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Engineer Brains @hhackenbecker.bsky.social · 12h

You just never know where Ted Cruz is going to be spotted next, do you.

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Engineer Brains @hhackenbecker.bsky.social · 1d

Grandpa after an afternoon's minding the grand-kits.

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Engineer Brains @hhackenbecker.bsky.social · 1d

Hey Apple, you've given Apple Remote Desktop a new icon (despite the product having required a ground-up rewrite for almost a decade) and you know what comes to mind first when I see it?
"These are the lungs of a smoker."

"It's meant to be a pair of black binoculars."
"In whose universe?"

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Engineer Brains @hhackenbecker.bsky.social · 2d

America after Trump.

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decryption @decryption.bsky.social · 2d

wikipedia has a good page with information on how they detect signs of AI writing

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikiped...

Wikipedia:Signs of AI writing - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

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Engineer Brains @hhackenbecker.bsky.social · 2d

I can't let a mention of Carl Sagan's "Cosmos" go by without mentioning this excellent animated short, set to some of Carl's narration:
vimeo.com/108650530

Wanderers - a short film by Erik Wernquist

For more information and stills gallery, please turn to: www.erikwernquist.com/wanderers For youtube version, please turn here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YH3c1QZzRK4 ----- UPDATE:…

vimeo.com

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Roddenberry Podcasts @roddenberrypod.bsky.social · 2d

Take a moment to check all of your #YouTube apps to see if “Restricted Mode” has been automatically toggled ON.

If it has been, this is likely the reason you haven’t seen recent videos from your favorite creators. Head to settings and toggle Restricted Mode OFF.

#restrictedmode

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CAMERON WILSON @cameronwilson.bsky.social · Aug 15

ever since i was a little kid
when i would walk through libraries
imagining that the air around me was imbued
with the wisdom of all the books and their authors
i always dreamed that
one day
i would grow up
and write something
that people bung into ChatGPT to get a 1 paragraph summary

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ABC News (Unofficial) @abc-news.bsky.social · 2d

University caught out using AI to wrongly accuse students of cheating with AI: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10-09/artificial-intelligence-cheating-australian-catholic-university/105863524

University caught out using AI to wrongly accuse students of cheating with AI

An Australian university has accused thousands of its students of cheating with artificial intelligence. The problem? Many have done nothing wrong.

www.abc.net.au

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Retro Tech Dreams @retrotechdreams.bsky.social · 2d

All I want is a tiny laptop with a mechanical keyboard. Ambra (1994).

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io9 @io9dotcom.bsky.social · 2d

What We Know About the Biggest Unseen War of 'Star Trek'

The Earth-Romulan War is a major cornerstone of 'Star Trek' history—but it's also 'Star Trek' history that's largely kept it off our screens for almost 60 years.

gizmodo.com

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Denis - The COVID Info Guy @thecovidinfoguy.bsky.social · 2d

Brainstem damage found to be behind long-lasting effects of severe Covid-19.

"Using ultra-high-resolution scanners that can see the living brain in fine detail, researchers from the Universities of Cambridge and Oxford were able to observe the damaging effects Covid-19 can have on the brain."

Brainstem damage found to be behind long-lasting effects of severe Covid-19

Damage to the brainstem - the brain's 'control center' - is behind long-lasting physical and psychiatric effects of severe Covid-19 infection, a study suggests.

www.news-medical.net

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Engineer Brains @hhackenbecker.bsky.social · 2d

What's your 4-digit PIN? No, don't tell us, but look it up on this chart. The 'hotter' yours is, the easier it is to guess or hack. Oh, and Trekkies? Stop using "1701".

Datagenetics compiled this table of common 4-digit PIN numbers, first pair on the Y axis second pair on the X axis. The more times a PIN appeared in the 3.4 million PINs collated from data breaches, the hotter or brighter the square. Notable white spots include '1234', '4321', '1701' (the number of Star Trek's USS Enterprise) and a band across 19xx and 20xx denoting the user's year of birth. A diagonal line shows how distressingly common people use the same to pairs of numbers, or all four numbers being the same.

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Engineer Brains @hhackenbecker.bsky.social · 2d

Anyone using Discord? 5.5 million accounts taken, 70,000 govt. IDs compromised. Threat-actor now releasing files after Discord goes quiet. www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/securit...
x.com/intcyberdige...
www.msn.com/en-us/news/t...

Hackers claim Discord breach exposed data of 5.5 million users

Discord says they will not be negotiating with threat actors who claim to have stolen the data of 5.5 million unique users from the company's Zendesk support system instance, including government IDs ...

www.bleepingcomputer.com

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Diane Duane @diane.dianeduane.com · 2d

…Are they going to ban UFOs from that airspace as well? 🤣

Matt F✈️🌈🇫🇷 @typevolant.com · 2d

The airport next to Maralago now says on the FAA National Airspace System status website that it is closed to weather modification aircraft.

What in the hell???

nasstatus.faa.gov

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joemag @joemag.games · 2d

Hank Hill "jaypeg" meme with caption "I do not want to save to onedrive. I want to save to the documents folder... On my computer... That I own... in my house"

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Engineer Brains @hhackenbecker.bsky.social · 2d

Overly-attached Microsoft:

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Engineer Brains @hhackenbecker.bsky.social · 2d

"Now you know why I don't close all my windows."

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Mechanised Fennec 🇭🇲🏳️‍⚧️ @paladinmaid.bsky.social · 3d

Lmaoooooo

Australian Government "Opened for Inspection" pamphlet (Biosecurity)

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Engineer Brains @hhackenbecker.bsky.social · 2d

www.youtube.com/watch?v=oH3t...

Skyhooks - Horror Movie (1975)

YouTube video by nzoz1975

www.youtube.com

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Engineer Brains @hhackenbecker.bsky.social · 2d

The next time someone starts complaining about immigrants being 'undesirables' because they're all drug merchants & rapists & just trying to steal their job, ask them "So what is it you do for a living?"

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Engineer Brains @hhackenbecker.bsky.social · 2d

Screw you, Nestlé.

Reuters @reuters.com · 3d

Nestle quits global alliance on reducing dairy methane emissions reut.rs/4h4mgoA

Nestle quits global alliance on reducing dairy methane emissions

Food group Nestle said on Wednesday it had withdrawn from a global alliance for cutting methane emissions that aims to reduce the impact of dairy farming on global warming.

reut.rs

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Engineer Brains @hhackenbecker.bsky.social · 3d

The last one applies to phones with cameras, too. Of course, the more crappy pictures you take, the harder it is to find ones that are worth keeping.

EVOLUTION OF PHOTOGRAPHY
1. Boxed roll of XL-PAN Panchromatic film. 12 exposures, 6 are awesome.
2. Metal can for 35mm filk. 36 exposures, 6 are awesome.
3. SD card. 2,000+ exposures, 6 are awesome.
Any questions?

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The Spaceshipper 🚀 @thespaceshipper.com · 3d

It's really a struggle to preserve reality.

The Spaceshipper 🚀 @thespaceshipper.com · Jun 18

I mean, everyone who conducts any kind of research or cultural heritage preservation is forced to do the same thing. Even me.

There is a before and after 2022. And we will have to protect humanity's archives at all costs, each in their own specialty or expertise.

It is a duty, now.

November 2024:
I have 2 archives. One post and pré 2022. 😂
But mostly because I'm not sure what could be AI post 2022.

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Engineer Brains @hhackenbecker.bsky.social · 3d

I hope they do Mac versions (because that's where the franchise started).