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@markmcan.bsky.social
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Founder of www.FindersBeepers.com. Tech, science, gadgets, sci-fi, gigs, festivals. Rush superfan. Previously the Charity Engine guy, so can die happy: www.charityengine.com/grants

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markmcan.bsky.social @markmcan.bsky.social · 4h
Art historian friend actually changed my mind about that one. The urinal was apparently making the point that even the most mundane, utilitarian objects were still carefully designed by someone. So they are all, quite literally, works of art. We just take them for granted
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markmcan.bsky.social @markmcan.bsky.social · 4h
Genuine war hero too. Total respect
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markmcan.bsky.social @markmcan.bsky.social · 4h
Also a famous quote about race cars by Ferdinand Porsche
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markmcan.bsky.social @markmcan.bsky.social · 4h
National treasure, this fella 😅
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markmcan.bsky.social @markmcan.bsky.social · 5h
Dictatorship fails for the same reason as communism: a single, unfixable point of failure. With communism, SPOF is whoever controls redistribution. With dictators, SPOF is them. While the SPOFs are benevolent, cool. But the moment a bad actor takes over, you're doomed. Failure is *inevitable*
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markmcan.bsky.social @markmcan.bsky.social · 11h
We need a global arms treaty for #AI just as with nuclear weapons. AI should be able to reach a certain agreed level of competence, and no higher. Everyone's AI ends up on the same level: useful, but not dangerously superintelligent. Breaching this should be considered a crime against humanity
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markmcan.bsky.social @markmcan.bsky.social · 11h
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markmcan.bsky.social @markmcan.bsky.social · 12h
It's like performance art at this point. "How else can we make our side look as bad as possible?" "Hold my beer, comrades..."
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markmcan.bsky.social @markmcan.bsky.social · 12h
Says AI industry guy who personally gave Trump $1m and whose AI companies have donated millions more www.techpolicy.press/dont-trust-t...
techpolicy.press
Don’t Trust Trump? Don’t Trust Big Tech
Public Citizen's Rick Claypool says there are dangerous synergies on display between an authoritarian White House and Big Tech titans.
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markmcan.bsky.social @markmcan.bsky.social · 13h
Media expects the right to be offensive, bigoted, ignorant and evil. They expect everyone else to be polite, inclusive, smart and kind. Anyone strays from their template, that's news
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markmcan.bsky.social @markmcan.bsky.social · 13h
He never stops exploring. Bucky Fuller would approve
"We should do away with the absolutely specious notion that everybody has to earn a living. It is a fact today that one in ten thousand of us can make a technological breakthrough capable of supporting all the rest. The youth of today are absolutely right in recognizing this nonsense of earning a living. We keep inventing jobs because of this false idea that everybody has to be employed at some kind of drudgery because, according to Malthusian Darwinian theory he must justify his right to exist. So we have inspectors of inspectors and people making instruments for inspectors to inspect inspectors. The true business of people should be to go back to school and think about whatever it was they were thinking about before somebody came along and told them they had to earn a living." -
Buckminster Fuller
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markmcan.bsky.social @markmcan.bsky.social · 13h
I can hear that gif
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markmcan.bsky.social @markmcan.bsky.social · 15h
Omg yes. Also Dr Who and The Tomorrow People
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markmcan.bsky.social @markmcan.bsky.social · 23h
Charlie Brown in a MAGA hat with Trump holding the football ready to kick, saying "This time I'll give you $5000, honest"
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markmcan.bsky.social @markmcan.bsky.social · 23h
Trump's way past heckin'
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markmcan.bsky.social @markmcan.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Can I? I'll have to take your word for that, my dear superfan
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markmcan.bsky.social @markmcan.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
That is the real killer. Believing zionism to be effectively more than what the word literally means, given that Bibi and his ilk are indeed racists and worse, may not be logical but you can see the thinking. But that amendment being voted down is just... wow. Maybe they just miss the wilderness
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markmcan.bsky.social @markmcan.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Haven't read much Goebbels myself, sorry
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markmcan.bsky.social @markmcan.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Well they were certainly all words
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markmcan.bsky.social @markmcan.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Weird, cos Israel didn't even exist at that time. Guess you mean a different 'them'
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Kevin Marks @kevinmarks.com · 04/10/2026
A thoughtful and interesting essay by @stephenwolfram.bsky.social on Pure Maths and AI that expresses the utility of LLMs as a source of constrained randomness that is useful when combined with an expertly built way to evaluate the results. writings.stephenwolfram.com/2026/09/what...
writings.stephenwolfram.com
What’s the Future for Pure Math Research in the Age of AI?
Stephen Wolfram chimes in about the future of pure math and AI based on his unique perspective of language creator and scientific researcher.
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markmcan.bsky.social @markmcan.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
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markmcan.bsky.social @markmcan.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Except the incredible 'zionist synagogues' amendment implies certain people will indeed be targeted. Shat the bed on this one, folks
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markmcan.bsky.social @markmcan.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Not a fan of him at all but this was an anti-Iran war protest, not a pro-Iran regime protest. That's a very important difference
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markmcan.bsky.social @markmcan.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Only 0.5% of living Israelis settled in 1948. The rest are their descendants, now into the 6th, 7th and 8th generations. If you're born somewhere, as were your parents and great-great-great grandparents, then you're not a settler. That's your home. Was 1948 fair? No. But that ship has long sailed
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markmcan.bsky.social @markmcan.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Now run that logic again with Jewish people as the subject
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markmcan.bsky.social @markmcan.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
There are millions of *actual Israelis* who hate Bibi and everything he does. Most Israelis think the settlers are nuts. Clearly they still wish to be Israelis, and for Israel to exist. So does anyone supporting the two state solution. The real problem is fascists and war criminals. Be accurate
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markmcan.bsky.social @markmcan.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
That suggests you are unaware Israel is only a Jewish majority state. Two million Israelis, 20% of the population, are muslim Arabs. That aside, your support for the principle of such a state also suggests you are misusing the term 'zionist'. So I hope that answers your original comment
Zionism is a movement that supports the right of the Jewish people to have their own independent country in their historic ancestral homeland.
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markmcan.bsky.social @markmcan.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
That has nothing to do with where we get our drinking water from. All our drinking water is collected and treated rainwater. Mostly stored in reservoirs, some in aquifers. Drainage water, treated (or untreated) sewage, and any other water that we've already used is *never* tapped for drinking
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markmcan.bsky.social @markmcan.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Of course it would, that's the whole point. Two state solution means Israel alongside a new, additional Palestinian state. Many Palestinians strongly support this idea. Do you agree?
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markmcan.bsky.social @markmcan.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Do you believe in the two state solution?
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markmcan.bsky.social @markmcan.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
All other LLMs correctly report that Russia is the aggressor. Grok has therefore been hard-coded to spread this propaganda, just like the South African farmers thing. And only one person can order that
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markmcan.bsky.social @markmcan.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Why do you think we get drinking water from rivers
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markmcan.bsky.social @markmcan.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
That's just hard water! Perfectly safe, does make a crap brew tho. Buy your bestie a water filter, save yourself all that trouble
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markmcan.bsky.social @markmcan.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Sewage in our rivers and seas is the real issue, our tap water is fine worldpopulationreview.com/country-rank...
worldpopulationreview.com
Water Quality by Country 2026
Data on water quality in all the world's countries, including countries with the highest water quality (safest drinking water) and countries with the worst water quality.
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markmcan.bsky.social @markmcan.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Good lord he absolutely nails this www.reddit.com/r/Damnthatsi...
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From the Damnthatsinteresting community on Reddit: Look for the person who is cruel
Explore this post and more from the Damnthatsinteresting community
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markmcan.bsky.social @markmcan.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Mike Graham bouncing back there #accidentalpartridge
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markmcan.bsky.social @markmcan.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
This is real. cc @theonion.com
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markmcan.bsky.social @markmcan.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
This is Vaygan poetry
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markmcan.bsky.social @markmcan.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
When therapist is two words
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markmcan.bsky.social @markmcan.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
He considered it so hard tho
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markmcan.bsky.social @markmcan.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Lengthways is fine tho
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William Gibson @greatdismal.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Ahem…
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markmcan.bsky.social @markmcan.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
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Spock Plays Vulcan Harp in Star Trek
Alt: Spock Plays Vulcan Harp while giving his best come to bed eyes. And ears
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markmcan.bsky.social @markmcan.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Transistors are "trans sisters", asylum seekers come from asylums, transgenic mice are transgender, injecting bleach cures covid, Spain is a BRICS nation, windmills make whales crazy, Hannibal Lector was real, dumb is spelled dum, Japan is an Islamic Republic, nukes stop hurricanes... #ForrestTrump
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Kris Wilson @kriswilson.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
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markmcan.bsky.social @markmcan.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
God I love Dan Hannan car crashes in May www.bbc.co.uk/news/blogs-t...
bbc.co.uk
Dan Hannan: Ribbed with rambling tweets
Twitter users send MEP Dan Hannan their pictures of imaginary countryside walks.
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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I love that the U.S. government now has ideas so dumb that the fact checks are simply “yeah this isn’t a parody, it’s real”
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markmcan.bsky.social @markmcan.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
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Perfect Ironic GIF
Alt: Perfect Ironic GIF
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markmcan.bsky.social @markmcan.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
What is geography
"Britain is not a European country. Britain is a mid Atlantic country" - Tom Harwood, Geography CSE grade 5
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