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Jordan Maris 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 #NAFO @jmaris.me · 08/01/2026

I often hear Americans & rich brits justify buying oversized, polluting vehicles by claiming they need them because they live in the "countryside". I call bullshit, Ladies and Gentlemen, allow me to introduce, the Citroen C15⬇

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Prof. Sam Lawler @sundogplanets.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 15/10/2026

It sounds like something truly terrible is happening to these goats. The truly terrible thing that's happening? I am not walking fast enough toward them with the evening grain bucket. Poor poor goats.

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Ed @edcates.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 12/10/2026

Data: - LLMs are killing the planet - LLMs are raising utility prices - LLMs are raising computer prices - LLMs give you teh dums - LLMs show negligible increases in net productivity - LLM costs are going up - LLMs run on stolen content - LLM companies keep breaking laws and saying, "Oopsie!" […]

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Martin Rundkvist @mrundkvist.archaeo.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/10/2026

Sweden's wealthiest families, international diplomats etc. send their children to three expensive residential schools to cultivate future career contacts. They have a long tradition of "peer upbringing", Sw. kamratfostran. This largely consists of Lord of the Flies pennalism and conspiracies of […]

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Matthew Haughey @mathowie.xoxo.zone.ap.brid.gy · 29/09/2026

Turned on my hotel TV thinking “I’ve never seen what regular live Japanese TV is like, I wonder if it’ll be like” and there’s a nice piano being played while a cat sits on the piano, with lots of closeups of the cat not the musician for several minutes. 10/10 no notes

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myrmepropagandist @futurebird.sauropods.win.ap.brid.gy · 17/09/2026

The thing that I find least believable about the hugging face incident is this notion that tech people made a new invention, and were giving it an important test ... but they didn't watch it carefully to see how the test was going. When you work hard on a robot, or a program, or a robot running […]

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Shine McShine 🐌 @shine-mcshine.neopaquita.es.ap.brid.gy · 17/09/2026

The very same people who justified platforming nazis because of "free speech" are now trying to get artists fired for chanting "free Palestine". Because it was never about free speech. It was about platforming nazis.

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Prof. Sam Lawler @sundogplanets.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/09/2026

I needed a goat-apple-opera break from grant-writing and I bet you do too.

A white goat wish her head thrown back, chewing an apple, but sort of looks like she's singing. There are several other goats in the background, one other one obviously eating an apple.

Four goats, two white and two black, all eating apples with their heads back and their mouths open like they are singing opera.

Two goats, one white and one black, look like they are singing with their heads back as they eat red apples. There's a tall wooden fence in the background and green grass under their feet, as well as several other goats in the background.

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Bruno Nicoletti @bjn.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 11/09/2026

RE: mastodon.green/@davidallengreen/117… David Allen Green is right again. Arresting grannies as terrorists for holding signs while masked black clad men disrupt critical infrastructure and now threaten RNLI volunteers. Compare with what happened to JSO activists who […]

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

"I am currently being scolded by conservatives that political violence is unacceptable, which is odd. Unlike Charlie Kirk and the conservative apparatus of which he was a part, I am not openly advocating for political violence via gun as a core tenet of freedom." www.the-reframe.com/acceptable-l...

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Acceptable Losses

Whose deaths get to be deemed unacceptable in supremacist America, and whose are deemed necessary? And who does the deeming?

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

"Against our will, we live in a world where gun massacres are easy, plentiful, and inevitable, specifically because of Charlie Kirk and people like him, who demand it as a core tenet of their personal freedom. Yet only his murder by gun is deemed 'political.'" www.the-reframe.com/acceptable-l...

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Acceptable Losses

Whose deaths get to be deemed unacceptable in supremacist America, and whose are deemed necessary? And who does the deeming?

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Jonathan Kamens 86 47 @jik.federate.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/09/2026

When I was doing my "media tour" after DOGE fired me in February 2025, the people interviewing me would always ask what I was worried about DOGE doing with all the data they were gaining access to at federal agencies. I repeatedly warned that fascism requires enemies to survive, and trans people […]

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[object Object] @zzt.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 05/09/2026

the AI was a grandmaster chess player until it being horrible at chess became a meme the AI is an incredible mathematician in countless breathless papers but every time you ask it a basic math question it fucks it up badly the AI is just a tool until you refuse to use it, then it’s a […]

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[object Object] @zzt.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 05/09/2026

the AI is very good at logic, except that if you feed it a mild, original variation of a logic puzzle it fucks it up entirely in a way that instantly reveals it’s only regurgitating answers from its training data. and this is such a problem for the AI corps that they’ll scrape your variation […]

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Terence Eden @edent.tel · 05/09/2026

This is *nuts*! We were told that nuclear would make electricity too cheap to meter. Instead, renewables are providing 77% of the UK's electricity right now - so we're going to be paid to use power for most of the day.

Colourful graph showing electricity prices at minis 2p. Negative prices continue until 1600.

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Dan Gillmor @dangillmor.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 04/09/2026

As Cory Doctorow notes, "Big Tech has proved that its only principles are not paying taxes, invading your privacy, and not being broken up by antitrust enforcers." So they've effectively joined the Trump regime, and any nation that dares challenge them risks a a great deal […]

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Osma A 🇫🇮🇺🇦 @osma.fishpool.org · 02/09/2026

RE: infosec.exchange/@briankrebs/117198… This is the attack countries where age verification is in the works want to enable. EU claims their system doesn’t create a centralised identity database to breach, but that is simply not true. Any large collection of identity data is […]

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Justin Mikulka @justinmikulka.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

"Turkmenistan responded to about 20% of the alerts with on-the-ground information about the leaks and potential plans to fix them. In contrast, the US was sent the second highest number of alerts – 138 – but responded to none and had fixed no leaks in the last year"

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‘Breakthrough’ as Turkmenistan starts fixing ‘mindboggling’ methane mega-leaks

Secretive state begins repairs on ageing facilities after being revealed as worst country for leaks of potent greenhouse gas

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

What is so important to the ultra-rich that they must seize and destroy the world's resources, hold down wages and crush organised labour, capture politics to reduce the tax they pay, fund the far right to stifle democracy? Here's an answer. A Hermes Birkin 35 Diamond Bag. On sale for £449,555.68

Hermes Birkin 35 Diamond Blanc Himalaya Matte Crocodile Limited Edition Bag
£449,555.68

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Prof. Sam Lawler @sundogplanets.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 19/08/2026

Wow. "AI adoption raises homework scores by 18% and reduces completion time by 30%, but lowers monthly exam scores by 20% within six months. High-stakes entrance-exam scores fall by 18 and 24%, with the full penalty emerging only after about two years. " […]

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Ken Burnside @kenburnside.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

63-67% of military personnel and veterans voted for Trump in all three of his elections. Trump thinks they're idiots. I have sympathy for their hardship, but they won't vote for any Democrat for President. This' ll get mythologized as "It was tough. I was tougher. You wouldn't understand."

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[object Object] @zzt.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 14/08/2026

I’ve got very little patience for software engineering “professionals” coming into this thread to pretend that LLMs are good at finding bugs, as if we’re not in the same profession and I haven’t been forced to use the fucking things all research not funded directly by AI corporations shows […]

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Nash @radiodeadair.com · 28/07/2026

When this was introduced I said it would do nothing but cost PC makers extra money and earn Microsoft animosity from the community, and they continue to backpedal. Only a matter of time before it disappears like it never existed, just like Cortana and Bob.

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Microsoft accepts defeat on the Windows 11 Copilot key with a "Do nothing" switch, but PCs still ship with it

Windows 11 is testing a new “feature” that will let you reassign the Copilot key to do nothing. Yes, literally.

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Diana Barbosa :cravo:🇺🇦🇵🇸 @diraquel.masto.pt.ap.brid.gy · 22/07/2026

"If you really want an "AI strategy" for your country, it should be this: wait for the bubble to burst, then buy hardware and talent at fire-sale prices in the wave of ensuing bankruptcies, and use them to extract more performance from free, open source models." - @pluralistic Trump’s America […]

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Jason Rabinowitz @airlineflyer.net · 19/07/2026

EWR has been closed to arrivals and departures for over an hour due to the World Cup final, mostly so they could do a poorly timed military flyover that was barely visible on the broadcast for about 3 seconds. Absolute stupidity.

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EWR - Newark Liberty International 16 inbound diversions to: PHL(4), ABE(3), SWF(3),
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Dan Gillmor @dangillmor.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 11/07/2026

You'd think that by now the bosses at the New York Times would have recognized that Trump is at war with them, and journalism. But it's clear that they do not, because they mostly continue to normalize and give both-sides treatment to this malevolent regime. It's sickening […]

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Gabriele Svelto @gabrielesvelto.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 22/06/2026

How it started How it's going

A screenshot of an article, it says: Samsung workers threaten strike, demand share of $38 billion AI memory windfall. Around 30,000 workers rallied as the union demanded 15% of operating profit, roughly $400,000 per employee

A screenshot of an article, it says: Samsung avoids strike as workers approve massive bonus deal. Amid booming demand for AI chips, the government-backed deal will make more than 60% of the South Korean tech giant's workforce eligible for bonuses of about $370,000 this year.

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Nash @radiodeadair.com · 21/06/2026

The fucking unbridled audacity of this prick. He backstabbed the party leader to take power, shifted his party to the right to the point their legislation and policy are indistinguishable from the unpopular party they ousted, and now wants to cry because he's just as unpopular. Fuck off.

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Nash @radiodeadair.com · 21/06/2026

The truth is Starmer didn't make Labour electable. The TORIES made Labour electable. Literally any Labour candidate could have won in 2024, that was how badly the Tories had fucked it. Starmer literally did nothing but show up and now he thinks that makes him Prime Minister Jesus?

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Thousand Madleens to Gaza @1kmadleenfr.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/05/2026

#GlobalSumudFlotilla Update from #USA Citizen Hannah Claire Smith The members of the flotilla were denied their basic rights by the Israeli military, were subjected to violence, and 40 of them had to be hospitalized after being abducted and beaten All but […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

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Kristian Kiehling @kristian-kiehling.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 24/04/2026

The inhumane treatment of nuclear plant workers at the illegally occupied Enerhodar nuclear power plant exemplifies the inherent evil of ordinary russians. This serves as a reminder to civilised people that russians should never be allowed to control any part of Europe […]

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

Almost everything we argue about is a substitute for the thing we should be arguing about: the immense wealth & power of an oligarchic class, which captures governments, ruins lives and wrecks the living planet. This class redirects our rage at scapegoats. To resist its lies is to resist its power.

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Tom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

my latest books cartoon for @theguardian.com

Two hooded figures with lamps approach a moonlit, isolated cottage.
A woman answers the door.
We have come for the child, says the hooded figure
So soon? she asks
It is time, says the hooded figure.
The woman is distraught. We should never have got him a library card!
What is done cannot be undone, says the hooded figure
We couldn’t see the harm! We just wanted him to enjoy reading!
For most, it ends there, says the hooded figure, turning away and walking into the wilderness
Oh lord, What have I done! says the woman,
the child walks past her and out into the darkness with them.
Do not cry mother.
I am a writer now.

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Prof. Sam Lawler @sundogplanets.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 17/04/2026

Someone requested baby goat noises, so enjoy! It's SO CUTE

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Sal Rahman @manlycoffee.techhub.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/04/2026

The Parliament of Estonia is orders of magnitude smarter than whoever is in the Parliament of Canada (including Mark Carney). "Europe should regulate Big Tech instead of banning kids from social media, Estonia says" […]

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TheWholeTruthXX 🎨 ❤️ 🍁 🛡️ @adwright.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 15/04/2026

That the stock market is swayed by obvious bullshit is not exactly an endorsement of capitalism, just more obvious a warning sign ALL IS NOT WELL. You see, the magic pixie dust of capitalism is how responsive it is to changing circumstance. I know, me too, but for sake of argument. So it's […]

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TheWholeTruthXX 🎨 ❤️ 🍁 🛡️ @adwright.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 27/03/2026

"Can we believe the President?" Jesus fucking Christ on a popsicle stick, how fucking brain-dead stupid is it possible for people to be and still be animate? These people are less aware than single-celled organisms. Um, no, the President is not just a liar, and a transparently bad one at that […]

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Bruce Lawson ✅ ♫ ♿ ✌️♂️✊ @brucelawson.vivaldi.net.ap.brid.gy · 23/03/2026

A man used LLMs to generate hundreds of thousands of "songs", then used bots to stream them billions of times, to collect $8m in royalties. www.justice.gov/usao-sdny/pr/north-… Is there a better metaphor for […]

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