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mrbellek
@merijn.nu
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Fuck Elon Musk. He/him. #ACAB

I'm here mostly to shitpost, to be honest.

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stuartgipp.bsky.social
probably none of them, given that "gameplay was updated" is code language for "completely ruined"
ikexpastel.bsky.social iKE PASTEL @ikexpastel.bsky.social · 3d
I would like to know! 🤓👾
November 29, 2025 at 10:30 AM
merijn.nu
This is the most insane notification on the reddit app 🤮
Notification with text "you have reached your daily limit for hiding ads"
November 27, 2025 at 3:41 PM
merijn.nu
Finished Alien: Earth! Well, the 9 episodes that are up on Prime right now. I hope there's more coming, it's fun they're doing something new with the Alien franchise. 👍
Poster for Alien: Earth
November 27, 2025 at 2:40 PM
merijn.nu
I'm so glad Android has this really useful feature where you can see the patch notes for your app updates at a glance. I'm also glad that app developers make proper use of this feature. 🫠
A screen filled with app update notifications, with the patch notes for each app visible. They all say "fixed bugs and improvements", except for Microsoft Teams......which says "added ai"
November 25, 2025 at 5:47 PM
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gosunkugi.bsky.social
"Good grief!" exclaims Charlie Brown, doomed to be locked into eternal bondage, his very soul flayed from his body by twisted denizens of hell. Good grief indeed.
November 25, 2025 at 12:20 PM
merijn.nu
@seaofthieves.com #SoTshot risky recovery
November 25, 2025 at 9:14 AM
merijn.nu
blep
November 23, 2025 at 11:45 AM
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mcnees.bsky.social
Journalist challenge: Use “Machine Learning” when you mean machine learning and “LLM” when you mean LLM. Ditch “AI” as a catch-all term, it’s not useful for readers and it helps companies trying to confuse the public by obscuring the roles played by different technologies. 🧪
November 22, 2025 at 4:50 PM
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bryguy.bsky.social
This might be the single funniest thing that has happened during this incredibly cursed year
November 21, 2025 at 9:59 PM
merijn.nu
I just decided to learn PHP one day at uni in my dorm room, because support for Visual Basic became nonexistent. Easy to pick up, very high skill ceiling. 👍
recursecenter.bsky.social Recurse Center @recursecenter.bsky.social · 18d
What’s the lore behind choosing your career path ?
November 23, 2025 at 8:49 AM
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ernie.tedium.co
If you have been sharing that Malwarebytes article on the Gmail thing, you should note the giant correction up top.

www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/20...
Update November 22. We’ve updated this article after realising we contributed to a perfect storm of misunderstanding around a recent change in the wording and placement of Gmail’s smart features. The settings themselves aren’t new, but the way Google recently rewrote and surfaced them led a lot of people (including us) to believe Gmail content might be used to train Google’s AI models, and that users were being opted in automatically. After taking a closer look at Google’s documentation and reviewing other reporting, that doesn’t appear to be the case. Gmail does scan email content to power its own “smart features,” such as spam filtering, categorisation, and writing suggestions. But this is part of how Gmail normally works and isn’t the same as training Google’s generative AI models. Google also maintains that these feature settings are opt-in rather than opt-out, although users’ experiences seem to vary depending on when and how the new wording appeared. It’s easy to see where the confusion came from. Google’s updated language around “smart features” is vague, and the term “smart” often implies AI—especially at a time when Gemini is being integrated into other parts of Google’s products. When the new wording started appearing for some users without much explanation, many assumed it signalled a broader shift. We’ve revised this article to reflect what we can confirm from Google’s documentation, as it’s always been our aim to give readers accurate, helpful guidance.
November 22, 2025 at 9:44 PM
merijn.nu
Oof. MalwareBytes wrote a panic article about how Gmail is using your emails to train their AI, only to update it 2 days later with a giant correction: turns out they misread "smart" and this feature has been there for decades. This is not a good look for MB.

www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/20...
[Correction] Gmail can read your emails and attachments to power "smart features"
Did you know that Gmail can use your emails and attachments for its smart features? Here's how to check your settings.
www.malwarebytes.com
November 23, 2025 at 8:37 AM
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sarahjeong.bsky.social
this is what will show up if you invite me to your ai & copyright law conference
November 6, 2025 at 6:40 PM
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erictopol.bsky.social
In agreement with my friend @kkjetelina.bsky.social who writes today: "I suggest the general public avoid the CDC website."
yourlocalepidemiologist.substack.com/p/cdc-false-...

www.wsj.com/health/healt...
November 21, 2025 at 3:39 PM
merijn.nu
Finally started the RoboCop game, accidentally the right way: shooting an enemy in the dick in the first level 🫡
November 20, 2025 at 2:36 PM
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fesshole.bsky.social
Someone on the train has just answered a call with "Sorry, I can't speak, I'm on a train". For a moment I thought the carriage was going to break into applause for them.
November 19, 2025 at 11:20 AM
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patstaresat.bsky.social
Following up on the podcast today I demand that depictions of Link, Crono, Gordon Freeman and their ilk not just be depicted as quiet, but literally incapable of speech.
November 19, 2025 at 4:06 AM
merijn.nu
Cloudflare is having issues, and you know it's bad when even the status page looks like this 😬
Cloudflarestatus.com, but all the css failed to load and everything is unstyled plaintext
November 18, 2025 at 12:11 PM
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kevinmkruse.bsky.social
Imagine escaping the literal Nazis, making it to America, living three quarters of a century there making your life, and then this:
November 17, 2025 at 8:20 PM
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fesshole.bsky.social
Instead of Secret Santa, we're doing something similar but for colleagues' kids this year. I've been paired with a chap who always speaks over me. I'm getting his kids glitter and glue. I hope they love it.
November 17, 2025 at 3:20 PM
merijn.nu
Someone posted different formatting styles to r/ProgrammingHumor, and edits are getting posted. Things are heating up now!
The picture showing different formatting styles, but edited to label most of them as "mental illness"
November 15, 2025 at 10:29 AM
merijn.nu
ABSOLUTELY fucking no!!!!
parkermolloy.com Parker Molloy @parkermolloy.com · 15d
For real, check this out. Evil.
November 15, 2025 at 8:32 AM
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felipegaonar.bsky.social
Open AI loses copyright case in Germany.

Judge Elke Schwager summarized the case saying that if you want to build something and need components, "then you purchase them and do not use the property of others."
Blow for OpenAI in Germany as court rules song lyrics used illegally
A German court ruled on Tuesday that OpenAI violated copyright on nine popular songs in a lawsuit that marked another attempt to prevent the free use of artists' content online. The Munich Regional Co...
www.yahoo.com
November 14, 2025 at 2:49 PM
merijn.nu
You would think this is a joke, until you click it and see what it is in reply to 👀
rob-sheridan.com Rob Sheridan @rob-sheridan.com · 15d
Silicon Valley, 1990s: Free and open access to all the world’s knowledge will usher a new utopian age of information!

Silicon Valley, 2025:
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November 15, 2025 at 8:27 AM