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Cibo🏴 @cibo.bsky.social · 1m

Must have meant the reich

Cibo🏴 @cibo.bsky.social · 7m

The scarlet bloom flowers once more

Malenia's second phase cutscene in Elden Ring

Cibo🏴 @cibo.bsky.social · 27m

Lmfao I was joking with the above post but this is basically what's happening

Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 8h

NEW: Pentagon officials are forcing staff to watch Pete Hegseth's "Warrior" speech he forced generals to listen to.

Officials are even "testing" staff to see if they watched — and are threatening consequences if they lie about watching it or if they mock it, sources tell @swin24.bsky.social and I.

The Pentagon Is Ordering Staff to Watch Hegseth’s ‘MAGA Garbage’ Speech… Or Else

Defense Department sources tell Zeteo that staff have been warned that if they don’t watch or read the speech, or if they speak negatively of it, they could face severe consequences.

zeteo.com

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Cibo🏴 @cibo.bsky.social · 12h

Drawing our good ol' exponential on the log 2 scale. We are Kurzweilmaxxing

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ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 13h

these people want to take us back to the 19th century so we're gonna end up seeing a lot of groups get retroactively un-whitened

Mallory 🇬🇪🇺🇦🇵🇸🇬🇱🇵🇦🇨🇦🇲🇽🇪🇺 @sadboots.bsky.social · 13h

Why are we importing intra-Italian racism I thought there was a tariff on this shit

"If your pilot is a she and she looks ten shades darker than someone from Sicily, just end it there. Scream the no no word,"
Giunta wrote.

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Cibo🏴 @cibo.bsky.social · 13h

Looks like the very first tile of the dungeon in Wizardry 1 so I think he's wriggling out of it easily again 😔

Ah! Well. Nevertheless,

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Cibo🏴 @cibo.bsky.social · 14h

Oh I've seen that one answered by libs with the Land-Lease program to the soviets

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Cibo🏴 @cibo.bsky.social · 14h

To be fair to them they do say it's merely illustrative. The end result is so funny tho

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Sprite / Anarchotech @anarchotech.bsky.social · 14h

Gamer folks, Moose With Cup's kickstarter for Eclipse Phase SCUM is very nearly at the 48-hour mark!

Late last night we dropped the Alpha version of the rulebook: www.kickstarter.com/projects/dav...

Check it out!

Update 5: VERY Alpha Rulebook is up! · SCUM: An Eclipse Phase Board Game

Just a quick update... My colleague Adam from Posthuman Studios has been cranking away on the rulebook layout, and I think you will agree, it is looking great! Excited to move into the next phase, whe...

www.kickstarter.com

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Cibo🏴 @cibo.bsky.social · 15h

Here's the piece btw www.dallasfed.org/research/eco...

Advances in AI will boost productivity, living standards over time

Artificial intelligence offers the potential to improve people’s living standards. Such advances can be approximated by changes in GDP per capita over time. Using that common measure, AI could enhance...

www.dallasfed.org

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William Gillis 🏴 @rechelon.bsky.social · 15h

humaniterations.net/2020/09/06/b...

But at root the reality is that in the last decade bad people and even just the moderately apathetic in almost every subcultural corner started finding a rapidly tightening noose around their necks thanks to the internet. What is derided as “cancel culture” is just old fashioned boycott dynamics supercharged by massive connectivity and the rapid progression of political/ethical discourse as the collective hive mind grows in size.

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Cibo🏴 @cibo.bsky.social · 15h

Oh:

"One serving of Huel’s Black Edition powder contained 6.3 micrograms of lead, or about 1,290 percent of CR’s daily lead limit"

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Cibo🏴 @cibo.bsky.social · 15h

Makes me wonder about stuff like Soylent or Huel

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🎃scarecrowcialism👻 @swolecialism.bsky.social · 15h

Man, vegan powders getting the fucking stick here

paris martineau @paris.nyc · 16h

my latest investigation for @consumerreports.org is based on months of reporting and 60+ lab tests of leading protein supplements

we found that most protein powders and shakes have more lead in one serving than our experts say is safe to have in a day (🧵)

www.consumerreports.org/lead/protein...

Protein Powders and Shakes Contain High Levels of Lead - Consumer Reports

CR tests of 23 popular protein powders and shakes found that most contain high levels of lead.

www.consumerreports.org

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beka valentine @bekavalentine.bsky.social · 16h

there's a fairly famous datapoint here from the 90s, where people think that NASA's budget is a full quarter of the entire budget for the US government, or something to that effect, which is a legitimately hilarious

people are just going on vibes for this shit, it's wild

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Daniel Zhao @danielzhao.bsky.social · 18h

awful nice of the Dallas Fed to believe even in the worst case, we'd survive ~10 years post-singularity in the human-AI war

Cibo🏴 @cibo.bsky.social · 19h

Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, you need to chill

Chart from the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas charting GDP per capita with AI scenarios. It includes a benign Technological Singularity scenario and one where it leads to extinction. Both happen in the mid-2020s

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SE Gyges @segyges.bsky.social · 17h

true Yarvinism has never been tried

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Cibo🏴 @cibo.bsky.social · 19h

Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, you need to chill

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Just a Housewife 🖇 @justahousewife.bsky.social · 19h

thehackernews.com/2025/10/npm-...

npm, PyPI, and RubyGems Packages Found Sending Developer Data to Discord Channels

Researchers expose Discord webhook C2 in npm, PyPI, RubyGems; North Korean actors published 338 malicious npm packages with 50k+ downloads.

thehackernews.com

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the babahuck @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 2d

In 2004, Parisian police were conducting a training exercise in the french catacombs and found, after moving past a desk and a tape playing audio of snarling dogs, a fully functional movie theater and bar. When they returned 3 days later, the equipment was gone, with a note: “Do not try to find us.”

Members of the force's sports squad, responsible
- among other tasks - for policing the 170 miles of tunnels, caves, galleries and catacombs that underlie large parts of Paris, stumbled on the complex while on a training exercise beneath the Palais de Chaillot, across the Seine from the Eiffel Tower.
After entering the network through a drain next to the Trocadero, the officers came across a tarpaulin marked: Building site, No access.
Behind that, a tunnel held a desk and a closed-circuit TV camera set to automatically record images of anyone passing. The mechanism also triggered a tape of dogs barking, "clearly designed to frighten people off," the spokesman said.
Further along, the tunnel opened into a vast 400 sq metre cave some 18m underground, "like an underground amphitheatre, with terraces cut into the rock and chairs".

There the police found a full-sized cinema screen, projection equipment, and tapes of a wide variety of films, including 1950s film noir classics and more recent thrillers. None of the films were banned or even offensive, the spokesman said.
A smaller cave next door had been turned into an informal restaurant and bar. "There were bottles of whisky and other spirits behind a bar, tables and chairs, a pressure-cooker for making couscous," the spokesman said.
"The whole thing ran off a professionally installed electricity system and there were at least three phone lines down there."
Three days later, when the police returned accompanied by experts from the French electricity board to see where the power was coming from, the phone and electricity lines had been cut and a note was lying in the middle of the floor: "Do not," it said, "try to find us."

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Cibo🏴 @cibo.bsky.social · 20h

"what if it damages your skin" -> radical morphological freedom, you are now capybaramaxxing baby

max 🌌 @sneptech.bsky.social · 1d

"but it uses lots of water" -> massive desal expansion, recycling
"that's a lot of energy" -> heat exchangers, nuclear-maxxing
"what about work" -> automation revolution, UBI, resource-based economy
etc etc.

the index is that you can measure the success of a civ based on length of shower too

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Cibo🏴 @cibo.bsky.social · 20h

The stoics got nothing on Fa becoming a nanny in ZZ

Cibo🏴 @cibo.bsky.social · 1d

PC gaming is an everyday miracle www.nexusmods.com/cyberpunk207...

Idle Anywhere

Adds the ability to smoke, drink, and eat when V is idle.

www.nexusmods.com

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elia ayoub 🌱 @ayoub.bsky.social · 1d

"A provider told me last week they had 80 applications for a job they were advertising and not one person turned up for the interview.”

Carers - who are overwhelmingly racialised - are too scared to even show up for interviews - and the UK has 130,000 job vacancies.

Do the math.

Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 1d

'Staff working with elderly and disabled service users have been advised to travel to work in racially mixed groups and carry panic alarms....It comes against a backdrop of charities also warning of growing intimidation, racial abuse and threats of violence towards staff and beneficiaries.'

‘Frightened to get out of their cars’: Britain’s toxic race debates threaten overseas care workers

Staff are being advised to travel in mixed groups and carry panic alarms as incidents of intimidation spread

www.theguardian.com

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Cibo🏴 @cibo.bsky.social · 1d

Yeah posts like this are basically as subjective as it gets. I'm probably just unlucky

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