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The Kyiv Independent@kyivindependent.com · 6h ago

⚡️ 'Modified drone' found next to Ukrainian transport plane at German airport. Flights at Germany's Leipzig/Halle Airport were suspended overnight on Aug. 5 after a "modified drone" was sighted and later found next to a Ukrainian Antonov Airlines An-124 transport aircraft.

playing with Claude Opus 5's "---" bug and getting excellent content

the Waterloo & City line is just very amusing to me. why does it exist like that

I imagine there's many Vic Labor folk who want to lose this election for the sake of the next one

benjamin@benjamino.bsky.social · last wk.

We are not ready for how bad the next Victorian government is going to be.

I may be a simple country hyperchicken but I do think that once the autocomplete machine can produce a novel attack on seven round AES it's not helpful to call it an autocomplete machine anymore

There are a lot of ways to imagine Hell. The menswear guy criticising your clothes. Isaac Chotiner asking you an open ended but surprisingly specific question about your past. Emily Wilson reviewing your movie script. For me it’s a Kate McClymont story about the evidence I gave yesterday

my goodness

The Guardian@theguardian.com · last wk.

Homeless families in London temporary housing told not to use air conditioning

City of London church sermons: a trader with access to Anthropic shares in the private market used leverage to invest ~his whole net worth ahead of the IPO - and how much more should we invest everything to get the treasure of heaven?

I am apparently too tall for LNR trains

Most effective activism involves fairly little theory compared to becoming an expert at taking minutes, booking meeting rooms, sending emails and making phone calls

Sky Marchini@sky.skymarchini.net · 2w ago

I’ve said before that I don’t agree with the DSA’s politics, but I have a lot of respect for them for actually not just meeting on a regular basis, but like, taking actions based on the decision decisions made in those meetings. That’s like 90% of the job!

temporarily-being-abroad takes: there's a lot of cool stuff over here, but foreign stuff doesn't hit the same as *my* stuff seeing things here that are better and grander than their Australian equivalents, and realising I'm impressed but I don't feel the same *joy* as back home

really struggling to comprehend the mental gymnastics that lead people to think the Hugging Face incident is good marketing

I've been thinking a bit today about bank supervisors, and the *immense* powers they have to walk into a bank office and get pretty much whatever information they want

Cas (Stephen Casper)@scasper.bsky.social · 2w ago

Law 2: I would also consider requiring embedded auditors to give the government a more objective lens into what is happening inside of companies to reduce the risk of companies reporting selectively or stretching the definitions of concepts like "testing."

NIMBYs in overdrive to prevent houses being built on vast areas of mowed grass and non-native trees, so that they may be glanced upon when driving past on the freeway.

ABC News Bot (unofficial)@abcnewsbot.bsky.social · 2w ago

The plan is for mid-rise housing to be developed closest to transport stops and shopping centres, with high-rise development reserved for the Woden town centre and north Curtin.

#DemosAU ACT (Territory) (!!!) ALP 32 Lib 21 ON 14 Grn 11 IND 19 Full poll report demosau.com/wp-content/u... As with Tasmania and especially because of Pocock I expect generic IND response would be inflated. First ACT public poll of term; they are rare. #actpol

1) this reflects pretty poorly on OpenAI's security culture, to, uh, say the least 2) oh how I want to know what they've said to the White House in the last 24 hours

Andrew Couts@couts.bsky.social · 2w ago

NEW: Who could have possibly seen this coming? @lhn.bsky.social and @dell.bsky.social report: www.wired.com/story/openai...

Learning about new countries via the Qantas website’s list of Emirates partnership destinations

I genuinely wonder what the vibes will be like in Gibraltar during an England v Spain World Cup final

beccadagoo@silly.bsky.social · 3w ago

if england wins the semis: the final will determine who gets gibraltar if argentina wins the semis: the final will determine who gets to be latino

I've found London buses over my few weeks here to be remarkably unreliable. Today it was a vehicle breakdown, which led to us being kicked off the bus, walking down to the next stop, and then a few minutes later the driver had the bus running again and decided to pick us all back up

The Eurostar departure experience makes even mediocre international airports feel smooth and efficient by comparison

David Ho@davidho.bsky.social · 3w ago

All original Eurostar terminals (London, Paris, Brussels) are terrible.

The most bizarre outcome of Brexit is that by leaving the EU, Gibraltar has somehow managed to join Schengen www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

New era for Gibraltar with removal of border controls with Spain

It is hoped that free movement between the UK territory and Spain will provide an economic boost.

bbc.co.uk

Today in London bus adventures: driver terminated the service and kicked us all off because the battery-electric bus had apparently run out of battery

You think you know a channel.

Stability is now being sued (alongside xAI) for abetting the production of AI NCII/CSAM due to how it developed & released several open-weight models. Anyone interested in whether AI companies will be held liable for foreseeable, mitigatable *downstream* harms should follow this.

I am both jealous of the people in this non-AC London bus with handheld fan thingos, and would feel unAustralian were I to buy one

If we took the good aspects of Japanese cities and combined them with the good bits of Australian cities, just imagine what we would have

Kitty/Inner West Hansard@tiredhottakes.bsky.social · last mo.

After 5 full days in Tokyo, I feel confident in saying: Tokyo is what Sydney could be if we just stop being such a little bitch about everything.

so many things I've been thinking about, which I want to run past a small list of my closest friends and get their high-effort thoughts on, but I feel like I've already been infodumping too much on them recently. hmmmmm

In particular, I believe that there are company executives at Alibaba, Stability, Civitai, and xAI who get up in the morning and think to themselves “yeah today I’m going to profit by abetting sexual abuse, but it’s OK because libertarianism.”

Wishing my friends had less complex lives and free time that more consistently aligned with mine