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DEF CON @defcon.defcon.social.ap.brid.gy · 9h

RIP Margaret Hamilton, software engineer extraordinaire. news.mit.edu/2026/margaret-hamilton…

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Mark T. Tomczak @mark.mastodon.fixermark.com.ap.brid.gy · 29/09/2026

Well-behaved copper merchants rarely make history.

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Tim Carmody @tcarmody.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

This is the funniest thing I've seen today, possibly ever

A tweet by SarahStarberry that says "oh god read the vertical axis" on top of a chart measuring AI models' release dates and model numbers rather than any real capabilities

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eri :neofox_flag_nb: :fox_floofing: @eri.mk.moth.zone.ap.brid.gy · 18/09/2026

this game fucking sucks what am i supposed to do

various failed commands in a linux terminal
"look up" "go north" "grab key"

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M.S. Bellows, Jr. @msbellows.c.im.ap.brid.gy · 24/09/2026

I'm so old, I remember when software that spread into the wild and infiltrated other people's computers and did harmful things to them that the users didn't ask it to was called "malware" instead of "AI" and the people that spread it were prosecuted instead of given billions in venture capital […]

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Chris Orban @chrisorban.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 01/09/2026

My Ph.D. thesis was dedicated to authors M. Scott Peck, Thomas Merton and Wendell Berry. For me Berry's greatest work was "Life is a Miracle: An Essay Against Modern Superstition". Whether or not you agree with it, it deserves a read. Here is my favorite […] [Original post on fediscience.org]

The cover for the book Life is a Miracle by Wendell Berry

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Robert Kingett @weirdwriter.caneandable.social.ap.brid.gy · 19/09/2026

If you really want to tell disabled people to use an open source or alternative thing instead of the proprietary thing, you better make damn well sure that open source or alternative thing is at least screen reader friendly as a bare minimum when it comes to disability access if you're the […]

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Curmudgeon @jetton.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 12/09/2026

Good news! According to Anthropic researchers, there's a 90% chance AI will not destroy humanity in the next 10 years.

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Andrew Weinstein @andrewjweinstein.com · 09/09/2026

You know who actually did show up at Ground Zero? Canadian emergency rescue crews.

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Curmudgeon @jetton.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 05/09/2026

So the UN General Assembly voted 164-1 to adopt equal-area maps instead of the Mercator projection ones. Any guesses as to which country voted against it? (Hint: the same country that announced it was only paying 20% of its unpaid dues unless the UN capitulates to its demands.)

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highly praised and little read @hannah.posts.rat.pictures.ap.brid.gy · 05/09/2026

Too bad its never like “our ai agent went rogue and deleted ten billion dollars of medical debt”

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Curmudgeon @jetton.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 30/08/2026

Ever since we adopted Anubis from the Humane Society, not a single couch has been stolen. What a great watchdog! #DogsOfMastodon #Newfie

A black and white Landseer Newfoundland mix protecting a brown couch from all would-be thieves.

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Curmudgeon @jetton.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 30/08/2026

Since the province is named after the lake, does that mean Toronto is now in America? I'm so confused.

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Curmudgeon @jetton.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 20/08/2026

Loki, our 16 year old Alaskan Malamute that we adopted from the shelter 13 years ago had to be euthanized last week. Miss you buddy. You were a great doggo. #DogsOfMastodon

A fluffy white Alaskan malamute sitting in front of a fireplace 6 years ago when he was a youthful 10 year old.

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Curmudgeon @jetton.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 27/07/2026

In the US there has been there has been a lot of press on the fact that the Pentagon reduced the number of American military deaths in the Iran war from 18 to 14 since the 4 occurring after the "ceasefire" don't count as war dead. The fact 2 were non-white women and only 1 of the 4 was white […]

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Sven-Erik Volberg @volberg.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

For years Romania refuses to shoot down russian drones. Yesterday they shot down their first one. This morning another. Why and what has changed? Laws made peace time engagement extremely complicated. Fears of depris and escalation made them even more so 🧵 1/4

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Curmudgeon @jetton.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 22/07/2026

RE: thepit.social/@peter/11696224499436… I had a similar reaction when I had to give a presentation to a large audience. Except I did it ahead of time.

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Prof. Sam Lawler @sundogplanets.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/07/2026

Reporter: "Can you explain the CRASH Clock metric and Kessler Syndr-" Me: "MMMEEEEEEHHHHH! Baaaaahhhh!!!" Reporter: "How do you feel about Starlink?" Me: "Baaaaahhhhhhhh! Mmmmeehhhhhh!" Pretty good interview plan, actually.

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Prof. Sam Lawler @sundogplanets.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 30/06/2026

Does anyone have good recommendations f resources for book authors to learn about book publishing contract basics? #WritingCommunity #amWriting

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James Gifford @giffordjames.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 27/06/2026

Well, this is big news!!! "We have completely virtually unwrapped and read PHerc. 1667 — the scroll the Vesuvius Challenge community knows as Scroll 4 — without ever touching its pages. It is the first Herculaneum papyrus to be digitally unrolled and read in full, end to end" […]

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Curmudgeon @jetton.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 25/06/2026

Who is this Al guy everyone talks about? And why does he need data centers?

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David Penfold :verified: @davep.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 06/06/2026

John Finnemore on the French horn/cor anglais: "I was idly wondering why the cor anglais has a French name meaning ‘English horn’, and the French horn has an English name meaning… well, ‘French horn’. I looked it up, even though I knew there would just be some reasonable but rather dull […]

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highly praised and little read @hannah.posts.rat.pictures.ap.brid.gy · 28/05/2026

This 👇 is the ‼️ ONLY 😤 slop book summary 📖 I recognize 🙅‍♀️ (found in a 1940 copy of tristram shandy)

Typewritten timeline of events in tristram shandy by “dr. slop”, a character in the book

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Bodil @bodil.lol · 08/04/2026

Good morning and a very happy Thatcher Day to you all! It's been 13 years today and she's still dead. 🎉

Celebrants holding up a sheet that reads "Breaking News: Thatcher is dead" along with multiple bottles of champagne.

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Curmudgeon @jetton.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 05/04/2026

My daughter knows all that computer and programming stuff, so I thought she could use a state of the art handheld computer.

An Apple Newton 120. A computer that fits in one's hand and does all that computer stuff.

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Curmudgeon @jetton.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 04/04/2026

The onboard computer that guided the Apollo missions to the moon had 4 kilobytes of RAM. I'm guessing the computer on Artemis II has at least twice that.

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Curmudgeon @jetton.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 30/03/2026

Newly arrived on the fediverse and wondering the difference between here and X? Ask what the plural is of octopus. On X this will result in a vicious argument whether it is octopuses or octopi. Here there will be polite discussion on when one should use octopuses and when octopodes, followed […]

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Curmudgeon @jetton.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 27/03/2026

Today is the 62nd anniversary of the earthquake centered on Valdez, Alaska. It is the strongest earthquake ever recorded in North America, and the second strongest in the world. Erin Kissane has an interesting essay on the earthquake, and how it can inform the current breakdown of shared […]

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Curmudgeon @jetton.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 10/03/2026

The United States has: 770,000 homeless people 15,000,000 vacant homes and 535 members of congress, who can't seem to find any solution to this problem.

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Curmudgeon @jetton.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 10/03/2026

Maybe someone should suggest to Trump that he should celebrate the 250th anniversary of the US the same way the 50th was celebrated by John Adams and Thomas Jefferson. Would get great ratings on all the networks and be wildly popular.

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highly praised and little read @hannah.posts.rat.pictures.ap.brid.gy · 03/03/2026

[uspol] Is it good when the Illinois Retail Merchants Association is emailing me maps of the Strait of Hormuz

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Matt Blaze @mattblaze.federate.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/03/2026

Just in case anyone is wondering, I would still like to see the rest of the Epstein materials even though there's now a war going on. I can handle multiple things at once. Don't hold back on my account.

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Curmudgeon @jetton.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 01/03/2026

Reading the news and see that Trump's attack on Iran has accomplished its primary goal. No mention of Jeffrey Epstein anywhere.

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Curmudgeon @jetton.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 26/02/2026

Nurul Amin Shah Alam, was a Rohingya refugee from Burma. He had been granted refugee status by the US government. Blind and speaking no English, in February 2025 he accidentally wandered into a neighbor's yard. She called the police, who tasered him, beat him up, and arrested him. After being […]

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Curmudgeon @jetton.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 25/02/2026

While Trump's speech was the longest SOTU, it was not the longest speech given by a US president. That honor goes to the 9th President, William Henry Harrison. He spoke for over two hours at his inauguration in 1841. Outside in the cold and in the rain*. Maybe Trump should show he's a Real Man […]

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Curmudgeon @jetton.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 25/02/2026

Trump's SOTU speech could have been worse. You might be thinking, How? He spoke for an hour and 47 minutes. Fidel Castro spoke to the UN for 4 and a half hours.

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Quinn Norton @quinn.social.circl.lu.ap.brid.gy · 25/02/2026

Oh sure you can get drug prices down 600% but you only stop murder by a piddling 100%, what about these 500% lives, SIR

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Curmudgeon @jetton.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 24/02/2026

I was skeptical when I heard there was a planned remake of Invasion of the Body Snatchers, but looks like it may be a real corker.

Left: Donald Sutherland in 1978 Invasion of the Body Snatchers.
Right: Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor in the current remake.

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Curmudgeon @jetton.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 20/02/2026

Everyone knows this, right? Modify for what you know that the average person probably knows. marshdeer.github.io/xkcd2501-genera…

A general linear model is second nature to us biostatisticians, so it's easy to forget the average person probably only knows logistic and poisson regression.
And negative binomial, of course.
Of course.

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Curmudgeon @jetton.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 12/02/2026

Nelson Mandela was released from prison on this date in 1990, after 27 years. He had been arrested in 1962 after the American Central Intelligence Agency told the police his location. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nelson_Mandela

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Nelson Mandela - Wikipedia

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Curmudgeon @jetton.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 10/02/2026

The two pupperdogs have distinctly different ideas as to the ideal places to sleep. #DogsOfMastodon

A white Alaskan Malamute mix asleep in the snow with fresh snow starting to cover him.

A Landseer Newfie mix with a black head and white/black body lying on a brown couch. He has partially opened one eye when realizing I'm taking his photo.

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Ada Palmer @adapalmer.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 08/02/2026

The James Webb Space Telescope sent back new pictures of the Helix Nebula in phenomenal clarity. The space telescope’s website has the photographs in all their glory, along with comparisons to photographs of Helix taken by older space telescopes like VISTA and Hubble […]

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Curmudgeon @jetton.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 06/02/2026

Looks like someone in the Trump administration knows how to search using regex. The word "don't" is rather consistently blacked out in the Epstein files. Let's think. What else starts with "don" followed by one or more characters and then a "t" and zero or more letters? Maybe someone's name?

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highly praised and little read @hannah.posts.rat.pictures.ap.brid.gy · 01/02/2026

The continued existence of elon musk, larry ellison, bezos etc really demonstrates how underfunded the 00 agent program is these days

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Chuck Darwin @cdarwin.c.im.ap.brid.gy · 27/01/2026

From these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion. That we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain. That this nation under God shall have a new birth of freedom and that government of the people, by […]

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Curmudgeon @jetton.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 29/01/2026

This weekend will mark the sixth anniversary of Brexit. Have they worked out the kinks yet? #Brexit

Apparently it costs the NHS over three hundred pounds a year to remove foreign objects from people's rectums. Why aren't we removing British objects instead? Was Brexit all for nothing?

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