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geriatric millennial nebula who reskeets a lot πŸ’« some original posts here and there, mostly on bsky nerdery but could be anything really Β―\_(ツ)_/Β― πŸ“UK πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§

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Here are some @eurosky.social testimonials from Germany:

"Since I joined Eurosky, I've been promoted, my wife and I sleep in the same bed again, and my children are talking to me again.β€œ

06.03.2026 18:58 πŸ‘ 136 πŸ” 15 πŸ’¬ 6 πŸ“Œ 6
Kucing mujair yang sedang menguap

Kucing mujair yang sedang menguap

Kucing mujair sedang duduk santai

Kucing mujair sedang duduk santai

Kucing mujair yang sedang memantau sesuatu

Kucing mujair yang sedang memantau sesuatu

Kucing kampus

07.03.2026 07:51 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Hmm I’m not sure about this new plumber πŸ€”

07.03.2026 04:11 πŸ‘ 434 πŸ” 49 πŸ’¬ 14 πŸ“Œ 1

Everyone here is playing and experimenting with new ways that social media can be useful instead of draining and bad. It might take a while but the future is obviously here

07.03.2026 04:34 πŸ‘ 92 πŸ” 11 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

they should invent guiltless pleasure

07.03.2026 04:02 πŸ‘ 67 πŸ” 22 πŸ’¬ 8 πŸ“Œ 0

Absolutely insupportable. Labour have a massive majority. It’s a hugely popular issue. To fail to act would be a dereliction of historic proportions, and utterly inexplicable.

06.03.2026 22:26 πŸ‘ 794 πŸ” 281 πŸ’¬ 35 πŸ“Œ 12
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Computer and coding books from Usborne | Usborne | Be Curious Usborne children's coding books for a new generation

Usborne released a bunch of their old 80s programming books for free a while back, and they're all just a gem:

usborne.com/us/books/com...

07.03.2026 07:17 πŸ‘ 123 πŸ” 27 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 2
A long page describing how to use Arrays in the BASIC language. There's three screenshots of BASIC computers, with pixely game enemies on top giving extra context to the screenshots.

There's also a box with a bunch of paper with numbers on them next to a robot, as they use a sort of mailbox metaphor to explain Arrays

A long page describing how to use Arrays in the BASIC language. There's three screenshots of BASIC computers, with pixely game enemies on top giving extra context to the screenshots. There's also a box with a bunch of paper with numbers on them next to a robot, as they use a sort of mailbox metaphor to explain Arrays

See? Page 9. Arrays.

07.03.2026 07:16 πŸ‘ 126 πŸ” 7 πŸ’¬ 4 πŸ“Œ 0

ngl when I read the first sentence here my brain started to autocomplete:

"It's an atproto server, Cory. How much could it cost, $10?"

07.03.2026 05:44 πŸ‘ 17 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

you may not care about counterintelligence. or foreign policy. or collective security. but as each of those things goes to shit, the world is going to hell in a handbasket

06.03.2026 23:18 πŸ‘ 158 πŸ” 24 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 1

β€œMAGA’s fundamental shared quality is a total lack of theory of mind for other people” is a theory that keeps getting validated by reality - look at almost every decision they’ve made in the war with Iran, and how they seem constantly surprised by the unanticipated actions of other parties.

06.03.2026 14:20 πŸ‘ 2378 πŸ” 501 πŸ’¬ 52 πŸ“Œ 55

The U.S. made this class of stunningly stupid, pudding-soft MAGA parasites who have managed to move through life without ever encountering genuinely meaningful pushback. This led them to starting this wildly dangerous war in Iran - and looks like their reality distortion field is no longer working.

06.03.2026 14:23 πŸ‘ 1307 πŸ” 180 πŸ’¬ 26 πŸ“Œ 12
witchsky composer showing markdown link

witchsky composer showing markdown link

also Witchsky does

06.03.2026 23:14 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

okay so this seems pretty clear. he knows what it is, he did it on purpose, he chose keeping it over his career with the Marines, if we know this then Susan Collins will also know it, it will 100% come up in the general, let's be done talking about this guy as a real candidate

06.03.2026 22:35 πŸ‘ 1549 πŸ” 398 πŸ’¬ 6 πŸ“Œ 0
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This 4chan Board Became a Factory for Explicit AI β€˜Deepfakes.’ Nobody Is Stopping It. - Open Measures Open Measures builds accessible and transparent products to contextualize the spread of harmful online information that impacts public discourse and global events.

NEW: One of the most active hubs for sexually explicit AI "deepfakes" is hiding in plain sight. My latest takes a hard look at a 4chan board that's acting as a factory floor for online sexual abuse β€” where its users have victimized untold numbers of women and girls.

openmeasures.io/4chan-ai-dee...

06.03.2026 22:45 πŸ‘ 241 πŸ” 115 πŸ’¬ 9 πŸ“Œ 11
A chart shows the daily number of posts on 4chan’s β€œAdult Requests” imageboard recorded by Open Measures between Mar. 1, 2025, and Mar. 1,  2026. Daily activity on the imageboard nearly tripled over the analysis period we reviewed, peaking in January 2026.

A chart shows the daily number of posts on 4chan’s β€œAdult Requests” imageboard recorded by Open Measures between Mar. 1, 2025, and Mar. 1, 2026. Daily activity on the imageboard nearly tripled over the analysis period we reviewed, peaking in January 2026.

Also... some reporters and researchers have been writing off 4chan as a dying website. That's so untrue it's absurd.

Daily activity on this single board, which is all but dedicated to nonconsensual deepfakes now, nearly TRIPLED over the past year.

openmeasures.io/4chan-ai-dee...

06.03.2026 22:45 πŸ‘ 69 πŸ” 18 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 2

I’m glad someone said this to his face and more of these CEOs need to hear it: If the conversation around tech seems negative now it’s because you, your products, and what they’re doing to our society fucking sucks. You stopped making optimistic technology and unleashed MechaHitler the job killer.

06.03.2026 19:31 πŸ‘ 150 πŸ” 34 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 1

vibe coding =! using an LLM and having the technical expertise to review the output and correct course if it goes wrong

04.03.2026 16:13 πŸ‘ 30 πŸ” 4 πŸ’¬ 4 πŸ“Œ 0

Jack's idea for Twitter was basically just sharing your status (e.g. "at a night club downtown").

Evan Williams, who had created Blogger previously, was IMHO the prime mover behind Twitter becoming a microblogging network.

Jack gets credit for "inventing Twitter" which is just not really true.

06.03.2026 22:08 πŸ‘ 12 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

not sure how to think about jack dorsey

he obviously doesn't understand what the team has built at all, but he's also unusual in actually having funded a project like this

his pushing for elon sale was imo disastrous for the stated goals but created a real window of opportunity for open social

06.03.2026 21:06 πŸ‘ 184 πŸ” 12 πŸ’¬ 11 πŸ“Œ 2
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Let’s talk about Graham Platner’s Big Lie, finally. In 2009, at the height of the Gulf War, the Marines barred him from active duty. Platner claims it was his forearm tattoos. But his one forbidden tattoo was the Nazi symbol on his chest. He knew - and he left the Marines rather than give it up. 1/

06.03.2026 14:26 πŸ‘ 3884 πŸ” 1627 πŸ’¬ 123 πŸ“Œ 516

indeed! πŸ˜…

I should've tried that first, after having read that thread I'm guessing it might be something OAuth-related

06.03.2026 20:44 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

for anyone else running into this, give these steps a try:

06.03.2026 20:37 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

false alarm, I tried signing out, signing in again and force-quitting the app and now it's working again Β―\_(ツ)_/Β―

so all good :)

06.03.2026 20:36 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 1

the appview calls are proxied apparently?

I should ping the dev too: hi @josh.uno I think @catbird.blue might be experiencing issues?

06.03.2026 20:29 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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And hop, I shifted to @eurosky.social -- and it was very easy to do so.

In case you want to continue to support European tech initiative in concrete terms --> move.eurosky.tech

05.03.2026 09:32 πŸ‘ 18 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 0
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Info Contexte - La France et l’Espagne Γ©chouent Γ  inscrire le bannissement des systΓ¨mes d’IA de nudification dans l’omnibus IA - Contexte L’info en profondeur.

New: Paris and Madrid failed to convince other EU capitals to add in the tech omnibus a ban of AI generated nudity content without consent (hey Grok).

Still some whispers MEPs will try to push for a ban for the trilogues. But it is very uncertain.

www.contexte.com/fr/actualite...

06.03.2026 09:30 πŸ‘ 13 πŸ” 16 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1

I think it might be an issue with the catbird API?

06.03.2026 20:20 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

true

although I just checked and he's very active on ex-twitter again these days as well πŸ€·πŸ»β€β™‚οΈ

06.03.2026 20:19 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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is anyone else having problems with @catbird.blue?

06.03.2026 20:15 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0