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Mrs. Detective Pikajew, Esq. @clapifyoulikeme.favrd.social · 29/09/2026

This is like a fucking SNL skit where studios keep making hockey shows instead of gay shows

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Mrs. Detective Pikajew, Esq. @clapifyoulikeme.favrd.social · 29/09/2026

When an attorney is physically in the courtroom and then also joins by Teams to present an exhibit

A second plane has hit (void cats edition)

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pmamtraveller.bsky.social @pmamtraveller.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Art by Erika De Luca

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

The techbros don't want you to see this trailer. Pass it on.

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Nicolas Roman Posner @nrposner.com · 27/09/2026

@jesawyer.bsky.social Think we can convince someone to name the next big solar field HELIOS One?

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Ada Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

California is weaning itself off fossil gas, fast. Gas-fired electricity generation in California fell by 26% in the first half of 2026, as utility-scale solar, batteries and the new SunZia wind project feed power in via a dedicated transmission line. buff.ly/QWQoLPc #ShareGoodNewsToo

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How California Is Kicking Its Natural Gas Habit - Inside Climate News

Solar and batteries matter, but they’re not the only reasons for the steep decline in gas-fired electricity.

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Ada Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Bull’s-eye example of what @doctorow.pluralistic.net calls a Reverse Centaur situation, with humans supporting technology instead of technology supporting humans.

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Ada Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

& our more recent Black Death research shows that peasant empowerment only happened in very limited areas where policy enabled it; elsewhere elites used the disruption 2 strip workers’ rights more, creating the 1st debtors’ prisons. But only the outdated “mass death => wealth” version gets quoted 🤨😔

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Jason Kint @kint.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Eye popping. Court just unsealed Summary Judgment motions in New York Times v OpenAI / Microsoft. Easy to see why the AI companies had so many redactions (pink). Their own people wrote the lede for NYT, the "largest theft of labor in human history"... "more and more substitutive..." /1

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Michael Fry @bigdirtyfry.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Your Grandad Cyclops talks about his school days

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The Onion @theonion.com · 17/09/2026

“While I am proud to have served Tibetan Buddhism in my current body since 1940, I could not pass up the opportunity to inhabit one of pop’s most electrifying showmen.” — Dalai Lama

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Dalai Lama Announces One-Year Residency Inside Body of Bruno Mars

DHARAMSHALA, INDIA—Touting it as an exciting limited engagement that would precede his next official reincarnation, His Holiness the Dalai Lama announced Wednesday that after his death he would partic...

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 12/09/2026

Once you understand the corporate culture of AI hyperscalers is everyone cooking their brains by locking themselves in the bathroom, holding flashlights under their chins, and saying "Aaaaaaaaaay Eyeeeeeee" until they wet themselves in terror, things snap into focus: pluralistic.net/2023/06/04/a...

A cutaway view of a stone tower containing an elaborate water-powered medieval geared machine. Rising out of the machine is a rainbow-tinted, pixelated God with the robes, beard and all. To one side of this scene is a cluster of tiny people in Jesus-era robes, falling about themselves in religious ecstasy all over a stone staircase, atop of which stands a robed priest with his hands upraised. The background is a set of shining golden rays, emanating from pixel-God.

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Minor Mobius @minormobius.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

You can’t improve on a Henderson post but if you want more I offer henderhead.mino.mobi/wheel With sliders and a phase map and a twin wheel started a billionth of a second later. One important feature of chaotic systems is that small changes lead to big changes, visible toward the end of this

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Bryan Cantrill @bcantrill.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Slides from my keynote this morning at #RustConf on the history of Rust at @oxide.computer; video to come! speakerdeck.com/bcantrill/ru...

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Rust, In Sickness & In Health

Keynote given at RustConf 2026 on September 10th, 2026 in Montreal. Video to come!

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Nicolas Roman Posner @nrposner.com · 07/09/2026

SciPy 2026 talk recordings dropped a couple days ago! Here's mine, 'When Vectorized Arrays Aren't Enough: Array Optimization from Bytecode to Assembly www.youtube.com/watch?v=xaEm...

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When Vectorized Arrays Aren't Enough: Array Optimization from Bytecode to Assembly- Nicolas R Posner

YouTube video by SciPy

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Alberta Tech @albertatech.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

What does a GPT wrapper need training data for anyway …

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For the Love of Missy @missybbbobtail.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Why I Bit You Mid-Pet 1. Too much affection. 2. Too little affection. 3. You moved your hand. 4. I was done. You weren't. 5. I was testing your reflexes. 6. You were petting in the wrong direction. 7. I remembered something you did in 2025. 8. Doesn't matter why. I make the rules. 9. I'm a cat.

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Clarisse @qex.at · 23/07/2026

french if it had a compiler

error[E0308]: mismatched types
--> /messages/10378318/80554717
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1 | je suis aller à Paris
| ---- ^^^^^ expected past participle, got infinitive
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| because of this auxiliary verb
help: replace with: `allée`
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1 | je suis allée à Paris
| -- ^^^^^ feminine past participle
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| this refers to a person with feminine pronouns

For more information about this error, try `frenchc --explain E0308`.
error: aborting due to 1 previous error

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American Museum of Natural History @amnh.org · 23/07/2026

Happy birthday to Vera Rubin, born on this day in 1928! An acclaimed scientist, Rubin's observations established the presence of dark matter in galaxies. She was elected to the National Academy of Sciences & awarded the National Medal of Science. Photo: NOIRLab, CC BY 4.0, Wikimedia Commons

A black and white photo of Vera Rubin measuring spectra at the Department of Terrestrial Magnetism at the Carnegie Institution in Washington, D.C. She is wearing a floral print dress and glasses.

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Gingerspiced @gingerspiced.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

Pete Hegseth: "We need our warriors to embrace the Spartan mindset" U.S. Military: *suffers crushing defeat to the Persians*

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Nicolas Roman Posner @nrposner.com · 16/07/2026

I remember Prof Linda Zirelli did this in her SOSC, to great wailing and gnashing of teeth. Great decision, best SOSC I took

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Ian Betteridge @ianbetteridge.com · 12/07/2026

The sweetest story you will read today.

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The Onion @theonion.com · 11/07/2026

His Holiness Has Repeatedly Stated This Is Not A Cult theonion.com/his-holiness-has-repea…

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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Timeline cleanse: You're watching Mei & Kira, two sea otters (Enhydra lutris) at the Toba Aquarium in Japan, help clean the pool area after playtime. The reward is an ice treat. Enrichment activities like this promote mental wellness. Let's talk about the SUCCESS of sea otter conservation.

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Robin Ryder @robinryder.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

I have just resigned from the board of "Statistics and Computing", along with 17 other Associate Editors. This was a difficult decision: this great journal has published many tremendous articles under the leadership of EiC Ajay Jasra, and before him David Hand, Gilles Celeux, and Mark Girolami.

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imperio @imperioworld.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

New Rust GCC backend report: blog.antoyo.xyz/rustc_codege... We made progress to prevent regressions, which will allow us to spend a lot less time trying to fix unexpected failures everytime we sync with new rustc's updates. Slowly but steadily, we're moving forward! :)

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rustc_codegen_gcc: Progress Report #42

Antoyo's Personal Blog

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Gergely Orosz @gergely.pragmaticengineer.com · 28/06/2026

Google removed my article about the shameful collapse of events tech company Pollen (employees lied to by CEO Callum Negus-Fancey, salaries unpaid, a seemingly deliberate $3.2M customer double charge manually initiated by CTO Brad Wright). This island will be important: (cont'd)

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Andrew Nesbitt @andrewnez.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

Incident Report: CVE-2026-LGTM nesbitt.io/2026/06/26/i...

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Incident Report: CVE-2026-LGTM

A series of unfortunate agents.

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rain 🌦️ @sunshowers.io · 16/06/2026

Update: iddqd is now formally verified*! * with limitations that are fundamental to this kind of formal verification, making it a complement to the existing layers of validation For more, see: oxide.computer/blog/iddqd-u...

Update 2026-06-16: Since publication, we’ve used Soteria to verify that iddqd's no-duplicate-index invariant holds under arbitrarily adversarial Hash and Ord implementations. Soteria is similar to Kani in spirit, though with different internals that make it more compatible with iddqd. Soteria is implemented as a symbolic execution engine that lets you declare points of nondeterminism in your code. (For example, within iddqd, we represent an adversarial Hash or Ord return value as nondeterministic, since we want to model adversarially bad user code.) Then, it:

Compiles the Rust program into a form suitable for formal verification.
Interprets this form until it reaches a point of nondeterminism, treating each such point as a symbol rather than a concrete value.
Branches at each point where control flow depends on a symbol, validating that there is no UB and that the invariants specified by the program are upheld. A lot of the cleverness lies in how the possibility space is collapsed down to something manageable. For example, Soteria doesn’t have to enumerate every possible Hash value; rather, it only has to fork in places where control flow depends on the Hash value.

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SciPy Conference 2026 @scipyconf.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

🔥 Talk Spotlight: Nicolas digs into the real performance secrets hiding in your NumPy code. From bytecode to assembly, discover what actually makes arrays fly (or crawl). Optimize like a pro! 🚀 #SciPy2026 🔗 scipy2026.scipy.org

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Nicolas Roman Posner @nrposner.com · 16/06/2026

gender is a ‘#[non_exhaustive] enum’

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Xe @xeiaso.net · 14/06/2026

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Haskell programming language @haskell.org · 02/06/2026

The past years have seen horrendous attacks towards trans people. We have a duty to protect the most vulnerable members of our communities. There is no Haskell without the trans people who have shaped it through the years. This June is a month of celebrations, but the struggle continues. ✊🏳️‍⚧️λ

The trans flag with a greek lowecase lambda letter in black on it.

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Mara Bos @mara.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

Just like last year, we replaced a whole wall of movie posters with our own punny movie posters at the cinema where RustWeek 2026 took place. I designed seven new posters for this year's event. See the thread below 👇

Nine movie posters displayed next to each other.

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Jeremy Noel-Tod @jntod.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

Scientists are asking if it might be unconscious

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John Coulthart @johncoulthart.com · 01/06/2026

My illustration for Ray Cluley's story in Lovecraft's Brood. "Sideways" is about test pilots, an experimental aircraft and something monstrous that lurks in the upper atmosphere. I illustrated all the stories, it's a great collection.

A balck-and-white drawing of a test pilot in a silver flying suit staggering away from a crash site wreathed in flames.

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TK (Takashi DY) Kozai @bioniclab.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

🪼 Your tax dollars paid a scientist to squeeze jellyfish through cheesecloth. Osamu Shimomura processed tens of thousands on an NSF grant to understand why they glow. He found a protein that glowed green under UV light. Called it "green protein." Nobody cared. For decades.

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jesse, head of endorsement deals at Boingo Wireless @killgoldfish.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

my gf works corporate and is on a training about AI and there's a word cloud for "what do you use AI for." the largest word by far is "Nothing" and the trainer is PISSED

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Brian Phillips @brianphillips.lol · 28/05/2026

Here's the serious bit for anyone who'd rather skip the 4000 words of jokes

Because the truth is, tech doesn't have an image problem. It doesn't have a message problem. It has an intention problem. What's wrong with the axe murderer who broke into my house is not that he hasn't successfully persuaded me to buy into his narrative. What's wrong is that he's trying to kill me with an axe. Similarly, when you launch a product that's designed to put millions of people out of work, block access to sources of verifiable truth, replace human creativity with slop, and lower the barriers to every sort of atrocity, the problem isn't that you haven't told the public a good story about those things. The problem is that you are trying to do them. (
There are things in the world that are more important than money. The fact that you seem not to believe this, that you seem to think any motive beyond ruthless acquisitiveness is fake, dishonest, or childish, is the heart of your problem. Your attitude is not by any means unique to tech, but the

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Guillotine Hunger Force @handle.invalid · 29/05/2026

amazing this is not a skit

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John Moe @johnmoe.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

🎶 Well, the word got around, they said, "This kid is insane, man" Took up a collection just to send him to the mainland "Get your education, don't forget from whence you came, and The world's gonna know your name, what's your name, man?"

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