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Amanda
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@amanda.systems
I’m usually on @amanda@social.spejset.org (Mastodon). PhD student of programming languages working on the Polonius borrow checker for Rust. Terrible philosopher. Mid Marxist. Technically a librarian.
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Deeply unfair to twins who unlike fascism and patriarchy can choose to walk different paths (this is a joke please don't get mad at anyone involved in this except for the fascists) Moreover, ICE must be destroyed
This is becoming a common pattern worldwide and if you're wondering it's because facism and patriarchy are twins.
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I think of Penelope Scott’s Rät almost daily. Clearly she captured something that is now in full bloom. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LpxT9TLGoLI
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This is so weird.
In the last few weeks i've been bombarded with emails from people who have minor tech support problems. ChatGPT is telling them to email me, writing their emails, and compiling "evidence packets" after convincing them they have stumbled on a major story: www.404media.co/chatgpt-keep...
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Ministern höll hemliga möten med skogsindustrin - tog emot önskelistor på regeländringar. Efter det lobbade regeringen för minskat skydd för fåglar och andra artgrupper, i EU. www.aftonbladet.se/nyheter/klim...
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Riksdagen hann knappt samlas innan en ledamot vände och gick ut genom svängdörren till lobbyistgänget. klagget.nu/2026/10/23/m...
www.leicester.news/bbc-edits-ou... oh great this seems normal and good
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But sir, I am the tech sector
“No Signs of AI Payoff Outside the Tech Sector” https://www.apollo.com/wealth/insights-news/insights/daily-spark/no-signs-of-ai-payoff-outside-the-tech-sector?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email > the technology has delivered zero financial payoff to corporate America outside of tech.
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Nu tycker jag inte att Musk borde ha någon makt i huvudtaget utanför den fängelsecell han förtjänar att sitta i. Men är ändå toppen att amerikanska staten förlamas av att alla deras oligarker samlat för mycket politisk makt. Netto bra om deras militär inte klarar av att verka runt världen
If Musk can disable Starlink against the Ukrainian or other European militaries, he can also disable it against the US government. Musk's brain is so utterly fried that in trying to prevent US state intervention he is making claims that make nationalisation of SpaceX more likely
blog.luitjes.it/posts/i-want... seems there was a substantial amount of wolf crying going on here.
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A wild story: the CEO of a US energy company whose plans were discussed during the Witkoff-Kushner-Putin negotiations resigns. Why? He learned that his company's main investor is a sanctioned Russian company, not the UAE www.nytimes.com/2026/10/23/u...
Storbritannien införde ID-lagar och begränsningar av tillgång till internet för barn och ungdomar. Alla kunde ana exakt vad som hände sen: ingenting. www.theguardian.com/society/2026...
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If they’re as bad at this as they are at de extinction we are just gonna get a slightly larger malinois and a billion dollars of VC Money poured into dogs That nobody wants as pets
*NEW* Colossal Biosciences’ Ben Lamm and Anduril’s Palmer Luckey team up on a new startup to genetically engineer war dogs for the military. Warhound comes out of stealth at $1.2B valuation For @forbes.com with @iainmartin.bsky.social and @mhunterhart.bsky.social www.forbes.com/sites/amyfel...
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en viktig sak att komma ihåg om sånt här är att syftet aldrig är att lyckas utan att håva in investeringspengar.
*NEW* Colossal Biosciences’ Ben Lamm and Anduril’s Palmer Luckey team up on a new startup to genetically engineer war dogs for the military. Warhound comes out of stealth at $1.2B valuation For @forbes.com with @iainmartin.bsky.social and @mhunterhart.bsky.social www.forbes.com/sites/amyfel...
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now, yes, you may die. but have you considered that we preserved the supply of a famously evil luxury good?
NEW: A bird flu outbreak has been raging uncontrolled on a Utah mink farm for two months. Flu experts fear it could spark a devastating human pandemic. But officials haven’t acted — instead prioritizing the financial interests of the fur trade.
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oh my fucking god it just keeps going www.phoronix.com/news/LKML-Ne...
merry christmas! github.com/php/php-src/... github.com/php/php-src/...
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Not a single word of this is hyperbolic in the slightest. Buy your friends in cybersecurity the drink or chocolate of their choice right now. We are not doing well
wrote about "Black October," the PHP vulnerability, and the AI-fueled dread and panic I'm seeing among almost all of the cybersecurity experts I've ever known. I think people w/ LLMs are brute forcing software the same way they brute forced social media w/ slop www.404media.co/php2shell-bl...
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if you told me this was a cry for help from the advertising professionals who made this ad i would have no idea how to disprove that.
The first genuinely honest ad for generative AI I've ever seen, from Microsoft / CoPilot A mediocre white guy sees his non-white colleague getting praised for good work, he asks AI to *literally copy it*, and then he gets all the praise instead: www.ispot.tv/ad/SoDi/micr...
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Booksellers and indie publishers take note! ⚠️ Elizabeth Soto is appealing a 50 year sentence connected to the publication and distribution of anarchist literature in Texas.
A message from Prairieland Defendant Elizabeth Soto from Johnson County, where her state case is currently pending. @nlg.org @brennancenter.org @fireantmovement.bsky.social
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Vad gör vi nu, när valrörelsen är över och rösterna räknade, men partierna fortsätter käbbla? Vi kan faktiskt sluta vänta och agera som om världen redan vore en annan, bättre. Det kallas prefigurativ handling och kan visa en väg ut ur hopplösheten, skriver @fridahylander.bsky.social.
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www.theguardian.com/environment/... Fan vad bra det går