Nofud
@nofud.bsky.social
Lifelong learner and tinkerer. Helping products and teams become awesome.
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Centaurus A
NGC 5128
Distance 13 million light years
Discovered 1826 by James Dunlop
Centaurus A is the result of a large elliptical galaxy colliding with a spiral galaxy.
NGC 5128
Distance 13 million light years
Discovered 1826 by James Dunlop
Centaurus A is the result of a large elliptical galaxy colliding with a spiral galaxy.
November 24, 2025 at 2:55 AM
Centaurus A
NGC 5128
Distance 13 million light years
Discovered 1826 by James Dunlop
Centaurus A is the result of a large elliptical galaxy colliding with a spiral galaxy.
NGC 5128
Distance 13 million light years
Discovered 1826 by James Dunlop
Centaurus A is the result of a large elliptical galaxy colliding with a spiral galaxy.
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New research suggests that older adults who regularly use smartphones, computers, and the internet have a 58% lower risk of cognitive decline.
www.washingtonpost.com/wellness/202...
www.washingtonpost.com/wellness/202...
November 23, 2025 at 10:14 PM
New research suggests that older adults who regularly use smartphones, computers, and the internet have a 58% lower risk of cognitive decline.
www.washingtonpost.com/wellness/202...
www.washingtonpost.com/wellness/202...
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In 1990, 943 million people in China lived on less than $3 a day measured in 2021 dollars – 83% of the population, according to the World Bank. By 2019, the number was brought down to zero. In the US more than 4 million Americans live on less than $3 a day, 3x as many as 35 years ago.
China has brought millions out of poverty. The US has not – by choice
Despite the US’s economic success, income inequality remains breathtaking. But this is no glitch – it’s the system
www.theguardian.com
November 23, 2025 at 8:19 PM
In 1990, 943 million people in China lived on less than $3 a day measured in 2021 dollars – 83% of the population, according to the World Bank. By 2019, the number was brought down to zero. In the US more than 4 million Americans live on less than $3 a day, 3x as many as 35 years ago.
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y'know, if tech companies weren't so fired up to call every single thing "AI" it would be a lot easier to distinguish "ML spam filter that is well-sandboxed and tuned on your emails" from "giant context and IP-eroding foundation model that makes people paranoid and unhappy"
since the "google is now training gemini on your email contents" thing keeps bumping around here: it's _not happening_. I say this not to defend google but because I know a lot of people that have broken their filtering and made their lives much more annoying from sheer misinformation.
The malwarebytes Google opting-your-emails-into-ai-training thing is not true. The post is based on one bad tweet.
I know anti-tech lamenting is a Bluesky core principle, but please use the same judgement you would for any other clickbait.
www.theverge.com/news/826902/...
I know anti-tech lamenting is a Bluesky core principle, but please use the same judgement you would for any other clickbait.
www.theverge.com/news/826902/...
November 23, 2025 at 12:58 PM
y'know, if tech companies weren't so fired up to call every single thing "AI" it would be a lot easier to distinguish "ML spam filter that is well-sandboxed and tuned on your emails" from "giant context and IP-eroding foundation model that makes people paranoid and unhappy"
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'To the company’s disappointment, “people who stopped using Facebook for a week reported lower feelings of depression, anxiety, loneliness and social comparison,” internal documents said.'
November 23, 2025 at 7:08 PM
'To the company’s disappointment, “people who stopped using Facebook for a week reported lower feelings of depression, anxiety, loneliness and social comparison,” internal documents said.'
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The value proposition of a new version of Windows is now: Your home screen has ads, everything is slower, and your printer doesn't work, but if you don't pay us for it anyways we'll let criminals empty out your bank account.
November 23, 2025 at 5:11 PM
The value proposition of a new version of Windows is now: Your home screen has ads, everything is slower, and your printer doesn't work, but if you don't pay us for it anyways we'll let criminals empty out your bank account.
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DOGE was created for data theft and infrastructure dismantling and it wildly succeeded on both counts within the first few weeks of its existence. It will take a generation to rebuild what it destroyed and the breach of data is unprecedented.
Bye bye, “DOGE”.
It no longer exists as a “centralized entity”, according to the Office of Personnel Management.
@reuters.com
www.reuters.com/world/us/dog...
It no longer exists as a “centralized entity”, according to the Office of Personnel Management.
@reuters.com
www.reuters.com/world/us/dog...
November 23, 2025 at 3:01 PM
DOGE was created for data theft and infrastructure dismantling and it wildly succeeded on both counts within the first few weeks of its existence. It will take a generation to rebuild what it destroyed and the breach of data is unprecedented.
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I think the shortest version of why LLMs are an anti education technology is that education is fundamentally about making shared context to understand ourselves, each other, and the world
And by design LLMs destroy shared context
And by design LLMs destroy shared context
November 23, 2025 at 12:57 PM
I think the shortest version of why LLMs are an anti education technology is that education is fundamentally about making shared context to understand ourselves, each other, and the world
And by design LLMs destroy shared context
And by design LLMs destroy shared context
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I don’t know any product leader who has zero untapped opportunities. If there were really 1,800 underused engineers, then the product leaders at Amazon aren’t fighting hard enough to redeploy them elsewhere.
WARN filings expose 4.7k of Amazon's 14k cuts last month. 500 PMs were laid off while engineers (1,800 laid off) were hit hardest, mostly SDE IIs which refutes the "management bloat" narrative.
The trend is clear: Big Tech continues to purge junior roles due to "AI efficiency gains."
The trend is clear: Big Tech continues to purge junior roles due to "AI efficiency gains."
Amazon cut more than 1,800 engineers in record layoffs, despite saying it needs to innovate faster
Nearly 40% of the roughly 4,700 positions Amazon eliminated across Washington, New York, New Jersey and California were engineering jobs.
www.cnbc.com
November 22, 2025 at 8:39 PM
I don’t know any product leader who has zero untapped opportunities. If there were really 1,800 underused engineers, then the product leaders at Amazon aren’t fighting hard enough to redeploy them elsewhere.
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Google tells employees it must double capacity every 6 months to meet AI demand arstechnica.com/ai/2025/11/g...
Google tells employees it must double capacity every 6 months to meet AI demand
Google’s AI infrastructure chief tells staff it needs thousandfold capacity increase in 5 years.
arstechnica.com
November 22, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Google tells employees it must double capacity every 6 months to meet AI demand arstechnica.com/ai/2025/11/g...
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Anyone who accuses Mamdani of being a communist should have to endure the only punishment that such people deserve: to be lectured for 6 hours straight by an actual communist about how Mamdani is not a communist
November 22, 2025 at 1:15 AM
Anyone who accuses Mamdani of being a communist should have to endure the only punishment that such people deserve: to be lectured for 6 hours straight by an actual communist about how Mamdani is not a communist
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“The family try everything. They promise to replace the sodden carpets and find new, innovative ways to warm the house. Someone with a laptop wonders if AI might be the answer. But no one ever looks upwards and says: maybe we should just repair the giant hole in the roof.….Brexit”
“Rachel Reeves is studiously ignoring the cause of Britain’s woes: the Brexit-shaped hole in its roof”, says Jonathan Freedland
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Rachel Reeves is studiously ignoring the cause of Britain’s woes: the Brexit-shaped hole in its roof | Jonathan Freedland
The autumn budget will mop up some damage, but the true source of the economic crisis is clear. The government should now fix it – tragically, it won’t, says Guardian columnist Jonathan Freedland
www.theguardian.com
November 22, 2025 at 12:20 PM
“The family try everything. They promise to replace the sodden carpets and find new, innovative ways to warm the house. Someone with a laptop wonders if AI might be the answer. But no one ever looks upwards and says: maybe we should just repair the giant hole in the roof.….Brexit”
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Caturday hasn't changed in 500 years
November 22, 2025 at 12:42 AM
Caturday hasn't changed in 500 years
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We spent a year investigating billionaires for @washingtonpost.com.
We found: the wealthiest 100 Americans gave $1.1 billion to influence the 2024 elections — 140x more than they did in 2000. And almost all of that giving boosted Republicans.
washingtonpost.com/politics/int...
We found: the wealthiest 100 Americans gave $1.1 billion to influence the 2024 elections — 140x more than they did in 2000. And almost all of that giving boosted Republicans.
washingtonpost.com/politics/int...
November 21, 2025 at 2:56 PM
We spent a year investigating billionaires for @washingtonpost.com.
We found: the wealthiest 100 Americans gave $1.1 billion to influence the 2024 elections — 140x more than they did in 2000. And almost all of that giving boosted Republicans.
washingtonpost.com/politics/int...
We found: the wealthiest 100 Americans gave $1.1 billion to influence the 2024 elections — 140x more than they did in 2000. And almost all of that giving boosted Republicans.
washingtonpost.com/politics/int...
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we're all jealous of Rama Duwaji get in line mr president
November 21, 2025 at 8:57 PM
we're all jealous of Rama Duwaji get in line mr president
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The job of a politician - who may or may not himself be despicable - is to deal with despicable people & get all he can from them. Mamdani has passed the first test.
November 21, 2025 at 9:12 PM
The job of a politician - who may or may not himself be despicable - is to deal with despicable people & get all he can from them. Mamdani has passed the first test.
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this is what will show up if you invite me to your ai & copyright law conference
November 6, 2025 at 6:40 PM
this is what will show up if you invite me to your ai & copyright law conference
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Annoyingly, this is coupled to the automatic Updates and Promotions sorting. Time to unsubscribe from all the mailing lists I've ended up on over the two decades I've been on Gmail
November 21, 2025 at 6:43 PM
Annoyingly, this is coupled to the automatic Updates and Promotions sorting. Time to unsubscribe from all the mailing lists I've ended up on over the two decades I've been on Gmail
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Google confirms hackers stole Salesforce-stored data from 200+ companies via a supply chain hack involving Gainsight, which provides a customer support platform (Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai/TechCrunch)
Main Link | Techmeme Permalink
Main Link | Techmeme Permalink
November 21, 2025 at 6:45 PM
Google confirms hackers stole Salesforce-stored data from 200+ companies via a supply chain hack involving Gainsight, which provides a customer support platform (Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai/TechCrunch)
Main Link | Techmeme Permalink
Main Link | Techmeme Permalink
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“.. The firm is now estimated to be sitting on over $4 billion in unrealized losses on its holdings following a 45% decline in $ETH prices since the August peak ..”
$BMNR @coindesk.com
www.coindesk.com/business/202...
$BMNR @coindesk.com
www.coindesk.com/business/202...
November 21, 2025 at 6:13 PM
“.. The firm is now estimated to be sitting on over $4 billion in unrealized losses on its holdings following a 45% decline in $ETH prices since the August peak ..”
$BMNR @coindesk.com
www.coindesk.com/business/202...
$BMNR @coindesk.com
www.coindesk.com/business/202...
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"We own these two stocks that attract the gullible and conspiracy-minded and were surprised to learn that many of those same investors have lots of exposure to bitcoin..."
November 21, 2025 at 6:37 PM
"We own these two stocks that attract the gullible and conspiracy-minded and were surprised to learn that many of those same investors have lots of exposure to bitcoin..."
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Its weird that immigration started supposedly ruining our living standards right around the time the Harper government fucked our housing market.
November 21, 2025 at 4:11 PM
Its weird that immigration started supposedly ruining our living standards right around the time the Harper government fucked our housing market.
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the year is 2036. black friday season starts july 1 and runs through the end of november. cyber monday is celebrated every other monday from december to may. june has several prominent internationally recognized sales days based on the lunar calendar
November 21, 2025 at 12:17 PM
the year is 2036. black friday season starts july 1 and runs through the end of november. cyber monday is celebrated every other monday from december to may. june has several prominent internationally recognized sales days based on the lunar calendar
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This week, I withdrew from a speaking engagement at a public university because they sent me a list of prohibited “words & concepts.” I will not humor this censorship. It does a disservice to the stories I’m discussing & the audience, who deserve unfettered access to information & conversation.
November 20, 2025 at 10:20 PM
This week, I withdrew from a speaking engagement at a public university because they sent me a list of prohibited “words & concepts.” I will not humor this censorship. It does a disservice to the stories I’m discussing & the audience, who deserve unfettered access to information & conversation.
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"Greeks living in Afghanistan were Buddhist 500 years before China and a thousand years before Southeast Asia" is one of those things that sounds made up but is in fact true
November 20, 2025 at 3:25 PM
"Greeks living in Afghanistan were Buddhist 500 years before China and a thousand years before Southeast Asia" is one of those things that sounds made up but is in fact true