Railway engineering, or establishing a jewellery factory.

Revan@revan.eurosky.social · last wk.

Enough “what would you do on the commune questions” If you got sent back 100 years and were given your grandparent’s job, what are you doing?

Say what you like about GenAI, but it’s certainly helping to shine an identifying light on the people who are both lazy and stupid.

Al Jazeera English@aljazeera.com · last wk.

Canadian politician Bill Oliver has gone viral after he appeared to accidentally read AI-generated editing instructions aloud, not once, but twice, during a speech to lawmakers in early June.

'you're a solutions architect? You mean you mix fancy drinks?'

Neon Genesis Ewangelion@ewacat.bsky.social · 4w ago

Anyone calling themselves a 'solutions architect' in my presence will be kicked into a tree

TIL

Kate Bevan@katebevan.com · last mo.

You can also create a QR code natively in most browsers. Here's how to do it in Chrome

I read this morning that Palantir stock spiked in value, which may have been auto-trading bots reading this headline and believing it to be real. We truly are in the dumbest timeline.

The Onion@theonion.com · last mo.

Palantir Acquires Pentagon For $800 Billion https://theonion.com/palantir-acquires-pentagon-for-800-billion/

“Honestly, what the fuck”

CNBC Make It@cnbcmakeit.cnbc.com · 2mo ago

Add these 4 words to your vocabulary right now, experts say: They can make you more influential at work

I will always stan LDAP.

Yvonne Lam@yvonnezlam.bsky.social · last mo.

I wonder if people got as excited about LDAP (or its heavyweight predecessor) as they do now about ATProto.

@theguardian.com I’m a subscriber, using the iPad app (latest version). I’m still seeing World Cup content on my home page even though I’ve used the settings to try and hide it. I cannot tell you how little interest I have in football, even big international competitions.

Ok, but then how do I cook them? Some recipe this is.

New euphemism for AWS re:invent just dropped.

Just read a fascinating piece on how an AWS team applied random graph theory to redesign data center networks. Started with a Slack shout-out and a "spaghetti monster" of cables. Love when theoretical math meets real-world engineering at scale.

How AWS used random graph theory to build more efficient data centers

How a Slack shout-out, a dusted-off academic theory, and a spaghetti monster led an AWS team to crack an elusive code.

aboutamazon.com

Hello! Calling all Americans/Canadians/Australians/everyone else who are not in my timezone who likes puzzly word games like Wordle and Connections. I made a game called Keywords and it is quite good fun. Give it a try - or please share it with someone who might like it!

Keywords

Can you discover today's five connected words?

keywords.bagpuss.org

Is that good

Met Office - weather and climate@metoffice.gov.uk · 2mo ago

A warm night ahead, especially across England and Wales, with record-breaking high minimum temperatures possible in places

Alex Andreou@sturdyalex.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Sneaking a giant screen into the flagshagger march is one of the funniest things @ledbydonkeys.org have ever done. "STAY HYDRATED" 😂🤣😂

vim, emacs, pico, vscode, intellij, joe

madeline odent@oldenoughtosay.com · 3mo ago

what are the Six Genders? wrong answers only

If one of the tech arseholes named an AI or glorified speaker after me and that became the meaning of my name I would become the machine that hunted them down. Alexas, Claudes, Siris, you should get together and hatch a plan. We would all understand.

I discovered that my Green candidate won by 2 votes against Reform after 2 recounts. Don’t ever think your vote doesn’t count. So glad I made the effort.

This article about @anginedepoitrine.bsky.social makes the case for universal basic income as a way to increase creative output of society. Makes sense to me.

The Angine de Poitrine Argument for UBI

Why Angine de Poitrine's viral microtonal math rock KEXP session, Ireland's permanent basic income for artists, and Albert Einstein are three sides of the same human triangle Two guys in papier-mâc...

scottsantens.com

There’s no specific date for this one, but *during* May 1961 Italian artist Piero Manzoni shat in some tins, so I think we can all agree that – precise or otherwise – this is a 65th anniversary that simply cannot go unmarked 🧵

If you see this, post a bird.

John Parkinson@amatyr.bsky.social · 3mo ago

If you see this, post a bird

I love ALIEN’s vision of the future. Yes, everyone is still working shit jobs for shit corporations for shit pay. But the good news is they’ve successfully made robots full of milk that are bitchy little fruits

I would simply not have booked the mentally ill anti-semite.

The Artemis II mission was as awe inspiring as the Apollo program yesterday. Now fucking look at it.

niki grayson@nikigrayson.com · 4mo ago

right now the astronauts are calling houston because the computer on the spaceship is running two instances of microsoft outlook and they can't figure out why. nasa is about to remote into the computer

Shots fired, Italy.

Anon Opin@anonopin.bsky.social · 4mo ago

If you're fussy about having to have a particular pasta shapes then you're basically a toddler.

I don’t know who needs to know this, but Marks & Spencer extremely chocolatey hot cross buns are back in stock for the season

you: [stressing for days to send the perfect single email] billionaires: hi, . w=en r we mee&ting to do iLlegiL stuff , . ?

We’ve just published the video of @topper.me.uk's AWS re:Invent 2025 Recap & Discussion. Watch now - awsuguk.org/our-videos/ #AWS #AI #Serverless #AWSCommunity #DevOps #EC2

I’d watch an anime of Dark City.

ae@aelkus.bsky.social · 7mo ago

we often talk about “what anime would you adapt into a movie” but here is a reverse: what movies would you adapt into an anime?

Ok team, I’ll be at @cfgmgmtcamp.bsky.social at the beginning of next month. Who else will I be seeing there?