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Astrid (yeehaw) 🤠🌈 ✨ @ansitru.bsky.social · 1d

I'm just saying, we could settle this with swords, instead of 30+ emails. 🤺

#artWIP

A WIP embroidery piece, with a sword and mace chzrm, spikes and letter beads.

The beads read "this email could have been a duel | fight me"

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Sunhawk @sunhawk.bsky.social · 17h

Goodluck! 🍀

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Sunhawk @sunhawk.bsky.social · 17h

I really hope Affinity apps stay as stand-alone desktop apps that you only have to pay for once, without any AI garbage!! No subscription model!!

Baldur Bjarnason @baldurbjarnason.com · 21h

https://www.dpreview.com/news/2744582289/affinity-photo-apps-pulled-from-sale-big-changes-announced-canva-purchase

I only boot into Windows once a week to use CaptureOne, Affinity Photo, or Affinity Publisher. If this means what I think it means, then two of those are about to get discontinued

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Nico Mara-McKay 🦇 (they/iel) @nicomaramckay.com · 2d

Canadians: The federal government is seeking public input on how AI should be developed and used in business, research, and the military.

If this scares the shit out of you, please let them know:

Help define the next chapter of Canada's AI leadership

Current status: Open from October 1 to October 31, 2025 Canada helped invent modern AI. To stay a leader—and protect our digital sovereignty—we're running a 30-day national sprint to shape a renewed...

ised-isde.canada.ca

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Sunhawk @sunhawk.bsky.social · 18h

That fern, don't need no pot 😙👌

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Sunhawk @sunhawk.bsky.social · 18h

Calling card of the Business Idiot (as per Ed Zitron's definition)

Oliver Darcy @oliverdarcy.bsky.social · 19h

News: Bari Weiss just sent a memo to staffers at CBS News asking them to produce a memo explaining "how you spend your working hours—and ideally, what you've made (or are making) that you're most proud of."

One CBS News staffer puts it like this to me: "We just got Elon Musked."

Sunhawk @sunhawk.bsky.social · 18h

seems bad!!!

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 20h

“I’ve never seen anything like this before,” Matthew Wasserbach, brokerage manager of Express Customs Clearance, said of the UPS backlog. “It’s totally unprecedented.”

@cnbc.com $UPS
www.nbcnews.com/business/bus...

UPS is 'disposing of' U.S.-bound packages over customs paperwork problems

Shifting Trump tariffs have created a nightmare for UPS, as thousands of packages from overseas pile up at its hubs while they await customs clearance.

www.nbcnews.com

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meh 🎃 @mharvey816.bsky.social · 19h

They're destroying packages. On purpose this time. Wow.

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 20h

“I’ve never seen anything like this before,” Matthew Wasserbach, brokerage manager of Express Customs Clearance, said of the UPS backlog. “It’s totally unprecedented.”

@cnbc.com $UPS
www.nbcnews.com/business/bus...

UPS is 'disposing of' U.S.-bound packages over customs paperwork problems

Shifting Trump tariffs have created a nightmare for UPS, as thousands of packages from overseas pile up at its hubs while they await customs clearance.

www.nbcnews.com

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Sunhawk @sunhawk.bsky.social · 19h

Years ago I read a science mag article about how humans in general are super bad at accessing risk, and it really pains me to see how this stupid GenAI situation is providing perfect examples of this phenomenon

Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 2d

BoE flags risk of ‘sudden correction’ in tech stocks inflated by AI on.ft.com/3WqHK5t

BoE flags risk of ‘sudden correction’ in tech stocks inflated by AI

Financial Policy Committee warns equity prices are at levels comparable with dotcom bubble

on.ft.com

Sunhawk @sunhawk.bsky.social · 19h

We don't have a reliable mechanism to either measure what kinds of mods an app/instance/etc has, we are forced to rely on their T&S/promo posts, assuming they aren't changed later at any time. There's no technical or social way to hold mods accountable in any space. I don't want to keep jumping ship

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Sunhawk @sunhawk.bsky.social · 19h

I think the Bluesky mod situation has revealed the biggest problem with social media apps these days: how do you participate in spaces with decent moderation? And I get frustrated with the suggestion to join Mastodon, they have better mods, etc! How do you know? What will keep them that way?

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Sunhawk @sunhawk.bsky.social · 19h

Not the point but that logo is superb 👌

DZG section Behavioural Biology @dzg-behaviour.bsky.social · 2d

We are almost there - we are looking forward to three exciting days of animal behaviour science and networking!

#gradmeet25

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Sunhawk @sunhawk.bsky.social · 20h

A lot of phone cameras struggle to focus on something small when you are physically too close to the object. If your phone has a zoom function, try using that even if it feels counterintuitive, it can be used to not have to get so close.

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Sunhawk @sunhawk.bsky.social · 20h

😂🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼

Lawrence Hurley @lawrencehurley.bsky.social · 1d

Alex Jones has asked the Supreme Court to immediately put his almost $1.5 billion defamation judgment on hold, citing the imminent threat of InfoWars being handed over to The Onion.

If there isn't a stay, "InfoWars will have been acquired by its ideological nemesis and destroyed," the filing says.

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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 1d

lmao this is how you do it

No More Robots @nomorerobots.io · 1d

Here's how we handle manchildren on the Steam forums at No More Robots:

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Anfor @anforsorrow.bsky.social · 1d

You might not like it, but this is what beak performance looks like.

Comparison of bird bills, displaying different shapes adapted to different feeding methods (not to scale)
Edited from Wikimedia.

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Spider. @vaspider.gay · 1d

"AI" seems to speak to and appeal to people who want to have created without having to create. They want the plaudits and the social cachet that comes from "being an artist/writer" without the messy, revealing, difficult work.

And if you are actually an artist, the work is **the fucking point.**

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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 1d

any product that depends on the long term stability of its maker is inherently defective

David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 1d

They brick you because they can.

Logitech will brick its $100 Pop smart home buttons on October 15

Logitech’s interest in the smart home has appeared to wane in recent years.

arstechnica.com

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eric shamow @botmatrix.myatproto.social · 1d

aside from the current meta-conversation this is entirely true within companies too.

I've seen teams with incredible tech get routed around by the rest of the company because they are so convinced of their own master plan that they stop listening to what users actually need.

Sage Divinorum 🏳️‍⚧️ @trans.bsky.social · 1d

tbh i can tell when someone has limited experience in the FOSS space because they often treat the userbase as an annoying burden instead of building out mechanisms to make sure they have a seat at the table.

the internet is riddled with graveyards of FOSS projects that egotrip lowtaxed themselves.

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eric shamow @botmatrix.myatproto.social · 23h

I think this is 100% it.

They see the product as deterministic, and they imagine that creating art is "solving a problem" in the way that getting something to compile is

tinybaby @tiny.baby · 1d

i think the fundamental disconnect here, and i say this as an engineer without much creative talent, is that a lot of people who don't do creative things regularly (or ever) look at creative output (writing, music, whatever) as a product, and consume and experience it like a baby looking at a mobile

Juno Rylee Schultz @junoryleejournalism.com · 2d

David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)

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tinybaby @tiny.baby · 23h

they think of writing as work, and think well if i could get a magic box that did my work for me, of course i would use it. and they legitimately do not understand why some people are appalled by the idea of producing content with AI

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tinybaby @tiny.baby · 1d

i think the fundamental disconnect here, and i say this as an engineer without much creative talent, is that a lot of people who don't do creative things regularly (or ever) look at creative output (writing, music, whatever) as a product, and consume and experience it like a baby looking at a mobile

Juno Rylee Schultz @junoryleejournalism.com · 2d

David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)

SHAPIRO: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without Al, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had had that tool to solve those thorny problems...
SIMON: What?
SHAPIRO: ...Or saying...
SIMON: You imagine that?
SHAPIRO: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over.
SIMON: I don't think Al can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level.
SHAPIRO: But if you're trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an Al and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this.
SIMON: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.

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Alastor Stuart @alasdairstuart.bsky.social · 1d

Absolutely how you do it. No one wants to be a nazi bar.

Mike Rose @mikerose.bsky.social · 1d

We banned a guy on the Steam forums for repeatedly saying there were “too many women” in our game

So he flipped his positive review to negative

Still totally worth it

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mr pussy @mrpussy.xyz · 2d

it's me, I celebrate

Harebrained @harebrained.bsky.social · 2d

Happy National Pierogi Day to all who celebrate.

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Popehat Agitates And Irritates @kenwhite.bsky.social · 2d

Read this thread for a frankly breathtaking example of the utter garbage you get when Techbrahs try their hand at law.

Although if you say "I have an issue that's important to me, huh, I guess I will try Vibe Lawyering," I am basically ok with whatever happens to you.

Kathryn Tewson @kathryntewson.bsky.social · 2d

The bros are at it again! and make no mistake, they are LITERALLY calling it "Vibe Lawyering"

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