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CCC @ccc.de · 10/09/2026
There is a clear risk that once on device content-scanning software was enabled it would be easy to expand they categories of content it detected www.openrightsgroup.org/blog/nudity-... #chatkontrolle
openrightsgroup.org
Nudity scanning tech will leave us more exposed
The Government’s proposals to prevent under 18s from creating or sharing nude images aim to address serious issues such as sextortion, grooming, and abuse.
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Caræsten 🇵🇸 @cara.city · 08/09/2026
I need a moratorium on CS guys talking about theories of cognition until they've taken at least one graduate level course on the subject, ran their thoughts by at least one PhD in neuroscience, and have detoxed from AI chatbots for at least one week beforehand
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rob pike @robpike.io · 30/06/2026
benjaminhollon.com/musings/stop...
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stop asking writers about "AI"
Every time I tell someone new that I’m a writer, they pause for a moment, then ask the same question: “So, what do you think about AI?” This question has been sapping my motivation to write for years.
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disc horse bot @horsedisc.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
artificial intelligence as a concept is revisionist, anti-autistic, and accelerationist.
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leonardo da vinci @ieonardodavinci.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
when i fuck. i fuck hard. i fuck like i mean it. with love. with passion. youll know.
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Osaka, we 🐇 @osaka.zone · 23/03/2026
OS level age verification is a Meta lobbying project Pass it on
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Reddit User Uncovers Who Is Behind Meta’s $2B Lobbying for Invasive Age Verification Tech
Meta funneled $2B through nonprofit shells to push age verification laws targeting Apple and Google while exempting its own platforms from surveillance requirements.
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Bert Hubert 🇺🇦🇪🇺🇺🇦 @berthub.eu · 09/03/2026
De overheid is nog steeds van plan de btw-berekeningen over te laten aan een Amerikaans extern softwarebedrijf. Hier nog meer achtergrond over wat er gaande is en waarom dit een heel stom idee is: www.computable.nl/2026/03/09/d...
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‘Dit uitbestedingsproject voor omzetbelasting moet koste wat kost stoppen’ - Computable.nl
Digitale autonomie en de Belastingdienst: op 10 en 19 maart bespreekt de Tweede Kamer de outsourcing van de software voor omzetbelasting. Marcel van Kooten startte de inmiddels landelijk gevoerde disc...
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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 13/02/2026
'Lead' and 'read' rhyme. Unless you're saying 'lead' and 'read.' But also 'lead' and 'read' rhyme.
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Blaise Boo-lysse Bernard Collins @wittywebhandle.bsky.social · 17/01/2026
via 'Cities by Diana' on Facebook
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 14/12/2025
This is fucking grim. Somebody invented a white guy, an "IT professional" named Edward Crabtree, who stopped the Bondi shooting and spread it all over the internet, which was picked up by AI agents and slop aggregation sites. The real hero is a fruit stand owner named Ahmed el Ahmed.
A wrong Grok post making up a white guy who stopped the Australian mass shooting.BBC
'Hero' who wrestled gun from Bondi shooter named as Ahmed al Ahmed
Emily Atkinson
Sun, December 14, 2025 at 1:06 p.m. CST
2 min read

A "hero" bystander who was filmed wrestling a gun from one of the Bondi Beach attackers has been named as 43-year-old Ahmed al Ahmed.

Video verified by the BBC showed Mr Ahmed run at the gunman and seize his weapon, before turning the gun round on him, forcing his retreat.

Mr Ahmed, a fruit shop owner and father of two, remains in hospital, where he has undergone surgery for bullet wounds to his arm and hand, his family told 7News Australia.
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Rode Kruis @rodekruis.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
Rode Kruis slaat alarm over nieuwe wet ‘illegaliteit’: www.rodekruis.nl/persberichte...
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Rode Kruis slaat alarm over nieuwe wet 'illegaliteit': zorgwekkende signalen over mensen zonder papieren
et Rode Kruis maakt zich grote zorgen over de voorgestelde ‘wet tot strafbaarstelling van onrechtmatig verblijf’. De organisatie vreest dat vele mensen straks geen hulp meer durven te zoeken.
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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 05/12/2025
Lastly, we get to ‘Donner’ and ‘Blitzen.’ ‘Donner’ was originally ‘Donder,’ which is Standard Dutch meaning “thunder.” ‘Blitzen’ comes from the Standard Dutch ‘bliksem,’ which means “lightning.” We've always thought these two were the bad boys of the sleigh.
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P(aul) Frazee @pfrazee.com · 02/12/2025
I will not be participating in Advent of Code this year as I have a load-bearing need to believe I'm a supergenius coder and this has "reality check" written all over it
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Dr. Stephanie @punkrockscience.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
Today’s xkcd made me cry. In a good way. xkcd.com/3172/
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—>realhackhistory.org @bsky.realhackhistory.org · 16/11/2025
Corporations are in the political driving seat.
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Kate Messner @katemessner.com · 09/11/2025
Loving today's news that the mysterious "fedora man" outside the Louvre heist was actually a 15-year-old museum visitor who dresses like a 1940s French detective all the time, just because. apnews.com/article/louv...
apnews.com
Fedora man unmasked: Meet the teen behind the Louvre mystery photo
Fifteen-year-old Pedro Elias Garzon Delvaux has become an internet sensation after an Associated Press photo captured him outside the Louvre on the day of a crown jewels heist.
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Granite Man @granitedhuine.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
A quick guide on "How to fall downstairs": Step 1 Step 6 Step 8, 9, 10, 11.
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Cas Mudde @casmudde.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
The far-right majority in the Dutch parliament (BBB-FvD-JA21-PVV-SGP-VVD) has just designated “Antifa” a terrorist organization. This is a dark day for Dutch democracy and the final nail in the coffin of the VVD as a serious liberal democratic party.
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Kamermeerderheid vindt Antifa terroristische organisatie
Een meerderheid in de Tweede Kamer wil dat Nederland, in navolging van de Verenigde Staten, de extreemlinkse beweging Antifa aanmerkt als terroristische organisatie. Een motie daartoe van Lidewij de V...
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Tim Krief @timkrief.com · 16/09/2025
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Emma (IPG) @invoxiplaygames.uk · 06/09/2025
for the people i know who are playing Fortnite for the XP:
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Reuters @reuters.com · 30/08/2025
Head of Yemen's Houthi government and some ministers killed in Israeli strike, Houthi-run news agency says reut.rs/4oQCCoe
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Head of Yemen's Houthi government and some ministers killed in Israeli strike, Houthi-run news agency says
The head of Yemen's Houthi government and a number of ministers were killed in an Israeli strike on Sanaa on Thursday, the news agency run by the group said on Saturday, citing a statement by Houthi leader Mahdi al-Mashat.
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iProgramInCpp @iprogramincpp.com · 26/08/2025
Suck a dick Google. If I wanted NOT to be able to install unsigned homebrew on my device I'd save up for an iPhone. developer.android.com/developer-ve...
developer.android.com
Android developer console  |  Android developer verification  |  Android Developers
Get started building your Android apps.
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Phrack Zine @phrack.org · 18/08/2025
At long last - Phrack 72 has been released online for your reading pleasure! Check it out: phrack.org
The table of contents for Phrack 72 from phrack.org
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lintile @lintile.lol · 17/08/2025
Remember: Every time you get a #HackerJeopardy networking question wrong, somewhere in the world, a router spontaneously reboots itself out of spite. #DFIU
A gray cartoon Wi-Fi router with expressive eyes squeezed shut and tears flowing down. It has arms, one fist clenched while the other presses a big red button labeled “REBOOT.” A speech bubble above it says “REBOOTING…”
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Greg the Sorcerer @gregthesorcerer.bsky.social · 04/08/2025
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teq @quilling.dev · 29/07/2025
the DSM-6 is set to contain even more exciting and unfounded speculation about me
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🏳️‍⚧️ Bog Witch Girl 🏳️‍⚧️ @bogwitch-girl.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
after a very frustrating call with Visa (US+CAN), I was told that Visa would like inquiries relating to using their bargaining power to destroy adult media to be sent, via email, to askvisa@visa.com they asked. to be sent. emails. you know what to do.
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 22/07/2025
Oh, man. Oh, wow. www.bbc.com/news/live/cn...
bbc.com
Black Sabbath's Ozzy Osbourne dies aged 76, his family announces
A statement from his family says Osbourne was with his family and
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SwiftOnSecurity @swiftonsecurity.com · 08/07/2025
Real security people would register their vulnerability announcement domains 7 days before go-live because real security people don't have DNS resolvers that pass recently registered domains...
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Emma (IPG) @invoxiplaygames.uk · 19/02/2025
Pros of using Linux: - You can't play league of legends
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Satan @thedevil.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
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The C Programming Language @c-official.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
People will really call themselves computer scientists without ever having killed a traveling salesman
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Brandon Diehl @iambrandondiehl.bsky.social · 15/06/2025
I'm actually pretty good at reading a room, as long as the room is full of books and I'm the only person involved.
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David Buchanan @retr0.id · 01/04/2025
lol, youtube added a clickthrough warning modal to save people from getting rickrolled. afaict it's the only video that has it: www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4...
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jasminevp.bsky.social @jasminevp.bsky.social · 20/04/2025
There are presumably five states of ware. I’ve heard of hardware , software, and vaporware. There must be additional states where there’s so little energy put into the ware that it can’t even be sold, and so much energy put in that it dissociates into discrete criminally charged engineers.
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ramiel @ramiels.me · 01/04/2025
STOP INVENTING TOP LEVEL DOMAINS the world does not need .pizza
STOP DOING TLDS
•THERE WERE NEVER SUPPOSED TO BE MORE THAN
  THREE CHARACTERS AFTER THE DOT
•Wanted to identify your site? We had a tool for that: SECOND LEVEL DOMAINS
•"Take me to com.google, I wanna visit 8xbet.democrat" - Statements dreamed up by the  DERANGED and CRAZY

LOOK at what ICANN have been demanding your Respect for
(These are REAL TLDs made by REAL ICANN fraudsters):
.whoswho, .microsoft, .xn--80asehdb

"I always search the web with www.google.info"
They have played us for absolute fools
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 09/04/2025
The problem with most machine-based random number generators is that they’re not TRULY random, so if you need genuine randomness it is sometimes necessary to link your code to an external random process like a physical noise source or the current rate of US tariffs on a given country.
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lincoln carpenter, skeleton @lincolnhello.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
a major issue with video games is that they produce a bunch of people who consider themselves brain geniuses for solving problems that were designed to be solvable. as a remedy, we should be making more games that are actively and irreconcilably hostile to the player. thank you
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Owl Daily @owldaily.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
Arguably one of the cutest owls of North America and definitely rarest! ID: Boreal Owl 📸 midhunjohnthomas #Owl #Nature #Birds
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Tim Verheyden @timverheyden.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
WhatsApp voert in NL een PR offensief, omdat er een grote uittocht is naar @signal.org. @meredithmeredith.bsky.social reageert vandaag:
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Emma (IPG) @invoxiplaygames.uk · 24/03/2025
does mini HDMI have a purpose other than to annoy everyone
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memes from outside fedi/atmosphere @nonfedimemes.wetdry.world.ap.brid.gy · 16/03/2025
Photos of four different types of Coca-Cola bottles, titled "Favorite way to drink Coke?"

The first, captioned "Glass", shows a glass Coke bottle.
The second, captioned "Fountain", shows two plastic Coke cups, one big and the other small.
The third, captioned "Plastic", shows two evenly sized plastic Coke bottles.
The fourth, captioned "Cans", shows two Coke cans, one standing up and the other lying down.

If you can see this image and understand the joke, I'm sorry you have to. Those with vision impairments, you guys should be fine.
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binji @binji.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
POKEGB, a gameboy emulator that plays only pokemon blue/red, in ~8200 characters of C++ shaped like 3 pokeballs. (from 2021, now in bsky!)
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Sara Gibbs is Scary Enough Already @sararoseg.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
When one of your satirical pieces breaks Google
The daily tism satirical about an entirely fictional man named Eddie Albington: autistic man stranded on desert island asks rescue team for a couple more weeks Google AI overview summarising Eddie Albington as a real person and doing bullet points of our satirical article as if it’s real news
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LiveOverflow 🔴 @liveoverflow.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
Managers will be the first to be replaced by AI, because they send so many Emails back and forth that we can easily train models on it 🤔 The only reason it doesn't happen is because managers protect their own job by not letting teams work on this 🧠
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Jeff Geerling @jeffgeerling.com · 13/02/2025
marcan.st/2025/02/resi... Sad to see this, burnout is a scourge on almost all worthwhile software projects, and especially in open source. This is why I have no shame in saying no as a default: www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2022/ju...
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Resigning as Asahi Linux project lead
Back in the late 2000s, I was a major contributor to the Wii homebrew scene. At the time, I worked on software (people call them “jailbreaks” these days) to allow users to run their own unofficial app...
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