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Frank Sonderborg

@FSonder.mastodon.ie.ap.brid.gy

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A North Sider. A story teller living in an absurd world. A narrator, teller of tales, spinner of yarns. Frank Sonderborg was born in Ireland, lives in the UK, and […] 🌉 bridged from ⁂ mastodon.ie/@FSonder, follow @ap.brid.gy to interact

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Frank Sonderborg @fsonder.mastodon.ie.ap.brid.gy · 1h

To sustain the valuation of these stocks — let alone continue growing — will require every company involved to either spend or make hundreds of billions of dollars in perpetuity, increasing every single quarter, without fail. This will come from either selling ever-increasing amounts of AI chips […]

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Frank Sonderborg @fsonder.mastodon.ie.ap.brid.gy · 8h

To Infinity and Beyond..... Trust!!!!???? www.esecurityplanet.com/threats/new…

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BeyondTrust Zero-Day Exploited by China-Linked Hackers

Google says China-linked hackers exploited a critical BeyondTrust zero-day. See affected versions, patch guidance, and what defenders should check now.

Frank Sonderborg @fsonder.mastodon.ie.ap.brid.gy · 19/10/2026

What a fabulous writer she is;+) www.theguardian.com/books/2026/oct/…

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‘Is there any value in writing a story in a time of chaos?’: novelist Elif Shafak on her creative crisis

The Turkish writer talks about her nomadic childhood, being targeted by the Turkish government and overcoming depression to write her latest novel

Frank Sonderborg @fsonder.mastodon.ie.ap.brid.gy · 19/10/2026

Does Pavlov's stick ring a bell?

Image has a dog publisher talking to a dog author about the dog author's new book.
The dog publisher is saying:
"If you introduce a stick in act one, somebody needs to throw it."

Frank Sonderborg @fsonder.mastodon.ie.ap.brid.gy · 19/10/2026

Yep. Got it in one;+)

ARE YOU LONELY?

TIRED OF WORKING ON YOUR OWN?

DO YOU HATE MAKING DECISIONS?

HOLD A MEETING!!!

YOU CAN...

SEE People

DRAW Org charts

FEEL Important

IMPRESS Your Colleagues

EAT Donuts

ALL ON COMPANY TIME!

MEETINGS

...The Practical Alternative to Work!

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 19/10/2026

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Frank Sonderborg @fsonder.mastodon.ie.ap.brid.gy · 19/10/2026

It's hard to imagine an ordinary person inflicting extreme harm on a fellow human being. Most people are convinced they themselves would not do so, and that they would resist in a Milgram-type experiment. Even psychologists who research this behaviour can still find it startling when it happens […]

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Frank Sonderborg @fsonder.mastodon.ie.ap.brid.gy · 18/10/2026

Figure out why you want to write. “Having something to say is “What am I saying here?” “It doesn’t have to be profound,” he says. “It might be showing your unique perspective on a topic that’s been covered.” Research. “Some kind of research is where I start,” says Moore. This is more than […]

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Frank Sonderborg @fsonder.mastodon.ie.ap.brid.gy · 17/10/2026

A fishy story;+)

Q: My child will not eat fish, what can I replace it with?

A: A cat. Cats love fish.

Frank Sonderborg @fsonder.mastodon.ie.ap.brid.gy · 17/10/2026

When you think of wormholes, you probably think first of science fiction – jump gates, hyperspace, tunnels through the cosmic backrooms that provide a shortcut from one region to another. But, like many of the ideas presented in Star Trek and The Expanse, wormholes are firmly rooted in real […]

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Frank Sonderborg @fsonder.mastodon.ie.ap.brid.gy · 17/10/2026

This remarkable species represents a new fungal family, Dianjunaceae, and provides a rare window into the evolution of extreme fungal body forms,” Indunil C. Senanayake, a study co-author and mycologist at the Germplasm Bank of Wild Species of the Kunming Institute of Botany in China, said in a […]

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Frank Sonderborg @fsonder.mastodon.ie.ap.brid.gy · 16/10/2026

I'll pass on this;+)

Dilbert cartoon with the pointy headed boss saying to Dilbert and his two colleagues:

"AND STARTING TODAY, ALL PASSWORDS MUST CONTAIN LETTERS, NUMBERS, DOODLES, SIGN LANGUAGE AND SQUIRREL NOISES."

Frank Sonderborg @fsonder.mastodon.ie.ap.brid.gy · 15/10/2026

And the darkest hour is just before dawn;+O www.thebrighterside.news/post/einst…

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Einstein was right: Darkness can travel faster than light without breaking relativity

Electron microscopy tracks dark wave singularities moving faster than light, without carrying energy or information at that speed.

Frank Sonderborg @fsonder.mastodon.ie.ap.brid.gy · 15/10/2026

Irish Stars in Space;+) White dwarfs form when stars like the sun exhaust their fuel and shed their outer layers, leaving behind extremely dense cores. Their atmospheres can become so compressed that the surrounding gases change how elements absorb light. One particularly unusual example is WD […]

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Frank Sonderborg @fsonder.mastodon.ie.ap.brid.gy · 15/10/2026

Nvidia is taking an undisclosed minority stake in five UK companies: molecular model tool startup Boltz, predictive infrastructure project platform Foresight, automated discovery platform Hiverge, quantum error correction startup Riverlane and biological foundation model maker Prima Mente […]

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Frank Sonderborg @fsonder.mastodon.ie.ap.brid.gy · 13/10/2026

It did not name Funen-based Pays ApS as the company in question, but managing director Sophie Laursen confirmed on October 9 that it's access had been exploited. Pays' website has been taken offline, and the business has not responded to The Register's request for more information about the […]

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Frank Sonderborg @fsonder.mastodon.ie.ap.brid.gy · 13/10/2026

There is absolutely no value in using “annualized run rates” for anyone other than the company and its investors, and the fact that modern tech and business journalism continues to accept it for what are meant to be the largest and most-important companies in the world is a sign that something […]

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Frank Sonderborg @fsonder.mastodon.ie.ap.brid.gy · 13/10/2026

But immigration agents are still shooting people. And with enforcement operations across the US gaining momentum, and immigration arrests at a record high, voters are continuing to see a supercharged ICE at work. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/oc…

Frank Sonderborg @fsonder.mastodon.ie.ap.brid.gy · 12/10/2026

Other major food retailers including Carrefour, Monoprix and E.Leclerc were also hit by the attack, which targeted software provided by Danish engineering firm Danfoss. The software allows retailers to manage their cold units remotely. www.bbc.com/news/articles/crq5nzxv9…

Fridges in French supermarkets hit by cyber attack

Hundreds of stores were targeted by the overnight hack, which spoiled fresh and frozen food estimated to be worth millions of euros.

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Stephen J. Anderson @utterfiction.mastodon.me.uk.ap.brid.gy · 12/10/2026

@FSonder Reminds me of this theory, that true quantum weirdness only applies to particles in isolation, and that entanglements from interactions lock everything in place - the more entanglements exist, the more classically the system as a whole behaves (up to a saturation point) […]

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Frank Sonderborg @fsonder.mastodon.ie.ap.brid.gy · 12/10/2026

@jetsoft I lean towards the Stargate term, The Ancients. Or was it the Annunnaki? Did they make it to the UK? The "Founders" Narrative: These fringe theories claim that the Anunnaki came to Earth hundreds of thousands of years ago to mine gold, genetically engineered Homo sapiens to serve as a […]

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Frank Sonderborg @fsonder.mastodon.ie.ap.brid.gy · 12/10/2026

The UK government has said it will legislate against non-compete clauses as it looks to reform rules that the country’s founders say hold back growth and keep top researchers out of the labour market: Source Sifted Daily. Startups will no longer need to budget for lengthy buyout negotiations or […]

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Frank Sonderborg @fsonder.mastodon.ie.ap.brid.gy · 11/10/2026

Consciousness doesn’t bend reality. Interactions do. Any kind of interaction. A photon hitting sunglasses, an electron colliding with an atom, and light entering your eye are all definite events that will happen whether or not a human is paying attention […]

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Frank Sonderborg @fsonder.mastodon.ie.ap.brid.gy · 11/10/2026

Over long periods of time, this leads to many maladies, including osteopenia — severe bone density loss (at the rate of 1.5% per month) — and the atrophy of the body’s muscles at a much faster rate, losing 10-20% of their lean muscle mass within weeks. Very few long-term astronauts are capable […]

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Frank Sonderborg @fsonder.mastodon.ie.ap.brid.gy · 11/10/2026

Sherlock Gnomes? In short, Sherlock Gnomes is a little ai agent, that brings a touch of magic and whimsy to outdoor police investigations;+) www.bbc.com/news/articles/cqkg50j1y…

Frank Sonderborg @fsonder.mastodon.ie.ap.brid.gy · 10/10/2026

I will not cease from Mental Fight, Nor shall my Sword sleep in my hand: Till we have built Jerusalem, In England's green & pleasant Land. This green and pleasant land www.theguardian.com/news/2026/oct/1…

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How a South African billionaire is turning a corner of Somerset into ‘one man’s estate’

Koos Bekker’s Newt estate encompasses luxury hotels, pubs and high street business, with local concerns including flooding

Frank Sonderborg @fsonder.mastodon.ie.ap.brid.gy · 09/10/2026

What a strange story. Who needs fiction when you get true stories like this;+O www.theguardian.com/news/ng-interac…

Frank Sonderborg @fsonder.mastodon.ie.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2026

Earling Haaland is reported to be earning £900k a week. That would buy a lot of Dodgy Football Shirts;+( www.bbc.com/sport/football/articles…

Premier League football shirts made by workers on £1 an hour

A BBC Sport investigation traces official football shirt production to factories in Cambodia where workers are paid less than £1 an hour.

Frank Sonderborg @fsonder.mastodon.ie.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2026

Le Chonk”, the latest version of Mistral’s flagship foundational model, which the French AI champion released on Tuesday: Source, Sifted Daily: What is “Le Chonk” Official name: Mistral Large 4 Nickname: “Le Chonk” Size: about 1 trillion parameters Type: open-weight model — Mistral intends to […]

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Frank Sonderborg @fsonder.mastodon.ie.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2026

The largest portion of the performance hit from compressed memory isn't the compression; that's tiny. No, the largest hit apparently stems mostly from the fault itself and the swap behavior. So the thinking seems to have been "what if we just do zram, but completely in memory instead of as swap? […]

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juliette @juliette.mastodon.green.ap.brid.gy · 06/10/2026

Is there an 18-year old EU resident in your life? Send them this so they can have a chance to get a travel pass to explore the continent a bit: commission.europa.eu/news-and-media…

commission.europa.eu

Turning 18? Apply for a free DiscoverEU travel pass

The EU is offering DiscoverEU travel passes to 18-year-olds to explore Europe. The applications are open until 15 October 2026 midday Brussels time.

Frank Sonderborg @fsonder.mastodon.ie.ap.brid.gy · 07/10/2026

“I was so devalued as a person, as an artist,” she says. “To be a dark little South American woman, even in Latin America, is to be in a position of pain, disrespect and inappreciation.” Some have since been recreated from memory and photographs – not reconstruction, she says, but something […]

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Frank Sonderborg @fsonder.mastodon.ie.ap.brid.gy · 07/10/2026

A special effects axe wielded by Jack Nicholson as he delivered his chillingly manic line “Here’s Johnny!” in the 1980 horror movie The Shining is to go on sale. www.theguardian.com/film/2026/oct/0…

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Axe used by Jack Nicholson in The Shining for sale as part of Stanley Kubrick auction

Exclusive: Weapon is one of hundreds of items to be sold as part of the influential late director’s personal archive

Frank Sonderborg @fsonder.mastodon.ie.ap.brid.gy · 06/10/2026

And so when the ten-years dump, the base interest rate of almost everything increases, and some of the things that are becoming more expensive as a result are actively contributing to the problem. The US Government cannot afford to stop issuing debt, the wars in Iran and Ukraine aren’t going […]

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Frank Sonderborg @fsonder.mastodon.ie.ap.brid.gy · 05/10/2026

“This planetary material is very rich in an element called niobium,” said lead study author Jamie Williams, a doctoral student in the department of physics of the University of Warwick in England. “It’s the first time that this element is found in a white dwarf, and this implies that the […]

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Frank Sonderborg @fsonder.mastodon.ie.ap.brid.gy · 05/10/2026

The DiscoverEU programme gives 18-year-olds the chance to travel for free on environmentally friendly modes of transport, such as trains, for up to seven days within a period of no more than one month, between 1 March 2027 and 31 May 2028. Part of the Erasmus+ scheme, the programme aims to allow […]

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Frank Sonderborg @fsonder.mastodon.ie.ap.brid.gy · 05/10/2026

The first problem we have here is the audience. A pretty large portion of Linux systems today are virtual machines, containers ,and cloud instances that nobody sets up by hand. Servers are created using scripts, templates and orchestration tools, and an installer wizard that asks a person to […]

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Frank Sonderborg @fsonder.mastodon.ie.ap.brid.gy · 05/10/2026

The first problem we have here is the audience. A pretty large portion of Linux systems today are virtual machines, containers ,and cloud instances that nobody sets up by hand. Servers are created using scripts, templates and orchestration tools, and an installer wizard that asks a person to […]

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Frank Sonderborg @fsonder.mastodon.ie.ap.brid.gy · 05/10/2026

I worked with a great but very quiet worker, who got made redundant because nobody in the managers office could remember who Gustav was, when they made their redundancy list. I've since called this, The Gustav Syndrome. It is no guarantee that the excellent work you are doing is appreciated, or […]

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Tim Ward ⭐🇪🇺🔶 #FBPE @timwardcam.c.im.ap.brid.gy · 03/10/2026

@FSonder I have read a few self-published books, mostly because I've known the author and am interested in what they're going to say. The books have all been to a greater or lesser extent crap. This is particularly disappointing where the author clearly has something interesting to say but just […]

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Token Sane Person @tokensane.mastodon.me.uk.ap.brid.gy · 03/10/2026

@TimWardCam @FSonder The marketing is key. Not just because it gets your book in front of potential readers, but because it acts as an unforgeable signal that someone other than the author thinks that this book is saleable, and therefore probably worth reading.

Frank Sonderborg @fsonder.mastodon.ie.ap.brid.gy · 04/10/2026

The scale becomes clearer when you consider that the documentation is expected to exceed 100,000 pages. On crude math, that comes to roughly $840 per page, a figure that turns each sheet into something more valuable than a flagship smartphone. A single page costs more than an iPhone. Taken as a […]

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Frank Sonderborg @fsonder.mastodon.ie.ap.brid.gy · 04/10/2026

Crows are associated with death. This is because some crow species eat dead flesh, but in Ireland they are also linked to war goddesses and battlefields. There is the Morrígan, a war goddess who can transform into a crow. She is sometimes believed to have two sisters, Badb and Macha, who can […]

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Frank Sonderborg @fsonder.mastodon.ie.ap.brid.gy · 03/10/2026

The gang showed me their territory: the basement where they had their club, played music and kept a lot of their weapons, and the sidewalks where Savage Skulls tags appeared on walls, doors and trash cans. They also spent a lot of time on a nearby basketball court. They didn’t actually play […]

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Frank Sonderborg @fsonder.mastodon.ie.ap.brid.gy · 03/10/2026

@TimWardCam 10 Million self published books coming to a download near you. Who needs an editor. I can just use Ai;+)

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Tim Ward ⭐🇪🇺🔶 #FBPE @timwardcam.c.im.ap.brid.gy · 03/10/2026

@FSonder Well, these days writers have the option to self publish, if they don't want to use the editing and marketing services of a publisher.

Frank Sonderborg @fsonder.mastodon.ie.ap.brid.gy · 03/10/2026

@TimWardCam Writers feel so entitled!!

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Tim Ward ⭐🇪🇺🔶 #FBPE @timwardcam.c.im.ap.brid.gy · 03/10/2026

@FSonder Wouldn't worry about that last one - the final say on the title is with the publisher anyway, so you can blame them.

Frank Sonderborg @fsonder.mastodon.ie.ap.brid.gy · 03/10/2026

Are we write. So let's start;+)

Things that make writers anxious.

Not writing.
Writing.
People reading their stories.
People not reading their stories.
Editing.
Not editing.
Not having any good ideas.
Having too many ideas and not being able to decide which to write.
Having one really good idea and worrying they're not good enough to write it.
Not having time to write.
Having time to write.
No reviews.
999 good reviews and that one fucker who thought the title was too long.