Urix Turing
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Timeline cleanser of a parrot that found a traffic cam to ham it up for.
New York asks court to shut down Polymarket's "illegal gambling operation"
New York sues Polymarket as Trump admin tries to override state gambling laws.
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/09/new-york-asks-court-to-shut-down-polymarkets-illegal-gambling-operation/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social
@arstechnica Blockchain is no man’s land, isn’t it?
Urix Turing
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did you know? the ❌ on the cloudflare error page is not symmetric!
W T-D
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P.S. Let me put this another way… If the human race doesn't change course drastically and soon, then choices we've made will lead to the deaths of _billions_ of people. As this becomes clearer to people in the developing nations with the worst prospects, they will become more and more desperate, and it will become even more impossible to build physical or virtual walls tall enough to keep them out. We can find a way to help them, or we can suffer their wrath. Choose wisely.
i had missed meta's muse product and man the hype press is so funny. the nyt's puff piece that is actually titled "I gave my life over to meta's A.I. agent and was blown away" cites three good things that it can do without problems: find duplicate subscriptions when given full access to a bank account, handle a call to dental insurance, and buy things from amazon. well, I can discover duplicate subscriptions by "looking at my bank statement," the calls were made by a person in a call center, and amazon banned muse from buying things. Aside from that, it failed to fill in a web form from a company who didn't partner with meta (which presumably means some streamlined deterministic api or mcp), and spent multiple days lowballing people for plates on facebook marketplace before the person stepped in paid full price. I am looking around for other positive reviews and they are all like this lmao.
@jonny are duplicate subscriptions really a problem anyone has? Perhaps I’ve just not yet achieved the necessary level of mindless affluence, but I can’t imagine a situation in which I would accidentally subscribe to a product or service multiple times. If nothing else, you’d need two or more accounts! Who is this careless with money!?
halcy :icosahedron:
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Hoy estuve con June.
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@tewalds @denisbloodnok Which will all get smashed by Kessler Syndrome. Yay.
@sundogplanets @tewalds I think I'm willing to suppose that the unicorns have excellent debris avoidance abilities.
RE: https://mastodon.social/@Datagraver/117331676287995506
Gaat nog wel over de 120.
Farah 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈🖖🏼
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My dream is to once again hit 5k followers before the end of the year for no other reason than the fact that I like round numbers and because I want to use the Fedi clout points to buy the federated toaster oven at the Fedi merch store.
I hit the goal last year, but then a few months later I moved to a different instance and lost hundreds of followers.
Help me Fedi. You're my only hope.
(If you think that I'm worthy, please boost this post.)
when's the last time you ran a backup
@cwebber bold of you to assume I can afford enough storage to have backups 😎
Erik Uden 🚩
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I want to again express my profound gratitude to the outpouring of support from the greater mathematical community. I also want to remark that there is a far bigger story here than the one in my statement: the sheer magnitude of what frontier models can now do, and what that means for us all. I hope the labs can see this and set the petty posturing aside.
Urix Turing
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🇪🇺🚨 Next Tuesday, a dirty deal on #ChatControl 2.0 looms, allowing PERMANENT mass scanning of our private chats (so-called #SearchPlans). 😱 Speak up and email your MEPs NOW to stop this:
ℹ️ https://chatcontrol.wtf
✍️ https://fightchatcontrol.eu/?level=national#contact-tool
1947 Film, Starring John Garfield, Named One of Rotten Tomatoes’ ‘Best Boxing Movies of All Time’
https://www.mensjournal.com/news/1947-film-starring-john-garfield-named-one-of-rotten-tomatoes-best-boxing-movies-of-all-time?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
Posted into Grooming @grooming-mensjournal
Esther Payne :bisexual_flag:
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“The fallout from repeated COVID infections poses a growing “existential threat” to human health.
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“What the science now says about COVID infections, whether they appear mild or severe: every infection increases the risk for heart attacks, strokes and heart disease; for new-onset diabetes; for cognitive decline and dementia; for deregulating the immune system; and for reactivating viruses like Epstein-Barr or shingles.
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“‘The science is saying our health is progressively deteriorating,’ says Yaneer Bar-Yam [American scientist and activist specializing in complex systems and an expert in the quantitative analysis of pandemics].”
https://thetyee.ca/Analysis/2025/10/31/Physicist-COVID-Seriously-Enough/
air-gapped Debian 9.13 Stretch
@djsundog slackware 12 on a computer with no nic
@denisbloodnok @sundogplanets Agreed, it's very unlikely that we'll get space datacenters for a whole bunch of reasons. I'm just saying that if we do get even small space datacenters, we'll probably also get cheaper space telescopes.
@tewalds @denisbloodnok Which will all get smashed by Kessler Syndrome. Yay.
Carlos Solís
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OH
a: have we considered. doing a Claudeless Sprint
b: boss says we’re not allowed
theruran 💻 🌐 :cereal_killer:
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it's honestly kind of surprising to me that there is not a community-maintained fork of linux 2.4, especially since i know there are numerous vendor forks of it out there that are still in active use and being maintained somewhat in private
