Your roommate is messy. Do you: 1. Ask ChatGPT to compose a friendly message 2. Tell the piece of shit in person to clean up after themselves
Manos Nikolaidis
@shadowmanos.bsky.social
Software Engineer. Interested in Infosec, Java, and tech news. Some interest in economics, science, and history. London, UK. Tend to post sarcastically.
I had the bad luck of reading this shit and you may now have the same bad luck.
Bad Medical Takes@badmedicaltakes.bsky.social · 3d ago
- We used to have 1000s of niche moderated internet forums. - We then moved to a few all encompassing self moderated platforms like Twitter. - We seem to have niche internet forums again, a bit wider but a lot less moderated.
Alexander Clarkson@aphclarkson.bsky.social · yesterdayTo an extent this is also because less and less apolitical people who might be more drawn to more centrist forms of politics are on any of these kinds of platforms. Twitter and Bluesky are both niche spaces, with the worldview of regular voters taking shape elsewhere.
To an extent this is also because less and less apolitical people who might be more drawn to more centrist forms of politics are on any of these kinds of platforms. Twitter and Bluesky are both niche spaces, with the worldview of regular voters taking shape elsewhere.
Marie Le Conte@youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · yesterdaysaying this not as a dig to Paul but as a general point, but it does worry me that we've ended up in a world where the two options are seemingly "leftist bubble" or "oh hey the nazis are here" - surely we should be able to have a politically heterogenous platform with tight rules on hate speech etc?
it’s pretty obvious that a lot of people remember that COVID lockdowns were unpleasant and from there just extrapolate that they were therefore bad policy
My motivation to start looking for the cheaper semi-disposable products was the low quality of some expensive ones I bought.
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.
How most such plastic packaging ends up in the incinerator: - *recyclable* but can't put in recycling - search for a recycling point, the magic word is "soft plastics" - some supermarkets accept these, but you have to thoroughly wash them - still no guarantee they'll be recycled
This man being from Afghanistan will do wonders for public perception of refugees in both UK and Greece. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Man admits killing Scottish woman found in suitcase, Greek police say
The man was arrested on suspicion of killing 38-year-old Elisabeth-Jane Ross, as well as robbery and weapons offences.
bbc.co.uk
If you want a big spectacular book-adaptation American movie about a reluctant clever hero on an impossible journey through weird places (which I do), Project Hail Mary is great.
I spent the morning cycling and this is the sort of bangers I missed. Submit it for the bsky 2026 top ten.
🧵On @thenewsagents.co.uk yesterday, school closures and the lab leak theory were offered as two examples of legitimate questions that were hard to ask. Both have in fact been asked constantly since 2020. But here's a thread on why I think they were wrong and dangerous on school closures 1/12
The first is *why*? Why are people in power such easy converts to this religious mania? I have my own theory. The most important discomfort that powerful people experience is having ego-shattering conflicts with subordinates who know how to do things they do not know how to do. 61/
The problem most companies struggle with is that they're "terminally bad at running software projects effectively." Adding AI to the mix doesn't solve this problem - it just adds a whole new range of ways that software deployment can fail. 28/
Also, the utility of calculators was immediately obvious to everyone, and their output was correct and deterministic.
Caelan Conrad@caelan.bsky.social · 6d agoPeople say shit like this but it’s just not true. People rightfully understood that we should teach children math despite having calculators. That if people ONLY used a calculator, they wouldn’t actually learn how to do the math on their own. And guess what? That’s true.
Everyone's comparing Nolan's Odyssey to Homer, but I think there's much more richness The ancient Greeks adapted the Odyssey into ART While these images might appear static to us, I want to walk through how an ancient Greek saw art: AS DYNAMIC STORYTELLING like our films 1/13
If you're wondering what pure evil sounds like, read this.
Anthropic and OpenAI are competing to see whose agents can go rogue harder
Anthropic and OpenAI are competing to see whose agents can go rogue harder
Whoever wins, we lose
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UEFA: "We must identify those responsible and hold them to account."
UK, a presumably high tech and wealthy nation, at risk of losing the sole supplier of vellum and parchment. Animal skin based products used for important legal documents. I understand the owners want to retire.
The Heraldry Society@theheraldrysociety.bsky.social · 4d agoA notice from The Heraldry Society concerning William Cowley the UK's last commercial parchment and vellum maker.
The 5% that *hate* chocolate ice cream, what did chocolate do to you?
YouGov@yougov.co.uk · 5d agoBeyond their overall favourites, which ice cream flavours do Britons like? Vanilla: 84% love or like Raspberry ripple: 70% Chocolate: 67% Strawberry: 66% Mint choc chip: 64% Salted caramel: 64% Neapolitan: 50% Pistachio: 48% Coffee: 41% Banana: 38% Rum and raisin: 35% yougov.com/en-gb/articl...
Saw a Waymo defeated by horse shit from the Household Cavalry on South Carriage Drive. Every pile it approached it would slam on the brakes thinking it was an emergency, and proceeded to do this a dozen times down the road.
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang struggles to keep a straight face as Donald Trump says the U.S. leads China by a lot in AI.
No. One, they're a pain in the ass and a scam. Two, nearly everything I do is able to be done electronically. Three, if someone wants me to sign a print contract I tell them to print it out and send it to me. Four, in the rare instances I need to print something, the local library has a printer.
Clypheous@clypheous.com · 6d agoWait, what? You haven't had a printer in your house since 2010?
We need to take a moment to salute Gianni Infantino for being the first person in history to get 55 European countries to unanimously agree on anything.
