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Freya Holmér @freya.bsky.social · 26/08/2025

it's 2038. nobody remembers how technology works every day, humans argue endlessly with the latest AI model. a model subject to years of gastroincestuous data, as humans no longer provided useful data themselves the only remaining data type is string the string is a prompt

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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

behold: a woman

a platypus being held in someone's hands

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 03/08/2025

Keep the two distinct in your head.

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Freya Holmér @freya.bsky.social · 21/07/2025

the way the far right values surface level cordiality over the substance of conversation is legitimately mind blowing to me entitled pricks demanding to be respected because they made their reprehensible point with a "respectable tone"

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Meredith Whittaker @meredithmeredith.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

Stand by this: www.politico.com/newsletters/...

What’s a technology that you think is overhyped?

I’m going to give a sideways answer to this, which is that the venture capital business model needs to be understood as requiring hype. You can go back to the Netscape IPO, and that was the proof point that made venture capital the financial lifeblood of the tech industry.

Venture capital looks at valuations and growth, not necessarily at profit or revenue. So you don’t actually have to invest in technology that works, or that even makes a profit, you simply have to have a narrative that is compelling enough to float those valuations. So you see this repetitive and exhausting hype cycle as a feature in this industry. A couple of years ago, you would have been asking me about the metaverse, then last year, you would have asked me about Web3 and crypto, and for each of these inflection points there’s an Andreessen Horowitz manifesto.

It’s not simply that one piece of technology is overhyped, it’s that hype is a necessary ingredient of the current business ecosystem of the tech industry. We should examine how often the financial incentive for hype is rewarded without any real social returns, without any meaningful progress in technology, without these tools and services and worlds ever actually manifesting. That’s key to understanding the growing chasm between the narrative of techno-optimists and the reality of our tech-encumbered world.

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The Conversation U.S. @us.theconversation.com · 04/02/2025

In Stern’s view, the way to go is to stop paying journals for accepting papers and begin looking at them as public utilities that serve a greater good.

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Count Sockula 🎖️💎🧦 @drosgood.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

Great. Now I have a dead vulture. Any cure for THAT, Albertus?

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Mike Sowden @mikeachim.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

In 2014 Dutch scientists left a hamster wheel outside, to see if wild animals would use it like their domesticated counterparts. The answer: hell yes! 734 visits from wild mice - plus rats, shrews, slugs ("running" being subjective here) & even frogs and snails. The apparent reason: fun. Just fun.

Chart showing instances of wild animals using a hamster wheel left out in the wild, with visits dominated by wild mice, followed by slugs, rats, shrews and a few frogs and snails.

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Seven Pyrometer @owlzor.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

Presger translator Zuck is not allowed to disassemble his classmates, so he decided to disassemble society.

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Jamison Foser @jamisonfoser.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

"at Meta’s offices in Silicon Valley, Texas and New York, facilities managers were instructed to remove tampons from men’s bathrooms, which the company had provided for nonbinary and transgender employees who use the men’s room and who may have required sanitary pads" www.nytimes.com/2025/01/10/t...

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Inside Mark Zuckerberg’s Sprint to Remake Meta for the Trump Era

After visiting President-elect Donald J. Trump in November, Mr. Zuckerberg decided to relax Meta’s speech policies. He asked a small team to carry out his goals within weeks. The repercussions are jus...

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Nick Land Acknowledgement 🇵🇸🏳️‍🌈 @lonestartallboi.bsky.social · 08/01/2024

20 years ago we were suing teenagers for millions of dollars because they were torrenting a single Metallica album and now billionaires are demanding the free right to every work in history, so that they can re-sell it. The law only ever serves capital.

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Matt @mattym96.bsky.social · 14/12/2024

Just paid £2 for this pint btw I love Cardiff

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C. L. Polk @clpolk.com · 15/12/2024

This is complete bullshit and it's not going to stop here.

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Sudoku @sudoku.bsky.social · 14/12/2024

On Linux you're an admin On Mac you're an end user On Windows you're a victim

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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 12/12/2024

The Maritime Approximation xkcd.com/3023

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Luis Alis・ルイス @luisalisferrer.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

So all of a sudden we need high energy consuming, ultracomplex AI to solve the unsurmountable, exceedingly challenging problem of putting your files on different folders with names describing what's inside the fucking folders

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Seven Pyrometer @owlzor.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

Let it be known among the squires of all these lands: Unless you 1) Drank at least a pottle of malmsey 2) Had some eeles 3) Sword were drawn It’s not a real party.

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Tasting History with Max Miller @tastinghistory.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

After searching for a recipe for over a year, I finally made true Victorian sugar plums. No plums were involved but lots of sugar was. www.youtube.com/watch?v=q5Nk... #christmas #tastinghistory

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What Are Sugar Plums? How to make real Victorian sugar plums

YouTube video by Tasting History with Max Miller

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jae holzman @jael.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

i’m trans. reporting this story nearly killed me. had to stop drinking and wound up on many friends “call to see if she’s ok” lists. please share it. (i’m ok now that it is done.)

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Annalee Newitz @annaleen.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

Holy and I cannot emphasize this enough fuck

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Sy Brand @tartanllama.xyz · 09/12/2024

Outlook: 75% percent of recipients have opened this email Me: (under breath) banger email

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nixCraft @cyberciti.biz · 08/12/2024

Kids would take mathematical proofs way more seriously if they knew they’d be able to dunk this hard later in life. #math

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nixCraft @cyberciti.biz · 08/12/2024

😭😅

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Willman Duffy @willmanduffy.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

I hope that other people find this image as helpful as I did

A twix bar with two pieces. The Twixs bars are clearly labeled, as is the space betwixt them

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unaspi 🌌 @unaspi.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

IT FUCKEN WIMDY

a fox being buffeted by a very windy snow storm

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 08/12/2024

Winter flying is something else. #aviation #avgeek

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Alison Fisk @alisonfisk.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

Something lovely for the weekend! Marvellous Minoan clay vessels made by creative potters on the island of Crete around 3,500 years ago during the Aegean Bronze Age! Heraklion Archaeological Museum 📷 by me #Archaeology

From the Aegean Bronze Age, Minoan clay vessels with black handpainted decoration.

Top left - clay flask decorated in Minoan ‘Marine Style’’ with an octopus with tentacles writhing around the body of the vase. Additional motifs indicate the seabed. From Palaikastro, 1500-1450 BC

Top right - clay rhyton in the shape of a bull’s head. A rhyton is a type of pouring vessel used for filling cups or making liquid offerings. There is a pouring hole at the bull’s mouth. From Knossos Little Palace, 1450-1375 BC

Bottom left - Nautilus vessel - clay rhyton depicting the seabed with nautili, corals and seaweed. From Phaistos Palace, 1500-1450 BC

Bottom right - Basket shaped rhyton decorated with double-axe motif. There is a small pouring hole in one of the bottom corners. From Pseira, 1500-1450 BC

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The Conversation U.S. @us.theconversation.com · 07/12/2024

Texas has done an excellent job eliminating rabies. Successful efforts that started in the 90s have now evolved to an innovative approach of distributing a vaccine by airplane every year to wild animals. And stopping rabies in wild dogs and coyotes prevents humans from contracting the deadly virus

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Airdropping vaccines to eliminate canine rabies in Texas – two scientists explain the decades of research behind its success

Two rabies epidemics in animals spurred a state health emergency in Texas and a program that oversees annual mass wildlife vaccination. Millions of doses have been distributed since the ‘90s.

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sarah jeong @sarahjeong.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

Soldiers who invaded the National Assembly are saying they were lied to:

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Seven Pyrometer @owlzor.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

Hammering the law when it’s convenient then taking a big 💩 on it when one of your own crosses the line. And no matter how much. The bigger the crime the bigger the 💩. The zen of conservatives the world around.

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Michelle Ye Hee Lee @myhlee.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

BREAKING NEWS: The impeachment vote of South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol, following his shocking martial law decree that stunned the nation, has FAILED. 105 of 108 of his party's lawmakers boycotted the vote and the National Assembly didn't meet the threshold to pass the motion.

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Seven Pyrometer @owlzor.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

The primary difference between software garbage collectors and the human sort is that the former is shit talked nonstop online. The 2nd mainly irl and only when stuck behind one in traffic. Otherwise the job is the same.

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Harris Foster @harris.zone · 06/12/2024

It’s incredible that we’ve gotten to a place where basically any PC component is plug-n-play ready yet we still haven’t determined who is responsible for including the screw for m.2 drives.

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 07/12/2024

Blocking anyone who is mildly sus immediately and without particular emotional engagement is obviously the best way to go but once in a while it would be nice to have a block option that ALSO produces an animation of the profile being flushed down a toilet or maybe the text melting gruesomely away

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Seven Pyrometer @owlzor.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

Had a great Friday evening. Neighbors 📢📢 INCREDIBLY LOUD 📢📢burglar alarm went off and kept going for 3 hours straight.

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Mathias 🦀 @mathiasb77.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

The 2024 State of Rust Survey is up: blog.rust-lang.org/2024/12/05/a... If you are using Rust (beginner or expert) or wants to, please take a few minutes to fill in this survey. This will help shape the future of the language and the community.

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Launching the 2024 State of Rust Survey | Rust Blog

Empowering everyone to build reliable and efficient software.

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Seven Pyrometer @owlzor.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

And the physically painful pun award of the day goes to…

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Megan Carpentier @megancarpentier.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

This is one of the most well-written explanations of certain kinds of AI errors I’ve seen to date. (The whole article is great too.) www.theverge.com/c/24300623/a...

When you pose the question to a language model, what you are really asking is, “Given the statistical distribution of words in the vast public corpus of text, what are the words most likely to follow the sequence ‘what country is to the south of Rwanda?’” Even if the system responds with the word “Burundi,” this is a different sort of assertion with a different relationship to reality than the human’s answer, and to say the AI “knows” or “believes” Burundi to be south of Rwanda is a category mistake that will lead to errors and confusion.

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Amee Vanderpool @girlsreallyrule.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

European Union regulators ordered TikTok to retain any information related to Romania’s presidential election, after the country’s top defense body released declassified intelligence alleging that Moscow arranged an online campaign to support the surprise front-runner. apnews.com/article/roma...

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European Union orders TikTok to preserve data related to Romanian election

European Union regulators have ordered TikTok to retain any information related to Romania’s presidential election.

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