy Is Endangering Every American’s Health

This morning 9 former CDC Directors, whose tenures date back to 1977, published this warning in the NYT:

RFK Jr is a danger to public health.

www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/o...

McGlinchey's temporarily gives up smoking, but the dive bar is bringing it back The Center City landmark reopened in June thinking there were no cigarettes allowed — but it was all a miscommunication.

and this from Max Marin from 2021 on @billy-penn.bsky.social billypenn.com/2021/07/16/p...

McGlinchey's story, from 2015 www.inquirer.com/philly/blogs...

A Strand of Hair Just Changed What We Know About the Inka Empire A 500-year-old human hair in a rare khipu challenges the long-held idea that only elite men created these knotted records in the Inka empire.

"We’ll end, as all things ideally should, with treasure."

The Abstract from 404 is just so good www.404media.co/a-strand-of-...

RIP Leggings. Big Workout Pants Are Taking Over. After over 20 years as the reigning workout wear, stretchy fitted bottoms are losing ground to baggy styles favored by Gen Z.

I so clearly remember the rise of leggings.

My friend Sally wore them to school in 4th grade and we loved how shocked the grownups were. I didn't wear them as pants till college, and even so we joked about it. Then they obviously took over.

Glad to say farewell.

www.wsj.com/style/fashio...

Robots that work with humans, rather than replacing them? Young people are lining up to join PA’s Precision Cobotics The Lancaster company is training the next generation of manufacturing pros through hands-on learning and classroom-to-career pathways.

Robots that work with humans, rather than replacing them? Young people are lining up to join PA’s Precision Cobotics technical.ly/workforce/pr...

Pittsburgh is buzzing over the Trump energy summit at CMU — even protesters say it’s historic Local tech leaders, who are also hosting a preview event, hope to harness the national attention and brand the region as the heart of the AI economy.

Pittsburgh is preparing to host the president next week for an "energy and innovation summit" — and even people protesting the event think it's going to be huge for the region

technical.ly/civic-news/p...

This is going to be a really fun conversation. Great conference, too

Bean lovers, come to the Instant Pot dark side with me

Hey it's @thebulbey.bsky.social!

Peter Pan CEO offers to turn Roundhouse into a bus terminal depot Dozens of witnesses and City Council expressed frustration at delays in finding a better place for an intercity bus terminal.

Turn a hulking monument to police brutality into a locus for accessible travel? Yes, please. Especially considering the Peter Pan CEO's pitch:

“I’ll buy it, I’ll pay for it, and lease it back to the city — and I’ll get it done quick,“ he said.

www.inquirer.com/transportati...

The art of coming up with these @semafor.com photo taglines (what's a better term?) taps that tabloid headline vein

A good use for AI

As AI reshapes work, some Pittsburgh jobs vanish while others surge Duolingo is cutting contractors, while ECI is hiring for 100 new positions. Plus, a Pittsburgh resident is now leading AI at the Pentagon.

As AI reshapes work, some Pittsburgh jobs vanish while others surge technical.ly/professional...

@savesepta.com is here on Bluesky

Thank you!

The student who made SaveSEPTA.com received threats over it??

The best reason

Hard times for early-stage startups. Only companies getting big bucks are AI darlings.

What more could you want?