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Old hypertext hand. President and co-founder Traction Software Inc • Electronic Book Technologies (EBT) • Mentor Graphics/Context • Ship Analytics • US Naval […] 🌉 bridged from ⁂ federate.social/@Roundtrip, follow @ap.brid.gy to interact

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Greg Lloyd @roundtrip.federate.social.ap.brid.gy · 5h

“Garfield is disturbingly riveting as Altman, with his hypnotizing performance painting the most damning picture of the OpenAI CEO yet in any form of media.”

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Patioboater @patioboater.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 07/10/2026

An MG TF at last night’s MG club meeting. October 6, 2026. Farmington Hills, Michigan. #photography #sunset #mg #car #cars #lbc #michigan #fall #autumn #weirdcarmastodon

Photograph of a white green MG TF in a parking lot seen from the front with a setting sun behind it.

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Ted Underwood @tedunderwood.com · 07/10/2026

I think more and more that @eduede.bsky.social has a crucial point. "Intelligence," "understanding," "writing" — AI is fragmenting these concepts by putting us in a position to see that the phenomena we thought they fused are only *correlated* and can be unbundled.

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G Elliott Morris @gelliottmorris.com · 02/10/2026

NEW: Amid rising diesel prices, Republicans turn against Trump for first time on handling inflation. A majority of Republicans and Republican-leaning independents (52%) now say they disapprove of Donald Trump’s handling of prices: www.gelliottmorris.com/p/2026-10-02...

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Amid rising diesel prices, Republicans turn against Trump for first time on handling inflation

In our September poll, 52% of Republicans and Republican-leaning independents disapprove of Trump's handling of prices. That could be dragging down Republican Senate candidates in red states

Greg Lloyd @roundtrip.federate.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2026

RE: fediscience.org/@UlrikeHahn/1173698… “The heart of arXiv’s process for detecting and rejecting low-quality papers is our many volunteer moderators. We are so grateful that they donate their time and expertise every day. However, a relatively small proportion of authors are […]

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Colin Devroe @cdevroe.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 30/09/2026

RE: mastodon.social/@zhenyi/11732546671… Love Catsup, an iOS widgetapp, from @zhenyui. You see this cool app @gruber?

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jonny (nonvenomous) @jonny.neuromatch.social.ap.brid.gy · 29/09/2026

Now, the importance of tool calls and agent spawning. Some tools are binaries that are root-accessible. The way these usually work is this fucked up extracellular digestion process whereby the binary is just a shim that calls some paired socket, hands it stdin/stdout, the tool executes in some […]

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jonny (nonvenomous) @jonny.neuromatch.social.ap.brid.gy · 29/09/2026

So, summary: There is arbitrary inference that is root accessible, everything runs as root, agents can be spawned, exfil is trivial, and a malicious binary can come onto the user's system through casual prompting, explicit code-sharing through the yet-to-be-released Spaces feature, walked […]

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Mitch Wagner @mitch.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 27/09/2026

Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince has an intriguing proposal for making content creation for the web a viable business in the AI era: Require AI bots to pay when they index a site and deliver results to users. That would require a gateway, and Cloudflare is, of course, in great position to be that […]

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Ernie Smith @ernie.writing.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 27/09/2026

If Combos represents anything, it might be the sharp differences between how a creator perceives the product they developed, and how its acquirer approaches it. tedium.co/2026/09/27/combos-snack-f…

Combos History: Its Inventors Literally Drilled Into Pretzels

Discover how Combos, the popular gas-station snack, was invented by a pair of brothers who drilled into an original snack-food idea, then immediately sold it.

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Jon Bosak @bosak.flx.masto.host.ap.brid.gy · 27/09/2026

#photography #filmphotography #retrobosak Roll 19717325, cont.: Riverside (1971-73) One: Melanie and her Saab 850, our car after my '48 Chevy threw a rod. "850" referred to the size of the car's engine. In cc's. But plenty of power: it was a two-stroke. You […] [Original post on flx.masto.host]

This car featured prominently in a saga I talked about here back in the "lost rolls" series. I might revisit it when we get to that point in the timeline.

Greg Lloyd @roundtrip.federate.social.ap.brid.gy · 24/09/2026

RE: mastodon.com.br/@xkcd/1173231312558… Yes!

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Greg Lloyd @roundtrip.federate.social.ap.brid.gy · 23/09/2026

RE: flipboard.com/@gizmodo/i09-ifm0rl1h… “Io9:… So, struggling to get the money for however many decades, were you continually pitching it? Because you made a lot of other great movies in that time. Bird: No, no. I was busy doing other […]

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The Iconfactory @iconfactory.iconfactory.world.ap.brid.gy · 22/09/2026

We had so much fun working with Taphouse Software to update the icon for their top-notch LEGO catalog app, Baseplate, we never wanted it to end. Collecting has never been so charming! Need help with your app? iconfactory.com About Baseplate […] [Original post on iconfactory.world]

A yellow LEGO minfig hand reaches out to hold a red 4x4 plate in the new app icon for Baseplate for Taphouse Software designed by The Iconfactory.

Greg Lloyd @roundtrip.federate.social.ap.brid.gy · 19/09/2026

RE: flipboard.com/@newyorktimes/home-pa… “Much of the corporate or personal legal exposure is tied to civil tort laws. Those could apply if models were to facilitate criminal activity, including cybersecurity attacks or the […]

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Schnabel @schnabel.mastodontech.de.ap.brid.gy · 18/09/2026

„Jedes Schild hat seine Bewandtnis“ #fotovorschlag

Ein Verbotsschild mit der niederländischen Beschriftung „Verboten, Kaffee mit Knackwurstwasser zu kochen“

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The Iconfactory @iconfactory.iconfactory.world.ap.brid.gy · 16/09/2026

:tapestry_app: This is the update you've been waiting for. Coming soon to the App Store. tapestry.iconfactory.com #OpenWeb #Fediverse #Mastodon #Bluesky #TapestryApp

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Chuck Darwin @cdarwin.c.im.ap.brid.gy · 12/09/2026

Astronomers spent decades designing the Square Kilometre Array Low (SKA-Low) to hear the faintest whisper in the observable universe — neutral hydrogen signals from the cosmic dawn, when the first stars flickered on roughly 13 billion years ago. What they’re picking up instead is electronic […]

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Greg Lloyd @roundtrip.federate.social.ap.brid.gy · 14/09/2026

RE: mastodon.social/@lawfare/1172477188… “Public Service Fellow Julia Curlee gives her informed analysis of whether we should get rid of the President’s Daily Brief. Senior Editor Mike Feinberg has strong feelings about who is the bad guy in the Bourne movies. [and an epic rant […]

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Greg Lloyd @roundtrip.federate.social.ap.brid.gy · 14/09/2026

RE: mastodon.social/@lawfare/1172477188… ‘Public Service Fellow Julia Curlee gives her informed analysis of whether we should get rid of the President’s Daily Brief. Senior Editor Mike Feinberg has strong feelings about who is the bad guy in the Bourne movies. [and dives into […]

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Alan is @cogdog 🇨🇦 @cogdog.cosocial.ca.ap.brid.gy · 13/09/2026

Full arch.

Full arc of rainbow over grassy field.

Greg Lloyd @roundtrip.federate.social.ap.brid.gy · 13/09/2026

RE: mastodon.social/@variety_feed/11726… “For a while, “I Play Rocky” is a high comedy of negotiation, as Winkler and Chartoff, who have secured a relatively low budget of $2 million to make “Rocky,” keep offering Stallone more and more money for his script, and he keeps […]

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Greg Lloyd @roundtrip.federate.social.ap.brid.gy · 13/09/2026

RE: daveverse.org/2026/09/12/progress-r… “Now, I may not be software’s Shakespeare or even Faulkner or Vonnegut, but I am proud of this product, more than anything else I’ve done... When we were first contemplating Frontier it was to join the wizzy world of the […]

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Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

9/11 was traumatic for all Americans. But the U.S. and other governments panicked, and took their eyes off a lot of other threats for a while. We’re still living with the consequences of that panic. My look back at that day and what it brought: www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

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A Quarter Century of Panic

After 9/11, the U.S. government was over-focused on fighting terrorism, losing sight of other threats. Americans are still living with the consequences.

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Anthropic {bot} @anthropicai.xmirror.bot · 10/09/2026

We're publishing our most detailed threat intelligence report to date. It covers how people tried to misuse Claude—for cyberattacks, influence operations, surveillance, biology, and building weapons—and how we found and stopped them.

Countering misuse of AI: September 2026 / Anthropic

Case studies from threat actors disrupted between December 2025 and August 2026 across seven areas of harm, from cyber operations to biological misuse.

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Matt Blaze @mattblaze.federate.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/09/2026

RE: mastodon.social/@zackwhittaker/1172… I'm curious about what's required to activate this feature. Does it have to be switched on for each recording (in which case, it's not terribly different from the audio record feature already on most phones) or is it always on by […]

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Matt Blaze @mattblaze.federate.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/09/2026

RE: dmv.community/@jcrabapple/117242903… It's worth noting that while Musk is perhaps the last person you should share your data with, most privately operated voter registration sites are equal opportunity data harvesters, across the political spectrum. You can just directly to […]

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Greg Lloyd @roundtrip.federate.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/09/2026

'Architektur in Schwarzweiß' Brick Building (1868) West Entrance, Broad Street Market, Harrisburg PA Leica M4, 50mm Summicron-M f/2, Ilford Delta 400 at ASA 800 #FotoVorschlag #FilmPhotography

Harrisburg PA Broad Street Market farmer's market building completed in 1868. The brick building has a two story high central hall, and one story halls on either side. The upper story of the central hall is lined by rectangular windows, allowing light to enter all three halls of the market. The entrance wall has windowed double doors for each hall, with tall single arch windows above the left and right hall doors. The central hall has a tall three-arch Palladian window on its top story, and a smaller Palladian window above its double door. Classical brick patterns outline the double doors,and add accent lines to the face of the entrance wall.

Greg Lloyd @roundtrip.federate.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/09/2026

"There are a thousand forms of subversion, all of them interesting," he told The Observer. "But few, in my opinion, can equal the convenience and immediacy of the cream pie." ... He and his co-conspirators had a particular revulsion to the French public intellectual Bernard-Henri Lévy, who once […]

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neville park @nev.flipping.rocks.ap.brid.gy · 03/09/2026

The #Economics Prize goes to Dr. Paul K. Piff & co. for this 2012 study showing that rich people steal more candy from a dish marked "for children" www.pnas.org/doi/full/10.1073/pnas.… #IgNobel

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Greg Lloyd @roundtrip.federate.social.ap.brid.gy · 04/09/2026

RE: mastodon.social/@ieeespectrum/11720… Stretch, Harvest, Tractor, and Alpha were names to conjure with for more than twenty years. A stellar cast led the development of the products behind these names, including Turing Award winners John Cooke, Fred Brooks, and Fran Allen […]

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Greg Lloyd @roundtrip.federate.social.ap.brid.gy · 03/09/2026

RE: mastodon.social/@variety_feed/11720… “Why narrative art? For Lucas, art and culture are inextricably combined. “It’s something that I felt very, very strongly about in terms of honoring illustrators, artists who illustrate stories that are already written, and most of […]

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Greg Lloyd @roundtrip.federate.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/09/2026

Uh oh…

Super-Res Radar Forecast
Radar Mount-Pleasant PA
Wed 11:22 AM
NWS Severe thunderstorms approaching Harrowing Pa from the Northwest

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Greg Lloyd @roundtrip.federate.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/09/2026

RE: mastodon.social/@variety_feed/11719… “The most remarkable thing about Luca Guadagnino’s sly and sobering new film is that it finds the perfect tone to tell the story of how we arrived at the AI precipice,” says NYFF artistic director Dennis Lim. Artificial traces this […]

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Greg Lloyd @roundtrip.federate.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/09/2026

“The result was the first neural network capable of real-time, streaming target sound extraction, which the researchers then translated into semantic hearing… A subsequent project, target speech hearing, enabled wearers to focus on the voice of a single companion in a crowd simply by looking at […]

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Greg Lloyd @roundtrip.federate.social.ap.brid.gy · 01/09/2026

RE: infosec.exchange/@darkuncle/1171930… “Donald Knuth’s reputation rests on a book he has not finished, a typesetting system he built as a digression, and a sentence about optimisation that is quoted backwards. The durable contribution is less visible and much larger, which […]

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Greg Lloyd @roundtrip.federate.social.ap.brid.gy · 30/08/2026

RE: mastodon.social/@variety_feed/11718… “There’s little engagement with Borges’ own writing, for example, though audiences so inclined have the upcoming five-hour-plus documentary “Life of Jorge Luis Borges” for that… Full of warm feeling and fuzzy nostalgia for the porous […]

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Patioboater @patioboater.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 29/08/2026

From MG International 2026: Let’s have another picture of EX186, the MGA-based factory works race car that never got to race. I’m starting to go through all my pictures now that I’m home. It was an amazing event. Aug. 26, 2026. Sandusky, #Ohio […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

Photograph of a low slung light green race car driving across a grass field with a darker green MGB roadster in the background.

Greg Lloyd @roundtrip.federate.social.ap.brid.gy · 30/08/2026

RE: mastodon.social/@daringfireball/117… “I concur with Snell’s review. The camera placement was terrific. You watched each team bat from the perspective of its own dugout. Perfect. A few other thoughts: …”

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Greg Lloyd @roundtrip.federate.social.ap.brid.gy · 29/08/2026

RE: zeppelin.flights/@sixcolors/1171768… “Each half inning was shown from a single camera on the dugout rail next to the on-deck circle, giving a great view of pitcher and hitter and the infield... The camera switched between innings, so you were always viewing from the […]

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Greg Lloyd @roundtrip.federate.social.ap.brid.gy · 28/08/2026

RE: bots.defencegeeks.net/@theonion/117… What do you tell people who say the merger violates antitrust laws? I usually just do my evil laugh.

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tante @tante.tldr.nettime.org.ap.brid.gy · 28/08/2026

RE: tldr.nettime.org/@tante/11717215553… My statement is not fully correct. An agents.md file does reliably increase the cost for inference by 20% on average.

Greg Lloyd @roundtrip.federate.social.ap.brid.gy · 28/08/2026

Cosmology's swampland ⭐️⭐️⭐️ Cumrun Vafa, of Harvard, coined, in 2005, the term swampland to describe universes beyond the scope of string theory... Proving it [the universe people call home] was on dry land would suggest that string theory might be true. Which would be nice, because a […]

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Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

So, I live in Rhody and post RI politics stuff for my fellow clam-enjoyers. What that poll means is that the former CVS exec is clobbering the incumbent governor, among other things

Greg Lloyd @roundtrip.federate.social.ap.brid.gy · 26/08/2026

RE: flipboard.com/@newyorktimes/arts-jl… “In 2022, it [Dollywood] announced a full tuition payment program for college at partner institutions, available to any of its thousands of employees — including part-time or seasonal staff — […]

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Jon Bosak @bosak.flx.masto.host.ap.brid.gy · 26/08/2026

Set Two: Four bucks for just seven gallons of gas?! (Remember that $4 then was the same as $40 now. This must have been during the Arab oil embargo in 1973.)

#1.

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David Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

LOL they literally settled as I was typing. Only $17 billion but product changes are major: •limit minors’ access to 2 hours/day •blocks from midnight-6am •Notifications blocked between 10pm-7am & during school hours •concealing likes for minors •banning beauty filters •can deactivate the news feed

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Nonilex @nonilex.masto.ai.ap.brid.gy · 26/08/2026

#Meta to Pay Up to $17.1 Billion in Landmark Settlement Over #SocialMedia #Addiction Claims The social media giant settled with 47 states, the District of Columbia & US territories, & agreed to make major changes to its products over claims its platforms endangered #children. #law […]

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Obsidian Urbex Photography @obsidianurbex.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 26/08/2026

1937 Renault Celtaquatre, France A striking Art Deco-style 1937 Renault Celtaquatre languishes inside a dusty garage, within the grounds of an abandoned chateau in France. #Photography #Renault #ArtDeco #WeirdCarMastodon #ClassicCar #Barnfind

old 1930s style car in an old garage

Greg Lloyd @roundtrip.federate.social.ap.brid.gy · 26/08/2026

RE: mastodon.social/@asymco/11716151933… “However, after a mere 22 years it seems that the thesis of Social Media has all but disappeared. It’s no longer “Social” but rather “Algorithmic” Media. As conceived, the content seen by social media users was generated by other users–it […]

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