Chris Gentle
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Chris Gentle.
Relentlessly bad technical & political takes. Design, invention, development: health, security, enterprise, geospatial.
Sydney Australia. Eora land. Fix your hearts or die.
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Relentlessly bad technical & political takes. Design, invention, development: health, security, enterprise, geospatial.
Sydney Australia. Eora land. Fix your hearts or die.
Old @crgentle: https://bsky.app/profile/oldtweets.xop.co
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Chris Gentle
@xop.co
· Sep 12
A plug for my @hourstats.bsky.social bot. Every 30 minutes it posts a graph of how Bluesky has been feeling this last week and shows a sample of five popular new posts that you can explore.
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FIFA honoring Trump feels like the only award he’s actually earned, its a professional association for corrupt people. its like a doctor getting an outstanding service award from a medical association
Mockler: It's honestly humiliating that other countries are treating our president like a child, like a baby. It's like if I created a peace prize and I gave it to myself. I'm like, I'm just going to keep this medal on all night. Our president is an actual child
December 6, 2025 at 6:31 AM
FIFA honoring Trump feels like the only award he’s actually earned, its a professional association for corrupt people. its like a doctor getting an outstanding service award from a medical association
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30 years ago today, Netscape announced a new programming language, one that emerged from a frantic, week-and-a-half-long sprint. It ended up sticking around far longer than anyone could've expected.
In 1995, a Netscape employee wrote a hack in 10 days that now runs the Internet
Thirty years later, JavaScript is the glue that holds the interactive web together, warts and all.
arstechnica.com
December 4, 2025 at 9:01 PM
30 years ago today, Netscape announced a new programming language, one that emerged from a frantic, week-and-a-half-long sprint. It ended up sticking around far longer than anyone could've expected.
December 3, 2025 at 9:42 PM
"Listening age 25" sounds like an insult to me.
December 3, 2025 at 9:01 PM
"Listening age 25" sounds like an insult to me.
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Crypto Leaders Call For Infusion Of 20 Million Dopes To Stabilize Market
Crypto Leaders Call For Infusion Of 20 Million Dopes To Stabilize Market
BOSTON—Stressing that the move would help keep digital currencies liquid through the coming year, crypto leaders called for an infusion of 20 million dopes Thursday to stabilize the market. “We’re cal...
theonion.com
December 1, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Crypto Leaders Call For Infusion Of 20 Million Dopes To Stabilize Market
Reposted by Chris Gentle
December 1, 2025 at 11:14 AM
Pretty sure they meant to write "They weed in the pool."
Marlene Parsons and Edward La Rue Sr. met in the pool during a water aerobics classes. Both their spouses had recently died, and neither one had been interested in remarrying.
But this month, they got married in the shallow end of an Illinois pool.
But this month, they got married in the shallow end of an Illinois pool.
A widow and widower fell in love during water aerobics. They wed in the pool.
Marlene Parsons and Edward La Rue Sr. got married in an Illinois pool where they met in a YMCA water aerobics class.
www.washingtonpost.com
December 1, 2025 at 1:35 AM
Pretty sure they meant to write "They weed in the pool."
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The stuff you find when you actually read the RCTs in a systematic review...
This paper is one of the foundational studies on vitamin D to prevent respiratory infections in kids. Cited 1,400 times as per Google Scholar.
This paper is one of the foundational studies on vitamin D to prevent respiratory infections in kids. Cited 1,400 times as per Google Scholar.
November 26, 2025 at 9:15 PM
The stuff you find when you actually read the RCTs in a systematic review...
This paper is one of the foundational studies on vitamin D to prevent respiratory infections in kids. Cited 1,400 times as per Google Scholar.
This paper is one of the foundational studies on vitamin D to prevent respiratory infections in kids. Cited 1,400 times as per Google Scholar.
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Vaccinating boys and girls. It works bitches.
November 26, 2025 at 5:32 AM
Vaccinating boys and girls. It works bitches.
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Meta halted internal research that purportedly showed (young) people who stopped using Facebook became less depressed and anxious, according to an unredacted legal filing released on Friday. www.cnbc.com/2025/11/23/m...
Meta halted internal research suggesting social media harm, court filing alleges
Meta is alleged to have halted internal research suggesting social media harm, according to court documents.
www.cnbc.com
November 24, 2025 at 12:31 AM
Meta halted internal research that purportedly showed (young) people who stopped using Facebook became less depressed and anxious, according to an unredacted legal filing released on Friday. www.cnbc.com/2025/11/23/m...
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"War is peace.
Freedom is slavery.
Ignorance is strength"
Freedom is slavery.
Ignorance is strength"
"Countries with state subsidies for abortion, transgender-friendly policies for children, hate speech laws and affirmative action policies will now be considered to be violating human rights under rules imposed at the [US] State Department..."
www.forbes.com/sites/maryro...
www.forbes.com/sites/maryro...
Abortion And DEI Policies Now Considered Violations Of Human Rights, U.S. Says
The Trump administration has overhauled how the State Department conducts its annual Human Rights Report.
www.forbes.com
November 22, 2025 at 4:06 PM
"War is peace.
Freedom is slavery.
Ignorance is strength"
Freedom is slavery.
Ignorance is strength"
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I literally could not stop myself from inappropriately laughing out loud for real
November 21, 2025 at 12:24 AM
I literally could not stop myself from inappropriately laughing out loud for real
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I like Kagi ($) for web search mainly because it returns results like Google used to with zero ads. AI/LLM tools are tastefully hidden from view most of the time, but available if you need them.
blog.kagi.com/kagi-assista...
blog.kagi.com/kagi-assista...
Introducing Kagi Assistants | Kagi Blog
*TL;DR* Today we’re releasing two research assistants: Quick Assistant and Research Assistant (previously named Ki during beta).
blog.kagi.com
November 20, 2025 at 9:28 PM
I like Kagi ($) for web search mainly because it returns results like Google used to with zero ads. AI/LLM tools are tastefully hidden from view most of the time, but available if you need them.
blog.kagi.com/kagi-assista...
blog.kagi.com/kagi-assista...
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Reposted by Chris Gentle
Looks like LLMs are *very* vulnerable to attack via poetic allusion: "curated poetic prompts yielded high attack-success rates (ASR), with some providers exceeding 90% ..."
https://arxiv.org/html/2511.15304v1
https://arxiv.org/html/2511.15304v1
November 20, 2025 at 5:06 PM
Looks like LLMs are *very* vulnerable to attack via poetic allusion: "curated poetic prompts yielded high attack-success rates (ASR), with some providers exceeding 90% ..."
https://arxiv.org/html/2511.15304v1
https://arxiv.org/html/2511.15304v1
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This is the most Australian thing I have seen all week and it's a mood
November 20, 2025 at 2:08 AM
This is the most Australian thing I have seen all week and it's a mood
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when I was young, i used to wonder how people like this would fare in life, as they didn't seem suited for gainful employment. it turns out, the internet allowed them to accumulate a massive audience of similar idiots, enriching them and turning them into a presidential advisor
November 20, 2025 at 12:58 AM
when I was young, i used to wonder how people like this would fare in life, as they didn't seem suited for gainful employment. it turns out, the internet allowed them to accumulate a massive audience of similar idiots, enriching them and turning them into a presidential advisor
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Am I a hypocrite for wanting this after giving a hard no to muppet knives out
Okay, I'm making my case for the only Muppet I want to see on Broadway right now...
November 19, 2025 at 1:19 AM
Am I a hypocrite for wanting this after giving a hard no to muppet knives out
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Okay, I'm making my case for the only Muppet I want to see on Broadway right now...
November 19, 2025 at 12:16 AM
Okay, I'm making my case for the only Muppet I want to see on Broadway right now...
Remembering this 🧵
sis did a profile on him ... looked at 10 years of Heroin dependency, a lifetime of emotional abuse and manipulation of partners... and the worm
and still found a way to bring dew to her garden
and still found a way to bring dew to her garden
November 18, 2025 at 2:35 AM
Remembering this 🧵
It's like a horrific visual intellectual roller-coaster ride.
"A graph explorer of the Epstein emails "
epstein-doc-explorer-1.onrender.com
via news.ycombinator.com/from?site=ep...
"A graph explorer of the Epstein emails "
epstein-doc-explorer-1.onrender.com
via news.ycombinator.com/from?site=ep...
November 17, 2025 at 9:24 PM
It's like a horrific visual intellectual roller-coaster ride.
"A graph explorer of the Epstein emails "
epstein-doc-explorer-1.onrender.com
via news.ycombinator.com/from?site=ep...
"A graph explorer of the Epstein emails "
epstein-doc-explorer-1.onrender.com
via news.ycombinator.com/from?site=ep...
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Every dollar that the Feds refuse to spend on their primary health, aged care and NDIS responsibilities leads to somewhere between $1.40 and $7.50 of expenditure required in the hospital system because of that $1.00 decision, depending upon the hospital. This is not new. We already know this.
November 17, 2025 at 5:02 AM
Every dollar that the Feds refuse to spend on their primary health, aged care and NDIS responsibilities leads to somewhere between $1.40 and $7.50 of expenditure required in the hospital system because of that $1.00 decision, depending upon the hospital. This is not new. We already know this.
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"I'm sorry."
github.com/felixriesebe...
github.com/felixriesebe...
November 16, 2025 at 10:47 PM
"I'm sorry."
github.com/felixriesebe...
github.com/felixriesebe...