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White guy: “The culture at the Nazi bar today is remarkably friendly and inclusive.” No it isn’t. There are non-Nazis having “normal” conversations there, but they’re choosing to do so in a Nazi bar. If you like hanging out in a Nazi bar, don’t be surprised when people judge you for it.

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Duncan Jones @manmademoon.bsky.social · 12h

Refineries? BOOM. Oil money gone. Wildberries? BOOM. Troops can no longer buy necessities their military doesn’t bother providing. Data centers? BOOM. Bot networks around the world cut down. Disinfo vanished! Ukraine. You are AWESOME. 💪🏼🇺🇦👍🏼

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Micah @rincewind.run · 13h

Discworld QOTD, from The Last Continent “I THINK PERHAPS YOU DO NOT UNDERSTAND. PEOPLE’S WHOLE LIVES DO PASS IN FRONT OF THEIR EYES BEFORE THEY DIE. THE PROCESS IS CALLED “LIVING.” WOULD YOU LIKE A PRAWN?”

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Emyr Derfel @emyrderfel.bsky.social · 14h

Some people pay for that.

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Emyr Derfel @emyrderfel.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

The emperor points out that he himself isn't wearing any clothes.

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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

1) Putin doesn't have diesel to spare. 2) Diesel is cover for lifting sanctions. 3) Putin's statement sounds like he's offering an Iran escape hatch, which I've been predicting. 4) Half of the MASSIVE bribes Putin is offering now don't exist. 5) But he does mention security coop -- Kash.

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e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 09/10/2026

um, why is Elon Musk's main law firm doing this?

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Notes from Poland @notesfrompoland.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

A sign installed to warn the public about damage caused by beavers has been destroyed by the beavers themselves, according to the Polish foresters who erected it.

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Beavers destroy sign warning about beavers

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 08/10/2026

Ecosia has a much deeper problem than which text fabrication engine they're using - they're fundamentally driving a shift towards more wasteful, bloated and inefficient digital existence and they continue to refuse to disclose any meaningful information

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Ecosia’s “Green AI”: false hope for corrosive tech

Why replace human work with fossil-fuel-slurping mistake generators? Ecosia’s “Green AI” is selling false hope for bad tech

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Butlerian Jihadist of House Dornick @shimminykricket.blacksky.app · 08/10/2026

Harvard just dropped a study AI productivity in software engineering and it found the average increase in productivity from using Claude code is.....zero and for exactly the reasons you'd think fion.ac/jellyfish.pdf

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Dr Alex Fitzpatrick @animalarchaeology.com · 08/10/2026

I’m sure that this is probably just rage bait or whatever those freaks use X primarily for, but it does drive home that fact that many AI proponents seemingly just seem to fucking hate humanity and engaging with it.

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Emyr Derfel @emyrderfel.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

The changing view from Monday evening. Much alt-text.

View from a Boeing 737, sitting just behind the left wing, flying north from Faro, Portugal around 5:30pm. The main cloud deck is still above with the sun just breaking through. Below are scattered cartoon-fluffy clouds. Very little colour.

7pm, the sun is setting, silhouetting the wing. Above is a clear sky from slate blue to yellow at the horizon. The cloud deck below is barely illuminated. The sun is just out of frame, but there are two shafts of lens flare reaching in with an orange haze.

The last glimpse of the sun, orange on the horizon at 19:10. Parts of the wing are blending in with the dark blanket below, but the tip reaches across the strip of ochre, sand and the fade into deep denim blue above.

19:28, the sun has set, but glows an orange stripe at the horizon, with distant ribbons of cloud underlit. The orange fades through vivid blue into inky black, the forked wingtip of the Boeing 737-8200 looking like a shark's tail diving back after a leap.

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Alice Averlong 🏳️‍⚧️ @alice.averlong.com · 07/10/2026

yes .skype exists. Microsoft paid 250,000$ to own the gTLD .skype and then shut down Skype

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Kybosh @kybosh.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I like seeing the dev of the SNES core on the Pocket actually telling one of these dudes off. Holy shit.

8 Closed
Experimental MSU-1 streami. #123
nasonliu wants to merge 2 commits into a
agg23 commented yesterday
If it works, that's pretty cool; I didn't think
would ever see this implemented (I also didn't
expect LLMs to exist).
However, this is not something you can PR
here, or anywhere. You sent me a nearly 50k
line diff, unasked for, completely LLM built, and
you somehow expect me to review it. There is
SO MUCH unrelated garbage here. Never
minding all of the docs and Python, you've
somehow touched basically all of the upstream
HDL, which already had MSU1 support, so idk
what in the world you're doing.
This kind of behavior is not acceptable. You are
infringing on the time and brainpower of people
by pushing "your" content that little/no of your
brainpower went into; completely unrequested.
I hope for the sake of all responsible
maintainers that you do not do such a thing
again.
Again, I think it's cool that you and your LLM
supposedly got this to work. It has no place in
my world.

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Will Oremus @willoremus.com · 06/10/2026

Fun fact: Tesla went with a giant touchscreen instead of knobs for the Model 3 purely to save time and money. Knobs would have required spinning up a whole supply chain. The company spun it as a luxury feature and much of the industry followed suit. But it was always an inferior substitute.

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Emyr Derfel @emyrderfel.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Kaysee thought Wall-E was an utopian vision.

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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

It's quite hard for Americans to understand that our instinct with anything other than genuinely tragic stories is to take the piss.

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Emyr Derfel @emyrderfel.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

One might say we can't both have our cake and eat it too?

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Emyr Derfel @emyrderfel.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The separation of powers is moot when the legislature is packed with sycophants, the judiciary has a majority of yes-men selected by the current president, and the marshals who enforce judgements report to the executive.

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Emyr Derfel @emyrderfel.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

It's such a human spaceprobe, it even managed to get its own "finger" in the frame.

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Emyr Derfel @emyrderfel.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Is Omid Djalili busy? I think he has experience playing "Terrorist number 3”, and his ancestry is from the right/wrong country.

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Emyr Derfel @emyrderfel.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

They closed some branches, I remember Manchester's EBC being quite a good shop.

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Emyr Derfel @emyrderfel.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

If Trump tries to stand again, that's the moment, since the rules don't matter.

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 29/09/2026

Reuters got some of the IPO docs. Anthropic is a total dog of a company. Spent $12.6bn to make $4.6bn in revenue in 2025, $7.33bn of which was compute costs. Operating loss of $8bn. Losses getting worse year over year. Amazing stuff www.reuters.com/business/fin...

Summary
Companies
• Anthropic IPO could value the company at more than $2
trillion
• Anthropic lost $42 billion in 2025
• Al lab spent $7.33 billion on compute and infrastructure last year
• Operating loss widened to $8.06 billion in 2025 from $2.98 billion in 2024
• Execs, industry analysts have expressed concerns over harms of Al tech
Sept 28 (Reuters) - Anthropic is making a massive bet that Al will transform the global economy more profoundly than industrialization, electricity and the internet, according to its IPO prospectus seen by Reuters.
But the cost to get there will be staggering. Anthropic reported a net loss of $42 billion in 2025, and plans to spend $518 billion on cloud, computing and infrastructure obligations in coming year, according to the
prospectus.

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T.J. Stiles @tj-stiles.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Never sell anyone out. In fact, if you're asked about banning 12-year-olds from softball, just say, "You're asking me to sell out kids for my political career. I'm not going to do that. Let's stop demonizing people in tougher circumstances than you or I will ever experience. They have guts."

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 27/09/2026

Remember the random dude who got 49020939 articles of uncritical media coverage in the space of two days because he quit anthropic based on his fears of existential AI risk? Yeah..........he's a climate denier. So is the whole AI industry. www.crikey.com.au/2026/09/22/a...

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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 28/09/2026

Trump: Sleepy Joe Biden, have you heard of him? *a few moments later* Trump: 😴😴😴

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taber @kvetch.gay · 28/09/2026

Here's a map of how iron ore mined in Minnesota moves (the red lines). Note the markers for where steel facilities are located, they're where they are because you have to move the stuff on ships. There are no steel mills in Iowa of any size because you can't get the fucking stuff it's made of there

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 25/09/2026

Oil giant BP not only funded the research behind an influential climate science paper, but company execs even tried to revise versions of it. “Chaps, I have had a go at rewriting the paper,” a BP climate adviser wrote the researchers at one point. (Published June w/ @drilledmedia.bsky.social)

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How BP Execs Influenced a Climate Study That Shaped a Generation of Global Policy

BP sponsored an elite Princeton research center to address the climate problem without getting off fossil fuels. Its key work, a paper known as “Wedges,” guided climate discourse for a generation.

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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 23/09/2026

Thanks to those who came out last night to the Middleton Library to learn about Why Rich People Cheat (And Why We Let Them Get Away With It). It was great to have a packed house and such an engaged audience! And thanks to @uwmadison.bsky.social's @uwbadgertalks.bsky.social for supporting the event!

Me presenting a slide summarizing evidence from research showing the various types of unethical behavior that are disproportionately common among economic elites

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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

AP Stylebook warns against anthropomorphizing AI systems: “Avoid language that gives them human characteristics… Instead, explain what a system does, how well it performs, who built it and who could be affected by it.”

APStylebook @APStylebook
X.com
Artificial intelligence systems do not think, feel, want or understand. Avoid language that gives them human characteristics. This is called anthropomorphizing, when we ascribe human traits, emotions or behaviors to non-human things, such as animals or inanimate objects.
Instead, explain what a system does, how well it performs, who built it and who could be affected by it.

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Emyr Derfel @emyrderfel.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

You could take up woodworking and build a trebuchet or other siege weapon.

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Emyr Derfel @emyrderfel.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

How would she know? She's never there.

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Max Dubler 🏳️‍🌈 @maxdubler.com · 23/09/2026

Regulators should shut this down before it leads to a wave of predictable, preventable deaths by suicide.

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Mark Tolman (he/him) 🏳️‍🌈 🖖 @mtolman.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

This is true, that's what makes it both funny and sad.

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Emyr Derfel @emyrderfel.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Why does Milei have to check your balls?

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Emyr Derfel @emyrderfel.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

If they don't already know about London's public transport there are YouTubers to suit all tastes!

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Emyr Derfel @emyrderfel.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Handmaid's Tale was *right there*!

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 21/09/2026

This is my take on almost every single pending copyright case: settling for a few billion is what we will have to do because the alternative is probably that Congress rewrites copyright law so that we have to give it over for free.

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Kevin Gannon (now a Moo Deng fan account) @thetattooedprof.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

She has a degree in economics (and int'l relations). The Right hates her for a lot of reasons, but one big one is that she runs circles around them intellectually and they know it

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Emyr Derfel @emyrderfel.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

He was notably not a winner of the Nobel Prize for Physics when Leslie Groves chose him, but that's not what Bessent is saying.

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 20/09/2026

Fully electric aviation has some major challenges (mostly: batteries are heavy and don't get lighter as they get used up) but I love the idea of decreasing aircraft emissions through a hybrid approach, perhaps as a step toward new, clever solutions for fully electric air transport in the future.

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