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David Zipper @davidzipper.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

Next year, the EU will require cars to have buttons & dials -- not just touchscreens -- to get a top safety rating. This is a great move. Drivers can fiddle with knobs & buttons without taking their eyes off the road, but they can't do that with touchscreens. (Even better: Tesla will hate this)

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Cars will need fewer screens and more buttons to earn five-star safety rating in Europe

Euro NCAP will release new testing guidelines in 2026.

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Soup in my pockets @pocketsoup.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

Teenagers, it must be stressed, who stopped being teenagers a decade ago.

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Ockeroid @ockeroid.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

Oh damn Prime actually published their failed chatgpt prompt in the description

Amazon Prime streamer screen showing description for Dog Day Afternoon “a man takes mistakes at a bank in Brooklyn. Unfortunately I do not have enough information to summarize further within the provided guidelines.”

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Soup in my pockets @pocketsoup.bsky.social · 16/02/2025

Should have done this years ago. No Pasaran!

A screenshot of my Airbnb deletion confirmation.

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Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

True story: when my older boys were little, they both got whooping cough even though they were vaccinated. It was bad. We asked the pediatrician what would’ve happened if they hadn’t been vaccinated. They would’ve died, he said. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

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How the Senate Voted to Confirm R.F.K. Jr. as Health Secretary

The Senate confirmed Mr. Kennedy by a vote of 52 to 48 to lead the department responsible for public health.

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 11/02/2025

Famous moments in centrist history By Kasla Babis, @ The Nib thenib.com/centrist-his...

A four panel comic

Panel one - someone saying "I don't agree with what you say but I will defend to the death your right to say it" to hitler

Panel two: klu klux klan on one side ("we want to kill black people") and civil rights campaigners on the other, and centrist saying "compromise?"

Panel three: a peace protest and centrists with signs says "reasonable amount of wars, peace is just not realistic, its complicated"

Panel four: someone getting decapitated and saying "I don't really care about politics"

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Spooky Snigdha @snig.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

In the USA, they're painting over the FBI values of integrity, fairness, compassion, and diversity. In the UK, they painted over Mickey Mouse, in case he comforted scared children. It's the same cruelty and ideology fuelled destruction.

Bluesky post from Frank Figliuzzi:
"The FBI’s core values, including integrity, compassion, fairness, and allegiance to the Constitution - and oh, yeah, diversity, are being painted over at the FBI Academy. Source: NYT."

July 2023 news article from the Guardian:
"Robert Jenrick has cartoon murals painted over at children’s asylum centre
Paintings were considered too welcoming at Kent centre for lone children arriving in UK"

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Soup in my pockets @pocketsoup.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

The weirdest thing is when you recognise an actor and they’ve done NOTHING else. Or they’ve done loads and it’s all been British TV you haven’t watched.

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Celeste Ng @pronounced-ing.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

If your boss or company tells you to do something unethical: don't say yes. Make them write it down.

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Soup in my pockets @pocketsoup.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

Happy anniversary of King Taejong falling off his horse, to all those who remember. #korean #history #태종

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Soup in my pockets @pocketsoup.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

You know what, I read that wrong. This is my knee-jerk reaction to seeing that stupid acronym.

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Soup in my pockets @pocketsoup.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

Also fwiw you can export/import IMDb -> Letterboxd

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Soup in my pockets @pocketsoup.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

My film watching workflow: • Watch film • IMDb trivia • Snarky Letterboxd reviews • String two or three sentences together • Think I’m Letterboxd Dril when I get more than one like

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 07/02/2025

All this administration does is put every single nonprofit and institution into a trolley problem of either sacrificing trans people or hurting everyone else by eliminating federal funding. It won't end with us. They'll do this with every minority until it's only white men who are left.

A digitally edited version of the classic "trolley problem" meme is shown. The black-and-white drawing depicts a trolley heading toward a fork in the tracks, with a person standing by a lever to decide which track the trolley will take. On one track, five people are tied up, while on the other track, two people are tied up, with one of them draped in a transgender pride flag. The image is meant to represent a moral dilemma, likely related to discussions on transgender rights and societal choices.

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

I'm not easily shocked, but the sight of individuals cheering on the richest man in the world as he takes away vital aid to the most desperate people on this Earth has shocked me. There are good people. There are bad people. Then there's Elon Musk and his empathy devoid flesh failure followers.

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Soup in my pockets @pocketsoup.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

Also I never thought the ‘here’s what I found on the web’ response could be a more useful option, but ‘use Chat GPT’ takes the biscuit.

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Soup in my pockets @pocketsoup.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

My MacOS updated a week ago to include the AI Siri stuff. I used it to make three (3) glossy cartoon images of myself, while thinking about the resource consumption required to do so. I haven’t opened it since.

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Soup in my pockets @pocketsoup.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

I think about that lyric whenever I smell either bacon or piss.

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Katy Montgomerie 🦗 @katymontgomerie.com · 31/01/2025

Another one

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paolo @paolopalma.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

I hope people are able to link this to what Nazis did when they targeted the Institute for Sexual Science

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Soup in my pockets @pocketsoup.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

I watched that on my Criterion Challenge a couple of years ago. Made me want to buy a flick knife.

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 29/01/2025

Oh I'm sorry, are you crying? Are you crying because your plagiarism machine that made stuff by copying everybody's stuff was used to train another machine that made stuff by copying stuff? Are you going to cry? Cowards, losers, pathetic

One person close to OpenAI said that distillation was a common practice in the industry and highlighted that the company offers developers a way to do this using its own platform, but said: “The issue is when you are doing it to create your own model for your own purposes.”
DeepSeek did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

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Soup in my pockets @pocketsoup.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

If it’s about soup I certainly won’t. That’s a day one block on every platform.

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Soup in my pockets @pocketsoup.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

The things I find myself blocking from the Discover feed on here are so strange. I have no problem with either Scottish Independence or Veganism, even the promotion of those causes. It’s just that together they seem to make up 20% of that tab.

Bluesky ‘Your muted words’ moderation setting showing that I’ve muted ‘Scotland’ and ‘vegan’.

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Jeremy Corbyn @jeremycorbyn.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

Fascism doesn’t arrive in uniform overnight. It arrives with suited politicians, one piece of legislation — or executive order — at a time. My piece for @tribunemagazine.bsky.social to mark Holocaust Memorial Day. tribunemag.co.uk/2025/01/jere...

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Jeremy Corbyn: Remembering Auschwitz, Fighting Today

As we mark the anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz, we must remember the heroic resistance of many inmates to inspire our struggle against renewed fascism today.

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Soup in my pockets @pocketsoup.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

Someone reading the news would have been considered particularly interested. Several times a day would have been psychopathic.

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Soup in my pockets @pocketsoup.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

Let’s not forget textual queer representation in Tabby McTat

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Soup in my pockets @pocketsoup.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

Oh great, another 4 years of articles going ‘Trump may do this completely out of character thing, if only he behaves completely differently than he has ever before’. Fucking object permanence of these people.

Economist magazine preview of a Lexington article.

Title: America really could enter a golden age.

Subtitle: Donald Trump would need to build on its strengths, and subdue his own weaknesses.

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Soup in my pockets @pocketsoup.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

The language here is attempts to be medically scientific by using legal-feeling clauses in order to mitigate the sex/gender/society construct. As many people in the replies point out, sex simply doesn’t work like this through scientific observation.

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Kevin McShane (Verified) @kevinmcshane.org · 20/01/2025

"Masculine Energy"

Panel 1: Mark Zuckerberg stands on the stage at a Meta all-hands meeting, wearing a little chain and a shirt that says "Cool Dude." "I think our company could use more Masculine Energy," he says into a mic. In the crowd, an employee raises their hand. "Excuse me, Mr. Zuckerberg," the person asks. Panel 2: The person stands up, asking, "By "Masculine Energy," do you mean a mature definition where men in power use their relative strength to protect and uplift those less privileged?" Panel 3: The person continues, "…or a more childish definition where men in power are free to be aggressive and harm others without being held accountable?" Panel 4: Zuck stands silent for a beat. Panel 5: "You're all fired," he says.

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Soup in my pockets @pocketsoup.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

Please god take us back to the era of this simpleton.

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lila pearl @lilashapiro.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

I wrote about Neil Gaiman, and the women accusing him of sexual coercion, assault and abuse. www.vulture.com/article/neil...

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There Is No Safe Word

How the best-selling fantasy author Neil Gaiman hid the darkest parts of himself for decades.

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David Higham @oldtrotter.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

This letter in the New Statesman a couple of years ago seems even truer now.

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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

Guy who sells doo doo (squinting wisely and doing visionary voice): We believe within 10 years the world economy will be almost completely powered by doo doo

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Lucas Brown Eyes @lucasbrowneyes.bsky.social · 01/01/2025

iPhone sales are down after they focus on AI instead of something people want. But Microsoft went all in on AI for Windows 11, they must be doing well— They’re losing market share to windows 10, their own operating system that’s 9 years old.

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Existential Comics @existentialcomics.com · 06/01/2025

I had this one coworker that got absolutely no work done ever, but would always pipe in with generic platitudes in every meeting like "we just need to communicate better". Can't wait to have fifteen AI versions of him whose tickets I have to do myself.

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Anodyne @anodynesix.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

"Only racists who do not view people of color as equally human, and sociopaths who delight in funding mass slaughter, could send Netanyahu even more bombs while his government openly kidnaps doctors, destroys hospitals, and exterminates the last survivors in northern Gaza."

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