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Paul Southworth @pws.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 31/08/2026

Fact check... false

WIRED Magazine tote bag with lettering "You Can't Hack a Tote Bag"

WIRED Magazine tote bag with a piece of duct tape installed so it reads "You Can Hack a Tote Bag"

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John Rogers @johnrogers.bsky.social · 10h

Our friend @jimzub.com -- whose Patreon on comics writing is so good I subscribe to it so I can study his scripts -- is not only killing it on CONAN THE BARBARIAN but also has a creator-owned dark fantasy book coming out. I'll be there Day One. youtu.be/AlbndSnFbME?...

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OMEN BOUND Trailer

YouTube video by Image Comics

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John Rogers @johnrogers.bsky.social · 11h

One of the "welcome to the Board" traditional conversations is when a new member says "don't they understand they're eating the seed corn?" and then senior staff or leadership decides who gets to explain "they don't care" this year.

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Kit Bashir @unixbigot.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 10/10/2026

“Billionaires, “ the teacher said “were a cognitohazard of the late dirt ages. In that time it was normal to force humans to perform labour for four to five decades before being permitted a period of limited rest known as retirement. The billionaire class found ways to steal even the limited […]

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Alien software, human hardware @mavu.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 10/10/2026

I would really like to hear about the second time he met his girlfriend's dad.

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Bruce Sterling @bruces @bruces.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 03/10/2026

*If there's a polar opposite to "traditional computer programming," it must be this

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Misinformation-Superhighwayman @damienwise.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2026

Vale Margaret Hamilton. She was a Software Engineer. She was the _first_ Software Engineer because she defined the term, Software Engineering: "When I first came up with the term, no one had heard of it before, at least in our world. It was an ongoing joke for a […] [Original post on aus.social]

A B&W photo of a person standing next to a stack of printed paper as high as the top of their head. This is Margaret Hamilton, at work as a Software Engineer and the leader of a team of extremely specialised programmers who worked for NASA. The photo was taken in 1969, and it shows a physical form if her work since she joined the Apollo project in 1965 (she joined at the age of 29 by my calculation). My interpretation of the expression on her face is a mix of pride and mild amusement. She has glasses, long, straight hair, and neat office attire. Margaret Hamilton has her hands placed gently on the stack of printouts to keep it all balanced upright. The pages appear to be arranged in bundles, ranging from 8-10 centimetres thick, to 20cm thick or more. The resulting stack of printouts is physically impressive for being an unusual feat, and it represents something even more impressive: it's the printed form of the source-code she and the team she led wrote for the NASA Apollo project. Their software ran on the Apollo Guidance Computer that was that on board each Apollo command module and Apollo Lunar Module. The Apollo Guidance Computer onboard the Eagle was an essential flight instrument for Neil Armstrong when he piloted the craft to land on the surface of the moon.

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Alien software, human hardware @mavu.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 06/10/2026

Soo, learned today that, even if they're not really children anymore, your children might not appreciate their food if it still has it's legs attached.

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Low Quality Facts @lowqualityfacts.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 05/10/2026

Today's Low Quality Ad is for this "I Don't Know Shit!!! But I Feel Things!!!" Pin. Happy Monday, I am immediately making this my new email signature at work. collabs.shop/oefsbq

An enamel pin with a black circular border featuring a sleeping gray and white cat in the center. The text along the top curves to read "I DON'T KNOW SHIT!!!" and along the bottom reads "BUT I FEEL THINGS!!!".

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Alien software, human hardware @mavu.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 04/10/2026

Ich bin grundsätzlich sehr unzufrieden mit "leiden" als fester bestandteil von Autismus. Die Fachliteratur ist sich soweit ich weiß einig das es eine genetische ursache hat. Wie kann es sein das man nur eine diagnose bekommt wenn man darunter leidet? Ganz zu schweigen von der schwierigkeit das […]

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Bruce Sterling @bruces @bruces.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 03/10/2026

*Could AI scan a thousand old DIY punk-hacker videotapes and find the maybe-15-minutes that are truly unusual and interesting archive.org/details/ngvision

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Internet Archive: Digital Library of Free & Borrowable Texts, Movies, Music & Wayback Machine

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Alien software, human hardware @mavu.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 29/09/2026

Yesterday waiting in line to order at a local Döner shop: customer in front of me touches his EC Bank card to the terminal and walks away. Cashier calls after him that he forgot to enter his pin. Customer yells his pin through the whole restaurant, cashier enters it, both wave, customer leaves […]

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Alien software, human hardware @mavu.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 26/09/2026

i listened to @scalzi Old Man's War books again after a long time, and i like Zoe's Tale best. Which is surprising, because i almost skipped it, (mis?)remembering that i didn't like it back then. So, give older books you might not have completely enjoyed another chance, maybe they aged with you […]

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Alien software, human hardware @mavu.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 25/09/2026

One time I say something about #DHH and his political views on #Reddit and immediately get an award. Nice! #TechBroFascism #Techbro

reddit notification saying: Your account has been given a warning

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Ugly Reykjavik @uglyreykjavik.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

It's fascinating how plants take over when houses are abandoned. #Iceland #Reykjavik #photography #streetphotography #naturephotography #nature #abandoned #decay #windows

An abandoned house with a dilapidated wooden deck surrounded by plants.

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Low Quality Facts @lowqualityfacts.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 23/09/2026

The American Revolution actually began when George Washington officially changed the spelling of mollusc to mollusk, engaging Britain. These are the kinds of political issues we used to have before the internet was invented.

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Low Quality Facts @lowqualityfacts.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 23/09/2026

I miss Jane Goodall.

"I have body slammed countless chimps. It's the only way to make them respect you. "
-Jane Goodall

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rar is win @xyla.zip · 22/09/2026

i love how oracle is like “here :3 have an apple for being a good developer :3” and then u eat it and you learn it was laced with 500mcg acid and 500mg arsenic and the executives have already placed their bets on which one hits u first

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Alien software, human hardware @mavu.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 22/09/2026

RE: mastodon.social/@KimSJ/117293216379… Maybe a better (or in my opinion) more precise question would be: If you post publicly on mastodon, do you have any right to expect replies without personal attacks, hate speech and unsolicited pornographic or disturbing images? Or put […]

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Bruce Sterling @bruces @bruces.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 22/09/2026

"asymptotic rates of acceleration will unravel the tawdry scarecrow of consensus reality" substack.com/inbox/post/215414304

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Machines of Loving Grace

Plus News and Notes

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Play Ball and Fight Fascists @cafechatnoir.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 20/09/2026

And the last one that I forgot to post when it was finished - it came out so nicely! #FusedGlass

The 6 x 6 inch sheet of fired glass ribbons from the prior posts. It was placed over a stainless steel mold and a slump (lower temp) firing was done - the edges bend down in the firing and now it is a votive candle holder.

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Alien software, human hardware @mavu.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 20/09/2026

Hey, @protonprivacy You sure you want people to pay money for this #AI #LLM nonsense? I told your Lumo AI to plot this graph: f(x) = (x^5)/3 - 2x^4 + 3x^3 Just maybe, consider that it's not actually working and stop pretending it is useful beyond […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

LLM generated graph of this term: f(x) = (x^5)/3 - 2x^4 + 3x^3
it's bad beyond description. Y axis labeled (bottom to top) 3, 2+, subscript 2 above x equals 3, 26, 24
X axis labeled (left to right) : A, 10, 0, 31, 35

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Alien software, human hardware @mavu.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 20/09/2026

"Bart Piotrowski, who works on Flathub’s infrastructure, said DigitalOcean cancelled its sponsorship of the GNOME and Flathub VMs in August. It was $50 a month. [...] So there’s $3 million for a guy who writes that you should deport Romani people like you’d shoot wolves, and there isn’t $50 a […]

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Caramelized Shallots @caramelizedshallots.ohai.social.ap.brid.gy · 19/09/2026

@weaving @fiberarts De-stash project I’ve been trying to use old yarn in every project this year, but the warp on this is all 17+ years old. The rose, pale pink and white are originally from a baby blanket whose owner is now a senior in high school. The red is […] [Original post on ohai.social]

Photo of weaving on the loom. It is stripes of dusty rose, pale pink and white, with single yarns of red between each stripe and a single yarn of light brown in the middle of each stripe. There are bobbins of all the colors on the side and the shuttle with a white bobbin at the top.

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Alien software, human hardware @mavu.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 20/09/2026

I'll have to disagree here. In some cases you really have to be sure there is no chance, however small, you might inflict even a single molecule of someone onto a distant civilization.

A tweet by @physicsmatt
If you're mad and find yourself yelling
that you want someone launched into
the Sun, take a moment, calm yourself,
and remember that it takes a lot less
Delta v to launch them out of the Solar
System instead.
You can be mad, but that's no excuse to
be inefficient with propellant.

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Alien software, human hardware @mavu.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 19/09/2026

Sooo, I just stepped barefoot on a very large and very dead Locust. Most probably a nice "present" of one of our #cats . Probably this very innocenty sleeping one. How's your days going? #Caturday #LivingWithCats #howtoTurnCatIntoNiceHat

A very innocent sleeping black white brown cat on a desk

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Lesley Carhart :unverified: @hacks4pancakes.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 17/09/2026

Rather be poor and not famous than have anyone question in twenty years where I stood on human rights, or if I was afraid to take a stand against evil.

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Alien software, human hardware @mavu.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 17/09/2026

Came up in conversation today, and i think i have my new "preferred way to die". Previous "got hit by meteorite" will be replaced with "licked the antimatter".

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abadidea @0xabad1dea.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 16/09/2026

A lot of people don't know there's two fundamentally different types of PTSD and/or have heard the terms but don't understand the distinction being made. There's "standard" PTSD, which I'll call "simplex" PTSD, and "complex" PTSD, which you'll see written C-PTSD. - Simplex ("normal") PTSD […]

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Alien software, human hardware @mavu.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 15/09/2026

[AI crazyness] RE: zeroes.ca/@FknHannu/117275420554185… I'm sure this is normal and healthy and won't create any problems whatsoever.

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Alien software, human hardware @mavu.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 12/09/2026

RE: mastodon.social/@HitchhikersGuideQu… surprisingly prescient, as always. Waiting for earth to be destroyed to make room for a spaceship expressway any day now.

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Alien software, human hardware @mavu.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 11/09/2026

#ai is still going great i see... [tested a coding model to rewrite a function to retry a connection, and it gets stuck in an endless loop trying to explain the method]

screenshot of coding llm output trapped in an endless loop trying to explain a loop.

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Low Quality Facts @lowqualityfacts.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/09/2026

Lmao indeed friends, lmao indeed.

A screenshot of a social media discussion thread showing a debate about reading and analyzing a technical proof using AI.

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Alien software, human hardware @mavu.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 04/09/2026

#electronic me trying to squeeze just one more RGB animation into my #keyboard firmware. 4 byte memory left is a new record for me :D giphy.com/gifs/schittscreek-pop-tv-…

screenshot of Console output that reads:
The firmware size is approaching the maximum - 28668/28672 (99%, 4 bytes free)

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Alien software, human hardware @mavu.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 04/09/2026

Sooo, #xing macht jetzt also auch #AI . Woher ich das weiß? Ich hab gerade mehrere Jobs angeboten bekommen, als Oberarzt.. Ich kann ja viel, aber einen Software Entwickler dafür einzustellen geht vielleicht zu weit.

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Low Quality Facts @lowqualityfacts.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/05/2026

That makes sense.