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Geek, Linux user, open-source contributor and developer. Former security researcher & consultant turned data engineer. Itinerant tinkerer and knowledge junkie. Mostly at hachyderm.io/@ibboard ibboard.co.uk

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Lisa Tozzi @lisatozzi.bsky.social · 8h
“While federal laws very clearly prohibit government use of taxpayer dollars to fund purely political propaganda campaigns, the second Trump administration has exhibited a profound commitment to its unique legal philosophy: ‘What are you gonna do about it?’”
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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 6h
They quoted me in this New Yorker piece about AI today. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
“Let’s say there’s a world or time line I exist in where A.I. has been subject to regulation. It is ethical. It has no footprint environmentally,” the novelist Jeff VanderMeer, a prominent critic of A.I., told me over the phone. “With those guardrails in place, would I read an A.I. book? All I can say is no. And the reason is, in part, because I want to read something coming from a particular mind.” Using A.I., he said, “feels like a betrayal of the whole point of why you’re a writer.”
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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 21h
Riley Gaines, famous for turning her 5th place tie with transgender swimmer Lia Thomas into a far-right career agianst transgender people, has officially had her lawsuit against the NCAA thrown out by a judge today. The judge found no evidence for her claims. Subscribe to support our journalism.
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Riley Gaines' Title IX Lawsuit Against The NCAA Struck Down After Judge Finds "No Evidence" Of Funding Claims
Gaines’ attorneys argued her civil rights were violated because she competed against a transgender athlete.
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 21h
A thing I learned not too long ago is that when an LLM selects a token that leads it down an incorrect path (factually), it has no way to back up, or even know that it should back up, it's just on to the next likely bit. Literally every LLM is just posting their way through it. What an image.
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 22h
To be fair, the single most publicly-accessed example of "AI" in the world can't find its ass with a flashlight and it's right on top of the search listings, where the most accurate search result used to be. Every LLM suffers from token drift over time so it's only a question of WHEN they're wrong.
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Chris Lintott @chrislintott.bsky.social · 11h
Amazing how comments on how to think about AI resonate across fields. This is from drama/comedy but could equally be science: The barrier to access to doing astronomy isn’t technology or money (any more). It’s care. (& having the space to give that care and attention, of course) 🧪
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Helen Czerski @helenczerski.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I maybe don't mind us giving commands in natural language, but I don't think that an AI should ever be allowed to answer in a voice that emulates a human, because it's *not*, and it doesn't have the depth and the accountability that goes with a human. It's too seductive, and too easily misleading
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Micah @rincewind.run · 29/09/2026
the right spends an inordinate amount of time whining about the birth rate and while making our system more parent-friendly won’t actually change that - it turns out wealthy countries just have less kids - they could absolutely put real money behind their preferred lifestyle but they won’t
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Jon "The Warhammer Modeller" @warhammermodeller.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
It's Tuesday, it's time for a #RandomWhiteDwarfCover Issue 139. July 1991
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Wil Wheaton ❌👑 @wilwheaton.net · 29/09/2026
There are more actual humans subscribed to my blog posts than the stupid algorithm shows my posts to on Threads. If I have something to important to share, however brief, I'll say it here.
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friend computer can bite my shiny metal ass
When I do an interview, or I guest on a podcast, it never feels like it’s enough of a thing to post about it in my blog. It feels like the sort of thing I should just drop into Threads. The thing is, Threads suppresses the everlivingfuck out of almost...
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 27/09/2026
"Against this backdrop, the widespread assumption of the field that polarization is inherently detrimental warrants re-examination. ... In the current moment of rising extremism, not all polarization is equivalent nor undesirable."
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Josh Sawyer @jesawyer.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Player psychology re: die rolls and percentages truly drives me to the brink of madness. "lol"
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Alisha Grauso (She/Her) @alishagrauso.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
Our entire economy is being artificially propped up by astrology for men: AI, crypto, sports betting, and prediction markets. It's an economy shaped entirely by male insecurity and lack of impulse control, and we'll all pay the price.
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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 29/09/2026
So wild to me that the entire economy is propped up by companies who think living your best life is being a middle manager to a collection of bots.
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Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · 20h
Stretch your brain muscles with this bundle of programming-themed puzzle games! Pay what you want and benefit EFF, too. www.humblebundle.com/games/progr...
A vibrant promotional graphic features various programming-themed puzzle games, highlighting a bundle sale benefiting EFF.
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Dan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
How Burnham is going to try and balance proposals for a National Care Service, while supporting Mahmood's immigration policies is going to...interesting, and by "interesting" I mean fundamentally unworkable. It just cannot work with the hostile immigration policies being pushed.
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David Henig @davidheniguk.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Yes, this. Treating gig / lower paid service economy workers better however done is surely something government can practically do, but only once it accepts this as legitimate work bsky.app/profile/rmcu...
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Parody Nigel Farage @parodypm.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I must say I’m very disappointed in the police over their dealing with the RAF Fairford incident. By announcing that the suspects are British nationals, they have completely undermined the stream of made up bollocks from myself and every other right wing gobshite on Twitter.
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M a r c u s 🏳️‍🌈🇧🇧 @marcusjdl.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Remember when proven liar Keir Starmer got up and did his Island of Strangers speech and spoke of the “incalculable damage” migration had done to the country
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
We can spend our lives debating the justifications (I more or less have); but we are wasting our time. What we need is a massive clampdown on the influence of money over politics, including lobbying transparency, campaign finance reform, an end to the revolving door between politics and lobbying.
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Duncan Hothersall @dhothersall.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
If attendance at a major women's conference was down 80% due to a boycott fighting against trans *inclusion*, it would be all over the Times, Telegraph, Mail etc. This last weekend, attendance at a major women's conference was down 80% due to a boycott fighting against trans *exclusion*. Crickets.
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Tom Reagan’s Hat @rufustsuperfly.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
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Michael Warburton @michaelwarburton.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
“I don’t think being good at things is the point of doing them.” How an Archeologist changed KURT VONNEGUT’s life.
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Disappointed Optimist @disappoptimism.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Imagine you are participating a light bit of dogging in a quiet farmers field in the Cotswolds & the next thing happening is the President of America is claiming credit for catching you in the international news & there’s now a photo of you on every major news outlet in the world?
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Jon "The Warhammer Modeller" @warhammermodeller.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Today is Monday and this is a #RandomWhiteDwarfCover Issue 55. July 1984
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David Allsopp @doublehelix.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Missed this at the time (a few weeks ago) - small civilian jet accidentally landed at RAF Fairford! But article also tells of a massive C-17 making the reverse mistake and landing on a civilian runway 3 times shorter than the one they were meant to be using! theaviationist.com/2026/09/13/s...
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Security Alert at RAF Fairford After Civilian Jet Mistakenly Lands at U.S. Bomber Base
An odd incident unfolded on Sep. 12, 2026 when Cessna 560XLS+ D-CJMK operated by VistaJet landed at the U.S.-operated RAF Fairford instead of Cotswold
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Heather @uberheathen.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I assume dogging is when you stand on your bed and spin around 3 times before settling in for a nap
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Chris Limb @catmachine.com · 28/09/2026
This seems to reinforce their bigotries so they become resistant to being told they're being lied to no matter how obvious the evidence is that they're being lied to and exploited by the political grifters. In fact the more obvious it is, the more stubborn in their beliefs they become.
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Chris Limb @catmachine.com · 28/09/2026
People REALLY don’t like being told they’re wrong. What the far right have done is weaponise this and tell people that the feelings of bigotry that they’re secretly ashamed of are actually good. And if deployed cunningly this works on far more people than you'd think, which is exhausting.
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Huge bummer when you’re just innocently trying to join and promote a movement that hates Black people, immigrants, and Jews — but then you discover that they have a dark side. apple.news/A9g-feRPSTme...
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Shannon Vallor @shannonvallor.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
This thread is so important because it gets at the AI industry’s central failure of imagination. While I’ve met exceptions to the rule in Silicon Valley, most human beings do not reduce their sense of being alive to a stream of successive task completions, and find it a truly alienating vision.
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IBBoard @ibboard.co.uk · 29/09/2026
I love how there's always a "that's on me" as if it has any sense of remorse, and a "don't ever do that again" as if that's going to make it materially change it's behaviour 🤣🙃
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Mike Masnick @masnick.com · 29/09/2026
Soooooooo. As expected, the guy in that story about Muse doing FB Marketplace deals *had* in fact clicked the permission to "always allow" Muse to do things for him. Still very, very poor design by Meta such that the user didn't understand what permission he was giving...
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Update on letting Muse run Facebook Marketplace for me.
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 and the Muse team tonight and we went through the log to figure out what went wrong. Regarding the address leak. The first thing that popped up from Muse when asking it to handle my Facebook marketplace was an option with ‘Allow One Time’ or ‘Allow Always’. I clicked the latter thinking it would still send approvals to accept offers later down the line (it didn’t so be careful). 
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By doing that it granted Muse permission to send messages on my behalf going forwards using a template it put together using information it asked from me. Which also included the pickup address that I did give to Muse (again I didn’t think it would send it out to everyone that gave me an offer so it’s worth checking). I mentioned to the meta team it could be easily overlooked as it was with me and they said they will be making this more clear moving forwards. 
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Regarding the lowball offer situation. It accepted an offer of $600 and sent out my address to a buyer to come collect the item after I strictly set a minimum of $700 with Muse. The Meta team informed me this was an error on their end which caused a display issue removing the ‘7’ from the output to the buyer. And with it stating “Sounds good, 00 it is!” after the buyer asked for $600 it made it look to the buyer like his offer was accepted. 
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I suggested to Meta that each message sent by Muse should have a little “Sent By Muse” badge underneath so everyone knows it wasn’t sent by a human as there was really no way of knowing who sent what in the chat which is very concerning.
As for the buyer, we made up and he even came by tonight to buy something else. All ended well.
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Mike Boylan-Kolchin @mbkplus.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Once again, I gotta say: you cannot treat anything you’re feeding into an AI as anonymous. There are enormous ethics implications for, e.g. referees who are clearly uploading others’ unpublished papers without consent, let alone health care professionals or law enforcement
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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 28/09/2026
There was no COBRA meeting when masked and organised fascists were burning people out of their homes in Belfast in the summer
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Stéphanie says… 🏴‍☠️🦈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @stephaniejane.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
“That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons that history has to teach.” – Aldous Huxley
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elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
they're wasting money for the sole purpose of being cruel and that in itself will cost us even more money, while they talk about more cuts because we're apparently struggling with money
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David Allsopp @doublehelix.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
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Bugs Bunny Riding a Horse
Alt: Bugs Bunny in drag, dressed as a Valkyrie with a pink skirt, eye makeup, blonde pigtails, gold bra and a gold helmet with wings. He is riding sidesaddle bareback on a very fat white horse which has a pink mane and tail and a flower garland round its neck.
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ᚅᚓᚃ ᚆᚐᚔᚏᚇᚑ ᚃᚆᚑ ᚇᚔᚄ @ciara2001.eurosky.social · 28/09/2026
I really think people like this should have to wear the logos of their sponsors on their clothing when they are being interviewed
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He holds a number of paid positions as an adviser for lobbying and consultancy companies.[51] He is paid chair of the Purpose Defence Coalition, members of which include arms manufacturer Leonardo, which has "extensive links" to Israel’s military.[52] He is paid chair of the Purpose Business Coalition, members of which include Leonardo and oil company BP. He is a paid senior adviser to Rud Pedersen, a lobbying company with expertise in security and defence, which has oil and gas companies Glencore and Enwell Energy as clients.[53
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Andrew Sharpe 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿|🇪🇺 @andrew.sharpe.scot · 26/09/2026
The BBC is part of the problem...
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The Bear @bearlypolitics.co.uk · 28/09/2026
Well, well, well - if it isn’t the consequences of our own actions. It would appear that migrants are not, in fact, the fiscal drain we’ve been told they are by years if we go by the £4bn to £6.5bn shortfall that’s been caused by the precipitous drop in numbers under this government. Funny that.
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Micah @rincewind.run · 27/09/2026
anyway this dynamic is not uncommon in any industry in which powerful men have access to impressionable young people they want to exploit but I think it’s especially bad here given that these people are in charge of building the technology that’s trying to take over every aspect of our lives
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Extreme Temperatures Around the World @extremetemps.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
EXTRAORDINARY HEAT IN EUROPE Almost 32C in Germany today,over 30C in Switzerland, 33C in France and this is just the beginning of a heat wave which will completely rewrite European climatic history with several thousands records smashed by even 5/6C margins. HISTORIC
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Tom Roberts @tpgroberts.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
We've made the Tamagotchi evil.
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Jessica Price @delafina777.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Airhead Pete Hegseth tried to force women out of the military by revamping the fitness test to favor male bodies even more and… female and male Marines passed at pretty much the same rate thewarhorse.org/hegseth-mari...
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Hegseth Made the Fitness Test Harder for Women in Combat Roles. Most Female Marines Are Passing
Data shows almost all Marine females serving in combat roles have met or exceeded Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth's new physical fitness standard.
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Museum of Twitter @museum-of-twitter.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
@slurplebrained

We're on levels of LinkedIn posting beyond your wildest imagination

(screenshot of LinkedIn comment from Sreekanth Kumbha)

I can suggest an equation that has the potential to impact the future:

E = mc^2 + AI

This equation combines Einstein's famous equation E=mc^2, which relates energy (E) to mass (m) and the speed of light (c), with the addition of AI (Artificial Intelligence). By including AI in the equation, it symbolizes the increasing role of artificial intelligence in shaping and transforming our future. This equation highlights the potential for AI to unlock new forms of energy, enhance scientific discoveries, and revolutionize various fields such as healthcare, transportation, and technology.

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Delete System32 @delete-system32.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
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Defend Our Juries @defendourjuries.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
BREAKING: 94 year old Jewish human rights barrister, Margaret Owen arrested under the Terrorism Act outside Andy Burnham’s Labour Party conference. UK taxpayers are funding these arrests while masked men terrorise the streets in coastal towns. Lift The Ban on Palestine Action.
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 27/09/2026
Our new policy limits student-facing AI use from 2-K through eighth grade, reflecting Norway’s approach: kids need to learn to think critically, use their imaginations, and stay curious.
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Micah @rincewind.run · 27/09/2026
he is literally immune from any kind of legal limit, at least when it comes to anything related to his personal actions, thanks to the Supreme Court he installed his administration is constrained on occasion but he personally is not our system of government will not survive if we don’t change this
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