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Legrugru @legrugru.fr · 1d

Nouvelle demande pour les ukrainien-nes, attention c'est du gros, on cherche des tourets de câbles électriques 4 x 25 mm2 en longueur de 40 m minimum, même d'occasion, et le besoin est évidemment énorme car il faudrait 4x40 m !

merci d'avance si vous avez des pistes !

#Ukraine

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Aliette de Bodard @aliettedebodard.com · 11h

BTW if you want to be ready for when said WIP sees the light of day, you can read the two previous books in the series:
www.aliettedebodard.com/bibliography...
V-drama meets high Gothic in queer-norm world, where a Fallen angel and his shapeshifting dragon husband navigate court politics & murder...

Dragons and Blades - Aliette de Bodard

The Dragons and Blades Reading Order 1. Of Dragons, Feasts and Murders | 2. Of Charms, Ghosts and Grievances murderous husband/diplomatic husband, solving crimes without stabbing anyone, healthy relat...

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rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 1d

Extremely relevant numbers! (And this is *low traffic* by modern standards.)

hailey @hailey.at · 1d

an interesting note re: scaling image moderation. in the past 24 hours:

at least 500 thousand images in posts (not considering # of images, just if an image was in the post)
86 thousand avatars
500 thousand url thumbnails
58 thousand videos.

that's a lot to moderate!

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Jean-Michel Deruty @stormancer.com · 18h

Omg the issues are obvious in the trailer itself.

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The Spaceshipper 🚀 @thespaceshipper.com · 18h

Just to remind you that the second graphic novel dedicated to the creation of Star Wars has just been released in France. My review is coming and, spoiler, it will be good.

The 1st book having been translated into 18 languages, you'll probably all have the opportunity to read the second one later.

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Jean-Michel Deruty @stormancer.com · 19h

My reach is somewhat limited (euphemism) but I'm gonna do my best! ❤️

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Aliette de Bodard @aliettedebodard.com · 21h

Coming soon in 2026: rerelease of the dominion of the fallen books in North America
Raise your hand if you'd like to take part in a cover reveal?

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Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 20h

With all the caveats about anonymous posters, this is still staggering, a revelation of what a sliver we see reported across mainstream & alt media combined; and this itself is obviously just a sliver. www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/...

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René Otto @aceottorney.bsky.social · 1d

Proud to announce Deviant Legal’s Game Developer’s Guide to Publishing Agreements: a free resource for developers wanting to learn about publishing deals. Publicly accessible, without requiring to provide your data: deviantlegal.com/guide/game-d...

An image about the game developer's guide to publishing agreements feauturing otto the otter

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Jean-Michel Deruty @stormancer.com · 23h

Mais oui (et je dis ca sans aucun sarcasme hein), s'ils se mettent à faire autre chose que ce qu'ils disent dans leurs conditions d'utilisation, et ce sans prévenir, ca poserait un vrai problème. Mais dans ce cas il faut leur tomber dessus, il y a des lois pour ca.

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Jean-Michel Deruty @stormancer.com · 23h

Le problème c'est qu'en terme de dommage il n'y a pas d'exploitation de propriété intellectuelle. Ce n'est pas diffèrent de la construction d'un index à des fins de recherche. Et vu l'importance de la modération sur un rs, je pense qu'on tombe dans le régime de l'intérêt légitime RGPD 🤔.

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Jean-Michel Deruty @stormancer.com · 23h

A noter tout de même que les algo de segmentation par machine learning (ce que sont les outils de moderation en question) n'ont pour seul rapport avec l'IA générative que le concept de machine learning.

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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 1d

Gonna be thinking about this lede for a minute.

(RNS) — Last month, the Rev. David Black stood in front of a Chicago-area U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility and spread his arms wide. Adorned in all black and wearing a clerical collar, the pastor looked up at a group of masked, heavily armed ICE agents on the roof and began to pray.

“I invited them to repentance,” Black, a minister in the Presbyterian Church (USA), said in an interview. “I basically offered an altar call. I invited them to come and receive that salvation, and be part of the kingdom that is coming.”

But when Black began to lower his arms a few seconds later, the agents responded to his spiritual plea by firing pepper balls, or chemical agents that cause eye irritation and respiratory distress, video footage shows. One struck Black in the head, exploding into a puff of white pepper smoke and forcing him to his knees. Fellow demonstrators rushed to his aid, and as the pastor rubbed his face in pain, the agents continued to fire.

“We could hear them laughing,” Black said.

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Jean-Michel Deruty @stormancer.com · 1d

You'll meet her getting punished by her boss for her failure to stop you. Which is a very interesting situation for introducing this character as a potential party member!

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I'm Margaret! I'm the best! Blah Blah Blah! @vt-vagabond.bsky.social · 1d

There’s a lot in here that deserves a pull quote, but this is the most egregious. I need people to recognize the gravity of the situation here in Chicago;

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"The ones that are getting out are coming home to no home," Watson said.
According to her, after the raid occurred, building management stole or threw out residents belongings, including visas and important documents.

ICIRR is still trying to determine the identities of all the people detained in the raid. Castro said that the organization usually can do that by following up with family members or loved ones. "In this instance, there was nobody left to work with," she said. The only detainee name they're sure of is that of a person who passed their Venezuelan passport to a neighbor as they were being taken away.

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Todd Vaziri @tvaziri.com · 1d

Vanity Fair asked me to talk about visual effects, and it was my great honor to show off some of ILM’s terrific work over the years.

Todd Vaziri on Vanity Fair VFX
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ILM's VFX Secrets Behind Star Wars, Transformers & More | Vanity Fair

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Jean-Michel Deruty @stormancer.com · 1d

Pretty sure that if they built 737s designed to fly for years without any heavy maintenance, the safety margin would be different too.

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Jean-Michel Deruty @stormancer.com · 1d

What? I had to tell my beloved and she answered, with all the contempt a true french can muster :
"Tss. Quel gâchis." (what a waste. )

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Jean-Michel Deruty @stormancer.com · 1d

Also applies to chicken, ducks and every f*** goose.

Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 1d

i have met a number of pigs, including pigs i later went on to eat (we have small farmers in our family) and quite frankly, getting to know pigs has made me feel even less bad about eating them

they would 100% eat us if given the chance

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Jean-Michel Deruty @stormancer.com · 1d

However I still expect these experiments to fail because salt water is a very nasty environment for any equipment, so maintenance costs may outweight the reduction in electricity consumption.

Jean-Michel Deruty @stormancer.com · 1d

Urban heat islands are more relevant, but they appear because air conducts heat badly, so without wind, it tends to accumulate. Water behaves differently (that's why water cooling is far more effective and why this underwater datacenter concept appears regularly) and dissipates heat much better.

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Jean-Michel Deruty @stormancer.com · 1d

The physics behind that is pretty interesting, but without the greenhouse effect the earth would be covered in ice. So you need just enough greenhouse gazes in the atmosphere to get the avg temp we want. Too much means too hot, and that's our problem.

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Jean-Michel Deruty @stormancer.com · 1d

The greenhouse effect is something completely different, it's caused by specific gazes (incl. CO2) absorbing some part of the light reflected by the earth instead of letting the energy escape into space (like in a real greenhouse the heat is provided by the sun)

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Jean-Michel Deruty @stormancer.com · 1d

However the problem is that salted water does not exactly play well with electronics. Maintenance is another issue.

Jean-Michel Deruty @stormancer.com · 1d

There is a problem of relative scales in this proposal. Nobody serious is afraid datacenters are heating the atmosphere. They can't meaningfully heat the oceans neither. Putting them underwater is interesting because this way you don't need to spend electricity on active cooling.

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