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Michael Kazarnowicz @kazarnowicz.unstraight.club.ap.brid.gy · 17/10/2026

This response to “is it possible to be bigger than a blue whale?” In r/AskScience is an absolute masterclass in how to make your PhD accessible to the public. I knew about the thermoregulation issue, but the others were news to me. Like 37 BPM being the maximum heart rate, down to 2 when diving […]

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James Smith 💾 @floppy.org.uk · 10/10/2026

Anyone know of any student-led anti-GenAI campaigns in UK schools? My daughter hates the amount it gets used *by the school itself* and wants to do something…

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Tim J @timtfj.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/10/2026

Bring back þe letter þ. How can you þrow out þe only rune in your alphabet? Also bring back ð. But ðis time, except in very common words like þe which look nice þe oðer way round, don't treat ðem as interchangeable. Use ð for þe voiced one and þ for þe unvoiced one, like ðey do in Icelandic […]

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Mignon Fogarty @grammargirl.zirk.us.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2026

Just got a mass email from our bank that essentially says, "If you give your username and password to an AI agent, you're on your own." You've. Been. Warned. 🤣

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jaz :twt: :wales_flag: ⁂ @jaz.toot.wales.ap.brid.gy · 06/10/2026

Back in the 1980s Tudor Griffiths taught Computer Science in the local school. Two maxims he repeated almost every class have stuck with me for decades. "A computer is exactly as smart as the person telling it what to do" and "A computer can and will make mistakes, and it'll do it a million […]

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Louise Locock @proflouisel.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 06/10/2026

Annual reminder for National Trust members to vote in the AGM to keep out the so-called 'Restore Trust' Tufton Street right-wingers. Best way is to use the quick vote tactically to prevent fragmentation of the progressive vote. But if you wish to choose yourself, AVOID the following candidates […]

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Gabriele Svelto @gabrielesvelto.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 03/10/2026

I find the metaphor of AI as the first dose of cocaine you get for free to get you hooked on unconvincing. It would be more accurate if the stuff was cut with dishwasher powder, the pusher had to go to a loan shark to buy it, the narcos were selling below price for some unfathomable reason and […]

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Tom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

My latest cartoon for @newscientist.com

A figure stands in a barren landscape; reaches for the lever on a large, eccentric contraption covered in wires, pipes, dials and buttons; looks over towards two figures inside a bunker and says:

"'Trust me, it's safe' would sound a lot more reassuring if you weren't saying it from inside a concrete bunker."

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Glyph @glyph.im · 28/09/2026

New Blog: What Would A Serious AI Product Look Like? Every “AI” tool is missing critical features that you would need if you wanted to do real work with them. What would those look like, if they existed? blog.glyph.im/2026/09/serious-ai-pr…

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Deciphering Glyph :: What Would A Serious AI Product Look Like?

Deciphering Glyph, the blog of Glyph Lefkowitz.

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abadidea @0xabad1dea.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 27/09/2026

you know, a nice little thing that's quietly gotten better is how many video games a) present character genders as styles to pick from rather than an inalienable trait of you, the player and b) reassure you that you can change it later

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taco, cultist bird/cat :verified420: :neocat_floof_devil: @fedi.birdcat.online · 23/09/2026

EVERYONE IT HAS HAPPENED ONE OF MY BOXES OF CABLES AND DEAD HARDWARE HAS YIELDED A JST 2.0 PH 4 PIN CONNECTOR PLUG THAT I WAS GOING TO HAVE TO BUY OFF OF AMAZON AND NOW I CAN JUST HARVEST IT OFF OF A DEAD FAN NEVER THROW ANYTHING AWAY

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Prof. Sam Lawler @sundogplanets.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 24/09/2026

The world needs to know that my niece and nephew decided that the little horn on the back-end of a hornworm (like a tomato worm, or in this case an introduced leafy spurge hawk moth caterpillar) is called a... Butt Fang. I cannot convey how much I love this […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

Close up of a very colourful caterpillar vertical on a small twig. It's black with lots of white spots on top, with yellow sides and bright orange and black spots on the yellow part, with bright orange feet, and a bright orange horn. A.k.a. butt fang.

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Mike Sandells :ziltoid: @mikejs.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 23/09/2026

Other people's enthusiasm for terrible things has to be one of the most dispiriting things there is. (Yes, this is a post about AI.)

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eri :neofox_flag_nb: :fox_floofing: @eri.mk.moth.zone.ap.brid.gy · 18/09/2026

this game fucking sucks what am i supposed to do

various failed commands in a linux terminal
"look up" "go north" "grab key"

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Jesper Kamstrup Linnet @jesper-linnet.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 19/09/2026

It’s a bit grey and windy outside, so Knold has decided to cozy up on the couch. #Caturday #CatsOfMastodon #CatsOfFediverse #Cats #SiberianCats #Knold

Closeup of a grey Siberian cat (Knold) lying on his back on a grey blanket (only his upper body is in the frame). He is sleeping with his front paws resting in front of him on the blanket. He is quite fluffy, and his mane is starting to manifest.

Closeup of a grey Siberian cat (Knold) lying on his side on a grey blanket. A human hand (my wife’s) is scritching his white belly floof. He is sleeping with his front paws are stretched out in front of him on the blanket.

Closeup of a grey Siberian cat (Knold) lying on his side on a grey blanket with his back against the backrest of a red couch. He is sleeping with his front paws resting in front of him, and his left hind legs stretched over the blanket (on top of the leg of the human underneath the blanket). He is quite fluffy.

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

I like this Mongolian metal video where a shifty young man in a hoodie gets Summoned before the Ancestor Warriors so they can chant aggressively at him that a Real Man is polite, honest, gentle, kind and generous (and good at stabbing dudes when the situation calls for it) (the English lyrics […]

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Louise Locock @proflouisel.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 15/09/2026

Conscious I haven't posted in ages, but it's time to remind you to vote in the National Trust AGM to keep so-called 'Restore Trust' off the council. Use the quick vote to ensure we don't split the anti-Restore vote. Or if you prefer to make your own choice for the council, 'Restore Trust' have […]

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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 14/09/2026

Your regular reminder: If the Russians stop fighting, the war ends. If the Ukrainians stop fighting, their land will be occupied, their leaders will be killed, their history and language will be erased, their children will be kidnapped to serve Russia.

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`Da Elf @elfin.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 13/09/2026

Timeline cleanser of a parrot that found a traffic cam to ham it up for.

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Mark A. Rayner @markarayner.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 12/09/2026

Just hanging out on another super-normal #caturday! #cat #cats #catsofmastodon #catstodon #humor #humour

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Ian Betteridge @ianbetteridge.vivaldi.net.ap.brid.gy · 12/09/2026

Anyone with the wherewithall to donate £36m to a political party should not be allowed to donate a single penny to a political party.

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ploum @ploum.mamot.fr.ap.brid.gy · 09/09/2026

My AI policy is "I don’t want any kind of interaction with that thing." And this should be all you need to know. ploum.net/2026-09-09-ai_policy.html

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I Don’t Want to Interact With Stochastic Parrots

I Don’t Want to Interact With Stochastic Parrots par Ploum - Lionel Dricot.

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:privTri: Volpeon :areonNSmol: @volpeon.at.icy.wyvern.rip · 10/09/2026

Just an ordinary hand

Photo of Apple's keynote where they show the iPhone Duo held in one hand in its folded and its unfolded form. The right hand would never be able to hold it as shown, so below is an edit of what the hand would have to look like.

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tante @tante.tldr.nettime.org.ap.brid.gy · 08/09/2026

RE: tldr.nettime.org/@tante/11723547611… The most surprising realization I had in the last years was how important it is to be public about your refusal to participate in harmful acts therefore giving others "permission" to do so as well. It really matters.

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Ian Betteridge @ianbetteridge.vivaldi.net.ap.brid.gy · 07/09/2026

Kudos to the Guardian for this description

Who’s leading them?
Its leader is Daniel Thomas, better known as Danny Tommo, the right-hand-man of the far-right extremist, fraudster and violent criminal Stephen Yaxley-Lennon – who wants people to call him Tommy Robinson.

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highly praised and little read @hannah.posts.rat.pictures.ap.brid.gy · 05/09/2026

Too bad its never like “our ai agent went rogue and deleted ten billion dollars of medical debt”

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aburka 🫣 @aburka.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 01/09/2026

RE: floss.social/@IzzyOnDroid/117196494… And this is how the disastrous Debian policy is even worse than flushing a foundational project down the tubes: they were seen as a reasonable and conservative organization, meaning their decision will be used as a template for anyone […]

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aburtch @aburtch.shakedown.social.ap.brid.gy · 04/09/2026

I know this is a bit of a pipe dream, but just a few very simple policy changes could transform our entire society: 1. Tax the rich. A wealth tax that applies not just to income, but investments and capital gains as well. 2. No outside money in politics […] [Original post on shakedown.social]

Chart showing that the top 100 richest people in the US own more than the entire bottom 50% of the population combined.

Let me remind you: payola is Amazon's single largest source of profits. When I was researching Enshittification, Amazon's take from payola was in the mid-$30 billion. A year later, when I did tour stops with Tim Wu (who was promoting his excellent book The Age of Extraction), I learned that this number had climbed to more than $50 billion. This year, it's on track to top $80 billion.

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Bodil @bodil.lol · 03/09/2026

This is absolutely sensational: journalists went undercover pretending to be American millionaires wanting to donate to Reform under the table. They have Farage and two of his most senior henchmen on video setting the deal up, in their own words. Sensational not because it's a shocking reveal […]

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Longhorn @never-released.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 03/09/2026

> You can now build UEFI bootloader UIs with JavaScript, JSX and Tailwind oh no

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abadidea @0xabad1dea.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 03/09/2026

On a stupid little walk for my stupid little mental health #amsterdam

A big statue of Rembrandt in Amsterdam with the sun precisely behind his head to give him a halo

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Vee @veroniqueb99.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 01/09/2026

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

Archaeologists In Germany Found A Medieval Cellar Whose Ceiling Was Made From The Hull Of A C13 Ship allthatsinteresting.com/germany-med… At least 19 planks from this flat-bottomed, lake-faring vessel were used to create 270sq ft of this ceiling in the city of Constance […]

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Jonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

'“Why is this a bank holiday anyway?” someone asked me one Monday in May, in roughly the way you’d address a question to ChatGPT if it complained a lot more and never shut up about its dog...' So, I decided to find out.

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Why is this a bank holiday, anyway?

I don’t like Mondays.

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Gabriele Svelto @gabrielesvelto.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 29/08/2026

A short story about data retention on modern SSDs and a word of warning about leaving them unpowered. I recently helped a friend move his data to a new machine - and because of kerfuffle by his IT department - his new laptop arrived with a small SSD, so we had to leave some data behind until a […]

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[object Object] @zzt.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 28/08/2026

whenever someone comes at you with the ridiculous claim that an LLM or a generative art model works just like a human brain and claims that somehow that’s been proven, keep your eye on the ball. does your brain process tokens in such a way that you consistently can’t spell words or do basic […]

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stib @stib.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 29/08/2026

Me too, little metal peeps, me too

three pieces of steel that have been drilled and countersunk so that the pareidolia kicks in and they look like three shocked faces

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abadidea @0xabad1dea.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 28/08/2026

I don’t like this kind of headline, but in this case, it’s serving to trick a certain kind of parent into reading what they really need to internalize: diagnosed autism rates are rising because we actually diagnose it now, not because of an actual change in the real rate

headline from Parents Magazine: This is the evidence-backed reason why autism rates are rising

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Matt Boyd @3psboyd.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 25/08/2026

I saw a pretty major contributor to Rust projects making the case for LLMs being used in programming, and one of the things they liked is that you can ask it all the technical questions you want without feeling embarrassed, and what an indictment of the work culture of software engineering that is.

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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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Paul Barnfather @clanger9.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 24/08/2026

Do you drive an #ev in the UK? EVA England would like to hear from you! Please take a few minutes to complete their survey on your experience (good or bad!) www.surveymonkey.com/r/FPSR9CH

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STEER THE CONVERSATION

Drive an EV? Thinking about it? We want to hear from you

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Rich Lafferty @rich.lafferty.ca · 24/08/2026

today’s little opsec learning: the entire print history of a p-touch cartridge is stored in the empty cartridge (in negative, on the used-up printing ribbon). 😨

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Tom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

My latest books cartoon for @theguardian.com

Title: On holiday with the compulsive browsers

Panel 1: Browsing in the airport bookstore despite already having bags filled with books

Panel 2: Browsing in a charming local bookshop despite not speaking a word of the language

Panel 3: Browsing in the Airbnb despite there being only four novels, the oven manual and a pizza menu

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