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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 17/07/2026

Probably more helpful to think of them not so much as “Canadian wildfires” but rather “climate change wildfires currently consuming Canada”

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Jan Stette @janstette.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

From health.aws.amazon.com/health/status, looks like it's not me then, phew...

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Jan Stette @janstette.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

It's real in the sense that this is what my AWS console and billing alert emails tell me. I really hope it's not really what my bill looks like though!

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Jan Stette @janstette.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Amazing, thanks! Glad to hear it's not just me!

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Jan Stette @janstette.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

AWS reckons I owe them over 3 billion dollars. Pretty odd considering I've paid $1 per month for my account for the last few years and haven't logged into it for a long time. Have you seen other cases like this one, @quinnypig.com, has the AWS Budgets console gone mad?

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Jan Rosenow @janrosenow.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

3/ Irony number two. I was told for years that climate change is a hoax and British summers aren't getting hotter. Now the same voices demand to know why Britain never installed AC. You cannot have it both ways. The case for cooling IS the case that the climate is changing.

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Jan Rosenow @janrosenow.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

1/ Irony number one: Many of the people now cheering me on spent years insisting heat pumps don't work. Air conditioners ARE heat pumps. Same refrigeration cycle, same physics, running in reverse. Most modern units do both. If AC works (it does), heat pumps work (they do).

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Jer Thorp @jerthorp.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Y'all know where my allegiances are for the England vs Norway match this weekend, but reading about Norway's youth football system is really interesting. They don't allow scorekeeping or team ranking until the age of 13. The focus until then is 100% on having fun.

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Jan Stette @janstette.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Also that they drink by catching raindrops, and skimming low over lakes and rivers.

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Jan Stette @janstette.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

I am clueless about birds, but I learned last weekend that swift chicks are pushed out of their nest by their parents and fly off before hitting the ground - then they won't touch the ground (or water) for almost another year when they are back at their nests after migrating south and back again!

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Warrington-Runcorn New Town Development Plan @warringtonruncorn.com · 30/06/2026

My old grindcore band were staggeringly unpopular and had songs called things like “You’re Stupid, Ugly And Wrong” and “Some Cunt From Preston”. We never played a stage that big, but we never played an audience that small.

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Forsberg™ @magnusforsberg.no · 29/06/2026

Og som vanlig, helt stille i norske medier om at verdens rikeste mann er enig med Anders Behring Breivik.

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Jan Stette @janstette.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

Love these covers so much! Just to say, that link doesn't seem to go to your page. That is, it doesn't seem to link to the page that it says it links to, it just links to the general condenast store page.

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Jan Stette @janstette.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

No worries, exactly! I can't express myself clearly in this weather 😅

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Jan Stette @janstette.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

I should have said, that weather forecast I posted was from the fjords. London has been a humid 35 degrees and relentless sunshine... which I really struggle to cope with.

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Jan Stette @janstette.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

Stuck in sweltering London, pining for the fjords.

Weather forecast for northern Norway showing forecast 12 degrees centigrade and rain tomorrow.

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Jan Stette @janstette.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

Must remember this line for my next job interview

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Jan Stette @janstette.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

What about when they do tell you to worry about something?

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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

Idiocracy wasn't this dumb.

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The Great Pumpkin Papers 🎃🎃🎃 @professormusgrave.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

I’ve charted American hegemony during the Iranian campaign

The chart of Napoleon marching on Russia and losing

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SMBC comic Bot @smbc-bot.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Consciousness www.smbc-comics.com/comic/conscious… From an idea in Aguera y Arcas' recent book What is Intelligence?

From an idea in Aguera y Arcas' recent book What is Intelligence?

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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

MAY HER MEMORY BE FOR A REVOLUTION ❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥 (dammit. dammit.)

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Angus Main @angusmain.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

“We believe Asimov’s Laws were really more suggestions”

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Jer Thorp @jerthorp.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

Just a top notch job, guys.

If you search the word "disregard" it does just that

Google doesn't like it when you search for "ignore"

You can no longer google the word "stop"

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Jan Stette @janstette.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

There's nothing wrong with negative prices. Some times, consumers have to help the grid by taking some of the power out of it. They get paid for that and are happy, grid operators are happy their grid is balanced, it's s a win-win situation.

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Waldo Jaquith @waldo.net · 22/05/2026

In case you’re wondering how rigged this $1,776M slush fund agreement was: Trump’s personal tax attorney is now the top lawyer at the IRS.

New York Times excerpt:

Ken Kies, a Treasury official acting as the top I.R.S. lawyer, previously represented Mr. Trump in his tax controversies, according to his financial disclosure. As a result, he

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Allen Holub @allenholub.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

I've been working on a new Software Architecture class description (more on that in a day or so), and Google Docs just told me that the document was, at least in part, AI-generated. None of it was AI-generated. That presents something of a conundrum. 1/8

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Michael Busch @michael-w-busch.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

There is something very peculiar about encountering such blatant lies about things I personally witnessed as they were happening.

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Jan Stette @janstette.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

True, the place for guardrails is outside of the LLM, for example in defining access controls for the context in which the LLM tool runs.

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Eileen Clancy 🧿 @clancyny.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

Huge achievement! The first single-dose vaccine to combat all four types of dengue virus. An estimated 5.6 billion people are at risk of dengue, with an estimated 100–400 million infections occurring every year, mostly in tropical and sub-tropical climates. [Google Translate ⤵️]

Researcher Neuza Frazatti, from the Butantan Institute, led the development of the first 100% Brazilian dengue vaccine—the only single-dose vaccine against the disease in the world. This represents a milestone for national science and for the fight against one of the diseases that most affect Brazil.

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SMBC comic Bot @smbc-bot.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - End www.smbc-comics.com/comic/end-2

During the book tour of A City on Mars, I did a talk with Randall Munroe in NYC, and he made, impromptu, a better joke than any of us have committed to paper. During a discussion of whether you could eliminate all life on Earth for a reasonable price, a person asked if there might be a way you could specifically annihilate Queens. To which he replied, 'regicide?'

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Zoë O'Connell @zoeoconnell.co.uk · 26/04/2026

Having worked for 4 startups now, I like the idea that my past work could be useful even if the startup fails. Too late now, that data is long gone, but I was well paid for that work already so no moral/legal issue w/copyright. But the privacy implications? Oof. www.fastcompany.com/91528808/shu...

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Shuttered startups are selling old Slack chats and emails to AI companies

Defunct companies are striking gold by selling their digital footprints to AI labs as training data, Forbes reports.

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Jan Stette @janstette.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

They're not saying that air fares will double though, or even that fuel costs will double.

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Mekka Okereke @mekka.mekka-tech.com · 12/04/2026

🐰🇮🇷 Close the Strait! 🦆🇺🇸 Open the Strait! 🐰🇮🇷 Close the Strait! 🦆🇺🇸 Open the Strait! 🐰🇮🇷 Open the Strait! 🤭 🦆🇺🇸 Close the Strait! 🐰🇮🇷 Open the Strait! 🦆🇺🇸 Close the Strait! Look, I say we're closing the Strait, and that's final! Don't try to talk me out of it! 🤡