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cpw @voxcpw.bsky.social · 1d

But it's such a fantastic bargain! Didn't you see his email? 😂

cpw @voxcpw.bsky.social · 1d

If you post a video asking "am I fascist?" and then start defending fascists in said video, yes, yes you are.

There's a very very stupid corner of open source that believes you can and must leave any and all politics at the door. They are very wrong and making Nazi bars as a result. Good job 👍

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Spelling Mistakes Cost Lives @darrencullen.bsky.social · Aug 7

Did a new one

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cpw @voxcpw.bsky.social · 2d

I just submitted my opinion as an interested Canadian. I made sure to draw parallels between the current AI hype bubble and Nortel, because that's gotta hurt.

Karla Ortiz @kortizart.bsky.social · 3d

Canadian friends, your government is seeking commentary on GenAi strategies and policies.

Please let them know exactly how you feel about GenAi, it’s impacts, and what next steps should be! Perhaps it’s respecting artists works, environmental considerations and so on! Share your thoughts here 👇

Help define the next chapter of Canada's AI leadership

Current status: Open from October 1 to October 31, 2025 Canada helped invent modern AI. To stay a leader—and protect our digital sovereignty—we're running a 30-day national sprint to shape a renew...

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Karla Ortiz @kortizart.bsky.social · 3d

Canadian friends, your government is seeking commentary on GenAi strategies and policies.

Please let them know exactly how you feel about GenAi, it’s impacts, and what next steps should be! Perhaps it’s respecting artists works, environmental considerations and so on! Share your thoughts here 👇

Help define the next chapter of Canada's AI leadership

Current status: Open from October 1 to October 31, 2025 Canada helped invent modern AI. To stay a leader—and protect our digital sovereignty—we're running a 30-day national sprint to shape a renew...

ised-isde.canada.ca

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cpw @voxcpw.bsky.social · 2d

It's so awful it travels back in time to do the deed.

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Jared @jaredlll08.bsky.social · 4d

We're over halfway through October but there is still time to participate in Modtoberfest! You only need to make 4 pull requests to participating projects to get a cool pack of stickers!

Checkout the participating projects here modtoberfest.com/repositories

#mcdev #minecraft

Repositories

modtoberfest.com

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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 5d

new lawn sign

yard sign with rainbow color font reading:

IN THIS HOUSE, WE BELIEVE -
IF CONVENTIONAL OVEN REHEATING INSTRUCTIONS SAY COOK FOR 17-19 MINUTES IT WILL BE DONE IN 18 MINUTES CONVECTION OVEN INSTRUCTIONS ARE A WILD CARD, HOWEVER

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cpw @voxcpw.bsky.social · 5d

Mmmm, elementary maths

Philip Bump @pbump.com · 5d

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Peter Chilvers @peterchilvers.com · 5d

The BBC are accidentally running the subtitles to Mrs Marple over the Mercury Prize, and it’s rather wonderful. A few of lines could plausibly have been written by Jarvis.

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Mike Masnick @mmasnick.bsky.social · 5d

Anonymizing stuff is difficult.

Waffle 🧇 @wafflecut.bsky.social · 5d

Learned that an anonymous outside expert on submersibles did an interview with the OceanGate Titan investigation, and they released a transcript, with all the names redacted. The first line of his first answer? "I'm sure you're familiar with my film Titanic."

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
NATIONAL TRANSPORTATION SAFETY BOARD
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Investigation of:
LOSS OF THE SUBMARINE TITAN
IN THE NORTH ATLANTIC OCEAN
ON JUNE 18, 2023
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Accident No.:
*********** * * * * * *
Interview of:
Co-designer/Pilot
Deepsea Challenger
DCA23FM036
via Microsoft Teams
Friday,
July 26, 2024

INTERVIEW OF
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BY LCDR
11 Q. So how did you get yourself started into submersible
12 operations?
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A.
Well, I'm sure you're familiar with my film Titanic.
When I
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set down the path to make that film, the first thing that I did
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was arrange to be introduced to the head of the submersible
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program at the P.P. Shirshov Institute in Moscow, a guy named
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Professor
I. I did that through a mutual friend
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of ours, a guy named
, who is one of the preeminent
underwater cinematographers in the world. And had been on a
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submersible expedition out to Titanic the previous year with the
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Russians. And that was organized by a Canadian company that was
22 doing an IMAX film which was released under the title Titanica.

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cpw @voxcpw.bsky.social · 5d

Attracting a very specific type of man perhaps?

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cpw @voxcpw.bsky.social · 5d

I was married but I'm not married any more. Women don't like the vehicle.

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Emmett Macfarlane 🇨🇦 @emmettmacfarlane.com · 6d

Which has nothing to do with immigration and everything to do with us not building anything for four decades.

FatRaccoon 🦝🎈 @fatraccoon.bsky.social · 6d

All I know is that my adult kids can't move out because there's nothing affordable.

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Liam @ GamingOnLinux @gamingonlinux.com · 5d

Absolutely not. Give #Linux a try :)

Tom Warren @tomwarren.co.uk · 6d

This is the future of Windows. Microsoft wants to rewrite Windows to turn computers into AI PCs that you talk to. It's now bringing AI features to all Windows 11 PCs today, in a bid to convince you to talk to your PC and let AI control it. Full details 👇 www.theverge.com/news/799768/...

Microsoft wants you to talk to your PC and let AI control it

Copilot Voice and Vision are now rolling out.

www.theverge.com

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BoringKate @boringkate.com · 6d

Seeing game devs take a "the customer is always right" approach to feedback is so sad because like I get it from a PR perspective, but...

1) The customer is always wrong

2) Your customers are gamers, so they're twice as wrong

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The Beaverton @thebeaverton.com · 6d

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cpw @voxcpw.bsky.social · 6d

Whatever you do, please try and find a vendor for North America outside the US.. I want a zbt-1 but I am not sending money to a US vendor and paying god knows what in tariffs to receive here in Canada.

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BleepingComputer @bleepingcomputer.com · 6d

An ongoing phishing campaign is targeting LastPass and Bitwarden users with fake emails claiming that the companies were hacked, urging them to download a supposedly more secure desktop version of the password manager.

Fake LastPass, Bitwarden breach alerts lead to PC hijacks

An ongoing phishing campaign is targeting LastPass and Bitwarden users with fake emails claiming that the companies were hacked, urging them to download a supposedly more secure desktop version of the password manager.

www.bleepingcomputer.com

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cpw @voxcpw.bsky.social · 6d

Obvious truths are obvious

NewsThump @newsthump.com · 6d

NEWS! I am still the greatest computer of all time, insists ZX Spectrum 48k newsthump.com/2025/10/15/i...

I am still the greatest computer of all time, insists ZX Spectrum 48k

In a defiant press conference held in the back of a dusty loft, the Sinclair Spectrum 48k has once again declared itself “the undisputed heavyweight champion of home computing,” despite being plugg…

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NewsThump @newsthump.com · 6d

NEWS! I am still the greatest computer of all time, insists ZX Spectrum 48k newsthump.com/2025/10/15/i...

I am still the greatest computer of all time, insists ZX Spectrum 48k

In a defiant press conference held in the back of a dusty loft, the Sinclair Spectrum 48k has once again declared itself “the undisputed heavyweight champion of home computing,” despite being plugg…

newsthump.com

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Cat Manning @catacalypto.bsky.social · 7d

I feel genuinely delighted that some people have decided they want to speedrun [checks notes] probability

v buckenham @v21.bsky.social · 7d

how to speedrun random chance graham.build/s/a-blog/028...

Unfair Flips World Record Strategy

Unfair Flips is a game about flipping a coin to get 10 Heads flips in a row.

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cpw @voxcpw.bsky.social · 7d

And now I'm humming classic Queen, nice!

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draglikepull @draglikepull.bsky.social · 7d

One of the most important things we can do to combat this kind of thing is to explain to people as simply as possible what a generative model actually does: it produces statistically probable sequences. It doesn't know anything, it makes things that looks similar to things it's seen before.

Claire Zagorski, MSc, EMT-P @clairezagorski.bsky.social · 10d

A student on TikTok has been documenting her journey with a professor who “wrote” the anatomy textbook and it’s all a bunch of AI hallucinations.

She’s saying that, understandably, the students are doing super poorly!

Behold what we’re teaching the healthcare professionals of tomorrow:

A diagram of the bones and (some) deep muscles of the hand and forearm. AI says that we only have four digits. It’s also identified a tendon as the median nerve, another tendon as the ulnar nerve, among other issues.

An AI generated diagram of the muscles of the neck. It hallucinated the “ennocleidomasid” muscle, and the “anterior scalpalin muscle”.

An AI generated diagram of the muscles of the lateral thigh. It says that the gluteus Maximus (the big juicy butt muscle) is on the anterior side. It also points to the quadriceps muscle and says “attattment”. It also says that the same structure is the tibia AND the deep fascia of the leg.

An AI generated diagram of the bones of the hand and forearm. This time AI says we have 6 digits. It also says that the radius is the ulnar artery. Among other many issues.

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The Beaverton @thebeaverton.com · 7d

“Restore merit, end DEI” says man who could only get elected in Canada’s safest Conservative stronghold

OTTAWA - Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre has launched a petition to "end DEI programs and restore merit", just months after losing his own heavily-favoured seat before running in an even more hea...

www.thebeaverton.com

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