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#BBCNews - Greenock, the Scottish town whose council wants migrants to move in
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ckgdpdk84d0o
We need the discussion about AI to move beyond the "AI is bad" shitstorm level on Bluesky. It's hurting the adoption of open social media, because normal people don't like getting yelled at. So I think I'll start posting more success stories about how AI is useful in my life.
@anderspucknielsen.dk I believe we need to be more specific in our language. A #vocabulary of only a single word, "AI", does not allow for a sensible public #debate.
#AI can mean so many different techniques, products and uses. It's a bit like we're exchanging opinions about the olympic games but we're only
allowed to use the word "sports".
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Israeli settlers set fire to Palestinian home while family asleep
https://www.aljazeera.com/video/newsfeed/2026/8/21/israeli-settlers-set-fire-to-palestinian-home-while-family-asleep?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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“I have never seen an El Niño signal this intense in our forecasts.”
—Prof Adam Scaife, head of long-range forecasting at the UK Met Office.
Although any El Niño is part of an oscillation each one is acting on increasing background heating.
“Earlier this month, the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organization warned that El Niño could threaten tens of millions of people in at-risk countries with crisis-level acute food insecurity.”
…The sentence which immediately follows the Scaife quote above says:
“There is no clear evidence that climate change is making El Niño events worse, but its weather impacts are more extreme in a warming world.”
On close reading it’s trying to articulate something quite precisely nuanced.
The trouble is that that laudable scientific aspiration for precision acts as a gateway for Business As Usual. And its effects are very unfucking nuanced.
The asymmetry is off the charts
Summer in Winter - Mona and her dog Summer share their Pictures and Experiences - E79
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With all these recalls, the only left that’s safe to eat is the rich
the Python "attrs" package is imported as "attr" and provides two functions: "attr.s" and "attr.ib" 🙃
i did the same in my "eff" package which provides "eff.ects" class:
https://pypi.org/project/eff/
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Self-Hosting Offline Websites
https://hackaday.com/2026/08/21/self-hosting-offline-websites/
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Rock-eating fungi flourish deep below our feet https://news.umich.edu/rock-eating-fungi-flourish-deep-below-our-feet/
Deep subsurface organic-rich shale supports abundant, diverse, and novel fungi https://academic.oup.com/ismej/advance-article/doi/10.1093/ismejo/wrag184/8744037
"the water was last in contact with the surface 11,000 years ago. The abundance of melting glacial water likely carried #fungi and #bacteria down through porous and fractured rock layers until they settled in cracks of the Antrim Shale, where they began munching on the organic material trapped in the rock."
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I’ve been meaning to watch Channel 4’s documentary The Great #ADHD Myth all week, not because I think I’ll agree with it’s assertion that ADHD is a a ‘social construct’ but because I wanted to see what tricks the latest fighters of a culture war on #neurodivergence are using.
Professor Gina Rippon, whose books I’ve read and seen speak, eloquently shreds the documentary here:
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Good morning, Fedi friends!
#catsofmastodon
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GNU/LinuxDay in Vorarlberg - 26.09.2026
Wer gerne auf Veranstaltungen zum Thema Linux geht, muss sich ranhalten. Der GNU/LinuxDay in Vorarlberg steht vor der Tür.
#Veranstaltung #GNU/LinuxDay #Vorarlberg #Linux
The news editor was creaming themselves over finally getting to use this headline:
"Biggar Penis Woods get the chop after getting blown too much"
https://metro.co.uk/2026/08/19/phallic-shaped-penis-woods-chopped-despite-swell-opposition-29412849/
@cstross Despite swell opposition!
I'm not sure how it became incumbent upon me to accept and adapt to my colleagues use of LLMs instead of how we usually react to people taking shortcuts and hilariously self owning themselves while trying to get ahead at the expense of everyone else around them.
@jonny "LLMs make things so much faster for me, I don't know what you're doing wrong. (I put some slop together in 5 minutes and hand it over to you to actually do the work)"
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In Their World, Tornadoes Strengthen the Bonds of Friendship
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/21/movies/tornado-never-stop-chasing-reed-timmer.html?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
Posted into Movies @movies-newyorktimes
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lots of #gnome hate out today...
I probably shouldn't do this, but genuine questions:
what makes you so passionate about features changed more than 10 years ago now? and why can't they be found elsewhere?
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Instance recommendation needed:
Some friends and myself are setting up a project called "My Writing Matters", that connects writers to editors, book cover designers, illustrators, proofreaders, and other professionals that don't use AI and won't scam them.
We've set up a website, but need to create a Mastodon account as well and I'm not sure what instance would be best.
Some writers' instances specify in their rules they don't want people offering writers' services so I want to be careful about that.
Any suggestions?
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I'm not sure how it became incumbent upon me to accept and adapt to my colleagues use of LLMs instead of how we usually react to people taking shortcuts and hilariously self owning themselves while trying to get ahead at the expense of everyone else around them.
