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Mike Taylor 🦕 @mike.sauropods.win.ap.brid.gy · 14h

@mpe I did basically mean this seriously. A project as big and popular as the Linux kernel is always going to have a lot of wannebe contributors. That's healthy, but it's no bad thing to be slow in onboarding people to a project with such influence.

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Mike Taylor 🦕 @mike.sauropods.win.ap.brid.gy · 16/10/2026

@rdmpage.bsky.social Well, I long ago gave up expecting OCLC to do anything right. They seem to consider themselves the rightful owner of all metadata, and ready to sue anyone who says otherwise.

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Mike Taylor 🦕 @mike.sauropods.win.ap.brid.gy · 16/10/2026

@rdmpage.bsky.social "Displaying basic data Get an ISSN Portal subscription to access more data and features Talk to Sales" Ugh. Ugh. Ugh. 🤮 🤮 🤮

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Mike Taylor 🦕 @mike.sauropods.win.ap.brid.gy · 16/10/2026

@rdmpage.bsky.social I hate to agree with this, but I can't disagree. And of course there is not reason AI scrapers HAVE to ignore all convention and prior art. For some reason, they just do. It's the world we live in.

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Mike Taylor 🦕 @mike.sauropods.win.ap.brid.gy · 16/10/2026

@rdmpage.bsky.social I know the feeling. Glad you enjoyed the phrasing :-)

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Mike Taylor 🦕 @mike.sauropods.win.ap.brid.gy · 16/10/2026

@rdmpage.bsky.social DId you have anything specific in mind here, or just a general miasma of disappointment?

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Stefano Marinelli @bsd.cafe · 16/10/2026

Ok, looks like this is the week of funny experiences. Customer: "I had an AI check our server and it says the SSH port is open and that's not very secure." Me: "Yes, you asked us to open it so you could access the server via SFTP (actually, you wanted FTP, but we discussed it a bit and found […]

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Mike Taylor 🦕 @mike.sauropods.win.ap.brid.gy · 16/10/2026

@mpe TBF, it makes a lot more sense of the successor to be a long-time contributor.

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Mike Taylor 🦕 @mike.sauropods.win.ap.brid.gy · 16/10/2026

"So, Elon's network is now a security liability for every country on Earth, because at any time the United States can just switch it off. And no treaty or agreement with the US can ever be trusted again, not when they are all subject to the President's whims. Every election might be a new mad […]

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Fritz Adalis @fritzadalis.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 15/10/2026

I rotated my password, now it's ᄅɹǝʇunɥ.

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Mike Taylor 🦕 @mike.sauropods.win.ap.brid.gy · 15/10/2026

@mpe Do it! (And, of course, let us all know when you do!)

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petersuber @petersuber.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 15/10/2026

Bravo to #Montana for putting a measure on the ballot to undo the local effects of #CitizensUnited. "The initiative would bypass Citizens United by redefining corporations and their rights under state law…It would also block anonymous donations." […]

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Ada Palmer @adapalmer.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 15/10/2026

Australia’s High Court has ruled that the climate impact of coal burned overseas needs to be considered. In a landmark decision earlier this week the court ruled that the approval of a massive coalmine expansion in the Hunter Valley was invalid, because planners never considered the emissions […]

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Mike Taylor 🦕 @mike.sauropods.win.ap.brid.gy · 15/10/2026

@mpe Thank you for continuing to post these. They are tough to read (and much be so so much tougher to live) but I'm still glad to know what's happening with you. Hang in there.

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Stephen Turner @stephenturner.us · 15/10/2026

Kind of hilarious

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Mike Taylor 🦕 @mike.sauropods.win.ap.brid.gy · 15/10/2026

From the Times's daily briefing: Ukraine: Drone units have been forced to cancel missions and others have been left virtually defenceless against Russian jet-powered drones after speed restrictions were imposed on Elon Musk’s Starlink service So now there is no doubt about what side Musk is on […]

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ploum @ploum.mamot.fr.ap.brid.gy · 14/10/2026

I’ve read today a contributor to an open source project says, in substance: "If generated code is accepted in the project, I will stop contributing because I don’t want to spend time trying to understand the code in order to contribute just to see it changed at the commit of generated code" […]

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Mike Taylor 🦕 @mike.sauropods.win.ap.brid.gy · 14/10/2026

@ploum Best get an AI to choose the best prompt for you.

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ploum @ploum.mamot.fr.ap.brid.gy · 14/10/2026

I had that idea that we could cut AI-bros from their Internet connection but, instead, connect them directly to a swarm of AI agents that would render website they want to see, that would send them emails (that their own agents would reply to) and would improve their metrics (clic-rate, visits […]

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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Badenoch's position on Russian interference in the Brexit vote is a patriotic disgrace really. Her view seems to be that because she approves of the outcome of the referendum, no-one can mention that there was very likely to have been foreign interference in it.

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The Funny Pages @thefunnypages.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 14/10/2026

New strip found: Bizarro by Wayno & Piraro for Tue, 13 Oct 2026 www.arcamax.com/thefunnies/bizarro/… #comic #comicstrip #bizarro #bizarrostrip

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Dmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 14/10/2026

The fear that a now-unreliable US partner could remotely disable technology saw significant rethinking of F-35 purchases. Starlink is a less expensive buy, but has fewer (virtually no) competitors - not sure what that adds up to for divestment.

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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

If I was a conservative, I'd be less concerned about liberal thought-control in universities and more concerned that educated people seem to have completely rejected my philosophy.

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Mike Taylor 🦕 @mike.sauropods.win.ap.brid.gy · 12/10/2026

From The Times's daily briefing: US: President Trump’s call for Ukrainians to choose a new leader means Russia and the United States both now believe President Zelensky should leave office Well, quite.

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Mike Taylor 🦕 @mike.sauropods.win.ap.brid.gy · 10/10/2026

"If you are familiar with an app, armed with your desire paths and motor memory, you have a lot of capacity to just ignore new menu items, new panels, and new complexity – provided it doesn’t get in your way. New AI option? Turn it off. New tab? Never click on it. New alternate way of doing […]

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Mike Taylor 🦕 @mike.sauropods.win.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2026

"The idea that outright racists who shout slurs at brown people in the street can be placated by lowering the number of small boat arrivals this quarter is absurd." iandunt.substack.com/p/the-return-o…

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Mike Taylor 🦕 @mike.sauropods.win.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2026

"This week, Suella Braverman — who was born in Harrow, educated at Cambridge, and lives in Hampshire — took to the internet once again to insist that she is not English - ostensibly because of her ancestry, but in reality because of her race. It’s like watching a wounded animal feast on its own […]

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Mike Taylor 🦕 @mike.sauropods.win.ap.brid.gy · 01/10/2026

@mark It's certainly true that many people (probably all of us at one time or other) have a very tenuous grip on what is and isn't true. But I think we all always know what we mean by truth, and we want to think that the things we believe are true. And to me that seems *fundamentally* […]

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Mike Taylor 🦕 @mike.sauropods.win.ap.brid.gy · 01/10/2026

So, so important to understand: "The model is not lying to you. Lying would require it to have a concept of truth. It is bullshitting you. It produces plausible-shaped text with total indifference to whether the world matches. When it’s right, it’s right as a side effect of its training data […]

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Dmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 25/09/2026

More broadly I think "how much time do you spend affirmatively championing your cause versus using it as a permission structure to abuse those you disagree with," is a revealing question well beyond the statue pfp bros.

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Mike Taylor 🦕 @mike.sauropods.win.ap.brid.gy · 24/09/2026

"You treated visitors to your website with the same respect that a restauranteur would treat patrons who had sat down to eat a meal; it would be exceedingly weird and creepy if you were to film them eating, or if you wrote down every word they said to each other and sold them to a stranger, or […]

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Mike Taylor 🦕 @mike.sauropods.win.ap.brid.gy · 24/09/2026

"You didn’t read the terms of service. You didn’t agree to accept cookies. I didn’t consent to having my site pulled into the training model for that AI system that’s going to use to sell the fruit of my labor for profit. I didn’t agree to have my activity tracked across all these different […]

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Mike Taylor 🦕 @mike.sauropods.win.ap.brid.gy · 24/09/2026

@tezoatlipoca I always admire committing to the bit. One time, as we pulled out of a car park in Norfork, driving home after a holiday on a boat on the Broads, my youngest son made a dumb joke and held up his hand for the middle son to high-five him. Middle son thought the joke was bad and […]

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Mike Taylor 🦕 @mike.sauropods.win.ap.brid.gy · 24/09/2026

@tezoatlipoca BTW., is your username a riff on Monty Python's "How not to be seen" sketch?

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Mike Taylor 🦕 @mike.sauropods.win.ap.brid.gy · 24/09/2026

@tezoatlipoca @explaintrade.com Yeah, I now get that that's what he was doing. My problem with this framing is that it makes the GAI itself equivalent to a human, which it obviously is not. The blame rests not with a poorly configured computer program, but with the people who configured it […]

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Mike Taylor 🦕 @mike.sauropods.win.ap.brid.gy · 24/09/2026

@explaintrade.com Ooohhhh, I see. Anthopomorphizing the GAIs used to do this. Well, I detest Musk as much as anyone, but I do feel this is a bit of a stretch.

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llewelly @llewelly.sauropods.win.ap.brid.gy · 24/09/2026

1/2 satellite experts: uh, if you put computers in space they'll suffer rad damage ... investors: rad damage! That sounds so cool! Let's go for it!

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Mike Taylor 🦕 @mike.sauropods.win.ap.brid.gy · 24/09/2026

RE: floss.social/@kde/117325540933831236 "If you believed otherwise, our apologies for not communicating more clearly to begin with." I love this. They're actively taking on the blame for what might have been the reader's misunderstanding. It's the opposite of the kind of nonpology […]

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Martin Paul Eve @mpe.hcommons.social.ap.brid.gy · 23/09/2026

There's a service here called Patients Know Best that lets you monitor all of your medical tests. I wish it was called Experts Know Lots, Which Is Why Patients Consult Them, But Patients Should Be Able To Know Things About Themselves.

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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

The difference between the performance of immigrants in England and Western Europe is staggering. (20 pts equals a year of learning.) I looked at this in detail in the post - it can't be explained away by language or relative advantage of different immigrant communities. There is a policy factor.

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Mike Taylor 🦕 @mike.sauropods.win.ap.brid.gy · 23/09/2026

@mpe That said, as I read the review you linked lareviewofbooks.org/article/china-m… it sounds like modern Miéville is doing something rather different from the incessant gross-out of Pedido and Iron Council. Maybe it's time I gave him […]

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