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Jeff Luszcz @jeffluszcz.bsky.social · 7h

Yet annother article about rising flu and Covid infections where the word mask doesn’t appear even in the section telling people what steps they can do to protect themselves. There seems to be an almost pathological aversion to talking about wearing a mask even in 2026 www.sfgate.com/bayarea/arti...

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'Game on': Bay Area now epicenter of California flu cases

San Francisco reported the city's first flu fatality of the season this week.

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Rev. Poppy Haze 𓅋 @poppyhaze.bsky.social · 6h

did i mention the NY MTA built a mile long bridge in the middle of Manhattan on time and on budget to replace a 130-year old viaduct with 2 custom bridge building machines while not interrupting service the new viaduct has much better noise suppression youtu.be/CBXkSJT1a7w

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America Actually Built Something On Time and On Budget

YouTube video by The B1M

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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 5h

this is exactly my opinion. there may be a superstrate of extremely difficult and unique safety problems around AI, but the substrate is simply that no one takes basic precautions seriously becasue they imagine (or pretend to imaigne) that it is futile, and basic precautions slow down launches.

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ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 8h

this is the first one of these "the alarm must be raised" pieces that actually makes sense, largely because he says something obvious: no one at the company has any clue about how safety engineering works

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James Aylett @james.tartarus.org · 4h

We are five years from a trend of "do you love CDs but find it awkward to take them all with you? just rip them and use this fancy MP3 player" only ripping will now be a BluRay player with a USB socket that you plug the MP3 player into, and everything will be electric blue and cost more than $200.

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Catherine Winters @catherinewinters.com · 18h

The algorithm sure knows me.

Screenshot from Instagram of a video from the bridge of a ship on the high seas: fire emoji! 2004 Built Bulk Carrier Liberia Flag RINA Class For Sale

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ericjanssen.bsky.social @ericjanssen.bsky.social · 22h

If you liked AGFA, there’s also “Trailer War” on Tubi. And one YT’er who routinely posts gloriously unrestored 1-2 hr. compilations of 60’s-70’s grindhouse trailers to choose from (late 60’s hippie dramas included): youtu.be/dPSRC4G0NIA (“GMRX? What’s GMRX?”)

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Grindhouse/Drive-In Movie Trailers 1960s-1970s (2026 Edition) Vol. 1

YouTube video by KeroroClaptrap's Second Channel

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Physics Today @physicstoday.aip.org · 02/10/2026

The postwar funding boom in US physics came to a halt at the end of the 1960s, when officials in the Nixon administration made major cuts to the federal science budget. As historian Julia Menzel of @ihpst-uoft.bsky.social notes, the lessons learned then may be helpful to today’s scientists. #histSTM

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The last crisis of US physics

At the end of the turbulent 1960s, the postwar funding boom in US physics came to a crashing halt. The lessons learned then may be helpful to today’s physicists.

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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 17h

Imagine a guy who uses a chatbot to communicate with his family, to eulogize his dead loved ones and come up with bedtime stories for his kids etc. What happens if he wants to attempt to write about love? He'll have no fucking idea, he'll reflexively prompt a chatbot to plagiarize writers who do

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Manny Suazo @smokyburnout.bsky.social · 18h

one of the wildest runs I've ever seen

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Dr. Thilina Surasinghe @thilinas.bsky.social · 18h

A surprising twist in tick ecology: sublethal pesticide exposure increased cold tolerance and winter survival in Dermacentor variabilis, potentially enabling northward range expansion—and highlighting why physiology matters when predicting species responses to environmental change.

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Movies Silently @moviessilently.bsky.social · 17h

Hey there, hi there! One of the things people "know" about silent movies is that they are simply packed with women tied to the tracks! Happened all the time. In every film! Right? Right?

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Sasha's Retrobytes 🏳️‍⚧️ @sharkabytes.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Books on the go in the early 90s: the Sony Data Discman. Just been reading about this while downloading a 0mhz collection version of the books and a software reader. Released in late 1991 and early 1992 for $499.99, it had a backlit LCD and used the EB format stored on 3" CDs in hard-case caddies.

From the Museum of Information site: a photo of the box for the Electronic Book Player DD-8, the Discman, with a photo of the unit itself and a hard caddy CD next to it.

Also from the same site: an overhead viw of the discman with a Pocket Interpreter disc have inserted into a caddy.

From the same site: a photo of the Data Discman showing its little querty rubber keyboard, direction keys and YES NO buttons. Plus the LCD screen with quite a clear blue-line artwork of a street scene, the title page for the Pocket Interpreter software.

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Glenn Fleishman @glennf.com · 23h

Amusingly, I can post the panel here, informally, but I do need to license it to appear in the book. It is very unlikely I will hear back in time from Marvel *and* be able to afford the fee that they would want!

Cartoon panel in forest. Spider-Man asks Sauron, a pteranodon-man writing a triceratops, "YOU CAN REWRITE DNA ON THE FLY, AND YOU'RE USING IT TO TURN PEOPLE INTO DINOSAURS? BUT WITH TECH LIKE THAT, YOU COULD CURE CANCER!” Sauron replies, “BUT I DON'T WANT TO CURE CANCER. I WANT TO TURN PEOPLE INTO DINOSAURS.”

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British Transport Films Stills @btfstills.bsky.social · 23h

FREIGHT AND A CITY (1966)

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Gerry Doyle @mgerrydoyle.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

elon musk on: stealth aircraft (for the record: everyone involved with low-observable aircraft is acutely aware that they are not "invisible," they just have an rcs so small they can't be effectively detected until they are close enough to have already launched weapons and that is super useful.)

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Nate is waking up @nf1nk.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Where we're going, we won't need eyes.

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rowan kaiser @rowan.monster · 23h

Spotted on Facebook: sicko game worlds colliding

"My bf is a developer and just made me a program to use his racing pedals to sew realistically. It also adjusts the speed the more you press down the pedal 😭 he just upped my game so hard 🥲🤣
Game: Dressmaker"

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Bullshit (comisions open) @bsporn.bsky.social · 22h

I was watching a thing the other day about how the best gear shifter for car sims now is a severely hacked flight stick since you can use the programmable resistance to simulate any shape gear box in any car rather then buying one specific cars gearbox

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Ian @woolie.meowmeow.city · 23h

I went to double check; the actual FAA limit here is 390', I was under the impression it was lower.

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Joey Politano🏳️‍🌈 @josephpolitano.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Sort of insane fact about how broken US urban planning is—America now spends more building *just the lights for roads and highways* than on all subways & ground mass transit combined Spending on roadway *pavement* is 18x transit spending

a graph of roadway and mass transit lights

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e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 02/10/2026

the world of tomorrow car test track ride still uses small gas engines, this country is so unbelievably cooked

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e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 02/10/2026

in other unfortunate metaphor news, the Carousel of Progress is closed

The Carousel of Progress, from the 1964 World's Fair, at Disney World

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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

i would not go into a truck stop looking like this, much less appear on TV. there are like nine things i do in the morning which he apparently did not do before going on TV

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Fraser Galbraith @frasergalbraith.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Every time I see Tracey he looks like the airline lost his luggage two days ago.

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dr. rich traditions, JD @helldude.bsky.social · 23h

they'll burn it all down to make this the New Oil and become the New Oil Barons. if they wanted to just be, i dunno, Salesforce or Adobe then no one would care too much

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dr. rich traditions, JD @helldude.bsky.social · 23h

ultimately, this is a problem that llm guys created for themselves and are trying to make it our problem, imperiling foundational pillars of our society in service of "at least a couple of us need to be trillionaires" -- the "china" national security fig leaf is risible nonsense no one cares about

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dr. rich traditions, JD @helldude.bsky.social · 23h

the fact that there's niche demand (most of your volunteer evangelists point to such cases) -- it makes your solo enterprise side hustle easier, code websites or make passable good enough art without talent -- is all well and good except per (b) above this has to make some guys trillionaires

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dr. rich traditions, JD @helldude.bsky.social · 23h

the problem is there is no mass demand for this. you didn't have to sell email. the sole demand is by loathed corporations who are either: (a) trying to fire you; or (b) trying to make a trillion dollars getting you fired. and for (a) they are having a hard time doing it still

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Bill Corbett @billcorbett.bsky.social · 23h

Also stop the repulsive grandiosity and smug threats about your product. I’m gonna be left behind? What the fuck are you even talking about? I don’t care! I’m old and have plenty to do and don’t want to follow your parade of lazy shitheads! I don’t know enough about it? Yes I do! You failed.

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Bill Corbett @billcorbett.bsky.social · 23h

Also do the honest work of eliminating any trace of plagiarism in your beloved product. How? Not my fucking problem! If you can’t run your business / technology without stealing other people’s work, it deserves to die. Personally I’m happy to see it die, so don’t try to make it my responsibility.

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Bill Corbett @billcorbett.bsky.social · 23h

The BEST thing that true believers in AI could do is stop evangelizing to people, like me, who think it sucks. Do the hard, years-long work of detaching your beloved technology from the worst people in the world right now: shameless fascists driven by greed and domination. They’re YOUR partners.

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Dreadnought Holiday @dreadships.bsky.social · 23h

Not really though, because their current MO is to announce an incredibly stupid idea, ignore any attempt to avoid the stupid idea, and execute the stupid idea in the stupidest way possible.

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Dreadnought Holiday @dreadships.bsky.social · 23h

I'm old enough to remember a time when if you were about to launch a massive military operation you tried very, very hard not to let the enemy know about it. All the OPSEC of Richard E Grant this lot...

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Simkaye 🌈 @simkaye.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

anyone else feel like this

A digital illustration of a quetzalcoatlus perched on telephone wires among a flock of crows

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Colin @colin-fraser.net · 12/09/2026

But if it’s smart enough for all that, why isn’t it smart enough that you can just say “control the temperature in the usual way that one would expect of a thermostat, without hurting anyone or doing anything weird”? “Make a normal amount of paperclips, not too many, and don’t wipe out humanity”.

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dorian @doriantaylor.com · 02/10/2026

eliminating xslt is a huge middle finger to the open web this is something that has worked reliably for 25 literal years i know because i have been using it for 25 literal years the rationale is "it's old", "less than 1% use it", and that there are vulns in the implementation

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💥 @dynamoe.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

There is a North Dakota specific version of Carmen Sandiego. It was a pilot to introduce versions for the other 49 states, but no one else went for it. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Where_i...

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Where in North Dakota Is Carmen Sandiego? - Wikipedia

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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Wow, they really ARE running the government like a software company

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Reported Pentagon data breach
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Hegseth to cut 20% generals

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Rob Lion @rnlion.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I have very little interest in LLM development, but it has long baffled me why these platforms do not manage to lash together recognizing the problem being asked, and shelling that out to specialized software tools that already exist, like Mathematica or a classical LexisNexis database search.

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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

what i mean is basically this: there are 10^24 twelve-digit addition problems. to memorize this would require about 15 yottabytes. i observe that models are not fifteen yottabytes. so the model has to implement some function satisfying the condition "returns a correct answer to adding those numbers"

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Chance the Lawyer @chancethelawyer.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Texas bragging about eliminating the "Delaware-style" implied covenant of *good faith and fair dealing* in contracting is about all you need to know concerning where we are in the race to the bottom.

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