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John C. Descy

@jcdescy.eurosky.social
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- Tech guy - Information security expert - Musician - Science fanboy - Autist (self dx) - Atheist - Antifascist - Vegan - Trekkie - Swiftie - Connoisseur of silliness (mostly punny) - Deutsch / English descy.de mastodon.social/@jcdescy

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John C. Descy @jcdescy.eurosky.social · 1h
OK, now I'm confused ... maybe worried? AI makes mistakes. That's not new. LLMs (Large Language Models) tend to make stuff up, because all they are "focused" on is, well, the language. So the one thing they are rather good at is, well, language. But now I've seen one make an (unrequested!) typo.
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Working Families Party 🐺 @workingfamilies.org · 15/10/2026
Don't let anyone convince you that wanting your tax dollars to be spent on building your community up (instead of blowing up communities overseas) is somehow a radical position to take.
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John C. Descy @jcdescy.eurosky.social · 15/10/2026
And they belong to the order Passeriformes, which means "sparrow shaped".
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John C. Descy @jcdescy.eurosky.social · 14/10/2026
Ich würde das nicht mal als "Leistung" bezeichnen. Alles verändert sich. Auch Menschen. Auch Freundschaften. Das ist manchmal schön und manchmal schade, aber im Grunde ist es gut so.
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John C. Descy @jcdescy.eurosky.social · 11/10/2026
Der war nur liberal und sozial bis er gewählt wurde.
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John C. Descy @jcdescy.eurosky.social · 11/10/2026
Yo, ich seh den schon lang so.
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John C. Descy @jcdescy.eurosky.social · 11/10/2026
Another great blog post from Ava. blog.avas.space/smart-glasse...
blog.avas.space
a (temporary) win for meta glasses in the classroom
Discussing an Austrian case of a student wearing Meta glasses during school classes.
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John C. Descy @jcdescy.eurosky.social · 11/10/2026
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Barbie Says Bye-bye Now
Alt: Barbie Says Bye-bye Now
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John C. Descy @jcdescy.eurosky.social · 11/10/2026
They WILL shoot voters. There, I said it. Maybe "only" one or two, maybe more, but I have no single doubt that it will happen.
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John C. Descy @jcdescy.eurosky.social · 11/10/2026
Und als wir wieder geöffnet haben, aber mit reduzierten Plätzen war gabs ein Heulen und Zetern von den einen, während andere einfach sichtlich froh waren, dass wir überhaupt geöffnet hatten. Was die Leute für Tricks versucht haben, um trotzdem reinzukommen ... 2/2
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John C. Descy @jcdescy.eurosky.social · 11/10/2026
Zu der Zeit hab ich in der Bayerischen Staatsbibliothek gearbeitet und "greifbar" ist wahrlich untertrieben. Die Online-Bestellungen sind derart durch die Decke gegangen. 1/2
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John C. Descy @jcdescy.eurosky.social · 09/10/2026
We always said, the cruelty is the point. And here they prove it.
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John C. Descy @jcdescy.eurosky.social · 09/10/2026
Nobody, absolutely no one, can tell me that they use Windows because it's user friendly. It clearly is not. Nor is it stable in any way. In one week of using Windows I've had more technical problems, unpredictable behaviour and glaring inconsistencies than in a whole year of Arch Linux.
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DB Maggi @dbmaggi.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
The best argument I've ever heard for universal basic income (UBI). "The reason we don't call that work is because it doesn't make rich people money." 🎤Craig Fay
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John C. Descy @jcdescy.eurosky.social · 06/10/2026
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Loki's 'Yes Very Sad' Reaction
Alt: Loki's 'Yes Very Sad' Reaction
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🦋 C.G., PhD 🐸 (🪖"Prima" AKA "Battle" to One)🌻 @tcrg2012.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
🤔 #ONEV1 #Pinks 🌸 #Voices4Victory
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Miaganga @miaganga.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
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John C. Descy @jcdescy.eurosky.social · 28/09/2026
Picture from Star Trek TOS. You can see Sulu and Chekhov sitting at their stations. In the middle is the big screen, which shows Abraham Lincoln sitting in a chair among the stars. 
Caption reads: "In Star Trek, the Enterprise finds Abraham Lincoln hundreds of light years from Earth, still trying to put more distance between himself and the modern Republican party."
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John C. Descy @jcdescy.eurosky.social · 28/09/2026
Klar wären die nachweisbar.
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John C. Descy @jcdescy.eurosky.social · 27/09/2026
You simply know your shit.
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John C. Descy @jcdescy.eurosky.social · 27/09/2026
From here: blog.avas.space/merz-is-bad/
Woman pointing at the name of a public swimming pool called "Merz-Bad". The pun is that Merz is the name of the current German chancellor and the German "Bad" for bath or pool obviously is the same word as "bad" as in the opposite of "good" in English.
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John C. Descy @jcdescy.eurosky.social · 26/09/2026
No kink shaming, comrade, but I don't step on hoes. ^^ SCNR
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John C. Descy @jcdescy.eurosky.social · 25/09/2026
Oh, I read that back when. I loved it. One of his best, if you ask me.
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John C. Descy @jcdescy.eurosky.social · 25/09/2026
@percyrover.bsky.social Source: www.newscientist.com/article/2529...
humorous pie chart of what the Mars rover can see
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John C. Descy @jcdescy.eurosky.social · 25/09/2026
Which one?
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John C. Descy @jcdescy.eurosky.social · 25/09/2026
A great read! I feel the same. I have tried AI-assisted coding, but even when it actually works, which it oftentimes doesn't, it feels awful and unsatisfying. I have no idea why people want to work like that. blog.avas.space/intellectual...
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the reduction of intellectual labor
I'm talking about developments at my workplace that affect my career dreams.
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John C. Descy @jcdescy.eurosky.social · 23/09/2026
What an incredibly good answer.
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John C. Descy @jcdescy.eurosky.social · 23/09/2026
I love boxes, too. ^^
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Charles Waldorf @waldorfcharles.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Warum will die CDU die Linke eigentlich nicht inhaltlich stellen?
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John C. Descy @jcdescy.eurosky.social · 22/09/2026
"When money talks, nobody checks the grammar." - @justwanya.bsky.social
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John C. Descy @jcdescy.eurosky.social · 22/09/2026
While I fully agree, I have to point out that this is also on brand for Neil DeGrasse Tyson. Smart guy, very smart guy. But often doesn't notice when he gets out of his waters.
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John C. Descy @jcdescy.eurosky.social · 21/09/2026
Das einzige, was Konservative je konservieren wollten, ist ihre eigene Machtposition. "Konservativ" war als politische Position schon immer ein Euphemismus.
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Dr. Paula Piechotta MdB @paulapiechotta.de · 21/09/2026
Mit „politischen Mitte retten“ ist es wie mit „Demokratie retten“: Wähler werden das in stressigen, teuren Zeiten kaum als wichtigsten Grund für ihre Wahlentscheidung nehmen. Damit gewinnt man keine Wahlen.
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John C. Descy @jcdescy.eurosky.social · 20/09/2026
Warum ist das eine Eilmeldung, dass alles bleibt wie es ist?
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John C. Descy @jcdescy.eurosky.social · 20/09/2026
Yes. :-D
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John C. Descy @jcdescy.eurosky.social · 20/09/2026
Das ist so ein gutes Buch. Auch der zweite Teil, obwohl der deutlich anders ist, aber auf seine Weise auch ganz hervorragend.
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Sani Klarname @coeurnoir.eurosky.social · 15/09/2026
This 👇
Eine rosa Kachel darauf geschrieben in schwarzer Schrift:

There is no "gender war".
Women didn't take away men's right to vote.
Women didn't ban men from education and property.
Women didn't write laws controlling men's
bodies. Women didn't build systems that stripped men of their freedom. The imbalance never run both ways. 

@sheinspiresstrength
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John C. Descy @jcdescy.eurosky.social · 20/09/2026
Ich schätze da wird es noch so einige Tankrabatte geben.
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John C. Descy @jcdescy.eurosky.social · 20/09/2026
Yo, so wie mit der SPD.
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John C. Descy @jcdescy.eurosky.social · 20/09/2026
How would you describe your social media reach?
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Mr Beam Impatiently Waiting in a Flower Field
Alt: Mr Beam Impatiently Waiting in a Flower Field
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Klartext_mit_Lilly @klartextmitlilly.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Ich habe es satt. Satt, dass Fahne, Hymne und Heimat denen gehören sollen, die am lautesten grölen. Satt, dass „Deutschland“ plötzlich nach Ausgrenzung klingt. Dieses Land ist auch meins. Und ich gebe es ganz sicher nicht kampflos ab. #KlartextmitLilly #ichhabeessatt
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John C. Descy @jcdescy.eurosky.social · 20/09/2026
I guess that oil would have been burned anyway. Only over a somewhat longer period of time, but not a lot from a climate perspective.
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John C. Descy @jcdescy.eurosky.social · 20/09/2026
Ich vermute mal das ist in Berlin. ;-)
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A Voice Crying in the Wilderness @cryingwilderness.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
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ZDF heute-show @heuteshow.de · 18/09/2026
Eine Studie zeigt, dass Essengehen trotz der Mehrwertsteuersenkung nicht günstiger wurde. Aber hey, lasst uns das Gleiche noch mal mit den Spritpreisen probieren.
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John C. Descy @jcdescy.eurosky.social · 19/09/2026
Na ja, einen menschlichen Schädel kann man meines Wissens auch aufmachen. Wird doch auch gemacht.
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Thomas Stadler @rastadler.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Merz ist ein hocheffizienter Verbrenner von Steuergeldern.
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Dr Space Junk (Alice Gorman) @drspacejunk.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
'PATRIOTISM, n. ... In Dr. Johnson's famous dictionary patriotism is defined as the last resort of a scoundrel. With all due respect to an enlightened but inferior lexicographer I beg to submit that it is the first'. - Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911
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John C. Descy @jcdescy.eurosky.social · 16/09/2026
Ernst gemeinte Frage: Warum kann man die mit Menschen nicht durchführen? Letztendlich interessiert uns doch vor allem, wie das menschliche Gehirn funktioniert.
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John C. Descy @jcdescy.eurosky.social · 16/09/2026
Weiß nicht, ob es so eine gute Idee ist, dieser Regierung die Preisbildung für Treibstoff anzuvertrauen.
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