Vordio
@vordio.net
Audio geek. Also make tools for sound editing, sound design & post production. https://vordio.net/
Reposted by Vordio
This also feels like a tacit admission that privatisation has failed. You can't push for more private service delivery across the NHS and then say "But we can't really trust private diagnoses because they might be skewed by profit motive".
I doubt Wes Streeting will ever acknowledge that though.
I doubt Wes Streeting will ever acknowledge that though.
February 17, 2026 at 3:07 PM
This also feels like a tacit admission that privatisation has failed. You can't push for more private service delivery across the NHS and then say "But we can't really trust private diagnoses because they might be skewed by profit motive".
I doubt Wes Streeting will ever acknowledge that though.
I doubt Wes Streeting will ever acknowledge that though.
Reposted by Vordio
#ITeachPhysics another relative velocity video for you
February 16, 2026 at 3:52 PM
#ITeachPhysics another relative velocity video for you
Reposted by Vordio
yes. the things that would make social media safer for children are almost all just the things that would make social media non-harmful/much less harmful for *all of us*.
if you do it by age verification then nothing will stop a child in a difficult home accessing stuff via parents' accounts
if you do it by age verification then nothing will stop a child in a difficult home accessing stuff via parents' accounts
The under-16 social media (and VPN, and chatbot) ban is part of a broader policy problem IMV, which is that it is politically easier to talk about e.g. 'child poverty', and you can do a lot of good with that approach, but it has hard limits because ultimately you are also just talking about poverty.
February 16, 2026 at 3:23 PM
yes. the things that would make social media safer for children are almost all just the things that would make social media non-harmful/much less harmful for *all of us*.
if you do it by age verification then nothing will stop a child in a difficult home accessing stuff via parents' accounts
if you do it by age verification then nothing will stop a child in a difficult home accessing stuff via parents' accounts
Reposted by Vordio
Reposted by Vordio
🚨 CENTAUR THREAD INCOMING 🚨
Behold, all my horrible centaur memes in one place.
First, the most important centaur question:
Behold, all my horrible centaur memes in one place.
First, the most important centaur question:
February 16, 2026 at 4:48 PM
🚨 CENTAUR THREAD INCOMING 🚨
Behold, all my horrible centaur memes in one place.
First, the most important centaur question:
Behold, all my horrible centaur memes in one place.
First, the most important centaur question:
Insane. Apparently because they can't prove intent. Even if it's negligence they should still get whacked.
two firefighters have been burned and permanently scarred by "harsh chemicals from a toxic muck fluid that pools in tunnels" at the Las Vegas Loop, but the feds don't think The Boring Company should pay over $400k in OSHA fines
the corruption is out of control
lasvegassun.com/news/2026/fe...
the corruption is out of control
lasvegassun.com/news/2026/fe...
Federal regulators uphold Nevada OSHA’s withdrawal of citations for Elon Musk firm
Nevada workplace safety administrators were justified in withdrawing citations against Elon Musk’s Boring Company, federal regulators determined. The state last year withdrew $425,000 in fines against...
lasvegassun.com
February 16, 2026 at 4:52 PM
Insane. Apparently because they can't prove intent. Even if it's negligence they should still get whacked.
Reposted by Vordio
I used to use detectors before realizing they are also basically LLMs and hallucinate answers just like any other LLM
Just because I keep seeing those "I checked this piece and it's written by AI" - this is an old article of mine, before AI was available. So could we not?
February 16, 2026 at 4:24 PM
I used to use detectors before realizing they are also basically LLMs and hallucinate answers just like any other LLM
Reposted by Vordio
It's still a shock to find a new PFAS forever chemical hotspot, even when it's inevitable. A bit of digging around paper mills, which often use PFAS, revealed the banned carcinogen PFOS at levels as high as 3,000ng/l in groundwater in south Cumbria
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Race to find source of carcinogenic Pfas in Cumbria and Lancashire waters
Exclusive: High levels of banned ‘forever chemical’ have been detected in rivers and groundwater at 25 sites
www.theguardian.com
February 14, 2026 at 7:37 AM
It's still a shock to find a new PFAS forever chemical hotspot, even when it's inevitable. A bit of digging around paper mills, which often use PFAS, revealed the banned carcinogen PFOS at levels as high as 3,000ng/l in groundwater in south Cumbria
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Reposted by Vordio
Fossil fuels devour vast amounts of water at every point in their poisonous life cycle, + can contaminate ground + surface waters - often operating in arid regions where protecting every drop of water is critical
February 16, 2026 at 1:02 PM
Fossil fuels devour vast amounts of water at every point in their poisonous life cycle, + can contaminate ground + surface waters - often operating in arid regions where protecting every drop of water is critical
Reposted by Vordio
Or, you pull the trigger on cutting off fascist propagada poisoning your democracy AND pressure the US economy at the same time
Then watch the weak fascists crumble when the inflated stock prizes that prop them up start crumbling
EU democracies are way more robust than US oligarchy
Pressure them
Then watch the weak fascists crumble when the inflated stock prizes that prop them up start crumbling
EU democracies are way more robust than US oligarchy
Pressure them
On enforcing the DSA:
“Brussels will have to choose either to pull the trigger on potential enforcement actions against some of Silicon Valley’s biggest names or admit that, for now, its digital rulebook must run secondary to the bloc’s wider reliance on the US”
www.techpolicy.press/the-eus-onli...
“Brussels will have to choose either to pull the trigger on potential enforcement actions against some of Silicon Valley’s biggest names or admit that, for now, its digital rulebook must run secondary to the bloc’s wider reliance on the US”
www.techpolicy.press/the-eus-onli...
The EU’s Online Safety Moonshot Is Losing Altitude
European policymakers must acknowledge that current birthing pains linked to the Digital Services Act are borne from within the bloc, writes Mark Scott.
www.techpolicy.press
February 16, 2026 at 3:31 PM
Or, you pull the trigger on cutting off fascist propagada poisoning your democracy AND pressure the US economy at the same time
Then watch the weak fascists crumble when the inflated stock prizes that prop them up start crumbling
EU democracies are way more robust than US oligarchy
Pressure them
Then watch the weak fascists crumble when the inflated stock prizes that prop them up start crumbling
EU democracies are way more robust than US oligarchy
Pressure them
Reposted by Vordio
![[Scene is a domestic kitchen. Night time. The room is all blue apart from warm orange-pink light streaming in from a streetlight outside. In the center of the room stands a woman named BRANDI, standing in pyjamas looking contemplative, the light cast dramatically on her face. At the doorway, leaning against the frame, her partner JOEL stands has woken up and found her in the kitchen.]
JOEL:
Honey… what are you doing?
BRANDI:
Can’t sleep
Guess I just like standing in the kitchen at 3am thinking about the supernatural threat we temporarily defeated last year.
While saying that out loud in a manner which sounds casually ironic but is actually just blatant exposition.
JOEL:
Brandi… you're talking strange...
BRANDI:
Dammit Joel.
It’s time you knew.
You're a Netflix character.
[Joel looks shocked]
BRANDI:
Everybody you know has been forced to speak to you in second screen dialogue.
Second screen dialogue helps the people scrolling their phones in front of the TV to follow the -
JOEL:
Stop explaining, Brandi!
[Hands on head, emotional expression, warm pink light cast on his face against the cool blue darkness of the room].
JOEL:
So that's why my entire life has looked so glossy and...
BRANDI:
Yep...
Warm/cool colour graded.
[Cut to a TV show TITLE SCREEN]:
SECOND SCREEN
- A Netflix original -
[Ends]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:4m3we4apbjayclzcnhwe3pfp/bafkreiaqlx75zejhvxpgq3f3k6mg2glczck3ooqjrgzzgfsf2xxo6fccwm@jpeg)
Lemmings was probably the first computer game I played with my son but it must have been a lot later on a second hand amiga as he wouldn't have been old enough in 1991.
February 16, 2026 at 2:27 AM
Lemmings was probably the first computer game I played with my son but it must have been a lot later on a second hand amiga as he wouldn't have been old enough in 1991.
Reposted by Vordio
This video on office chair design is very nice but completely ignores cat attacks. My cat, when in wild mode, will jump & sink his claws into the mesh and try to pull me backwards towards certain death. If I don't react fast enough I'm a gonna. www.youtube.com/watch?v=kKt4...
Why do office chairs have 5 legs?
YouTube video by Rabbit Hole
www.youtube.com
February 16, 2026 at 1:37 AM
This video on office chair design is very nice but completely ignores cat attacks. My cat, when in wild mode, will jump & sink his claws into the mesh and try to pull me backwards towards certain death. If I don't react fast enough I'm a gonna. www.youtube.com/watch?v=kKt4...
"Listening to a tree with a stethoscope seems like an odd thing to do. I can hear creaking and groaning as branches move in the wind." www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zp_u...
The Remarkable Science of Sound | Sound Waves: The Symphony of Physics | BBC Earth Science
YouTube video by BBC Earth Science
www.youtube.com
February 16, 2026 at 12:27 AM
"Listening to a tree with a stethoscope seems like an odd thing to do. I can hear creaking and groaning as branches move in the wind." www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zp_u...
Reposted by Vordio
douglas adams was our most accurate futurist
We are at an airport restaurant. A robot just drove up to us with our food, said, "Hi! Here I am!" and then drove away with our food.
February 15, 2026 at 10:10 PM
douglas adams was our most accurate futurist
Reposted by Vordio
The UK was declared measles free in 2017.
Vaccine programs completely eliminated it.
Since then, pro sickness conspiracy theorists and anti science idiots have enabled its return.
Vaccine programs completely eliminated it.
Since then, pro sickness conspiracy theorists and anti science idiots have enabled its return.
“Seven schools and a nursery have reported more than 60 suspected cases of measles in an area of north London, and labs have confirmed 34 cases since January 12. Some children have been treated in hospital.”
archive.md/2026.02.1...
archive.md/2026.02.1...
February 15, 2026 at 10:19 PM
The UK was declared measles free in 2017.
Vaccine programs completely eliminated it.
Since then, pro sickness conspiracy theorists and anti science idiots have enabled its return.
Vaccine programs completely eliminated it.
Since then, pro sickness conspiracy theorists and anti science idiots have enabled its return.
Reposted by Vordio
Sure, AI is costing $billions and consuming copious resources, all to produce creepy slop that barely anyone likes. But the alternative would giving that funding to actual human artists. Can you imagine!?! Countless talented people, with free reign to create. What sort of world would that be!?
February 15, 2026 at 7:56 PM
Sure, AI is costing $billions and consuming copious resources, all to produce creepy slop that barely anyone likes. But the alternative would giving that funding to actual human artists. Can you imagine!?! Countless talented people, with free reign to create. What sort of world would that be!?
Reposted by Vordio
You see, AI will take care of all the routine tasks and allow us more free time to spend on the things that matter most, such as ulcer farming and being unspeakably miserable
Token Anxiety
i think i mostly echo this for myself. with so much that can be done, i often feel like i *should* be doing something, always
i think i mostly echo this for myself. with so much that can be done, i often feel like i *should* be doing something, always
February 15, 2026 at 7:08 PM
You see, AI will take care of all the routine tasks and allow us more free time to spend on the things that matter most, such as ulcer farming and being unspeakably miserable
Reposted by Vordio
Let me just make a few little adjustments to that title…
“How a scientist with a PhD in Geology and 25 years of experience is helping lead California’s earthquake work”
Way to devalue my experience.
“How a scientist with a PhD in Geology and 25 years of experience is helping lead California’s earthquake work”
Way to devalue my experience.
Wendy Bohon has built a TikTok following as an earthquake geologist. She helps lead earthquake work for the California Geological Survey.
How a TikToker and former actress is helping lead California’s earthquake work
Wendy Bohon has built a TikTok following as an earthquake geologist. She helps lead earthquake work for the California Geological Survey.
bit.ly
February 15, 2026 at 3:08 PM
Let me just make a few little adjustments to that title…
“How a scientist with a PhD in Geology and 25 years of experience is helping lead California’s earthquake work”
Way to devalue my experience.
“How a scientist with a PhD in Geology and 25 years of experience is helping lead California’s earthquake work”
Way to devalue my experience.
Reposted by Vordio
Wow! This is some top-notch investigative journalism. The report claims the 3 million Epstein files released are only 2% of the total.
The massive scale of what’s still missing is hard to comprehend.
The massive scale of what’s still missing is hard to comprehend.
February 15, 2026 at 5:08 AM
Wow! This is some top-notch investigative journalism. The report claims the 3 million Epstein files released are only 2% of the total.
The massive scale of what’s still missing is hard to comprehend.
The massive scale of what’s still missing is hard to comprehend.
Reposted by Vordio
yes, it's called the fucking climate crisis which mentioned exactly zero times in this article 🫠
February 15, 2026 at 4:57 PM
yes, it's called the fucking climate crisis which mentioned exactly zero times in this article 🫠
Reposted by Vordio
I think agentic coding gives humans a "high" with the illusion of god-like productivity. Basically, all of Silicon Valley is on cocaine, (where every idea could change the world!) with the power of an endlessly productive "agent." This is what cocaine does to your brain.
Token Anxiety
i think i mostly echo this for myself. with so much that can be done, i often feel like i *should* be doing something, always
i think i mostly echo this for myself. with so much that can be done, i often feel like i *should* be doing something, always
February 15, 2026 at 4:57 PM
I think agentic coding gives humans a "high" with the illusion of god-like productivity. Basically, all of Silicon Valley is on cocaine, (where every idea could change the world!) with the power of an endlessly productive "agent." This is what cocaine does to your brain.