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Count Binface @countbinface.bsky.social · 19h

Start the car.

Michael @tingedfringe.bsky.social · 19h

You cannot run a business model on "Eventually we'll make a profit some day", like the tech industry has post-2009, when you can no longer rely on the infinite money glitch.

This is probably the main reason why Trump is pushing so hard on lowering interest rates.

Michael @tingedfringe.bsky.social · 19h

The tech industry is using AI as a smokescreen for two facts - 1) Interest rates are no longer at Free Money levels. 2) The tech industry massively overhired during Covid thinking that the lockdown boom in online services was perpetual.
Those are the reasons that they're pushing huge layoffs.

Joseph Fink but Spooky 🎃🎃👻🎃 @planetoffinks.bsky.social · 20h

Amazon is laying off a huge swath of their workforce because they say that while "AI agents" that can replace them don't yet exist, they "will soon". Couple things:

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Michael @tingedfringe.bsky.social · 2d

PASOKification intensifies.

YouGov @yougov.co.uk · 3d

Our latest Westminster voting intention (26-27 Oct) has Labour on their lowest figure ever recorded by YouGov, with the Greens on their highest

Reform UK: 27% (+1 from 19-20 Oct)
Labour: 17% (-3)
Conservatives: 17% (=)
Greens: 16% (+1)
Lib Dems: 15% (=)
SNP: 3% (-1)

yougov.co.uk/topics/polit...

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Nicole Tersigni @nicsigni.bsky.social · 2d

BREAKING! IMPORTANT! VITAL NEWS! zohran mamdani once called his kindergarten teacher “mom” but, through extensive investigation, we have discovered she was not his mom at all. she was just some lady. more at 11.

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Zi @majormcdoom.bsky.social · 2d

Sometimes you can tell you did a good job on a visual effect from the fact that you can hear it before adding sound. 👀🎧
#GodotEngine #gamedev #indiedev

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Alice Roberts @profaliceroberts.bsky.social · 4d

NYT games admitting its inspiration here?

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 5d

That's racism. Plain and simple.

No other word for it.

It's shocking beyond belief that this sort of thing is somehow acceptable.

Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 5d

Reform UK MP Sarah Pochin, “It drives me mad seeing adverts full of black people, full of Asian people, full of anything other than white"

Followed by that time Sarah Pochin said, "My kids say: mum, you're such a moron" 👀

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Duncan Weldon @duncanweldon.bsky.social · 5d

I know this is obvious. And I know we all know this.
But if the President can raise taxes because an advert annoyed him, without even consulting Congress, then the US constitution is simply not functioning as intended.

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Gianmarco Soresi @gianmarcosoresi.bsky.social · 9d

Mamdani is already getting the criminals out of NYC!

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molly conger @socialistdogmom.bsky.social · 12d

and another thing: he’s not mad. please don’t put it in the newspaper that he got mad.

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Michael @tingedfringe.bsky.social · 15d

WFH?

Michael @tingedfringe.bsky.social · 15d

I really wanted to like the Cairn demo - but they really decided that style was more important than legibility or communication of information to the player.

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Rob Ford @robfordmancs.bsky.social · 16d

Good piece. Growing threat to Labour from Greens on the left flank has been evident for a number of years now - clear in local election results, in polling, and in last year's general election. Polanski has increased this by (a) boost membership - crucial reource (b) increasing attention to Greens

George Eaton @georgeeaton.bsky.social · 16d

Labour has a Green problem – why Zack Polanski’s first month as leader shows he’s the biggest threat the party has faced from the left. www.newstatesman.com/politics/mor...

Labour has a Green problem

Zack Polanski’s first month as leader shows he’s the biggest threat Keir Starmer has faced from the left.

www.newstatesman.com

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Phil Burton-Cartledge @philbc3.bsky.social · 16d

Levels of bad faith on the right must be really high for Fraser Nelson to break ranks.

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Stein Makes Games ➡️ #GodotFest @steinmakesgames.bsky.social · 17d

Every damn time

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Paula Surridge @psurridge.bsky.social · 16d

Suspect this would be highly variable by type of business. For example, polling usually finds windfall taxes on energy companies popular. People think big business should pay costs of climate action.

YouGov @yougov.co.uk · 16d

Britons tend to believe that businesses are already taxed too much, as the Chamber of Commerce urges Rachel Reeves not to raise business taxes in next month's budget

Too high: 41%
About right: 18%
Too low: 14%

yougov.co.uk/topics/polit...

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Michael @tingedfringe.bsky.social · 16d

Nvidia App vs Nvidia Control Panel is the *perfect* example of the sort of UI design failure I always complain about.
The Nvidia App is built around aEstHetIc considerations - the control panel is pure engineering functionality.

Michael @tingedfringe.bsky.social · 16d

Oh wow, my functions are colour coded, but I can't cursor with the keyboard because someone decided that ➡️ means I want to skip over my parentheses?!?

Michael @tingedfringe.bsky.social · 16d

Bring back the era of ugly, functional UIs created by programmers.

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Michael @tingedfringe.bsky.social · 16d

Whoever is in charge of Excel's UI team needs to find another job. The obsession with aesthetics over functionality is really deteriorating the user experience.

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Laurasaurus @laurasaurus.bsky.social · 21d

It is frankly strange to be this obsessed with college if you no longer attend one and do not work in education. More people in legacy media need to be told that.

Dan Sinykin @dan-sinnamon.bsky.social · 21d

And who is the author of this op-ed? The billionaire CEO of an asset management firm who helped author the compact.

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Wednesbury Addams @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 22d

A brave Hungarian peasant girl.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 22d

Q: Have you given any more thought to possibly suspending habeas corpus?

TRUMP: Suspending who?

Q: Habeas corpus

TRUMP: I don't know. I'd rather leave that to Kristi.

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 23d

Badenoch's brain should be studied. Visibly believes that she has put the hours in working while all her policy suggestions are just obviously picked up on Twitter without any critical thought before they end up as policy. Visibly confused as to who was in office 2010 to 2024.

Digitalis @buzzocular.bsky.social · 23d

"while we were arguing about what a woman is, china was building five nuclear reactors"

Yes but that is very explicitly your fault, more than most, kemi.

She's such a strange perception of herself

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Michael @tingedfringe.bsky.social · 22d

Badenoch moved to the UK in 1996 - so is she talking about her experience under New Labour?

Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 23d

"We used to ring up our GP and get an appointment on the same day," says Kemi Badenoch. She does not add: we're all looking for the guy who did this!