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Scary "Grampus" Jerry 👻 @jerry.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 17/10/2026

There are major account take-over problems happening right now on mastodon instances - all appearances are that the actor is using stolen passwords, probably from malware running on desktops. I've suspended hundreds of compromised accounts over the past 48 hours, but only two on mine. If you […]

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 12h

Insulating homes and investing in heat pumps would be more effective in reducing living costs, creating jobs, and boosting the economy than drilling for new oil.

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Heat pumps and insulation would cut UK living costs more than new oilfields, study suggests

Warm homes plan would create 50,000 jobs, compared with about 1,100 for Rosebank oilfield, thinktank finds

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Simon Brooke @simon-brooke.mastodon.scot.ap.brid.gy · 22h

I know Kat to be someone who has worked hard for people in #Gaza, and who runs campaigns for people I support. I can completely understand how she has got herself into this problem; she genuinely deserves your help.

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Simon Brooke @simon-brooke.mastodon.scot.ap.brid.gy · 17/10/2026

Of course, I'm going to need a crane to raise the frame of this new cabin. So, of course, I made one.

In the foreground, the trusses of the new cabin, lying on the framework of its floor. Behind it, the crane: a pole hung from a tree, supported by and supporting tackles to allow heavy weights to be lifted and moved.

In the background, my own house.

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Simon Brooke @simon-brooke.mastodon.scot.ap.brid.gy · 17/10/2026

@Layan2002 friends. We are social creatures. The one truly valuable thing we ever have in life is friendship.

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Ian Betteridge @ianbetteridge.vivaldi.net.ap.brid.gy · 17/10/2026

The right: - Tells working people it's all the fault of people on benefits. - Tells people on benefits that it's all the fault of immigrants. - Tells immigrants they don't belong here. The one group that never get any blame? The rich.

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Ian Betteridge @ianbetteridge.vivaldi.net.ap.brid.gy · 17/10/2026

One thing to remember if you're trying to understand Trump's continual love of Putin. Putin is an enemy of the west. He's an enemy of democracy. He's an enemy of the rights of ordinary people. But he's not an enemy of the rich.

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Simon Brooke @simon-brooke.mastodon.scot.ap.brid.gy · 17/10/2026

@khleedril to be fair,, he was working on the optimisation of finding larger primes.

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Simon Brooke @simon-brooke.mastodon.scot.ap.brid.gy · 17/10/2026

So I used instead Luke Meyers implementation; however it too has an interesting (to me) foible. His function `(generate-primes-till n)` actually generates primes up to but not including `n`, so `(count (generate-primes-till 71))` yields 19 rather than 20, which was too me an unexpected result […]

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Simon Brooke @simon-brooke.mastodon.scot.ap.brid.gy · 17/10/2026

While checking this, I learned that `sieve-sm` in Gary Verhaegen's otherwise excellent blog post on implementing the Sieve of Eratosthenes in #Clojure is wrong, because it doesn't recognise 2 as prime. The reason it doesn't is because he generates his unbounded range using `(iterate inc 2)`. My […]

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Simon Brooke @simon-brooke.mastodon.scot.ap.brid.gy · 17/10/2026

I am now officially in the twentieth prime of life.

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賢進ジェンナ @kenjen.pdx.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/10/2026

@simon_brooke I wish US citizens would take note. We are the 99% ー we do not have to answer to the billionaires nor the government. The French protest ー the citizens of the US talk about the glory days of protest(with minor exceptions).

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 16/10/2026

Which of these is not like the others?

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Simon Brooke @simon-brooke.mastodon.scot.ap.brid.gy · 16/10/2026

Being human makes us capable of evil, and we all are, every one of us. But it also makes us capable of resisting the urge to evil. Be the resistance.

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Simon Brooke @simon-brooke.mastodon.scot.ap.brid.gy · 16/10/2026

I absolutely love threads in which people document their magnificent obsessions. Here's a thing of beauty!

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 15/10/2026

"The merger between corporations and countries is well on its way. The science of AI may be new. But the way it is being foisted on us is as old as colonialism itself"

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Obsidian Urbex Photography @obsidianurbex.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 15/10/2026

🚃 A glimpse into a bygone era and forgotten childhood memories. These trams were a popular part of Blackpool seaside holidays for generations of families. After their retirement from service, they were stored awaiting restoration in a compound at Fleetwood […] [Original post on mstdn.social]

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Nikita Romanov @nr.mastodon.scot.ap.brid.gy · 15/10/2026

Citing concerns about misinformation and hate, @ScottishGreens have (Finally!) made the decision to leave X for good. They cited Mastodon as one of the 8 platforms they can still be found on but I hope this can result in more engagement on the fediverse […]

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 15/10/2026

Third-generation concentrated solar power (CSP) plants that can generate power 24 hours a day -- something like a 90% capacity factor. Good link to send the baseload fetishists in your life.

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247Solar Plant - 247Solar, Inc.

247Solar, Inc. 247Solar Plant creates concentrated solar power energy with its breakthrough solar receiver design and a proprietary thermal storage system, combined with other proven technologies and ...

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 15/10/2026

A memo from senior insurance-industry officials warning that insurance modelers are being pressured to downplay climate in their models & that many insurers are already planning their exist from key markets. An explosive fuckup on the scale of the mortgage crisis is building.

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Mark Burton @markhburton.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 15/10/2026

'Green party said: “For the Labour government to conflate criticism of Israel with antisemitism is disappointing and wrong. Trying to tell local parties what to do and who they can work with is undemocratic. “Whilst Labour continue to try to meddle in our internal democracy, arm a genocide and […]

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Glyph @glyph.im · 15/10/2026

Also this is a big argument in the alternative. For technical reasons related to context limits and training data, none of this shit actually works well enough to replace software at any meaningful scale. To paraphrase @pluralistic by way of Jensen Huang: AI will not take your job. A boss using […]

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Simon Brooke @simon-brooke.mastodon.scot.ap.brid.gy · 15/10/2026

Thinking about switching to #NetBSD to avoid #Linux #AI tainted kernel, and the thing that is worrying me most is package managers. I've been using #Debian and derivatives for about twenty years mainly because of its excellent package manager. Is there anything which does similar dependency […]

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Erik Uden 🚩 @erikuden.mastodon.de.ap.brid.gy · 15/10/2026

Second day in the EU parliament. They saw that one of our people had “political” messages on our shirt (_the word Palestine_), so we were all told to go into a corner and six security guards all individually went through every forty person's bags and had to approve of any pin's or flag's […]

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Simon Brooke @simon-brooke.mastodon.scot.ap.brid.gy · 15/10/2026

#ScribesAndMakers #WritingCommunity 15th Oct 2026. How confident are you feeling about your work today? Today, not. I'm continuing to work on `Wisdom`, but I don't really have a solid idea of how to make the story work, or whether it will appeal to everyone. An ancient dragon, a vastly older […]

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Simon Brooke @simon-brooke.mastodon.scot.ap.brid.gy · 15/10/2026

"the United States sends billions of dollars annually in military aid to Israel while simultaneously funding NGOs that operate in occupied #Palestine. This contradiction is not accidental. It reveals a structural logic: states deploy aid not to liberate #Palestinians but to manage the […]

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Simon Brooke @simon-brooke.mastodon.scot.ap.brid.gy · 15/10/2026

"humanitarian relief often enforces “chronic temporariness”—a perpetual state of limbo that keeps people alive but never free. In contrast, out of this machinery of harm, something different emerges: #MutualAid. When institutions abandon them, people turn to one another. #Palestinians reaching […]

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Simon Brooke @simon-brooke.mastodon.scot.ap.brid.gy · 15/10/2026

"many people imagine humanitarian aid as compassion in action—neutral, benevolent, and offered as a lifeline in the face of disaster. The term evokes convoys of food, medical supplies, clean water, blankets, and the comforting belief that the world does not abandon the vulnerable. In reality […]

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Simon Brooke @simon-brooke.mastodon.scot.ap.brid.gy · 15/10/2026

"On social media, #Palestinians risk everything to livestream their own destruction. Phones held up in Gaza broadcast homes turned to rubble, children rescued from dust, and the sounds of warplanes overhead. However, #Meta Platforms throttle, silence, or erase these livestreams" #GazaGenocide […]

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Simon Brooke @simon-brooke.mastodon.scot.ap.brid.gy · 15/10/2026

"I am convinced that the question of #Palestine has become a stress test for European democracy itself. Democratic societies can only thrive when there is space for #dissent, including dissent that is uncomfortable, disruptive and politically inconvenient. Yet today, across Europe, governments – […]

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Adrianna Tan @skinnylatte.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 15/10/2026

I hope everyone who hoped for this for Elon is happy. All the minorities told you they were just going to do this to people of color.

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Simon Brooke @simon-brooke.mastodon.scot.ap.brid.gy · 14/10/2026

More and more and more half lap joints. Not very creative, but the joints have to be made.

90° half lap joint for the apex of the roof, although it's currently sitting on the top of a pillar as that was the convenient place to do it. The joint is complete and assembled but not drilled or bolted. The chisel with which it was mostly cut lies across it.

The two halves of a 45° half lap joint where a ceiling joist joins a rafter, mostly cut but not yet tidied up. It too lies on a pillar head. The tools with which I've been working lie around.

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 14/10/2026

This is specifically why "just try it, just use it, give it a go, just take a hit" is a plea for you to experience the rush of acquisition and achievement without doing any of the work required to *actually* achieve something They want you to be as dazzled as they are, rather than assess quality

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 14/10/2026

I think it's important to interact with AI in a very carefully controlled way: specifically to understand exactly how toxic and terrible it is I only get it to return text in two conditions: (a) a topic I know well and (b) a question I **already answered**. You learn v quick how bad the answers are

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Does Generative AI “Work”? That’s a Misleading Question.

Generative AI works a lot like fossil fuels “work”—narrowly, intermittently, and with a lot of nasty side effects.

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