The white lamb in the middle of this picture spent all of yesterday afternoon trying to find her mother (shorn ewe on the right) because she didn't recognise her after shearing.
She was running around for hours shouting loudly while mum followed her going I'M RIGHT HERE! It resolved after dark when lammie could no longer see the pink horror her mum had turned into.
Lammie is not very clever.
RE: https://mefi.social/@MissConstrue/117538029184503498
Prediction: this isn't preparation for "fallen soldiers", this is for "undesirables" and "illegal immigrants".
The most depressing thing about the current bubble is that so many of the flagship ‘look how amazing AI is!’ things are things where LLMs are a pretty poor fit and other techniques work much better, but the baseline for comparison uses well under 10% of the compute, often under 1%. If you threw 10% of the memory and processor capacity at the non-LLM approach, it would work much better than the LLM approach. Yet it’s easy for OpenAI or Anthropic to burn $10M on a tech demo and incredibly hard to get anyone to spend $1M on a good solution to the same problem.
As long as money is flowing to these companies, they’re starving interesting research of resources because there’s no incentive to build efficient systems when a company is willing to set fire to investors’ money to run the horribly inefficient version for you.
This is FASCINATING. Researchers were able to pin down the cause of measurable global 60 second power spikes to software that does regular tasks on the minute mark. They found large scale battery installations as one major cause, but obviously this is true for any other computerized system that does cron jobs and has a synchronized clock. As weird as it sounds, adding random 0-59.999s delays to cron jobs in Linux distributions and other software would actually help the power grid.
"We've made some changes to our privacy policy..."
It's gettin' cold out there
So put on all your clothes
I’ve followed the development of Starlink for the past decade, and from day one I’ve wished it was nationalized as a DARPA project like the early internet and GPS, free to the world.
Now my wish is we finally do that these days by seizing it from Elon Musk’s untrustworthy and treasonous grasp.
Proton should be a careful steward of its users' privacy. Based on this account, it isn't. Journalists should think twice before using it. #Technology https://werd.io/proton-is-ai-pilled-and-calls-caution-loser-thinking-2/
Nobody warns you that when you gamify household chores with a toddler that they'll become addicted to it. I now have to have recycling and garbage to take out every night and a dishwasher to unload or my oldest will become upset.
A database of thousands of US #ICE agents leaked and got posted on @ddosecrets. Bluesky is blocking the link:
https://www.wired.com/story/bluesky-blocks-links-to-major-leak-of-dhs-data/
> Bluesky tells WIRED it blocked links to a leaked archive of information on 41,000 ICE, CBP, and other DHS workers because it contains people’s contact information, shared without their authorization.
#Bluesky is VC-funded, biggest investor: Bain Capital Crypto.
Remember this excuse next time there is a leak affecting people who happen not to be fascists.
Couldn't happen to a nicer chap.
#StephenYaxleyLennon
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/oct/28/tommy-robinson-found-guilty-of-harassing-journalists
Voting Protip: Take a look at your signature on your driver's license and when you sign your ballot envelope if voting by mail or box, make sure that signature doesn't look too different. Otherwise you might get your ballot rejected.
“According to ESPN research, the Niners have a pressure rate of 23% using four or fewer pass rushers, the second-worst mark in the NFL.”
Deforest Buckner and his 4 sacks, which lead all #49ers players, will help crank up the pressure for DC Raheem Morris.
https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/50301125/colts-trade-de-deforest-buckner-49ers
Growing body of evidence demonstrates that Trump was an active participant in Epstein’s sexual abuse of young women and "DOJ and FBI are doing everything they can to keep the American people in the dark about it." - House Judiciary Democrats https://democrats-judiciary.house.gov/sites/evo-subsites/democrats-judiciary.house.gov/files/evo-media-document/2026-10.hjc-dems-staff-report-epstein-and-trump.pdf
#AcademicJob | #PhDStudentship
PhD position in Ethnology / Anthropology
📍University of Neuchâtel, Switzerland
Four-year position (with a possible fifth year) combining doctoral research with teaching, student supervision and institute activities. Applicants need a Master’s in anthropology/ethnology or equivalent, fluent written and spoken French, and good English.
Deadline: 15/11/2026
As others have pointed out, there could be an influx of newcomers to the #Fediverse from #Brazil who are tired of #Meta 's latest shenanigans while meddling with politics.
If you see them, be friendly and welcoming, and under no circumstances start with "You are using the Fediverse wrong!"
I mean it. We have a serious "Reply Guy" problem around here, and we've already lost our big chance with Black Twitter. Let's not screw _this_ opportunity up, okay?
RE: https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:ny5w2k6brb2kdubxnevke6li/post/3myq44amnsc24
Ditto San Francisco after the Loma Prieta earthquake (1989). See also Alaskan Way in Seattle.
Layers of the Cascades. Washington, September 2026 #aowsimages #blackandwhite #photography
Climate coverage on CBS Evening News fell 81% in January–September 2026 compared with the same months in 2025.
The network also aired segments that discounted scientific warnings and downplayed the consequences of climate policy.
Under Bari Weiss, CBS News dismantled its climate team and retreated from climate reporting
https://www.mediamatters.org/broadcast-networks/under-bari-weiss-cbs-news-dismantled-its-climate-team-and-retreated-climate
#FireBariWeiss #BoycottCBS #BoycottParamount #BoycottOracle #CBS #LarryEllison #DavidEllison #BrendanCarr #FuckShariRedstone #USPol