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Historically Black Dice @historicblackdice.bsky.social · 4h

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See you there this Saturday! 6pm est!!! It’s going to be a great panel! #ttrpgtok #dungeonsanddragons #Blerds #ttrpg #TabletopRPG @steadysoul @ClassicSamNYGM @Lem McMillan @Dee Dee Summers

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Samuel Wong @samuelwong.bsky.social · 2h

Tech Hiring Is Still Frozen — Here’s the Real Reason Why

Even after massive layoffs, there’s no end in sight for tech’s hiring malaise

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Tech Hiring Is Still Frozen — Here’s the Real Reason Why

Even after massive layoffs, there’s no end in sight for tech’s hiring malaise

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Hoppalozza @hoppalooza.bsky.social · 3h

Trump and his cabal have guaranteed they’ll have a country of safe haven when they flee the US on their Qatar getaway plane. Mark my words. Nazi escape plan 2.0.

The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 4h

The Trump administration confirmed that the U.S. bailed out Argentina.

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said he had directly bought Argentine pesos in global currency markets in a bid to relieve pressure on the nation’s embattled President Javier Milei, a supporter of President Trump.

The U.S. just bailed out Argentina, Treasury Secretary confirms

The US Treasury has finalized a $20 billion financial rescue of Argentina, including a currency swap arrangement with the country's central bank.

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bayareapostgres.bsky.social @bayareapostgres.bsky.social · 11h

The video for our September PUG is now available! Take a look at “Thinking About Learning PostgreSQL as a Python Developer and Plant Person” with Jay Miller!

“Thinking About Learning PostgreSQL as a Python Developer and Plant Person” with Jay Miller

After a decade of Python development, Jay has gotten into the world of plant raising and believes that the answer to becoming better at PostgreSQL lies somewhere between the journey of more Pythonic…

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bayareapostgres.bsky.social @bayareapostgres.bsky.social · 15h

Join us on Tuesday, October 14th at Noon PDT for “Vindicating ZFS with PostgreSQL: Unleashing the Power of Scalability” with Federico Campoli! That's just 5 days away! RSVP today!

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@PostgreSQL #PostgreSQL #postgres #meetup

“Vindicating ZFS with PostgreSQL: Unleashing the Power of Scalability” , Tue, Oct 14, 2025, 12:00 PM | Meetup

Join us virtually on Tuesday, October 14th for “Vindicating ZFS with PostgreSQL: Unleashing the Power of Scalability” with Federico Campoli. In the ever-evolving landscape

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👻 Xena the Nerdy Ghost 👻 @xena.bsky.social · 3h

It’s about to be a very bad time

Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 3h

The Wall Street Journal picks up on the rally in gold (+52%) and bitcoin (+30%) as people lose trust in , central banks and the dollar.

It pains me to say this but bitcoin is now more trusted than the U.S. dollar. The crypto bros were right. 🫠

A New Wall Street Trade Is Powering Gold and Hitting Currencies

Investors are pouring money into dollar alternatives like bitcoin and precious metals.

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Saron Yitbarek @saron.bsky.social · 5h

Was surprised to see that, even though CSS Grid isn't a new feature, it's still high on the list of things devs find confusing, so wrote a post about it.

I focus on a new mental model I think is helpful. Let me know what you think!

webkit.org/blog/17474/c...

CSS Grid: A helpful mental model and the power of grid lines

Grid is a powerful, flexible tool that brings complex layouts to life.

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👻 Xena the Nerdy Ghost 👻 @xena.bsky.social · 4h

Tonight for Day 9 of #31DaysofHorror25 I’ll be watching Prey (2022), a tale about a young Comanche woman going up against the Predator. I loved this movie so much when it came out! If you haven’t noticed by now, I love sci-fi horror 😂

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Sung Kim @sungkim.bsky.social · 5h

Defying Transformers: Searching for "Fixed Points" of Pretrained LLMs by Jiacheng Liu

He wondered what CAN'T be transformed by Transformers? So, he wrote a fun blog post on finding "fixed points" of your LLMs. If you prompt it with a fixed point token,

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👻 Xena the Nerdy Ghost 👻 @xena.bsky.social · 4h

One day I have a dream that more people will fully understand how great science is and that they too can be scientists.

There’s nothing cooler than watching people & communities come together to solve problems & engage in scientific exploration

Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 6h

I have to fan-girl for a minute here. My friend @rosvall-lab.bsky.social built an app to gather data on bird behavior during the 2024 solar eclipse. 10,000+ citizen scientists contributed (including my kids), and the resulting paper was published in Science today!

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Total solar eclipse triggers dawn behavior in birds: Insights from acoustic recordings and community science

On 8 April 2024, a total solar eclipse disrupted light-dark cycles for North American birds during the lead-up to spring reproduction. Compiling more than 10,000 community observations and artificial ...

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Jeff Hamilton @jeffhamilton.bsky.social · 5h

my 10th grade algebra teacher was not great, but one thing he did get across very clearly was - if you try hard and get it wrong, that's infinitely better than the comfortable "cool" of never trying and never risking failure. You gotta get good with failing if you wanna do anything worth doing.

Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 8h

There's a social media trend of people attempting to run marathons with zero training and a take that really resonated with me is doing this means that you never really fail. I think the AI people have a similar mentality. They want to be able to say they have done a thing without doing it

Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 9h

there’s this weird idea a lot of people seem to have about how all of us writers and artists must secretly want to use AI and are merely resisting temptation for ethical reasons, and like, no, it’s not hard for me to resist drinking the bowl of Piss With Glass In It actually

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👻 Xena the Nerdy Ghost 👻 @xena.bsky.social · 5h

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Yeah that checks out 😂😂😂

Clitasaurus Rex 🦖 @naiijah.bsky.social · 10h

Cartoon network kids most likely grew up with depression but amazing sense of humor

Disney Kids have terrible main character syndrome and were most likely theatre kids who grew up to be obsessed with musicals

Nickelodeon Kids most likely got some type of arrest record and a more than 1 BM/BD

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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 9h

Here’s a primer on ‘primer.’

It’s pronounced ‘PRIMM-er’ if you mean “a small book” or “a short informative piece of writing.”

It’s pronounced ‘PRY-mer’ if you mean “an initial coat of paint.”

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Towards Data Science @towardsdatascience.com · 9h

Do your reports explain *why* something is happening and what to do next? Most don't. This new article by Whitney Marks shows you how conversational analytics can provide not just an answer, but a recommended next step.

Past is Prologue: How Conversational Analytics Is Changing Data Work | Towards Data Science

The future of reporting will be about encoding the value proposition of a product into prompt design.

towardsdatascience.com

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Sung Kim @sungkim.bsky.social · 6h

STATE OF AI REPORT 2025, produced by AI investor Nathan Benaich and Air Street Capital

"Now in its eighth year, the State of AI Report 2025 is reviewed by leading AI practioners in industry and research. It considers the following key dimensions, including a new large-scale AI usage survey."

State of AI Report 2025

The State of AI Report analyses the most interesting developments in AI. Read and download here.

www.stateof.ai

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👻 Xena the Nerdy Ghost 👻 @xena.bsky.social · 5h

freeCodeCamp.org @freecodecamp.bsky.social · 6h

The MERN Stack (MongoDB, Express, React, and Node) is a popular way to build full-stack apps. And here, Mohit walks you through coding your own MERN task manager app. You'll set up & build the app, learn about testing, deployment, security best practices, & more.
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👻 Xena the Nerdy Ghost 👻 @xena.bsky.social · 5h

The first sign has come to pass in the form of a professor being stopped from leaving the country. With the rhetoric & damage that’s being spread by the current government…

Man! As a Black woman I’m so tired of not being heard or taken seriously

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👻 Xena the Nerdy Ghost 👻 @xena.bsky.social · 7h

And events like this one is why I have little hope for the dominant social group in this country to get it together. And as they go, so (unfortunately) do the rest of us go

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Jännät @jaennaet.fi · 13h

“Mass scanning of private messages must be taboo in a constitutional state.”

At least the Germans have a spine. Despite opposing Chat Control, the Parliament of Finland ended up saying that they still want "voluntary" (on the part of the messaging service providers, not us plebs!) mass surveillance

German government says it will oppose EU mass-scanning proposal

Despite fears from privacy advocates, officials from the ruling party said mass-scanning proposals like Chat Control should be “taboo in a constitutional state.”

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Azure Weekly @azureweekly.endj.in · 8h

Integrating Azure AI Foundry with Copilot Studio: A Strategic and Technical Overview by Peter De Tender techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/azure-ai-...

Integrating Azure AI Foundry with Copilot Studio: A Strategic and Technical Overview | Microsoft Community Hub

As organizations accelerate their AI adoption, the need for flexible, scalable, and secure platforms becomes paramount. My previous article, Navigating...

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Towards Data Science @towardsdatascience.com · 11h

Learn how Tabular Foundation Models (TFMs) generate predictions for new datasets without retraining. Pirmin Lemberger's new article explains this new approach, which uses in-context learning for tabular data.

How the Rise of Tabular Foundation Models Is Reshaping Data Science | Towards Data Science

A turning point for data analysis?

towardsdatascience.com

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👻 Xena the Nerdy Ghost 👻 @xena.bsky.social · 9h

As much as I hate to admit it. AI is here to stay. We must figure out better and less damaging ways to use it

Center for Democracy & Technology @cdt.org · 10h

“@tharper.bsky.social, a senior policy analyst at CDT, said that early polling led by his organization suggests that political consultants across the political spectrum, who in recent years were hesitant to use AI, might be more open to the technology.”

Political Strategists Are Embracing AI

As campaigns face pressure to produce ads that pop in a crowded media environment, they’re turning to artificial intelligence to gain attention.

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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 12h

thumb notch | noun | a notch of a size to admit the tip of a thumb cut in the outer edges of the pages of a book for the insertion of index letters or headings

thumb notches on the new Merriam-Webster 12th Ed. Collegiate Dictionary

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Visual Studio Code @vscode.dev · 13h

🚀 The VS Code September release (v1.105) is here! Check out what's new:

🛠️ GitHub MCP registry integration
🔀 Resolve merge conflicts with AI
🔔 OS notifications for tasks & chat responses
🧠 Chain of thought with GPT-5-Codex

…and more: aka.ms/VSCodeRelease

🧵 Here are the highlights...

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Friday Front-End @fridayfrontend.com · 13h

A Few Fun #CSS Nesting Tips & Tricks: "There are some handy things that you can do with nesting, espcially when you start moving the `&` placeholder around!" html-css-tip-of-the-week.netlify.app/tip/nesting-...

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