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hausdorff frissance @physticuffs.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

This is something that has seriously set back my pursuit of a more contemporary car. I'd love an EV, but I absolutely will not tolerate this, and I've got no time to go digging the RF modules out of whatever I get. I don't think this should be possible. www.abc.net.au/news/2026-09...

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Australians love these cars. Experts have 'real security concerns'

To test the risks of surveillance and sabotage, Four Corners asked a hacker to show what China's top EV brand could see and do remotely.

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hausdorff frissance @physticuffs.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

My memory isn't what it used to be, so I have a whole folder full of images of book covers and screenshots of titles or comments that people post. My local independent bookstore has gotten some interesting requests from me, but I like to keep them busy. What Kate said! I've found so much from it

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Nanoraptor @nanoraptor.danamania.com · 28/07/2025

GenX kids will know the pain of needing just the right kind of pencil to rewind.

A photo of a 3.5" computer cassette, in this case Install Cassette 5 for Macintosh System 7.5

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hausdorff frissance @physticuffs.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

How odd, I'm not seeing @faineg.com 's fine contributions to our collective cultural milieu

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hausdorff frissance @physticuffs.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

My Oregonian senses were tingling, I got here as quickly as I could. What's going on? Either someone has just released the most obnoxious craft beer in human history to date or..... I see. (MST3K alarms go off) We've got whale sign!

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hausdorff frissance @physticuffs.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

So serious question: if these businesses go bust and you get stuck with an abandonware oven, would it then be permissible to pop the firmware or write a little web service that would put it back into service? Can you cause harm to the company if it doesn't exist?

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Sara Gibbs @sararoseg.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

He imposed Shania Law

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hausdorff frissance @physticuffs.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Took my cameras for a walk as the weather was cool and a bit drizzly. Thought I would head down and see if the Precambrian was still there. Pleased to report it is. For the #geology types, enjoy some folds and layers. I'm told they're good. They're certainly beautiful.

The gravel, my camera, my old blue north face jacket and my camera bag with tripod at the base of the formations

My jacket and camera bag at the base of the formations for scale. There are alternating thin and thick stripes where sediment was deposited over unbelievable time scales.

Standing along the axis of an eroded layer of rock formation, which leads the eye to the curved form of many differently colored layers. I don't know rock words. I'm new at this.

In case anyone wanted to know what color the rocks really are, here's a correction target to calibrate to. Pretty rock things in the background.

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 26/09/2026

Does my Speak-n-Spell feel pain when I type O-U-C-H? The jury is out. Philosophers and neuroscientists say that's fucking stupid, but I called a guy from the Center for Pretending that Household Electronics Are Sentient and he said there's no way to know for sure.

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Luke Ontario @coolhand.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

The fact that they think they have the right, or the ability, to evaluate people based on appropriating their language is insane. No other industry oversteps boundaries with such smug contempt. My master’s thesis was on this specifically, and it is scary and will be wrong.

OpenAl
September 23, 2026 Publication
Introducing
MentalHealthBench
An open benchmark developed with more than 80 licensed mental health experts to evaluate Al responses in realistic mental health conversations.
Read the paper

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hausdorff frissance @physticuffs.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

It's Stanislav Petrov day. Anyone who wants to cram LLM trash into systems with human consequences should be required to write a twelve page book report on Stanislav Petrov, and why he has a day. It should include why they happen to be alive to write it.

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hausdorff frissance @physticuffs.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Fully funded PhD opportunity here!

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hausdorff frissance @physticuffs.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Handshake meme of Unions and Proper Stand Mixers with PTO in the middle.

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hausdorff frissance @physticuffs.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Some good news for a change. Support art and artists. Support writers. Support game makers. Support musicians. These are all crafts as old as our histories and older, and they deserve their due respects. And money, if you've got any. It's a rough world out there y'all.

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hausdorff frissance @physticuffs.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

It's a machine. It doesn't get happy, it doesn't get sad, it doesn't laugh at your jokes. It just runs programs!

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AP Stylebook @apstylebook.com · 23/09/2026

Artificial intelligence systems do not think, feel, want or understand. Avoid language that gives them human characteristics.

apnews.com

https://apnews.com/article/openai-safety-ai-framework-089e75b95bc935af092da7b79d92706d

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MOJO Magazine @mojomagazine.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Remembering John Coltrane, born on this day 100 ago. MOJO’s Michael Simmons pays tribute to a genius with a rundown of ‘Trane’s ten greatest albums...

mojo4music.com

John Coltrane’s Best Albums Ranked

Chasing Trane: MOJO charts the genius of John Coltrane across his ten greatest releases.

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hausdorff frissance @physticuffs.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

What an absolutely loathsome practice to vary prices on people like this. I'm glad to see this push back against it. And wonder how companies may try and pull this stunt in Australia.

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hausdorff frissance @physticuffs.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

My original one is treasured, if you want one here's a great opportunity.

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Kevin A. Scott, PhD @sculpturatus.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

found at ucsf

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hausdorff frissance @physticuffs.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

[a small conference room with a collection of exhausted researchers] R1: ..so as I was saying, the latest budget position from the admin R2(interrupting): I think Blork has crashed. Tom, can you still hear us? R1: Tom's on Fleems, I think Nadia is on Blork? (Speakers): exexexex miiile-ile-ile

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Rosemary Mosco @rosemarymosco.com · 18/09/2026

Humaning.

A four-panel comic. In panel 1, a Northern Cardinal and American Goldfinch perch above a busy crowd in a city, looking down. The cardinal says "It's a nice day to go humaning." The goldfinch says "Just look at them. Majestic." In panel 2, a close-up of the two birds. The cardinal says "Nobody tells you that you'll reach a certain age and suddenly get into humaning. I hit 3 years old, and then bam."The birds are looking out over the crowd scene. In panel 3, the cardinal says "Their calls sound funny to us, but each one has a unique meaning." Below, people are saying various things: "I'm tired." "Where's my phone?" "I'd murder a burrito." In panel 4, the birds look down excitedly at a man walking by. The cardinal says "Wait, is that a guy who got dressed in the dark and put his shirt on inside out and backwards?" And the goldfinch exclaims, "Holy... that's a lifer!"

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Kevin Collier @kevincollier.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

AI CEOs are in awe that their models can, given few constraints, hack autonomously. They're also wracked with a vague fear that their products will soon hack the entire internet. I reported on how it's very curious that they seem utterly disinterested in working with cybersecurity experts on this.

nbcnews.com

Cybersecurity experts say AI giants are shutting them out of safety plans

Cybersecurity experts told NBC News they were concerned that fundamental issues of cybersecurity weren’t being addressed.

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Kelsey Atherton @atherton.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

31 years ago Newt Gingrich shut down the office of Explaining Computer to Congress and ever since we've had money pour into tech while Congress abdicates regulatory responsibility and now the leading industry in the country is engineers making machines that operate online wihout any guardrails.

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hausdorff frissance @physticuffs.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

BRB just pricing out one of those thermo XRF units and a 3d printer to build a little sorting machine..

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Adrift Lab (Marine Science) @adriftlab.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Another key finding: study duration matters! Had our study been only 3 years (a typical PhD), we could have concluded ingestion was rising, falling, or flat, purely by chance. 🔵 = plastic decrease ⚪️ = no change 🟠 = plastic increase

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Adrift Lab (Marine Science) @adriftlab.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Each year “the record” is broken, despite our team thinking “surely the birds can’t possibly fit anymore plastics in their stomachs!” But then, in 2025, we found 894 plastics inside a single chick that was only 90 days old 💔 📸 caption: worst chicks in 2010, 2015, 2021, 2025

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Adrift Lab (Marine Science) @adriftlab.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

One of the most important plots we’ve ever made helped us answer a question we’re constantly asked: “is the amount of ingested plastic increasing?” Answer: yes, there’s been a sustained and rapid increase in #plastics in Sable #Shearwaters since 2021

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hausdorff frissance @physticuffs.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I await the return of the most beautiful locomotive, the 4-6-4 Hudson. Yes, yes, Class 26 4-8-4 technological advancements etc etc I've read the books. I'm still with the Hudson.

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Alex Winter @alexwinter.com · 16/09/2026

True story.

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CosmicRami 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @rami.spaceaustralia.com · 16/09/2026

Western Australia’s wildflower season is happening, and the ASKAP and SKA antennas are surrounded by lots of growth! Inyarrimanha Ilgari Bundara, the CSIRO Murchison Radio-astronomy Observatory, looks great thanks to the early winter rains! Read more: www.csiro.au/en/news/All/... 📸 CSIRO

Single radio dish antenna pointing upwards with many white wildflowers scattered around the base and red earth

Grass and flowers growing around the SKA antennas

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Royce Kurmelovs @roycerk2.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

I'm excited to announce the first of two essays I've produced this year will be published on 28 October. "Means, Motive, and Opportunity" looks at how fossil fuel producers worked to buy the numbers used to direct Australia's response to the science of climate change from the very beginning.

'Means, motive and opportunity' will be published on 28 October 2026 everywhere book are sold.

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Natural History Museum, London @nhm-london.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

🚨 Record-breaking amounts of plastic are being found in seabirds. A 16-year study of sable shearwaters on Australia’s Lord Howe Island has found a sharp rise in the amount of plastic in their stomachs.

Photograph of a dead sable shearwater on a black background next to a mosaic of varied coloured plastic fragments.

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hausdorff frissance @physticuffs.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

When I say "when it happens, it will come as a surprise to a lot of people" this is what I'm talking about.

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evacide @evacide.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

The real reason I spend so much time at the circus school is that I have been slowly developing an immunity to clowns. This allows me to continue to do tech policy.

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Catalin Cimpanu @campuscodi.risky.biz · 14/09/2026

AI companies doing what they know best... stealing

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Amy Remeikis @amyremeikis.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Shock me, shock me, shock me that after a 'viral' OMG AI WILL KILL US ALL POST, the AI companies are like, 'oh wow, lucky we have been working on this, no need to independently regulate us, we have this covered'

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hausdorff frissance @physticuffs.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Was feeling pretty bad so I decided to go take photos of neat rocks at sunset. Pixel 9 Pro, who knows what settings. I'm not carrying a camera to take a photo of my camera quite yet. 📸 #photography #geology And yes I love the D5. Who cares if it's not the latest thing.

A Nikon D5 digital camera on a black and red carbon fiber tripod pointed at some interesting rocks in the warm evening sun. There's a F5 35mm film camera in the bag, but if I got it in the shot this would get flagged as porn, ha ha.

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hausdorff frissance @physticuffs.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

But everyone should continue shoveling money into the furnace to make this horribly powerful dangerous thing they've built safer, right? Because they should be allowed to continue and "improve", for some reason, and not have the plug pulled as we would for any other " very dangerous" product

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hausdorff frissance @physticuffs.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Hey I had a sick pair of Rossignol detachable skates *and* a Trek 950. Hack the planet.

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hausdorff frissance @physticuffs.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Hmm. Automatic target recognition and tracking, feeding into a guidance/navigation/control system. This is dual use at least, and it sure would be funny if this had ITAR and counter-proliferation slapped all over it.

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Astronomer Royal for Scotland | Catherine Heymans @astroroyalscot.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Help! Parton Community Council has 60 days to raise £70k to buy Parton Kirk (resting place of James Clerk Maxwell). They plan to turn it into a visitor centre celebrating our great hero! The other buyers could turn it into long-term storage 😬 Even £5 would help 🙏🧪⚛️ www.justgiving.com/crowdfunding...

justgiving.com

Help raise £70000 to Save Parton Kirk – JustGiving Crowdfunding

Iʼm raising money to Save Parton Kirk. Support this JustGiving Crowdfunding Page.

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hausdorff frissance @physticuffs.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Losing my mind at @lionsledbydonkeys.bsky.social come for the Mogwai joke, stay for the Bud K reference.

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hausdorff frissance @physticuffs.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

There was a wing commander game (WC3 I think) where a voice would yell "Mitchell!" every time you jumped in the cockpit for a mission.

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Poorly Drawn Lines @poorlydrawnlines.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Specifically.

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Notorious RBMK @comraderobot.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

tiktok video if you’re more of a short form video person. i exposed the sheet of film for ONE HOUR to make this image! #filmphotography www.tiktok.com/t/ZTUy88Kka/

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Nick Covington @covingtonedu.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

"They want to see educational expenditures reduced dramatically [through automation]...But we must bear in mind that while the product of industry is an automobile, a refrigerator, or a washing machine, the product of education is a human being." - Daniel Tanner, 1964

Excerpt from Teaching Machines that includes quote "But we must bear in mind that while the product of industry is an automobile, a refrigerator, or a washing machine, the product of education is a human being." - Daniel Tanner, 1964

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hausdorff frissance @physticuffs.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

It doesn't get happy, it doesn't get sad, it doesn't laugh at your jokes *it just runs programs*

A still from the film Short Circuit (1986) with everyone in a control room around a big console computer. The main character played by Serve Gutenberg is explaining to the head of the security team that the robots don't have feelings, saying "it's a machine, Schroeder"

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