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🇦🇺25, hobbyist computer toucher, regrettably literate
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POV you built AI without cultivating moral discernment
November 9, 2025 at 9:38 PM
POV you built AI without cultivating moral discernment
it’s nice that everyone has their own company scrip now
Cloudflare Introduces NET Dollar to Support a New Business Model for the AI-Driven Internet | Cloudflare
Cloudflare, Inc. (NYSE: NET), the leading connectivity cloud company, today announced plans to introduce NET Dollar, a new U.S. dollar-backed stablecoin that will enable instant, secure transactions f...
www.cloudflare.com
November 9, 2025 at 9:46 PM
it’s nice that everyone has their own company scrip now
Libresco might have provided the most Less Wrong phrases ever published in the NYT
November 9, 2025 at 5:14 AM
Libresco might have provided the most Less Wrong phrases ever published in the NYT
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Royal Family is a daily game where you have to position six chess pieces on a board so that none of the pieces attack each other and there’s only a single piece in each marked zone. [coffeefirst.games]
Royal Family: Daily Chess Logic Puzzle
Place all six chess pieces so each cage has exactly one and no piece attacks another.
coffeefirst.games
November 7, 2025 at 4:06 PM
Royal Family is a daily game where you have to position six chess pieces on a board so that none of the pieces attack each other and there’s only a single piece in each marked zone. [coffeefirst.games]
Should I be capitalising the second word of salutations? Especially “Good morning,”
November 8, 2025 at 9:44 PM
Should I be capitalising the second word of salutations? Especially “Good morning,”
happy feast to my third favourite papal basilica
November 8, 2025 at 8:25 AM
happy feast to my third favourite papal basilica
later Dune books be like
November 7, 2025 at 9:35 AM
later Dune books be like
struggling with the urge to buy an FPV drone
November 7, 2025 at 4:24 AM
struggling with the urge to buy an FPV drone
where do you think you’re gong?
November 6, 2025 at 11:22 AM
where do you think you’re gong?
I would like an override unblock but that’s it
I'm sorry, but this is the most incredibly entitled issue I've seen in a long time. Not only does this fatally compromise critical safety features, but it undermines that idea that users have choice over what they see on their TL and who can see their posts*.
*yes, I know the firehose.
*yes, I know the firehose.
Mitigate discrimination/bullying against others via Block List erasure · Issue #9077 · bluesky-social/social-app
Describe the Feature From my own experience: It appears I am currently snowballed-upon-snowballed into Block Lists that mark me as a Spammer, Crypto Bro, etc., amounting to almost a quarter million...
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November 5, 2025 at 1:21 AM
I would like an override unblock but that’s it
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This is art
Woman in court for putting googly eyes on controversial 'Blue Blob' sculpture
A 19-year-old woman appears in court via telephone accused of damaging Mount Gambier's Cast in Blue sculpture, which has drawn criticism for its cost and appearance.
www.abc.net.au
November 4, 2025 at 8:22 AM
This is art
josephite dogmas are coming
there's long subtraditions in catholic theology of just making stuff up that sounds kind of pious and then claiming people who disagree just don't love (person or concept) if they disagree
November 4, 2025 at 7:26 AM
josephite dogmas are coming
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theology, eschatology, and sacrament.
September 14, 2024 at 4:03 AM
theology, eschatology, and sacrament.
performing piaget’s conservation task with coffee mugs to convince myself the wider one doesn’t hold more
A typical child on Piaget's conservation tasks
YouTube video by munakatay
youtu.be
November 3, 2025 at 10:41 PM
performing piaget’s conservation task with coffee mugs to convince myself the wider one doesn’t hold more
my brother in Claude
The big article on data centers in the New Yorker is pretty good, which I wasn’t expecting given the reaction on X. Lots of talk of the good and bad of AI, and it covers both bubble & non-bubble arguments.
It also featured the best version of “I spoke to a local farmer about a data center”
It also featured the best version of “I spoke to a local farmer about a data center”
November 3, 2025 at 10:25 AM
my brother in Claude
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Awesome review of After Virtue. Can’t believe I never saw it before
November 3, 2025 at 1:45 AM
Awesome review of After Virtue. Can’t believe I never saw it before
big.
Add to playlist: the long-lost lo-fi pop of Australian nun Sister Irene O’Connor and the week’s best tracks
Far from being the preserve of ecclesiastical listening, the reissue of O’Connor’s 1973 album is a compelling feast of drum machine, acoustic guitar and synth organ
www.theguardian.com
November 3, 2025 at 12:05 AM
big.
american sports culture is so charming I wish I lived in Melbourne
November 2, 2025 at 5:09 AM
american sports culture is so charming I wish I lived in Melbourne
could you not
Cardiff Catholic priest Mark Rowles sentenced for sending racist neo-Nazi messages
Father Mark Rowles was arrested by counter terror police for extreme right wing activity on social media.
www.bbc.com
October 31, 2025 at 1:36 AM
could you not
solved by rounding up
A "clove" is not a unit of garlic. Normal cloves vary in size by a factor of like 5. It's as bad as "pinch." You should be telling me in fractions of a head.
October 31, 2025 at 1:12 AM
solved by rounding up
my senior english teacher made such goated picks
I know we read it when we were 15 and we are 'over it' but can we take time to admit that it's just crazy, insane, crazy how good The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock is, just crazy
October 29, 2025 at 7:37 AM
my senior english teacher made such goated picks
writing my first ever resignation email!
October 28, 2025 at 6:01 AM
writing my first ever resignation email!
I think this is why I got bored of Doctorow after a few years of his newsletter, there’s always false hope that it can’t go on forever and the white hats must win which massively dilutes explanatory or predictive power of this mode of operating
October 28, 2025 at 1:20 AM
I think this is why I got bored of Doctorow after a few years of his newsletter, there’s always false hope that it can’t go on forever and the white hats must win which massively dilutes explanatory or predictive power of this mode of operating
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