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Daniel Rigal 🇪🇺 🦋 @danielrigal.bsky.social · 9h

You remember how Enron split everything up into a large number of smaller companies to isolate risks and confuse everybody? Yeah, well, Musk is not even that smart. BBC News - Elon Musk confirms he is considering merging Tesla and SpaceX www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Elon Musk confirms he is considering merging Tesla and SpaceX

Musk says special committees within both companies have been formed to look at a possible mega-merger.

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Daniel Rigal 🇪🇺 🦋 @danielrigal.bsky.social · 20/10/2026

They avoid saying it almost completely for far-right riots in the UK. They have a whole string of euphemisms for that.

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Daniel Rigal 🇪🇺 🦋 @danielrigal.bsky.social · 20/10/2026

I don't mind the BBC saying "far-left" when talking about the rioting in France, *if* that really is true, but I can't help notice that they use the term far more liberally than they do "far-right" when talking about far-right rioting in other countries.

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Daniel Rigal 🇪🇺 🦋 @danielrigal.bsky.social · 19/10/2026

This is what "owning the libs" is. They are sad, impotent, crass, malignant stupid people trying to drag everybody else down to their level.

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Daniel Rigal 🇪🇺 🦋 @danielrigal.bsky.social · 19/10/2026

This gleeful embrace of clodishness and cruelty is not a bug. It is a defining feature of fascism. It makes them feel big even when they are not. They may not have power to effect real change but they can make people angry and miserable, so they revel in doing that. www.abc.net.au/news/2026-10...

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Jacqui Lambie slams 'nasty' One Nation cartoon mocking vaginal prolapse

The independent senator criticises a One Nation cartoon that ridicules the outspoken veteran and uses her medical condition as a punchline.

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abadidea @0xabad1dea.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 18/10/2026

I just watched the first episode of Colombo with my husband and one of Colombo's gotchas, one of his "no sane innocent man would ever do this"s, is "Why, when you were at your vacation home four hours out of the city and got a call that there was an emergency at home, why did you drive back and […]

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Daniel Rigal 🇪🇺 🦋 @danielrigal.bsky.social · 19/10/2026

I'm not sure whether Brexit being mentioned here reflects a belated willingness to talk about its effects or whether this is an obscure enough story that it slipped past the censors. BBC News - Avian flu and costs among reasons for loss of captive birds at Castle Espie www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Castle Espie: County Down centre to lose all captive birds

Difficulties in transporting animals since Brexit has contributed to the decline in the number of captive birds.

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Daniel Rigal 🇪🇺 🦋 @danielrigal.bsky.social · 19/10/2026

I'm enjoying all the piss-taking but, to be serious for a moment, I really hope that all the artists and labels refuse to allow their music to be used for this abomination. There's free publicity and kudos to be had here! I might even say something nice about Oasis if they do it. (No promises!)

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Daniel Rigal 🇪🇺 🦋 @danielrigal.bsky.social · 19/10/2026

A lot of far-right politics is kayfabe but the biological essentialism part isn't. Fascists really do believe that you are what you were born. To them, genetics is destiny and character is worthless. If you were born black, brown, female, etc then there is *nothing* you can do in their eyes.

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Prof. Sam Lawler @sundogplanets.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 19/10/2026

I was accused of being sensationalist or exaggerating when our 2022 research paper predicted one in 15 visible points in the sky would be a moving satellite. I think maybe we were actually too conservative. I hate this so very very much.

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Daniel Rigal 🇪🇺 🦋 @danielrigal.bsky.social · 17/10/2026

"The the rocket version has 10 thrusters and I believe it actually has a second cylinder involved. So you get two cylinders. You lose the passenger seat by the way." Fucking what? No passenger seat? youtu.be/ex4Qg-gkLNg?...

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Let's Talk About Tesla's Rocket Car.... Even Though I'm Supposed to be On Vacation

YouTube video by Scott Manley

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Luca Hammer @luca.social.luca.run.ap.brid.gy · 17/10/2026

The term "single use software" currently lives rent free in my head. People use LLMs to create software specific for their needs. But neither can other people use it (hardcoded variables, no rights management, too specific), nor do they use it again (too […] [Original post on social.luca.run]

Mit 21 habe ich Webse en weiteren Unternehmen habe ich Back up now beitet und mich auf Konzeption, Skalierung und technische Machbarkeit von Geschäftsmodellen fokussiert.

In den letzten Wochen habe ich mir bewusst viel Zeit genommen, mich tiefergehend mit ChatGPT Codex und Claude Code auseinanderzusetzen. Mit Codex habe ich ein Plugin für mein Smart-Home-System gebaut, um mein Energiemanagement (HEMS) an unsere Anforderungen anzupassen.

Die Software basiert ausschließlich auf Open Source: Python, PostgreSQL und Flutter für das Frontend. Das Plugin liest via Modbus TCP den Wechselrichter aus, verbindet sich mit der Wallbox, der Batterie, mit Solcast für die PV-Prognose und meinen direkt ansteuerbaren Verbrauchern.

Vierzehn Stunden Entwicklung, fünf Stunden Testing, dann eine Woche Optimierung und Bugfixing - und nun automatisiert mein individuelles HEMS alles eigenständig.

Früher wurden dafür hohe fünfstellige Beträge ausgegeben. Jetzt ist es einen Prompt entfernt. Individualentwicklung boomt und die Möglichkeiten wirken grenzenlos.

Was mich daran am meisten beschäftigt, ist nicht die Technik. Es ist die Tatsache, dass Softwareentwicklung viel dynamischer wird und einem breiteren Publikum zugänglich wird.

Natürlich bedeutet das (noch) nicht, dass sichere und performante Software einen Prompt entfernt ist. Aber man benötigt keine hohe Vorstellungskraft, um zu sehen, dass KI sehr bald bei Security- und Architekturfragen vollautomatisch leistungsfähige Systeme konzeptioniert und baut.

Die Frage ist somit nicht mehr, ob man etwas bauen kann. Die Frage ist, ob es jemand benötigt und man einen Bedarf decken kann.

Eines ist aber klar: Menschen mit viel Kreativität haben nun ein Tool an der Hand, das ihnen dabei hilft, technische Hürden schneller zu überwinden.

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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 16/10/2026

Since there’s an opening for press secretary, I know a great candidate who’s not only a lawyer, but a neurosurgeon, a Grammy-winning recording artist, and the inventor of the Post-It Note.

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Uncle Slacky @uncleslacky.federate.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/10/2026

@danielrigal.bsky.social Guessing that it's about Michael Gove, considering the recent business with his ex-girlfriend.

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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 16/10/2026

Fully expecting an SNL cold-open where the new Press Sec is introduced, but Trump keeps banging a gong and swapping in a new blonde mid-sentence as each either says something moronic or is asked about some outrageous lie on their CV.

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[object Object] @zzt.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 14/10/2026

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 · 14/10/2026

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 · 14/10/2026

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...

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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...

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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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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...

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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...

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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...

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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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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...

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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...

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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.

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“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 🇺🇸
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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...

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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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