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  Surplus wind power is used to lift concrete blocks. When the grid needs electricity, the blocks are dropped to spin generators. https://boingboing.net/2026/07/06/post-china-built-a-40-story-tower-that-stores-wind-powe.html

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  If nobody complains about MFA then it’s not doing its job 😂

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  The world seemed so much simpler when blockchain and bitcoin mining were the biggest scams in tech.

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  Andrej Karpathy’s microgpt, a “single file of 200 lines of pure Python with no dependencies that trains and inferences a GPT.” http://karpathy.github.io/2026/02/12/microgpt/

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  Funny how people mostly only ask for sources when the data challenges their world view.

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  Corporate messaging is starting to sound more like public service hazard announcements: There’s an accident on the Monash Freeway near the Stud Road off-ramp; traffic lights are out at the corner of Swanston and Bourke Streets; and we’re hosting an Open AI Codex meetup in the office tomorrow at 5pm.

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  Someone just tried to message me on Facebook Messenger and wondered why it failed. I can’t believe it’s still a thing.

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  “A New York school district is testing robot teachers, which have been made by a company that started out making sexbots.” — @stilgherrian https://buttondown.com/stilgherrian/archive/the-weekly-cybers-125/

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  I cannot for the life of me find a backup solution for macOS to NAS that doesn’t monumentally suck.

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  If you don’t test, you won’t have any cases. https://read.fluxcollective.org/p/the-flux-review-ep-243

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  Anyone else, or just me?

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  “News” in a nutshell

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  Every LLM uses the voice of a 19th c. novelist: Dearest Margaret, upon the occasion of your recent pull request, I did bear witness to a most lamentable case of melancholic genius. Not by choice though by request, I cast my prying eye toward that which should not, by rights, be manifest in code.

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  The Mitch McConnell thing reminds me of 1988 when the Japanese government kept the all but deceased Emperor on life support, with daily updates on how much blood they’d transfused. I presume they need to get him past the mid-terms and then he’ll have miraculously passed away.

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  One wonders if Bruce and BRS shop at the same law firm.

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  The low pressure tyre warning indicator in my car looks like a butt emoticon.

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  Pluto looks delicious!

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  Blueberry juice smells like farts.

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  Loved this episode @stilgherrian seeing as you asked 🙂 https://overcast.fm/+AAOstxuDtsA

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  Various folks have reached out to me recently asking if I had any roles. Sadly, I don’t. If you know anyone who’s looking for talented cybersecurity, cloud infrastructure, or software architecture people, please let me know.

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  Scientists find a whale graveyard in the Indian Ocean that’s millions of years old https://www.latimes.com/environment/story/2026-06-14/scientists-find-whale-graveyard-in-indian-ocean-thats-millions-of-years-old

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  Overheard two old English ducks at breakfast: “now remember, take as much as you want, and leave as much as you want, because we’re on holiday and you can.” Why on earth you’d choose to holiday in a country more miserable than Britain, I don’t know.

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  I look forward to printouts of the models appearing in hardcover books https://www.anthropic.com/news/fable-mythos-access

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  After 5 weeks travelling for work, it really is time to come home. My messages to friends and family are starting to sound like teletext readouts 🤦‍♂️

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  US banks, well known for their conservative lending practices, turning away loans to buy SpaceX.

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  And to think, people still question natural selection: https://www.wired.com/story/anti-vax-dating-apps-are-going-irl-people-are-mad-as-hell-about-it/

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  What the ever loving fuck do companies think is going to happen when nobody can afford to pay for their goods and services because they laid everyone off?!

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  Indigo for Bluesky and Mastodon is now generally available 🎉 I’ve been beta testing it for a while and is the natural successor to Croissant. Indigo sits on my home screen and is the only app I use for either service. https://apps.apple.com/au/app/indigo-for-bluesky-mastodon/id6763755310

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  Does it say “In case of emergency, close the Strait of Hormuz”? https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:6wtfzpgtmc6h6rgsnhkeaope/post/3mkke6hgg2x2w

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  Have a cat to cheer you up