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when will the lesson finally get learned? #cloudflare
November 18, 2025 at 2:01 PM
when will the lesson finally get learned? #cloudflare
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JD Vance: "I'm a Grok guy. I think it's the best. It's also the least woke."
November 14, 2025 at 2:14 AM
JD Vance: "I'm a Grok guy. I think it's the best. It's also the least woke."
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Fantastic ad placement in the NYT. 👨🍳💋
November 14, 2025 at 8:17 PM
Fantastic ad placement in the NYT. 👨🍳💋
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Cloudflare is down, in yet another example of why 5 companies should not control the internet.
November 18, 2025 at 11:52 AM
Cloudflare is down, in yet another example of why 5 companies should not control the internet.
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Down detector is down because it can't verify that I'm human because Cloudflare is down
November 18, 2025 at 11:52 AM
Down detector is down because it can't verify that I'm human because Cloudflare is down
Cloudflare is down, in yet another example of why 5 companies should not control the internet.
November 18, 2025 at 11:52 AM
Cloudflare is down, in yet another example of why 5 companies should not control the internet.
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go to the cloud they said
itll be fine they said
https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/big-tech/manufacturer-issues-remote-kill-command-to-nuke-smart-vacuum-after-engineer-blocks-it-from-collecting-data-user-revives-it-with-custom-hardware-and-python-scripts-to-run-offline
itll be fine they said
https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/big-tech/manufacturer-issues-remote-kill-command-to-nuke-smart-vacuum-after-engineer-blocks-it-from-collecting-data-user-revives-it-with-custom-hardware-and-python-scripts-to-run-offline
November 3, 2025 at 2:56 AM
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The whole of the internet is now run on the things that would have not made it past your email junk filter 20 years ago.
Meta earns $3.5 billion every six months from showing Faceboon and Instagram users 15 billion “higher legal risk” scam ad impressions a day, internal documents state.
That haul vastly exceeds how much the company expects regulators
To fine it for running scam ads.
www.reuters.com/investigatio...
That haul vastly exceeds how much the company expects regulators
To fine it for running scam ads.
www.reuters.com/investigatio...
www.reuters.com
November 6, 2025 at 12:10 PM
The whole of the internet is now run on the things that would have not made it past your email junk filter 20 years ago.
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SCOOP: China's top 2 gay dating apps, Blued and Finka, became unavailable on app stores over the weekend. Apple confirmed to WIRED that it removed the two apps following "an order from the Cyberspace Administration of China."
latest with @lmatsakis.bsky.social
latest with @lmatsakis.bsky.social
Apple Pulls China’s Top Gay Dating Apps After Government Order
The removal of Blued and Finka marks another setback for China’s marginalized LGBTQ+ community.
www.wired.com
November 10, 2025 at 5:27 AM
SCOOP: China's top 2 gay dating apps, Blued and Finka, became unavailable on app stores over the weekend. Apple confirmed to WIRED that it removed the two apps following "an order from the Cyberspace Administration of China."
latest with @lmatsakis.bsky.social
latest with @lmatsakis.bsky.social
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There are already too many videos of Waymo robots not dodging Dodgers celebrations last night to detail or post, here's a thread w samples. These are different robots AFAICT. Did Waymo bet the bums would lose?
OP: tiktok.xavuirs
OP: tiktok.xavuirs
November 2, 2025 at 3:34 PM
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"this is not about compensation" says the man who made sure he had a guaranteed sale price for his twitter shares when he pledged them to musk's twitter takeover
November 6, 2025 at 2:24 AM
"this is not about compensation" says the man who made sure he had a guaranteed sale price for his twitter shares when he pledged them to musk's twitter takeover
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Musk: This Muslim man has a difficult name.
Also Musk: My children are named Seldon Lycurgus and Techno Mechanicus.
Also Musk: My children are named Seldon Lycurgus and Techno Mechanicus.
November 3, 2025 at 9:31 PM
Musk: This Muslim man has a difficult name.
Also Musk: My children are named Seldon Lycurgus and Techno Mechanicus.
Also Musk: My children are named Seldon Lycurgus and Techno Mechanicus.
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lol holy shit
"AWS crash causes $2,000 Smart Beds to overheat" is something from a Final Destination pre-production brainstorming session www.dexerto.com/entertainmen...
AWS crash causes $2,000 Smart Beds to overheat and get stuck upright - Dexerto
The AWS outage caused chaos for owners of Eight Sleep’s Pod3 mattresses as they had no offline mode and were stuck at high temperatures.
www.dexerto.com
October 22, 2025 at 3:23 AM
lol holy shit
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It’s not about the AWS outage; it’s about the contracts we made along the way.
October 21, 2025 at 2:16 AM
It’s not about the AWS outage; it’s about the contracts we made along the way.
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This is the opening of the Grokipedia entry on George Floyd.
I think we can all agree that Floyd did not become well known around the world because of his "lengthy criminal record." Opening the entry this way is seemingly an attempt to manufacture consent for his killing.
I think we can all agree that Floyd did not become well known around the world because of his "lengthy criminal record." Opening the entry this way is seemingly an attempt to manufacture consent for his killing.
![Grokipedia entry that reads:
George Perry Floyd Jr. (October 14, 1973 – May 25, 2020) was an American man with a lengthy criminal record including convictions for armed robbery, drug possession, and theft in Texas from 1997 to 2007.[1][2]
On May 25, 2020, Floyd was arrested in Minneapolis, Minnesota, after a store clerk reported that he had used a counterfeit $20 bill to purchase cigarettes.[3][4] During the arrest, which involved resistance from Floyd who repeatedly stated he could not breathe even before being placed prone, officer Derek Chauvin knelt on Floyd's neck for 9 minutes and 29 seconds while Floyd became unresponsive.[3]
The Hennepin County medical examiner ruled Floyd's death a homicide due to cardiopulmonary arrest complicating law enforcement subdual, restraint, and neck compression, with contributing factors including severe hypertensive atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease, fentanyl intoxication, and recent methamphetamine use; toxicology tests detected 11 ng/mL of fentanyl in his blood, a level associated with overdose fatalities in individuals without tolerance.[5][6][7] Chauvin was convicted in 2021 of second-degree unintentional murder, third-degree murder, and second-degree manslaughter, receiving a 22.5-year sentence.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:emhyi4kljodgqlusdsopgfgd/bafkreibhaib7ycwavq5rbnysynv75sqkwexh6qmbk5f2vp2phqobffkjwa@jpeg)
October 29, 2025 at 6:46 PM
This is the opening of the Grokipedia entry on George Floyd.
I think we can all agree that Floyd did not become well known around the world because of his "lengthy criminal record." Opening the entry this way is seemingly an attempt to manufacture consent for his killing.
I think we can all agree that Floyd did not become well known around the world because of his "lengthy criminal record." Opening the entry this way is seemingly an attempt to manufacture consent for his killing.
lol holy shit
"AWS crash causes $2,000 Smart Beds to overheat" is something from a Final Destination pre-production brainstorming session www.dexerto.com/entertainmen...
AWS crash causes $2,000 Smart Beds to overheat and get stuck upright - Dexerto
The AWS outage caused chaos for owners of Eight Sleep’s Pod3 mattresses as they had no offline mode and were stuck at high temperatures.
www.dexerto.com
October 22, 2025 at 3:23 AM
lol holy shit
It’s not about the AWS outage; it’s about the contracts we made along the way.
October 21, 2025 at 2:16 AM
It’s not about the AWS outage; it’s about the contracts we made along the way.
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Always take sentences using “the Cloud” or “the Internet” and try replacing those phrases with “A shed in Virginia” to see how they hold up. “Our service is fully based in a shed in Virginia”; “All my files are in a shed in Virginia”; “A shed in Virginia was designed to survive a nuclear war”, etc.
October 20, 2025 at 5:39 PM
Always take sentences using “the Cloud” or “the Internet” and try replacing those phrases with “A shed in Virginia” to see how they hold up. “Our service is fully based in a shed in Virginia”; “All my files are in a shed in Virginia”; “A shed in Virginia was designed to survive a nuclear war”, etc.
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I bought a new TV, there were 4 buttons across 2 seperate pages to disable advertisements.
And they’ve replaced the Mute button with a dedicated “AI” button, which opens a glorified picture settings.
And they’ve replaced the Mute button with a dedicated “AI” button, which opens a glorified picture settings.
October 20, 2025 at 5:48 AM
I bought a new TV, there were 4 buttons across 2 seperate pages to disable advertisements.
And they’ve replaced the Mute button with a dedicated “AI” button, which opens a glorified picture settings.
And they’ve replaced the Mute button with a dedicated “AI” button, which opens a glorified picture settings.
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0 days since last AWS internet outage
October 20, 2025 at 8:09 AM
0 days since last AWS internet outage
I bought a new TV, there were 4 buttons across 2 seperate pages to disable advertisements.
And they’ve replaced the Mute button with a dedicated “AI” button, which opens a glorified picture settings.
And they’ve replaced the Mute button with a dedicated “AI” button, which opens a glorified picture settings.
October 20, 2025 at 5:48 AM
I bought a new TV, there were 4 buttons across 2 seperate pages to disable advertisements.
And they’ve replaced the Mute button with a dedicated “AI” button, which opens a glorified picture settings.
And they’ve replaced the Mute button with a dedicated “AI” button, which opens a glorified picture settings.
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Wikimedia says Wikipedia is seeing a significant decline in human traffic, as more people access the site's information via AI chatbots without clicking through (Emanuel Maiberg/404 Media)
Main Link | Techmeme Permalink
Main Link | Techmeme Permalink
October 17, 2025 at 6:15 AM
Wikimedia says Wikipedia is seeing a significant decline in human traffic, as more people access the site's information via AI chatbots without clicking through (Emanuel Maiberg/404 Media)
Main Link | Techmeme Permalink
Main Link | Techmeme Permalink
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Salesforce pitched ICE on tripling its staff www.nytimes.com/2025/10/16/u...
Salesforce Offers Its Services to Boost Trump’s Immigration Force
www.nytimes.com
October 17, 2025 at 4:37 AM
Salesforce pitched ICE on tripling its staff www.nytimes.com/2025/10/16/u...
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"I was married, but I’m not married anymore. Women don't like the vehicle," says Roger Davis, a Cybertruck owner.
Davis also uses the Grok feature in the car: "Her name is Aura, and I use her as a therapist."
www.wired.com/story/owning...
Davis also uses the Grok feature in the car: "Her name is Aura, and I use her as a therapist."
www.wired.com/story/owning...
October 16, 2025 at 2:29 PM
"I was married, but I’m not married anymore. Women don't like the vehicle," says Roger Davis, a Cybertruck owner.
Davis also uses the Grok feature in the car: "Her name is Aura, and I use her as a therapist."
www.wired.com/story/owning...
Davis also uses the Grok feature in the car: "Her name is Aura, and I use her as a therapist."
www.wired.com/story/owning...