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Ken Tindell

@kentindell.bsky.social
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Designer of chips, programmer of chips

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Duncan Jones @manmademoon.bsky.social · 5m
It’s crazy how our expectations have evaporated over the last few years. We used to see something like this as a crisis that would require international action. Create a humanitarian corridor. Negotiate a temporary ceasefire to evacuate non-combatants. All that’s over now. Cruelty reigns.
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Graeme Swanson @swansonian.bsky.social · 3h
AI fans now at the "he's thrown a kettle over a pub" stage of arguing for sentience.
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Ken Tindell @kentindell.bsky.social · 5h
This is the real reason why the sky is blue.
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Ken Tindell @kentindell.bsky.social · 5h
Much security, very secure. Except for that 16 character limit, because we're paying by the byte now.
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Mordant Muppetry @mordantmuppetry.bsky.social · 8h
<wife at the toddler> “NO! You cannot have a knife!” <toddler> <SCREAMS> Think I will stay in bed for 5 more minutes.
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Ken Tindell @kentindell.bsky.social · 7h
“through a transporter malfunction, all the characters were replaced by muppets apart from Spock” 😳
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Phillips OBrien @phillipspobrien.bsky.social · 9h
Hey Canada, looks like he wants to emigrate. To you or Switzerland…
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Elizabeth Taylor @elizabethtaylor47.bsky.social · 10h
I can’t really believe this is happening in our country. And it makes me very angry people aren’t doing more to stop it. An entire group have had their civil rights gutted, and are having their lives made unliveable (especially children who are most vulnerable). And what’s anyone doing about it?
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Ken Tindell @kentindell.bsky.social · 9h
And the rest is Line Of Happy Vigil Valley Duty.
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e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 13h
on a long enough timeline, everyone gets musked www.the-independent.com/life-style/e...
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Elon Musk’s partner Shivon Zilis says he ended relationship with ‘no warning’
Zilis and Musk share four children together
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Tomas Hirst @tomashirstecon.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Well would you look at that, yet another awful downstream consequence of letting crypto proliferate www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
bbc.co.uk
Crypto thieves attacked man in home and threatened to kill pregnant wife's baby in 'horrific' robbery
The man was beaten with hammers until he transferred hundreds of thousands of pounds of cryptocurrency.
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Ryan CrawCour @ryan.crawcour.social · 01/10/2026
BREAKING NEWS: Tensions between Thor and the Care Bears have escalated rapidly overnight.
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 18h
Everyone involved in this process — including the Palantir employees — have to be investigated and probably go to jail.
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Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 20h
A perfect pretext for impeachment does not exis—
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Fr Chase 🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁 @kalanthropos.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
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Dhruv Mehrotra @dmehro.bsky.social · 20h
NEW: DHS agents tracked people observing ICE arrests, photographed them, ran their plates, pulled personal information, and added them to a Palantir database, according to newly unsealed court filings. w/ @regret.bsky.social
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ICE Has Been Dumping Protester Photos Into a Palantir Database
DHS agents not only tracked and intimidated people observing ICE activity in Maine, but stored information about them in a Palantir-built database, newly unsealed court filings say.
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FactPost @factpostnews.bsky.social · 22h
Trump refuses to turn his camera on at the G7 summit
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 22h
Poland’s Defence Ministry is drafting a law to prepare the state for a “pre-war” or full defence-readiness phase before martial law is formally declared, Rzeczpospolita reports.
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Toby Earle 🇺🇦 @tobyontv.bsky.social · 23h
those behind this terrorist’s radicalisation must be rooted out www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
bbc.co.uk
Man jailed for 15 years over Sidcup Ulez camera blast
Kevin Rees, 63, faces a tougher sentence because the offence had a "terrorism connection".
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Ken Tindell @kentindell.bsky.social · 23h
The word “Brexit” was coined as a joke on the word “Grexit” from back in the Eurozone crisis. Now that we are finally able to contemplate the undoing of the unfunny Brexit joke, I do hope that Grexit won’t make a re-appearance.
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Greece on the brink of financial disaster & could spark 'EU RUPTURE'
A ‘GREXIT’ could be on the cards as Greece teeters once again on the brink of financial crisis.
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FOHF @fohf.bsky.social · 23h
There has to be a German compound word for “coming back sheepishly with our tails between our legs” that we can add “Br” to the beginning of.
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Ken Tindell @kentindell.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
“Lisa, in this household we obey the laws of temporal monotonicity!”
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'Dangerous': Experts may soon have to delete a second from time – and it could cause global chaos — BBC Science Focus Magazine
The Earth is spinning faster than usual, and it may make computers lose track of what time it is
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Dan Thomas @itsdanthomas.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
The most disappointing video you’ll see today.
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Simon Kuestenmacher @simongerman600.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Just a little joke for the history buffs out there...
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Michael Savage @michaelsavage.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
NEW: Celebrity Traitors debut draws almost 9m viewers and more than half of TV audience - almost 3m MORE than last series. It got *83.5% share* of 16-34 age group watching TV in that time slot. The show provides an increasingly rare national TV moment. www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...
theguardian.com
Celebrity Traitors debut draws almost 9m viewers and more than half of TV audience
Series opener had 3m more viewers than last year to see Claudia Winkleman select the first batch of traitors
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Ken Tindell @kentindell.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
“America boasted it has engaged in piracy on the high seas” There, FTFY
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Wrote yesterday about a Russian Mi-8 coming down in Voronezh, killing all three crew members. Turns out the Russians shot it down themselves. Again. An Su-35 mistook it for a drone.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 01/10/2026
Trump: "Nobody knows that dumb has a B on the end"
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Andy Scollick @andyscollick.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
F*cking hilarious. Like listening to Hitler joking with Heydrich about Zyklon B not working.
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Oz Katerji @ozkaterji.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Russia has bombed a school basically every single day this week, so for those people who say "if this was happening in Ukraine, it would be on the front pages every day", how many times have you seen that on the front page of even one of your national newspapers this week? Zero.
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Nathan Tankus @nathantankus.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Not the least bit surprising but still extremely grim to read. time.com/article/2026...
Since returning to office, Trump has marveled at AI’s capabilities. He is increasingly in thrall to the tech executives courting him. In December 2025, Elon Musk returned to the Oval Office for a clandestine meeting. Trump spent hours asking Grok, Musk’s AI chatbot, questions about his presidency and legacy, according to an official present. At the time, Trump was ordering missile strikes against Venezuelan boats he alleged were smuggling drugs into the U.S. He asked Grok how Venezuelans would react if the U.S. captured Maduro. According to the official present, the chatbot responded that Maduro was a repressive and deeply unpopular dictator and that many Venezuelans would likely celebrate his downfall. After Trump ordered the mission to seize Maduro, the following month, celebrations broke out in the streets. Trump, according to officials, came away thinking Grok was ingenious.
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Will Hedges-Tucker @willght93.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Someone on here said they say ‘it’s that band I was telling you about!’ to their partner whenever they hear the Beatles being played anywhere. I have done this to my wife several times now and she does not appreciate it
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Andy Scollick @andyscollick.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
The banality of evil (Arendt)
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Jo Michell @jomichell.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
That's a lot of IT capex.
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Anthony Painter @anthonypainter.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Now this is what take back control looks like. And Manchester has created a data and logistics health stack that doesn't rely on Palantir and superior to it. No reason why this can't happen across all UK public services. For security. And frankly decency. giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...
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Andy Burnham searches for UK alternative to Palantir
Prime minister’s ‘buy British’ push triggers hunt to find replacement for controversial US tech group awarded health service and defence contracts
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Katie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 01/10/2026
Bonds on the splash again lads. They only do this when they are very upset
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
His vocabulary is so limited it’s like reading a transcript of Koko, the gorilla who knew sign language, if Koko were a white nationalist
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TechCrunch @techcrunch.com · 01/10/2026
California governor vetoes bill banning use of ‘pervert glasses’ to secretly record people
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California governor vetoes bill banning use of ‘pervert glasses’ to secretly record people
The California state bill would have penalized people who secretly recorded people in public with wearables equipped with cameras and microphones.
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Ton Aarts @tonaarts.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Probably just one more software update After ~120 cyclists and pedestrians killed by a Tesla, now uk.news.yahoo.com/cyclist-seri...
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Cyclist seriously injured in collision with blue Tesla in Poole
A cyclist in his 30s was seriously injured in a collision with a car in Poole.
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Jack Stilgoe @jackstilgoe.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Sad. A moment of accidental honesty, naming it after a famous scam, launched with the slogan "artificial artificial intelligence"
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Ken Tindell @kentindell.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
The Nerobefehl.
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Ken Tindell @kentindell.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Lancet report: “Elon Musk’s USAID cuts will cause 4.5m child deaths” Elon Musk: “Hold my beer”
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Pete Hegseth appoints Elon Musk to US taskforce on future of warfare — The Guardian
A year after his explosive tenure at Doge, the SpaceX CEO is back in the Trump administration’s good graces
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Dmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 01/10/2026
Me: "Maybe we should cut these chapters on customs unions and single markets, they're a bit technical and no one will care now that Brexit is behind us, right?" My editor, for whom the future has no secrets: "Fool! All that once was will come again. There are no endings on the Wheel of Brexit."
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 30/09/2026
I for one think it’s bad that the president can just say crazy stuff all day every day and 99% of it doesn’t make the news because we’ve normalized having an insane president
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Morten Morland @mortenmorland.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Thursday’s @thetimes.com cartoon times.newsprints.co.uk/morten-morla...
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Ken Tindell @kentindell.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
That’s one sick society.
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US death row inmate Christa Pike taken to hospital after surviving two lethal injections, says lawyer — BBC News
Her lawyer says Pike is being "provided life-saving measures" after two syringes of pentobarbital.
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BrokenBanker @brokenbanker.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Mick Herron has written nine main novels and five novellas in his Slow Horses (Slough House) series. we are only half way through Season 6 of the TV adaptations:
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Lora Kolodny @lorak.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
this is horrifying and in the name of the law nonetheless.
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