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@ianpatterson.com

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We live in a funny world: just making the most of it, one day at a time. Tweeter. Liberaler. Quiddler. Un buveur d’encre. A recovering frog after slowly cooking in Musks cauldron for too long.

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Ian @ianpatterson.com · Nov 17

Mt current wish list for @bsky.app new features - when they can find the time:
- draft posts, that work cross device. Let me save tweets and come back to them
- bookmarks
- ability to mute reposts selectively ie per account. Some people post a lot of RTs, but I dont want to mute them entirely

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Ian @ianpatterson.com · 1h

The planned largest solar farm in North America just got cancelled by Trump, despite being in the approval process since Biden's years. the 62000 acre projects would have produced about 6.2GW of power - around 6 nuclear reactors worth.
www.ft.com/content/7a3c...

US moves to cancel one of the world’s largest solar farms

Trump administration scraps approval for 6.2 gigawatt Nevada project

www.ft.com

Ian @ianpatterson.com · 1h

One German university has published a dataset of geojson data for all the 2.75Billion buildings it believes exist around the world. They produced this using Planet labs earth observation photos and some AI to id buildings. Surprisingly manageable @ 1.1TB too.
tech.marksblogg.com/building-foo...

The World's 2.75B Buildings

Benchmarks & Tips for Big Data, Hadoop, AWS, Google Cloud, PostgreSQL, Spark, Python & More...

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Ian @ianpatterson.com · 1h

Ive not looked at killedbygoogle.com for ages. It's amazing how long this list of products now RIPped by Google is. Some have gone down in internet histories - like the demise of Google Reader. No other company I can think of has killed as many of its own products quite so bluntly.

Killed by Google

Killed by Google is the open source list of dead Google products, services, and devices. It serves as a tribute and memorial of beloved services and products killed by Google.

killedbygoogle.com

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 23h

Ever since I finished Question Time, Reform have massively been on the attack.

Including a rant from Richard Tice entirely designed to distract from Reform and Russia.

Everyone should know about Nathan Gill, the bribes from Russia and the link to Reform.

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 12h

Glad to see Nigel Farage has finally remembered Nathan Gill, former leader of Reform in Wales - found guilty of taking bribes from Russia.

Maybe he'll now remember how much he took from Putin's propaganda broadcaster Russia Today for all his TV appearances when he was a MEP?

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Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 8h

lmao what

Sam Halpert @samhalpert.bsky.social · 9h

www.politico.com/live-updates...

The Office of Management and Budget sent a notification to Congress about their intent to use research and development funds to pay members of the military, two sources with direct knowledge tell NBC News.
A spokesperson for the OMB confirmed to NBC
News that it plans to use the research and development funds and that there are two years' worth of funds available within the Department of Defense.

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Alexander Clarkson @aphclarkson.bsky.social · 13h

If this was happening in any other country you'd have journalists and analysts discussing risks of state failure

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 16h

Imagine that

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 10h

The function of the EPA is to prepare the way for the coming Christian Nationalist theocracy.

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Euromaidan Press @euromaidanpress.bsky.social · 15h

Russian border activity just prompted Estonia to close a crossing and deploy extra guards

Across the Baltics, Russia's neighbors are tightening security as regional provocations increase

euromaidanpress.com/2025/10/11/e...

Estonia closes border crossing with Russia amid increased military activity

Relations between Estonia and Russia have remained tense amid Moscow’s ongoing aggression in Ukraine and a series of border-related incidents across the Baltic region.

euromaidanpress.com

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Alex @purplechrain.bsky.social · 15h

we constantly mock right-wing nuts for being gullible enough to believe anything that Trump or Fox News tell them even when it’s obvious bullshit, but a ton of you don’t even have enough skepticism to question a screenshot of a Jewish food website supposedly promoting a recipe of shrimp & pork.

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Alex @purplechrain.bsky.social · 15h

these are not real! they are a meme that people have made involving a bunch of different types of food! you are all expressing anger and outrage about something that *did not actually happen*

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Ian @ianpatterson.com · 16h

Musk's 'Boring Company' gadgetbahn thing has been busy burrowing away beneath Las Vegas building tunnels for Tesla cars. Its also been busy getting citations for environmental breaches - 800 of them in 2 years - ie more than 1 per day.
www.propublica.org/article/elon...

Elon Musk’s Boring Co. Accused of Nearly 800 Environmental Violations on Las Vegas Project

Nevada could’ve fined the company more than $3 million, but regulators are seeking a reduced penalty of $242,800, citing an “extraordinary number of violations.”

www.propublica.org

Ian @ianpatterson.com · 16h

One hedge fund manager took a look at the investment rational for AI data centres, and didnt like what he saw.
pracap.com/global-cross...

Global Crossing Is Reborn...

I’ve been at this investing game a long time. Long enough to see cycles repeat themselves, cycles that I literally thought I would never again see. Yet in finance, everything repeats. You just need to...

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Ian @ianpatterson.com · 16h

202 people have won a Nobel prize in Physics, Chemistry, or Medicine, so far this century. and 30% of them did it in another country than that of their birth.
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
media.nature.com/lw767/magazi...

Ian @ianpatterson.com · 16h

... the American response? they hired the submarine for 2 years to continue training their fleet of carriers to find subs like this, and a massive upgrade program to give them better sensors to find these ever quieter subs.
nationalsecurityjournal.org/a-6000000000...

A $6,000,000,000 Nuclear U.S. Navy Aircraft Carrier 'Sunk' by $100,000,000 Diesel 'AIP' Sub

How Sweden’s AIP sub Gotland “sank” USS Ronald Reagan in 2005—and why the U.S. Navy leased it for two years to relearn the art of hunting truly quiet subs.

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Ian @ianpatterson.com · 16h

20 years ago off California a small diesel electric submarine from Sweden engaged in exercises against one of the US nuclear powered aircraft carriers and it support-protect fleet. To the annoyance of the Americans, the sub went undetected scoring a number of torpedo kills against the carrier.
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Ian @ianpatterson.com · 17h

... charges in advance. They can afford to change their billing systems to levy these charges - but they cant afford the small print to then tell you first what they might be for?
Worse, Biden introduced a rule that required them to tell you, but Trump plans reversal
arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...

ISPs created so many fees that FCC will kill requirement to list them all

ISPs complained about Biden-era rule, said listing every fee was too hard.

arstechnica.com

Ian @ianpatterson.com · 17h

Billing systems are some of the hardest and most expensive systems in the IT world, tricky because of the need to have so many configuration options to support the different contracts many/most companies sell. Its utterly bizarre then in US that companies arent obliged to tell you about all their...

Ian @ianpatterson.com · 17h

The power of threesomes: why is everyone so hung up on binary logic. What if football was played with 3 teams? or duels were 'triels'
www.sothismedias.com/home/the-pow...

The Power of Three: Ternary Logic, Triolectics, and Three Sided Football

“If we continue to operate in terms of a Cartesian dualism of mind versus matter, we shall probably also continue to see the world in terms of God versus man; elite versus people; chosen race...

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 1d

UPDATE: Judge Perry issued an opinion explaining why she blocked the Texas National Guard deployment in Chicago.

She begins with Alexander Hamilton’s rejection of a “preposterous” idea that the Constitution lets a President deploy a State’s militia to a different State for political retribution. 🧵

OPINION AND ORDER
Since this country was founded, Americans have disagreed about the appropriate division
of power between the federal government and the fifty states that make up our Union. This
tension is a natural result of the system of federalism adopted by our Founders. And yet, not even
the Founding Father most ardently in favor of a strong federal government believed that one
state's militia could be sent to another state for the purposes of political retribution, calling such
a suggestion "inflammatory," and stating "it is impossible to believe that [a President] would employ such preposterous means to accomplish their designs." But Plaintiffs contend that such
an event has come to pass, and argue that National Guard troops from both Illinois and Texas
have been deployed to Illinois because the President of the United States wants to punish state elected officials whose policies are different from his own.

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Ian @ianpatterson.com · 17h

Debugging an intermittent production issue can be bad enough for IT folk, but doing it when you have planetary scale, and then as you delve into it, it turns out to be at the level of a compiler bug ... eek.
blog.cloudflare.com/how-we-found...

How we found a bug in Go's arm64 compiler

84 million requests a second means even rare bugs appear often. We'll reveal how we discovered a race condition in the Go arm64 compiler and got it fixed.

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Ian @ianpatterson.com · 17h

Poisoning AI models doesnt require scale is an interesting AI research find. There previously was a hypothesis that as a training dataset got bugger, any attempt to poison it with dodgy input training data would need to be bigger too. 250 documents is all it takes.
www.anthropic.com/research/sma...

A small number of samples can poison LLMs of any size

Anthropic research on data-poisoning attacks in large language models

www.anthropic.com

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Peter Jukes @peterjukes.bsky.social · 20h

Most people seem to have missed who retweeted this picture of Farage in Gill’s office a few days after Gill began receiving his first bribes from Oleh Voloshyn (Oleg Voloshin). None other than…

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Anon Opin @anonopin.bsky.social · 19h

The funniest thing someone could do politicly currently is run as a Reform candidate and defect to Labour or Greens instantly

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