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Aaron Hockley

@techphotoguy.com

Photographer, writer, speaker. Wrote a book on AI & photography.
 Everyone should create and share. President at ppw.org 
Diversity is good. πŸŒˆβ™ΏοΈπŸ‘ŠπŸΎ https://aaronhockley.com - links to my world, along with my weekly newsletter

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Not that I’m a nerd but I spent lunch using a cable tester and tested approx 25-30 different USB-C cables and ended up with 7 different groupings of power and data transfer capabilities.

USB-C: How do I love thee? Let me count the ways...

27.01.2026 21:11 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

The first Minnesota murder, they refused to let a medical professional help the woman they shot. The second Minnesota murder, they simply shot the medical professional.

24.01.2026 22:03 πŸ‘ 9975 πŸ” 2518 πŸ’¬ 80 πŸ“Œ 45

I just sent her a very direct email expressing my, um, displeasure.

At least Joe Kent was pretty honest about being a shithead.

23.01.2026 18:06 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

This is why we celebrate the Boston Substack Party, when the patriots wrote strongly worded pamphlets about tea.

15.01.2026 13:08 πŸ‘ 3703 πŸ” 830 πŸ’¬ 79 πŸ“Œ 16

Into #photography? Get my weekly email where I try to make sense of it in our very-tech world.

focusing.techphotoguy.com

08.01.2026 18:08 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

What is this "caught up" thing?

06.01.2026 15:30 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
Photo in a casino interior with stained glass of a train and the words "Boulder Station."  Several table games are in the foreground with slot machines in the background.

Photo in a casino interior with stained glass of a train and the words "Boulder Station." Several table games are in the foreground with slot machines in the background.

Boulder Station Casino Stained Glass and Table Games
Las Vegas, NV
#photography

05.01.2026 19:38 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Screenshot of headline saying "January brings final supermoon before budget cuts threaten Washington space industry"

Screenshot of headline saying "January brings final supermoon before budget cuts threaten Washington space industry"

You know the budget cuts are bad when they cancel the supermoon.

02.01.2026 16:16 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Things are going great on The Everything App with MechaHitler in charge.

02.01.2026 02:05 πŸ‘ 916 πŸ” 153 πŸ’¬ 16 πŸ“Œ 3

Are you into #photography and of the Pinterest persuasion? You might like this:

pinterest.com/techphotoguy

27.12.2025 20:30 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
sandwiches packaged some say "club"and some say "clud"

sandwiches packaged some say "club"and some say "clud"

what's a matter babe you hardly touched your clud sandwich

27.12.2025 18:37 πŸ‘ 2595 πŸ” 456 πŸ’¬ 72 πŸ“Œ 40

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23.12.2025 04:51 πŸ‘ 114 πŸ” 23 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Adobe Photoshop 1.0 source code now available The Computer History Museum is doing an amazing job trying not just to preserve the history of the computer revolution, but to keep it alive by getting permission to release source code for classic…

Getting retro with #photoshop
sixcolors.com/link/2025/12...

16.12.2025 21:20 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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A Crooked Cop at Christmas Making use of Safe Exchange Zones at police stations actually is a smart idea.

ACAG
onefoottsunami.com/2025/12/15/a...

16.12.2025 20:43 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Adobe Announces Image and PDF Integration with ChatGPT Adobe announced today that it has teamed up with OpenAI to give ChatGPT users access to Photoshop, Express, and Acrobat from inside the chatbot. The new integration is available starting today at no a...

OpenAI gets powerful image editing tools, and Adobe sidesteps building its own natural language interface for now.

www.macstories.net/news/adobe-a...

10.12.2025 21:49 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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How ICE’s Plan To Monitor Social Media Threatens Not Just Privacy, But Civic Participation When most people think about immigration enforcement, they picture border crossings and airport checkpoints. But the new front line may be your social media feed. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enfor…

He says... on social media...

www.techdirt.com/2025/12/09/h...

10.12.2025 21:37 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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The Resonant Computing Manifesto Technology should bring out the best in humanity, not the worstβ€”a manifesto for resonant computing built on five principles that reject hyper-scale extraction for human flourishing.

Remember when the internet wasn't awful? We can go back to that.

Some friends and I have released the Resonant Computing Manifesto: a call to bring back such a time, to see if we can bring back a world where technology works for us, rather than against us.

resonantcomputing.org

05.12.2025 17:57 πŸ‘ 930 πŸ” 329 πŸ’¬ 37 πŸ“Œ 43
AI-generated image of a banana with a sad face, under a yellow umbrella on a city street in the rain.

AI-generated image of a banana with a sad face, under a yellow umbrella on a city street in the rain.

Current #Portland weather: raining nano bananas.

#pdxtst

08.12.2025 22:06 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

After this weekend's racist attacks on the EU, I've written a column about the moral obligation to stop posting on X.

Oh no, wait, I wrote it *two years ago* when it was blatantly obvious what was going on and how it would get much much worse.

www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

07.12.2025 22:18 πŸ‘ 2219 πŸ” 679 πŸ’¬ 47 πŸ“Œ 22
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Apple Has Removed Night Mode From Portrait Mode on the iPhone 17 Pro Even though it's available on older models.

If it were that important, we'd have seen folks getting worked up about it in the first two months of the phone's release.

Instead, it's just now coming to light...

petapixel.com/2025/12/04/a...

#photography

05.12.2025 17:07 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Any #beer can be a sour beer if you store it wrong enough.

02.12.2025 05:12 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

#doingitwrong

28.11.2025 16:42 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Why?

26.11.2025 16:28 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

It's my birthday, and Leica just dropped this. Coincidence?

www.adorama.com/lc19200.html

20.11.2025 16:21 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
Chuck Schumer Helps Pull Democrats Back From Brink Of Courage

Chuck Schumer Helps Pull Democrats Back From Brink Of Courage

Chuck Schumer Helps Pull Democrats Back From Brink Of Courage

10.11.2025 05:02 πŸ‘ 28540 πŸ” 8736 πŸ’¬ 372 πŸ“Œ 407

Maybe dumping poop on voters from an airplane is not a surefire electoral strategy

05.11.2025 03:04 πŸ‘ 8647 πŸ” 1338 πŸ’¬ 96 πŸ“Œ 47

Pro tip: if you want me to do something that I normally charge money for, but want me to do it for free, starting your pitch with "Hey David, would you be able to..." is not a great way to do it.

03.11.2025 23:58 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

Inconceivable!

02.11.2025 21:38 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Quarterly board meeting this weekend for a professional organization I lead.

Heavy on my mind is how we should be acting to serve our members' interests as our country does... whatever this is called.

24.10.2025 16:13 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
A picture of the garden in front of the east wing of the White House. A mix of colorful flowers and small trees

A picture of the garden in front of the east wing of the White House. A mix of colorful flowers and small trees

NEW: NBC News confirms that the Jacqueline Kennedy Garden, on the east side of the White House, has been destroyed as part of the demolition of the East Wing.

(πŸ“Έ Getty Images)

24.10.2025 14:22 πŸ‘ 5295 πŸ” 2866 πŸ’¬ 492 πŸ“Œ 541