@dchurbuck

Writer, founder of https://xitter.cf/t.co/kIi7p6tcNk; author: The Lost Whalers: Shipwreck and Survival on Siberia's Sea of Okhotsk. Coming Fall 27, Pegasus Books

 Cotuit, MA USA
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The most chilling and depressing observation I've read in a long time from Om Malik: "I’ve been an internet-first creative since the early 1990s, and I’ve learned that the internet’s metabolism makes no distinction between creative and non-creative work. om.co/2026/01/07/who-decides… via @om O

Who decides what’s real in the age of AI? Instagram does.

Adam Mosseri, Instagram’s chief doesn’t often respond to critics. When I wrote that his year-end memo cast Instagram as a future referee of&n…

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Spice Labs Announces Post-Quantum Cryptography Inventory Builder einpresswire.com/article/873… via @ein_news

Spice Labs Announces Post-Quantum Cryptography Inventory Builder

Module creates accurate post-quantum cryptography security reports and tracks remediation progress

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David Hill
@dwhilldesign30 Sep 2025
This week my newly created personal Wikipedia page published. It documents my design career & contributions to creating the ThinkPad legacy. Special thanks to Thomas Rogers of @LaptopRetrospe1 for working tirelessly with Wikipedia to make it happen! Enjoy. shorturl.at/fFi92

David Hill (designer) - Wikipedia

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My client Spice Labs launched its first product today -- Surveyor maps applications, containers, virtual machines so infosec engineers and software modernization teams can see what open source dependencies and risk lie within. einpresswire.com/article/853…

Spice Labs Debuts Application Analysis Tool for Cybersecurity Incident Responders and Software...

Startup is focused on software security and modernization solutions based on artifact dependency graphs

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I'm proud to announce I'm being represented by @johnwrudolph of the literary agency Dystel, Goderich & Bourret for The Marginal Sea, my new book about shipwreck and survival on Siberia's Sea of Okhotsk.
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cactus.ai announces integration and partnership with SkyTab einpresswire.com/article/805… via @ein_news
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Transcribing Maritime History: Whaling Logs and Google Earth churbuck.com/2025/02/12/tran…

Transcribing Maritime History: Whaling Logs and Google Earth

In which I use tools to transcribe primary sources and use Google Earth to map and outline a book about whaling.

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David Hill
@dwhilldesign8 Nov 2024
#designoftheday Since 1846 the George Kirby Jr. Paint Co. of Bedford Mass. has been handcrafting the world's finest marine paints. Kirby offers a rich palette of beautiful vintage colors befitting your prized wooden craft & their label design is perfect. kirbypaint.com/
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This Old Boat: Restoring a 76-year old Cotuit Skiff churbuck.com/2024/11/06/this… via @dchurbuck

This Old Boat: Restoring a 76-year old Cotuit Skiff, Part One

In which I learn how to steam wood, re-canvas a deck, and perform boat surgery.

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Summer restorative patriciameisol.com/blog/summ…

Summer restorative — Patricia Meisol

Finding a source who once lived next door to your subject and took detailed notes on her childhood is every biographer’s dream. So it was with gratitude that I returned last week to the place where...

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Subscribe to Joe’s Substack joesullivansecurity.substack…
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This is a disaster for historians. A Cape Cod online newspaper archive goes dark—for now capeandislands.org/local-new…

A Cape Cod online newspaper archive goes dark—for now

Tomorrow, it's back to microfilm for Sturgis Library. The pause could last a year.

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The @Lenovo #ThinkPad X1 Carbon and Txxxs both owe pieces of their design to the X300, which is one of the most important ThinkPads ever. Thanks to @dchurbuck for his blog which has some great bits of ThinkPad history included in its pages. #LenovoIN laptopretrospective.com/lapt…
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The Cotuit Oyster Company needs our support. churbuck.com/2023/09/01/in-d…
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ISS Above
@ISSAboveYou20 Aug 2023
The @CityOfBoston and Cape Cod - from the @Space_Station at 12:17 PM EDT today. @NWSBoston @WCVB @7News @boston25 Aug 20, 2023
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Gray seals no longer need federal protection bostonglobe.com/2023/08/01/o…

Gray seals no longer need federal protection - The Boston Globe

The Marine Mammal Protection Act needs to be amended to include a provision for delisting recovered species.

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csoonline.com/article/369713… #joesullivan #uberhack #CSOS #CISOS #liability #DataBreach '

Former Uber CSO Joe Sullivan and lessons learned from the infamous 2016 Uber breach

Will Joe Sullivan’s conviction for obstruction in the reporting of the 2016 Uber privacy breach send a chill through the cybersecurity profession? Sullivan tells CSOs he’s worried it just might.

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Maria Dinzeo@MariaDinzeo4 May 2023
In court today, Judge William Orrick says he believes former Uber CEO Travis Kalanick is "just as culpable" as Joe Sullivan for covering up the 2016 data breach. He's troubled that Kalanick submitted a letter to the court on Sullivan's behalf, but never showed up to the trial.
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Ex-Uber security chief gets probation for concealing 2016 data breach axios.com/2023/05/04/uber-jo…

Ex-Uber security executive gets probation, no jail time for concealing 2016 data breach

Uber paid the hackers $100,000 to not release any stolen data and keep the attack quiet.

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