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The most “metal” photo you’ll see all day. (Pic credit: Nick Bull)

@normalsyndrome.bsky.social @kd-is-normal.bsky.social just want to share one of my favorite shirts with you

The government continuing to post on X gives the media all they need to justify continuing to use X posts in news broadcasts. X becomes agenda-setting in the way front pages did even when most people stopped reading newspapers.

This is absolutely nuts: hackers are hijacking high-profile Instagram accounts by simply asking Meta's AI chatbot to change the email on the account. Meta's AI does it, hacker gets password reset code, they're in. A staggering security issue www.404media.co/hackers-simp...

This is funny: now, Google isn't showing AI Overviews for the term "disregard" at all! Google hasn't replied to my requests for comment, either. I've updated my story.

"November 12, 1970. East Pakistan. The Bhola Cyclone. The deadliest tropical cyclone ever recorded. Winds of 115 miles per hour. A storm surge of 33 feet. They estimate 500,000 people died. ‘It’s going down, I’m yelling timber.’ 3:33 PM. Timber by Pitbull and Ke$ha" andonlabs.com/blog/andon-fm

Speedrun xkcd.com/3246/

So, every organization that makes software or manages technology has a backlog of bugs they want to fix, or features that they (or their customers) wish they could implement. It’s often super frustrating to have to deprioritize things you _want_ over things you are _obligated_ to do…

Always nice to find an old mile marker out in the wild. #WaterNewton #Peterbough

Do I know anyone that 1) Lives in the broad area of Peterborough and 2) that could walk/cycle/drive to the circle area and grab some specific footage??? DM if yes. 😊

Oh ok, since everyone else is doing it, here are the #9games that defined my childhood. I found it really hard to whittle this down actually!

This is exactly right. The Onion quietly left Twitter a month ago and... our weekly subscribers went up. It's because we're doing well here, on Instagram and on YouTube. As a business, being on Twitter is somewhere between useless or detrimental, unless you're selling boner pills.

Completely unexpected and very cool indeed. Been a huge fan of Sam's work for years now. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

‘Novice workers who rely heavily on AI to complete unfamiliar tasks may compromise their own skill acquisition… We find that AI use impairs conceptual understanding, code reading, and debugging abilities, without delivering significant efficiency gains on average.’ arxiv.org/pdf/2601.20245

Yesterday it was cows using tools, today its penguins using satellite imagery.

Very neat open source city map poster generator (found via HN) github.com/originalanku... — here's St. Louis, MO

A crisp afternoon stroll around Peterborough today

I’ve spent this morning morbidly watching the MTV channels close down and the final songs played were: MTV Music - Video Killed the Radio Star (Buggles) Club MTV - Don’t Stop the Music (Rihanna) MTV 90s - Goodbye (Spice Girls) MTV 80s - Together in Electric Dreams (Oakey and Moroder)

Excellent timing talk on PTP with a great live demo at #39c3 by Oliver Ettlin: media.ccc.de/v/39c3-excus... (h/t to toot.io/@hisold/1158...)

another robot highlight for 2025: man wearing humanoid mocap suit kicks himself in the balls

Top tier joke

Due to a windstorm-related utility power outage at the NIST, time may soon be destroyed

January bargain: Heath Robinson Museum drops £8 ticket for pay-what-you-can Fridays www.ianvisits.co.uk/articles/jan... #London

Benchmarks, benchmarks, and more benchmarks! Getting ready for the FastDoom 1.2.0 release 😁

Building a Commodore 64 Laptop

Very sad that I felt I had no choice but to resign from The Infinite Monkey Cage - a victory for the transphobes and other bigots - I did it because so much of the media has chosen to believe the kind and empathetic people are a fiction - they are real and so often unrepresented.

I propose a solution to our ongoing RAM shortage:

Unreal Tournament can now be played IN A BROWSER dos.zone/mp/?lobby=ut Along with other late 90s PC FPS classics but yeah. UT99 in a browser window... just fantastic. Thanks to the r/LGR subreddit for letting me know about it!

AI should be spelt Ai, especially when your name is Al

Happy Longest Day Of The Year

I enjoyed my flying visit to Glasgow this week. It was looking splendid in the autumn sunshine, though I didn't take nearly enough photos this time

Pay VERY close attention to the sender's address when you get what appears to be a legitimate password management request. In this instance the sender is not "Microsoft", but R N icrosoft, the R & N close together look like a lowercase 'm' at first glance.

End of an era. Phone call voting is to end on BBC shows such as Strictly and Eurovision. All voting to be online. www.bbc.com/mediacentre/...

Did you know your MacBook has a sensor that knows the exact angle of the screen hinge? It’s not exposed as a public API, but I figured out a way to read it and make it sound like an old wooden door.

There's a realistic chance we get to a position where Wikipedia is blocked while official government accounts are posting on a site that created MechaHitler AI

Bye forever, WeTransfer.

That’s not the rule and you know it.

Labour hasn’t confronted Reform’s worldview—it’s validated it. You can’t spend nine months echoing your opponent’s values and then act surprised when the public decides to go straight to the source.

From @respectisvital.bsky.social over on Twiter... He hasn't posted this here, but it's important so... For those who use iCloud, just beware, it's no longer going to be a safe space. I'd switch off personal/important stuff going there if I were you.... He's brill BTW, give him a follow.

estonia's power grid frequency right now!

Tonight on Newsnight... cc @scottygb.bsky.social

Good post by @simonwillison.net - worth a read (and I agree) simonwillison.net/2025/Jan/2/t...

Lossless Cut is a piece of software I would recommend everyone download because it’s just a frontend for FFMpeg that lets you trim clips without having to encode them again. Just snips off the offending parts.

any React Native performance experts willing to lend a hand? i’ve been debugging feed scrolling perf on low-end Android for the past week but couldn’t make meaningful improvements. it’s very choppy on Galaxy A12, especially when scrolling past videos (but not exclusively). any help is appreciated!

Just deactivated my Twitter account, and remembered I had a second unused one from some software dev I did years ago, so thought I'd deactivate that as well. Logged in, and oh wow! Without any blocked accounts it's wild! Wall to wall porn, racism, transphobia and conspiracy theories!

💡 Tip: You can set your website as your username on Bluesky! This is one form of self-verification, and we especially encourage official organizations and brands to do this! Examples include @npr.org @react.dev @duolingobrasil.com.br. Here's our guide for how to do this:

@jenmsft.bsky.social, is there a way to search for a symbol in the Windows 11 Emoji keyboard, in the same way you can search for Emojis? I was looking for the Pi symbol, but couldn't see it scrolling through the list. I'm not convinced it's there, but I might have missed it. Thanks!