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other computers in sports quiz programmes on the television organised by computers and watched by computers."

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an entirely enclosed one, unvisited by any human being except the maintenance engineers. Computers will play. Computers will watch. Computers will comment. Computers will store results, and pit their memories against

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"A human being, my dear Rowe, is far too complex and expensive an instrument to be wasted on simple finite tasks like operating presses, filling up football pools, and watching cricket. The whole world of sport, I believe, will gradually become

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So I'm reading "The Tin Men" by Michael Frayn. It's a satire written in the 1960s heyday of the mainframe, and it actually predicts this.

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Roy Edroso @edroso.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Lol. Can you imagine writing all that code in green makeup?

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Anyone remember 25 years ago when the people who sent out videos of themselves executing people were the bad guys? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_...

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Daniel Pearl - Wikipedia

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Kasey Gifford @kaseygifford.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

To put this in perspective chestnut trees used to be dominant species in the United States. Billions of trees were killed by fungal blight and now fully grown America chestnuts are functionally extinct. There is no getting them back. Ever. All for a data center. www.gadgetreview.com/one-of-ameri...

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One of America’s Last Chestnut Groves Is About to Be Destroyed for a Data Center

A rare 200-tree American chestnut grove in West Virginia may be cleared for data-center development, but the project denies the site is on its land.

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Literally a crime against nature.

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This Halloween, the ghost of Karl Marx rises from his crypt to kick JD Vance directly in the nuts.

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Was just going to say that this stuff needs an update for the AI generation.

Jezebel @jezebeldotcom.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

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Who would have thought there might be a correlation between wide-ranging book bans and new lows in basic student literacy? www.jezebel.com/book-bans-st...

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Florida and Texas Reach New Heights for Book Bans, New Lows for Literacy

Who would have thought there might be a correlation between wide-ranging book bans and new lows in basic student literacy?

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Truthout @truthout.org · 08/10/2026

I'll be the odd man out. I like how the serifs make a kind of accordion effect.

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Military contractors with investments from President Donald Trump’s sons have raked in billions of dollars in government deals and contracts since June 2025, when their venture capital company first obtained a major stake in military technology company Anduril, new reporting finds.

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Trump Has Granted $6B in Contracts to Arms Makers His Sons Have Invested In

Trump has previously said that his children have “inside information” about government actions.

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Back in the mid 70s, high schools in my area offered home EC (cooking and seeing) and Shop (woodworking) classes. I figured Home Ec would be more useful to me but I wasn't allowed to take it because they were gender segregated. I cook pretty well but I never did learn to sew.

Amazing woman. Amazing engineer.

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Existing FTC and CPA rules out to apply. If you bought a new TV and it crashed your microwave, you'd have recourse against the TV manufacturer. These products aren't rogue, they're faulty.

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Also meet his friend, Pinky.

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Don't know about copyright, but it's a definite violation of the software license.

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He literally says it repeatedly. US companies don't want low margins. We used Japan until Taiwan was cheaper. We used Taiwan until China was cheaper.

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If you factor in the eventual heat death of the universe, everything does indeed halt.

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The text of the law specifies no penalties, so presumably you can break the law without consequence.

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Brand new take on "love your neighbor."

I'm going to start calling it Super-cali-fragil-istic Intelligence.

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Mity Cheese @mitycheese.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Mine is pretty bang-on, (30 items) but they have no notes on my body shape.

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Yeah, and they were always telling us at Google never to write anything in an email you wouldn't want printed in the NYT someday. Speak in person instead. So it's not what you're doing but whether it can be traced back to you.

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Clear-cutting forests is incredibly efficient as well. It’s also incredibly destructive. Efficiency is one of capitalism’s false gods.

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Peter Thiel wants to own the surveillance state.

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“.. 2,000 trucks x $20,000 in fuel savings per year x 20 years. That works out to $800 million in total savings, for a whopping ~166% ROI.” @electrek.com electrek.co/2026/10/03/f...

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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Sex appeal also gave us Gavin News on, so it's not something we should depend on.

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A goal of this administration being achieved: “American pre-tax corporate earnings have grown by $1.2trn, or 30%. … And yet taxes on corporate profits have collapsed.” www.economist.com/finance-and-... h/t @talsmith.bsky.social

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I liked the trailer, too, but I hear that it implied a different movie than what's actually there. I'll probably see it anyway, but I feel like there's a scam going on.

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Ran across @bcmerchant.bsky.social book on the Luddites at the Musée de Besux Arts à Montréal.

On the book table, Blood in the Machine.

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I saw Macbeth done with raw eggs as puppets and it was brilliant.

RSI has always been the "miracle" that's completely unexplainable.

Two scientists looking a formula on chalkboard that contains the line "then a miracle occurs.
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Mity Cheese @mitycheese.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I predict you'll see this replayed during Dem victory parties.

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That's season one. They didn't mention how much of the book was covered in the first season.

Mity Cheese @mitycheese.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Ebola has a very high mortality rate (90%), but doesn't spread easily. Measles has a low mortality rate but is highly contagious. In the 50s, over 2m people/year died of measles. The world can go for years with no Ebola deaths at all.