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Old-school IT and internet user, now a grumpy old man shouting at clouds, walled gardens, overhyped AI, etc. Tip: try finding Bluesky users to follow […] [bridged from social.vivaldi.net/@mossman on the fediverse by fed.brid.gy ]

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eepy august [0x08] 🏳️‍⚧️🇲🇰 @august.chaos.social.ap.brid.gy · 07/10/2026
a sentence will always look like poetry if you hit enter a lot
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David Gerard @davidgerard.circumstances.run.ap.brid.gy · 07/10/2026
www.reddit.com/r/SneerClub/comments…
Shitgenstein

I met a traveler from an inland state
Who said: Two vast and humming racks of steel
Stand in the cornfield. Near them, on the plain,
Half buried in weed, a broken server face lies,
Its stilled fans, its dulled and blinking lights,
Tell that its builders knew the hype well
Which once ran through these halls, now cold and still,
The hands that fed them and the minds that made:
And on the switchroom wall these words remain:
“My name is Jensen Huang, CEO of CEOs:
Look on my cloud compute, ye Mighty, and despair!”
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that great digital ruin, boundless and bare
The autumn fields stretch flat and far away.
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Adrianna Tan @skinnylatte.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 06/10/2026
I have been invited to a ‘homo momo’ gay dumpling class
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Bruce Lawson ✅ ♫ ♿ ✌️♂️✊ @brucelawson.vivaldi.net.ap.brid.gy · 06/10/2026
If I don't keep my car roadworthy and crash into yours, it hasn't gone "rogue", it's my negligence and I'm responsible. If my dog attacks you, I am liable. There are no rogue AIs, just negligent AI companies. Prosecute them.
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David Gerard @davidgerard.circumstances.run.ap.brid.gy · 04/10/2026
henstomper

oh my god the slot machine company says i have to keep putting coins in their machine or Im Gonna Get Left Behind. thats so scary. and it has to be true because they know more about slot machines than i do

oh my god the slot machine company says if we dont give them money to build the world's biggest slot machine the chinese are gonna build it first and win all the prizes. and then there wont be any prizes anymore
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Ian Betteridge @ianbetteridge.vivaldi.net.ap.brid.gy · 04/10/2026
Is there ever a week where this doesn’t come in handy?
Captain Haddock saying “what a week, huh?”, with Karl Marx replying “Comrade, it’s Capitalism”
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Fair Q
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Matthew Haughey @mathowie.xoxo.zone.ap.brid.gy · 03/10/2026
The hardest part of flying home from Japan is adjusting to the time change. For example in Tokyo I got to experience a future where everyone deserves dignity but I’m flying back to a country intent on pushing itself back to the 1950s. It’s hard to adjust your watch to that.
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Daniel Lakeland @dlakelan.mastodon.sdf.org.ap.brid.gy · 01/10/2026
Fediverse, the social media system for 40+ year old people who built the world wide web and regret it.
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Martin Rundkvist @mrundkvist.archaeo.social.ap.brid.gy · 30/09/2026
Talked to someone who has been dabbling in translating fiction. This guy was horrified when I told him that if he uses machine translation for more than dictionary checks of individual words, he can't put his name on the translation and the work is ineligible under most standard publishing […]
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Bruce Lawson ✅ ♫ ♿ ✌️♂️✊ @brucelawson.vivaldi.net.ap.brid.gy · 30/09/2026
definitelynotwindows.com
A spoof Windows 11½ home screen with numerous "toast" notifications and a banner saying "Whoa there.
You appear to be downloading another browser.

Microsoft Edge uses the same technology as Chrome, except we're already here and harder to remove.

Use Microsoft Edge

Continue to Chrome anyway
Help us understand why you are rejecting innovation.
Keep Edge
continue anyway"
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Paco Hope @paco.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 30/09/2026
You know what an AI chatbot does when it is the first line of support? It raises the temperature of every customer who reaches a human in support. By the time they have run the gauntlet of pointless, incorrect, and idiotic responses, they are tired, they feel disrespected, they are frustrated […]
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2 Spoopy 4 You @jcrabapple.dmv.community.ap.brid.gy · 27/09/2026
People like Elon Musk and Peter Thiel are not geniuses. They're just evil morons who have been able to take advantage of a system built by and for evil morons. We need to rebuild a society where these idiots cannot get money and power.
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Vee @veroniqueb99.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 26/09/2026
Been saying it since term 1.
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Mitex Leo @ml.social.mitexleo.one.ap.brid.gy · 26/09/2026
Breaking News: #mecklemore #genocide #israel #zionism #palestine #gaza
A news photocard showing netanyahu. The title says: Mecklemore is two weeks away from a nuclear weapon
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Adrianna Tan @skinnylatte.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 26/09/2026
Saw some hilarious comments on a post about how Singapore has the most powerful passport in the world. There are Americans who are surprised, deeply hurt, and the best one is the person who said ‘yeah but when you get kidnapped in a foreign place it’s the American government that’s more likely […]
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Rach "pumpkin spice butt girl" @ykantrachelread.social.treehouse.systems.ap.brid.gy · 25/09/2026
the rich techbros warning about the potential catastrophic dangers of AI in terms of, "they might cause a billion deaths because superintelligent AGI!" rather than, "we've made the conscious decision to use this error-prone chatbot to review health insurance claims" sure is a psyop if I've ever […]
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:privTri: Volpeon :areonNSmol: @volpeon.at.icy.wyvern.rip · 25/09/2026
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Vee @veroniqueb99.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 24/09/2026
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Bruce Lawson ✅ ♫ ♿ ✌️♂️✊ @brucelawson.vivaldi.net.ap.brid.gy · 24/09/2026
There are no "rogue AIs". Just rogue AI companies. Regulate them hard.
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M.S. Bellows, Jr. @msbellows.c.im.ap.brid.gy · 24/09/2026
I'm so old, I remember when software that spread into the wild and infiltrated other people's computers and did harmful things to them that the users didn't ask it to was called "malware" instead of "AI" and the people that spread it were prosecuted instead of given billions in venture capital […]
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Lazarou Monkey Terror 🚀💙🌈 @lazarou.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 23/09/2026
The way the global media seemed to make out Trump had a win when the real story is that Trump once again was outwitted. They are not on our side and we should stop pretending they are. #trump #Denmark #Media #FourthEstate #Politics
capt_karjalainen 

Denmark just pulled off the diplomatic
heist of the decade. They basically got
Trump to re-sign the 1951 Greenland
agreement, but added a genius "poison
pill": the deal is only valid as long as the
US stays in NATO. Trump gets the
domestic headline, but Denmark quietly
locked them into the European security
architecture. Masterful.

 christine_waters_rust 14h 

Denmark pulling the actual Art of the Deal!

love it!
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mossman @mossman.social.vivaldi.net.ap.brid.gy · 22/09/2026
Anyone else notice the obviously coordinated effort to rebrand hyperactive autocorrect as " #superintelligence "? Just read a headline that Trump talked about #superintelligent "AI" at the UN earlier. What utter bollocks!
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mossman @mossman.social.vivaldi.net.ap.brid.gy · 22/09/2026
Just putting this out there... a few days ago I needed to do the "monthly" clean up (after three months) so while I was making a backup of our centrally-stored data on the old Linux desktop, I let #Ucheck do its thing on our two Windows laptops, then finished off with a quick Microsoft Store […]
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mx alex tax1a - 2020 (6) @atax1a.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 13/11/2025
"can you explain this gap in your resume?" "yeah, `overfull \vbox (19.23pt too high)`" "how did you do that with your voice?" "do `what?`"
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Ruth Mottram @ruth-mottram.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 22/09/2026
This, from the European Correspondent, is a very good way of showing that even though they fill a lot of the media time, the far right are very far from the majority in any country (possible exceptions are Poland Hungary), the main question then is how to […] [Original post on fediscience.org]
A poster titled going far right where multiple boxes each representing one European country has purple shading showing the proportion of voters who voted for far right parties. Only two get even close to having 40% of the box filled with purple. Most are much  much lower
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Hacker Memes @i0null.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 11/09/2026
#bleptember
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Jay @jaystephens.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 17/09/2026
Subscription-model capitalism where you own nothing and just pay monthly fees forever (or until the corporation decides to make it unavailable) is especially funny after decades of "under communism you won't be able to own anything" propaganada.
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Flipboard Culture Desk @culturedesk.flipboard.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/09/2026
Macklemore has announced he is donating his $1 million net earnings from the Ed Sheeran tour he to organizations that support the Palestinian people. The rapper, who was dropped from Sheeran's tour at the behest of billionaire Robert Kraft, urged Kraft to match his donation. “With everything […]
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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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David Penfold :verified: @davep.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 09/09/2026
Last night I dreamt I was the author of The Hobbit I was Tolkien in my sleep.
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Hacker Memes @i0null.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 08/09/2026
python wrapper functions :python:
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Ian Betteridge @ianbetteridge.vivaldi.net.ap.brid.gy · 06/09/2026
I love how Farage is basically saying here "I know political donations law better than anyone, I just showed up to a meeting, I knew my two guys didn't know a think about it, but I wasn't listening." It's "dog ate my homework" levels of excuse.
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Bruce Lawson ✅ ♫ ♿ ✌️♂️✊ @brucelawson.vivaldi.net.ap.brid.gy · 06/09/2026
Loads of fighting age people in burkas invade our coast and cause massive disruption. I thought Patirots hate that?
A crowd of black-clad men in balaclavas marching
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Aure Free Press :verified: @free-press.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 05/09/2026
ENJOY YOUR LABOR DAY WEEKEND! #AureFreePress #News #laborday
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Ian Betteridge @ianbetteridge.vivaldi.net.ap.brid.gy · 05/09/2026
How come the far right stop the boats scum bags who attacked the infrastructure of Dover this morning weren’t arrested and charged with terrorism offences?
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:privTri: Volpeon :areonNSmol: @volpeon.at.icy.wyvern.rip · 04/09/2026
Curiousity
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Glyph @glyph.im · 03/09/2026
believing that LLMs will soon be able to take on economically valuable tasks fully autonomously because their outputs sound increasingly plausible and surely it's just a matter of extending that intelligence into agency is like believing that pretty soon video games are going to have food in […]
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`Da Elf @elfin.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/09/2026
I am sick of "Prediction Market" as a moniker. It's Gambling. Gambling is the fucking word. Gambling that you can manipulate (or create) the outcome. I don't like gambling (four years of statistics will do that to a person) and I'm not fond of people who gamble (lotto anyone?) ... but that […]
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Adrianna Tan @skinnylatte.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 29/08/2026
The degree of xenophobia towards south Asian people everywhere is disgusting. Regarding the missing people in Nepal’s recent floods, I’m seeing Chinese people in Singapore say that Indian Singaporeans are not really Singaporeans; and white Aussies saying Indian Aussies are not Aussies. I’m […]
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myrmepropagandist @futurebird.sauropods.win.ap.brid.gy · 29/08/2026
RE: infosec.exchange/@catsalad/11717796… And they claim the ice stone sport has no victims. The cat is addicted to being curl'd
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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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Mark T. Tomczak @mark.mastodon.fixermark.com.ap.brid.gy · 24/08/2026
Thinking about the era of technology where the easiest way to display images was to take all the air out of a tube and point a death ray at your face. It's fine though. There was a thin screen between you and the death ray that caught all the death and turned it into pretty colors.
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Low Quality Facts @lowqualityfacts.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 24/08/2026
I know that Elon Musk gets a lot of hate on here, but hear me out. I think we could hate him more. We have the capacity, we all just need to put in a little more effort.
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Technology Connections @techconnectify.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
When I wrote "we often rely on extraction efforts happening in other countries which may or may not be friendly" in my renewable energy video, Canada was not on my mind. But please, Canada - get nasty and fuck us up. You have every right to not be friendly, and we're counting on it.
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Technology Connections @techconnectify.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
been a minute. made a thing. youtu.be/F_7B2shTPPU
youtu.be
My water heater is cooler than yours
YouTube video by Technology Connections
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Liam Proven @lproven.social.vivaldi.net.ap.brid.gy · 20/08/2026
Don't paste the AI, please. dontpastetheai.com When someone asks you something, they want your answer. Not a wall of unedited ChatGPT output. A short reply from you beats a long one from a model, every time.
dontpastetheai.com
Don't paste the AI.
If someone asks you a question, paste your answer — not the chatbot's.
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