this is the best one: "No, I am not changing my license to MIT. However, I now offer commercial licenses that can be negotiated upon reque- Hello? Hello, are you there? Fucking thought so." 😂
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Tall, dark, black-clad, atheist, skeptic, vegetarian, SF fan; writes (mostly about computers) for a living. All opinions expressed are my own & not those of any employer.
All great families should follow this progression.
Zebulon Vitruvius Pike@vitruviuspike.bsky.social · 23h ago
But by all means, let’s play footsie with the fossil fuel industry.
George Smeeton @gsmeeton.bsky.social · 12h agoBritish farmers are facing a "completely brutal" year, with analysis suggesting the 2026 harvest could be the worst on record due to extreme summer weather: www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...
My answer is LOL ROFL (dickbrain) The terminally AI-pilled can't even *imagine* some people have *never* asked stochastic parrots to cheat at their job for them.
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Painting 1 of 3 rotor blades black on 4 Norwegian turbines cut bird collisions by nearly 72%, and the white tailed eagles under them stopped hitting the rotors altogether www.ecoportal.net/en/painting-...
Painting 1 of 3 rotor blades black on 4 Norwegian turbines cut bird collisions by nearly 72 percent, and the white tailed eagles under them stopped hitting the rotors altogether
Smøla is a low treeless island off the northwest coast of Norway, and 68 wind turbines stand on it.
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Celebrating 45 Years of Kermit with the First New C-Kermit Release in 15 Years (and working with a decades-old C codebase) changelog.complete.org/archives/444...
Celebrating 45 Years of Kermit with the First New C-Kermit Release in 15 Years (and working with a decades-old C codebase) | The Changelog
1981 was a different time for computing. It was expensive (both hardware and software), and it was far from a given that machines from one vendor would be able to talk to those from another. In…
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Worth posting in context as it is bang on topic.
But I didn’t want Cadburys to taste like shite, that’s been imposed on me. Mondolez made $2.4 billion last year they could have swallowed some of the higher cocoa costs, but didn’t, and more importantly, now costs are lower, they won’t reinstate the quality will they?
Max Dubler 🏳️🌈@maxdubler.com · 3d agoI think my most genuinely unpopular take is that a widely held and genuine consumer preference for cheaper, lower-quality goods, not private equity, is driving the decline in quality of consumer goods like clothing and housewares.
There is absolutely *no* sense in cutting funding to one of the world’s greatest (and best-known) scientific resources. https://www.theguardian.com/science/2026/aug/03/jodrell-bank-observatory-artists-writers-scientists-letter
Artists, writers and scientists urge UK government to save Jodrell Bank Observatory
New Order and Simon Armitage among more than 100 signatories to criticise ‘foolish and shortsighted’ cuts
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carving “this machine kills fascists” into a 60lb rare earth magnet and launching it into a data center
you know the dumb jock stereotype in movies? they actually toned it down from real baseball players just colossal dumbasses, almost every one (sometimes laudatory, sometimes derogatory)
Razzball@razzball.bsky.social · 2d agojust woke up to the Jays are buying at the deadline and Pete Crow-Armstrong thinks Babe Ruth was made-up
Harvey & Joyce's adopted daughter Danielle is trying to raise funds to deal with Pekar's raw archive; basically four storage lockers full of notes, outlines, ideas, etc. Note this is not Pekar's comics per se. Those rights have been tied up in court for years. Long, ugly story. Worth backing.
His Name was Harvey Pekar
Saving the legacy of Harvey Pekar:Urgent mission to rescue four full storage units of American Splendor history before its lost forever
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If you didn't get the joke... across much of the northern hemisphere, it hasn't rained in 2-3 months now. And this is the coolest wettest year anyone alive now will ever see.
Liam Proven@lproven.bsky.social · 2d agoRT @Sheril@mastodon.social Yes! Credit to a “Yannick R.” I do not know them but I spotted this on social media it appeals to the part of me that works in agriculture & the global #food system. #science
Pluralistic: Dualism (03 Aug 2026) pluralistic.net/2026/08/03/a... <- @doctorow.pluralistic.net uses conjurers' "magic" tricks fool people, & similar processors have tricked believers in "AI"
Pluralistic: Dualism (03 Aug 2026) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
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There’s “off the charts” and there’s France’s absolutely bonkers June & July 2026 temperatures (see black line below). Bad things are happening. Fast.
His Name was Harvey Pekar buff.ly/SzMvDM8 Saving the legacy of Harvey Pekar: Urgent mission to rescue 4 full storage units of American Splendor history before it's lost forever
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No idea of source or if attribution is correct, but simply can’t can’t resist “I heard Bill Gates & Elon Musk joined forces to create a male enhancement pill... they're calling iit ELON-GATES bahaha It cures...well... Micro-Soft Ryan McMillan Maplewood”
New blog entry: On the non-use of AI in my writing process: www.antipope.org/charlie/blog...
"Benefit of Clergy: Some Notes on Salvador Dali" by George Orwell
George Orwell: Benefit of Clergy: Some Notes on Salvador Dali
Benefit of Clergy: Some Notes on Salvador Dali, the review of George Orwell. First published: 1944 by/in The Saturday Book for 1944, GB, London
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