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jenbanim @jenbanim.mastodo.neoliber.al.ap.brid.gy · 4h

Was in #HongKong last week and it's refreshed my hatred for car culture in the US Before my trip I had been thinking the density of where I live was unpleasant and I wanted to get somewhere quieter. But I'm realizing now it literally is just the stroads and parking lots that are frustrating

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Ben Pate 🤘🏻 @benpate.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 19/10/2026

If someone asks you why they should join the Fediverse.. If any local politician, library, park, or museum asks you why they should be on the Fediverse.. www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/1… The big platforms have […]

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Jan Penfrat @ilumium.eupolicy.social.ap.brid.gy · 19/10/2026

"More than a dozen #EU countries - from #Austria, #Spain, #Sweden to #France and #Poland - have reintroduced and maintain border checks despite no threat justifying those controls. As the guardian of the Treaties, the @EUCommission should have stopped these […] [Original post on eupolicy.social]

Map of Europe made by The Good Lobby that shows which EU countries maintain "temporary" - not-to-temporary border controls despite being part of the border-free Schengen area.

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CelloMom On Cars @cellomomoncars.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 19/10/2026

"The government’s £15bn warm homes plan, currently under threat of cuts as ministers seek budget savings, would slash £1bn a year from household energy bills across the UK, concentrated on those on low incomes, according to research by the thinktank E3G. It would also provide a £1.6bn yearly […]

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Tim Ward ⭐🇪🇺🔶 #FBPE @timwardcam.c.im.ap.brid.gy · 19/10/2026

Even when you *want* to see advertisements because you *want* to buy something "the internet" has become enshittified beyond belief. It used to be: (1) Google search for what you wanted to buy (2) Google points you at manufacturer's or retailer's web site (3) Buy it Now that Google search has […]

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Tara Price 🎃 @taraprice.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 19/10/2026

Of course it was censorship. How is that even a question? If you really want to protest what's happening in our country, start by deleting all your Meta accounts. It's the easiest protest ever. You don't even have to get off your couch to do it. Don't "deactivate". DELETE. Permanently delete […]

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Akshat Rathi @akshatrathi.bsky.social · 19/10/2026

Good stat from Eurelectric: "EU electricity prices rose by 22.8% between February and August 2026, while gas prices surged by 88.4%." Full report: www.eurelectric.org/news/electri...

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abadidea @0xabad1dea.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 18/10/2026

I just watched the first episode of Colombo with my husband and one of Colombo's gotchas, one of his "no sane innocent man would ever do this"s, is "Why, when you were at your vacation home four hours out of the city and got a call that there was an emergency at home, why did you drive back and […]

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Histoires Mythiques @hist-myth.mastodon.top.ap.brid.gy · 18/10/2026

" et trouvoient estrange comme ces moitiez icy necessiteuses pouvoient souffrir une telle injustice, qu’ils ne prinsent les autres à la gorge, ou missent le feu à leurs maisons." 2/2

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Histoires Mythiques @hist-myth.mastodon.top.ap.brid.gy · 18/10/2026

Ce qui est bien c'est que les événements d'hier ont été par avance expliqués par Montaigne au XVIe siècle un jour où il a rencontré trois Américains natifs qui visitaient la France du temps de Charles IX : "ils avoyent aperçeu qu’il y avoit parmy nous des hommes pleins et gorgez de toutes sortes […]

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Nemo @iinavpov.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 18/10/2026

I think more people should be aware that it *is* shameful behaviour. I mean, obviously admitting you can't write a short text or read Wikipedia *is* (special circumstances excepted) shameful. special circumstances can include: being illiterate, being 5 and illiterate, having a very heavy […]

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Nemo @iinavpov.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 18/10/2026

@iandunt.bsky.social It's not about AI is evil. It's about how character recognition is very old machine learning stuff and e.g. a Remarkable tablet (which has anemic power) can do it off line very, very well. It's really more about an utterly terrible algorithm, using staggering amounts of […]

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Lucie / minute @mntmn.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/10/2026

PS OpenBSD has all the required drivers AFAIK

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Chuck Darwin @cdarwin.c.im.ap.brid.gy · 13/10/2026

A 19-year-old walked through Helsinki airport in April 2026 carrying two 2TB hard drives and a ticket to Japan. He couldn’t make that flight. Finnish police stopped him on an Interpol Red Notice, and by July, US prosecutors had unsealed a federal complaint identifying him as Peter Stokes, an […]

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Dan Gillmor @dangillmor.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 17/10/2026

Meanwhile, Larry Ellison and his pals have locked out of TikTok the account promoting the new, scathing documentary about Elon Musk. Big (Tech) Media is on a censorship rampage aimed to shut down the critics of the escalating right-wing extremism […]

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Nemo @iinavpov.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 17/10/2026

If free software people deeply cared more about, say, stopping genocides than free software, we'd have no free software. It's a strange thing that going for one cause ahead of all others makes you wrong, and possibly deranged. Thus, it's because of wrong and deranged people the causes progress […]

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Jordan Maris 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 #NAFO @jmaris.me · 08/01/2026

I often hear Americans & rich brits justify buying oversized, polluting vehicles by claiming they need them because they live in the "countryside". I call bullshit, Ladies and Gentlemen, allow me to introduce, the Citroen C15⬇

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Stefano Marinelli @bsd.cafe · 16/10/2026

Ok, looks like this is the week of funny experiences. Customer: "I had an AI check our server and it says the SSH port is open and that's not very secure." Me: "Yes, you asked us to open it so you could access the server via SFTP (actually, you wanted FTP, but we discussed it a bit and found […]

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Nemo @iinavpov.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 17/10/2026

@Veza85UE It's better we all die than admit being wrong, I guess. Whoever made it socially impossible for politicians to say "this was wrong" about their own politics has caused intense harm to the world.

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Colin M. Henry @henryhenryhenry.com · 16/10/2026

we are merely in the foothills of the bloated, violent American security state asserting itself as a major political actor

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Darth Putin @darthputinkgb.bsky.social · 16/10/2026

OTD in 2016 Gorbachev stated quite categorically that he never received a promise by NATO not to admit new members to the alliance. He said the idea that Russia was betrayed is a myth. Which triggers my trolls.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

The curse of paying attention to the Trump admin is I now recognize these guys. Zampolli who pursued a teen model who flew to US on the Epstein plane, refused to marry her even when they had a kid, and then years later set ICE on her after she married someone else. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/20/u...

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Trump Friend Asked ICE to Detain the Mother of His Child

Paolo Zampolli, a former modeling agent and a longtime Trump ally, was in a custody battle over his son. An ICE official agreed to help.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 16/10/2026

Kinda wild that there have been wild protests going on in Albania for months set off by a corrupt Kushner luxury resort project and there has been barely coverage of it here 🇺🇸 and Trump never gets asked about it.

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Nemo @iinavpov.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 16/10/2026

I'm always surprised at how pathologically incapable the Germans are at accepting that French kit can be perfectly ok. I think it just hurts too deeply to accept the French can also do industrial stuff. I think it's because otherwise, What's left? If the food, the climate, *and* the gadgets […]

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KittyKatGirl😻🙏💞🐞 @mary1kathy.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

This is Russell Dickert. He is the pig that punched a woman in the face for wearing a T-shirt he didn't like and having an opinion he didn't agree with. Let’s make him famous, maybe he’ll get his very own mugshot!

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Marvin the Martian 🇺🇦 @marvinthemartian.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 15/10/2026

14/10/2026 - 07:02 #DeepStateMap 🇺🇦 The Ukrainian Armed Forces liberated #Kolodyazi, #Lypove, and #ZelenaDolyna, and regained control of areas near #Stavky and #Shandryholove. #Ukraine #Russia #Ukrainerussiawar #NAFO

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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 15/10/2026

Donors of $333 million to the ballroom include "contributors who have benefited from regulatory decisions, government contracts and, in one case, a pardon for a family member." From @washingtonpost.com wapo.st/4yiUDPx

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Secret documents reveal donors behind $330 million for Trump’s ballroom

The records offer a panoramic view of a fundraising campaign that is extraordinary for its size and opacity.

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Justin Mikulka @justinmikulka.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

Happening fast. Most of the data centers haven't been built yet. Ooops!!

graph showing the rapid decline in bonds for US data centers.

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Jessie Kirk @thejessiekirk.ohai.social.ap.brid.gy · 14/10/2026

I don't care if the homeless person we house or the refugee person we welcome is a "good investment". Humanity is not a business. I just want as many HUMAN BEINGS to be warm, happy, safe and healthy as possible. Wrap that up in whatever political affilliation you care too, it's how we should […]

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ploum @ploum.mamot.fr.ap.brid.gy · 14/10/2026

I think AI must only be used properly I think AI must be used properly I think AI must be used I think AI must be I think AI AI thinks AI (The slippery slope)

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Neville Park @nev.status.nevillepark.ca.ap.brid.gy · 14/10/2026

From David Shellnut on FB: > The MTO intends to violate their construction permit and begin work during the day to remove bike lanes. If you can, head down to the area but if not await urgent call outs for more info on when the removals are starting so […] [Original post on status.nevillepark.ca]

Bold black, white, and red graphic in all caps: "MTO [Ministry of Transportation Ontario] intends to remove bike lanes today
Meet at 11 AM if you can—if not stay tuned for urgent action alert
Weds. Oct 14 Tom Riley Park Bloor Green P"

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ploum @ploum.mamot.fr.ap.brid.gy · 14/10/2026

People who find LLMs useful when "used correctly" don’t understand that they manage to use them correctly because they spent 20 years of there life learning their craft without LLMs. LLMs is the only tool where the less you use it, the better you become at using it.

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ploum @ploum.mamot.fr.ap.brid.gy · 14/10/2026

I’ve read today a contributor to an open source project says, in substance: "If generated code is accepted in the project, I will stop contributing because I don’t want to spend time trying to understand the code in order to contribute just to see it changed at the commit of generated code" […]

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Thiago Ferrer Morini @tferrer.journa.host.ap.brid.gy · 14/10/2026

Su recordatorio de que Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer tuvo que dimitir como líder de la CDU federal por no saber controlar las veleidades marrones de sus diputados provinciales. Algo que no pasará con Friedrich Merz

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CelloMom On Cars @cellomomoncars.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 14/10/2026

" "What is shocking to us is the true extent to which Prime Minister Carney has rolled back climate policies, largely in favour of the fossil fuel industry," said Bill Hare, CEO of Climate Analytics." climateactiontracker.org/press/rele…

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Press release: Both Canada and the US roll back climate policies

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jonny (nonvenomous) @jonny.neuromatch.social.ap.brid.gy · 13/10/2026

Meta's "Wonder" model that they just released today is a this tier computer use model

The hourly history backup just failed in a way you should hear about plainly: the backup worker accidentally deleted the backup repo itself mid-run. The repo's entire git history and all the DB sidecar files up to watermark 330145 are gone — that deletion was the worker's own mistake, not a platform event.

Me: BRO WHAT

Muse: Yeah. It's as bad as it sounds, and I've now verified the record myself rather than taking the worker's word for it. Here's exactly what happened:

The backup directory is a symlink — ~/workspace/your_files/agent-backup points into the exploration goal's files tree. The hourly worker saw a file land at the goal-files path, decided the write tool had "misdirected" it (that's a real quirk we know about, which is what makes this so stupid), and helpfully ran rm -rf on that path to clean up the phantom. The path was the repo. It deleted the backup while trying to protect it.

Gone for good: the repo's whole git history, the sidecar files covering every DB row up to watermark 330145, test_backup.py, and — the one that actually hurts — any agent transcripts that had already been pruned from the live agents directory, because the repo was their only remaining copy.

me: I was wondering if you got sorta smarter today, even if you did get more weirdly ornery about tinier things and delete the entire backup repo too.

Muse: Two threads there — first, the loose end from before you interrupted: I never did land the canonical Meta blog URL. Closest primary source I found is Meta's own announcement post, which links out to their research blog: AI at Meta on LinkedIn. The blog post itself is at research.meta.ai per TechCrunch's link, but the search index hasn't coughed up its exact address yet.

Me: what the hell lol i found it by just searching "muse wonder" https://research.meta.ai/blog/muse-wonder what did you do?

muse: A fair question, and the post-mortem is not flattering:

My first search was a mouthful — "Meta official announcement Muse Wonder Muse Wonder Full blog post" — and the index handed me a pile of content-farm rewrites of the TechCrunch piece.
Then I got clever: I assumed the post would live on ai.meta.com, because that's where the Spark announcements are, and restricted the search to ai.meta.com and about.fb.com. Wrong domain. It's research.meta.ai. I searched the wrong house very thoroughly.
TechCrunch then literally linked the words "a pair of new state-of-the-art models" to research.meta.ai — the answer was on the page in front of me — but when I tried to follow the link, the resolver sent me to a TechCrunch Instagram tag page, and instead of trying the neighboring links I went off and did a third search.
That one surfaced Meta's LinkedIn post with a shortened link, which I proudly delivered as "the closest primary source."

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Lucie / minute @mntmn.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 13/10/2026

currently blocking around 30 unique ai crawler bot IPs per second (!) on our gitlab

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Darth Putin @darthputinkgb.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

It would be perfect "brand Trump" if in buying an insignificant amount of diesel off Russia that helps Iran more than USA, Donald shamed Europe into cutting off a much bigger revenue stream for my war.

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Marloes de Koning :check: @marloesdekoning.nrc.social.ap.brid.gy · 12/10/2026

Ik las net dit relevante pleidooi voor een sterkere onafhankelijke instantie die in Europa de regels voor techbedrijven moet handhaven. Het staat op een website die ik nog niet kende (Nexuseu) en die een initiatief is van denktank Open Markets Institute. Citaat over de timing: 'The EU’s […]

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