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myrmepropagandist @futurebird.sauropods.win.ap.brid.gy · 5h

Queen of the bookshelf.

Pica the tabby cat rests on a bookshelf she likes.

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Glyph @glyph.im · 5h

AI does not disrupt. AI entrenches. AI turns money into more money; AI turns investment into dependency. We are living in a funhouse mirror of that right now where the combination of overly-plausible demos and first-one's-free incentives are swamping the actual balance-sheet math. But the […]

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Glyph @glyph.im · 5h

It's also very frustrating to constantly have my opposition to AI be taken as an opposition to abstraction, or to automation, and a desire to do every little thing by hand. But it's the opposite. For a whole bunch of reasons, AI anti-abstracts. It adversarially creates oceans of duplication to […]

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abadidea @0xabad1dea.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 9h

People ask me what I miss about the United States. This, this is what I miss. The cold yet sunlit rocky reaches of my childhood home, the White Mountains of New Hampshire, proud and tall in her autumn raiment. And also goldfish crackers www.youtube.com/watch?v=54U1kdfH_Sk

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Erik Moeller @eloquence.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 12/10/2026

Hi folks, if you are maintaining a widely used #OpenSource infrastructure project (think networking, encryption, testing/QA automation, desktop libraries, payment libraries ...) now is a good time to ask for a security audit or other support through the Sovereign Tech Resilience program. The […]

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abadidea @0xabad1dea.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 14/10/2026

so, Albert Heijn, one of the main Dutch grocery chains, has had a major IT disruption because of some sort of ransomware attack, and this has caused stores to not get deliveries of fresh fruits and vegetables Some passerby was quoted on the news as saying to chin up and stop whining because […]

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Martin Holland @mho.social.heise.de.ap.brid.gy · 13/10/2026

I haven't done these in a while, but there hasn't happened much lately: #Traffic to @heiseonline from #Mastodon is stable, #Bluesky & #Threads combined bring in less. Facebook has lost much recently; #Flipboard is stable too.

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Tim Bray 🇨🇦 @timbray.cosocial.ca.ap.brid.gy · 13/10/2026

John Gruber @gruber says “The culture on X today is remarkably friendly and inclusive” Hmm, that's not how I remember it. So I spent an hour there and, maybe I’m weird, but… www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/202…

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I Wasted an Hour on X

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Coleen Walter @coleenwalter.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 13/10/2026

Mother-daughter bonding this morning: my young adult daughter and I looked over the sample ballot and reviewed any proposed amendments to the state constitution. Then we went to the registrars office together to vote. We’ve done this the past two elections and I love going together. I also love […]

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-Boulet- @bouletcorp2.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 13/10/2026

English-speaking followers! WAIT! *STORY TIME* A few years ago, I met a producer who asked me if I was tempted by the idea of writing for TV, and offered to talk about it around a drink. I spent the whole week thinking about it, took some notes, played a thousand scenes in my head…

Boulet walking in the street, compulsively noting ideas in a notebook

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abadidea @0xabad1dea.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 13/10/2026

Anthropic is bragging about rolling their own from-scratch in-house version control system because git couldn't keep up with their 30,000 commits per day, and it doesn't seem to occur to them for a nanosecond that they are not fixing the actual problem in their engineering practices but making […]

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Ludic 🧛 @ludicity.mastodon.sprawl.club.ap.brid.gy · 13/10/2026

I saw a news article about the founder of an AI company "remaking a functioning Terraria" overnight I was wondering if it was just modded Terraria as a publicity stunt, and never found out, because I started poking around their product and Discord and […] [Original post on mastodon.sprawl.club]

A picture of a Discord server with bots posting scams non-stop.

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Franz Graf @hikingdude.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 12/10/2026

Wife has finished her #Crochet Projekt. The wreath is made of wood, the rest is wool. It looks pretty cool!

A close-up of a charming hand-crocheted wreath bursting with autumn warmth. Crocheted orange slices in bright shades of yellow and orange sit alongside brown cinnamon sticks tied neatly with a white ribbon, while green leaves and plump red berries fill the gaps between them. The decorations are attached to a light-colored grapevine base, giving the piece a natural, rustic texture. Every element is lovingly handmade, with the vibrant yarn colors evoking the cozy scents and hues of fall and winter — oranges, spice, and berries gathered in one decorative circle ready to welcome the season.

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abadidea @0xabad1dea.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 12/10/2026

hey, could the Youtube product manager who decided that when a Dutch household puts on a video from the Dutch national news, the audio should automatically be replaced with a TTS voice reading a machine-generated English translation, come meet me in the darkest corner of the Amsterdamse Bos […]

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Jon S. von Tetzchner @jon.social.vivaldi.net.ap.brid.gy · 12/10/2026

More and more sites are having to set up defenses from AI bots. It is costly to provide online services and they were not built for bots. One can say that the AI companies are performing a global denial of service attack, which incurs costs to all of their competitors, as well as the rest of […]

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abadidea @0xabad1dea.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 12/10/2026

Just had a conversation with peers that was like: "my friend says github's changed their SSH key fingerprint again and it's generating scary warnings you have to ignore" "oh? it hasn't changed for me" "or me" "can't find any documentation on them having changed it since 2023" "... uh-oh." […]

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rickf - a cynical professor @rickf.indieweb.social.ap.brid.gy · 12/10/2026

Interesting how the media keeps referring to the AI companies as "labs" as in "a model escaped the lab.." or "research at the labs shows that..." 'Lab' implies a place where experimentation and 'accidents' understandably might happen. Y'know, like Ebola or Covid. A 'company', on the other hand […]

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Stefano Marinelli @bsd.cafe · 12/10/2026

I got a call from someone I don't know. "Hi. We have a FreeBSD server. It's been working perfectly for years, but it hasn't been updated since then. We asked AI to update it, but now it won't boot anymore. It didn't even make a backup before starting. The AI keeps trying things, everything is […]

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abadidea @0xabad1dea.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 12/10/2026

completely concur: the United States is a failed civilization except for Nyquil. If you can just buy Nyquil because you’re in a situation that would be improved by some Nyquil, and it’s never occurred to you that it could be otherwise, you have no idea how lucky you are […]

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Gabriele Svelto @gabrielesvelto.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 11/10/2026

I double-checked this on a couple of Xitter stat sites and it's true. Average views of the main AfD account dropped 90% and average engagement dropped by 60%. This is commercial social media for you: bots, damn bots and Russian bots.

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Ludic 🧛 @ludicity.mastodon.sprawl.club.ap.brid.gy · 11/10/2026

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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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

We’ve been talking about this for years. None of these far-right movements are organic.

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David Gerard @davidgerard.circumstances.run.ap.brid.gy · 11/10/2026

gosh who could have predicted that precisely this would happen […]

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kali @kali.discuss.systems.ap.brid.gy · 05/10/2026

this bird 😂 😂 😂 #dove #pigeon

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Tim Bray 🇨🇦 @timbray.cosocial.ca.ap.brid.gy · 10/10/2026

Keeping watch on the front garden. #caturday #photography

A calico cat is starting to climb a large hydrangea bush, looking alertly to one side.

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Glyph @glyph.im · 10/10/2026

this is the perfect metaphor to understand the distinction between AI doomer concerns versus AI skeptic concerns

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abadidea @0xabad1dea.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 10/10/2026

the actual main difference between ancient Greek and ancient Chinese philosophy, visualized #philosophy

(LONG ALT TEXT WARNING) two columns of text, one of which is several times longer than the other:

First column: “Whom, then, do I call educated, since I exclude the arts and sciences and specialties? First, those who manage well the circumstances which they encounter day-by-day, who possess a judgment which is accurate in meeting accusations as they arise and rarely misses the expeditious course of action; next, those who are decent and honorable in their intercourse with all with whom they associate, tolerating easily and good-naturedly what is unpleasant or offensive in others and being themselves as agreeable as it is possible to be; furthermore, those who hold their pleasures always under control and are not unduly overcome by their misfortunes, bearing up under them bravely and in a manner worthy of our common nature; finally, and most important of all, those who are not spoiled by successes and do not desert their true selves and become arrogant, but hold their ground steadfastly as intelligent people, not rejoicing in the good things which have come to them through chance rather than those which through their own nature and intelligence are theirs from birth.” – Isocrates, “Panathenaicus”

Second column: “If someone marries for virtue over beauty, would do anything for their parents, would give their life for their country, is a good friend and trustworthy, but is uneducated – actually, they sound quite educated to me.” — Zixia, “The Analects of Confucius”

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Jaap Burger @burger-jaap.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2026

The Danish CPO OK wants to install batteries at 70 of its existing charging sites, with a total capacity of 30 MW/60 MWh. Clever use of existing grid connections, which have ample free capacity most of the time, will allow the sites to grow and unlock grid capacity for new ones […]

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abadidea @0xabad1dea.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 09/10/2026

Europeans never met a map they couldn’t fuck up even worse

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Indio Gringo ® @paninid.mastodon.world.ap.brid.gy · 09/10/2026

New York City Mayor Mamdani posted about a New Yorker who was shot by an ICE agent today in the City. The NYC said: Abolish ICE.

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Prof. Sam Lawler @sundogplanets.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2026

Everybody has to coordinate with Starlink because SPACEX CONTROLS ORBIT. That's against the Outer Space Treaty. Your engineering challenge, SpaceX, is to provide your services with fewer satellites. Not yell at everyone else for having satellites too […]

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abadidea @0xabad1dea.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2026

If you’re like “ouch, your off-hand cursive is better than my dominant-hand cursive”and you wish that weren’t true: you can just start grinding your handwriting skill, at any age. No one can stop you (A bad pen that’s painful to use might stop you. Look for wider barrels and smooth flowing tips)

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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

The University of Arizona has just suspended 6 fraternities after “allegations of misconduct” were made, including “physical assault, drugs and alcohol, hazing, and creating unsafe environments for students”. Seems like the mishandling of the rape allegations at Cornell may be rippling outward.

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University of Arizona suspends six fraternities, pauses activities for almost all others

The University of Arizona is taking action against several of its fraternities after more misconduct allegations were made.

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myrmepropagandist @futurebird.sauropods.win.ap.brid.gy · 07/10/2026

"please don't give root to the text generator" shouldn't need to be on the rules list... but here we are.

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Cursed Silicon @cursedsilicon.treehouse.systems.ap.brid.gy · 06/10/2026

Cave Johnson here! The lab boys tell me that raccoons, structurally, have the same kind of fingers as you and me, Which got me thinking, why hire a bunch of pencil-pusher punch-card associates when I could hire raccoons! Those tiny fingers are perfect for all the wires inside computers nowadays […]

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Tim Bray 🇨🇦 @timbray.cosocial.ca.ap.brid.gy · 06/10/2026

Hm, @anildash has published WE ARE GOING TO KILL “UNALIVE” at www.anildash.com/2026/10/06/kill-un… - you might enjoy it. Two things: 1. There’s a whole book on the subject called “Algospeak”, where the first chapter is entitled Why Your Kids Are Saying “Unalive”, read about it at […]

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daniel:// stenberg:// @bagder.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 05/10/2026

"Google freezes open-source bug bounty program amid flood of invalid AI slop submissions" […]

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Prof. Sam Lawler @sundogplanets.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 05/10/2026

It's the kind of auroras right now where it just looks like a greenish smudge to your eyes, but then you take a photo and it's ABSOLUTELY INCREDIBLE Please enjoy this lovely instrument (a camera) that lets us see a bunch of colours too faint for our eyeballs!

A nighttime scene, with silhouetted trees in the lower corners of the photos, and bright green auroras across the horizon, with some pink and red pillars above, almost blocking the Milky Way, visible vertically across the sky.

Same idea as the previous photo, but now the green in the lower part of the sky is also reflected by a small pond.

More bright green auroras with red and pink pillars above, the Milky Way sticking up out of the middle, and a bit of green reflected in a small pond with silhouetted trees.

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Chuck Darwin @cdarwin.c.im.ap.brid.gy · 03/10/2026

Google is under fire for clearing over 300 hectares — the equivalent of almost 500 football fields — for two new data centers in the northern part of Finland without concluding the necessary environmental assessments. Despite the assessments still being in progress, the tech giant’s contractors […]

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Julia Evans @b0rk.social.jvns.ca.ap.brid.gy · 03/10/2026

RE: hachyderm.io/@molly0xfff/1173742139… finally signed up for a paid subscription to support Molly White’s cryptocurrency reporting loved her 2024 talk on the how building things on the web is magic too xoxofest.com/2024/videos/molly-white

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Tim Carmody @tcarmody.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

This is the funniest thing I've seen today, possibly ever

A tweet by SarahStarberry that says "oh god read the vertical axis" on top of a chart measuring AI models' release dates and model numbers rather than any real capabilities

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Dan Gillmor @dangillmor.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2026

A carpenter friend in California told me today that the price of copper has gone through the roof -- e.g. $100 for a short section of pipe. He said the data centers are hoovering up raw materials in such a frenzy that the cost of essentially all construction materials is insane. I haven't seen […]

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abadidea @0xabad1dea.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 01/10/2026

A "saved by backups" story: I was doing a final from-the-top playthrough of the new build of Glory in the Thunder Act 1 to make sure everything was well and truly in order before I uploaded it. And lo and behold, the engine started spitting image-not-found errors halfway through Chapter 3. Two […]

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Tim Bray 🇨🇦 @timbray.cosocial.ca.ap.brid.gy · 30/09/2026

Researchers from the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research conclude — hold on, I know this is difficult to believe — that the #GenAI business is financially unsustainable. “AI Companies Are In a Race Against Time” […]

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