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Channel motto: Life is pain, only potato. For sharing gloomy poasting, whining, abd complaining. The more apocalyptic or petty the better. It’s always darkest before it turns pitch black.
I’m kind of feeling gloomy today
authorship makes readership.
im tired of readerships (>100min/day)
im tired of readerships (>100min/day)
Had to creep slowly across/around a big tree across the road down from a big wind event last night
Nothing like the Euro outage, still feels like solidarity wrt fragile infrastructure
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“The tl;dr of the power outage thing:
- It started in Spain
- Portugal and France partially impacted, they're bordering countries with interconnects
BBC tracker: bbc.co.uk/news/live/c9wpq8xrvd
Power outage at 11:32am in Spain, marked in red - the frequency fell, likely things shut down to protect themselves, will need safe restarts, takes a few hours.
Not a doomsday thing, in basically all cases like this it's a squirrel or some such.
— https://cyberplace.social/@GossiTheDog/114415495874763376
Nothing like the Euro outage, still feels like solidarity wrt fragile infrastructure
- - - -
“The tl;dr of the power outage thing:
- It started in Spain
- Portugal and France partially impacted, they're bordering countries with interconnects
BBC tracker: bbc.co.uk/news/live/c9wpq8xrvd
Power outage at 11:32am in Spain, marked in red - the frequency fell, likely things shut down to protect themselves, will need safe restarts, takes a few hours.
Not a doomsday thing, in basically all cases like this it's a squirrel or some such.
— https://cyberplace.social/@GossiTheDog/114415495874763376
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“My big fear is that when the 31st century history books are written, it will be realized that NATO and the Warsaw Pact were THE BEST WE EVER GOT at not unleashing thermonuclear war, and it was all downhill after 1989 (after the cold war memories faded).”
https://wandering.shop/@cstross/114404187597041250
https://wandering.shop/@cstross/114404187597041250
Something else I can hardly take in.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/apr/23/coral-reef-bleaching-worst-global-event-on-record
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/apr/23/coral-reef-bleaching-worst-global-event-on-record
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Irina Liakh 🎩
@irinaliakh·06:52 24/04/2025
Kyiv. Large-scale attack overnight with drones, as well as cruise and ballistic missiles. 9 killed, 70 wounded.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/apr/24/kyiv-ukraine-killed-dozens-injured-massive-russian-missile-attack
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/apr/24/kyiv-ukraine-killed-dozens-injured-massive-russian-missile-attack
I’m speechless
I had no idea how much land area permafrost makes up… how many cities, towns, roads, are built on permafrost…
It’s likely they could just sink into the ground because of climate change, releasing enough greenhouse gas to trap earth in a hot house state.
Russia’s landmass is 65% permafrost.
I had no idea how much land area permafrost makes up… how many cities, towns, roads, are built on permafrost…
It’s likely they could just sink into the ground because of climate change, releasing enough greenhouse gas to trap earth in a hot house state.
Russia’s landmass is 65% permafrost.
I can't say I'm impressed with the level of doom and gloom here given all that's going on in the world
The Doom production is quite sad
The Doom production is quite sad
many such cases
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kevin j
@entropybender·23:02 14/04/2025
lmao too much vibecoding not enough paranoia
https://x.com/danialasaria/status/1911862269996118272?s=46&t=btIkh173tAV3h-PQAK4osg
https://x.com/danialasaria/status/1911862269996118272?s=46&t=btIkh173tAV3h-PQAK4osg
All of the accessible content on AMOC collapse is a bit histrionic (and I’m too lazy to read papers)
But this was the best one I’ve found so far — fascinating how salt plays a major transport role in both the human body and the planetary body
TL;DW — Earth needs Brawndo
https://youtu.be/GDy7Q8iAtFg
But this was the best one I’ve found so far — fascinating how salt plays a major transport role in both the human body and the planetary body
TL;DW — Earth needs Brawndo
https://youtu.be/GDy7Q8iAtFg
Anyone have a home office whiteboard setup that they're proud of
I'm looking for ideas inspiration
I'm looking for ideas inspiration
not sure how they can stretch this to apply to Khalil, as he was here lawfully and wasnt crossing a border, but worth knowing for opsec
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sean
@swabbie.eth·20:08 10/04/2025
wtf
Raccoons are cute, until they live in the ceiling above your bed, and scratch and bite at the walls while you sleep.
You know things are bad when even the Cato Institute criticizes the President https://www.cato.org/blog/presidents-cant-overhaul-election-law-decree
Cam is right *and* this actually goes on irl now
Consider the horseshoe crab
https://youtu.be/M_vUTxqTcLA
… and Long Now rejoinder, “Synthetic alternatives to horseshoe crab blood”
https://youtu.be/ID22AqKM2TU
We’re all prob going to hell just for how we’ve treated other creatures
Consider the horseshoe crab
https://youtu.be/M_vUTxqTcLA
… and Long Now rejoinder, “Synthetic alternatives to horseshoe crab blood”
https://youtu.be/ID22AqKM2TU
We’re all prob going to hell just for how we’ve treated other creatures
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Cameron Armstrong
@cameron·12:31 09/04/2025
monthly reminder of how cooked we are by the impending ai video tsunami
(this is a fake “how it’s made” about turtle toothpaste)
(this is a fake “how it’s made” about turtle toothpaste)
- YouTube
Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.
youtu.be
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adrienne
@adrienne·21:03 08/04/2025
This is a great example of how challenging working with natural language and non-deterministic LLMs can be
I asked my bot 3 times how many times Dan has been on GM Farcaster and it gave me 3 different answers.
It has access to our meta data and should have been able to answer correctly each time.
The correct answer is that Dan has been on our regular show 4 times with an additional 2 appearances on special events.
I asked my bot 3 times how many times Dan has been on GM Farcaster and it gave me 3 different answers.
It has access to our meta data and should have been able to answer correctly each time.
The correct answer is that Dan has been on our regular show 4 times with an additional 2 appearances on special events.
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Andrew
@music2work2·21:34 08/04/2025
Is anyone else getting these horribly annoying AI generated suggestions for replies in Gmail? They take up so much real estate and I can't get them to go away (and have turned off settings in chrome and mail) and this is a paid account:
First time I’ve agreed with Elon in 5 years. This is the only off-ramp from the madness. Throw Navarro under the bus, and shunt the old coot in the White House lightyears away from any meaningful mayhem levers. Give him whatever face-saving options he needs to stand down. MAGA supporters are a deadweight loss who will go down with this ship, but I still have hope the business and tech sectors will grow spines, start using their brains, and stop this. You told yourself a delusional fantasy story about what Trump was that’s clearly falsified now. You can no longer pretend the consistent electoral promises of tariffs were not serious. You’re empiricists and technologists. Act like it. When the facts change, it’s okay to change your mind.
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Venkatesh Rao ☀️
@vgr·19:59 08/04/2025
If decimation is losing 10%, my retirement savings have been double decimated in the last week. And that’s just a personally clear sign, not even in in the top 10 of bad fallout unfolding.
I tolerated and understood people voting Trump last November even though Jan 6 was a black-and-white absolute disqualifier for me. But if you’re still supporting him after the last week of evil-stupid-incompetent mayhem, which goes far beyond markets, I’m basically done with you.
I see a lot of people who were openly or obliquely supportive have gone silent for now. That’s a good sign. You should at least be rethinking hard.
But if this continues, staying silent is deep complicity. Those of us who have been consistently against him have zero influence or leverage, so all ability to stop the madness in the short term is with those who supported him. So if you don’t speak up, it’s clear you actually want what’s happening.
I tolerated and understood people voting Trump last November even though Jan 6 was a black-and-white absolute disqualifier for me. But if you’re still supporting him after the last week of evil-stupid-incompetent mayhem, which goes far beyond markets, I’m basically done with you.
I see a lot of people who were openly or obliquely supportive have gone silent for now. That’s a good sign. You should at least be rethinking hard.
But if this continues, staying silent is deep complicity. Those of us who have been consistently against him have zero influence or leverage, so all ability to stop the madness in the short term is with those who supported him. So if you don’t speak up, it’s clear you actually want what’s happening.
