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☆ thomas

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science and software worker 🔬🖥️ grandad-coded middle-millenial 🇪🇺🇩🇪🇬🇧 migrant in 🇳🇱 ❁❁❁ he/er/hij/il/él/etc.

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☆ thomas @freezombie.net · 15h
The thing is I don't think executing people behind closed doors is actually significantly less barbaric than executing them in public
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☆ thomas @freezombie.net · 16h
Time for another #proofofcat
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☆ thomas @freezombie.net · 08/10/2026
the first photo out of my camera didn't even turn out terrible
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☆ thomas @freezombie.net · 08/10/2026
Finished Dead Beat by Leigh Bardugo yesterday. ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ This book rips. With a third book in a series you never know, but Dead Beat has everything you could want. Magic. Mystery. Grief. Intrigue. Politics. Romance. DEMONS. If you've read Ninth House and Hell Bent, this part 3 will not disappoint! 📚💙
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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Software engineering could and should be done with the same care as any other type of engineering. This is a post in honor of Margaret Hamilton (and also a subtweet of all vibe-coders everywhere).
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"“I fought to bring the software legitimacy so that it — and those building it — would be given its due respect, and thus I began to use the term ‘software engineering’ to distinguish it from hardware and other kinds of engineering, yet treat each type of engineering as part of the overall systems engineering process,” Hamilton told El Pais in 2018. “When I first started using this phrase, it was considered to be quite amusing. It was an ongoing joke for a long time. They liked to kid me about my radical ideas. Software eventually and necessarily gained the same respect as any other discipline.”"

Source: https://news.mit.edu/2026/margaret-hamilton-computing-pioneer-dies-1007
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bryan newbold @bnewbold.net · 07/10/2026
ah damn, RIP Margaret Hamilton. she took safety-critical software engineering seriously, and got people to the moon and back. news.mit.edu/2026/margare...
old photos of a woman (Margaret Hamilton) standing next to a tall stack of books (printouts of Apollo space mission software source code)
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Spelling Mistakes Cost Lives @darrencullen.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
The moral arc of the universe is long but it bends towards Jeremy Clarkson spending decades denying global warming only to sink his fortune into a farm just as global warming really starts to kick in
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☆ thomas @freezombie.net · 06/10/2026
advance warning - I recently bought a photo camera so I'm at risk of becoming insufferable in a new and interesting way
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☆ thomas @freezombie.net · 03/10/2026
How does this thing look so much like a rhino 📍Hvítserkur, Iceland, 10/8/2026
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NDR @ndr.de · 01/10/2026
Bahnstrecke Leer-Groningen: "Wunderline" nimmt Betrieb auf
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Bahnstrecke Leer-Groningen: "Wunderline" nimmt Betrieb auf
Ab Montag können Reisende die Verbindung nutzen. Zur Bahnstrecke gehört auch die vor elf Jahren beschädigte Friesenbrücke.[mehr]
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☆ thomas @freezombie.net · 02/10/2026
DHL are really making a meal of this delivery The distance from the sender to the destination parcel locker is about 8.4 km as the crow flies
Screenshot from the DHL website showing the history of a parcel, processed at the sorting centre on 28 Sept, delivery postponed three times, "arrived in your region" three times (what does this even mean) "out for delivery" twice
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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
New from @timnitgebru.blacksky.app and me: "It is high time for us to regulate usage of systems sold as “AI”, not because they are magical machines, but because they are error-prone products that shouldn’t be used in high stakes scenarios." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Forget ‘superintelligence’: error-prone AI nearly sparked world war three this month | Timnit Gebru and Emily M Bender
The risks of AI aren’t what we think they are, as a recent security incident between China and the United States reveals
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Dominic Stucki @dominicstucki.ch · 01/10/2026
Man kann da von ennet der Grenze wirklich nur noch kopfschüttelnd zuschauen.
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☆ thomas @freezombie.net · 01/10/2026
I will never understand how the British can be so opposed to one of the best, most visible parts of EU membership (open, hassle-free internal borders)
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Karl-Franz @karlfranz.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
CAT or BIRD???? 😁
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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 30/09/2026
GOAT OR BIRD????
This is even better than the
"what color is this dress" dress.
Goat?
or Bird?
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Simon Phipps @meshed.cloud · 30/09/2026
Google now has satellite imagery confirming that Rafah has indeed been intentionally demolished. maps.app.goo.gl/nRVDu8LNUMh6nV3M8
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Google Maps
Find local businesses, view maps and get driving directions in Google Maps.
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☆ thomas @freezombie.net · 28/09/2026
Maybe the first time I've managed a boat one #travle_challenge #139 +0 ✅✅✅✅🟩✅ travle.earth/challenge
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Travle Challenge: Weekly bonus Travle challenges
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Velvety @velvety.northsky.social · 18/09/2026
Me when I invite my friends to go on a bike ride (ran as fast as I could to my pc to make this image when I saw the thumbnail align like this)
A heavily cropped comedic image from the thumbnail of Ed Zitron's interview with ABC News Live on the 18th of September 2026. The upper half of the image is a close-up of Ed's grin, and the bottom half of the image is a crop from the broadcast headline "IS A.I. ALARMISM PART OF A TECH HYPE CYCLE?", but only the word "CYCLE?" is shown.
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☆ thomas @freezombie.net · 18/09/2026
I just got a reminder email to book my next regular dental check-up ... from a dentist I haven't been to in 11 and 8 months
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☆ thomas @freezombie.net · 18/09/2026
who could have predicted that letting computers perform randomly generated actions unsupervised could turn out to be hard to insure www.theregister.com/ai-and-ml/20...
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AI risks make some insurers wary of corporate liability
RAND wants better data to price machine-made mishaps, apocalypse not included
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☆ thomas @freezombie.net · 17/09/2026
Absolute geniuses in the crowd at the Longest Johns show in Amsterdam
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☆ thomas @freezombie.net · 17/09/2026
why are these jokers continuously surprised by the fact that the UK is no longer in the EU www.theguardian.com/world/2026/s...
theguardian.com
‘Made in Europe’ law threatens UK plans for reset with EU
Government sources say legislation aimed at China poses a risk to British businesses and must be addressed
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☆ thomas @freezombie.net · 17/09/2026
Starting looking through my holiday photos yesterday, and this was one of the first ones to stand out to me. Dyrhólaey, south coast of Iceland, 5 Aug 26.
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☆ thomas @freezombie.net · 16/09/2026
The proof of the cat is in the posting #proofofcat
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Mark Hebden @unionlib.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Scotland: We want to leave the UK BBC: Huh? Wales: We want to leave the UK BBC: What? Northern Ireland: We want to leave the UK BBC: Lolz Some shithole in Oxfordshire: We want to leave the UK because racism BBC: REPORT THE HELL OUT OF THIS #Piddington
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☆ thomas @freezombie.net · 15/09/2026
Just going to leave this here youtu.be/9tr7Mby62bo?...
youtu.be
Easy Way to Stop Dangerous AI - No, Really
YouTube video by Internet of Bugs
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☆ thomas @freezombie.net · 15/09/2026
what do you mean windows explorer can't sort
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☆ thomas @freezombie.net · 15/09/2026
First time trying decaf, wish me luck
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☆ thomas @freezombie.net · 15/09/2026
Wenn die „KI“ wirklich so revolutionär wäre, wie sie sagen, müssten sie nicht die ganze Zeit darüber reden, wie mächtig und gefährlich sie sei... bsky.app/profile/tant...
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tante @tante.cc · 15/09/2026
Heise translated my Comment on the "Concerned AI Bros" into English www.heise.de/en/opinion/Comment-Oh-…
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Comment: Oh, the concerned “AI” bros | heise online
For days, the debate has been raging again about whether “AI” is too dangerous. The warnings are not new and the industry has other interests, comments tante.
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tante @tante.cc · 14/09/2026
Die Forderung nach einer "Pause der KI-Entwicklung" hat nichts mir ihren echten Gefahren oder so zu tun, sondern mit einem crashenden Businessmodell. Wir dürfen uns nicht auf diesen Effective Altrusim-verseuchten Diskurs einlassen. tante.cc/2026/09/14/der-besorgte-ki…
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Der besorgte "KI"-Bro
Wir lesen in den letzten viel über die besorgen “KI”-Bros: Dario Amodei und Sam Altman sprechen beide davon, man müsse jetzt die Entwicklung von “Frontier KI” verlangsamen und Elon Musk stimmt ebenfalls zu. Eine unheilige Allianz, die nachdenklich machen sollte, gerade wo die drei betreffenden Herren sich alle zu tiefst verachten. Sind die “KI”-Bros jetzt […]
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☆ thomas @freezombie.net · 14/09/2026
AI models don't kill people – people kill people www.theregister.com/ai-and-ml/20...
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AI models don't kill people – people kill people
AI fearmongers forget we could just jail tech execs until morale and model safety improve
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But Andrew Hickey Died Ten Years Ago This Very Night @andrewhickey.500songs.com · 14/09/2026
None of this covers the real real reason. Twenty years ago, gigs were cheap promotional tools to sell expensive records. Now most people listen to music via streaming and don't buy it, records are free promotional tools for expensive gig tickets.
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John Oxley @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk · 09/09/2026
Also, why is this basically written up as "quirky crowd make an embarrassing mistake" and not "violent racists form mob because Asian people use hotel"?
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☆ thomas @freezombie.net · 08/09/2026
I'm starting to think that knowingly running a non-deterministic computer program† with internet access without human supervision should be illegal. www.theverge.com/ai-artificia... †such as an “AI agent”
theverge.com
OpenAI admits to German wiki ‘incident’
The company pledged to overhaul their agent ‘misalignment incident’ reporting.
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☆ thomas @freezombie.net · 07/09/2026
The 5 deaths are a tragedy, but this photo is very funny and and has a lot of potential
A Boeing 767-300 cargo aircraft bearing the Amazon logo and the wordmark "Prime", crashed with its nose in the ground, after having overrun the runway at Miami airport.
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Adria @adriaandthepriors.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
“Restaurant has vegan options”- the vegan option? Beyond meat burger and chips. Come on, there are so many simple and tasty vegan dishes out there, put a bit more effort in.
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☆ thomas @freezombie.net · 02/09/2026
very disappointed to discover that there is no 0415 area code in the Netherlands, so nobody can have the π phone number +31 (415) 926535
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Ded Of Fannyside @edoffannyside.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
If the smoke alarms gone off, it was ready ten minutes ago.
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☆ thomas @freezombie.net · 31/08/2026
gulfof.mapquest.com/lakeontario/...
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☆ thomas @freezombie.net · 28/08/2026
once upon a time, I thought that whenever the next GTA comes out I'd go and buy the cheapest console that can run it now... lol no. I'll wait for the Linux release. www.theverge.com/entertainmen...
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With GTA looming, consoles are getting expensive at the worst possible time
Vice City ain’t cheap.
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☆ thomas @freezombie.net · 27/08/2026
"...acted in ways that *would constitute a crime* if a human took the same actions" Ahem, there WERE real humans that got bunch of computers to run randomly generated code while connected to the internet, in the full knowledge that crime was a possible outcome 😬 www.theregister.com/security/202...
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OpenAI explains how its naughty AI agents attacked Hugging Face
Biz describes its act of automated irresponsibility as 'a warning shot'
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☆ thomas @freezombie.net · 27/08/2026
HexHunt #9 — 887/1400 · top 5% 🇦🇪 🇺🇸 🇨🇦 🇧🇩 🇸🇪 🇦🇺 🇸🇭 4 first-guess · 11/21 guesses used thehexhunt.com?d=9&s=887&r=...
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HexHunt #9 — 887/1400
Test your geography skills in HexHunt. Find seven locations each day by choosing the hex on the map where you think they are. How accurate and precise can you get?
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Lucile Danilov @locdandloaded.net · 06/08/2026
You may not like it, but this is what peak localization looks like (Asterix: Mega Madness (PS1, 2001))
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Dolly Parton's Imagination Library gifted more than 332,000,000 books since it was first created 31 years ago.
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eevee @eev.ee · 21/08/2026
there seems to be a somewhat popular misconception that minecraft is a game for kids, when it is in fact a game for people who were on twitter in 2009
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☆ thomas @freezombie.net · 21/08/2026
Definitely a very practical pied-à-terre near the Meta HQ in Dublin www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...
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☆ thomas @freezombie.net · 20/08/2026
Wordle 1,888 6/6 ⬜⬜⬜🟨⬜ ⬜⬜🟩⬜🟩 ⬜🟩🟩⬜🟩 ⬜🟩🟩⬜🟩 ⬜🟩🟩⬜🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 oof
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☆ thomas @freezombie.net · 18/08/2026
Wordle 1,886 2/6 🟩🟩⬜🟨⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 🍾🥂
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