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Uncle Slacky

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An 18th century brain in a 21st century head. (comrade/comrade) [bridged from federate.social/@uncleslacky on the fediverse by fed.brid.gy ]

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[object Object] @zzt.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 6h
the guys who only learned C, insisted on C for everything, refused or failed to learn any other language, and put down anyone who tried to use anything else, are now fully in on LLMs because they think programming is too unpleasant and hard
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Liam Proven @lproven.social.vivaldi.net.ap.brid.gy · 9h
New motherboards, old RAM, plenty of life left in yesterday's PCs www.theregister.com/systems/2026/10… DDR4 makes a comeback as component costs rise, while Linux offers an escape from forced upgrades <- by me on […]
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Daniel Rigal 🇪🇺 🦋 @danielrigal.bsky.social · 7h
This is going to get sillier and sillier until the government finally decides to stop this farce. The longer it goes on the more it will look like Burnham's mess and not Starmer's. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
bbc.co.uk
Sally Rooney says her books will be removed from sale in UK over Palestine Action support
The Irish writer is best known for novels such as Normal People, Intermezzo and Conversations With Friends.
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Daniel Rigal 🇪🇺 🦋 @danielrigal.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
This can happen anywhere. If you rely on local broadcasts, and local connections to the internet, then you can be cut off by the local or national authorities. To maintain access to news in an emergency you *need* to own a shortwave radio. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
bbc.co.uk
BBC FM radio transmissions suspended in Afghanistan
BBC programming is still reaching audiences on shortwave, medium wave, via satellite and online.
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Daniel Rigal 🇪🇺 🦋 @danielrigal.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Yes, I know that listening to shortwave is horrible. It's still better than nothing. You can't expect everybody to get satellite based internet access but pretty much anybody can find an old radio with at least one shortwave band on it and keep it safe for emergencies.
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Liam Proven @lproven.social.vivaldi.net.ap.brid.gy · 13/10/2026
NetBSD may have found a new role: The AI-free FOSS OS www.theregister.com/os-platforms/20… Increasing awareness and adoption, followed by increasing donations <- by me on #TheRegister
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NetBSD may have found a new role: The AI-free FOSS OS
Increasing awareness and adoption, followed by increasing donations
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Daniel Rigal 🇪🇺 🦋 @danielrigal.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
The BBC really will put any old shit in their "Science" News. The island isnt 'infested" with crabs. The crabs live there. BBC News - Crew searching for Amelia Earhart arrives at crab-infested island www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
bbc.co.uk
Crew searching for Amelia Earhart plane lands at remote island infested with carnivorous crabs
Researchers will sleep on their ship to avoid giant crabs that can lift heavy weights, split open coconuts, and may have played a role in Earhart's demise.
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Quixoticgeek @quixoticgeek.v.st.ap.brid.gy · 13/10/2026
"why does the fridge have an internet connection?" "So it can download security updates" "Why does it need security updates?" "To protect against new vulnerabilities" "Surely if we didn't connect it to the internet, we wouldn't need that..." "Oh"
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Flippin' 'eck, Tucker! @losttourist.social.chatty.monster.ap.brid.gy · 13/10/2026
No no no. I am about to write out 500 times "I do not **NEED** yet more stuff, no matter how much I want it."
A flyer for an auction of surplus equipment following the BBC's vacation of its Maida Vale studios.

The flyer shows musical instruments, amplifiers, loudspeakers and large amounts of other electronic equipment. It all looks very interesting and fascinating.
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Daniel Rigal 🇪🇺 🦋 @danielrigal.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
If I decipher this gibberish correctly, he wants us to think that he has made the Replicator front Star Trek. What he has actually made, if any of this claptrap is true at all, is probably just a machine that 3D prints non-standard Lego bricks for you.
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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
‘For years the Observer tried to get to the truth of Russian interference until we sacked the reporter involved for participating in union activities’
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Daniel Rigal 🇪🇺 🦋 @danielrigal.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Imagine being such a complete and utter piece of shit that even JD Vance is like "Hey. Hey. Dial it back a notch"? BBC News - JD Vance casts doubt on firing squad execution and says he will not watch it www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
bbc.co.uk
JD Vance casts doubt on firing squad execution and says he won't watch it
The planned execution of Nidal Hasan by firing squad would be the first military execution in more than 60 years.
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Dmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 08/10/2026
Not sure why anyone bothers with anti-AI activism when the most effective strategy would be to just point as many microphones as possible to its most vocal champions.
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Daniel Rigal 🇪🇺 🦋 @danielrigal.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
If Trump has any skill at all, it is in picking completely improbable, unnecessary and unwinnable battles to fight, losing them bigly, and then whining about how it is everybody else's fault that he lost and, besides, he didn't lose anyway it's only fake news that says he lost.
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Daniel Rigal 🇪🇺 🦋 @danielrigal.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
The incompetent barbarian hacks were unable to administer the poison into a vein correctly. They don't get to send their proxies out to lie about it afterwards, pretending that this is some random event disconnected from their bungling of an already egregiously evil deed.
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David Penfold :verified: @davep.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 06/10/2026
At the hotel reception I said "I'm awfully sorry, I forgot what room I'm in". "No problem sir" the lady said. "This is called 'The Lobby'".
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Bruce Lawson ✅ ♫ ♿ ✌️♂️✊ @brucelawson.vivaldi.net.ap.brid.gy · 06/10/2026
If I don't keep my car roadworthy and crash into yours, it hasn't gone "rogue", it's my negligence and I'm responsible. If my dog attacks you, I am liable. There are no rogue AIs, just negligent AI companies. Prosecute them.
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Daniel Rigal 🇪🇺 🦋 @danielrigal.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I just got a YouTube advert for ChatGPT promoting its use for dietary/nutritional advice. This is probably the most dangerous and irresponsible advert I have seen since they banned tobacco advertising. I have reported it. If you see it then please also report it. Lives are at stake here!
Screenshot of the YouTube Report Advert screen filled in with the following complaint and the Submit button ready to press:

"This advert is going to get people killed! You can not run an advert promoting the use of an LLM for dietary or nutritional advice. This is the domain of trained professionals. An LLM will pick up on whatever people want to be told, no matter how unhealthy, and amplify it. This will promote and exacerbate whichever eating disorders the users are most vulnerable to. I know that some people will use LLMs this in way anyway, without being prompted to, but having an advert that normalises this is going to kill more people that it otherwise would! Please take this advert off, either out of morality or just because you don't want YouTube to be mentioned in a coroner's report."
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Daniel Rigal 🇪🇺 🦋 @danielrigal.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
I've been thinking about this and I think we need to treat AI as a health risk and restrict advertising. The question is whether it is more like smoking (advertising banned) or vaping (advertising restricted)?
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Liam Proven @lproven.social.vivaldi.net.ap.brid.gy · 06/10/2026
I’m Calling for a Pause in the Development of the Universal Bone Dissolver www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/202… A recent incident has raised my concerns: Last month, the Bone Dissolver unexpectedly dissolved a number of bones
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Daniel Rigal 🇪🇺 🦋 @danielrigal.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Weird how the Americans are all over this but don't give a shit about measles and other easily preventable diseases that are killing Americans in America. BBC News - US 'watching closely' after plague researcher dies in Russia www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
bbc.co.uk
US 'watching closely' after plague researcher dies in Russia
Donald Trump says the US was looking "very strongly" at the case of a lab technician who died at a research centre in Siberia.
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Flippin' 'eck, Tucker! @losttourist.social.chatty.monster.ap.brid.gy · 06/10/2026
[UKpol] I have no intention of wasting any of my time today reading obits about a man who I thoroughly disliked, but I just wanted to say well done to the BBC for the headline on this article about him. #JeffreyArcher
Below a picture of Jeffrey Archer (an older white man with grey hair, wearing glasses and a suit), the headline reads:

Jeffrey Archer: successful novelist, disgraced politician and convicted liar
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Vee @veroniqueb99.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 05/10/2026
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Daniel Rigal 🇪🇺 🦋 @danielrigal.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I am overtaken by an intense wave of nostalgia for the days when Tory MPs actually went to prison.
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Daniel Rigal 🇪🇺 🦋 @danielrigal.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Scumspawn is going to have a difficult day. I can hear Satan cursing his luck from here. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
bbc.co.uk
Jeffrey Archer: Best-selling author and former politician dies aged 86
His last book, Adam and Eve, is set to release this month.
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Erik Uden 🚩 @erikuden.mastodon.de.ap.brid.gy · 05/10/2026
The US empire is dying if AI collapses 😍
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Daniel Rigal 🇪🇺 🦋 @danielrigal.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Maybe America has good operational reasons to pull out that are nothing to do with any of that. All I am saying is that it looks bad. It projects an image of cowardice and surrender, even if that is not what it actually is.
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Daniel Rigal 🇪🇺 🦋 @danielrigal.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
There is absolutely no reason, at present, to believe that the incident near RAF Fairford was anything to do with Iranian terrorism but... Just imagine if it was. This would be seen as a massive victory in Tehran! www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
bbc.co.uk
US removes all bombers from RAF Fairford back to home stations
A statement says all bombers deployed to RAF Fairford have been "re-deployed to their home stations" in the US.
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Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Trump’s “Super Intelligence Force” puts AI, intelligence, trade and defence officials under his control while giving tech companies direct access to policy decisions they could profit from, creating fertile ground for corporate profiteering, regulatory capture and corruption.
The White House Verified Account
@WhiteHouse
“I am announcing the formation of the Super Intelligence Force (SIF). The Super Intelligence Force is tasked with coordinating the effort of the Federal Government to ensure that America continues to lead the World in Super Intelligence, which many say is bigger than the Industrial Revolution, and the Internet, and will protect the interests, and improve the lives, of all Americans.” - President DONALD J. TRUMP 🇺🇸
[Embedded post/screenshot from Donald J. Trump]:
Donald J. Trump Verified Account
@realDonaldTrump
Following the Historic White House Accord on Super Intelligence, where the World's most important Technology Companies came together, and confirmed their responsibilities to the American People, I am announcing the formation of the Super Intelligence Force (SIF). The Super Intelligence Force is tasked with coordinating the effort of the Federal Government to ensure that America continues to lead the World in Super Intelligence, which many say is bigger than the Industrial Revolution, and the Internet, and will protect the interests, and improve the lives, of all Americans. The Super Intelligence Force will coordinate the Federal Government's engagement with Consumers, Public Interest Groups, Religious Organizations, Critical Infrastructure Providers, and Super Intelligence Companies, and will be led by Director of National Intelligence, Jay Clayton, Chairman of the Federal Trade Commission, Andrew Ferguson, Under Secretary of War for Research and Engineering, and Chief Technology Officer, Emil Michael, and Director of the Office of Personnel Management, Scott Kupor, and will report to the President of the United States (ME!), and the Chief of Staff, Susie Wiles. Thank you for your attention to this matter! President DONALD J. TRUMP
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Jef Poskanzer @jef.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 04/10/2026
INTERVIEWER: Can you explain this gap in your resume? ODYSSEUS: Ok it’s actually a really long story
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Daniel Rigal 🇪🇺 🦋 @danielrigal.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
I don't have a good answers either. I guess you can ask people to "Watch Cabaret" and then, after they do, ask them "Do you understand why I asked you to watch Cabaret?" but I'm not sure what you say if they look at you blankly and say "no".
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Daniel Rigal 🇪🇺 🦋 @danielrigal.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
This excellent article explains exactly why being alive in 2026 is so infuriating. It resonates with a lot of my experiences.🧵 The Fascists Are Making You Sound Crazy badfaithtimes.com/they-make-yo...
badfaithtimes.com
The Fascists Are Making You Sound Crazy
You will appear to be a complete lunatic if you explain the political realities of competitive authoritarianism.
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Mike Masnick @masnick.com · 03/10/2026
At a free speech conference where an Iranian-born speaker is presenting over video from Sweden saying she doesn't feel safe coming to the US currently and noting the irony of her not being able to come to a free speech conference
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Normalization is treating the president stealing from taxpayers to buy campaign ads and offer bribes to voters like it's just another day. Normalization is reacting with "won't work" or "polls poorly," and not "resign immediately or you'll be removed, we exist because of a revolution against that."
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Council Estate Media @cemedia.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 04/10/2026
The motion was carried by 1,022 votes to 813 (55%–45%). It defines Zionism as “a political ideology which called for the creation - and, now it exists, the continuation - of an ethnonationalist Jewish State in historic Palestine to the exclusion and/or […] [Original post on mastodon.social]
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Existential Comics @existentialcomics.com · 03/10/2026
One of the most underrated benefits of living under a Communist Dictatorship is that you don't have to watch all these stupid political ads every two years.
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Liam Proven @lproven.social.vivaldi.net.ap.brid.gy · 03/10/2026
Why the Bronze Age collapsed www.worksinprogress.news/p/why-real… Historians like to blame drought, famine and invaders. But this can’t explain why the empires never came back.
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Why the Bronze Age collapsed
Historians like to blame drought, famine and invaders. But this can’t explain why the empires never came back.
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Flippin' 'eck, Tucker! @losttourist.social.chatty.monster.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2026
We're all in Jane's fan club. #TOTP
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Flippin' 'eck, Tucker! @losttourist.social.chatty.monster.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2026
Iron Maiden's _Wicker Man_ being played with a portrait of Alan Whicker in the background. I am dead. #TOTP
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Daniel Rigal 🇪🇺 🦋 @danielrigal.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
"Do you trust Sam Altman" is one hell of a question to ask an adjudicated rapist.
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Daniel Rigal 🇪🇺 🦋 @danielrigal.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Let's see if they can assert executive privilege without accidentally asserting that this was a state sanctioned extrajudicial killing?
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Daniel Rigal 🇪🇺 🦋 @danielrigal.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
He's such a perfect example of masculine insecurity. I don't know how big his dick actually is but I do know that he thinks it is small. He is driven to say the things that he imagines that a man with a massive schlong would say. Trouble is that he learned that patter from similarly pathetic men.
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Daniel Rigal 🇪🇺 🦋 @danielrigal.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
All these years we scolded the denizens of 4chan to get out of their gooncaves in their parents' basements and engage with society. We should have told them the exact opposite! Stay in your gooncaves. Don't engage with society. Jerk off as much as you like, just don't bother anybody else.
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Emmasrandomthoughts 🇺🇦🇵🇸🌹 @countessemilia.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Tyler Robinson was far kinder to Charlie Kirk than the state of Tennessee was to Christina Pike.
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Brooke @brooklynmarie.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Gosh, why wouldn't people want to visit the country that's disappearing and trafficking human beings every day
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Flippin' 'eck, Tucker! @losttourist.social.chatty.monster.ap.brid.gy · 01/10/2026
Oh no. Oh no no no no. I have been sent the following message at work: > During our All Hands later on, we'll be spending some time working together solutionising around some of our users' problems.
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Daniel Rigal 🇪🇺 🦋 @danielrigal.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
What he says is correct but it's far too polite and easy to ignore. He needs to scream "Jesus Christ people! Don't stick your dicks in that light socket!" BBC News - AI boom could trigger market shocks, Bank of England boss warns www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
bbc.co.uk
AI boom could trigger market shocks, Bank of England boss warns
Andrew Bailey says the central bank is watching the waves of cash being invested in artificial intelligence "very carefully".
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Daniel Rigal 🇪🇺 🦋 @danielrigal.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
We don't need to worry about global warming. It only affects poor countries like... [checks notes] Switzerland??? Oh, no! Never mind the Swiss farmers, where are Tarquil and Jocasta going to go skiing now? BBC News - Swiss glaciers suffer 'disastrous' year of ice loss www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
bbc.co.uk
Swiss glaciers suffer 'disastrous' year of ice loss
Scientists say such rapid melting is no longer surprising given the pace of climate change.
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Low Quality Facts @lowqualityfacts.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 30/09/2026
Peter Thiel: The evil demon king has actually accomplished a lot. So when you think about it, maybe he's not evil at all.
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Glyph @glyph.im · 30/09/2026
I logged in to LinkedIn to see a page full of people praising DHH, got mad, and wrote this. Less than 12 hours later I got an email telling me "Your post doesn’t comply with our Professional Community Policies on bullying and harassment. It’s been removed […] [Original post on mastodon.social]
A LinkedIn post from me that reads "DHH is openly a Nazi. You should not promote anything he is doing or relay his opinions on software development. It is shocking to me when I open this app and see people casually discussing his opinions on AI or interface design or whatever, as if he were a "thought leader". He is an open advocate for mass murder. It doesn't matter what else he thinks, do not promote his ideas." followed by the text "Only you can see this post because this content goes against our Professional Community Policies."
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