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Cloudflare is becoming a free certificate authority, and will be the first to issue post-quantum Merkle Tree Certificates

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Building a certificate authority for the whole Internet

Twelve years after launching Universal SSL, Cloudflare is applying to become a certificate authority.

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Joel Morris @gralefrit.bsky.social · 22h

They should reveal that care workers have a 10% chance of wiping out humanity, and raise the investment that way.

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Emily Gorcenski @emily.gorcen.ski · 28/09/2026

Here’s the most incredible story you’ll read today. A small plane with four people aboard crashes in a field. Another pilot witnesses it. That pilot happens to be flying a bunch of skydivers. They offer to jump to assist, are given permission. The skydivers happen to be EMTs. Everyone survives.

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Skydivers alert emergency crews, assist after plane crashes near East Troy airport

Four people were aboard the single-engine plane when it went down in a cornfield near Carvers School Road in East Troy at about 1:30 p.m.

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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

First page of the new Dredd story by Williams, Wyatt and Flint. At this point Flint is operating on a completely different level. The things he is doing here with perspective, flow, information and pacing feel intuitive but properly new.

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Old British Telly @oldbritishtelly.co.uk · 27/09/2026

[1963] Snow – Hypnotic British Transport Film showing the efforts of railway workmen to keep trains running in hazardous snowy conditions.

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tbabb @tbabb.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

frome celestepoasts on twitter asking "land or water" for 2 degree lat/long increments over the entire earth

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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Seems like it should be part of the "are phones ruining the kids" debate that every marker of teen mental health has improved since 2021 www.cdc.gov/yrbs/youth-h...

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Solomon @solomonrmissouri.com · 24/09/2026

lol lol lol lol lol lol lol

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Benjamin @benjaminschneider.ch · 24/09/2026

one of the things that infuriates my particular brand of laziness is how much glue and boilerplate everything needs, to the point where it annoys me to even see an agent doing it for me

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Mike Cook @mtrc.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

New Post: Why I Love AI Next month it'll be twenty years since I went to university, learned to program, and studied AI. I wrote about why I loved it, why I still love it, and why, unfortunately, it no longer exists. www.possibilityspace.org/blog/posts/i...

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cnlohr.bsky.social @cnlohr.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

People think the minions router being baller as a joke. But I have extensively tested it and it is one of the best possible Wifi 6E routers money can buy. Like someone at Illumination Studios was like "idk $80" and the router manufacturer was like gotchu fam.

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Present & Correct @presentcorrect.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

A terrific poster auction is coming up, view all the lots here www.posterauctions.com/auctions/202...

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Joel Williams @jaowilliams74.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Outstanding new voting intention format from local LibDems.

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jenny tightpants @jtp.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

having a PC that's worth more now than when i got it + buying a steam frame using CSGO skins i bought over 10 years ago is probably the closest i will ever get to knowing what it feels like to own a house

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Tom Reagan’s Hat @rufustsuperfly.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

My fave Kubrick anecdote - David Prowse on acting in A Clockwork Orange: 'So you want me to carry Patrick Magee, who weighs 17Olbs, plus the wheelchair, another 30lbs, so 200lbs, down the stairs & then do a dialogue scene?' 'Yeah, you can do it.' 'I know but your name isn't One Take Kubrick, is it?'

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Dan Neidle @danneidle.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Inheritance tax is, and has always been, a deeply political tax. Here are fifty constituencies most exposed to inheritance tax, coloured by the party that won the constituency in 2024. (interactive version on our website)

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𝓐𝓾𝓫𝓻𝓮𝔂 @aub.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

theseus (by astra) :)

“Theseus: Reconstructed in 3D with ChatGPT.” A three-quarter view of a white, bulbous spacecraft on a dark navy background. A small blue observation dome points left. A broad protective carapace encloses most of the ship, with a circular ramscoop and two copper-ringed engine nozzles at the right. The model is 55 metres long. The author’s schematic gives a 55–85 metre range; this reconstruction uses the shorter configuration. Text explains that the novel and author’s schematic supply the constraints, with spacecraft references guiding missing detail. The carapace shape is estimated. An unofficial reconstruction of Peter Watts’s Blindsight, shared under CC BY-NC-SA 2.5.

“Inside the carapace.” A cutaway of the same spacecraft removes the near side of its white shell, exposing structural rings and equipment. The bow is at left and the engines at right. Cyan callouts identify the observation blister at the nose, rotating habitation drums toward the front, a central spine with a 2 metre clear bore, pale inflatable quarters along the spine, opposed shuttle bays toward the rear, the large circular ramscoop and the twin torch engines. The heading describes pressurized spaces inside a vacuum hold. The note distinguishes systems constrained by the book and author’s schematic from estimated hull geometry, fittings and exact placement. Credit: Peter Watts, Blindsight. Unofficial reconstruction, CC BY-NC-SA 2.5.

“The floor is the wall.” A circular cross-section shows the main habitation drum, 16 metres across. The floor follows the inside of the cylinder. A small orange person stands at the bottom. Three stairs rise 5 metres toward the open central axis and end in open air. Standard gravity at the rim is 0.5 g, from the author’s notes. Rotation of 7.48 rpm is calculated for the 8 metre radius. Below, the cylindrical floor is unrolled into a long rectangle with footprints labeled James, Exercise, Szpindel, Tactical table and Galley. Its circumference is a calculated 50.27 metres. James’s and Szpindel’s tent plots are 4.4 square metres each. Equipment positions and the 6.4 metre drum depth are estimates. Credit: Peter Watts, Blindsight. Unofficial reconstruction, CC BY-NC-SA 2.5.

“Theseus and Rorschach: 55 metres beside almost 30 kilometres.” In the upper view, Rorschach is a large, sparse ring of tangled strands and recurved spines. Its almost 30 kilometre span is about 545 times the length of the 55 metre Theseus. A tiny white mark to the left represents the ship at that scale. An orange circle locates it; only the locator is enlarged. A separate lower view, explicitly labeled as enlarged, shows the 55 metre ship beside a small orange person 1.75 metres tall. Ship and person share the same scale within that lower view. The novel supplies Rorschach’s approximate span; its exact tangle is an interpretive reconstruction. Credit: Peter Watts, Blindsight. Unofficial reconstruction, CC BY-NC-SA 2.5.

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Daniel Feichtinger @auxilit.com · 18/09/2026

“The German general Erwin Rommel has his own game piece, and the rules mention that his truck has access to only AM radio. This seems to have no bearing on play.” www.nytimes.com/2026/09/18/w...

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Can Two Friends Complete a Game No One Has Ever Finished?

The Campaign for North Africa, a staggeringly complicated World War II board game, has stymied players for decades. Now two guys in England are giving it a serious go.

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Morrus @morrus.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

CERN sells its own Toblerone!

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David @yonderdavid.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

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"A Little Tooth"
by Thomas Lux, 1946 – 2017.

Your baby grows a tooth, then two,
and four, and five, then she wants some meat
directly from the bone. It's all

over: she'll learn some words, she'll fall
in love with cretins, dolts, a sweet
talker on his way to jail. And you,

your wife, get old, flyblown, and rue
nothing. You did, you loved, your feet
are sore. It's dusk. Your daughter's tall.

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Tate Collection @tate.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Eduardo Paolozzi, [no title: proof], 1975 botfrens.com/collections/14375/cont…

date inscribed
Presented by White Ink 1977

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Matt Henderson @matthen.com · 16/09/2026

Trying to forecast the future on a Galton board

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Lev Parikian @levparikian.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

This Is Just to Say I have read the various discourses that you have been engaging with all morning and nah

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Simon Kuestenmacher @simongerman600.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Where has snow fallen at any point since 1940?

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James Austin @jamesdaustin.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

This doesnt cut against my belief that the huge donation to Reform wont matter that much as they'll spend the money very badly

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Sakana AI @sakanaai.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Introducing PC-ALM: a local-learning alternative to backprop that trains 1000-layer neural nets using only local dynamics. Blog: pub.sakana.ai/pc-alm/

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Ian Coldwater 🧊🚫 @lookitup.baby · 14/09/2026

A 40-year-old kernel bug got discovered while on stage at DEF CON and the writeup is glorious

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How can you not be romantic about UNIX domain sockets?

A 40-year-old kernel bug discovered on the DEFCON 34 main stage.

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Andy Matuschak @andymatuschak.org · 14/09/2026

It's ironic (and troubling?) that with AI, that long-sought individual autonomy might be achieved without any of the understanding or expertise, and in fact by making the black box much bigger and blacker.

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LaurieWired @lauriewired.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Some of you are already prepped for this by the way. DOE HPC people are really good at this (to the point of purposefully irradiating Nvidia GPUs to quantify the error rates)!

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Jane Coaston @janecoaston.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

This piece was fascinating, getting at a point I'd never considered: bin-Laden's entire concept about what 9/11 would do to America was just... wrong. www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...

Bin Laden was equally clear about how he thought terrorism would yield his desired result. In a March 1997 CNN interview with Peter Bergen, he spoke of transferring “the battle into the United States.” In a May 2000 speech, he told supporters that the war would henceforth be waged “against the United States, in the United States.” Americans, he observed to ABC’s John Miller in 1998, cannot tolerate pain, and will react to attacks not by fighting back and blaming al‑Qaeda, but instead by asking “what their government has done that forced us to defend ourselves.” In a November 2001 interview, he hinted at a theory of political change in America: Its citizens should “take the same stand that they did previously,” when they protested the Vietnam War and the presidents who waged it.

Nelly Lahoud, a professor at the Army War College and the author of the definitive book on the Abbottabad documents, told me this political pipe dream was bin Laden’s whole plan: “to replicate the anti–Vietnam War movement of the United States, to get the American public to put pressure on the U.S. government to withdraw its forces from the Middle East.” The documents reveal a man and an organization blindsided by the American reaction to the September 11 attacks. Bin Laden and his associates “didn’t think that the United States would respond by waging war,” Lahoud said. He did not contemplate or plan for the long-term occupation of Afghanistan, nor did he expect the methodical killing of his operatives in a campaign that lasted years.

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Tom Roberts @tpgroberts.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

The UK economy has three major industries: Warhammer, Onlyfans and Little Alex Horne

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Stephen Nuñez @socio-steve.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Dividing up AI users in 3 categories: Wizard: approaches AI academically & with appropriate guards & wards. Treats it like a tool. Warlock: Makes a pact for power with an alien entity without considering the costs. Is corrupted by the whispers. Cleric: worships their new machine god. Is insane.

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Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · 10/09/2026

My favorite doorknobs are the ones the New York City public schools installed at the turn of the 20th century. You can still occasionally find one on eBay!

A brass doorknob with the all-caps lettering "PUBLIC SCHOOL—CITY OF NEW YORK," surrounded by a swirling motif that looks rather like leaves.

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Dash Silva @dashsilva.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

I love that this ever-so-slightly oppressive signage make it looks like Britain is living under the authoritarian dominion of Judy Garland’s brutal regime:

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Armin Ronacher @mitsuhiko.at · 09/09/2026

Astra is really, really cool but I cannot current trust it for my present day engineering. At least until I have adjusted. Some random thoughts including code samples of what I recovered from my traces. lucumr.pocoo.org/2026/9/7/ast...

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Astra for Coding: Why Are We Doing This Again?

Some thoughts on Astra and newfangled long-horizon models.

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Eris @isolyth.dev · 10/09/2026

New favorite painting discovered Symphony of the Sixth Blast Furnace (1979), Sedukhin

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David Higham @oldtrotter.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Quite. Today’s Inside Politics newsletter by @stephenkb.bsky.social

As of this year, it is illegal to use a mask to hide your identity at a protest. It has been illegal for a lot longer than that to blockade critical infrastructure - like a port, say. — and it is corrosive to the foundations of liberal democracy to turn up in masks outside a newspaper's HQ because of a legitimate story you don't like.
Tackling this stuff is the bare minimum of what we should expect of any government. An administration that appears incapable of arresting the ringleaders or the attendees of such a protest is one that is visibly failing to do the basics of being a government. It feeds into a general narrative of malaise - that whether it is bike theft or responding to tricky geopolitical issues, Labour cannot govern. Taken together with Reform's difficulties, it is a gift for the Conservatives - if Kemi Badenoch can seize it.

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Laurens @laurenshof.online · 10/09/2026

ohh i love paintings about heavy industry! This one made a big impression on me when i saw it a few years in Vienna Stahlwerk (1932), Kirnig

An industrial painting by Paul Kirnig depicting a massive, towering steel mill from a low-angle perspective. The monumental factory structure dominates the frame with its intricate steel scaffolding, giant pipes, and towering smokestacks that billow thick clouds of gray and white smoke into a dark, dramatic sky. Beams of ethereal, bright sunlight pierce through the smog and clouds, casting high-contrast light and shadow across the cold, geometric architecture. The vast machinery appears godlike and futuristic, dwarfing the scale of human life and framing the factory as a modern, technological temple.

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Shriram Krishnamurthi @shriram.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Super excited to share "A Design Space Exploration of Async/Await". How differently does async/await behave across today's languages? (More than you might expect!) And what *is* "structured concurrency"? Check out our ~interactive~ blog post introducing the paper: cel.cs.brown.edu/blog/design-...

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A Design Space Exploration of Async/Await

Every language pitches async/await as synchronous-looking code, and the same two keywords appear everywhere. But behind the shared syntax hide nine independent design decisions, and no two of seven mo...

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Tom Wilson @feedthedrummer.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

This does suggest Britain is a) very good at integration b) actively attracts the world's smart and ambitious people who want to get on and do well for themselves Both of these are very good, competitive qualities to have and should be celebrated.

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Sridhar Ramesh @radishharmers.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

AI has become frighteningly powerful.

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Charles Fourier @charlesfourier.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Bill Bryson’s words seem appropriate to post right now

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Tom Richmond @tom-richmond.com · 08/09/2026

They'll be a lot of chatter about England's PISA results this morning, but we need to talk just as much about Wales. They rejected phonics and knowledge-rich curricula in favour of 'areas of learning', 'skills suites' and barely any testing. Wales is now 40 points below England in every domain.

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Sophie Heawood @heawood.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Very funny description of Diana Rigg not giving up smoking (as written by her daughter, in Vogue)

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

T minus 435 days, and counting down.

Opening sequence of the movie Children of Men, with the date: 16th November 2027

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Adam Chalmers @adamchalmers.com · 07/09/2026

(after six PRs with claude) okay now let's do a silly one

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Thor Benson @thorbenson.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Me in 2015 vs. me today

Nathan Fielder in You Can See Everything

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Daniel Sugarman @danielsugarman.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Look, there's an avalanche of crappy news out there, all day and every day. So here's something good on your timeline for a brief second. www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/09...

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