Please join me in congratulating Woman on her appointment

Pretty staggering admission from the EU's economic security director Peter Sandler, 2+ yrs after the launch of the economic security strategy: "Economic Security is not a concept which has been defined in any detail yet by the European Commission."

Counter-opinion: it’s a f***ing tragedy that corporate greed has broken the medium which facilitated Tahrir Square etc and is now doing its best to break the rest of the Internet.

i looked at the methodology for this and it is a. sex addiction counseling group in texas did a surveymonkey and extrapolated the results to the entire us population which is the sort of research design that earns you an ff on an intro methods class (the extra f is for extra effort), and b. p-hacked

The Garden of Earthly Delights (detail), by Hieronymus Bosch, 1480-1505

I Photoshop Paddington into a movie, TV show, or pop culture until I forget: Day 1663

no no the publishing industry is doing fine, why do you ask

Honored Battle Brother Hatsune Miku

Revolver Oshawott

I’m no Newsom fanboy, but figuring out how to change the incentives of institutions considering capitulation is one of the big tasks of our moment.

Six years ago, almost to the day, Apple removing a similar app from the Hong Kong App Store was seen as such a breach that Tim Cook wrote an all staff email to defend it www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

GUY WHO JUST CAME BACK FROM DOING THE JABBA'S PALACE COMEDY FESTIVAL: You know, I gotta say they're really great in there, they're just like us. I thought it was only gonna be women in chains and a trapdoor monster they feed slaves to but like, they also have a band that plays cool music.

Yeah, or like the existence of some problems everywhere means everywhere is equally problematic. “Yeah, it’s true that you have a 95% chance of experiencing transphobia in rural Mississippi, but you have a 5% chance of experiencing it in western Mass., so what’s the difference?“ Uh…. 90%?

On this day in 1924, Gilbert Simondon was born. A pioneering French philosopher of technology, Simondon challenged us to see machines not as passive tools but as entities with their own modes of existence. 1/

bespoke: gostar de coentro pq tem gosto de sabão

I think we could try

Vance's most monumental achievement to date has been being told off by two popes in one year.

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A spectre is haunting Europe

tbt the time a drunk was trying to insult one of the bouncers on the high street and got the devastating response "oh look, someone who doesn't matter has said something that isn't true". I often think about this when not replying to tweets

"Mr. Bialystock, I'm afraid you've mistaken me for someone with a spine."

Always love the framing 'scientists have finally revealed' at the start of a headline. Like they've been keeping it all a secret.

This post on "dual class origins" of Labour MPs is interesting cos it highlights that many in the UK have a notion of class wherein one can "inherits" one's class, so if one had working class parents one is therefore still working class even if one is presently, say, an Oxford educated barrister!

Well this is very cool. I'd totally get an open source, wall mounted, raspberry pi powered inkjet. Especially as it can print by just cutting sheets off a roll of paper. www.crowdsupply.com/open-tools/o...

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I'd love the vetbro "THE ROES MADE BY WOKE LAWYERS AND DESK JOCKEY OFFICERS MADE US LOSE" crowd to explain why neither the Russian military nor the Israeli military—despite having committed war crimes and killed civilians for years now—have achieved a single one of their military objectives.

I think we all know what's gone wrong here - Labour haven't spent enough time loudly telling voters that immigrants are, in fact, bad, and its urgent they be protected from them. Once Labour really get on that people will see that Reform offer nothing and wise up I am sure.

Bluesky feed is like ------------------ we're doomed ------------------ we're doomed ------------------ we're doomed ------------------ cute kitty! ------------------ we're doomed ------------------ we're doomed ------------------ [adult content] ------------------ we're doomed ------------------

MEANWHILE ON ECKS DOT COM: are LLMs evil because they're secretly Jewish?

No Mr. Bond, I expect you to die

um dos muitos problemas da internet do fim do mundo é que você compra uma única coisa e fica o resto da vida recebendo newsletters diárias de uma empresa que te chama de amiga

an extraordinary person with an extraordinary legacy who nevertheless didn’t take herself too seriously when Gary Larson published this cartoon, she was in Africa and her institute was horribly offended and drafted a complaint the whole thing was defused when she returned - she found it funny

BREAKING: Dr. Jane Goodall, an animal rights advocate, has died of natural causes at age 91, the Jane Goodall Institute says in a statement.

We are thrilled to announce that our NEW Large Language Model will be released on 11.18.25.

Eu li chorozinho-do-papo-reto e já imaginei o bonezinho

If you think this is US-only, it's not. If you think the GDPR protects you, it's doesn't. If you hadn't realised privacy is a national security and corporate espionage issue, it is. If you think politicians can't tackle this, they can. If you believe that tech or business need this, they don't.

Apparently 5% of Reform voters think they are racist.

Fuck the 1% wealth club i want in on this

Incredibly useful thread from @chanret.bsky.social for anybody contemplating a PhD

The episode where Azula Mei Zuko and Ty Li go to Ember Island

🚨 PhD Vacancy – Generative AI in the Media 🚨 Exciting opportunity to join us on the @algosoc.org project, working w/ myself, @cgoanta.bsky.social & @natalihelberger.bsky.social 📅 Closing date: 31 October 2025 🔗 More info: werkenbij.uva.nl/en/vacancies...   Cc: @ivir-uva.bsky.social

People say international solidarity cannot work, and yet eduroam.

I’m a sewage system. I also have a great personality.

Man, Tom Lehrer was so great. Legit RIP to a real one.

Either real-time bidding data or app SDK data is being bought and used by ICE to seize people from the streets. If you didn’t believe that the adtech stack is a human rights concern, I’m not sure what more evidence you need. www.404media.co/ice-to-buy-t...

Can’t wait to see this guy get absolutely clowned by the Emperor worm’s Fish Speakers.

Stress-Free Eric Adams Spends Day Bribing Pigeons In Central Park

pete hegseth, who you will recall has been accused of domestic abuse and sexual assault, has announced a new policy by which you cannot file anonymous complaints of mistreatment. sex criminal solidarity.

Omg. I’ve never seen anything like this in a judicial opinion: