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elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 1d

34 trenches, 2 kilometres long filled with bodies. As these were dug up and potentially tens of thousands of corpses reburied, the Assad regime was being interviewed in Western media outlets, his English skills mattering more than anything he was doing.

The A.C.E.R.B.I.C. Nerd @acerbicnerd.bsky.social · 1d

"With at least 34 trenches measuring 2 kilometers long, the grave in the Dhumair desert is among the most extensive created during the Syrian civil war, Reuters has found. Witness accounts and the dimensions of the new site suggest that tens of thousands of people could be buried there."

Exclusive: Assad government secretly moved mass grave to cover up killings, Reuters investigation finds

From 2019 to 2021, Syria’s authoritarian government carried out a secret operation to move tens of thousands of bodies from the exposed Qutayfah mass grave to a hidden site in the desert east of Damascus. The goal of the clandestine reburial was to hide evidence of atrocities as Bashar Assad tried to regain international standing

www.reuters.com

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Damien Miller @damienmiller.bsky.social · 23h

tbf, they do charge for professional-level features but they definitely don't trick teenagers into "free" subscriptions with $200 exit fees

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Damien Miller @damienmiller.bsky.social · 23h

local business made good

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Damien Miller @damienmiller.bsky.social · 23h

You mean to say that you didn't watch Morbius?

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Damien Miller @damienmiller.bsky.social · 1d

Amazing that Adobe went from being a cool company that made great imaging tools to a bunch of scammers that use dark patterns to suck people into software rental contracts with punitive exit fees

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Dr. Jessie Christiansen @aussiastronomer.bsky.social · 1d

This is now more than double the NASA budget, which the White House wants to slash.

More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 1d

BREAKING: The Trump administration is doubling its Argentina bailout to $40 billion.

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Damien Miller @damienmiller.bsky.social · 1d

It will never stop being (grimly) hilarious that all the worst people in tech were so all in on something that was obviously a fad scam

web3 is going just great @web3isgoinggreat.com · 2d

Reddit shuts down its NFT avatars project

August 28, 2025
https://www.web3isgoinggreat.com/?id=reddit-shuts-down-nft-avatars

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lcamtuf @lcamtuf.coredump.cx · 1d

Urgent Q: how do I un-verify as an adult?

The Verge @theverge.com · 2d

Sam Altman says ChatGPT will soon sext with verified adults

ChatGPT is about to get flirty.

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Damien Miller @damienmiller.bsky.social · 3d

That was obviously written by a LLM

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Damien Miller @damienmiller.bsky.social · 3d

The Ents have finally accepted that the Entwives are gone for good and are … branching out

Jude "Pre-Order DILF" Doyle @judedoyle.bsky.social · 3d

"There are so many couples where the girls look like normal women and the guys look like tree folk," my husband says, returning to Brooklyn for the first time in years and receiving the HORRIBLE TRUTH

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Damien Miller @damienmiller.bsky.social · 3d

(Ron Perlman voice) "War. War never changes..."

Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 3d

the boys who landed at Normandy or fought in Stalingrad couldn't have imagined the horrors of 21st century war

A picture and headline from an article: Unicorn bride marries Kenny from south park at Portland ICE protest

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Damien Miller @damienmiller.bsky.social · 3d

probably nobody, it's probably in the pre-prompt because in A/B testing it made LLM more a few percent more ✨engaging✨

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the babahuck @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 4d

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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Damien Miller @damienmiller.bsky.social · 3d

and the reddit app is _worse_, e.g. it doesn't let you copy and paste from posts

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Robyn D @koparafallskid.bsky.social · 4d

Some good news!

Electricity from renewables overtakes coal in Australia for the first time

Electricity from renewables overtakes coal in Australia for the first time

Power from solar, wind hydro and biomass totals 9.24 terawatt hours, compared with 8.8 terawatt hours from burning the fossil fuel

www.theguardian.com

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Damien Miller @damienmiller.bsky.social · 3d

No, the sequel is H2O2FAST2FURIOUS

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Huw C. Davies @huwcdavies.bsky.social · 4d

Reading Thiel, Yarvin, Peterson et al. makes you realise what passes for intellectual iconoclasm these days is all absolute bollocks. Why anyone gives any of these people the time of day let alone credibility is baffling.

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👁🌻🦊⚙️⚓ Bob, Engineer, Pusher of Paper @navmecheng.bsky.social · 5d

> It is 2025 BC. I am a soldier from one of the outlying provinces called to defend the pyramid in Memphis

> It is 2025 AD. I am a soldier from one of the outlying provinces called to defend the pyramid in Memphis

Soldiers at the Bass Pro Shops pyramid in Memphis, TN.

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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 4d

What in the nepo baby is this?

Barron Trump tipped for top TikTok job

US president’s 19-year-old son could be appointed to the app’s board

www.telegraph.co.uk

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Liz Fong-Jones (方禮真) @lizthegrey.com · 5d

I thought at first this was about Framework giving free devices for device compat testing to Omarchy, as they would any other Linux distro.

This appears to go FAR FAR FAR beyond that.

Arya 🏳️‍⚧️ @aryafairywren.bsky.social · 5d

The Framework forums thread got insanely unwieldy, so I wrote up a (somewhat shorter) summary post of the situation

crimier.github.io/posts/Framew...

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Nora Reed (they/them ze/hir) @nora.zone · 5d

cry havoc and let slip the frogs of war

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David Buchanan @retr0.id · 6d

gnu cowutils

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The Conversation U.S. @us.theconversation.com · 6d

The U.S. Chemical Safety Board — the agency that investigates chemical explosions to prevent future disasters — is shut down and may soon be eliminated entirely.

Scientists who study chemical disasters say this dangerous move will save the federal government a mere $14 million.

Refinery fires, other chemical disasters may no longer get safety investigations

Because of the federal government shutdown and proposed budget, key federal investigations may stop, including into what happened at a Chevron refinery in California in October 2025.

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HARUYAMA Seigo @haruyama.bsky.social · 6d

OpenSSH 10.2p1 がリリースされました - www.unixuser.org/~haruyama/bl...

OpenSSH 10.2p1 がリリースされました

2025/10/10, OpenSSH 10.2p1 がリリースされました. OpenSSH 10.2p1 Release Note 中の OpenSSH 10.2 での変更点のまとめこの記事にも添付します. OpenSSH 移植版付属文書の翻訳 # https://www.openssh.com/releasenotes.html#10.0p1 Potentially-incompatible...

www.unixuser.org

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Damien Miller @damienmiller.bsky.social · 6d

OpenSSH 10.2 has just been released.

This release contains only non-security bugfixes, most notably for a bad regression that made interactive that used ControlPersist basically unusable

Full release notes at openssh.com/releasenotes...

OpenSSH: Release Notes

OpenSSH release notes

openssh.com

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