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Leszek Karlik @leszek-karlik.circumstances.run.ap.brid.gy · 19/10/2026

@WeirdWriter Also the representation of journalism in fiction can be pretty atrocious. I mean, we started watching Sharp Objects (the HBO mini-series with Amy Adams) with my wife, who works in journalism, and she just couldn't progress past the first episode. (Season 5 of the Wire, OTOH...)

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Ali @ali.river.geek.nz.ap.brid.gy · 16/10/2026

Brendan Larsen from Ngāmotu in Aotearoa and a member of the New Plymouth Astronomical Society took this stack over a couple of hours and estimates 14000 satellite trails. This is how bad it is now, it's set to get much much much worse - and then we lose Low […] [Original post on river.geek.nz]

Stacked series of long exposure astro landscape images depicting thousands and thousands of trails from satellites over the conical volcano Taranaki Maunga in Aotearoa New Zealand.

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Leszek Karlik @leszek-karlik.circumstances.run.ap.brid.gy · 15/10/2026

@psztymucel.eurosky.social Wiedzieliśmy, matce i teściom już poleciłem :-) Co więcej, są teraz też badania pokazujące, że zmniejsza ryzyko problemów sercowo-naczyniowych.

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Leszek Karlik @leszek-karlik.circumstances.run.ap.brid.gy · 12/10/2026

@psztymucel.eurosky.social @cstross Na razie tylko hardcover w przedsprzedaży, ale tak, Rebis sprzedaje swoje książki w ebooku, to nie Vesper :-)

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Leszek Karlik @leszek-karlik.circumstances.run.ap.brid.gy · 12/10/2026

Od jutra w wydawnictwie REBIS można kupić „Dzieci Saturna” Charlesa Strossa w moim tłumaczeniu, space operę (i jednocześnie hard SF) o cywilizacji robotów, która została w układzie Słonecznym po wymarciu ludzkości (czyli coś o długoterminowych […] [Original post on circumstances.run]

Piesek Laki na kanapie z egzemplarzami autorskimi Dzieci Saturna

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Leszek Karlik @leszek-karlik.circumstances.run.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2026

Jako że jest jesień, to warto się zaszczepić, dziabnąłem się już na grypę (w tym roku zamiast na cztery wersje grypy szczepionka jest tylko na trzy, bo jeden szczep okazał się zbyt miękki i wymarł) i na COVID (w Polsce dostajemy Spikevax XFG). Szczepionka […] [Original post on circumstances.run]

Zdjęcie szpica miniaturowego stojącego przed otwartymi drzwiami do apteki, na których jest zakaz wstępu dla psów, z prawej strony duży napis "PUNKT SZCZEPIEŃ".

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

There aren't many days when you can kayak off Start Point, renowned for one of Britain's most dangerous tidal races. But yesterday the stars aligned, so I bunked off work. Delighted to see Rupert Kirkwood (the Lone Kayaker) out there. He took this picture of me +1. Before you ask: yes, it's real. 🧵

In my kayak, watching a bluefin tuna leaping beside me.

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Leszek Karlik @leszek-karlik.circumstances.run.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2026

RE: sfba.social/@not2b/1173682896958754… It is really sad that IT nerds already used the name "daemon" for something completely not daemon-like, since it would be perfect for moronic LLMs modern sorcerers try to control with their spells, sorry, prompts.

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Leszek Karlik @leszek-karlik.circumstances.run.ap.brid.gy · 29/09/2026

@Kjaerulv Nah, just like in China, only the ones the regime wants gone would be murdered by the state. Since Big Techs have bent their knee to Trump, they would be fine.

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Leszek Karlik @leszek-karlik.circumstances.run.ap.brid.gy · 28/09/2026

@wonziu Ona jest obecnie asystentką, jest oficjalnie na liście płac Białego Domu, przeszła w końcu security clearance itp. ale bardzo długi czas nie chciała. A na to pole golfowe gdzie jest fotka jak zapierdala na piechotę to pojechała w bagażniku SUVa bo nie było dla niej miejsca w żadnym […]

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Kay Burki @burkay.fedi.at.ap.brid.gy · 24/09/2026

Sign the European Citizens' Initiative: Fast, convenient, affordable, and above all climate-friendly transportation for all Europeans. #railways #EU #Europe #TrainTravel #Verkehrswende #Kostenwahrheit citizens-initiative.europa.eu/initi…

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Leszek Karlik @leszek-karlik.circumstances.run.ap.brid.gy · 19/09/2026

Why is Mitch McConnell doddering around Washington DC picking up small stones? Because the technicians accidentaly uploaded Moon Rover software into his head. (Soviet-era jokes are now weirdly appropriate to the US)

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Leszek Karlik @leszek-karlik.circumstances.run.ap.brid.gy · 13/09/2026

@Hex As noted by @cstross a long time ago, corporations are just hive minds with non-human goals, we've been living in slow-motion paperclip-maximizing scenario since the dawn of Industrial Revolution. www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-stati…

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Theodora Ward @theodoraward.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 12/09/2026

if i rig up a random number generator to a bomb, program it to generate a number between 1 and 20 every five minutes, set the bomb to go off if i roll a 20, begin the random number generator, then leave the room, i am liable for when the bomb goes off. the fact that a deeply stupid […]

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Leszek Karlik @leszek-karlik.circumstances.run.ap.brid.gy · 06/09/2026

@psztymucel.eurosky.social Nigdy nie znalazłem. Ja bym zasilikonował miejsca w których kabelek wchodzi a potem owinął taśmą samowulkanizującą.

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myrmepropagandist @futurebird.sauropods.win.ap.brid.gy · 02/09/2026

It is likely that these companies *do* keep copies for future training. But they don't want to share this data or make it searchable by the public. If someone destroys an old rare book to scan it the public should get a copy of the scan. This is about protecting our culture, history, and […]

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flere-imsaho 🇺🇦 @mawhrin.fedi.circumstances.run · 27/08/2026

viable alternatives: * @drew's vim-classic, a fork of vim 8.3 code base, * @mrmasterkeyboard's evi, a fork of pre-vibe-coding vim 9.1 codebase

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Leszek Karlik @leszek-karlik.circumstances.run.ap.brid.gy · 21/08/2026

@juliette As a compromise I can get behind mandatory e-scooter helmet laws. Oh no, e-scooter share programs are impacted? Woe woe ;-) (But no mandatory bike helmets, obviously)

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blogdebart.eurosky.social @blogdebart.eurosky.social · 24/07/2026

Na drugą nóżkę: finansowanie straciło badanie, w którym już wstępne wyniki pokazywały, że wymiana kuchenki z gazowej na elektryczną poprawia stan chorych na astmę bardziej niż niektóre leki. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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Replacing gas stove can help asthmatics as much as some drugs, US experts find

Team in Ohio finds swapping to electric has ‘very large’ impact, despite study being scaled back by Trump cuts

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Low Quality Facts @lowqualityfacts.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 21/07/2026

Today's Low Quality Ad is for this "Say Perhaps To Drugs" Pin. No, I am not encouraging you to do drugs. That would be highly irresponsible of me. I am simply encouraging you to *consider* doing drugs. collabs.shop/6fftbo

A rectangular black enamel pin with white and red text that reads "SAY PERHAPS TO DRUGS."

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Mateusz @murawski.mastodon.com.pl.ap.brid.gy · 21/07/2026

Daję dłuższy fragment, bo to jest bardzo na czasie w związku z ostatnimi zmianami na przykład w pyszne.pl i problemami kurierów. Świetną metaforę dzisiejszej ekonomii technologii można znaleźć w mandze “Battle Angel Alita”. Świat był tam podzielony na dwie części: lśniące, podniebne miasto […]

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Leszek Karlik @leszek-karlik.circumstances.run.ap.brid.gy · 13/07/2026

@aemstuz Ja mam Sony WH1000XM4, ANC super, dobrze się składają (czego nie ma XM5), niestety nie mają przycisków do sterowania tylko panel dotykowy, przyciski tylko on/off oraz zmiana trybu wyciszania. Problemem serii WH1000XM jest niestety mikrofon, w sensie jest, ale bardzo dobrze zbiera […]

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Leszek Karlik @leszek-karlik.circumstances.run.ap.brid.gy · 02/07/2026

@Hex LLM training is basically capitalism strip-mining human intellectual achievements (and leaving behind a polluted mess, since human-generated World Wide Web was used to train the slop generators and now we don't have that anymore as a significant fraction of WWW is now generated slop).

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Leszek Karlik @leszek-karlik.circumstances.run.ap.brid.gy · 27/06/2026

I'm re-reading Neptune's Brood by @cstross and this quote hits a bit harder nowadays than when it was written in 2013, in the era before the slop engines: "As I said, these things bore only a thin veneer of intelligence: Once you crack the ice and tumble into the howling void of thoughtlessness […]

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Dawid Bojarski @spikain.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

Widzę wasze niezadowolenie cenami Steam Machine, ale musicie zrozumieć, że taki jest koszt wolności* *wolności waszego starego do tego, by LLM okłamał go w sprawie wartości odżywczych pianki montażowej

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Jürgen Hubert @juergen-hubert.mementomori.social.ap.brid.gy · 20/06/2026

[Sexual molestation by Elon Musk] "In 2022, Business Insider reported that Musk exposed himself to a flight attendant on his jet, rubbed her leg, and offered to buy her a horse if she would give him a hand job. (Note that many men do not have to offer to exchange horses for hand jobs, because […]

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Leszek Karlik @leszek-karlik.circumstances.run.ap.brid.gy · 19/06/2026

"Hahaha, those people long time ago, they were so silly, giving heroin to children as a cough remedy! ChatGPT, can you explain this to me?"

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kravietz 🦇 @kravietz.agora.echelon.pl.ap.brid.gy · 11/06/2026

#Russia state TV aired a program about #Ukraine crowdfunder Serhii Sternenko, calling him “terrorist Sternenko” because he collects money for drones, but they did not in any way obscure the QR code in original Sternenko videos. Sternenko praised this effort […] [Original post on agora.echelon.pl]

Still frame from Sternenko's interview with another activist, Misha Pravilnyi, with the QR code visible in the corner

Still frame from Russian TV where they show Sternenko's interview in the background, calling him "terrorist"

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tante @tante.tldr.nettime.org.ap.brid.gy · 03/06/2026

Another banger by Ted Chiang on "AI": "Employing philosophers might endow LLM companies with an air of respectability that slot-machine makers don’t get from the behavioral psychologists they hire, but in both cases the companies are preying on people’s tendency to see something that’s not […]

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Leszek Karlik @leszek-karlik.circumstances.run.ap.brid.gy · 28/05/2026

@mrundkvist I use KOReader on my Kobo H2O, had no upgrades recently (updating Kobo firmware means having to reinstall KOReader so I would notice).

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Leszek Karlik @leszek-karlik.circumstances.run.ap.brid.gy · 16/05/2026

@fatsam Meritocracy is a scam, a drop-in replacement for aristocracy. There's simply no single "merit" you can use to characterise a human being and reward them for it somehow. Instead, what we get is elite gatekeeping ensuring that the institutions that produce this "merit" serve mostly the […]

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Prof. Sam Lawler @sundogplanets.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/10/2025

It's becoming increasingly clear to me that Reflect Orbital's fucking stupid giant mirror satellite, with absolutely NOTHING useful to offer, which will cause countless safety issues, ecological disasters, and destroy the night sky, is going to launch. A bunch of astronomers and I have sent out […]

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Leszek Karlik @leszek-karlik.circumstances.run.ap.brid.gy · 09/04/2026

@kravietz Fun fact: the US spent hundreds of billions building advanced centrifuges to expand their uranium enrichment capacity. Then, during the Obama presidency, they decided they don't need this much enrichment capacity because Russian enrichment is much cheaper, so they defunded the Piketon […]

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Leszek Karlik @leszek-karlik.circumstances.run.ap.brid.gy · 04/04/2026

@cycling_on_rails @HaTetsu @marudor @bovine3dom @chuuchuu Not so fun fact: recently some people in Poland discovered that Portal Pasażera, the PKP website showing train delays introduces random distortions when it thinks it's being scraped. I think they stopped after it was revealed but I'm […]

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Leszek Karlik @leszek-karlik.circumstances.run.ap.brid.gy · 01/04/2026

@Hex My position was always "human rights are for everyone, even billionaires", which means no death penalty, but life of community service and never having any wealth is a much more severe punishment than death anyway (for the utility monsters that are the wealthmaxxers).

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Dr. Maddkap, Werepsychologist @drmaddkap.meow.social.ap.brid.gy · 29/03/2026

I’m rewatching old Star Trek episodes to see which ones pass the B’kdel Test: (1) Two named Klingons (2) Talking to each other (3) About something other than honor

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m0bi ⁂ @m0bi.mastodon.com.pl.ap.brid.gy · 10/03/2026

📰 "Czy to pierwsza wojna światowa Broligarchii? Broń sterowana sztuczną inteligencją, dwaj niekontrolowani autorytarni przywódcy, brak władzy prawnej i toksyczna mieszanka męskości: witamy w pierwszym poważnym konflikcie manosfery. Sztuczna inteligencja, podobnie jak wojna, jest kolejną […]

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Jan Jęcz @jeczjan.eurosky.social · 09/03/2026

Cześć, słyszałem, że lubicie linki do tekstów, więc podsyłam link do tekstu z linkami do tekstów (spośród których wiele też ma linki do tekstów) open.substack.com/pub/jeczjan/...

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Mizoginia w Dolinie Krzemowej, od internetu kabel i Klaudiusz (ale nie Ševković)

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kravietz 🦇 @kravietz.agora.echelon.pl.ap.brid.gy · 04/03/2026

An interesting case study in drone wars - last year #Germany passed a series of XC-2 assault drones (X-wing style) to #Ukraine, and these were susceptible to jamming and electronic warfare (EW), duly reported by #Russia channels with jokes and ironic comments. German manufacturer took the […]

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Leszek Karlik @leszek-karlik.circumstances.run.ap.brid.gy · 10/02/2026

@collectifission It's also more than 12 hours per day: the X-Link project assumes tracking solar, a very large wind farm and 22 GWh of battery storage, enabling the cable to be used at full capacity for 19 hours a day. Might be overly optimistic, of course, but battery storage and wind do […]

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Leszek Karlik @leszek-karlik.circumstances.run.ap.brid.gy · 09/02/2026

The future I want: Fully Automated Luxury Gay Space Communism. The future I seem to be getting: Fully Automated Luxury (for 1%) Heterosexual Boiled-Earth Authoritarianism. The part that gets fully automated is the authoritarian oppression.

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Leszek Karlik @leszek-karlik.circumstances.run.ap.brid.gy · 03/02/2026

@aemstuz @m0bi Niekoniecznie, mogą po prostu wykorzystać swoją dogłębną znajomość każdego użytkownika. Serio, przy poziomie inwigilacji przeciętnego usera przez Big Techy stwierdzenie "ten użytkownik jest ośmiolatkiem" a "ten użytkownik ma trzydzieści lat" jest trywialne. Czy będą wyniki […]

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Leszek Karlik @leszek-karlik.circumstances.run.ap.brid.gy · 02/02/2026

@kravietz So, they pay less than 15 hours of profits of Alphabet. THAT WILL TEACH THEM ;-) It's like Jeff Bezos having a 6-meters tall fence around his Beverly Hills house, which is contrary to local regulations. The fine is 1000 USD per month, which he pays.

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