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Rod Jones @rodshelf.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

Fox sitting on top of a Yorkshire dry stone wall

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Maya Posch @hackkitten.bsky.social · 9h

You do you, but I just clean the bearings in my trackballs and leave that poor ball alone :)

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Maya Posch @hackkitten.bsky.social · 18h

This is all part of that 'booming demand' for Super Idiocy (formerly known as artificial idiocy). So glad RAM and storage prices are 4x of last year so that we can get scammed even better even as the Internet dies in agony. www.youtube.com/watch?v=0-Tp...

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Jean Phil Is An AI Crypto Scam

YouTube video by Lessons in Meme Culture

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Wolf Conservation Center 🐺 @nywolforg.bsky.social · 19h

It's officially pumpkin season, which happens to be a special treat for our ambassador wolves this time of year! 🎃🐺 Although wolves are classified as carnivores, they can sometimes have an omnivorous diet. Along with meat and eggs, wolves may also enjoy fruits like pumpkins. #wolffact

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Maya Posch @hackkitten.bsky.social · 20h

Would be funny if they decided to take some potshots using FP-9 at this point just to dial in that CEP and speed up 'final development' :)

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Maya Posch @hackkitten.bsky.social · 22h

First time that the anti-TBM capabilities of the S-300 and S-400 get tested in combat, it's going to be exciting :)

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Maya Posch @hackkitten.bsky.social · 22h

While the introduction of street lights probably made some people nervous, it really is no comparison to the surveillance state that we have been building around us the past decades. Of course all in the name of 'safety', while offering none. www.youtube.com/watch?v=XmT4...

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How Companies Use Design to Spy on You

YouTube video by Design Theory

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purr.in.ink @purrinink.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

🐾🐾🐾🤍..

A cosy illustration of a fluffy black cat stretched out asleep on a wooden wall shelf, beside three books and a trailing potted plant. The background is a softly textured blend of muted green and warm golden tones. White handwritten text above reads: “It’s nice to leave a little room in the day for nothing in particular.”

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Maya Posch @hackkitten.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

It's kinda crazy how we went from 'yup, removed that ball, all fixed now' with the move to optical mice, yet somehow that little spinning mechanical detail got ignored. *laughs in ballsy trackball for double the cleaning fun*

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Maya Posch @hackkitten.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Sounds normal to a malignant narcissist, probably. In their mind people praising them is the normal state of the world, anything else is abnormal. Ergo justifying these name changes and monuments, helped by the gaggles of sycophants happily bobbing along.

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Maya Posch @hackkitten.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Yeah, that's my understanding too. Just the little niggle that the current imbalance on the GPU side can start after said PSU-side connector starts melting. Cause-and-effect conundrum, etc. Some PSUs now monitor per-wire too for those shite connectors, but yeah. Easier to use an adapter.

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Maya Posch @hackkitten.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Best to use a multiple PCIe 8-pins to melty connector adapter. Those seem to be safe-ish. Worst case you lose the connector and not the PSU.

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Maya Posch @hackkitten.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I have seen the native 12VHPWR connector on the PSU begin to melt first, followed by the one on the GPU side as the number of active conductors dropped. Theoretically Wireview Pro II will protect against that, but not sure that'll be before the connector melts into the PSU...

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Maya Posch @hackkitten.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Indeed. For some reason USB-C with USB-PD has created a situation that's somehow worse than that of using barrel jack connectors. There they labelled the heck out of things and everything still made some sense...

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Maya Posch @hackkitten.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

From what I have seen those things are pretty much the only protection for those faulty 12VHPWR connectors. Adding temperature sensors to just the GPU side is dumb and too slow. Need to measure the currents on this 1.1x safety margin design directly for any level of safely...

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George The Station Cat @george-station-cat.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Well… The FC and I have just had a bit of a moment. 🥹🧡 After all the writing, photos, checking and pawing over every little detail… MY BOOK IS ACTUALLY LIVE ON AMAZON! 🐈📚 Just George: The Autopawography of a Station Cat 📚 amzn.eu/d/0dpaMVO7

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Maya Posch @hackkitten.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Funny thing about those e-marked cables is that they're kinda mandatory for USB-PD, as otherwise nobody knows whether you can safely send 48V at 5A or so down a dinky little cable that can barely handle 12V at 1A. USB-PD is just another terrible idea...

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Maya Posch @hackkitten.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

That's why they introduced those e-markers for USB-C to -C cables, to theoretically encode those details in a little chip inside said cable. I got something that can read it out now, but most cables aren't e-marked, so... YOLO, I guess? *whips out the permanent marker & label printer*

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Maya Posch @hackkitten.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Yeah, I meant chattel slavery :) Though it's easy enough to confuse the two, I guess.

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Maya Posch @hackkitten.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Hot take: USB-C cables and jacks should feature mandatory labelling of WTAF they are capable of. Getting so sick of keeping track of this myself and having to test & label random USB-C to USB-C cables. USB 3 with lovely USB-A & USB-B ought to be enough for anyone anyway. USB-A to -C too, maybe.

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Maya Posch @hackkitten.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Yeah, that latter point is effectively the main difference. There's a point to be made that especially with 'for profit' US prisons having such a large prisoner population, it's essentially how cattle slavery remains legal. An inhumane approach to capital punishment is then just par for the course.

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Maya Posch @hackkitten.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

When studies have also made clear that the whole 'deterrence' effect is basically zero, and we're not doing public executions any more anyway, then it's just some ghouls watching a person die after decades of torture at the hands of a dysfunctional justice system.

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Maya Posch @hackkitten.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

When you kill someone after decades of imprisonment that just feels wrong. I don't even see how that provides more 'closure' than a life sentence or X years of prison. Maybe I'm too European, but this whole capital punishment bloodlust makes zero sense to me.

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Maya Posch @hackkitten.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Basically how Super Idiocy (SI, formerly Artificial Idiocy) can definitely wipe out all of humanity. www.youtube.com/watch?v=QEK7...

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AI Hallucination Nearly Caused US-China War

YouTube video by Siliconversations

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Maya Posch @hackkitten.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Welcome to the new normal. This is the 'good old time' of the 1950s when measles and more would ravage the populace every year.

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Maya Posch @hackkitten.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

In TNG they used it on occasion for a fancy Holodeck scene where they reconstructed a scene or such, but even that was very awkward, with massive shortcuts taken. You wouldn't 3D model by telling the computer what to do, you'd use the bleedin' CAD package with keyboard & mouse.

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Semafor @semafor.com · 30/09/2026

Visitors to the US are on track to drop by almost two million year-on-year. “We’re the only major country in the world losing visitation,” the head of the US Travel Association said. “It’s mind-boggling.” www.semafor.com/article/09/2...

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Maya Posch @hackkitten.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Furry rights are human rights~

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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

The smallest bat in North America is the canyon bat (Parastrellus hesperus), also called the western pipistrelle or American parastrelle. They weigh about 3–6 grams, the weight of a US penny, sheet of paper, or teaspoon of sugar. In flight, they're sometimes confused for moths or butterflies.

A tiny smoke-grey furry bat with darker face, ears and wings. The big story is the tiny size. The entire bat fits on a portion of a human's thumb, a tee-weeny tiny little guy.

This is a viral photo that's circulated for years, but I found it on r/BatFacts posted by u/Pardusco.

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David Simon @audacityofdespair.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

This is just state barbarism. Nothing less.

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Wolf Conservation Center 🐺 @nywolforg.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife has authorized the lethal removal of additional wolves from the Couse Pack territory, days after an adult male from the pack was killed. 📣Take action: Email WDFW Director Kelly Susewind and the WDFW Commissioners and urge them to protect the Couse Pack.

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Maya Posch @hackkitten.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Yeah, Adam of Mythbuster fame was always the one who pioneered getting injured in highly educational ways. This one involved gasoline vapours in an closed-off space, I believe. But as he also said: 'it's not screwing around if you write it down.' In that case it's science :)

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Maya Posch @hackkitten.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

There's a certain level of design tolerance in those vertical stabilisers, but I don't think that 'exceeding Mach 1' was within that range. Was slightly shocking to see that the main vertical stabiliser was ripped off.

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Maya Posch @hackkitten.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Sneaky Mythbusters 'burnt eyebrows' reference in there, if I'm not mistaken :)

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David Revoy @davidrevoy.com · 30/09/2026

Meat Proxies Bonus speedpaint: www.peppercarrot.com/en/miniFanta... #webcomic #krita #miniFantasyTheater

Panel 1. Cepper, a Gothic sorceress, walks toward the "Faculty of Fire Magic" (the label is framed on the door). Beyond the door, we see scholars writing grimoires with AI parrots nearby. Signs on the faculty wall read: "Fireballs must be kept at a safe academic distance." and "The Faculty is NOT responsible for burnt eyebrows."
> Cepper: "The Ring of Fire spell... I need it."
> Cepper: "So let's ask someone who knows it, the good old human way."

Panel 2. Cepper is now inside the faculty. She adopts a friendly pose and politely approaches a sorceress scholar halfing fox, red hair, she looks visibly bored or emotionally exhausted. Her AI Parrot writes in a grimoire for her; she barely glances at it.
> Cepper: "Hey, would you happen to know how to cast a Ring of Fire spell? "

Panel 3. The scholar doesn't bother responding herself: she simply asks her AI Parrot.
> Scholar: "Avian Intelligence, tell me how to cast a Ring of Fire spell."
> AI Parrot: "Absolutely! PyroCircus."
* Inserted panel, she repeats the Parrot's words word-for-word while Cepper barely contains her frustration in the background.
> Scholar: "Absolutely. PyroCircus."

Panel 4. Cepper, is intrigued but asks seriously while the scholar maintains her dead-inside expression.
> Cepper: "Wait, you're simply just an AI meat proxy now, aren't you?"
> Scholar: "Avian Intelligence, tell me how to reply to that."

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Maya Posch @hackkitten.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Referring to EBITDA as 'Earnings Before Bad Things' (EBBT) is so my thing.

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Maya Posch @hackkitten.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

After spending a fun few hours hunting down a Fastboot mode USB driver for a Xiaomi phone in order to install LineageOS, I'm more convinced than ever that smartphones in their current iteration should burn in hell. Open bootloaders and freedom of OS, or GTFO. *flips all the tables*

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Maya Posch @hackkitten.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

It's crazy how professional sports has become just another tax write-off for billionaires. No wonder I checked out of football at some point... www.youtube.com/watch?v=gcvp...

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How Sports Predicted "The Everything Bubble"

YouTube video by How Money Works

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World Nuclear News @worldnuclearnews.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

First construction permit issued for BWRX-300 SMR in the US - the Nuclear Regulatory Commission has issued the permit for Tennessee Valley Authority's planned GE Vernova Hitachi BWRX‑300 small modular reactor at the Clinch River site. www.world-nuclear-news.org/articles/fir...

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First construction permit issued for BWRX-300 SMR in the US

The US Nuclear Regulatory Commission has issued a construction permit for the Tennessee Valley Authority's planned GE Vernova Hitachi BWRX‑300 small modular reactor at the Clinch River site. &nbs...

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Matt Steinglass @mattsteinglass.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

A very FFS Wednesday morning to you too

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