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Sturgeon's law applies

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#ForTheHerd Influenza enervated, trivalent aggregated, inoculated, vaccinated: antibodies activated! 2026-2027's roster: · A/Switzerland/6849/2025 IVR-278 (H1N1) · A/Michigan/105/2025 (H3N2) · B/Tokyo/EIS13-175/2025-like virus (B/Victoria lineage)

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Our shit ain't fucked up too often #ThrowbackThursday Back in the days of yore when dialup ruled the Earth, a plucky group including yours truly founded an ISP named LavaNet

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So we had to make some special staff-only buttons, because it really was true; our shit wasn't fucked up too often! ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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Our shit ain't fucked up too often #ThrowbackThursday Back in the days of yore when dialup ruled the Earth, a plucky group including yours truly founded an ISP named LavaNet

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At LavaNet we used to do promotional buttons as giveaways for trade shows and presentations. Cheap and fun, and the customers liked them!

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There was this vociferous poster and flamer on the old hawaii.inet-providers Usenet newsgroup, who went by "Feyd". As I recall he'd had accounts on most of the Internet providers in Hawaii, and had terrible things to say about most of them.

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#ArtemisII image reprocessed (color cast, noise, contrast). Data for the original picture: Nikon D5, 14-24mm 2.8 AFS at 22mm, 1/4s at f/4, ISO 51200. Earth at night, with Venus at 11 o'clock position. #astronomy #astrophotography Image credit: Image Credit: #NASA/ Reid Wiseman

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Does what it says on the tin: acid techno mix in Japanese sake brewery. [youtube.com]

youtube.comacid techno mix in Japanese sake brewery l Haruka l Login.jp l techno garage danceFor over a millennium, the refined clarity of Sake, or Japanese rice wine, has flowed through the heart of Japanese spirituality and social ritual, evolving from a sacred offering for the gods into the drink of choice for many across the country. While its origins are shrouded in ancient grain-masti
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Secretary of Defense extorts AI companies for unfettered use of their products. Meanwhile...

Christopher Mims@mims.bsky.social

AIs can’t stop recommending nuclear strikes in war game simulations Leading AIs from OpenAI, Anthropic and Google opted to use nuclear weapons in simulated war games in 95 per cent of cases www.newscientist.com/article/2516...

newscientist.comAIs can’t stop recommending nuclear strikes in war game simulationsLeading AIs from OpenAI, Anthropic and Google opted to use nuclear weapons in simulated war games in 95 per cent of cases
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in that same period: • Earth orbital radius increased ~35.4 in • Moon orbital radius increased ~88.5 in • Cosmic background radiation ~11.8 nanokelvin cooler • Cosmic horizon increased ~383.5 light years

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Outstanding thread of Rob Schneider takedowns

Kevin M. Kruse@kevinmkruse.bsky.social

Yeah, man, the only difference between your career and Mark Rufallo’s career is the political stuff.

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‎happy winter solstice, my fellow northern hemisphearians! ‎¡suɐıɹɐǝɥdsıɯǝɥ uɹǝɥʇnos ǝuıɟ ʎɯ 'ǝɔıʇsןos ɹǝɯɯns ʎddɐɥ

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Via USGS: In case you ever wondered what it would be liked to be engulfed in a lava fountain... This video was recorded by the V3 camera, located on the south rim of Halemaʻumaʻu crater at the summit of Kīlauea volcano on the Island of Hawaiʻi.

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The camera, located in a hazardous closed area of Hawai‘I Volcanoes National Park, was buried by tephra from an inclined lava fountain between 9:55 and 9:57 am HST on December 6, during episode 38 that began this morning at 8:45 am. 🫡 RIP V3