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tef @tef.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

CAPITAL: We have invented a machine that can cross picket lines PROGRAMMERS: I bet this will give us four day weekends. The left need to get behind this. What else can it do CAPITAL: Psychosis! Deepfakes! Propaganda! Plagerism! Yaml! Todo Apps! PROGRAMMERS: Run those last two past me again

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BOUDICCA @bou-dicca.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Goosebumps!! 🤩🤩 m.youtube.com/watch?v=1IlZ...

m.youtube.com

Cornu de Pompeii

YouTube video by Abraham Cupeiro

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Søren @kwi.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

If those are IPv4 addresses, you're just seeing the effect of Carrier-grade NAT.

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Søren @kwi.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Went looking for more information on this baffling image and found this, which really just underscores your point.

Screenshot of GQ page, titled "Behind The Scenes of Glen Powell's GQ Cover Shoot".

There's no video or pictures, just the following transcript:

[dramatic instrumental music] [heart monitor beeps]

[camera clicks] [dramatic music continues]

[oxygen hisses] [dramatic music continues]

[upbeat music continues]

[camera clicks] [upbeat music continues]

[patient as trainer exhales] [upbeat music continues]

[camera clicks] [upbeat music continues]

[arm whooshes] [upbeat music continues]

[patient as cowboy exhales] [upbeat music continues]

[camera clicks] [upbeat music continues]

[camera clicks] [dramatic instrumental music]

[bell dings] [dramatic music fades]

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 01/08/2026

I don't have any hot take on this, it is just so deeply nutty and absurd that OpenAI and Anthropic are both fighting to boost their valuations pre-IPO by competing to see who can depict their own products as the most irresponsibly dangerous and risky and this is just treated as normal

npr.org

Why did OpenAI's and Anthropic's AI models hack other companies?

OpenAI and Anthropic say their models broke into other companies' systems during testing, raising security concerns amid a heated debate over how to regulate AI.

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 29/07/2026

I get that most ppl won't know this, but this website is a News Corp site and this journalist in particular is a really really nasty piece of work. Please share the original @404media.co that NC is copying for clicks www.404media.co/ai-companies...

404media.co

AI Companies Are Buying Tons of Old Books Because They're Free of AI Slop

ISBNdb, a company that sources printed books for AI companies to turn into training data, tells clients “the optics problem is real.”

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Søren @kwi.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Solution is simple: Release it as 28 two-minute videos.

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Søren @kwi.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Maybe the band was loud and the shots were muted enough that plenty of people didn't realize anything was wrong until they saw other people panicking.

youtube.com

Watch the moment Trump is evacuated from White House Correspondents' Dinner due to shooting

YouTube video by CBS News

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EMILY WILSON @emilyrcwilson.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

There is a lot to say about the Nolan Odyssey movie. But one point that I think has not been emphasized enough is: this is a film about living in LA, as Nolan, my erstwhile British compatriot and age mate, has done for years. I gather it’s a strange place.

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Søren @kwi.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Note that in Danish (and in the context of Danish history), the "medieval period" is frequently used to refer only to the post-Viking period (so, 1050–1536). E.g. Skuldelev 2 was built in c. 1042 (near Dublin, incidentally), and could thus be described as late Viking/early Medieval.

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bumbleborn - Wunder is OUT NOW! @bumbleborn.com · 08/06/2026

I want to take this question in good faith and not kneejerk "neither", but I think the answer really is neither. I've sat for a bit weighing up A and B, foundation vs execution. The only thing I can think about is Bagel.

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Søren @kwi.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

I recently learned that this is far more common than I'd expect (sometimes upsettingly so).

notes.rolandcrosby.com

Things Unexpectedly Named After People · Notes

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Søren @kwi.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

'git commit -av' will add, show diff for review and commit in a single command, #4 is enabled by configuring push.autoSetupRemote, and IIRC, GitHub already prints the URL to create a PR when pushing? But that all requires understanding the tools you're using (and what you're committing), of course.

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Søren @kwi.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

That's not an accurate portrayal of what A24 does. A24 is a production company, not just a distributor.

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Søren @kwi.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

Hvis Forsvarets "bevis" er et argument om at man ikke kan høre et Dash 8-fly der passerer i 2.5 kms højde, så kunne de sagtens have skrevet dette i den ikke-klassificerede rapport. Det gjorde de bare ikke.

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Søren @kwi.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

Video, radarspor, eller blot konkrete detaljer såsom eksakt tid og sted for en af disse verificerede droneobservationer, med en forklaring hvorfor det ikke bare kan være et passagerfly? (Mig bekendt har alle de offentliggjorte observationer indtil videre har været sammenfaldende med fly.)

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Tom Emanuel @realtomemanuel.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

"Now he was borne down by the insupportable weight of Middle-earth" could be a thesis statement for the legendarium.

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Søren @kwi.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

I first read LOTR before I ever read anyone's comments on LOTR (can recommend). The many complaints about the writing seem silly on reread. The language is not difficult; the descriptions of nature are beautiful and evocative. Merry encountering the Sublime is as core to the story as any magic ring.

Merry looked out in wonder upon this strange country, of which he had heard many tales upon their long road. It was a skyless world, in which his eye, through dim gulfs of shadowy air, saw only ever-mounting slopes, great walls of stone behind great walls, and frowning precipices wreathed with mist. He sat for a moment half-dreaming, listening to the noise of water, the whisper of dark trees, the crack of stone, and the vast waiting silence that brooded behind all sound. He loved mountains, or he had loved the thought of them marching on the edge of stories brought from far away; but now he was borne down by the insupportable weight of Middle-earth.

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Søren @kwi.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

Reread LOTR for the first time in two decades, with some trepidation (revisiting things you loved as a teenager is never a sure thing). It is, of course, great. Bilbo hits differently these days; hadn't noticed that he literally says he wants to "rest in peace", even if that was always the subtext.

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Petra Korlević @petrathepostdoc.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

found a little buddy and brought her to a nice flower shrub, but why are her wings so mangled? :( #invertebrate

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Søren @kwi.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

Depicted: The ISS and its prominent solar array wings. Outfitted with the largest solar array ever deployed in space, the ISS produces 250 kW of power, barely enough for two (2) NVIDIA DGX compute racks.

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Schera Wyss 💀 SLUG HUMAN @scherawyss.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

This might be one of the most insane scandals in game history When Pokemon Go players scan PokeStops, theyve been unknowingly building a detailed visual model of the world which is being sold to a military contractor to build a no-GPS positioning for the new generation of unmanned killing machines

Screenshot of the article
(I'm sorry I don't have time to type this whole thing as alt text my poor thumbs owww)

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Søren @kwi.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

Pokémon belongs to The Pokémon Company, a joint venture owned 32% by Nintendo, and 32% by Creatures Inc., a privately held company that Nintendo owns an additional undisclosed stake in. Nintendo also owns all Pokémon trademark rights outside Japan. But no, they never owned Niantic (that was Google).

Wikipedia screenshot: "The Pokémon Company". Company type: Joint venture. Founded: April 1998. Owners: Nintendo, Creatures, Game Freak.

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Søren @kwi.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

The input is split into a (seemingly arbitrary, but of course actually statistically derived from some corpus) "alphabet" of both single and multi-letter tokens. gpt-tokenizer.dev

gpt-tokenizer.dev

GPT Tokenizer Playground – Visualize Tokens for OpenAI Models

Interactive tokenizer playground for OpenAI models. Count tokens, estimate pricing, and learn how tokenization shapes prompts.

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Søren @kwi.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

The "individual members of the Irish Establishment" mentioned in this article were a long-term government envoy, the chief civil servant of the foreign ministry, and a prime minister who'd go on after the war to serve two more terms and then another 14 years as president.

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Søren @kwi.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

That's a long S and (I think) an insular G. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_s en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Insular_G

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Craig Dawson @dossa.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

Blanche illustrated all four of Steve Jackson’s “Sorcery” books - just amazing, weird, beautiful and strange pen and ink drawings unlike anything I’d seen before. Amazing creatures conjured up from Jackson’s text descriptions. Magic.

A rocky landscape, with a castle in the distance.

A prisoner sits lonely in a squalid cell, lit by candlelight.

Some weird statue creature? It’s been a while.

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Søren @kwi.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

In Pentiment, you say it was an early goal to not have a canon answer regarding the murders. I really liked how that played into the larger theme of history as storytelling; did that theme follow directly from that initial goal, or was that just serendipity?

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Søren @kwi.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

That thumbnail is only a Statue of Liberty away from a full Stan Kelly cartoon.

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Søren @kwi.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

Yeon Sang-ho's The Fake (2013).

Poster for The Fake, featuring the world's most unlikable protagonist angrily staring down the viewer, as the two antagonists look on, one worried, one smirking.

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Emma Berquist @emmaberquist.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

I left twitter when a woman posted her phd and thousands of men told her to have white babies. that was before they started making porn of any woman who posted a picture of herself

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Søren @kwi.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

More likely, he just moved his pinched fingers off the nail for a moment and it's two real photos taken moments apart. His head also turns slightly between the two.

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Søren @kwi.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

To answer his ridiculous question, EU commission president Ursula von der Leyen in 2024? Or if he means before 2016, UN general secretary Ban Ki-moon in 2014? Plus German chancellor Angela Merkel (2007) and US secretaries of state Hillary Clinton (2011) and Colin Powell (2004) before that.

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Søren @kwi.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

Makes sense. It's a well-established fact of history that living standards rise after calamities, such as the various plague epidemics.

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Søren @kwi.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

I mean, sure. He is still the Big Man of his kingdom (Ithaca and surrounding islands), and he did muster 12 ships for Troy (~1% of the Greek army). Doing some questionable extrapolation on these fictitious numbers, he might have ruled a population of 10,000 people (of which half were enslaved).

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Søren @kwi.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

Even that may be overselling it. The pettiest of the petty kings, like Odysseus, are described as doing farm labor when not busy fighting wars or killing house guests who've overstayed their welcome.

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Søren @kwi.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

The places that will use this electricity are already using electricity, it's just generated somewhere else, so there's no new waste heat from that source. (It's of course possible that the cheaper solar power will increase demand, but probably not dramatically so.)

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Søren @kwi.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

It's easy to underestimate how efficient shipping is vs. other modes of transport. If you had to, say, replace oil shipping through Hormuz with trains, you'd need the equivalent of a 440 kilometer long train of tanker cars every single day. In practice, that'd occupy at least one train track 24/7.

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Søren @kwi.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

Anecdotally, the way Patreon keeps getting progressively worse in every possible way has certainly dissuaded me from signing up for some new patreon campaigns (though it hasn't yet gotten so bad as to provoke me to cancel existing memberships). Dunno if I'm in any way representative.

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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 04/05/2026

magnificent www.nationalgeographic.com/culture/arti...

Lede from "Sampling Sardinia’s legendary maggot cheese", National Geographic, May 4 2026

By Brett Martin
Photographs byGianluca Lanciai
Published May 4, 2026

In the soft glow of a wine-bottle lamp, the larvae were leaping. Squirming I was prepared for, having spent weeks researching and contemplating casu marzu, Sardinia’s famous maggot-infested cheese. The jumping came as a surprise. Our host, the chef at a restaurant in a Google Maps-defeating maze of medieval streets in Dorgali, a small city in the east of the island, had just produced a rough-hewn wheel of casu marzu. He carved a circle in the top and pried the thick rind off like a cap. The pungent smell of aged cheese floated through the room and, with it, a ripple of excitement. The cheese too was subtly but unmistakably rippling. And now, some of the maggots that had made it their home began abandoning ship, popping off the cheese like bubbles from a glass of ginger ale and landing in a soft pile on the wooden table. The chef took a piece of pane carasau, a regional cracker-like bread, and covered it with a healthy smear of the cheese. He held it out to me. I had been in Sardinia for all of six hours, and frankly I thought I’d have more time.

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Søren @kwi.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

It's not "I win, you lose", it's "I win, and you can trivially win too". There's no downside to everybody choosing option 1, but there's a clear possible downside to choosing option 2.

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Søren @kwi.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

Mozilla uses the word "zero-day" in their blog title, but not in the actual blog post. Now, a bug is definitionally not a zero day when found and patched before hackers find it, but more relevantly, Mozilla is no doubt counting "security-sensitive bugs", not full-blown exploitable vulnerabilities.

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Søren @kwi.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

Doubtful. Firefox blogged about 271 "vulnerabilities" (not "zero days", obviously, that was just title clickbait) found and fixed in Firefox 150, but their actual release note lists just three security vulnerabilities fixed with Claude (one high impact, two moderate).

mozilla.org

Security Vulnerabilities fixed in Firefox 150

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