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Glyph

@glyph.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy

it's truly amazing what LLMs can achieve. we now know it's possible to produce an html5 parsing library with nothing but the full source code of an existing html5 parsing library, all the source code of all other open source libraries ever, a meticulously maintained and extremely comprehensive […]

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mastodon.social

December 17, 2025 at 3:06 AM

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tomate 🍅

@jascha.ohai.social.ap.brid.gy

We just celebrated Black Friday in memory of Rebecca Black who invented Friday back in 2011.

November 29, 2025 at 5:38 PM

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Bruce Lawson ✅ ♫ ♿ ✌️♂️✊

@brucelawson.vivaldi.net.ap.brid.gy

Breaking news (to me): "If wheel running is indeed caused by captive housing, wild mice are not expected to use a running wheel in nature. This however, to our knowledge, has never been tested. Here, we show that when running wheels are placed in nature […]

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A graph showing incidents of elective wild wheel-running by species (mice is the vast majority, then slugs, rat, shrew, frog, snail" and photos of a mouse, a frog and a slug wheel running

November 12, 2025 at 10:21 AM

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Rational Market Hypothesist

@pikesley.mastodon.me.uk.ap.brid.gy

Happy Circulatory System Walking Through The Kitchen Day to those who celebrate

Dr Manhattan's circulatory system walking through a kitchen, from Watchmen

November 10, 2025 at 8:52 AM

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Neil Sardesai

@neilsardesai.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy

Always nice to have options

November 10, 2025 at 12:09 AM

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FlohEinstein

@floheinstein.chaos.social.ap.brid.gy

Why use a URL shortener when you can use a phishy URL extender?

https://phishyurl.com/

Keep your security people alert and awake, generate phishing-looking redirecting link

#infosec

https://cheap-bitcoin.online/backdoor-loader/rat-controller/malware_patch.exe?cachecontrol=inject&cookievalue=steal&file=poison&id=fc3188fb&payload=%28function%28%29%7B+return+Math.floor%284.9%29%3B+%7D%29%28%29%3B&port=scan

September 16, 2025 at 8:10 AM

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Jef Poskanzer

@jef.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy

Five years ago today. Photo taken at high noon. Got to keep driving while the world burns down because of driving. #orangeskyday

a freeway jammed with cars, headlights on, under a dark orange sky

September 9, 2025 at 1:51 PM

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Glyph

@glyph.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy

I think the 2030s are gonna be really weird.

“What up biochem fam, so great to see you guys, today we are back at it again with another video, this one’s about making your own mRNA SARS-nCoV-2029 vaccine precursors with a Bambu Lab Crispy CRISPR kit. As you all know my university research […]

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mastodon.social

August 20, 2025 at 3:44 PM

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Erik Uden 🍑

@erikuden.mastodon.de.ap.brid.gy

The Onion wins again

A tweet by New York Times PR saying “We have appended an Editors' Note to a story about Mohammed Zakaria al-Mutawaq, a child in Gaza who was diagnosed with severe malnutrition. After publication, The Times learned that he also had pre-existing health problems. Read more below.”

AB article by the Onion is responding saying “'New York Times' Issues Apology For Reporting Palestinian Deaths. Published October 10, 2023”

July 30, 2025 at 4:22 PM

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Brent Toderian

@brenttoderian.bsky.social

“Air pollution fell substantially as Paris restricted car traffic and made way for parks, people-streets and bike-lanes.”

Better for the climate, better for health, better for livability & quality of life.

Common sense.

Such a no-brainer, it’s remarkable that more cities HAVEN’T done the same.