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Björn Friðgeir
@bjornfr.bsky.social
The only living Björn Friðgeir in the world.
Nerd. Programmer. Afper. Icelandic.
Solidly middle-aged.
May tweet about football with #boltinn #djöflarnir or #EuroVikes so please block those hashtags if that's not for you.
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So my new year's resolution is:
Read 100 books.
Given the state of my Kindle half of those could be just finishing unfinished ones.
Books read:
2018: 145
2019: 107
2020: 92
2021: 37
2022: 61
2023: 30
2024: 36.

All the yikes. And a new year's resolution decided. For a start just finishing up the half read books should get me to '23 in about a month....
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Thread on how to detect ai in that viral dog video
Yeah, I mean, I'm critical of any video nowadays that is trying to elicit an emotional response, especially when it's asking for subs at the end. It's weird that all the people seem to end up with the dog they want. And shelters are overflowing, where are the rooms full of people wanting to adopt?
December 7, 2025 at 7:05 AM
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Choo choo, motherfucker. 🤣
December 5, 2025 at 9:45 PM
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December 6, 2025 at 11:40 PM
Þú varst ekki að gera það sem ég var að gera
December 7, 2025 at 1:49 AM
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did… did the dog write this recipe
December 6, 2025 at 6:22 PM
Eldvarnahátíðin mest kveikir alltaf í mér jólaskapið
December 6, 2025 at 5:33 PM
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Nærri 40% Íslendinga finnst mikilvægara að fá birtu síðdegis skv. könnun Prósents; skrifið undir island.is/undirskrifta... til að vernda síðdegisbirtuna!
Ísland.is
Ísland.is er upplýsinga- og þjónustuveita opinberra aðila á Íslandi. Þar getur fólk og fyrirtæki fengið upplýsingar og notið margvíslegrar þjónustu hjá opinberum aðilum á einum stað í gegnum eina gátt...
island.is
December 6, 2025 at 3:37 PM
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Read up from this. I had no idea and it's brilliant.
All of these vaccines have < 𝟮𝟬𝟬 𝗮𝗻𝘁𝗶𝗴𝗲𝗻𝘀!

That’s because vaccine research and development has made them more effective, more efficient, and less taxing on the immune system.
December 6, 2025 at 1:14 PM
Komst að því í gær að kennarar sér í lagi menntaskólakennarar fá ekki viðurnefni lengur.
Amk ef eitthvað er að marka viðmælendur
December 6, 2025 at 10:17 AM
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How delightfully quaint some of these old Devon village names are, their etymologies lost in the mists of time.
November 17, 2025 at 3:24 PM
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The Nobel Prize committee should announce the World Cup winner tomorrow
December 6, 2025 at 4:29 AM
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Remember how I've said AI is an attack? This is what I meant
Two independent studies found that AI chatbots were better at persuading voters than political ads. The most persuasive bots also lied the most. This is something that humans working in psyops have known for decades. AI is psyops at scale. www.technologyreview.com/2025/12/04/1...
December 5, 2025 at 9:13 PM
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Sidney Lumet’s Serpico is 52.
Pacino asked Frank Serpico why he fought police corruption & didn’t just take the bribe money & give it to charity & just get on with his work:
‘He looked at me and said ‘Al, if I’d done that, who would I have been when I listened to Beethoven?’
December 5, 2025 at 9:21 PM
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We've allowed near monopolization of online ads (There are 12ish vendors now, plus Google; 8 of those 12 resell Google AdSense), and the percentage they pay for hosting ads is a third of what it used to be.

This has starved journalism of ad revenue. Which means that billonaires buy media outlets.
December 5, 2025 at 8:39 PM
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Anyway, read this thread on Agadoo, it is a fucking JOURNEY
GRIND COFFEE

>:O
December 5, 2025 at 9:00 PM
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OH GOD WHO NEEDED THIS RIGHT NOW...!
Developer attempts to replicate "Liquid Glass" in CSS, and once finished realizes what she'd actually created is an exploit for a fundamental, previously unknown, and rather serious browser vulnerability

lyra.horse/blog/2025/12...

"CSS hack accidentally becomes regular hack"
SVG Filters - Clickjacking 2.0
A novel and powerful twist on an old classic.
lyra.horse
December 5, 2025 at 9:04 PM
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Thirty years ago today, the scientist Clair Patterson passed away. He campaigned tirelessly and effectively to remove lead from gasoline, paint, pipes, and food cans. The drop in violent crime that correlates with this change? Massive.
Science hero.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clair_P...
Clair Patterson - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
December 5, 2025 at 9:04 PM
Fyrsta hnoð.
December 5, 2025 at 8:44 PM
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🚨 2026 FIFA WORLD CUP - PROJECTED ROUND OF 16 TIES!

🇩🇪 Germany vs 🇫🇷 France
🇲🇽 Mexico vs 🇳🇱 Netherlands

🇭🇷 Croatia vs 🇪🇸 Spain
🇹🇷 Türkiye vs 🇧🇪 Belgium

🇧🇷 Brazil vs 🇳🇴 Norway
🇩🇰 Denmark vs 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 England

🇦🇷 Argentina vs 🇵🇾 Paraguay
🇮🇹 Italy vs 🇵🇹 Portugal
December 5, 2025 at 7:32 PM
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🚨 2026 FIFA WORLD CUP - PROJECTED KNOCKOUTS BRACKET!
December 5, 2025 at 7:25 PM
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I love companies being punished for replacing workers with AI. Gimme more
Duolingo announced it was going “AI-first” just over six months ago. Since then its stock is down 64%.
December 5, 2025 at 4:44 PM
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This is the most horrific trophy I’ve ever seen. It looks like a cursed object found in a desert crypt.
December 5, 2025 at 5:38 PM
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Films that are gaslighting you

🎬The Good, The Bad and The Don’t You Think You’re Overreacting
🎬Burn After Reading Way Too Much Into This
🎬Catch Me If You Can You Hear Yourself?
🎬The Unbearable Lightness of Being Way Too Sensitive
🎬Taken (Things the Wrong Way Again)
🎬Love Actually I Never Said That
December 5, 2025 at 1:34 PM
Hér sleppur Síðumúlinn billega.
Megir þú þurfa að taka vinstri beygju úr Síðumúla niður Fellsmúla á annatíma að eilífu
er með sterkari bölvunum.
Engill af himnum hrapaði
húsnæði á jörðu fann.
Því var að skrattinn skapaði
Skeifuna og Ármúlann.
Ég varð svo innblásinn af @glytta.bsky.social að þetta varð óvart til.
December 5, 2025 at 1:35 PM
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losing my mind at the 25% of GOP voters who think most Italian Americans are "more loyal to a foreign country than to the United States."
December 4, 2025 at 9:00 PM