Alexis Richardson
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Would be great if walled garden social media becomes as irrelevant and forgotten as AOL
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WeRateDogs
about 11 hours ago
This is Harley. She's never rolled down a hill before, but she's super proud of her first attempt. 13/10 nailed it (TT: jesskoselke)
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The Delicious Legacy Podcast
about 12 hours ago
Ahahahahaahahahahahaha! Greek Orthodox Metal! Sadly the gig in London is already sold out so i can't go and see him! i grew up in the church. Noone ever banned music, or instruments or called secular music satanic! where is this nonsense coming from?
www.theguardian.com/music/2026/j...
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‘Techno in a monastery – are you ready?’ The Greek priest whose doom metal album is the year’s hippest record
His church thinks electric guitars are the devil’s work. But Father Tabakis is on a mission to change that – with Paradise Metal, a religious dubstep album that outdid Daft Punk and Aphex Twin
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2026/jul/02/father-tabakis-greek-priest-doom-paradise-metal
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Brian Grant
2 days ago
A look at the outcomes of dealing with complicated configuration as code, by
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Moving beyond Git — towards a new System of Record for Software Operations
Hello New World!
https://medium.com/@monadic/hello-new-world-983db9bcd37f
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Carceral Abolition
5 days ago
The arm on NBA star Kelsey Plum, who throws a rolled-up jersey to her dad sitting in the upper bleachers.
www.reddit.com/r/AbsoluteUn...
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Brian Grant
8 days ago
Last week @jesperfj shared his view on why configuration should be stored in a database. This week, we shared two example applications we built on top of a config database with an API. Now I'm sharing my take.
itnext.io/configuratio...
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Configuration belongs in a database
“Configuration as Code” trades off API-driven automation for scripted variant creation. What have we traded away?
https://itnext.io/configuration-belongs-in-a-database-be6d31f46d3d
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Anthony Painter
16 days ago
London is scarred by Brexit but resilient. Industrial Britain, the manufacturing heartlands, the red wall, have been absolutely poleaxed. You think the politics align with that? Not a jot.
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17 days ago
St Johns church, Glastonbury peeping through the mist. Photo taken on Glastonbury Tor on Sunday.
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P Coil
17 days ago
This is kind of amazing. Sort of sad yet also beautiful.
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Carl Quintanilla
18 days ago
Dylan, on life in your 80’s, is incredible.
@nytimes.com
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Jonathan Simons
20 days ago
People ask me why I can’t stand Andy Burnham. It’s crap like this. HE’S A CAMBRIDGE ENGLISH GRADUATE WHO WAS A SPAD AND THEN A MINISTER IN LONDON FOR YEARS FFS enough with the oooooh northern working man of the people me.
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P Coil
20 days ago
by the way folks, and honestly i know it's not terribly fashionable to say it, i mean it's quite a hot take, unpopular even, but racism actually is bad.
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Jason Hazeley
22 days ago
Released 40 years ago today. Still the greatest day off.
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Ted Underwood
22 days ago
We've finally created AI that uses the human body for electricity, from the classic science fiction film Keep the Land Lines and Don't Let AI Use Humans for Electricity. Take that, thermodynamics: you said it couldn't be done
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23 days ago
Storm clouds through the archway of St Michael's tower. Photograph taken this morning on Glastonbury Tor.
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Mark Burgess
24 days ago
Ok, since no one else was stepping up, here's a first sort of pedagogical stab at how to blend quantitative description with strong semantics, with a link to active inference and the free energy principle in neuroscience.
arxiv.org/abs/2606.08552
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Quantitative Promise Theory: Intentionality and Inference in Autonomous Agents
I discuss some quantitative representations of Promise Theory for processes involving autonomous agents. Agent models are common in software systems, machine learning, and biology, for example, but ma...
https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.08552
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The Spaceshipper 🚀
26 days ago
Happy birthday to Karl Urban, now 54! From LOTR to The Boys, from Xena to Riddick to Doom to Star Trek to Bourne to Thor: Ragnarok to Mortal Kombat 2 to Dredd, Karl Urban is such a figure in SFF. 🤩
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Proportional Representation And ideally, pro-europe pro-growth strategy
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about 1 month ago
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Sam Freedman
about 1 month ago
What I like about this polling is that quite a lot of Reform voters both want a closer relationship with the EU and to loosen ties further.
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Stephen Bush
about 1 month ago
The Scottish opposition parties really need to be having more fun with the Peter Murrell story. A lot less “comparing it to organised crime” and a lot more “a bald man bought two expensive hair dryers and his wife didn’t wonder where they came from?”
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NANCY COMICS BY ERNIE BUSHMILLER
about 1 month ago
SLUGGO’S TUESDAY
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Protector 5763
about 1 month ago
China has developed a battery that is based on sea salt. Not lithium. It is now being used in Chinese vehicles. It’s more efficient, can hold 90% of its charge at -40c, provides a range of 500 kms, cheap to manufacture, and better for the environment. The US is being left in the dust.
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Mrs Quent
about 1 month ago
How on earth are people delusional enough to believe sturgeon knew nothing about this?? She was party leader AND lived with the guy
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antirez
about 1 month ago
Interesting blog post from @figma on their Redis reliability / scalability story:
www.figma.com/blog/figmas-...
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Figma's Next-Generation Data Caching Platform | Figma Blog
This is the story of how we built FigCache, a foundational technology that underpins a reimagined internal platform for ephemeral data.
https://www.figma.com/blog/figmas-next-generation-data-caching-platform/
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Kate from Kharkiv
about 1 month ago
Russians destroyed the Chornobyl Museum in Kyiv during an overnight missile attack. A renewed exhibition had only recently opened there to mark the 40th anniversary of the Chornobyl nuclear power plant tragedy.
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Dr Laura Varnam
about 1 month ago
Gosh, I never knew this 💔
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Jamie Smart
about 1 month ago
Some random Russian bot will post a picture of post-war London with half bombed out buildings to yer British nostalgia Facebook group and roundabout botherers will still comment ‘when Britain was better’ 🫡
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Libération
about 2 months ago
🍗 Entre indignation et débats sur la gentrification, cette polémique révèle les tensions autour du coût de la vie dans les grandes métropoles ➡️
bit.ly/435P3CY
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Dan
2 months ago
there is only one correct way to redesign GitHub and this is it
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NiceReform isn't a lot less bonkers than NigelReform
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2 months ago
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Schooley
2 months ago
Every splashy New York Times profile of a right wing influencer.
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Jay in Kyiv
2 months ago
Q: How many Ukrainians does it take to change a light bulb? A: None.
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Lea Verou, PhD
2 months ago
TIL crows only *look* black to us — they’re actually very colorful in ways human eyes are unable to perceive. 🤯 Remember that next time people can’t see your “colors”. Some colors just require different eyes.
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𝖑𝖚𝖐𝖊 𝖇𝖔𝖓𝖉
2 months ago
"There are other CEOs who are doing what Gary is doing, but he's particularly annoying about it" So many great quotable acerbic lines in this episode and I'm only ten minutes in 😂
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Aaron Rupar
2 months ago
standing ovation after King Charles sings the praises of NATO and says "that same unyielding resolve is needed for the defense of Ukraine"
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Sung Kim
2 months ago
An interesting LLM. Talkie: a new, open-weight 13B LLM, finetuned on a newly-curated dataset of only pre-1930 data.
talkie-lm.com/introducing-...
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Paul Frazee
2 months ago
The first button on the toilet flushes it. The second button kills you. If you’re still here then youve chosen correctly so far
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Daniel Bellingradt
2 months ago
A breakfasting bear in a printed ornament of a 1604 broadside.
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Mark O’Neill 🐻
2 months ago
All the devils are here
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Asher Elbein
2 months ago
This is wild: the authors find evidence for giant, macro-predatory octopuses in Late Cretaceous oceans that might max out at *62 feet long,* comfortably large enough to attack, kill and eat mosasaurs
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Earliest octopuses were giant top predators in Cretaceous oceans
Top predators drive changes in ecosystem structure. For the last ~370 million years, large-sized vertebrates have dominated the apex of the marine food chain, while invertebrates have served as smalle...
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.aea6285
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Justin Garrison
2 months ago
I know so many of those people in the
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Leslie Molson
2 months ago
Whatever you do,
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2 months ago
He might as well answer in Russian.
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James Ball
2 months ago
What an impressively curséd headline
www.theguardian.com/books/2026/a...
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Tucker Carlson to launch publishing imprint with books by Russell Brand and Milo Yiannopoulos
Former Fox News host says publishing house Skyhorse ‘looking for books that nobody else will publish’
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2026/apr/13/tucker-carlson-publishing-imprint-books-russell-brand-milo-yiannopoulos
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Phil Hawksworth
3 months ago
Shortest talk ever on CSS layout.
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Stephen Bush
3 months ago
Yes, it's Threads, but I think it's also part of a fascinating way that the sheer scale of space kind of breaks our brains/renders a lot of our political analogies moot.
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Olga Nesterova
3 months ago
Peter Magyar confirmed that Szijjarto, Orbán's FM, has barricaded himself with some of his closest colleagues and is shredding documents related to the sanctions on Russia any other evidence of treason.
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Adam Schwarz
3 months ago
Péter Magyar victory speech: "Hungary wants to be a European country again. We want to return to Europe." The crowd immediately chants "Russians, go home" in response.
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Minna Ålander 🌻
3 months ago
It’s a special kind of pleasure to see a Russian investment and a MAGA endorsement backfire massively ☺️
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Kate from Kharkiv
3 months ago
Major anti-Orbán protests in Hungary tonight! I really hope these people can take their country back tomorrow and free us all from the burden of dealing with an overgrown russian puppet.
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Emily Lakdawalla 🏳️⚧️ Uranus Expert
3 months ago
What a great photo just added on the NASA Johnson Flickr page
www.flickr.com/photos/nasa2...
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