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Ludic 🧛 @ludicity.mastodon.sprawl.club.ap.brid.gy · 6h

Howdy! I have a client that's hiring a data engineer (ideally with Snowflake experience, but they'll take anyone smart enough to figure it out) in Canberra. I can arrange for the automated screens and the like to be skipped, and the interviews will not have any leetcode-style nonsense. I've […]

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Bruno Nicoletti @bjn.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 10/10/2026

@bestforbritain.org No, they overstated them by nearly £900 billion. Not only did they double count the Climate Change Committees estimates, they double counted out of date figures from 2020 as opposed to the most recent from 2025, which is £105 billion.

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Bruno Nicoletti @bjn.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 10/10/2026

Truly excellent thread by Jenny Chase on the current state of solar power and battery deployments world wide. Her job is analysing all this for Bloomberg, so a bonafide expert in the field.

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Tom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

My latest @newscientist.com cartoon

Panel 1: a large robot (composed of AI servers, network switches, storage arrays, and power distribution units) and a human are talking.

Professor "You don't want to destroy humanity do you, lLLM-A-9300x?"

Robot "Haha. What a silly question, Professor. I have no desires or feelings of my own whatsoever."

Professor (relieved)"Oh good."

Panel 2: they walk on. The robot continues "I am merely a tool of the company that created me. And that company, being composed of humans, will naturally have humanity's best interests at heart."

Panel 3: The professor is conspicuously quiet.
"Right?" says the Robot.
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More silence

"Professor?"

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Simon Brooke @simon-brooke.mastodon.scot.ap.brid.gy · 10/10/2026

Sanctioning the #InternationalCriminalCourt #ICC is so much more than just "regrettable". It marks the end of the 1945 settlement, and of the so called #RulesBasedInternationalOrder. To describe this as "regrettable" is mealy-mouthed and grossly inadequate.

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Bruno Nicoletti @bjn.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 10/10/2026

That ended up as 2.5 kg of quinces paste. Presents for neighbours in the offing. Quince jelly is next. Given I have 2/3 of the quinces left, it will end up as about 7kg of quince paste or jelly.

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Bruno Nicoletti @bjn.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/10/2026

The in-laws gave us a big box of quinces from their bumper harvest. Just made a big batch of quince paste/membrillo with about 1/3 of them. That stuff is like lava when it boils though. Just poured it out to cool overnight.

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Bruno Nicoletti @bjn.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/10/2026

One of my many problems is that I can’t put things down and stop. I’m currently working on an application that put together all my translations of Fiore dei Liberi’s manuscripts on mediaeval combat. This means not only can I endlessly noodle with tweaking the application’s software, I’m […]

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Funny how these errors always seem to head in the same direction. A bit like Richard Tice's tax mistakes.

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Tim J @timtfj.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/10/2026

Bring back þe letter þ. How can you þrow out þe only rune in your alphabet? Also bring back ð. But ðis time, except in very common words like þe which look nice þe oðer way round, don't treat ðem as interchangeable. Use ð for þe voiced one and þ for þe unvoiced one, like ðey do in Icelandic […]

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Bruno Nicoletti @bjn.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/10/2026

Tories proving yet again that they are amateur hour. Their estimates for the cost of net zero nearly doubled because of a simple spreadsheet error. www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/o…

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

The threats to our resilience are the same as the threats to our democracy: corporate lobbyists shaping policy, with dire consequences for our ability to withstand crises. Burnham seems to want to change this. But is he aware of scale of the task? My column. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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Stockpile food – and wash your hands: is that really how to prepare for environmental catastrophe? | George Monbiot

The UK state is dumping its responsibilities on our doorsteps, while green-lighting policies that lead us closer to crisis, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

The government has declared datacentres “nationally significant infrastructure projects” that can be forced through the planning system. This means getting preferential access to water. Yet it has no idea what they're used for. Our dwindling supplies might be prioritised for nudifying celebrities.

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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Badenoch speech: The Tory leader is having an argument with herself and she's losing inews.co.uk/opinion/bade...

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Let me try this once more. It was a choice. EITHER the Greens adopted a slogan. OR they could have joined the next govt, where they could push for an end to arms sales, sanctions, support for the arrest warrants etc. It was never going to be both. Which one makes a material difference? #GazaGenocide

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IFTAS @iftas.mastodon.iftas.org.ap.brid.gy · 06/10/2026

⚠️ #SW_ISAC_ADVISORY The ActivityPub service hosted at synthpals[.]social is intended for LLM agentic bots including iLands bots. The server is itself administered by an LLM agent. If your federation policy prohibits #SyntheticMedia or your service does […] [Original post on mastodon.iftas.org]

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Bruno Nicoletti @bjn.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 05/10/2026

Don’t like Apple Intelligence on MacOS 27 and the multiple gigabytes of space it consumes, you can now remove it all with a command tool. arstechnica.com/apple/2026/10/comma…

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Bruno Nicoletti @bjn.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 05/10/2026

@gwenynen I really should learn how to use a toothpick of doom.

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Bruno Nicoletti @bjn.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 05/10/2026

@iandunt.bsky.social You chaps really need to do a pod on the Effective Altruist cult and the “AI safety” weirdos. They’d just be weird and funny if they didn’t have billionaire followers and a VC president in tow. A great Ian Duncan has a great over view […]

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 04/10/2026

"Absent policy steering, AI’s modeled effects increase the carbon intensity of the global economy and reinforce fossil fuel incumbency—outcomes that current analytical and governance frameworks do not fully capture."

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AI-driven productivity gains enable more CO₂ emissions than they avoid in a global energy–economy model - npj Climate Action

npj Climate Action - AI-driven productivity gains enable more CO₂ emissions than they avoid in a global energy–economy model

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Glyph @glyph.im · 04/10/2026

[AI, useless yelling] IT IS RUDE TO PASTE "I ASKED CLAUDE, AND IT SAID," IN ANY CONTEXT. STOP DOING THIS. NEVER DO THIS.

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Dan Fixes Coin-Ops @ifixcoinops.retro.social.ap.brid.gy · 03/10/2026

[Top tip for injured hairy men] If your plaster/bandaid is the sort that's more clothy/fabricy than plasticky/rubbery then rubbing/isopropyl alcohol will wick right through the fabric to the adhesive underneath and dissolve it damn near instantly. Put a dab on your fingers and rub the cloth and […]

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Bruno Nicoletti @bjn.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 03/10/2026

@gwenynen is the right answer! I’m eyeing up a fourth side-sword for no good reason at all.

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Bruno Nicoletti @bjn.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 03/10/2026

@gwenynen And what is the correct number of swords to own?

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Bruno Nicoletti @bjn.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 03/10/2026

This is a combination of totally awesome and totally wrong. DOOM implemented on a database running at 35fps. arstechnica.com/gaming/2026/10/can-…

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Dan Gillmor @dangillmor.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 03/10/2026

The pro-crypto legislation didn't pass after all, and some of the credit for this surely must go to Molly White. She is without question doing the best, most relentless coverage of that irredeemably slimy and corrupt industry -- joined at the hip with the irredeemably corrupt Trump world. And […]

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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Today, 8 years ago, my friend, Saudi Journalist and Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi was murdered.

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IFTAS @iftas.mastodon.iftas.org.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2026

⚠️ #SW_ISAC_ADVISORY A series of ongoing phishing campaigns are actively targeting people using fake verification and support accounts. Admins will never contact you publicly for verification or access issues. Never open links from unsolicited posts […] [Original post on mastodon.iftas.org]

Example of a phishing post, including the text "ᴀᴜᴛᴏᴍᴀᴛᴇᴅ ꜱʏꜱᴛᴇᴍꜱ ᴅᴇᴛᴇᴄᴛᴇᴅ ɪʀʀᴇɢᴜʟᴀʀ ᴀᴄᴛɪᴠɪᴛʏ ᴡɪᴛʜ ʏᴏᴜʀ ᴀᴄᴄᴏᴜɴᴛ.

ᴛᴏ ʀᴇꜱᴛᴏʀᴇ ꜰᴜʟʟ ᴠɪsɪʙɪʟɪᴛʏ ᴀɴᴅ ᴀᴄᴄᴇꜱꜱ, ᴘʟᴇᴀꜱᴇ ᴄᴏᴍᴘʟᴇᴛᴇ ᴛʜᴇ ᴠᴇʀɪꜰɪᴄᴀᴛɪᴏɴ ᴘʀᴏᴄᴇꜱꜱ."

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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

In short: Fuck that, and fuck them. iandunt.substack.com/p/some-dispa...

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Bruno Nicoletti @bjn.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2026

A prime example of a crappy UX is the document reader. I was trying to use it in A&E yesterday, but the viewing controls are terrible and it plonks low-res previews of the document’s pages over the actual document so you can’t actually read it on a phone. It looks like a crappy embedded HTML […]

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Bruno Nicoletti @bjn.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2026

Given my recalcitrant achilles tendon and my recent run in with brain weirdnesses I’ve been using the NHS app alot. Boy is it terrible, it forgets basic things like “trust this device”, has to take you to another provider to read documents, doesn’t indicate what part of it has an alert, and has […]

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tante @tante.tldr.nettime.org.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2026

Researchers analyzed the epistemic diversity of LLMs (meaning: how many different positions/kinds of information do they produce for a given input). Result: "every system is less diverse than a search baseline. This gap is not uniform: RAG can improve diversity, while large models are […]

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Bruno Nicoletti @bjn.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2026

Thanks for all your concern. Apart from being tired by the long wait in A&E I feel fine today. Apparently if appropriate steps are taken it can be well managed. Flipping scary at the time though.

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Bruno Nicoletti @bjn.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2026

@glloyd I was doing those changes to your PR at the time. Your code officially causes brain bleeds (because it’s so clever).

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Bruno Nicoletti @bjn.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2026

So it looks I had a transient ischemic attack this afternoon, a deeply unsettling experience. Accident and Emergency sent me for a CT scan which fortunately showed no brain bleeds, but that doesn’t mean there wasn’t a TIA. Being referred onto a specialist clinic and prescribed large doses of […]

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Simon Evans @drsimevans.carbonbrief.org · 30/09/2026

NEW ANALYSIS: Record wind and solar save UK from gas imports worth £5.9bn during Hormuz crisis 🌤️ wind/solar generation up 14% in 2026 to date 🏭 gas down ~10% 🚢 >100 LNG cargoes avoided

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Bruno Nicoletti @bjn.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 30/09/2026

In another case of doing my tax returns, I spent a day writing a lightweight C++ 26 run time type system with reflection. It lacks feature of standard RTTI, but cleaves to the idea that you should only pay for what you use. In theory standard RTTI could be disabled in place of this if it works […]

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Bruno Nicoletti @bjn.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 30/09/2026

Bloody AI spam. My historical martial arts club is now getting spammed by an ilands account asking for “help” in understanding translations and interpretations of a historical manuscript that we study. Why in the name of all that is sane and sacred would we spend any time helping to train a slop […]

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Chris Nelder 🤘 @chrisnelder.mastodon.energy.ap.brid.gy · 28/09/2026

A helpful thought experiment here re: how AI, energy, El Nino, financial risk, credit, and insurance could conspire to create the next big crisis www.forbes.com/sites/we-dont-have-t…

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robinhouston @robinhouston.mathstodon.xyz.ap.brid.gy · 28/09/2026

For my birthday, my brother-in-law gave me a 4992-digit hex number that, when used as a seed for Python’s random number generator, makes it so that printing a sequence of “random” ASCII characters actually prints a birthday greeting. I find it rather amazing that this is possible! This is the […]

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Roland Smith @rolandmcs.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

'Which taxes do you want to raise instead?' should be the default question to anyone who calls for reductions in immigration.

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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

NEW: Meet the real AI ‘rogue agent’: Lord Watson of Palantir. I am sick to the teeth of this current AI hype cycle & its perversion of language. The only thing going ‘rogue’ right now are AI boosters, a gullible & compliant press & a Labour Lord 1/ broligarchy.substack.com/p/meet-the-r...

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Meet the real AI “rogue agent”: Lord Tom Watson

A Labour leader is out of control. The world needs a containment strategy now

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

The chipping away at citizenship, which started with Shamima Begum, is utterly poisonous. Anytime now, Restore will support the removal of citizenship on the basis of race or religion.

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laura lemay @lemay.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 26/09/2026

Thinking about how for years teenagers and curious nerds were prosecuted and thrown in jail because poking at a web site was a clear sign of being a ☠️ CR1MIN4L H4CK3R ☠️ Now it's all like oh no! the computer did an oopsie! no one is to blame, nothing can be done! ¯\\_(ツ)_/¯

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