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Katie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 25/09/2026

I have blamed The agents That hacked Your website And which You probably Reasonably thought I controlled Forgive me I am rich And unaccustomed To taking responsibility

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Jake Gold @jacob.gold · 12/09/2026

There's no slowing down frontier models by regulation that wouldn't lead to regulatory capture. But we could simply force all AI model companies to release their model weights openly. It's the world's data after all and nothing would slow their funding/progress more effectively and universally.

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Matthew Garrett @mjg59.eicar-test-file.zip · 13/09/2026

youtu.be/DjhRRj6WYcs?... is an incredible introduction to things you may take for granted, including the job queue being a literal queue. Maurice Wilkes was still turning up to Computer Lab happy hours on Friday afternoons to have a beer well into his 90s. Fucking legend.

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The EDSAC Film

YouTube video by CambridgeComputerLab

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Nick Stenning @nickstenning.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

If you work in tech and have ever thought you’d rather be working with your hands… now’s your chance to support someone with the same dream. Help my friend and ex-colleague retrain as a luthier! www.paypal.com/pools/c/9sqp...

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Help A Queer Woman Stay in Europe and Retrain for a New Career

My name is Berrak, and I'm a software developer and an audio artist. For the past three years I haven't had a stable paying job. I've been rejected for every grant I applied to and continuously reject...

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Amanda Kolson Hurley @amandakhurley.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

Incredible chart from @propublica.org. If you don’t follow enviro stuff closely, your instinct might be that the hold-your-nose solution (carbon capture from fossil fuels) would be the “pragmatic” one versus covering Earth in solar panels, which seems utopian. In fact it’s the opposite

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Evan Greer @evangreer.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

in a world of JK Rowlings be a Dolly Parton

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Richard Murphy @richardjmurphy.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

What is income? I tried to summarise one of the hardest and most important questions in economics on one page because we have got the answer horribly wrong, and climate change proves it. I wrote the infographic. AI drew it.

An infographic on what income is in economic thinking.

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Nick Stenning @nickstenning.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

OH: “Does anyone know what ‘AWS Bartholomew and the Oobleck; formerly OpenOobleck’ is and are we using it? It’s costing us $500K a month.”

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Nick Stenning @nickstenning.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

I know these roles can be hard to find so just putting it out there: we have a bunch of Staff and one Principal role open at astronomer.io/careers/ and you'd be joining some pretty good humans here.

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Astronomer: The Best Place to Run Apache Airflow®

Apache Airflow® orchestrates the world’s data, ML, and AI pipelines. Astro is the best way to build, run, and observe them at scale.

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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 17/08/2026

rare books are destroyed in the process but at least we have a technology that instructs teens how to commit suicide

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Nick Stenning @nickstenning.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Hugops as always to the folks dealing with today's (scheduled??) GitHub outage, but big yikes for continuing to post inane status updates like moving "Pull Requests" from "degraded performance" to "degraded availability" after the entire goddamn service has been hard down for an hour.

A screenshot of the GitHub status page, with the following content:

Update - Pull Requests is experiencing degraded availability. We are continuing to investigate.
Aug 17, 2026 - 14:54 UTC

Update - Issues is experiencing degraded availability. We are continuing to investigate.
Aug 17, 2026 - 14:49 UTC

Update - Pull Requests is experiencing degraded availability. We are continuing to investigate.
Aug 17, 2026 - 14:45 UTC

Update - Copilot is experiencing degraded availability. We are continuing to investigate.
Aug 17, 2026 - 14:31 UTC

Update - We are experiencing high error rates around 20% for web experiences and api traffic. Archive downloads and raw repository content downloads are experiencing an approximate 50% error rate. SAML and OIDC authentication, SCIM, and Team Sync are also impacted. Investigations are on-going and we will continue to provide updates as we discover more information.
Aug 17, 2026 - 14:24 UTC

Update - We are experiencing high error rates around 20% for web experiences and api traffic. Archive downloads and raw repository content downloads are experiencing an approximate 50% error rate. Investigations are on-going into the root cause, and updates will continue to be provided as we investigate.
Aug 17, 2026 - 14:04 UTC

Update - Pull Requests is experiencing degraded performance. We are continuing to investigate.
Aug 17, 2026 - 13:58 UTC

Update - Issues is experiencing degraded performance. We are continuing to investigate.
Aug 17, 2026 - 13:46 UTC

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Ed Burmila @edburmila.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

You don’t have to like this guy‘s politics to recognize that everyone who has insisted for decades that The Issues are almost all too complicated and too nuanced to explain to voters let alone address was lying to you.

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Elizabeth Taylor @elizabethtaylor47.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

I’d recommend everyone watch this - it’s rather cheering to watch our media discover that an incompetent crank runs our national equality regulator

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Josh Rosenau @joshrosenau.org · 04/08/2026

In ancient R’lyeh she slumbers. Each minute, a grain falls, and when her prison fills, the salt girl awakens. When it rains, it pours.

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Josh Fruhlinger @jfruh.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

ukranian special forces have been the most effective environmental activists of the 21st century

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Nick Stenning @nickstenning.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

holy shit I can actually see the flatiron building… without scaffolding!

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Nick Stenning @nickstenning.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

oh maaate i’m so sorry i missed little alfie’s christening this morning… me and the lads went out last night and had an absolute

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Nick Stenning @nickstenning.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

did you know? you can make your organization more structurally complex in order to make it work more simply! it might be a good thing!

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Nick Stenning @nickstenning.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

seriously how are we still having the datacenters in space conversation?

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binp @binp.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

we are scarily close to general artificial intelligence

a screenshot of a facebook post of a photo of an rv with "THEY EAT BABIES IN DENVER!!!" scrawled on the back.

meta ai suggests:
- Baby-eating restaurants in Denver
- Denver's population
- Denver's unique food scene
- Restaurants that serve babies

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Sonia Silva ❤️ @vallygirl.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

The complete elimination of Meta would yield unambiguous, far reaching benefits for global society.

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𝖏𝖆𝖘 @vores.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

the entire point of life is to be kind and weird btw

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

this is, for reference, less than 1 percent of the water used in the United States in a single *day*

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Nick Stenning @nickstenning.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

wait until you hear how many teaspoons of water they used!!

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Nick Stenning @nickstenning.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

Racist men have always been most afraid of the possibility that *someone else* might abuse their wives and daughters.

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Nick Stenning @nickstenning.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

Every once in a a while I look at UK news and reflect on the fact that the current PM won the second-largest labour majority ever and used it to… [checks notes]… become the Tory Party?

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Liz Fong-Jones (方禮真) @lizthegrey.com · 07/06/2026

wealth bends rules like gravity bends light

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Nick Stenning @nickstenning.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

The number of ads I’ve seen for the SpaceX IPO is unsettling. There’s a reason most IPOs sell ~nothing to retail investors: wholesale wants and can buy everything available many times over. What do you think it means if they don’t this time? Is that good, do you reckon?

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Nick Stenning @nickstenning.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

From the SpaceX S-1. 100GW of compute deployed to space per year. That's 200+ million square meters of solar? 30,000 ISS-class satellites per year?? I think the technical term is "lol."

A screenshot from the SpaceX S1, of the following text: "Our goal over time is to launch 100 gigawatts of compute to space each year. If operated continuously, the generation resources used to support 100 gigawatts of compute could generate approximately one-fifth of the annual power production in the United States, which was 4.4 thousand terawatt hours in 2025, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA). We expect space‑based compute to massively increase AI compute scale, while also improving token economics."

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absolute horses @jcoglan.com · 04/06/2026

I don't know what to call any of this except malpractice

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Alex Russell @infrequently.org · 30/05/2026

This is very well observed, but every time I hear the name "Eric Schmidt" all I can think is "...you mean the guy who was caught colluding with Steve Jobs to suppress the wages of programmers?": en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-Te... youtu.be/tlQ7EoJDTQY

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"But it happened."

The entirety of Eric Schmidt's commencement speech can be viewed as part of the University of Arizona's graduation ceremony coverage here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b1eM3jv0vWY&t=7932s

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Nick Stenning @nickstenning.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

I loved the whole thing but I also think more people should read it and if this makes that happen then I’m all for it.

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Ian Coldwater 🧊🚫 @lookitup.baby · 17/05/2026

Stockton Rush was a bog-standard startup CEO. everyone in tech has met dozens of him

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Nick Stenning @nickstenning.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

Do I know anyone at Apple or Google who might be able to help a friend who is extricating themselves from an abusive relationship? They are trying to get access/audit logs for their accounts dating back >90d. Please DM if you or someone you know might be able to help with this.

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Graeme Swanson @swansonian.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

I hear Iran are just weeks away from developing a ballroom.

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Richard Waite @waiterich.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

I used to be good at Computer. Now Computer thinks it is good at me. But it actually isn’t??????

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Hazel Weakly @hazelweakly.me · 31/03/2026

I’ve posted it before, but it feels evergreen The two hardest problems in Computer Science are 1. Human communication 2. Getting people in tech to believe that human communication is important

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Fiona Tribe @fionatribe.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

Yes, Swiss scientist Fritz Zwicky coined the term “dark matter” which is impressive, but he also coined the term “spherical bastard” to describe people who are bastards no matter which way you look at them, and I think that should be celebrated more.

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-𝚖𝚘𝚡 @moxiest.art · 22/04/2026

"should we really resort to playing dirty to defeat the nazis i–" yes. kick em in the fucking balls. what kind of question is that. grow the fuck up

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Nick Stenning @nickstenning.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

gotta say I do enjoy watching the leopards eating *each other’s* faces

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Steve Anglesey @sanglesey.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

I believe the phrase is "Hang it in the Louvre"

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Sharanjit Paddam @sharanjit.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

Trump is making China very rich

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👻 Jack Djinn Wail 🧞 @jacktindale.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

God, I love her so much. Just banger after bager. She's in it purely for the love of the game and I respect that.

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Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 03/04/2026

All but three (!) of the 1,651 refugees admitted into the United States in the three most recent months we have data are white South Africans. For comparison, in 2024, the U.S. admitted 100,060 refugees. It's an explicit white supremacist project. www.rpc.state.gov/documents/Re...

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Ted Han★ 韓聖安 @knowtheory.net · 02/04/2026

Please, call me Child Object, object Object was my father

A text message that reads:

Hey [object Object], if you could bring your electric bill down to 0 for the rest of the year with solar, would you want to find out how?

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