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Anthony Steele @anthonyfsteele.bsky.social · Dec 21

My name is Anthony.

I am usually located in London UK, but mostly staying home since 2020; except for occasional visits to Cape Town, South Africa; Boston, Massachusetts and other places.

Cynic, grey in the beard. Tries to cook, and ties to fix things. Happily married. He / Him.

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Barry Dorrans @blowdart.me · 2h

Oh shit

Questions Remain Over Whether First Asian Hornet Found In Northern Ireland Is A Catholic Asian Hornet Or Protestant Asian Hornet

THE DISCOVERY of Asian hornets in the north of Ireland has led to calls from locals for a more thorough investigation into their origins, and what their intentions are, WWN can confirm. "I don't give...

waterfordwhispersnews.com

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Caitlin Gilbert @caitlingilbert.bsky.social · 12h

I’m crying

www.semafor.com/article/10/2...

He is, instead, a 59-year-old Long Island wine importer named Bill DeBlasio, who merely responded to an email from a journalist seeking his views on Democrat Zohran Mamdani’s policies.

“I’m Bill DeBlasio. I’ve always been Bill DeBlasio,” DeBlasio said in an interview conducted Wednesday evening through his Ring doorbell in Huntington Station, Long Island, from his current location in Florida.

“I never once said I was the mayor. He never addressed me as the mayor,” DeBlasio told Semafor Wednesday evening. “So I just gave him my opinion.”

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fesshole 🧻 @fesshole.bsky.social · 18h

YouTube's algorithm recommended me James Hoffman videos. He's an expert in the classic British way being both hugely knowledgeable and mildly quirky. I'm not a big coffee drinker though, so my main takeaway has been to incorporate pour over techniques into making Pot Noodles.

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Sathnam Sanghera @sathnam.bsky.social · 1d

Keir Starmer's failure to stand up to this man is a cowardly and suicidal calamity

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Cat Hicks @grimalkina.bsky.social · 20h

I encounter this constantly in software writing too. People bitch: why didn't you cite x old book? Because. It was bad. And I disagree with it. Because I have a threshold for quality, sorry!

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Cat Hicks @grimalkina.bsky.social · 1d

Incredible how many people are like: the devastatingly horrific thing about AI is that the way it talks to you is bad for your mental health. I will now scream at a real person via social media and dehumanize them with insults!

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Anthony Steele @anthonyfsteele.bsky.social · 1d

Your "kittens" look increasingly like cats.

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your #3 source for absurdist true crime 🔨 @davidgerard.co.uk · 1d

this is my basic thesis of how the AI bubble works. it doesn't work on market forces at all or it'd be dead already. it's an industry-wide Enron scam. they will all put in whatever money is needed to keep it afloat as absolutely long as possible.

(hence me picking 2027-ish for the final collapse)

Robert Green @robogreen.bsky.social · 1d

betting against any of this is the same as betting against crypto. at a certain point the money needs the money to keep being money so it props the money up so that the money stays moneyed. us peons note the nudity of said money but they don't care, because this all keeps them in yachts.

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RootWyrm @rootwyrm.com · 1d

And with the washing? The money doesn't exist. At all.
Look closely at all of these 'deals,' and what you'll actually see is X "promises" to pay Y for "thing." But Y can't deliver "thing" so X isn't paying with cash it doesn't have based on revenue that doesn't exist.

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your #3 source for absurdist true crime 🔨 @davidgerard.co.uk · 1d

Australia sues Microsoft for forcing Copilot AI onto Office 365 customers

Call and demand a refund and reversion to Classic

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q8bH... - video
pivottoai.libsyn.com/20251028-aus... - podcast

time: 7 min 08 sec

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Jason Gorman @jasongorman.bsky.social · 1d

Researchers claiming LLMs refusing to shut down when instructed is evidence that they have a "survival instinct" perhaps didn't consider the possibility that LLMs have no way of shutting themselves down, but they do have dystopian science fiction in their training data that might match that input.

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Chris Oldwood @chrisoldwood.bsky.social · 2d

If I write a program in the Pony programming language that produces itself as output would that be an equine?

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Matthew Noe @noethematt.bsky.social · 2d

"I DON'T NEED YOU TO FUCKING REWRITE WHAT I'VE JUST WRITTEN!"

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hookland.bsky.social @hookland.bsky.social · 2d

Also, London is not in many ways an English city nor has it been. It was a global port and global city - arguably way back to the Roman. It has a long history of being more connected to places offshore than to distant parts of the realm. Its scale and character make it hard to grasp.

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Matt Ellis @citizenmatt.bsky.social · 2d

Get over to Reddit and post the issues you need fixed! Upvote the other comments. While we’ve had some great responses, I was expecting more feedback. You’ve got until the end of Wednesday!

Matt Ellis @citizenmatt.bsky.social · 6d

What should Rider 2026.1 fix? I'm asking for a bit of community upvoting to know what issues you're most eager to get in to Rider 2026.1, which we're in the process of planning. How else were you planning on spending a wet Friday afternoon?
www.reddit.com/r/Jetbrains/...

From the Jetbrains community on Reddit

Explore this post and more from the Jetbrains community

www.reddit.com

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pixelatedboat aka “mr bluesky” @pixelatedboat.bsky.social · 2d

It’s a big day for fans of baseball, or as the rest of the world calls it, “American Cricket”

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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 2d

I cannot tell you how many tech journalists at prominent media organizations do not understand this

Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · Jun 19

Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.

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Ned Hartley @nedhartley.com · 2d

If it “drives you mad” when you see black or Asian people then you are a racist. That’s not semantics. That’s literally the definition of a racist. That’s what racist means.

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Jennifer Ouellette @jenlucpiquant.bsky.social · 2d

How to cook duck with as much collateral damage as possible boingboing.net/2025/10/27/h...

How to cook duck with as much collateral damage as possible

Unfortunately for chefs everywhere, chaotic neutral culinary master HowToBasic has returned. Is his duck recipe appetizing? No comment.

boingboing.net

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Yakov Feygin @buddyyakov.bsky.social · 2d

The implication of a lot of Trump admin action is that the US can never be good at green tech so it has to lock the world into its rent driven fossil resource economy. A really bleak view of American potential.

Akshat Rathi @akshatrathi.bsky.social · 3d

Trump has never been supportive of green technologies, but in his second term he has made a concerted effort to wreck climate policies. The world now has a carbon bully, as one expert put it.

🎁🔗 www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

How Trump Pressures the World Into Burning More Oil and Gas

As COP30 nears, the US’s pressure to keep fossil fuels relevant may empower petrostates, potentially giving them more leverage at the UN talks.

www.bloomberg.com

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Anthony Steele @anthonyfsteele.bsky.social · 3d

Hippos.

depths of wikipedia @depthsofwikipedia.bsky.social · 3d

recently discovered that wikipedia volunteers have a hilariously high bar for what constitutes "unusual death"

Why Wikipedia editors have deleted entries from the “List of unusual deaths”:

“hippos are extremely dangerous and very aggressive and there is nothing unusual about hippos killing people”
“the man was working on the toilet, making his death inherently less strange than if he had been using it”
“no longer an unusual or unique occurrence” regarding impalement by beach umbrella
“being hit by multiple motorcycles in a race is not an unusual death”
“fatalities involving objects or animals being launched into oncoming traffic are considered commonplace” regarding a Canadian couple’s fatal collision with a “flying bear”

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depths of wikipedia @depthsofwikipedia.bsky.social · 3d

recently discovered that wikipedia volunteers have a hilariously high bar for what constitutes "unusual death"

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Meredith Whittaker @meredithmeredith.bsky.social · 3d

📣THREAD: It’s surprising to me that so many people were surprised to learn that Signal runs partly on AWS (something we can do because we use encryption to make sure no one but you–not AWS, not Signal, not anyone–can access your comms).

It’s also concerning. 1/

Meredith Whittaker @meredithmeredith.bsky.social · 10d

PSA: we're aware that Signal is down for some people. This appears to be related to a major AWS outage. Stand by.

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Catherynne M. Valente @catvalente.bsky.social · 3d

The saga of the beautiful husky who needed a home, & the BlueSky folk who stepped forward to make an old-fashioned internet miracle...has had a lot of developments I've been too busy handling to update you all on.

She's ON HER WAY!

The whole story, for all to read: www.patreon.com/posts/142111...

The Pawshank Redemption: A Dog And Her People | Catherynne M. Valente

www.patreon.com

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