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How democracy depends on science — and must protect it
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-03510-4
Verified information from trusted experts is crucial to help the public and governments navigate rapid changes and increasing complexity.

Everything that doesn't make it better for ALL of us is a lie.

RE: https://mastodon.social/@verge/117553142566857942

“Compute campuses.” That’ll fool ‘em!

No data centers here! Just a compute campus! Approve our permit!

maybe waiting for the AI bubble to pop and people to come to their senses isn't enough. maybe it's up to all of us to #StopTheSlop

@nash
Programmers now should realize that Apollo 11 landed on the moon using a computer with 4KB of RAM and the processing power of a PIC microprocessor.

Edit: and even if the AGC's program would crash, it would simply resume from where it left.
Looking at you, every single programmer on the planet.

Brilliant episode.

Do yourself a favour and get a half-hour heads up on the shape of where we are going

#climateDiary

https://overcast.fm/+BTumWGYzys

Happy Halloween!

#BOOlean

#Halloween #HappyHalloween #logic #logicgates #logicoperations #computing #programmers #XOR #allhallowseve

Facial Recognition Could Be Coming to a Starbucks Near You
https://uk.pcmag.com/ai/168185/facial-recognition-could-be-coming-to-a-starbucks-near-you
Starbucks CEO Brian Niccol said the company is ‘exploring experiences that recognize participating customers as they arrive, present personalized digital menus and make payment more effortless.’

Just another good reason never to use Starfucks...

#Starbucks #Starsucks #StarbucksWorkers

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Number of sites known to be hacked due to the recent critical php vulnerability?

Zero.

So why was it all over the news globally?

Thank goodness for Carl.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DEiGTK62DcQ

#InternetOfBugs

A day in modern tech:

1. Find a really cool paid-for tool
2. Find out it’s run by fascists
3. GOTO 1

Poll of the Day... 📊

Do you choose to use A.i in your personal life...? ℹ️

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/data-centers/openai-ceo-says-its-quite-terrible-for-your-pc-to-have-ram-sam-altman-says-data-centers-offer-better-utilization

RT: @lrozen Economist (and Nobel laureate) Paul Krugman: “Control of Starlink must, one way or another, be taken away from Elon Musk. It’s a matter of national security: we cannot let private individuals make foreign and defense policy, and it would be totally irresponsible to leave a crucial military asset in the hands of a racist, authoritarian conspiracy theorist.”

@matoakit @Arapalla @GossiTheDog

The game stays in motion for as long as the marks haven't realized they've been taken -- and as long as the confidence artist is willing to continue.

Anthropic fails to IPO, and it exponentially increases the odds that the marks are finally going to smell the bullshit that's been waved under their noses for the last few years.

“When #PatrickStewart was growing up in the 1940s, he witnessed how, after his father beat his mother, home doctors and ambulance workers would tell her: “You must have done something to provoke him.”

Stewart knew the violence was never warranted, a conviction that became the spark for a lasting commitment to campaigning for greater understanding of domestic abuse.”

👆

Commanding stage presence, great actor; For me though, it’s the leadership shown on #DV that elevates Patrick beyond other actors and celebs. Using visibility and position of power. 🖖

<https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2026/oct/30/domestic-abuse-charities-patrick-stewart-amnesty-international-refuge >

Well there is some good news today at least!

All this shit can burn!

#TechStocks #TechBros #Economy #AIBubble #AIHustle

@geomannie yes indeed.
It seems grossly iniquitable that e-bikes be seized and destroyed when the same does not apply to cars.
And what about these cars with “modified” exhausts which go round terrorising the neighbourhood farting and popping?
Can’t stop them they say because we have no way of measuring the noise!!

Well done #PoliceScotland, you have made the roads safer, but by an infinitesimally small amount. Now do cars: any driver going 10% over the speed limit should have their car destroyed. That will concentrate the minds of drivers and make our roads significantly safer. #roadsafety #speeding
https://theedinburghreporter.co.uk/2026/10/e-bikes-and-e-scooters-seized-during-week-of-action-to-be-destroyed/