Pär Björklund
@paxxi.delusional.nu
Dogs, IT, gardening, home improvements, chickens. Swede. he/him
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I only just saw this thanks to @ed3d.net and I don’t have time to do a full fisking before my daughter’s bedtime but a few hundred words in and it’s utter nonsense.
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The Algorithm That Detected a $610 Billion Fraud: How Machine Intelligence Exposed the AI Industry’s Circular Financing Scheme
On November 20, 2025, trading algorithms identified what may become the largest accounting fraud in technology history—not in months or years, but in 18 hours.
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November 23, 2025 at 12:07 AM
I only just saw this thanks to @ed3d.net and I don’t have time to do a full fisking before my daughter’s bedtime but a few hundred words in and it’s utter nonsense.
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I once knew a Federal bank examiner, and one time someone asked him why we had to KEEP inspecting banks over and over. He basically said every new batch of business school grads invents bank fraud from first principles.
AirBnB CEO calling it “vibe revenue” just 👨🍳 😘
The underlying cause of every bubble - debt masquerading as financial innovation - depends on not just short financial memory & speculative neophytism, but reinventing jargon of finance, like how each generation of kids has new ways to say same things.
The underlying cause of every bubble - debt masquerading as financial innovation - depends on not just short financial memory & speculative neophytism, but reinventing jargon of finance, like how each generation of kids has new ways to say same things.
November 22, 2025 at 6:02 PM
I once knew a Federal bank examiner, and one time someone asked him why we had to KEEP inspecting banks over and over. He basically said every new batch of business school grads invents bank fraud from first principles.
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Utterly lawless
November 23, 2025 at 2:55 AM
Utterly lawless
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One woman chewed through her umbilical cord after giving birth in jail — another delivered into a cell toilet
'Why won't you help me?' Pregnant women and their babies endure inhumane conditions in jails
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'Why won't you help me?' Pregnant women and their babies endure inhumane conditions in jails
www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
'Why won't you help me?' Pregnant women and their babies are dying in jail
Dozens of pregnant women locked up in county jails described excruciating pain, saying their cries for help were ignored as they miscarried or gave birth into cell toilets or on filthy jail floors.
www.nbcnews.com
November 22, 2025 at 1:59 AM
One woman chewed through her umbilical cord after giving birth in jail — another delivered into a cell toilet
'Why won't you help me?' Pregnant women and their babies endure inhumane conditions in jails
www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
'Why won't you help me?' Pregnant women and their babies endure inhumane conditions in jails
www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
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it's actually really good our stock is down $500 billion, you fool, you absolute simpleton
www.businessinsider.com/jensen-huang...
www.businessinsider.com/jensen-huang...
November 22, 2025 at 2:49 AM
it's actually really good our stock is down $500 billion, you fool, you absolute simpleton
www.businessinsider.com/jensen-huang...
www.businessinsider.com/jensen-huang...
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Microsoft is making the original Zork I, Zork II, and Zork III games open-source today. Microsoft, Xbox, and Activision have teamed up to preserve the clever Z-Machine engine that powered the Zork games and allow others to learn from it www.theverge.com/news/824881/...
Microsoft makes Zork open-source.
The original Zork I, Zork II, and Zork III games are now available under the MIT license. Microsoft, Xbox, and Activision have teamed up to preserve the clever Z-Machine engine that powered the Zork games and allow students, teachers, and developers to study the code and learn from it. Microsoft has also worked with Jason Scott, from the Internet Archive, to grant this open-source license. [Image: https://platform.theverge.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/11/zorklogo.jpg?quality=90&strip=all]
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November 20, 2025 at 6:09 PM
Microsoft is making the original Zork I, Zork II, and Zork III games open-source today. Microsoft, Xbox, and Activision have teamed up to preserve the clever Z-Machine engine that powered the Zork games and allow others to learn from it www.theverge.com/news/824881/...
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i think if you want to have those disgusting LED headlights on your car, you should have to do a test where they blast you point blank with your own headlights and then you have 15 seconds to successfully complete some sort of vision-based task, and if you can't do it they push your car off a cliff
November 20, 2025 at 2:25 AM
i think if you want to have those disgusting LED headlights on your car, you should have to do a test where they blast you point blank with your own headlights and then you have 15 seconds to successfully complete some sort of vision-based task, and if you can't do it they push your car off a cliff
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Must. Watch. Seriously 💀
This is Scotty. He is not chasing his own tail's shadow. If you'll notice, he actually has it cornered. 13/10 (TT: lifewithscotty)
November 20, 2025 at 3:36 AM
Must. Watch. Seriously 💀
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How could this thing that absolutely everyone knew would happen possibly have happened
This is a nuts story. An AI chatbot and image platform left millions of images exposed. They show what people are actually using the AI for: taking random women's yearbook, graduation, and social media photos and making super realistic hardcore porn with them
www.404media.co/ai-porn-secr...
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Massive Leak Shows Erotic Chatbot Users Turned Women’s Yearbook Pictures Into AI Porn
Chatbot roleplay and image generator platform SecretDesires.ai left cloud storage containers of nearly two million of images and videos exposed, including photos and full names of women from social me...
www.404media.co
November 19, 2025 at 5:42 PM
How could this thing that absolutely everyone knew would happen possibly have happened
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This will be my goto answer to anyone from now on. Especially physicists:
«we need to make more electrons»
«we need to make more electrons»
November 19, 2025 at 9:39 AM
This will be my goto answer to anyone from now on. Especially physicists:
«we need to make more electrons»
«we need to make more electrons»
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This is, of course, a fascinating thread from Kate asking why Google is effectively cannibalizing its own market for both digital ads on third party properties and search ads, by effectively taking away the incentive to click through to third party sites. I have a theory as to why they're doing it.
So this ad revenue metric is indicative of such a fascinating and weird set of business decisions by Google to inexplicably kill of SEO-- and I honestly don't get how they think this is going to pay off for them in the long run.
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Stereogum says Google's switch to AI Overviews reduced its ad revenue by *70 percent* www.theverge.com/entertainmen...
November 18, 2025 at 9:26 PM
This is, of course, a fascinating thread from Kate asking why Google is effectively cannibalizing its own market for both digital ads on third party properties and search ads, by effectively taking away the incentive to click through to third party sites. I have a theory as to why they're doing it.
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So this ad revenue metric is indicative of such a fascinating and weird set of business decisions by Google to inexplicably kill of SEO-- and I honestly don't get how they think this is going to pay off for them in the long run.
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Stereogum says Google's switch to AI Overviews reduced its ad revenue by *70 percent* www.theverge.com/entertainmen...
Stereogum soldiers on in the era of streaming and AI
Stereogum Founder Scott Lapatine on the importance of independent media in the age of AI slop and algorithms.
www.theverge.com
November 18, 2025 at 8:42 PM
So this ad revenue metric is indicative of such a fascinating and weird set of business decisions by Google to inexplicably kill of SEO-- and I honestly don't get how they think this is going to pay off for them in the long run.
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I love that XPIA is just accepted as inevitable now and not a glaring security issue that should block development of the feature
maybe this really is the year of Linux on the desktop
Microsoft warns Windows 11 agentic OS may face Xpia malware risks
Microsoft is pushing ahead with its plan to add agentic capabilities to Windows 11, but issued a security warning for anyone who is interested in trying it out.
www.windowscentral.com
November 19, 2025 at 8:41 AM
I love that XPIA is just accepted as inevitable now and not a glaring security issue that should block development of the feature
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![Comic. [Person with ponytail pointing at diagram while speaking to three other people] PERSON: If the emergency stop is activated, any riders on the waterslide will be diverted into the beam dump, a large graphite block which will safely absorb their momentum. [caption] We regretted hiring an accelerator physicist to design our water park.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cz73r7iyiqn26upot4jtjdhk/bafkreicnzdnpjdz4clfa2uhx6isbdwgu72oku5pee4av7paavbjmqpyoiu@jpeg)
November 18, 2025 at 3:40 AM
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Discworld QOTD, from Men at Arms
November 17, 2025 at 7:28 PM
Discworld QOTD, from Men at Arms
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If there was ever a night for snowy plover sex on the timeline, that night is tonight.
Taken from 100s of feet away on a very hot beach, thus the heat distortion. 🪶
Taken from 100s of feet away on a very hot beach, thus the heat distortion. 🪶
November 18, 2025 at 4:39 AM
If there was ever a night for snowy plover sex on the timeline, that night is tonight.
Taken from 100s of feet away on a very hot beach, thus the heat distortion. 🪶
Taken from 100s of feet away on a very hot beach, thus the heat distortion. 🪶
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One book-length treatment of this is Hitler's American Model: The United States and the Making of Nazi Race Law by James Q. Whitman.
Racism is fascism practiced on Black people first.
Hitler based the Nuremberg laws on US Jim Crow. He invaded Russia because he wanted his own California.
The US shifting from a racist country to a fascist country basically means "Start treating everyone like you've always treated Black people."
Hitler based the Nuremberg laws on US Jim Crow. He invaded Russia because he wanted his own California.
The US shifting from a racist country to a fascist country basically means "Start treating everyone like you've always treated Black people."
November 17, 2025 at 3:01 AM
One book-length treatment of this is Hitler's American Model: The United States and the Making of Nazi Race Law by James Q. Whitman.
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I wish men truly understood how often their peers only pretend to cultivate women's talents because they want to fuck us. I am a short Canadian nobody and it happened to me when I was starting out my screenwriting career no less than four times before I turned 26
November 17, 2025 at 3:22 AM
I wish men truly understood how often their peers only pretend to cultivate women's talents because they want to fuck us. I am a short Canadian nobody and it happened to me when I was starting out my screenwriting career no less than four times before I turned 26
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Doctor says, 'Dont worry, parser design is simple. Great programmer Kate Compton has written the parser you seek’
November 16, 2025 at 2:44 PM
Doctor says, 'Dont worry, parser design is simple. Great programmer Kate Compton has written the parser you seek’
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Me, 3 weeks later: *setting fire to the tent, kicking Chuck Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries back into the inferno*
Dems: Mamdani is too radical for our taste. Plus someone said he's antisemitic. And that name is scary to us! We need to keep him out.
Dems, 1 week later: Look lots of people have tattoos like that
Dems, 2 weeks later: Marjorie Taylor Greene, welcome to the Tent
Dems, 1 week later: Look lots of people have tattoos like that
Dems, 2 weeks later: Marjorie Taylor Greene, welcome to the Tent
November 17, 2025 at 4:00 AM
Me, 3 weeks later: *setting fire to the tent, kicking Chuck Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries back into the inferno*