oh hey, rad, @bsky.brid.gy has created 'bounce', which lets people ... bounce from bsky over here, and keep all their followers! share it with all the people who left to go to bsky! https://blog.anew.social/bounce-beta-now-live/

One day someone will invent a nonfungible ape that’s also a girlfriend, and it’ll be a complete game-changer

Mark Carney turns off geolocation on phone just in case | @TheBeaverton #canpoli #cdnpoli https://www.thebeaverton.com/2026/01/mark-carney-turns-off-geolocation-on-phone-just-in-case/

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Story Idea: A caviler AI CEO guy finds out that the hard drives that contain evidence of his many horrific crimes (Think American Psycho) were also included in the training data. He's able to erase the evidence they were scanned but can't restart the training to totally remove them. He's not […]

This is mostly true. Dropbears are real, though. https://theonion.com/australia-admits-all-those-animals-made-up/

RE: https://mastodon.social/@Richard_Littler/115820186949511746 @Andy_Hazel one relevant to your interests?

Not that many people here will need it, but as an indicator it's interesting: In case you're looking for an alternative New Year resolution, Denmark has a new people's movement: Danmark skifter, Denmark switches, which aims to help people regain focus, change their social media habits and get […]

This image is from January 1st 2025 and, in my opinion, has remained unbeated as the most iconic photo of the year. If you think of a better candidate for photo of the year, please share it in the comments! #2025 #photography #photo #trump #cybertruck #tesla

RE: https://hessen.social/@oferreau/115813378596678713 Someone has been replacing the toilet paper in German train toilets with rolls printed with photographs of the leader of the far-right party

I remember when the Fabian Society were the subject of right-wing conspiracy theories as pushing “sovietisation by stealth”, their nefarious gradualism sneaking red totalitarianism in under the noses of those who would otherwise rise up. Now, it seems, they’re a sort of Blairite Moralintern […]

Writing a blog post 5 years ago: I should throw in some clever turns of phrase. Writing a blog post now: I should tone the style down, in case people think this is botshit.

In Norway, they’re building a new stave church, using only Viking-age tools and techniques. 1,000 people are involved, and it is expected to be complete by 2030. https://www.visitnorway.com/typically-norwegian/how-to-build-a-stave-church/

no-one's quite sure what this Western Zhou art piece *is,* but so many people said "are you sure it's not a wifi router?" that the Anhui Museum installed a working wifi access point named "Western Zhou Router" in its display case. source […] [Original post on infosec.exchange]

Scammers are generating images of broken merchandise in order to apply for refunds. From the comments: "There’s an Airbnb scam doing it too. Fake damage photos after a booking, so the guest gets charged for damages. Yet another reason to avoid Airbnb." […]

A uniquely British problem.

A #3c93 talk from @giulioz, about reverse-engineering the Roland #jp8000 synth, including figuring out its proprietary DSP architecture from scratch: https://media.ccc.de/v/39c3-from-silicon-to-darude-sand-storm-breaking-famous-synthesizer-dsps They've made a plugin that emulates a 100% […]

Sad to see it go: I’ve been there on quite a few occasions over the nine or so years in total I lived in the vicinity. @okwithmydecay https://leminal.space/post/30264741

Black cat Jack took the last train from Zaandam to Schiphol on Christmas Day. Conductor Marcel was able to bring it home. Article in Dutch: https://nos.nl/artikel/2596118-extra-gast-voor-conducteur-met-kerst-kat-jack-pakte-laatste-trein-naar-schiphol

@garius is this on your radar? @nina_kali_nina https://tech.lgbt/@nina_kali_nina/115792788459542758

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It's not New Year's Eve until Avril sings Bite Me On The Dick.

You bet I observe Christmas because otherwise its quantum state is indeterminate. Do you want a Santa who is both dead and alive??

RE: https://social.edu.nl/@OpenTech_AUC/115781220219330880 That’s possibly useful. The next step would be to create a BridgyFed-style gateway that adversarially bridges content to the fediverse, where it can be followed and interacted with.

When the King demands they build him a big, Big, BIG ship: "An archaeologist who has studied the remains of the ship in great detail thinks it sank because the gun deck was far too heavy–the result of its having been designed and built by someone with no experience building such a well-armed […]

Interesting note since I started responding with human trafficking assistance resources to all my sha zhu pan ("pig butchering") text messages -- they have stopped completely. I believe I got added to some exclusion list the criminals pass around. So I can endorse this strategy on several levels […]

I've heard anecdotal reports of computer repair places "accidentally" breaking the ram and refunding the customer the catalogue price from six months ago, presumably to feed it into machines of more important corporate customers... so we're already at the scavenging-to-survive stage of AI […]

RE: https://mastodon.social/@lyresdictionary/115767116804768077 This word deserves to be used more, as in “coambulate with me”, “we can coambulate there”, &c.

I love this!

I think this is why fascists love AI art, not because it is good, but because it is bad. Not because it is original, but because it is stolen. To make art as an expression of skill and craft and humanity reinforces humanity. To push a button that steals art and call it your own is domination.

Tjena! 🌅 Today is the winter solstice in the northern hemisphere. 🇸🇪 For people living in Stockholm, today has just over 6 hours between sunrise and sunset. Follow me for regular updates on the glorious expansion of daylight until Midsommar in Stockholm. Our […] [Original post on alpaca.gold]

Crackheads are gonna start breaking into homes to steal RAM out of gaming PCs.

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Just great. RAM is unaffordable because a few companies are hoarding it. Printer ink is about to be unaffordable because of all those 100 page fully redacted documents.

You know what? Let me amend that. There is one thing LLMs are good at: making spam. Lots and lots of spam. Almost by definition, it's hard to make good automated filters to detect it, so you basically need humans to sit there and read the slop. They're good at wasting time and DoSing brains.

Weird seeing a London Tube pulling through St. Pölten

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When Chinese media openly discusses preparing for Russia’s collapse and the division of its territory — that’s a signal. Perhaps a trial balloon. Perhaps preparing public opinion. But definitely not coincidence […]

I got the The Archer archetype in the #wrapstodon2025 thing. Probably unsurprising, as I don't use this as a diary (occasional travels excepted) and haven't made enough cool things to post about recently. https://mastodon.social/@acb/wrapstodon/2025/ed3c3d1b580f22d3

I noticed something odd in my iPhone photos. It gathered the photos of a Faust gig I went to in 2015 into a “memory”, and labelled it with the name of the frontman, as it does with friends whose face you’ve attached a name to. Only I do not have a name […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

it's truly amazing what LLMs can achieve. we now know it's possible to produce an html5 parsing library with nothing but the full source code of an existing html5 parsing library, all the source code of all other open source libraries ever, a meticulously maintained and extremely comprehensive […]

Day 16 of the amazing #decemberadventure Ive been using MPD as my music player for a while, and I finally decided to write my own client in #uxn! I am planing to have the app have a Windows-95 looking interface once its done! I got polling of the last song and […] [Original post on wetdry.world]

Mozilla has a new CEO which: - Has been at Mozilla for less than a year - Has no prior open source experience (but well in "fintech" and "real estate") - Has a MBA (aka "brainworm diploma") - Is all-in on AI That’s exactly the kind of profile the whole community has been waiting for.

A quick reminder that this year’s 25% off #Interrail sale ends at 10am CET tomorrow. You can buy directly from them at http://interrail.eu - and you get an extra 15€ off if you use code SJINTERRAIL. However, if you want to hedge your bets, and want to use a […] [Original post on cupoftea.social]

So: #mozilla's got the next CEO with a corporate background determined to make yet another futile attempt to beat big tech at their own game, when in fact the obvious way to secure relevance and a good market share for #firefox is, to combine privacy and security with good usability on all […]

All national cuisines are myths: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/dec/15/myth-traditional-italian-cuisine-food The “Italian” cuisine that conquered the world was not the one Italians carried with them when they emigrated. They had no such cuisine to carry. Those who left Italy […]

I am begging, begging, begging cool people making cool things to please have any presence on the web other than Instagram.