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Boo!-per Lund @cooperlund.online · 13h

New York updated their COVID wastewater testing site and it's such a good reminder of how far we've come

coronavirus.health.ny.gov/covid-19-was...

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Allen Pike @allenpike.com · 1d

While the AWS team has resolved the severe us-east-1 outages, reading this post-mortem makes one thing clear: they are still suffering from a critical shortage of paragraph breaks

The most important part of this post-mortem is crammed into a dense paragraph as long as a giraffe's vocal cord

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Rainer Tenhunen @rtenhunen.bsky.social · 14h

Ja palkkaluokka on yleisesti 100-200k vuodessa luokkaa jota kilpailijatkin samalla alueella maksaisivat vaikkeivät vaatisikaan töissä nukkumista.
Mutta tuo alue ja varsinkin ko. yhtiö vetävät puoleensa tyyppejä joiden mielestä töissä nukkuminen ja ruoan vaihtaminen kalorijuomiin on hienoa.

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Ars Technica @arstechnica.com · 1d

Dinosaurs may have flourished right up to when the asteroid hit

Fossil beds in New Mexico show diverse species present in the late Cretaceous.

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Minna Ålander 🌻 @alanderminna.bsky.social · 2d

Big news from Sweden:

A memorandum of understanding has been signed with Ukraine for the sale of up to 150 Gripen fighter jets

SVT erfar: Sverige vill sälja 150 Gripenplan till Ukraina

Sverige skriver under en avsiktsförklaring om att undersöka möjligheten att sälja uppemot 150 Gripenplan till Ukraina, erfar SVT. Det meddelar statsminister Ulf Kristersson på en pressträff inom kort,...

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Duncan Hothersall @dhothersall.bsky.social · 5d

Given that Amazon are saying this is only affecting us-east-1 (their primary Virginia datacentre) it's slightly surprising to see sites like UK banks and HMRC are being affected - you would think they would host services at the UK datacentre in London, or at least in a European one.

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Rainer Tenhunen @rtenhunen.bsky.social · 4d

Journalistissa hyvää pohdintaa radion ja yleisesti ääniohjelmien tulevaisuudesta.

Omalla kohdalla usean suomalaisen ääniohjelman rajoite on "siiloutuminen" spotifyhin (jota en käytä) tai YLE/Sanoma/yms omaan appiin joten niiden kuuntelu vain unohtuu kun ne eivät ole siellä missä kuuntelen "puhetta"

Journalisti @journalisti.fi · 4d

Sanoman radioissa työskentelevää Elina Hiltusta kiinnostaa radion digisiirtymä: Miten perinteisten fm-radiokanavien kuuntelijat saataisiin houkuteltua digitaalisten palveluiden pariin ja ennen kaikkea miten siitä saataisiin rahaa?
journalisti.fi/artikkelit/2...

Elina Hiltunen on audionörtti, joka pohtii radion digisiirtymää - Journalisti

Sanoman radioissa ohjelmapäällikkönä työskentelevä Elina Hiltunen koettaa avata toimenkuvaansa. Kuulostaa siltä, kuin hän puhuisi repaleisesta työelämästä, ei vain yhden ihmisen...

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jeremy kaplowitz @jeremykaplowitz.com · Aug 3

you don't understand. as someone who isn't inherently good at art, stealing paintings from the museum is the *only* way i'm able to express myself creatively. i wouldn't be able to paint beautiful portraits. but by breaking into a museum and stealing the paintings, now i am

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Rainer Tenhunen @rtenhunen.bsky.social · 5d

Ok. I have to approve the joke.

Elina Valtonen @elinavaltonen.bsky.social · 5d

There is one area where we Finns don’t need small talk to break the ice. It is of course icebreakers. Arctic know-how is an asset in so many ways.

Read my full speech at the Arctic Circle Assembly: um.fi/speeches/-/a...

Rainer Tenhunen @rtenhunen.bsky.social · 6d

ChatGPT's guide to winning at work

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Emanuel Maiberg @emanuelmaiberg.bsky.social · 8d

Reddit's AI product provided dangerous advice in medical subreddits and moderators can't turn it off www.404media.co/reddit-answe...

Reddit's AI Suggests Users Try Heroin

AI-generated Reddit Answers are giving bad advice in medical subreddits and moderators can’t opt out.

www.404media.co

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JP Ahonen @jpahonen.bsky.social · 8d

That first sip. 🖤
#belzebubs

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Molly White @molly.wiki · 9d

good news, we've fixed the national debt

web3 is going just great @web3isgoinggreat.com · 9d

Paxos accidentally mints more than twice the global GDP in PayPal stablecoins

October 15, 2025
https://www.web3isgoinggreat.com/?id=paxos-accidental-mint

Paxos accidentally mints more than twice the global GDP in PayPal stablecoins
Paxos, the issuer of PayPal's PYUSD stablecoin, accidentally minted 300 trillion of the supposedly dollar-pegged token. For context, this is approximately 2.5x the global GDP, and around 125x the total number of US dollars actually in circulation.
Paxos later announced that the mint was an "internal technical error", and that they had burned the excess tokens.
While PayPal promises its customers that "Reserves are held 100% in US dollar deposits, US treasuries and cash equivalents – meaning that customer funds are available for 1:1 redemption with Paxos," there clearly isn't much in the way of safeguards to ensure that is always the case. As with most stablecoin issuers, Paxos merely issues self-reported and unreviewed portfolio reports, and monthly third-party attestations (not audits) of reserves.

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Blippo+ @blippo.plus · 11d

BREAKING NEWS:

we are keeping the Plus in Blippo+

The Verge @theverge.com · 11d

Apple TV Plus is being rebranded to… Apple TV

Apple says it’s given the streaming service a ‘vibrant new identity.’

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 12d

This two-parter below is exactly why it's hard to make clothes in the United States.

Let's look at how much it costs to produce a button-up shirt in the US. 🧵

Someone on Twitter replies to me: "meh. buy american or stfu."

Two hours later, in a separate thread, the write: "$30 for a single button-up is ridiculous unless it is decent quality silk."

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 12d

But after not getting enough orders, the company closed. Managing partner Kenneth Ragland said: “Lots of people talk about Made in the USA as being so necessary, but when the rubber meets the road, most Americans want cheap goods, which do not make it easy for US firms to survive.”

Excerpt reads: Garland Apparel Group is working to find the next occupant for the town’s long-standing Garland Shirt Company after a lack of orders to meet basic costs necessitate furloughs — and ultimately the closure — of the factory.

“The factory was placed on furlough in November. It was our intention to return to work, however, orders needed to keep the factory open and functional, did not materialize,” Kenneth Ragland, managing partner for Garland Apparel Group, told The Independent. “The factory required a minimum number of orders to meet basic costs and wages. The aggregate total of orders we had were simply far too low to support day-to day operations.”

During the period of November through today, company leaders have been working with several parties “who have a desire to acquire the factory,” Ragland noted.

“One transaction is now close to completion. I cannot opine on the buyer nor their plans, but I know they are North Carolina based and they have need for factory capacity, which Garland can provide,” Ragland stated.

Excerpt reads: Despite bringing back a majority of the workforce, and enjoying success for a couple years, the factory was fighting an uphill battle in the long run.

“The factory suffered from Brooks Brothers owning it too long, from Brooks not investing in basic upkeep or in better systems, and ultimately, the lack of interest in Made in the USA,” Ragland stated bluntly. “Lots of people talk about Made in the USA as being so necessary, but when the rubber meets the road, most Americans want cheap goods which does not make it easy for U.S. firms to survive.”

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Rainer Tenhunen @rtenhunen.bsky.social · 15d

Sama kävi mielessä, ja miten esim. sellussa ja kaivosteollisuudessa jalostusaste pysyy alhaisena.

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Rainer Tenhunen @rtenhunen.bsky.social · 15d

Bird photographs of the Year 2025 are out. Stunning as usual
www.birdpoty.com/2025-winners

View the Bird Photographer of the Year 2025 Winners — Bird Photographer of the Year

The competition celebrates the best bird photography from around the world.

www.birdpoty.com

Rainer Tenhunen @rtenhunen.bsky.social · 16d

When I saw the video initially I thought it was part of a sketch where they just used pres. exiting a building as a background premise. The reaction of the security seemed so overblown that I was waiting when are we getting the punchline.

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Molly White @molly.wiki · 16d

Newsletter: Trump is still corrupt, a core developer warns bitcoin won’t survive an upcoming code change, and crypto lenders are ratcheting up leverage like it’s 2022.

www.citationneeded.news/issue-94/

Issue 94 – Backdoor deals

Trump is still corrupt, a core developer warns bitcoin won’t survive an upcoming code change, and crypto lenders are ratcheting up leverage like it’s 2022.

www.citationneeded.news

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Anu Partanen @anupartanen.bsky.social · 16d

Trump, kansalliskaartit ja demokraattikaupungit ovat taas otsikoissa. Mistä siinä kaikessa on kyse ja mitä ne kaartit oikein ovat? Kirjoitin aiheesta @uusijuttu.fi syyskuussa. Linkistä pääsee lukemaan tai kuuntelemaan.

www.uusijuttu.fi/juttu/sQ9h98...

Presidentin miehet. Donald Trump sanoo torjuvansa rikoksia. Mutta rakentaako hän omaa gestapoa?

Trump lähettää sotilaita suurkaupunkeihin.

www.uusijuttu.fi

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 19d

😭

IG newberlinlibrary

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David Mac Dougall @davidmacdougall.bsky.social · 20d

🧵 Thread/Lanka: 🤔When I was up in Lapland recently I heard an intriguing story about the huge number of 🦌 reindeer being killed by apex predators - wolves, bears, lynx, wolverines - which come over the border from 🇷🇺 #Russia to #Finland. 🇫🇮

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Troy Hunt @troyhunt.com · 22d

Well this just made life a lot easier - ChatGPT hash cracking!

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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 23d

We are thrilled to announce that our NEW Large Language Model will be released on 11.18.25.

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