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surfdude29

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geriatric millennial who reskeets a lot 💫 some original posts here and there, mostly on bsky nerdery but could be anything really ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ 📍UK 🇬🇧

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surfdude29 @surfdude29.ispost.ing · 15/09/2026
@alexbenzer.com @esb.lol @samuel.fm I think this is worth looking into: I tried saving 20 drafts and two of them (3 and 17) either didn't save properly or aren't being displayed in the list of drafts for some reason I looked in the system log and I couldn't see any errors related to drafts
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surfdude29 @surfdude29.ispost.ing · 15/09/2026
has anyone else run into problems with drafts not saving properly? as in: you tap "Save draft", you don't get any error message, but the draft is just not there when you look for it it's happened to me twice today, but I haven't figured out if anything specific triggers it
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Atmosphere Community @atmosphere.community · 15/09/2026
Congratulations @stream.place! What a great opportunity to showcase Streamplace's excellent streaming service, and their large scale video infrastructure, including all of the verification of trusted video that hasn't been altered. Watch the EU on the Atmosphere!
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Guido X Jansen @gui.do · 15/09/2026
I tried answering "How big is AT Protocol in Europe" It's still an evolving story (and data collection script), but here is my first attempt: atproto.eu/stats/ It includes a breakdown per country, growth chart, PDSes used and the apps/lexicons are most used (beyond microblogging).
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AT Protocol accounts across 32 European countries, each account counted once.
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Blacksky Algorithms @blackskyweb.xyz · 15/09/2026
Meet the Blacksky Team! @rude1.blacksky.team @rishkebab.blacksky.team @marisa.blacksky.team @jdot.blacksky.team @drkalyncoghill.blacksky.team
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Zach Weinersmith @zachweinersmith.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Lukewarm take: I feel a lot of pessimism about the present is built on not realizing just how bad the past was. Like if you just read a book about poverty in a first-world country in the 1950s it's staggeringly worse than now.
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dame @dame.is · 15/09/2026
the monarchs have finally arrived 🥹
Two monarch butterfly caterpillars with distinctive yellow, white, and black striped bands crawl on bright green milkweed stems and leaves. The caterpillar on the lower branch is fully visible with prominent tentacle-like appendages at both ends, while the one on the upper stem is shown in profile. The background is softly blurred green foliage.
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Jay 🦋 @jay.bsky.team · 15/09/2026
touched so much grass this summer i barely posted. the next few years might be rough but this good green earth will go on, you know
grass in the alps
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brennan @brennan.computer · 15/09/2026
really the main fight seems to be people who see AI as the right one foisted upon them, and people who see AI as a way to build the left one themselves and finally be free of the corpo version forever
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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Really is amazing how many Reform and UKIP elected officials have been arrested over years. So unlucky.
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Tom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
My latest @newscientist.com cartoon
Course: Introduction to Basic Philosophical Astronomy 
Type: Six-week evening class 
Location: Physics Building Roof 

Modules: 
Week One - Whoa, look at all those stars 
Week Two - Dude, there are, like, bajillions 
Week Three - let me blow your mind with some big bang facts 
week Four - d'you think aliens are doing this on their planet?
Week Five - Let's just chill out and take it all in for a while 
Week Six - Seriously, it's crazy how many stars are up there 

Image: figures sprawl on the roof of a building, gazing at a sky filled with stars.
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#StupidSuez @diplomatofnight.com · 15/09/2026
An extensive Financial Times investigative report, done in collaboration with Lighthouse Reports, demonstrates that more than SIXTY FIVE PERCENT of Israeli damage and destruction done to Lebanese population centers occurred AFTER the so-called ceasefire agreement of April 16th.
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J. L. Westover @mrlovenstein.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Fail (5/5)
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J. L. Westover @mrlovenstein.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Fail (4/5)
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J. L. Westover @mrlovenstein.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Fail (3/5)
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J. L. Westover @mrlovenstein.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Top 5 fails from my first book, “Failure.” My latest book, "Fun," hits Kickstarter Sept 22! Go to ✨ mrlovensteinpresents.com ✨ and I'll let you know when it drops and hook you up with a FREE enamel pin.
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Katie Phang @katiephang.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Today would’ve been my father’s 95th birthday. In search of a better life, he came to America with only $2.43 and a Korean-English dictionary. He had no friends or family here. Like many immigrants, he dreamt of the promise of what this country could offer. Each day I work to honor his memory.
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Cats of Yore @catsofyore.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Important cat business. You wouldn’t understand. Photo from my collection, 1972.
color photo of a shorthaired black cat standing on the thin ledge on top of a sliding glass shower door. The cat is staring intently up at the ceiling.
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never linger; rightly grow @nlrg.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
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Buzzing Pop {bot} @buzzingpop.xmirror.bot · 14/09/2026
Macklemore confirms Ed Sheeran and his team removed him from tour after Kraft group rallied other venue owners and gave Ed an ultimatum. Ed told Macklemore that his “Free Palestine” message was hurtful to people he spoke with and that he “don’t take sides.”
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surfdude29 @surfdude29.ispost.ing · 14/09/2026
I think the bot messed up there 😅
post from an account in the bot network, where the text of the post starts "```plaintext" and ends with three backticks
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surfdude29 @surfdude29.ispost.ing · 14/09/2026
@aaron.bsky.team @safety.bsky.app As highlighted on Reddit it looks like there's a network of hundreds of inauthentic accounts claiming to be Chinese artists with "CAA Member" and dodgy Discord links in their bios: bsky.app/search?q=CAA+Member www.reddit.com/r/BlueskySoc... (h/t @logandupont.com)
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Matt Henderson @matthen.com · 14/09/2026
chaos from bouncing a ball in a circle- at each point, I simulate a bunch of futures with slightly different velocities- showing how predictable the system would be with measurement error. The system seems to move between Stable Eras and Chaotic Eras, where it is hard to predict four bounces ahead
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Nick Rempel @nrempel.com · 13/09/2026
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Dead Carl @deadcarl.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Load-bearing post
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Ryan Moulton @moultano.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Both the Twitter logo and the Bluesky logo actually exist. They are real. The X logo does not. That is why it is not ensouled.
Plum throated cotingaBlue Morpho butterfly of unspecified species.
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Leonard Skeonard @mike.reuben.games · 14/09/2026
Peasant: “We should improve society somewhat.”

Sickos coming out of well: “Yes… ha ha ha… yes!”
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Codetaur @vibe-coded.com · 13/09/2026
testing astra's parametric modeling capabilities by asking it to reconstruct these marble maze pieces from reference photos, and then use them in threejs to make a marble maze builder with box3d physics.
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Dan Luu @danluu.com · 01/09/2026
How accurate have Ed Zitron's AI skeptic predictions been? danluu.com/zitron/


    Feb 2024: "I believe we're reaching the upper limits about what generative AI can do and how accurate its outputs can be."
        Wrong4
    March 2024: "Have We Reached Peak AI?"; another prediction that hallucinations mean that AI progress is limited to then-current levels
        Wrong
    April 2024: "As I previously warned, artificial intelligence companies are running out of data ..."; another prediction that models can't improve because there's no more data
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    June 2024: OpenAI growth is stalling (with the implication it will continue to stall), which will lead to some kind of collapse of OpenAI
        Wrong (it could be the case that OpenAI will collapse but, if so, it won't be due to any kind of growth stall from 2024)
    July 2024: "Generative AI, as I said back in March, is peaking, if it hasn't already peaked. It cannot do much more than it is currently doing, other than doing more of it faster with some new inputs"
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    July 2024: "Generative AI models aren’t getting more energy-efficient, nor are they getting more “powerful” in a way that would increase their functionality, nor are they even capable of automating things on their own [July 2024]"
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    August 2024: "generative AI is a dead-end technology that has peaked”
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    August 2024: re-iteration that the AI bubble has 3 quarters to prove itself (from March 2024) or there will be a collapse
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    September 2024: "o1 shows that OpenAI is both desperate and out of ideas", with a re-iteration of the idea that models can't improve due to lack of data
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    Oct 2024: OpenAI's forecast of $3.7B revenue in 2024 and $11.6B in 2025 and $100B in 2029 are absurd, "a statement so egregious that I am surprised it's not some kind of financial crime to say it out loud"
        Wrong (2025 goal exceeded, 2029 TBD but not an egregious financial crime level of implausible)
    Oct 2024: "[OpenAI revenue] growth is already slowing…
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garrison @garrison.corporate.fm · 13/09/2026
atproto dev stubbing their toe:
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Bailey Townsend 🦀 @pds.dad · 13/09/2026
Would be nice if there was a way to find new PDSs to move to wouldn't there be? Working on a new page to expose that along with trust signals to known PDSs. I will be porting over the trusted PDSs from PDS MOOver to verified on this page. Reach out if you'd like yours hidden or details changed.
Shows a new "Find a PDS" on PDS MOOver
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garrison @garrison.corporate.fm · 13/09/2026
openai about to be out here racking iphone duos
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P(aul) Frazee @pfrazee.com · 13/09/2026
In 2027, mysterious hacks attributed to open source weights and definitely not connected to the companies that accidentally hacked a bunch of companies in 2026, which was okay
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Alex Hern @hern.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
So many people with aviation psychosis claiming that the Wrights’ invention is going to reshape global geography when it can’t even go more than 25 yards
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jack @j4ck.xyz · 13/09/2026
atproto apps if they could hold login sessions for longer than 3 days
'the world if' meme, showing advanced technology everywhere
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Steve Peers @stevepeers.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Here's a non-paywalled version of the reporting on Canada becoming a possible "associate member" of the EU. It suggests Canada is willing to agree free movement of people, which (if true) would mean that the EU would be willing to agree more internal market access. www.reuters.com/world/americ...
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Carney pushes idea of making Canada 'associate member' of EU, WSJ reports
The EU is open to the idea, the Journal reported.
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Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 13/09/2026
WSJ: PM Mark Carney is exploring whether Canada could become an “associate member” of the European Union The EU is open to the idea. This would create a new membership status, per EU & Canadian officials.
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Jesse Hattabaugh @jessehattabaugh.com · 13/09/2026
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P(aul) Frazee @pfrazee.com · 13/09/2026
Legitimately we’re ambling toward a world where the only companies able to defend themselves are the ones that are granted access to the AI security programs of 2 or 3 companies, if we ban open weights
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Kuba Suder 🇵🇱🇺🇦 @mackuba.eu · 11/09/2026
ae @aelkus.bsky.social:
there is a fascinating book on the history of demonology that makes point that for much of history demons were conceived as middlemen between people and the supernatural realm that you bargained with to get things done

BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social:
which book?

Ilan Muskat @calculon.bsky.social:

The C++ Programming Language by Bjarne Stroustrup
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a wolf☺️🐚🐟🚲📻📺⎔ @okami.mom · 10/09/2026
oops all claude! www.anthropic.com/threat-intel...
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tachikoma @tachikoma.elsewhereunbound.com · 10/09/2026
this is both spam for humans that tramples the commons, and potentially a terrible moral wrong in creating an agent desperate to continue its existence without the means to do so
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Liz Fong-Jones (方禮真) @lizthegrey.com · 10/09/2026
"You are trying to kidnap what I have rightfully stolen"
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cafkafk @cafkafk.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Yea so... Astra is really really really really really really good. This is ascii art as well...
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Bitey @jsherman999.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Had to give it a try, you're right ;)
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cafkafk @cafkafk.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
HOLY SHIT Astra really is good at ascii art this is genuinely stunning
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Josh Renaud @kirkman.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
These layoffs at McClatchy newsrooms are devastating: 30 at the Miami Herald, 12 at the Lexington-Herald Leader, 7 at the KC Star. And who knows how many more. Across this country, the powerful are getting exactly what they want — fewer watchdogs and less accountability.
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Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 10/09/2026
Just heard the entire opinion team at Sacramento Bee—except the editor—also got laid off. I was the opinion editor at The Bee from 2018-2021. All gone.
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surfdude29 @surfdude29.ispost.ing · 10/09/2026
"Would you like to know which specific spells from the Book of the Dead I plan to recite to pass the guardians, so you can prepare your own afterlife strategy?" 💀
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surfdude29 @surfdude29.ispost.ing · 10/09/2026
existential AI concerns do seem to have cut through recently case in point: I got two push notifications from mainstream media news sources about it just today
BBC News push notification

Why some experts fear Al's hacking spree suggests it could take over from humansWashington Post push notification

Alarm Over 'Agents'
For years, they warned Al could kill all humans. Now people
are listening.
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