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jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

Today in History: Pablo Picasso born in Malaga, Spain, 1881

jwz wrote:

Great news everybody, you can't block that new OpenAI Atlas browser because it uses an identical user agent to Chrome.

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kevinrothrock@infosec.exchange ("Kevin Rothrock") wrote:

i know Putin threatened a massive retaliation for US aid to Ukraine, but reaching all the way to Washington, DC, like this is incredible

jscalzi@threads.net ("John Scalzi") wrote:

Seeing Teachers Out of Context is one of the great childhood rites of passage

RE: https://www.threads.com/@jewelstaite/post/DQNc58oEkeK

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

Mill Beck near Crummock Water.

📷 Pentax KX
🎞️ Fuji Superia X-tra 400
🔭 Pentax M 50mm/1.7
⚗️ Come Through Lab

#BelieveInFilm #FilmPhotography #AnalogPhotography #35mm #LakeDistrict #TheLakes #Cumbria

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c0debabe@masto.hackers.town wrote:

Naya Beat Records out of Los Angeles, CA presents

Punjabi Disco by Mohinder Kaur Bhamra

https://nayabeat.bandcamp.com/track/mainu-apne-pyar-wich

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Fischblog@chaos.social ("Lars Fischer") wrote:

Guten Morgen.

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boelder@shakedown.social ("bobocubed") wrote:

So, the Jacqueline Kennedy Garden is completely destroyed, as well. The entire eastern wing of the White House complex has been destroyed.

Rose Garden gaudily previously paved over, flowers and trees ripped out.

SCOTUS enabled this when they ruled any act done by the POTUS is beyond reproach.

We're now in a dictatorship. Ruled by the dumbest dictator to have ever come to power.

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cfbolz ("CF Bolz-Tereick") wrote:

The article about Clang's bytecode interpreter (for constexpr evaluation etc) is super interesting, but I'm still incredibly amused by C++ compiler authors having to care about interpreter performance

https://developers.redhat.com/articles/2025/10/15/clang-bytecode-interpreter-update

Anyway, this just is another fun example interpreters and compilers being intermingled in silly ways. We put a (bytecode) compiler into your compiler so you can compile (and then interpret) while you compile

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gknauss ("Greg Knauss") wrote:

If you add a label to the satellite imagine of the White House, it looks exactly like a slide from a Pentagon press briefing after a successful bombing run.

Back when there were Pentagon press briefings.

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uglyreykjavik.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy ("Ugly Reykjavik") wrote:

Byssan means the gun, which is an appropriate graffiti for a war relic.#Iceland #Reykjavik #photography #naturephotography #nature #landscape #abandoned #decay #plants #trees #history #WW2 #WWII

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:

Boycotts, strikes and more protests: organizers on what’s next for No Kings | Protest (US) | The Guardian:

"Because a lot of people have observed, it’s a lot of white people at these rallies. Where’s everybody else? Where are the black people, the Latino people."

The same people who blamed Black and Latino voters for Trump, who openly said Latino culture is sexist, are now wondering where are the Black and Latino protesters.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/oct/22/no-kings-protest-trump-what-next

#NoKings #ICE

jscalzi@threads.net ("John Scalzi") wrote:

BEHOLD A DESPERATE BATTLE FOR SURVIVAL BETWEEN TWO VICIOUS PREDATORS

adam@social.lol ("Adam :prami:") wrote:

These are always so funny. “It’s like you’re a surgeon” … “you’re a conductor of an orchestra” … “you’re an executive and AI is your intern”

lol, no. You’re just a person using a machine, trained on data stolen on an unfathomable scale, operated by an industry that is doing tremendous harm, and you’re either oblivious or willfully complicit.

Enough with the bullshit analogies. Stop trying to glorify any of this.

https://fedi.simonwillison.net/@simon/115429612780897145

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nev@status.nevillepark.ca ("Neville Park") wrote:

re: @anildash's article about OpenAI's webpageless "browser": I feel this is the natural evolution of the "web". people are all like "bring back the old web" about the old days of open standards and smaller communities and handmade websites and all that, but you know what's really the essence of the web? MOTHERFUCKING HYPERLINKS. and those have been disappearing and VERY FEW PEOPLE CARE.

thanks to walled gardens and "apps" it's easier for most people to post a screenshot of another site than actually link to it, apparently. thanks to Google's info cards and now "AI" "summary", people don't even have to visit a page to get an answer. "according to google…" WHICH WEBSITE, MOTHERFUCKER. IT ACTUALLY MAKES A DIFFERENCE.

thoughts, facts, news become sourceless, non-updated, decontextualized, undated images, slowly decaying as they get copied and re-uploaded again and again. a copy of a copy of a copy. is that photo of a massive protest from last weekend or 5 years ago? did the author of that article later update saying "whoops, I was totally wrong"? who wrote this insightful post? who knows? who cares!

yeah yeah i rant about this all the time i don't care im still mad

jscalzi@threads.net ("John Scalzi") wrote:

I turned the space heater below my desk last Monday and I don't care who knows it. My toes deserve heat.

RE: https://www.threads.com/@veronicaroth/post/DQM61V%5FEfi7

jscalzi@threads.net ("John Scalzi") wrote:

Separately, you have not lived until you've had pickled ice tea. So refreshing.

RE: https://www.threads.com/@comixgail/post/DQKoYfQkmHL

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stylus@social.afront.org ("Stylus") wrote:

I had a brain idea so I made a picture of it. #pride

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mhoye ("mhoye (temporarily spooky)") wrote:

The Government of Canada is taking a survey about "defining the next chapter of Canada’s AI leadership”.

https://ised-isde.canada.ca/site/ised/en/public-consultations/help-define-next-chapter-canadas-ai-leadership

These were my answers. I’m sure they’re excitingly career-limiting, and who knows if they’ll change any outcome of anything, but sufficiently advanced spite is indistinguishable from imagining Sisyphus happy.

https://exple.tive.org/blarg/2025/10/24/pattern-recognition-and-repetition/

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donni ("donni saphire") wrote:

Free yourself from lust and desire by simply eating a sandwich that is much too big

slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:

WTaF is this, Catchpoint?

denschub@schub.social ("Dennis Schubert") wrote:

not to throw shade on amazon or everything, but I flipped over primary auth dns for 44 domains and didn't break a single thing

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grickle@mstdn.social ("Grickle") wrote:

Sunnier times. #grickledoodle #vampire #horror #nintendo #games #animalcrossing #cartoon #art #drawing #funny

slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:

The new webpagetest.org UI is working my very last nerve. Let's tally the brokenness:

❌ default, simple configs for newcomers? gone
❌ not just pre-mobile, mobile-hostile
❌ filmstrip view nuked and useless
❌ connection, viewpoint, device, and geo selection UIs lead you to confusion and inevitable comparison failure
❌ sharing requires "generate link" dance instead of, you know, having good URLs

Utter debacle. Roll this back, Catchpoint.

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masukomi@connectified.com wrote:

If you live in Georgia (the US state) you should definitely show up for the impending special election if you don’t want your power bills to skyrocket. Hank Greene explains why

https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8AExA37/

adam@social.lol ("Adam :prami:") wrote:

Just bought a bunch of these https://johnnycupcakes.com/products/sticker-why-be-a-butthead

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MsMadLemon ("Ms Mad Lemon") wrote:

My new track ‘Reminiscence Pt2’ from my upcoming album. Created on Amiga along with modular synth and other synthesizers. Follow-up video on this coming soon.
Watch here and enjoy: https://youtu.be/3eu64hiwvmk
#amiga #modularsynth #music

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ttiurani@fosstodon.org ("Timo Tiuraniemi") wrote:

"Climate advocacy has not failed, climate policy has been sabotaged."

It's easy to think that what's stopping meaningful #ClimateAction is ignorance or selfishness of people.

But that's just not true anymore: the overwhelming majority of people want to stop the #ClimateCrisis. The problem is active sabotage of democracy by #BigOil, corporations, far right and elites.

100+ scholars contributed to bring together this important book in time for #COP30, read it!

https://cssn.org/news-research/global-assessment/

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LauraJG@deacon.social ("Laura G, Sassy 70’s") wrote:

The artist may surprise you. Your art history post for today: by Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890), Head of a Skeleton with a Burning Cigarette, 1886, oil on canvas, 32.3 cm x 24.8 cm, Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam.

From Obelisk Art History: “When you think of Vincent Van Gogh, his vibrant, hallucinatory visions spring to mind. Star-filled skies, electric yellow, and piercing self portraits. This dapper corpse, with its rictus grin and dangling cig, is a whole different beast. Rendered in monochrome on a stark black background, it’s missing Van Gogh’s signature swirling brushstrokes and bold color. His marks are loose, almost casual, neatly capturing form and shadow with the bare minimum of strokes. It’s simple, and kind of funny.”

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joel@polymaths.social ("Chrono") wrote:

@adele yay!