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Liam Proven @lproven.social.vivaldi.net.ap.brid.gy · 22/10/2026

RT @RobotLyra I love lagomorphs, because on the one side you have sweet round bois, and on the other side you have feral wilderness prophets who have gone mad with the knowledge of the universe

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Liam Proven @lproven.social.vivaldi.net.ap.brid.gy · 17/10/2026

Do we think this could work on a T-shirt? Maybe on the back... "Thou shalt not make a machine in the likeness of a human mind"...?

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Liam Proven @lproven.social.vivaldi.net.ap.brid.gy · 19/09/2026

@system76 I have a tiny suggestion for COSMIC. In the Settings > About > Details screen, where it says "Desktop: COSMIC" -- which is not very useful at all -- it would be very handy if that also contained the version number.

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Liam Proven @lproven.social.vivaldi.net.ap.brid.gy · 19/09/2026

@isleofmandan Nice one. Boosted, and on BSky and Twitter too. And while I am at it... #neverSlop (HT @prahou)

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Liam Proven @lproven.social.vivaldi.net.ap.brid.gy · 05/09/2026

El Niño is now stronger than at any point in the last 1,000 years, study finds arstechnica.com/science/2026/08/el-… <- look where it's pointing. The context is this map:

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Liam Proven @lproven.social.vivaldi.net.ap.brid.gy · 04/09/2026

@zzt > it pumped out a couple of utterly vacuous mathematical proofs instead? www.smbc-comics.com/comic/case

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Liam Proven @lproven.social.vivaldi.net.ap.brid.gy · 30/08/2026

Poll! I have spent some time investigating how to turn Xfce into a layout resembling macOS and Ubuntu Unity. The pic is on Debian 13. I have it working fairly well now: global menu bar, dock with indicators, etc. Would many people be interested in an article on how to do this?

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Liam Proven @lproven.social.vivaldi.net.ap.brid.gy · 28/08/2026

A small but amusing personal milestone on The Orange Site...

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Liam Proven @lproven.social.vivaldi.net.ap.brid.gy · 27/08/2026

I think @flick especially will appreciate this splendid saddle.

Facebook marketplace listing for a dressage saddle. Pic is very poor bot slop - a bizarre unindentifiable non-euclidean shape in brown leather.

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Liam Proven @lproven.social.vivaldi.net.ap.brid.gy · 26/08/2026

RT @brianoneill.bsky.social Honestly, if this somehow wrecks Mar-a-Lago a lot of long-held beliefs I have about the afterlife will be hastily reconsidered.

Southern Maryland Weather Center
@SOMDWXCENTER

Hurricane Dolly now has a high chance of forming in the Tropical Atlantic.

In an unbelievable coincidence, Dolly is the next name on the Atlantic hurricane list, and country music legend Dolly Parton passed away today at age 80 in Nashville, Tennessee.

Invest 96L currently has a 70% chance of development as it moves across the Tropical Atlantic.

If this system becomes a tropical storm, it will be named Dolly.

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Liam Proven @lproven.social.vivaldi.net.ap.brid.gy · 24/08/2026

The Hidden Debt That Apple Owes to the CIA www.wsj.com/tech/steve-jobs-apple-n… Without CIA funding that helped keep NeXT afloat in the ’80s, Steve Jobs might not have made a triumphant return to Apple—and the iPhone might not have its foundational operating code.

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Liam Proven @lproven.social.vivaldi.net.ap.brid.gy · 10/08/2026

RT @postmodern_iconoclast on Threads Order your jar of AI Polish today. Now you can polish a turd, or at least make your creative slop shine. One quick rub adds instant gloss, borrowed confidence, and enough sparkle to distract from what’s underneath. It […] [Original post on social.vivaldi.net]

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Liam Proven @lproven.social.vivaldi.net.ap.brid.gy · 09/08/2026

From @blcksmth on Instagram via Reddit Woke up with a truth-ache (quote by @alluring, overlaid on a mural by @tylershrakepaints. thanks to @noltintin and @nutritionalboy for the assist)

AI is popular because it gives dumb people the illusion they are smart and uncreative people the illusion they are artistic.

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Liam Proven @lproven.social.vivaldi.net.ap.brid.gy · 07/08/2026

@jannem :-D "Guillemets" BTW. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guillemet Guillemots are a small black-and-white seabird.

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Liam Proven @lproven.social.vivaldi.net.ap.brid.gy · 23/07/2026

"You know how I said that I'd like to live in Italy?" "Yeah?" "I didn't mean 40º C and fascism." (It's been a bit warm in Czechia. HT to Markus T for the pic. Cartoon possibly by "Agent Jaroslav" on Instagram.)

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Liam Proven @lproven.social.vivaldi.net.ap.brid.gy · 19/07/2026

The Linux-dot-org Story www.linux.org/threads/the-linux-org… « Linux-dot-org has been online in some form since 1994, making it one of the earliest sites built around the Linux community. »

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Liam Proven @lproven.social.vivaldi.net.ap.brid.gy · 13/07/2026

2 consecutive posts in my HackerNews RSS feed from different users... "Grok uploaded my user directory to xAI's servers" "Grok CLI uploaded the whole home directory to GCS" *not-very-well muffled laughter*

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Liam Proven @lproven.social.vivaldi.net.ap.brid.gy · 12/07/2026

Go to the original SMBC and read the mouseover text -- and press the big red button underneath the comic. www.smbc-comics.com/comic/zod

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Liam Proven @lproven.social.vivaldi.net.ap.brid.gy · 30/06/2026

Mageia 10 keeps the 32-bit Linux flame alive www.theregister.com/os-platforms/20… Polished Mandriva descendant still makes room for PCs the 64-bit world has left behind <- by me on #TheRegister

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Liam Proven @lproven.social.vivaldi.net.ap.brid.gy · 20/06/2026

RT @misterjayem.bsky.social‬ Thomas House of Dublin exhibiting the pro-human solidarity that all of us should demonstrate.

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Liam Proven @lproven.social.vivaldi.net.ap.brid.gy · 15/06/2026

Real branding an actual startup went with awful.systems/post/8643294 "Icarus Robotics"

(Poster with pic of a line of robots and of astronauts. Where the lines meet, the front 1 of each are together holding up some off machine-like lump of bot slop with dials and knobs, and some springs sprouting out of the top)

Text reads:

Icarus Robotics

THE LABOR FORCE FOR SPACE

We believe in an industrialized Low Earth Orbit in this
decade, and we are pushing to make
this day come sooner.

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Liam Proven @lproven.social.vivaldi.net.ap.brid.gy · 03/06/2026

Superintelligence: The Idea That Eats Smart People idlewords.com/talks/superintelligen… – Maciej "Idlewords" Cegłowski, **2016** and remarkably prescient for a decade ago

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Liam Proven @lproven.social.vivaldi.net.ap.brid.gy · 25/05/2026

HP QuickWeb, Singular & Pointless gekk.info/articles/hp-quickweb.htm <- 15Y ago, in a last gasp of HP innovation, it offered _3_ DIFFERENT pre-boot environments that gave you The Internet quicker than Windows booted – 2 of them just for Outlook! Absolutely astounding stuff.

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Liam Proven @lproven.social.vivaldi.net.ap.brid.gy · 19/05/2026

Source: "Check your facts and sources, not your artificial lie machine" www.reddit.com/r/antiai/comments/1t…

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Liam Proven @lproven.social.vivaldi.net.ap.brid.gy · 17/05/2026

Yomickii on Instagram: "Maybe what AI art is showing us is that a small percentage of the population has no intention of learning, enjoying, or doing anything at all." <- to which I'd add: just "AI" _art_?

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Liam Proven @lproven.social.vivaldi.net.ap.brid.gy · 13/05/2026

"David Attenborough is so old that there's a picture of him as a grown man meeting King Charles when he was a child. This was in 1958, Attenborough was 32 and Charles was 10. " (@historical_pics on FB)

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