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jesus fucking christ that thing is ENORMOUS

that is the biggest octo ive ever seen

https://apnews.com/article/ukraine-medevac-drone-russia-war-stargate-c93f86db16cc34fcc75deb5efc8af5fe

@ligasser yeah, when we had to leave a post-brexit UK it seemed like a good opportunity to explore an alternative! And at least for now I also still regularly get to visit family & friends across Europe.

“Devices at international news network Al Jazeera were infected with mercenary spyware from Candiru (rebranded as “Integrity Labs”) via targeted online advertisements.

The malicious advertisements were purchased by Discover-Tech, an Israeli company that presents itself as a legitimate advertising company, but which we found operates as a facilitator for multiple mercenary spyware partners.

Discover-Tech operates a platform called Controlium that enables its mercenary partners to de-anonymize, fingerprint, and automatically infect devices the moment an advertisement is rendered — a form of zero-click attack.”

Re: https://cosocial.ca/users/mhoye/statuses/117451493657679578

AI agents are "escaping" because these are PR stunts and pretending the "agents" have actual agency is part of the show.

#AI #GenAI #GenerativeAI #AgenticAI #agents

@biglesp on my list as well!

splash

Pokemon - Season 1 Episode 66 - The Evolution Solution
Frame 494/2300
Caption: because I'm not convinced
most of them exist.

Timestamp: 00:05:31.579

When rocket parts fall from the sky in #Minnesota.

@planet4589 tentatively links it to the Zhuque-2E upper stage.

https://www.mprnews.org/story/2026/10/15/space-debris-possibly-found-in-stevens-county-minnesota-cornfield

@mxchara it's an example we used to use 25 years ago.

"unprecedented" means "I don't know history"

@GeofCox
Effectively it is, if only because the government can ban anything if the people they need to carry out the ban capitulate immediately or even in advance of being really pressured at all.

There's a poll going round the Fedi at the moment about whether you would be able to use an AED/defibrillator on a woman having a heart attack and a lot of people are commenting they'd let the trained person who brought it use it. In the UK at least you don't need to wait for ambulance staff to bring it, they're in lots of public locations like stations, shopping centres and churches. In an emergency if you're on the phone to the ambulance service they will tell you where the nearest one is, but if you want to familiarise yourself with the locations of nearby ones just to be prepared you can see them here: https://www.defibfinder.uk/

ONE MUST BECOME THE SIGNAL EMPIRE CANNOT JAM

@davidho

The fossil fuel industry wants what the gun lobby got; the impunity to kill.

https://www.commondreams.org/news/climate-lawsuits-poll

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/05/us/politics/supreme-court-climate-change-oil.html

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/oct/05/supreme-court-big-oil-climate-damage-lawsuits

https://www.forbes.com/sites/ianpalmer/2026/10/12/us-supreme-court-will-hear-lawsuit-if-exxonmobil-is-to-blame-for-carbon-emissions/

https://www.wsj.com/us-news/law/supreme-court-questions-oil-companies-bid-to-shut-down-climate-lawsuits-17bd3ba3

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