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Brazil's 80-year-old left-wing leader President Lula defeats Flávio Bolsonaro in a bitterly contested runoff. n.pr/48eAvU9

Aleksandar Vucic, Serbia’s longtime nationalist strongman, conceded defeat Sunday in a general election held after his once-tight grip on power was weakened by nearly two years of student-led protests. nyti.ms/4zegOaY

“He’s got the White House looking like Saddam Hussein opened up a Cheesecake Factory” — Obama

There was a fucking hole in our planet’s *atmosphere* Like a legit, no joke, “this will unravel our entire ecosystem” hole in the world, and then we fixed it by working together across national and political lines As a species we decided, “we will survive” Let’s do that some more

these fucking guys, man. “surely there must have been some mistake” “nah bro we did that on purpose and our company culture is so wild this is a normal thing to say on the public Internet”

70 percent of the internet was vulnerable yesterday to very bad security flaws inside a coding language. Turns out, *one volunteer* is mostly responsible for maintaining that code & helping push updates. Yesterday Ondřej Surý saved the internet. So I called him up www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...

(My last post was in reference to this)

This seems like an interesting time to be heading to Paris for the first time

After 10 years, I disabled my lobste.rs account. I think it's clear I am not a culture fit anymore with whatever it is they have going on there. I feel more and more like I don't belong in almost any tech community because I believe LLM agents are real, passkeys are good, and fascism is bad.

Oh what a shock if only someone could have told them this was happening, if only

Students from North Carolina A&T can be seen marching back to their HBCU after voting on the first day of early voting in the state. The Guilford County Board of Elections voted to remove the school’s on-campus polling site. (video via Todd Simmons) greensboro.com/news/local/g...

You had me with "desecrate the grave of Howard Jarvis," and it just keeps getting better from there. How can it get better than desecrating the grave of Howard Jarvis? You're just gonna have to read along. But this gets a follow from me.

Oakland when??? Come on, Waymo, we're right across the bridge! I believe in you! You can do it! You're not a witch, you can cross running water!

Oh no, I was planning on going there next month: abcnews.com/Internationa...

out now: It's in Your House, five illustrated micro-rpgs of domestic horror

Missing from this otherwise excellent overview is the fact that the Russian government has mandated the storage of Russian data on Russian servers, meaning that these Russian Internet companies cannot avail themselves of hosting abroad beyond the reach of Ukrainian drones.

This had me laughing harder than it should have. Perfect impersonation, too.

They’re live-streaming the execution of the person they think they can get away with doing that to first. It’s a test. If they can do that, they’ll expand the margins of permission.

Margaret Hamilton, who was credited with coining the term “software engineer” while working on the Apollo program, died at 90. A trailblazing computer scientist, she developed early software that helped pave the way for the digital world we know today.

Oh this isn't even hard EVIL! youtu.be/rADdKqPNdaM?...

Ahem…

Federal judge: "Freedom from persistent, dragnet-style surveillance while in public is not a foreign concept in our society & it is a reasonable expectation that society already accepts ... Why is it the govt's business where everyone goes all the time?" www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

Oh my God Taskmaster has hit Hulu. I repeat all seasons of Taskmaster are on Hulu. If you've never watched Taskmaster go start watching it literally right now

AMAZE, y'all, a privacy nerd Tingler

Saw a woman on TikTok who said she quit corporate at age 46 to become a beekeeper because “I would literally rather get stung by 10,000 bees than write ‘per my last email’ again” and you know what? I respect that

I just honestly can't get over that Save Women Sports, an anti-trans group could only find five trans athletes competing K through 12. Five. The NCAA president testified a year and a half ago or so that there were less than 10 college level trans athletes. What the fuck are we doing, people

@bbennettesq.bsky.social I blame you for the cheesecake I needed to go get for dessert last night

Always love it when someone schedules a 7 am meeting on a Friday morning, so you get up early and get to work only to find the meeting cancelled just before it’s supposed to start Listen If I had to get out of my cozy bed at this hour, you show your ass up

For real!! Comedian Micky Overman says it like it is. Generally the only people even entertaining the thought of evil AGI are men. Women are too busy fixing the ACTUAL problems of AI, like idk, the way it automates, reproduces and exacerbates misogyny and makes all our lives worse...

The only person in public service who has consistently made 100% sense on issues of "AI," which is why they hate her so much.