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@Nickiquote@mstdn.social avatar Nickiquote , to random

I have the impression, formed entirely from my own limited experience, that non-dairy spreads (margarine, in particular) were huge in the 80s and early 90s, but latterly, except for vegans and health purposes, butter is again king, as favoured by various celebrity chefs etc.

My parents certainly favoured Flora in the 80s, due to health promises about types of fats and spreadability. It was the spread of the future, once.

Anyway, help me out in my understanding. What spread do you mainly use?

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@Nickiquote Does it taste similar to butter or the same as butter Kathleen? "Like" can mean either.
Also... Is she talking about plants? She has heard of plants, right?

@TheBreadmonkey@beige.party avatar TheBreadmonkey , to random

Who is this insane woman? I assume she must be a conservative religious nut?

One way to recapture our confidence in marriage is to introduce a system of tiered marriage. In my view, people should be free to choose what kind of marriage they are interning into. So for instance, there could be one tier of marriage with the possibility of no-fault divorce (the present situation); another could allow for "with cause" divorce only (say for adultery); while a third tier would mean a lifelong commitment with no possibility of divorce (though annulment would still be a possibility).

One way to recapture our confidence in marriage is to introduce a system of tiered marriage. In my view, people should be free to choose what kind of marriage they are interning into. So for instance, there could be one tier of marriage with the possibility of no-fault divorce (the present situation); another could allow for "with cause" divorce only (say for adultery); while a third tier would mean a lifelong commitment with no possibility of divorce (though annulment would still be a possibility).
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@TheBreadmonkey If she kills her husband then she can avoid the stigma of being a divorcee.

@TheBreadmonkey@beige.party avatar TheBreadmonkey , to random

Please - we need to get the word out. I have aging water pipes!

Osaka city receives $3.6M worth of gold bars to fix water pipes

https://apnews.com/article/japan-osaka-gold-donation-water-pipes-2f2e68017b7b041858c2de46a67be7ab

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@TheBreadmonkey I like that the official slipped in at the end that the very generous gift would cover less than 1% of their pipes.

@davidrevoy@framapiaf.org avatar davidrevoy , to random

Overproduction

A comic in four panels: Panel 1. A gothic sorceress enters a small magic shop, approaching the counter. The gothic sorceress explains her problem to the old seller. She shows her wand with a stone broken on it. > Old Seller: Welcome! How can I help you? > Gothic Sorceress: My magic stone is defective, I need a new one. Panel 2. The old seller put a gem stone on the counter, the gothic sorceress is in shock. > Old Seller: Alright, that'll be 600 gold coins. > Gothic Sorceress: What?! It used to be 40! Panel 3. The gothic sorceress thinks, the old man explains the price increase and a wider view angle show the shop full of Avian Intelligence Parrot. > Old Seller: That's because of Avian Intelligence: we need these stones to make them. Panel 4. The gothic sorceress tries to understand. The old man gives up; the angle is even wider showing more of AI Parrots, a huge pile of them. > Gothic Sorceress: And you're going to sell all of these? > Old Seller: What do you think...
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@davidrevoy Heh, this was chat today talking about hard drives. What do you mean Western Digital has sold all their SSDs for 2026? How is that a sentence?

@TheBreadmonkey@beige.party avatar TheBreadmonkey , to random

The apocryphal gospels of the New Testament (early Christian texts of the story of Jesus, now deemed non-canonical by the church) mention talking donkeys, necrophilia, worms pouring out of King Herod’s mouth, St John banishing bed bugs, a wand-waving Jesus Christ who once brought a roast chicken back to life (which then went on to live for a thousand years), and a Virgin Mary whose vagina could roast human flesh. All were at various points worshipped as the Truth.

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@TheBreadmonkey Banishing bed bugs is completely unrealistic

@TheBreadmonkey@beige.party avatar TheBreadmonkey , to random

TIL escalators in the UK move 1.5x faster than those in Korea. What this means for us all is yet to be revealed.

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@TheBreadmonkey I think we have those? In Denmark. But the timeout is so long that you rarely see them dormant and you just assume they are broken when they don't go.

@aeva@mastodon.gamedev.place avatar aeva , to random

the magic of art is being able to see the world through another person's eyes, even in non-representational art: all the little decisions of what is important to depict in detail, the choices of color, composition, the energy of the marks, and so on is essentially a byproduct of the perspective and the experiences of the person who made it. you get to witness something deeply personal hiding in the artifact beyond just the image itself.

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@aeva Sometimes they let you touch. But typically only if you are blind and they make you wear gloves.

@drgroftehauge@sigmoid.social avatar drgroftehauge , to random

> “Some are saying we’ll have a 10% GDP loss at between 3C and 4C degrees [of global heating], but the physical climate scientists are saying the economy and society will cease to function as we know it. That’s a big mismatch,” Abrams said.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/feb/05/flawed-economic-models-mean-climate-crisis-could-crash-global-economy-experts-warn

@drgroftehauge@sigmoid.social avatar drgroftehauge , to random

Traditional Danish Christmas dinner:
Roast pork with crackling, roast duck, potatoes, caramel potatoes, duck based gravy, red cabbage variation. Rice budding dessert.
I am so ready.

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@TheBreadmonkey@beige.party avatar TheBreadmonkey , to random
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@TheBreadmonkey Ant eating crab = pinnacle of evolution

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@db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar db0 Thought about sending this to my friends but they should absolutely not be buying fewer games.

@TheBreadmonkey@beige.party avatar TheBreadmonkey , to random

One thing that Fedi has taught me, it's that it's OK to think some of your own posts are funny and to boost them. Or maybe not and this is insane and I'm the only person doing it and should be locked up and studied. 👍

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@TheBreadmonkey And if people don't like it they can turn off boosts specifically for your account

@TheBreadmonkey@beige.party avatar TheBreadmonkey , to random

How things are going in the UK 👍

Plastic surgeon says 'coke nose' is on the rise and shares problems from 'whistling' to 'one big nostril'
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@TheBreadmonkey@beige.party avatar TheBreadmonkey , to random

We are all Indiana Jones

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@TheBreadmonkey (I'm lying, I'm not young)

@JessTheUnstill@infosec.exchange avatar JessTheUnstill , to random

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    @JessTheUnstill That was a lot of the point of SI units. An inch, a mile, a foot every measurement meant something different in each country. The base ten thing is nice but I'm pretty sure that is came after the whole "it should be the same".
    A Swedish mile is 10 kilometers. Get outta here with those weak-ass American miles.

    @TheBreadmonkey@beige.party avatar TheBreadmonkey , to random

    When you think of Black Friday, think of this very very small example the 320 thousand tonnes of waste produced by Amazon every year, almost all of which is not recyclable.

    Kidlington fly-tipping: Drone footage shows scale of 'revolting' 60m-long mountain of waste next to river

    https://news.sky.com/story/kidlington-fly-tipping-drone-footage-shows-scale-of-revolting-60m-long-mountain-of-waste-next-to-river-13471314

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    @TheBreadmonkey > The committee identified incompetence at the Environment Agency as a factor in the growing crisis.

    Tbh, I agree that this isn't fair. It's criminal activity, organised crime even, and that seems like a responsibility of law enforcement. They might need better procedures to avoid fraud like this but...

    @TheBreadmonkey@beige.party avatar TheBreadmonkey , (edited ) to random

    Would you rather eat

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    @TheBreadmonkey I'd love to try that Argentinian dessert made from wood. Not too keen on recipes where I am supposed to eat plastic.

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    @TheBreadmonkey @afewbugs @neil You could do all your kitchen cutting with water jets then. But I think things need to rest on a surface for that and then you are back to square one.

    @TheBreadmonkey@beige.party avatar TheBreadmonkey , to random

    Gladiator 2: sharks?

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    @TheBreadmonkey OMG YES somehow they accidentally shot it in The Mummy cinematic universe

    @TheBreadmonkey@beige.party avatar TheBreadmonkey , to random

    People who send unsolicited sales emails pretending they're replying to an email you sent them, should be imprisoned without trial. They belong in the 8th circle of Hell in the Malebolge, alternating between the various bolgia -

    Bolgia 1: Panderers and seducers, whipped by devils.

    Bolgia 2: Flatterers, submerged in human dung.

    Bolgia 3: Simoniacs, stuck upside down with flames burning their feet.

    Bolgia 4: Soothsayers, forced to walk with their heads on backward.

    Bolgia 5: Grafters, immersed in boiling pitch and guarded by demons called the Malebranche.

    Bolgia 6: Hypocrites, wearing heavy, gilded lead robes.

    Bolgia 7: Thieves, having their hands tied by snakes and undergoing metamorphosis.

    Bolgia 8: False counselors, tormented by flames.

    Bolgia 9: Those who caused schism and discord, split open by a demon's sword.

    Bolgia 10: Falsifiers (alchemists, perverts, counterfeiters, and liars), afflicted with various diseases.

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    @TheBreadmonkey Define perverts

    @TheBreadmonkey@beige.party avatar TheBreadmonkey , to random

    Not saying I've eaten a lot for breakfast, but a little silver herald flew around ahead of me, warning people and telling them to hold their loved ones close, speak the words they’ve been afraid to speak, and to use the time to rejoice and celebrate, for their time is short.

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    @TheBreadmonkey Benlactus

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    @TheBreadmonkey Ben lactating everywhere because of how much breakfast he ate

    @TheBreadmonkey@beige.party avatar TheBreadmonkey , (edited ) to random

    The problem with Indiana Jones is that they've used the most incredible MacGuffins so there's really nowhere else to go except aliens and time travel. How can you possibly follow up the Ark of the Covenant. You can't. Unless.......

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holy_Prepuce

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    @TheBreadmonkey A must have is a scene where Indiana Jones hides the magic foreskin in his mouth. Inspired by real relic thieves.
    But what would the magic power of this artifact be? The grail let you live forever and the covenant melted people (and we are apparently just ignoring all those other grails that were obviously also highly magical, just in another direction).

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    @TheBreadmonkey I think they've missed a beat by not having Indiana stealing relics in the Korean war. He could be fighting the Chinese, I guess.

    @molly0xfff@hachyderm.io avatar molly0xfff , to random

    thank you Anthony Scaramucci for this extremely relatable analogy about people buying bitcoin on margin

    “The margin is a spear coming out of the steering wheel of your sports car, and you’re in the south of France on an icy road in the mountain terrain by Monaco,” said SkyBridge Capital founder Anthony Scaramucci in an interview. “And when you need to hit the brake, that’s when the leverage hurts you the most.”
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    @molly0xfff I think this is from Freakanomics. Something about how safer cars make for a larger number of deadly car interactions. And conversely, if you replaced airbags with spears then a lot fewer people would die in traffic.

    @TheBreadmonkey@beige.party avatar TheBreadmonkey , to random

    Sorry for once again being a lot on the internet today

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    @TheBreadmonkey Did you say bum on the internet again? I said pussy the other day and wondered if I should've apologized. Ben might have.

    @TheBreadmonkey@beige.party avatar TheBreadmonkey , to random

    Lovely healthy salad for lunch (with a massive bowl of chips)

    Aziraphale and Crowley from Good Omens who wasn't written by anyone but just appeared one day as a glorious celebration of love and diversity. Angel and fallen angel sitting together in a fancy French style bistro cheersing with flutes of champagne. Angel is in all light - beige 3-piece and bow tie with white blonde hair and a cherubic face. Demon is in sexy black with red hair which as we all know is code for DANGER if you ever meet anyone with red hair you have to run away or immediately do a heist or sleep with them it's the rules. I have totally forgotten what I was talking about.....
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    @TheBreadmonkey @purplepadma @GayDeceiver > I hadn't posted on tiktok for a week. It was getting out of hand!

    Gosh. Cute videos though.

    @ChrisMayLA6@zirk.us avatar ChrisMayLA6 , to random

    Across the world the passing of wealth from one generation via inheritance will worsen inequality compounding the continuing ability of the wealthy elite to capture even more wealth....

    The story of the C21st century so far looks like the successful gathering of wealth into fewer & fewer hands, while our political class(es) claim that it is necessary to maintain economic health that we allow a small group to enrich themselves, while we struggle!

    https://www.theguardian.com/inequality/2025/nov/03/more-than-70tn-of-inherited-wealth-over-next-decade-will-widen-inequality-economists-warn

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    @ChrisMayLA6 I've said it before and I'll say it again: as long as the success criterion for economic interventions is increased price of investments (stock market, real estate) and static salaries / goods then the world will not become a better place.
    And I'm blaming the economists (sorry).

    @TheBreadmonkey@beige.party avatar TheBreadmonkey , (edited ) to random

    Despite all my rage I am still just

    Edit - No FREAKING WAY - I am not even the first person to think of this absolute nonsense. Everything exists on the Internet - https://www.reddit.com/r/truths/comments/1nwasw2/this_is_an_image_depicting_a_bacteriophage/

    Bacteriophage (Looks like CGI of a hairy spider microphone)
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    @TheBreadmonkey a T4 bacteriophage.

    I don't get it.

    @TheBreadmonkey@beige.party avatar TheBreadmonkey , to random

    I wonder who the shady people really are who call the shots. Like deciding to keep society structured as it is and enabling poverty classes. Because it must be a decision and not a huge coincidence that the people who control capitalism haven't just all got together and thought - let's give it a go at not having people struggling all the time with health and food and shelter. Who's making that decision 'for the good of humanity'. You know Musk and Bezos are in there somewhere. I suspect even our PM isn't part of the inner circle. Like he knows there's some shit going down, but leader of a small country is entry-level. You really need to be at war-crime levels before people start mentioning the Grand Plan. Like Tony Blair had to graduate - anointed through blood - and is now 'quite' high up, but still not really a shot-caller. Mandelson is definitely part of it. The scary thing is we almost certainly don't know the people with real power. They probably live underground or in space or in a militarised compound in Paraguay. What the hell am I talking about I sound like I've lost my goddamn mind. This is how they get you.

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    @TheBreadmonkey It would be more efficient as an emergent property of how our society is organised. Running committees, finding a date that works for everyone for the Virgin sacrifice, and that is a ton of work. Cleaner to have individual actions add up to a shitshow. Like a beehive or ant colony, except upside down.

    @TheBreadmonkey@beige.party avatar TheBreadmonkey , to random

    Stop stealing other peoples posts you ghouls

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    @TheBreadmonkey I think I know who...

    @TheBreadmonkey@beige.party avatar TheBreadmonkey , to random

    As we ready ourselves to go about our day I just want you to know that I have the theme from Herbie The Love Bug playing on loop in my head, and now so do you. You're welcome. X

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    @TheBreadmonkey I have the soundtrack from Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 and I love it because it's so fucking good

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    @TheBreadmonkey It's a bit like a musical in that there's a theme that repeats a lot. That's the thing that gets stuck. And there's people singing in French and accordions. Brilliant. And I'm pretty sure it's less than 9 hours long.

    @TheBreadmonkey@beige.party avatar TheBreadmonkey , to random

    OK. Let's see. I like the step back from the Disney partnership and the break will probably be a good thing. Give everyone a chance to breathe and do some hopefully decent writing.

    BBC finally confirms Doctor Who future

    https://metro.co.uk/2025/10/28/bbc-finally-confirms-doctor-future-legend-returning-series-24550024/

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    @TheBreadmonkey I think the Beeb is making a fair bit of coin from the doctor these days so I doubt they'll give up on that (am I using "Beeb" right?). But of course it is also hugely bureaucratic so it's going to be a bit uneven. But that might be a good thing. Imagine if Americans were running the show.

    @TheBreadmonkey@beige.party avatar TheBreadmonkey , to random

    I could write films more good than a lot of what is being vomited out into the streaming world. What do movie writers make? 10? 20 million pounds a film? I've got about 20 to 30 films in me ready to go. An unlikely tale of the soldier of fortune who falls in love with a bear. The far flung future in space and one one human remains, and they must solve the riddle of human avarice and come to terms with their own mortality before being converted into a being of pure light and continuing their journey into the next universe. A squirrel cop on the edge, who's done some bad shit but wants redemption. A young girl who's also a ninja and also a genius and she must stop a big war by solving an impossible riddle and fighting off some other ninjas. Or I can do superhero........ The..... Tapeworm - a long flexible person who can produce sticky tape from their fingertips, making them able to get slight purchase on gradients that aren't too steep and also confuse their enemies and help wrap presents. What else? I could do this all day. Call me, Hollywood.

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    @TheBreadmonkey I think they write the scripts first and then call Hollywood a bunch and Hollywood dodges their calls and when they finally get Hollywood on the line they have a great conversation and the writer feels really good about it but then Hollywood doesn't get back to them and when the writer finally gets hold off them it's like "this is a tough business kid" and then the writer sees that someone has been tapped to develop a script that sounds suspiciously similar to what they've been t

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    @TheBreadmonkey Write a heist movie (oceans 11) set in LA (falling down). The protagonist is a struggling actress (la-la land). The heist is complicated by a cat 5 hurricane hitting LA (I forget what that's from but look up Otis in Acapulco). Tens of thousands die including members of the heist crew in unlikely ways (final destination). One of the last to die is obviously protag's dickhead boyfriend who got her into this heist (he tricked her).

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    @TheBreadmonkey Look, if you want a million pounds then you need to make compromises. You can't both write better scripts than the shit on TV and also get paid. A bit of Oscar bait, an actor people love but haven't seen in a good while (Michael Keaton in Birdman), some thrills, something for the woke (hurricanes!), something for the anti-woke (hurricanes in LA!), and a very low barrier of entry to enjoy.

    @EUCommission@ec.social-network.europa.eu avatar EUCommission , (edited ) to random

    🚀 Europe’s tech future is ready to scale.

    We are teaming up with the European Investment Bank and top-tier European investors to set up the Scaleup Europe Fund.

    This multi-billion initiative will:

    ✅ Improve Europe’s technological leadership
    ✅ Support the most promising deep tech companies to grow into world-class leaders
    ✅ Keep innovation rooted in Europe

    First investments expected by Spring 2026.

    🔗 https://link.europa.eu/GcF7jq

    Graphic showing a stylized blue building at the top with branching circuit-like roots in purple and pink extending downward, symbolizing technology and growth. Text reads ‘Keeping Innovation Rooted in Europe.’ European Commission logo appears in the bottom right corner.
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    @EUCommission Is this one of those things where people say tech but they really mean software?

    @TheBreadmonkey@beige.party avatar TheBreadmonkey , to random

    How are things going in the UK? Well loads of products have gotten smaller with large price increases, and some products now contain so little of what they're supposed to actually be that they're no longer allowed to legally call themselves the thing that they are. 👍

    Shrinkflation: It's not your imagination, these products are getting smaller

    https://news.sky.com/story/shrinkflation-its-not-your-imagination-these-products-are-getting-smaller-13459111

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    @TheBreadmonkey Coffee and cocoa are victims of climate change so I know that those prices will go up (Mon-whatever is as bad as Nestle though and their margins are crazy). But 3-4 times increase in the cost of oats?! What the fuck it's oats.

    @TheBreadmonkey@beige.party avatar TheBreadmonkey , to random

    Trish is on social media telling me about some trip Ana Kendrick has been on. I'm only half listening until she tells me a 5 day trip on the Venice Simplon-Orient-Express is eighty thousand pounds.

    What

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    @briankrebs@infosec.exchange avatar briankrebs , to random

    Ah, the value of being part of a social network that is decentralized...from Techdirt's Karl Bode:

    "Last week, Indiana University administrators fired the school newspaper’s (Indiana Daily Student) advisor and ordered students to stop printing the paper."

    "The student journalists say that University administrators didn’t like the student paper’s decision to increasingly criticize University President Pamela Whitten’s decision to coddle the authoritarian Trump administration, or, at best, remain silent as the Trump administration and state leaders take direct aim at free expression, the First Amendment, and any curriculum teaching about race or gender discrimination."

    "Enter students at the Purdue student paper, The Exponent, who stepped up and traveled two hours from West Lafayette to Bloomington to help Indiana University students deliver a physical paper to local students anyway:"

    “We have the benefit of being fully independent of the university. We own our own press,” said Kyle Charters, publisher and news adviser for the Exponent. “We were more than willing, with our extra freedom being an independent student organization, to help out.”

    “Both our publications have had their run-ins with their respective universities this summer and fall,“ Charters said. “While we’re pretty significant rivals — and while I might not be rooting for their football team tomorrow — we do have something in common, and we’re happy to have that camaraderie.“

    https://www.techdirt.com/2025/10/23/student-journalists-at-indiana-university-and-purdue-show-more-integrity-solidarity-and-backbone-than-many-in-the-mainstream-press/

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    @briankrebs Indiana University's Pamela Whitten: "We are absolutely not grovelling to fascists or suppressing free speech. I am shutting down your newspaper for saying that we are."
    It's very on the nose, isn't it?

    @Daojoan@mastodon.social avatar Daojoan , to random

    Absolutely obsessed with framing your employees sleeping on the floor as a humble brag

    “Look how hard my team works” no dude you’re just bad at project management.

    Competent companies ship products without cosplaying being homeless

    A tweet by Mark Kretschmann showing two photos of the xAI office on Grokipedia release day. The office is filled with small camping tents set up between desks and along hallways, suggesting that engineers have been sleeping there while working late. The caption notes it’s early morning and the engineers are still in their tents, joking that a good night’s sleep does wonders.
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    @Daojoan Pretty sure this is a shitpost. Looked up Mark K and he works in Germany. And I found this article. It looks like a parking garage. Pretty sure there would have been more pictures from xAI if their offices were in a parking garage, tents or not.

    https://www.hindustantimes.com/trending/us/xai-co-founder-refutes-viral-tent-photos-that-s-not-our-office-we-have-more-tents-101751518350455.html

    @web3isgreat@indieweb.social avatar web3isgreat Bot , to random

    Paxos accidentally mints more than twice the global GDP in PayPal stablecoins

    October 15, 2025
    https://www.web3isgoinggreat.com/?id=paxos-accidental-mint

    Paxos accidentally mints more than twice the global GDP in PayPal stablecoins Paxos, the issuer of PayPal's PYUSD stablecoin, accidentally minted 300 trillion of the supposedly dollar-pegged token. For context, this is approximately 2.5x the global GDP, and around 125x the total number of US dollars actually in circulation. Paxos later announced that the mint was an "internal technical error", and that they had burned the excess tokens. While PayPal promises its customers that "Reserves are held 100% in US dollar deposits, US treasuries and cash equivalents – meaning that customer funds are available for 1:1 redemption with Paxos," there clearly isn't much in the way of safeguards to ensure that is always the case. As with most stablecoin issuers, Paxos merely issues self-reported and unreviewed portfolio reports, and monthly third-party attestations (not audits) of reserves.
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    @web3isgreat They should have bought out the US in a hostile takeover

    @molly0xfff@hachyderm.io avatar molly0xfff , to random

    "[Ars Technica] asked Cruz's office to explain why a senator pressuring Wikipedia is appropriate while an FCC chair pressuring ABC is not and will update this article if we get a response."

    https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/10/ted-cruz-picks-a-fight-with-wikipedia-accusing-platform-of-left-wing-bias/

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    @molly0xfff "Provide any and all documents and communications—including emails, texts, or other digital messages—between any officer, employee, or agent of the Wikimedia Foundation and any officer, employee, or agent of the federal government since January 1, 2020."

    Can he require that? Any FOI request like that would be denied (IANAL).

    Edit: why isn't he asking the federal government?

    @molly0xfff@hachyderm.io avatar molly0xfff , to random

    Someone should probably inform the White House's "AI & Crypto Czar" that no one is forcing AI companies to train their models on Wikipedia

    You would think the obvious solution to "the volunteer-powered project we all train our AI models on for free isn't adequately twisting reality to our political views" would be "... and so we stopped training on it" and not "... and so we will force the volunteers to bend to our will"

    Tweet by David Sacks: "Wikipedia is hopelessly biased. An army of left-wing activists maintain the bios and fight reasonable corrections. Magnifying the problem, Wikipedia often appears first in Google search results, and now it’s a trusted source for AI model training. This is a huge problem."
    ALT
    drgroftehauge ,
    @drgroftehauge@sigmoid.social avatar

    @molly0xfff His Wikipedia bio isn't even unflattering. The picture is but maybe that's just what he looks like. I wonder if someone can find his username from the edit history (and link it to other websites).

    David O. Sacks - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_O._Sacks

    @henry@dindon.one avatar henry , to random

    The problem with capillary glucometers is that they do not provide a complete picture, as they are based on a limited amount of data. CGM, on the other hand, shows what a regular glucometer can easily miss.

    For example, mega-spikes that occur when breaking a fast (in my case after a 24-hour fast). I used to break the fast with a portion of sprouted green buckwheat. It seemed healthy and safe. But CGM showed: a record high blood sugar spike up to 9.8 mmol/l. That's huge stress and damage to the body.

    So, for the first 8 hours after fasting, it's best to exclude all carbohydrates until the digestive system is functioning normally again. Next time, just green vegetables and sprouted beans.

    drgroftehauge ,
    @drgroftehauge@sigmoid.social avatar

    @henry Because glucose is a reducing sugar. Yes, obviously. But those chemical reactions are a function of concentration and time. Maybe show this graph to one of your friends with type 1 diabetes? Get some perspective.