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Daniel Carlson @danielwcarlson.bsky.social · 12h

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 1d

Full report here at Law Dork, with an additional new photo and more background: www.lawdork.com/p/trump-demo...

Exclusive: Trump's demolition of the White House East Wing is nearly complete

Photos obtained by Law Dork show the dramatic extent of the first step in Trump's purported plan to build a new ballroom on White House grounds with private funds.

www.lawdork.com

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Kathleen Clark @kathleenclark.bsky.social · 1d

Whenever you hear someone invoke the unitary executive, remember the image below.

This was an inevitable result of the unitary executive theory:
Empowering a president to tyrannically destroy institutions that ensured our government reflects the rule of law rather than his personal whim.

Photograph showing ruins of the East Wing of the White House, with nearly the entire building destroyed.

(Photo obtained by Law Dork.)

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Balint Szilakszi 🇪🇺 @szbalint.eu · 2d

Every time someone brings up “ooh encrypted chat” we should hilight that the police and other state agencies have an unimaginable amount of data accessible to them, compared to even ten years ago.

If they can’t do their job with that, we should reduce funding and allocate elsewhere.

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MartinDotNet @martindotnet.bsky.social · Aug 3

It's amazing that after a breach, there's a tonne of money for info sec too, but after some downtime there's still no money to level up observability.

I'm not talking just about tooling though, it's about people, infrastructure resources, and general appetite to spend money.

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Annette @weeble.bsky.social · Aug 19

Technologists use many confusing numerical abbreviations. It's important to know what they stand for.
a13y: antimachinery
o11y: octocentenary
k8s: kittenless
i18n: intercrystallization
l10n: liverpudlian

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EdVoncken @edvoncken.net · 2d

I *just* got a Fnirsi TS-02A. I think it’s related to the Pinecil? My old Weller still does a great job, but being able to set temperatures from 100-450 C (or so) is super handy.

I just need to wrap my head around “firmware update for my Linux-based soldering iron ” ;-)

Enjoy the Pinecil!

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Stephen Collins @stephencollins.bsky.social · 3d

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Nurse:
It’s become a real problem in this area

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Nurse:
We’ve seen the whole community lost to addiction

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Show a building sign posted:
Westminster ‘X’ Addiction Clinic
With various Westminster people or looking at their phones outside it

Nurse:
Ministers, Spads, Researchers…

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Nurse:
Most mornings we’ll get a call about someone acting strangely

[Nurse on phone taking a call]
Ok - we’ll be right over

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Nurse:
We just have a gentle chat

[Nurses approach a minister –Robert Jenrick? - standing in the Palace of Westminster

Minister:
I understand your concerns…

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Nurse:
Are you OK love?

Minister:
Yes I’m just hearing legitimate concerns from real voters

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Nurse:
That’s a robot, a Nazi and a poorly-disguised Russian

[Show that the people he is talking to are precisely these characters]

Nurse 2:
Give us your phone, love

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Nurse:
At the clinic we put them in a Grass-Touching Pod, with a real voter to talk to

[We see them back at the clinic, holding the minister's head and pushing him into a glass isolation booth with a grass floor. And it is a baffled looking woman, on a chair, ready to talk to him.]

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Minister:
YOU MUST BE WORRIED ABOUT THE COMING CIVIL WAR

[woman looks baffled]

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woman:
I just want a bus service

Minister:
LOOK AT MY FLAG
[produces a St George's flag]

[ends]

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fae⁷ @onthistangent.bsky.social · 3d

I would laugh if this wasn't so true 😭

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JeffTrnka @jefftrnka.bsky.social · 3d

deanblundell.substack.com/p/the-epstei...

🧨 The Epstein Files Are Coming: And They All Know It

Prince Andrew stripped. Congress stalled. Virginia Giuffre’s final words. Trumpworld is in a cold sweat. This isn’t a scandal. It’s a reckoning. And there’s nowhere left to Hide.

deanblundell.substack.com

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Iris van Rooij 💭 @irisvanrooij.bsky.social · 5d

“Ultimately, the collective strategy of AI companies threatens to deskill precisely those people who are essential for society to function(…) automation of knowledge and culture by private companies is a worrying prospect – conjuring dystopian and outright fascistic scenarios.” — @olivia.science

AI Is Hollowing Out Higher Education

Olivia Guest & Iris van Rooij urge teachers and scholars to reject tools that commodify learning, deskill students, and promote illiteracy.

www.project-syndicate.org

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digibo @digibo.bsky.social · 3d

The below comment is about the Microsoft Sales Team, but I imagine everything at Microsoft is like this right now.

your #3 source for absurdist true crime 🔨 @davidgerard.co.uk · 16d

youtube comment

> Lol the timing; I work in IT for a large publishing company - and my god the meetings with microsoft sales team is all AI AI AI COPILOT COPILOT COPILOT.
> I had to flat out tell their VP we're not buying any fucking copilot - whereupon she revealed that the only thing she is being measured on for Q4 is sales of copilot, so if that's off the table the conversation is not interesting. LMAO

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Jörg Hillebrand @gaghyogi49.bsky.social · 5d

This is the first autumn in 5 years without new episodes of #StarTrekLowerDecks.😢 Man, I really miss the show!!! It always made me laugh (I need that now!) and it had the deepest and most outrageous callbacks. Plus: it showed that it IS totally okay to talk about chairs on starships - I feel heard!

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John Bull @garius.bsky.social · 5d

*Looks around frantically*

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Snuggsy187 @snuggsy187.bsky.social · 28d

Acorn Electron / BBC Micro - Chuckulus - WIP
Maybe I'll try a thread instead of quote posting stuff !.....
Fixed the flashing egg and bouncing off ladders bugs - thankfully quite simple stuff....
Time for some proper level design, as some are just too damn hard/impossible (even without the DUCK !) 🙄

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Dr Luke Steubenstein 👹 @lukesteuber.com · 7d

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Robin Williams' daughter, Zelda Williams, also recently slammed people who are making Al-generated videos of her late father, calling the clips "gross." She added, "To watch the legacies of real people be condensed down to 'this vaguely looks and sounds like them so that's enough, just so other people can churn out horrible TikTok slop pup-peteering them is maddening. You're not making art, you're making disgusting, over-processed hotdogs out of the lives of human beings, out of the history of art and music, and then shoving them down someone else's throat hoping they'll give you a little thumbs up and like it."

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StrictlyChristo 🇺🇦🌻🚫👑 @strictlychristo.bsky.social · 8d

When you finally run out of fucks to give.

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jeff @tef.bsky.social · 9d

it's kinda weird that all the software i am expected to use for work are all written by distributed teams, go, python, postgres, linux, chrome, k8s etc

and despite being told "the best teams work in an office together" i don't know of any software i use that's actually written that way

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🎃 Really Spooky Smith @reallyseansmith.bsky.social · 9d

Yeah, don't do this, kids.

Good advice from XKCD: "I don't know why people who shine lasers at aircraft are surprised when the police catch them, given that the crime consists of drawing a giant glowing arrow in the sky pointing at your location"

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🎃 Really Spooky Smith @reallyseansmith.bsky.social · 9d

Source: xkcd.com/3030/

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EdVoncken @edvoncken.net · 9d

Holy fuck. At first - and second! - glance, this looks very realistic. Video’s like this would have gone viral before anyone notices it is GenAI ;-(

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Nanoraptor @nanoraptor.danamania.com · 10d

Another re-made poster.

from 2002, the TiBook 'Sends other UNIX boxes to /dev/null'

Print files of all the remade this and other posters, flyers and stickers at www.danamania.com/print/

A screenshot of Apple's poster and occasional magazine double spread. Titled at the top it "Sends other UNIX boxes to /dev/null" and shows a PowerBook G4 Titanium with a screenshot of a terminal window and powerpoint window in the same UI, with an iTunes dock menu popping out. On the desktop is a firewire drive, iPod, and an optical disk of Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon.

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Wil Wheaton @wilwheaton.net · 10d

Yesterday, I read that, according to Gen Z, when a Millenial puts "lol" at the end of something, it makes them sound old.

They said nothing about Gen X, but, whatever, lol

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 10d

TEXAS senate candidate Rep. @jamestalarico.bsky.social (grandson of a Baptist preacher): “I put my hand on a Bible and swore an oath to the constitution, not the other way around.”

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Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 12d

"After a few moments of laughter..."

The No Kings organizers with a fun, tidy response to Mike Johnson's shenanigans.

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