☆ thomas @freezombie.net · 15hThe thing is I don't think executing people behind closed doors is actually significantly less barbaric than executing them in public 000
☆ thomas @freezombie.net · 08/10/2026the first photo out of my camera didn't even turn out terrible 010
☆ thomas @freezombie.net · 08/10/2026Finished 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! 📚💙 110
Reposted by ☆ thomasEmily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Software 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). 141035322
Reposted by ☆ thomasbryan newbold @bnewbold.net · 07/10/2026ah damn, RIP Margaret Hamilton. she took safety-critical software engineering seriously, and got people to the moon and back. news.mit.edu/2026/margare... 101142724696
Reposted by ☆ thomasSpelling Mistakes Cost Lives @darrencullen.bsky.social · 06/10/2026The 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 971280242
☆ thomas @freezombie.net · 06/10/2026advance warning - I recently bought a photo camera so I'm at risk of becoming insufferable in a new and interesting way 340
☆ thomas @freezombie.net · 03/10/2026How does this thing look so much like a rhino 📍Hvítserkur, Iceland, 10/8/2026 020
Reposted by ☆ thomasNDR @ndr.de · 01/10/2026Bahnstrecke Leer-Groningen: "Wunderline" nimmt Betrieb aufndr.deBahnstrecke Leer-Groningen: "Wunderline" nimmt Betrieb aufAb Montag können Reisende die Verbindung nutzen. Zur Bahnstrecke gehört auch die vor elf Jahren beschädigte Friesenbrücke.[mehr] 022
☆ thomas @freezombie.net · 02/10/2026DHL 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 100
Reposted by ☆ thomasEmily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 01/10/2026New 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...theguardian.comForget ‘superintelligence’: error-prone AI nearly sparked world war three this month | Timnit Gebru and Emily M BenderThe risks of AI aren’t what we think they are, as a recent security incident between China and the United States reveals 13972416
Reposted by ☆ thomasDominic Stucki @dominicstucki.ch · 01/10/2026Man kann da von ennet der Grenze wirklich nur noch kopfschüttelnd zuschauen. 192
☆ thomas @freezombie.net · 01/10/2026I 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) 100
Reposted by ☆ thomasSimon Phipps @meshed.cloud · 30/09/2026Google now has satellite imagery confirming that Rafah has indeed been intentionally demolished. maps.app.goo.gl/nRVDu8LNUMh6nV3M8google.comGoogle MapsFind local businesses, view maps and get driving directions in Google Maps. 004
☆ thomas @freezombie.net · 28/09/2026Maybe the first time I've managed a boat one #travle_challenge #139 +0 ✅✅✅✅🟩✅ travle.earth/challengetravle.earthtravle_challengeTravle Challenge: Weekly bonus Travle challenges 000
Reposted by ☆ thomasVelvety @velvety.northsky.social · 18/09/2026Me 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) 226619
☆ thomas @freezombie.net · 18/09/2026I 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 100
☆ thomas @freezombie.net · 18/09/2026who 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...theregister.comAI risks make some insurers wary of corporate liabilityRAND wants better data to price machine-made mishaps, apocalypse not included 000
☆ thomas @freezombie.net · 17/09/2026Absolute geniuses in the crowd at the Longest Johns show in Amsterdam 010
☆ thomas @freezombie.net · 17/09/2026why 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 EUGovernment sources say legislation aimed at China poses a risk to British businesses and must be addressed 000
☆ thomas @freezombie.net · 17/09/2026Starting 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. 000
Reposted by ☆ thomasMark Hebden @unionlib.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Scotland: 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 7233431000
☆ thomas @freezombie.net · 15/09/2026Just going to leave this here youtu.be/9tr7Mby62bo?...youtu.beEasy Way to Stop Dangerous AI - No, ReallyYouTube video by Internet of Bugs 000
☆ thomas @freezombie.net · 15/09/2026Wenn 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... 010
Reposted by ☆ thomastante @tante.cc · 15/09/2026Heise translated my Comment on the "Concerned AI Bros" into English www.heise.de/en/opinion/Comment-Oh-…heise.de 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. 17226
Reposted by ☆ thomastante @tante.cc · 14/09/2026Die 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…tante.ccDer besorgte "KI"-BroWir 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 […] 14422163
☆ thomas @freezombie.net · 14/09/2026AI models don't kill people – people kill people www.theregister.com/ai-and-ml/20...theregister.comAI models don't kill people – people kill peopleAI fearmongers forget we could just jail tech execs until morale and model safety improve 000
Reposted by ☆ thomasBut Andrew Hickey Died Ten Years Ago This Very Night @andrewhickey.500songs.com · 14/09/2026None 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. 41300299
Reposted by ☆ thomasJohn Oxley @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk · 09/09/2026Also, why is this basically written up as "quirky crowd make an embarrassing mistake" and not "violent racists form mob because Asian people use hotel"? 5133641130
☆ thomas @freezombie.net · 08/09/2026I'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.comOpenAI admits to German wiki ‘incident’The company pledged to overhaul their agent ‘misalignment incident’ reporting. 010
☆ thomas @freezombie.net · 07/09/2026The 5 deaths are a tragedy, but this photo is very funny and and has a lot of potential 000
Reposted by ☆ thomasAdria @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. 6272
☆ thomas @freezombie.net · 02/09/2026very disappointed to discover that there is no 0415 area code in the Netherlands, so nobody can have the π phone number +31 (415) 926535 020
Reposted by ☆ thomasDed Of Fannyside @edoffannyside.bsky.social · 31/08/2026If the smoke alarms gone off, it was ready ten minutes ago. 091
☆ thomas @freezombie.net · 28/08/2026once 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...theverge.comWith GTA looming, consoles are getting expensive at the worst possible timeVice City ain’t cheap. 000
☆ 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...theregister.comOpenAI explains how its naughty AI agents attacked Hugging FaceBiz describes its act of automated irresponsibility as 'a warning shot' 000
☆ thomas @freezombie.net · 27/08/2026HexHunt #9 — 887/1400 · top 5% 🇦🇪 🇺🇸 🇨🇦 🇧🇩 🇸🇪 🇦🇺 🇸🇭 4 first-guess · 11/21 guesses used thehexhunt.com?d=9&s=887&r=...thehexhunt.comHexHunt #9 — 887/1400Test 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? 000
Reposted by ☆ thomasLucile Danilov @locdandloaded.net · 06/08/2026You may not like it, but this is what peak localization looks like (Asterix: Mega Madness (PS1, 2001)) 7383882967
Reposted by ☆ thomasKyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 25/08/2026Dolly Parton's Imagination Library gifted more than 332,000,000 books since it was first created 31 years ago. 219239405927
Reposted by ☆ thomaseevee @eev.ee · 21/08/2026there 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 1026320
☆ thomas @freezombie.net · 21/08/2026Definitely a very practical pied-à-terre near the Meta HQ in Dublin www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a... 000