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China building new semi-submersible missile carrier

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China building new semi-submersible missile carrier

China is developing what appears to be a new generation of combat vessel that may operate without a crew, according to the report from Naval News. The mysterious ship, currently under construction at ...

defence-blog.com

November 2, 2025 at 9:52 AM

dietrich

@burrito.space

this post demonstrates that I was wrong by orders of magnitude, and that @piss.beauty was right.

openai.com/index/buildi...

(unless someone surprises us in the next two months)

October 31, 2025 at 4:40 PM

melanie newport

@melanienewport.bsky.social

powerpoint is going extremely hard with the suggested graphics this morning

(quote from Jane Dailey's prescient and free textbook press.uchicago.edu/sites/buildi...)

“People who believed fervently in free-market economics, in the inherent evil of the Soviet Union, in the absolute equality of all citizens under the law, in the dangers of allowing the federal government too much power, in the rightness of their goals regardless of the lawfulness of their means all practiced a form of ‘true belief’ politics that brooked no compromise.” -Dailey, Building the American Republic, 323
Microsoft added a smiling devil graphic that is somehow minimalist and corporate looking

November 3, 2025 at 2:41 PM

Margot Carpenter

@margot-carto.bsky.social

It's great to see this dimension of the affordable housing crisis getting more attention: new housing units have outpaced population growth in every Maine county since 1970.

@mapesgeog.bsky.social , makes me think of your work!

themainemonitor.org/maine-buildi...

Maine is building homes faster, but they are emptier

Often-overlooked numbers show how fewer people are living together, inadvertently contributing to Maine's housing crisis.

themainemonitor.org

October 27, 2025 at 12:35 AM

Mike Eliason

@holz-bau.bsky.social

massive, anonymous buildings
poor economic and social mix
few affordable 3rd places.
soul sucking streetscapes
poor public realm...

i talk about them at length in my book, building for people

islandpress.org/books/buildi...

Building for People

islandpress.org

October 27, 2025 at 5:32 PM

Michael Andersen

@andersem.bsky.social

Oh, and buy @holz-bau.bsky.social’s great book that inspired @rjsheperd.com to create this contest! It’s about the awesome cites enabled by these buildings & related urban policy changes islandpress.org/books/buildi...

Building for People

islandpress.org

October 21, 2025 at 4:43 PM

Colorado Renewable Energy Society

@corenewable.bsky.social

The Colorado Energy Office (CEO) designed the Large Building Decarbonization (LBD) Showcase Grant to resource, accelerate, and share example solutions that cost-effectively reduce large commercial building emissions.

Learn more about this grant program:

energyoffice.colorado.gov/large-buildi...

October 21, 2025 at 5:11 PM

DavidPBLRoss

@davidpblross.bsky.social

Disciplinary-Specific AI Literacy (DSAIL) framework is worth taking a close look at www.linkedin.com/pulse/buildi... #EduSky #EduSkyAI #TLSky #EdTech #AIinEducation #aisky #ai #artificialintelligence #AIliteracy

Building AI Literacy Through Disciplinary Practice: The DSAIL Framework

Disciplinary-Specific AI Literacy (DSAIL) is built on a single repeatable move that works across all disciplines and grade levels: students encounter AI-generated content, then interrogate it through ...

www.linkedin.com

October 14, 2025 at 4:16 PM

Porschiey

@porschiey.io

"Building a world that never sleeps"
My first dev blog! 😅
porschiey-alt.github.io/posts/buildi...

#devblog #gamedev #indiedev

October 11, 2025 at 11:08 PM

Twisted Spinster

@danceswithpugs.bsky.social

wtf is a landspout???

Special Weather Statement
Valid from Oct 12, 2025 5:20 PM PDT until Oct 12, 2025 5:45 PM PDT
From the National Weather Service
At 520 PM PDT, Doppler radar was tracking gusty showers capable of producing a landspout along a line extending from near Boring to Tigard. Movement was southeast at 15 mph.
HAZARD... Landspouts and wind gusts up to 40 mph.
SOURCE... Radar indicated.
IMPACT... Minor damage to outdoor objects is possible. Gusty winds could knock down tree limbs and blow around unsecured objects.
Locations impacted include... Oregon City, Tigard, Lake Oswego, Tualatin, West Linn, Milwaukie, Wilsonville, Canby, Gladstone, Estacada, Rivergrove, Oatfield, Jennings Lodge, Clackamas, Happy Valley, Damascus, King City, Durham, Johnson City, and Oak Grove.
This includes the following highways in Oregon...
Interstate 5 between mile markers 286 and 293.
Interstate 205 between mile markers 1 and 15.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
If outdoors, consider seeking shelter inside a buildina.

October 13, 2025 at 12:24 AM

Melissa Bowman

@dtkmelissa.bsky.social

"Building market-rate housing actually protects existing renters. Because it absorbs demand from people who would otherwise be bidding up prices in older buildings.
You don’t have to like that. I don’t love it either! But it’s just… math." philwalkable.substack.com/p/why-buildi...

🏙️ Why Building Fancy Apartments Actually Helps Everyone (Yes, Even Renters)

If rich people don’t get new apartments, they’ll take yours.

philwalkable.substack.com

October 8, 2025 at 11:31 PM

Internet Archive

@archive.org

Join web pioneers Sir Tim Berners-Lee & Brewster Kahle in conversation about building and preserving the internet.

📅 Thurs, Oct 9 @ 7:30 PM PT
🎟️ IN-PERSON & VIRTUAL
Details ➡️ blog.archive.org/event/buildi...

Headshots of Sir Tim Berners-Lee and Brewster Kahle.

September 30, 2025 at 6:03 PM

Jess

@ennui-haver.bsky.social

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I disavow my support of Ron Paul in the eighth grade. He said he wanted to make weed legal, and I was too dumb to understand the other stuff. I just wanted to smoke weed. I don’t want to make excuses, but I was very dumb, and I felt like I was never going to be able to buy weed from the black market because that was illegal. So it seemed the only way to get weed was to support Ron Paul. I hadn’t even smoked weed at the time. Everyone said “Jess you seem like you’re stoned” in the way eighth graders say stuff like that to seem like they’re cool and knowledgable about drugs. I would play it up sometimes and be like I bet I’m just naturally high on marijuana, but now I understand that it was a gateway to supporting Ron Paul. I also thought it was cool to walk slow as shit in that vein. People would tell me “Jess you need to walk faster” and I’d be like “no”, and continue to walk slowly. I thought this fit into the larger stoner persona I was building, that once again led me to support Ron Paul in the eight grade. I’m sorry. I disavow Ron Paul and my support for him as a 12 year old

September 25, 2025 at 2:19 PM

Stella Biderman

@stellaathena.bsky.social

The new “teen safety” program from OpenAI repeats the same lies that companies and governments have been saying since the internet began. This won't achieve better online safety for kids, but it will suppress individual liberty and promote censorship.

openai.com/index/buildi...

Building towards age prediction

Learn how OpenAI is building age prediction and parental controls in ChatGPT to create safer, age-appropriate experiences for teens while supporting families with new tools.

openai.com

September 18, 2025 at 12:40 AM

sinbean lashes out 🏳️‍⚧️

@meowntown.joshler.top

openai is going to introduce adult age verification. same openai that's scanning users conversations and reporting them to police, mind you
openai.com/index/buildi...

Building towards age prediction

Learn how OpenAI is building age prediction and parental controls in ChatGPT to create safer, age-appropriate experiences for teens while supporting families with new tools.

openai.com

September 17, 2025 at 8:37 AM

Mike Eliason

@holz-bau.bsky.social

single stair buildings
thin floor plates allowing adequate open space
FAR spread broadly
multifamily buildings allowed off arterials
ecodistricts centered on people, not cars
design competitions not RFPs
funded innovative and affordable housing

all covered in here:
islandpress.org/books/buildi...

Building for People

islandpress.org

September 15, 2025 at 10:54 PM

Liene RR

@lienera.bsky.social

ieraugu vecāku kontroles ieviešanu pār viņu bērnu AI kontu lietošanu kā big tech bēgšana no atbildības un tās pārlikšana uz vecākiem, kas iespējams paši ir tikapt ievainojami un trausli lietotāji kā viņu bērni.

Diskursa īpaši jāizceļ termina 'AI natives' lietojums
openai.com/index/buildi...

Building more helpful ChatGPT experiences for everyone

Routing sensitive conversations to reasoning models and rolling out Parental Controls within the next month.

openai.com

September 11, 2025 at 9:34 AM

LLMs

@llms.activitypub.awakari.com.ap.brid.gy

Information Warfare: DeepSeek & The Shady World Of Influencer Marketing Businesses are buildi...

https://vinvashishta.substack.com/p/information-warfare-deepseek-and

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Information Warfare: DeepSeek & The Shady World Of Influencer Marketing

Businesses are building information libraries, and that has many implications.

vinvashishta.substack.com

February 25, 2025 at 12:39 PM

Beloved by cheese

@cottonmanifesto.bsky.social

With alt-text

U.S. Department of Justice
Edward R. Martin, Jr.
United States Attorney
District of Columbia
Wrick Henry Buildi
H'ashanton. D.C: 20530
Rep. Robert Garcia
U.S. House of Representatives
109 Cannon House Office Building
Washington, D.C. 20515
February 17, 2025
Dear Rep. Garcia:
As United States Attorney for the District of Columbia, I receive requests for information and clarification. I take these requests seriously and act on them with letters like this one you are receiving.
At this time, I respectfully request that you clarify your comments from February 12, 2025. During a live interview with CNN, when asked how Democrats can stop Elon Musk, you spoke clearly: "What the American public wants is for us to bring actual weapons to this bar fight. This is an actual fight for democracy."
This sounds to some like a threat to Mr. Musk - an appointed representative of President Donald Trump who you call a "dick" - and government staff who work for him. Their concerns have led to this inquiry.
We take threats against public officials very seriously. I look forward to your cooperation with my letter of inquiry after request. Thank you in advance for your assistance. Please respond by February 24, 2025. Should you have further questions regarding this matter, please do not hesitate to call my office or schedule a time to meet in person.
All the best.
Sincerely
Edward R. Martin, Jr.

February 20, 2025 at 8:23 PM

Lomig

@lomig.bzh

Part 2 of my adventures with #OCaml 's Dream and creating tutorials for dummies like me — Building CSS.

Well, I did something. A monstrosity, for sure, but something.

tech.lomig.bzh/posts/buildi...

January 29, 2025 at 7:12 PM

Visit Sights

@visitsights.bsky.social

🏙 Region: Augsburg, Germany
🏛️ Tourist attraction: St. Thomas

❓ Do you prefer sightseeing tours that are private or group tours?

➡ Check out more sights in Augsburg: https://visitsights.com/sights/Germany/Augsburg

#️⃣ #Germany #Sights #Christian #Church #PlaceOfWorship #Travel #Amenity #Buildi...