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I've been rattling around on the Net for quite a while. Chances are you might know me. Runes on MeFi, formerly Ankus on Twitter. Back on the Interlisp train for fun. [bridged from mefi.social/@runes on the fediverse by fed.brid.gy ]

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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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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.scholar.social.ap.brid.gy · 06/04/2026
Finally, we end on: "The future [under the sway of AI risks being] a constant rehashing of the past, wherein human creativity and communication are not only mediated by but controlled by companies. In the midst of this nonsense, we must nourish hope in shared […] [Original post on scholar.social]
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We have given our perspective on AI through five possible angles as depicted in Figure 1: concep-
tual clarity, critical thinking, decoloniality, respecting expertise, and slow science. If our warnings
go unheeded, we foresee the harms to academia will continue. If we do not enact scientific and
pedagogical shifts — by inter alia teaching and reckoning with our own collective human past and
present — we, in cognitive science specifically, will continue to deny our students knowledge of
the history of computational prehistories from other cultures and time periods, an abdication of
the duty of any so-called experts in AI; mutatis mutandis for other fields and their histories.
AI not only ends the past, and makes the present frantic, it also forecloses any future. Under AI’s
sway, the future is neither bright as the technopositivists promise, nor a descent into rule by robotic
overloads, but a constant rehashing of the past, wherein human creativity and communication are
not only mediated by controlled by companies. In the midst of this nonsense, we must nourish
hope in shared values, skills, and humanity.
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tante @tante.tldr.nettime.org.ap.brid.gy · 31/03/2026
Anthropic's Claude Code's full source code leaked. Claude is seen by many to be the best coding LLM on the market with Anthropic proudly stating that Claude Code itself is mostly written by the LLM. Now this sounds good as long as nobody can see the code which is quite the trash fire. Detecting […]
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Matthew Haughey @mathowie.xoxo.zone.ap.brid.gy · 28/02/2026
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 07/12/2025
Peter Singer compares how much DOD is spending versus how much the imagined drug cartels are spending. www.defenseone.com/ideas/2025/1...
The Pentagon has released few details about the 23 vessels it has blown up, but one was reported to be a civilian-type 39-foot Flipper-type motorboat with four 200-horsepower engines. A new one retails on Boats.com for $400,000, but the old, open-top motorboats in the videos must cost far less. The crew of the boats have been reported as making $500 per trip.  

On the other side of the conflict is certainly the most expansive–and thus most expensive–military deployments in history for a counter-narcotics mission. 

The first task force of warships deployed to the operation, which included an Amphibious assault ship and even a nuclear powered attack submarine, cost $19.8 billion to buy. They were later joined by the aircraft carrier Gerald R. Ford, which cost $12.9 billion to buy after $4.7 billion for research and development. Its three escorts pushed the purchase price of the Southern Spear fleet past $40 billion. 

This fleet is backed by at least 83 land-based aircraft that have been documented in the deployment so far, collectively worth at least $1.8 billion: ten F-35Bs ($109 million apiece), seven Reaper drones ($33 million each), three P-8 Poseidons ($145 million each), and least one AC-130J gunship ($165 million).
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
Seconded. That last line hits hard.
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Runes @runes.mefi.social.ap.brid.gy · 21/11/2025
Welcome to the Season of Family Tech Support to those who celebrate. I found a new one today. I was doing the usual minor cleanup with a relative and I notice a constant stream of pop-up notifications going on. You know how every bloody website now pops up a “would you like notifications from […]
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Wieferich Prime @pikesley.mastodon.me.uk.ap.brid.gy · 05/10/2025
Josh Crowley (sp?) @jdcrowley

If I built a big robot that consumed 33% of my state's electricity so it could go around stealing people's art I would be arrested, and that's how you know law is a social construct.
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Ernie Smith @ernie.writing.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 09/08/2025
So apparently we are within the last 60 days of dial-up AOL being a thing. help.aol.com/articles/dial-up-inter… ht @mattl
Dial-up Internet to be discontinued

AOL routinely evaluates its products and services and has decided to discontinue Dial-up Internet. This service will no longer be available in AOL plans. As a result, on September 30, 2025 this service and the associated software, the AOL Dialer software and AOL Shield browser, which are optimized for older operating systems and dial-up internet connections, will be discontinued.

This change will not affect any other benefits in your AOL plan, which you can access any time on your AOL plan dashboard. To manage or cancel your account, visit MyAccount.
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JPWeiland @jpweiland.bsky.social · 04/08/2025
Summer wave is accelerating, as seen here in the ED data:
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René Seindal (MOVED) @seindal.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 27/07/2025
All the songs here here - free downloads because he was OK. tomlehrersongs.com
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Songs and Lyrics by Tom Lehrer DISCLAIMER STATEMENTI, Tom Lehrer, individually and as trustee of the
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 12/07/2025
Why not, instead say: 1) Trump is so threatened by scrutiny of the way his policies have exacerbated TX 2) He is making threats he has no power to carry out 3) W/o giving him what he wants, for you to focus on the outrageous act INSTEAD of his policy failures?
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Tim Bray 🇨🇦 @timbray.cosocial.ca.ap.brid.gy · 10/07/2025
Mastodon 4.4, now available, has a small setting that’s a big deal. See Administration/Server Settings/Discovery, “Allow external sites to see your Mastodon server as a traffic source”. It means that every time you post a link to a site, that site is going to see as many hits as the number of […]
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Bruce Sterling @bruces @bruces.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 29/06/2025
*It's a big subcontinent, India
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pgcd @pgcd.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 14/06/2025
It turns out "my" shirt design was stolen and used by some US assholes who now sell a Rob Anybody t-shirt. I can't do anything about that, except giving everybody the design for free - if it has to be out there, nobody should profit from it. If you end up […] [Original post on mastodon.online]
SVG design for my Rob Anybody t-shirt. #GNUTerryPratchett
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Bill @sempf.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 09/06/2025
A small consulting company that I work with is hiring a full, high level infosec position. They are mostly a GRC shop, I do a lot of their appsec. Here's the listing. Great gig for the right person. gammaforce.io/careers-gammaforce/op… And you get to […]
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Oblique Strategies @oblique-strategies.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 15/04/2025
Make it more sensual #ObliqueStrategies
A black-and-white photo of an Oblique Strategy card. The card reads: 'Make it more sensual'.
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Missing The Point @missingthept.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 05/04/2025
Today there was even a protest rally on Heard Island.
Penguin colony on Heard Island.
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Flipboard @flipboard.flipboard.social.ap.brid.gy · 04/04/2025
A new documentary, “The Librarians,” premiered at SXSW last month. It focuses on librarians at the heart of right-wing culture war attacks across America. @TexasObserver’s Josephine Lee sees heroism and hope in the film. “At a moment when our institutions of learning seem to be engulfed in […]
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Steve Herman @w7voa.journa.host.ap.brid.gy · 02/04/2025
Awaiting reaction from the residents of the Heard and McDonald Islands after the US today imposed a 10% reciprocal tariff on products from the volcanic territory between Madagascar and Antarctica. Might be waiting a bit -- apparently the total human population is (double checks notes)...zero.
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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
A principle that you’re unwilling to make sacrifices to defend isn’t a principle; it’s a convenience.
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Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
This is the op-ed Rumeysa Ozturk co-wrote in 2024 criticizing the Tufts administration’s response to student demands for action regarding Gaza and Israel. It is unquestionably speech protected by the First Amendment. /1 www.tuftsdaily.com/article/2024...
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Op-ed: Try again, President Kumar: Renewing calls for Tufts to adopt March 4 TCU Senate resolutions - The Tufts Daily
The independent student newspaper of Tufts University
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Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
Just imagine the intel breaches happening right now by state actors and malevolent orgs that we are not seeing because a these mediocre clowns didn't always cc a fucking reporter
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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
This jibes with contemporary reporting that the raids hit several residential buildings, in each case killing about 15 people and wounding more. Maybe a little more of the conversation should be about how cavalier we apparently are about bombing civilian homes? www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/3/...
Signal group chat in which Michael Waltz & JD Vance cheer bombing of a civilian apartment building
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Bass #Antifa #EcoHumanist @bassjobsen.mastodon.nl.ap.brid.gy · 25/03/2025
Saying ‘pandemic is over,’ NIH institute starts cutting COVID-19 research Grant terminations halt research on improving vaccinations and preventing future pandemics Other terminated grants involved research to develop improved COVID-19 vaccines and to address #LongCovid the mysterious […]
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
Trump claiming that NSC knew that Trump's entire NatSec team did something wildly incompetent and none of them -- not JD Vance, not Mike Waltz, not Susie Wiles -- gave him a heads up. Highly likely that's a lie, but it's not a lie that makes him look less stupid.
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Luke BOO 👻 ber @coolhand.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
Some badass early Pulitzer contenders out of Turkey
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	1.	A person in a black robe and a tall brown felt hat stands facing a line of riot police holding shields labeled “Polis.” The person is being sprayed with pepper spray, and the air is filled with mist and debris. The person wears a gas mask and stands with a composed posture amid the chaos.
	2.	The same person in black robes and a tall brown felt hat stands calmly with arms folded while being sprayed with pepper spray by riot police. The individual wears a gas mask and stands on a wet street littered with water bottles. A line of police in helmets and shields labeled “Polis” stands in the background.
	3.	A person wearing a black robe, gas mask, and tall brown felt hat stands with arms outstretched in front of a row of riot police. The police hold transparent shields marked “Polis” and “Çevik Kuvvet.” Smoke fills the air, and the scene is illuminated by strong overhead lights.
	4.	A similar scene shows the same person in a dramatic pose with arms wide open and head tilted back, wearing the same attire. Smoke surrounds the area, and the line of riot police with shields labeled “Polis” and “Çevik Kuvvet” remains in the background. Debris is scattered on the ground.Alt for four images:

	1.	A person in a black robe and a tall brown felt hat stands facing a line of riot police holding shields labeled “Polis.” The person is being sprayed with pepper spray, and the air is filled with mist and debris. The person wears a gas mask and stands with a composed posture amid the chaos.
	2.	The same person in black robes and a tall brown felt hat stands calmly with arms folded while being sprayed with pepper spray by riot police. The individual wears a gas mask and stands on a wet street littered with water bottles. A line of police in helmets and shields labeled “Polis” stands in the background.
	3.	A person wearing a black robe, gas mask, and tall brown felt hat stands with arms outstretched in front of a row of riot police. The police hold transparent shields marked “Polis” and “Çevik Kuvvet.” Smoke fills the air, and the scene is illuminated by strong overhead lights.
	4.	A similar scene shows the same person in a dramatic pose with arms wide open and head tilted back, wearing the same attire. Smoke surrounds the area, and the line of riot police with shields labeled “Polis” and “Çevik Kuvvet” remains in the background. Debris is scattered on the ground.Alt for four images:

	1.	A person in a black robe and a tall brown felt hat stands facing a line of riot police holding shields labeled “Polis.” The person is being sprayed with pepper spray, and the air is filled with mist and debris. The person wears a gas mask and stands with a composed posture amid the chaos.
	2.	The same person in black robes and a tall brown felt hat stands calmly with arms folded while being sprayed with pepper spray by riot police. The individual wears a gas mask and stands on a wet street littered with water bottles. A line of police in helmets and shields labeled “Polis” stands in the background.
	3.	A person wearing a black robe, gas mask, and tall brown felt hat stands with arms outstretched in front of a row of riot police. The police hold transparent shields marked “Polis” and “Çevik Kuvvet.” Smoke fills the air, and the scene is illuminated by strong overhead lights.
	4.	A similar scene shows the same person in a dramatic pose with arms wide open and head tilted back, wearing the same attire. Smoke surrounds the area, and the line of riot police with shields labeled “Polis” and “Çevik Kuvvet” remains in the background. Debris is scattered on the ground.Alt for four images:

	1.	A person in a black robe and a tall brown felt hat stands facing a line of riot police holding shields labeled “Polis.” The person is being sprayed with pepper spray, and the air is filled with mist and debris. The person wears a gas mask and stands with a composed posture amid the chaos.
	2.	The same person in black robes and a tall brown felt hat stands calmly with arms folded while being sprayed with pepper spray by riot police. The individual wears a gas mask and stands on a wet street littered with water bottles. A line of police in helmets and shields labeled “Polis” stands in the background.
	3.	A person wearing a black robe, gas mask, and tall brown felt hat stands with arms outstretched in front of a row of riot police. The police hold transparent shields marked “Polis” and “Çevik Kuvvet.” Smoke fills the air, and the scene is illuminated by strong overhead lights.
	4.	A similar scene shows the same person in a dramatic pose with arms wide open and head tilted back, wearing the same attire. Smoke surrounds the area, and the line of riot police with shields labeled “Polis” and “Çevik Kuvvet” remains in the background. Debris is scattered on the ground.
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Alison Wilder @alisynthesis.io.waxandleather.com.ap.brid.gy · 12/03/2025
Just sent off my freedom of information request to get all the private data about myself that #DOGE has accessed. You can do it too, thanks to some quick #activism by Maryland representative Jamie Raskin. "We ask but for peace, liberty, and safety." […] [Original post on io.waxandleather.com]
Envelope addressed to the U.S. Department of Government Efficiency. The stamp has a quote from the first Continental Congress that says we ask but for peace, liberty, and safety.
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Eric's Risk Assessment @ericcarroll.zeroes.ca.ap.brid.gy · 11/03/2025
On this date, 5 years ago... A pandemic was declared. In two days, March 13, my work department will head home to work from home. I will never return to an office. In 3 weeks, April 1, I will contract an unknown virus from my health care worker wife, who contracts it due to an inadequate & […]
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
Here's one of my favorite passages from the trans challenges, from Captain Gordon Herrero who was tapped to teach at West Point after finishing a degree in Applied Mathematics. He describes telling his team he was about to transition. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
In October 2021, my brigade commander approved my transition timeline, and I was
cleared to begin hormone replacement therapy. Because I was a Detachment
Commander, I also decided to call my soldiers and civilians in for a conversation, so
they could learn about my upcoming transition directly from me, and we could address
any concerns together. When I told them, the team broke out into applause twice and
thanked me for taking the time to tell them.
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Vee @veroniqueb99.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/03/2025
40% of Older Americans Rely Solely on Social Security for Retirement Income. In an interview with Joe Rogan that aired last night, Elon Musk claimed that Social Security is "the biggest Ponzi scheme of all time" and said he intends to dismantle it. Musk […] [Original post on mastodon.social]
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Nonilex @nonilex.masto.ai.ap.brid.gy · 28/02/2025
How #ElonMusk Executed His Takeover of the Federal Bureaucracy It started as banter at a fund-raising dinner for Vivek Ramaswamy's presidential campaign in 2023. #Musk indicated to guests that he believed that #technology was the key to gutting the federal bureaucracy. #law #regulation […]
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Glyph @glyph.im · 23/02/2025
Went to report a bug on the Parallels forums and I just gotta say: I am impressed. Take notes, website hosts, this is how you respect your users in a dark political time.
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Dear users! Be informed that in order to minimize the amount of your personal information stored in your Forum accounts, we have dismissed some data which was not critically important for your ability to read and post on Parallels forums. The data fields listed below have been deleted from the Forum user interface. Their values in the database have been made blank. The dismissed data includes: information about your gender, date of birth, occupation, home page URL, advanced information about you (anything you've made available in your profile), your contact details such as email (if different from your Parallels account email address), social networking and messaging accounts (AIM, ICQ, Yahoo Messenger, Skype, Google Talk, Facebook, Twitter), The messages you've read and posted on Forums were not affected .
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Ben Zipperer @benzipperer.org · 14/02/2025
Federal employee terminations will cause widespread economic damage even beyond the hardships for specific employees How many federal workers live in your state or county or congressional district? I made an little interactive site to tell you economic.github.io/federal_work...
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Steve Herman @w7voa.journa.host.ap.brid.gy · 13/02/2025
Encyclopædia Britannica announces it'll continue to use ‘Gulf of Mexico’ as it serves an international audience, the Gulf is an international body of water and the US authority to rename it "is ambiguous." (Also posts its 1st Ed. map from 1768.)
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