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Seeing people hacking Twitter/X now is like the feeling when that last grotty Wimpy Bar near the station turns into a Costa.1. This is...

Seeing people hacking Twitter/X now is like the feeling when that last grotty Wimpy Bar near the station turns into a Costa.

1. This is literally what happens when the owners run a place down & cut all the support & development as ‘a waste’.

2. And then you put them in charge of the US government.

#cybersecurity #hackers #twitterhack #twitter #hacked #elonmusk #twitterx

Thinking idly about Manganese (DON’T JUDGE), I wondered if there were other elements whose names end with ‘-ese.’Google Search AI...

Thinking idly about Manganese (DON’T JUDGE), I wondered if there were other elements whose names end with ‘-ese.’

Google Search AI preview claims that other elements in the Periodic table whose names end ‘-ese’ include…

Fermium, Einsteinium and Promethium.

#chemistry #periodictable #elements #manganese #artificialintelligence #google #googleai #ai

I once took nature’s most powerful hallucinogens on-camera for a TV show.With Salvia Divinorum, ‘I’ dissolved entirely. The very idea...

I once took nature’s most powerful hallucinogens on-camera for a TV show.

With Salvia Divinorum, ‘I’ dissolved entirely. The very idea of a continuous ‘self’ became absurd. Time looped. Nothing meant ANYTHING.

This timeline of Trump Does & Also Doesn’t Put Tariffs On Things is a bit like that.

#tariffs #hallucinogens #uspol #salviadivinorum #canada

Sky full of stars through the trees, Gauteng, South Africa. Bats whirling and scything through the night and the call of Hadida Ibises in...

Sky full of stars through the trees, Gauteng, South Africa. Bats whirling and scything through the night and the call of Hadida Ibises in the trees.

(If anyone can help me identify the constellation, I’d be really grateful. It’s just next to Orion.)

#gauteng #johannesburg #southafrica #stars #skyporn #sky #nightsky #nightskylovers #southernhemisphere #starrynight #starrysky #skywatcher #hadidaibis #nightbirds #nofilter #constellation #astronomy

Aussie peeps! I just finished watching the Victorian Alps-set crime series High Country. Before that, I binged on all the Mystery Road...

Aussie peeps!

I just finished watching the Victorian Alps-set crime series High Country.

Before that, I binged on all the Mystery Road episodes and the prequels.

Peak Australian-gothic mystery stuff, & I love it.

What should I hit next? Any recommendations gratefully received. 🙏

#australia #australiangothic #crime #crimedrama #mystery #tvshow #highcountry #mysteryroad

So I’ll be in Johannesburg for a week this month. Of course I’m googling stuff to do, asking my contacts, but they’re coming back with...

So I’ll be in Johannesburg for a week this month. Of course I’m googling stuff to do, asking my contacts, but they’re coming back with mainstream stuff. So…

Any tips you lovely Mastodon people have for a happy and curious nerd to geek out on while I’m there?

Thank you!

#johannesburg #joburg #southafrica

We have not stopped the President’s memo! Yes we rescinded it! But only because it needed to be more, not less! We have in fact made it...

We have not stopped the President’s memo! Yes we rescinded it! But only because it needed to be more, not less! We have in fact made it stronger than ever! It will return!

#federalgrants #president #memorandumM2503 #usgovernment

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cyv48540n4po

My newly discovered kink might just be reading about how OpenAI think DeepSeek might have used some of their data to make its AI work...

My newly discovered kink might just be reading about how OpenAI think DeepSeek might have used some of their data to make its AI work without asking, and definitely shouldn’t be doing that because people own their data.

#openai #deepseek #microsoft #artificialintelligence #genai

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-01-29/microsoft-probing-if-deepseek-linked-group-improperly-obtained-openai-data

Hello lovely Mastodon peeps! I am writing a long piece on the US state of Virginia - and what it’s like to live, work, do your thing etc...

Hello lovely Mastodon peeps!

I am writing a long piece on the US state of Virginia - and what it’s like to live, work, do your thing etc there, etc. I wanna touch on business, tech, culture, ideas, Silicon Dominion, wine, investment, history & unique factors… the lot.

Anyone you’d recommend I talk to?

Or, if you are Virginian, can we chat?

#virginia #silicondominion #virginiatourism #virginian #journorequest

Literally, there is more drama in the twitches of the muscles around her eyes than in most series scripts.From complete and ecstatic...

Literally, there is more drama in the twitches of the muscles around her eyes than in most series scripts.

From complete and ecstatic absorption in detail to scattered, insectoid paranoia in less than the time it takes to notice the change.

Proper future Hollywood/art movie career coming.

#annasamson #returntoparadise #abc #bbc #television

The BBC is showing a comedy/murder-mystery show, Return To Paradise. It’s normal, charming, on-brief, tightly scripted family...

The BBC is showing a comedy/murder-mystery show, Return To Paradise. It’s normal, charming, on-brief, tightly scripted family viewing.

BUT.

Anna Samson, who’s in the lead role, is INCREDIBLE.

An amalgam of Swinton/Gyllenhaal/Blanchett/Chaplin/‘66 Dylan/Tennant.

INSANELY commanding on-camera.

#annasamson #returntoparadise #bbc #abc #australia #murdermystery #television #actor #tvshow

Happy Christmas & Hanukkah & everything else to you lovely people.I used to feel like old Twitter made me a better person - giving...

Happy Christmas & Hanukkah & everything else to you lovely people.

I used to feel like old Twitter made me a better person - giving me antennae into others’ ways of seeing things, & helping me feel points I’d never normally encounter.

These days, that’s you wonderful crowd, & I love you for it. ❤️

#mastodon #happychristmas #happyhanukkah

This is lots of fun. ‘Uncleftish Beholding’ is a 1989 attempt to explain ‘Atomic Theory’ without using words that come to English...

This is lots of fun. ‘Uncleftish Beholding’ is a 1989 attempt to explain ‘Atomic Theory’ without using words that come to English from Latin, French or Greek roots.

It reimagines English as Germanic: ‘uncleft’ is ‘atom’ etc.

https://www.ling.upenn.edu/~beatrice/1100/docs/uncleftish-beholding.html

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncleftish_Beholding

#science #scicomm #language #linguistics #germanic #englishlanguage #uncleftishbeholding #atoms #atomictheory #physics

Is Orban an unreliable partner, an autocrat & a Putin appeaser?Sure.Are many Central & Eastern European states - Poland, Baltic...

Is Orban an unreliable partner, an autocrat & a Putin appeaser?

Sure.

Are many Central & Eastern European states - Poland, Baltic States, Czechia, Germany - fully aligned with Ukraine?

100%.

Is the USA causing untold chaos by striking postures of isolationism & seeming to back away, threatening Romania, Slovakia, Hungary & the rest of Europe with the prospect of facing Russian threats without a key ally in support of liberal democracy?

Absolutely.

#ukraine #nato #usforeignpolicy

US media calling out Ukraine’s neighbours for wobbling is a bit rich.Are Slovakia & Romania “turning their backs” by hedging their...

US media calling out Ukraine’s neighbours for wobbling is a bit rich.

Are Slovakia & Romania “turning their backs” by hedging their messages?

Or simply reading the mood music of an incredibly unreliable & vacillating new US presidential administration?

https://foreignpolicy.com/2024/12/06/ukraine-neighbors-romania-hungary-slovakia-eu/?utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Trending%20Articles%20Digest%20-%20121224&utm_term=general_marketing_no_site_visit_7day

#ukraine #nato

Present for myself just arrived in the post. Set the controls for Low Social Battery for the rest of the day.#socialbattery #neurodivergence...

Present for myself just arrived in the post. Set the controls for Low Social Battery for the rest of the day.

#socialbattery #neurodivergence #neurodivergent #neurodiversity #asd #autism

There’s nothing about having a dead salmon draped over one’s head that should qualify as ‘jaunty’. And yet.#orca #salmon #hats...

There’s nothing about having a dead salmon draped over one’s head that should qualify as ‘jaunty’.

And yet.

#orca #salmon #hats #whales #marinebiology #marinelife #fashion #whalebehaviour

Nobody knows why Pacific Orca whales are reviving their wild '80s craze of wearing dead salmon as jaunty hats – rakishly offsetting...

Nobody knows why Pacific Orca whales are reviving their wild '80s craze of wearing dead salmon as jaunty hats – rakishly offsetting that classic monochrome ensemble. But we're SO inspired.

#orca #marinelife #whales #1980s #pacific

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2457910-orcas-have-begun-wearing-salmon-hats-again-and-we-may-soon-know-why/

The phases of rain:1) Oh nice, it’ll be good for plants & refresh things!2) Ah I love the rain, listen to it hammer!3) Sure, sure,...

The phases of rain:

1) Oh nice, it’ll be good for plants & refresh things!

2) Ah I love the rain, listen to it hammer!

3) Sure, sure, raincoat.

4) Has that thing outside always been lopsided & covered in damp mould?

5) Has it always been raining? I can’t remember a time when it wasn’t raining.

#rain #verybritisbhproblem #britain #weather

Beautiful female Harris Hawk on pigeon patrol outside the British Library in King’s Cross. The hawker says the hawk is a deterrent,...

Beautiful female Harris Hawk on pigeon patrol outside the British Library in King’s Cross. The hawker says the hawk is a deterrent, causing pigeons to vacate the area, rather than a successful hunter of pigeons.

#harrishawk #hawk #birdstodon #london #britishlibrary #kingscross #londonlife #birdsofprey