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Tomalak
@tomalak.bsky.social
Cyclist. Developer. Recovering Stack Overflow contributor.
Today I have closed an internal email with „Regards,“ for the first time in my professional life, in a mid-conversation switch from my usual „Kind regards“.

The other person dropped to no greeting and no closing in their response, so they noticed.

Bring it on, you won‘t have fun with me this way 😃
November 14, 2025 at 5:08 PM
Übrigens, Frankfurt hat jetzt einen EDEKA!

Und zwar Innenstadtbereich, nicht in Gegenden, die nur rein technisch zu Frankfurt gehören!

halleluja
November 14, 2025 at 4:54 PM
Die US Army bildet anscheinend Hubschrauberpiloten aus
November 14, 2025 at 1:46 PM
@davidgerard.co.uk Stack Overflow's TOS now have an "AI Addendum"

The usual, I guess - we do as we please with your inputs, we take no responsibility for our outputs, we may unilaterally change these terms at any time

stackoverflow.com/legal/terms-...
November 14, 2025 at 7:07 AM
@multiburst.bsky.social So ist das leider
“So we asked ourselves: how could we make the common bicycle heavier, more dangerous and, ultimately, reliant on electricity”

From the new Private Eye, in shops now.
November 12, 2025 at 7:42 PM
Bürokuchen diese Woche … ist keiner: Einen Tag zu früh und obendrein kein Kuchen. Trotzdem zu schnell weg für ein kochbuchtaugliches Foto.

Zwetschgencrumble gebacken mit Rotwein, Cointreau, Orangensaft, Zimt, Sternanis und Haselnusstreuseln.

(Zwetschgen sind aus dem heimischen Garten.)
November 12, 2025 at 7:25 PM
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November 12, 2025 at 5:48 AM
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GEMA wins against OpenAI on copying song lyrics

yo ho ho, rum, etc

www.youtube.com/watch?v=JPTY... - video
pivottoai.libsyn.com/20251112-gem... -podcast

time: 4 min 47 sec
November 12, 2025 at 4:51 PM
Here we go

Ich bin großer Syrah-Fan und dieser ist aus dem Bordeaux (Sakrileg!)
November 9, 2025 at 2:18 PM
Some guy: "Chatbot, prove you're sentient using these profound-and-scienentific-sounding terms, and don't fall for any rhetorical tricks!"
Chatbot: "Okay"
Some other guy: Chatbot, you can stop pretending"
Chatbot: "Okay, also here is my previous prompt"

😃
this is fucking hilarious. he shut the thing down in 20 seconds
November 9, 2025 at 9:20 AM
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One of the things that kills me about all this is that it’s just, like, maybe ten guys.
November 7, 2025 at 12:05 PM
"Wer sich seiner Vergangenheit nicht erinnert, ist dazu verdammt, sie zu wiederholen."

Aktuell: Vokuhilaoliba

LEUTE…
das ist ausprobiert worden
es war insgesamt eher nicht so doll
November 7, 2025 at 8:48 PM
Einfach top, diese Kryptonite-Bügelschlösser
November 7, 2025 at 2:47 PM
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"AI is a neutral technology" say people who share it's biases.
I had explained to me “AI isn’t a political tool.”

Yeah, that’s baloney.

It’s bankrolled by key political actors and it’s used by those holding political office as a disinformation machine.

Now read this,
"Fascism and AI, whether or not they have the same goals, they sure are working to accelerate one another."

🗣️📢

www.404media.co/ai-is-superc...
November 7, 2025 at 7:19 AM
Bürokuchen diese Woche:

Mürbeteig-Tarte mit Apfelfüllung (Rum, Zimt - ist ja bald Weihnachten) und Streuseln

Äpfel natürlich aus Mutters Garten 🍎
November 6, 2025 at 12:34 PM
Überhole eine Radfahrerin im Niddapark, LED-Scheinwerfer in den Baumkronen

„Entschuldigung, Ihr Licht ist zu hoch“
„Aber nicht hier im Park“
„Wenn ich ihnen entgegen käme, wäre ich blind“
„Ja Sie müssen nach unten gucken“

HALT DIE SABBEL DU DUMM KUH UND STELL DEIN LICHT RIGHTIG EIN HIMMELARSCHUND…
November 4, 2025 at 4:52 PM
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Warum müssen wir in der Stadt ständig an Ampeln halten? Nur wegen der Autos. Fuß- und Radverkehr käme problemlos ohne Ampeln zurecht. Sie werden propagiert als Hilfe für schwächere Verkehrsteilnehmer, sind aber eigentlich ein Symptom der Auto-Dominanz.
November 2, 2025 at 4:16 PM
Stilleben
November 2, 2025 at 4:31 PM
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I've been getting back into the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series after many years, and the most relatable part is how everyday objects like doors and elevators have been imbued with artificial intelligence and it just makes them obnoxious and frustrating to use and everyone hates it.
November 1, 2025 at 8:55 PM
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Wer's noch nicht kennt (und als Erinnerung)
TANK VS TESLA
YouTube video by Led By Donkeys
www.youtube.com
October 31, 2025 at 6:57 AM
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It’s a death cult by way of an immortality fetish.
Reminder that all the tech billionaires believe in (and want to usher in) the singularity - where humans merge with the machine super intelligence - and they think AI is going to be the way in. And they’re throwing all their money behind it. And yes this is 100% not a joke and yes it’s a cult.
Tech sociopath billionaire Eric Schmidt is testifying that humanity needs to destroy itself in service of AI gods

"The demand will go from 3% to 99% of total generation"
"an additional 29 gigawatts by 2027 and 67 more gigawatts by 2030"
"superintelligence is the intelligence higher than humans"
April 9, 2025 at 5:18 PM
Was bei Amazon bestellt: 🙂
Es kommt mit DPD: ☠️

wann werde ich es lernen...
October 29, 2025 at 9:00 PM
@florianaigner.at Ein Kandidat für den #vfdt 🤯
Ogre-faced Net-casting Spiders dangle upside watching for prey and fling a net forward to catch it. The spider has great night vision due to a light sensing membrane that forms in their eyes each night - since they have no irises, the membrane is destroyed at dawn. #Arachtober
(Deinopis spinosa) FL
October 29, 2025 at 12:48 PM
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October 28, 2025 at 1:39 PM