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your reminder to stretch today 
If You like @firefox now you have a chance to show @mozilla how much you DO NOT WANT the AI in the browser :)
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"For too long, British leaders have buried their heads in the sand. It is time to wake up."
Zack Polanski
Recently found a small lump on my testicle. Urologists suspected it was cancer, so I had an orchiectomy. The test results found the tumour was benign which is obviously good news but I don't want to be thought of as a cancer faker so I haven't even told my wife or family.
your reminder to stretch today
CNN: Tired of AI, people are committing to the analog lifestyle in 2026
"...It’s hard to quantify just how widespread the phenomenon is, but certain notably offline hobbies are exploding in popularity. Arts and crafts company Michael’s has seen the effects: Searches for “analog hobbies” on its site increased by 136% in the past six months, according to the company, which operates over 1,300 stores in North America. Sales for guided craft kits increased 86% in 2025, and it expects that number to go up another 30% to 40% this year.
Searches for yarn kits, one of the most popular “grandma hobbies,” increased 1,200 % in 2025. ..."
(Paywall maybe)
https://www.cnn.com/2026/01/18/business/crafting-soars-ai-analog-wellness
"The first duty of any government is to keep its people safe. In today’s unpredictable world, that will not be achieved by clinging to outdated notions of security, or by cowering at Trump’s feet in the hope that he will protect us. It requires confronting the threats facing us head-on – from Putin’s imperial ambitions and Trump’s insatiable demands, to cyber warfare and the destabilising effects of climate breakdown."
Zack Polanski
MLKに敬意を表しつつぼんやりお仕事してこ 
ad77ee7f8b (upstream/main) Add coverage for misc "policy" classes (#37525)
220115757d Fix potential duplicate handling of quote accept/reject/delete (#37537)
9b6500f74a Skip tombstone creation on deleting from 404 (#37533)
e4c6130f77 New Crowdin Translations (automated) (#37532)
fd78aa9eab Update dependency haml_lint to v0.69.0 (#37531)
4339f0ea71 Update dependency ioredis to v5.9.2 (#37510)
f05e76e591 Update dependency postcss-preset-env to v11.1.1 (#37508)
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after 2pm on Monday and my main accomplishment has been finally closing a bunch of tabs I still had open from a meeting on Friday.
For our first launch of the year, we're kicking off with more blocking features!
Rolling out today: You can now include domain blocklists, including ATProto PDS domains if you don't want to interact with bridged users from that PDS, to Bridgy Fed!
Blocks come with if you Bounce, and we even added a handy list of reputable blocklists to choose from.
More details here: https://blog.anew.social/launch-domain-blocklists/
I'm sure if we just give that Hitler fellow the Sudetenland, we'll have peace for our time.
The Microstructure of Wealth Transfer in Prediction Markets
Link: https://www.jbecker.dev/research/prediction-market-microstructure
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46680515
This article by Zack Polanski shows he is far more sensible than any of the other parties.
憲法に自衛権について明示されていないから集団的自衛権の問題でつまづく、もっと合理的な形態があるはずだとおもっていろいろ調べてたけど、そもそも国際法上の「集団的自衛権」という概念自体がかなり人工的だという印象になった。あと、従来どおり憲法9条の解釈をもどして集団的自衛権を禁止し、日米安保条約をやめるかかなり弱めるかすれば、集団的自衛権は不要になるからそっちのほうがいいかとなった。
ただ、アメリカからすれば、日本にはそもそも拡張主義的傾向があり、米軍の駐留が日本の軍事大国化の抑止になっているんだという見解であるらしい。現状で日米安保条約を破棄したらどうなるかといえば、それはアメリカの懸念どおりになりそうではある。
RE: https://mastodon.scot/@kim_harding/115922358702007281
These are the lunatics that Starmer is giving billions of pounds of our money.
いくら広色域なモニターを使っていても公開するのがSNSだけなら結局sRGBになるんだなぁ
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I have a particular thing I've been thinking about which is how go/no go tasks are exhausting to our executive control.
It is common in tech to make disparaging remarks about how software isn't factory work, implying factory work isn't "thinking." But factory work actually demands a lot of our cognition.
Studies on factory workers have suggested the need to constantly exert executive control is one reason that people working in factories face a lot of burnout. Not just physical exhaustion.
現在明確列出每日用量quota，好像覺得被限制了 （🤡
Google公布Gemini收費新制！拆分「思考型」與「Pro」額度，一表看懂方案差異|數位時代 BusinessNext https://share.google/72LKkMR5hjb8ymAvE
Two Concepts of Intelligence
Link: https://cacm.acm.org/blogcacm/two-concepts-of-intelligence/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46607969
San Francisco coyote swims to Alcatraz
Link: https://www.sfgate.com/local/article/san-francisco-coyote-alcatraz-21302218.php
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46674433
Hey, remember that time in 1938 when Britain's Neville Chamberlain met with Adolf Hitler and, being convinced that ol' Adolf just wanted Czechoslovakia and nothing else (despite the anchluss of Austria a few months before), signed the Munich Agreement, which basically allowed the nazis to invade Czechoslovakia?
And then Chamberlain returned to England having just signed the Munich Agreement and told crowds in London the Agreement meant "peace in our time?"
Not sure why that's come to mind lately.
Also, why is Greenland in the news so much lately? Is something happening?
うわ口内炎潰れた
知らない通知音なんだろうと思ったらMeetに知らないアカウントから着信でもちろん拒否したんだけど手元のどのアカウントに着信したのか教えてもらえないんだねえ…
I love the smell of onions frying in butter. It is the best
Milky Way by by Ksenia Kudashkina
via expressions-of-nature
In this talk from #rustconf 2025, speaker 
@rainrain 🌦️ dug into one of the most overlooked problems in async programming: what actually happens when a future is cancelled: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zrv5Cy1R7r4
Thoughtful, deep technical talks like this consistently resonate with the Rust community. 🦀
Have an idea like this for RustConf? Or a more introductory Rust talk to share?
RustConf CFP is open until Feb 16 https://bit.ly/3NwpUNe
巫女あみちゃんWIP
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RE: https://mastodon.social/@arstechnica/115923170213877830
Another one bites the dust…
Balanced allocation: considerations from large scale service environments https://lobste.rs/s/oek5so #pdf #distributed #performance
https://arxiv.org/pdf/2601.10874
Anime about someone who makes a living off the prediction markets, but the trick is she's psychic, so she has to constantly be fooling everyone into believing she has really good intuition, and she has to frequently intentionally take dives on bets so nobody notices she's *always* right, and whenever she makes a longshot prediction she has to backfill reading various books she can claim after the fact were the research that caused her to realize her prediction would be right,
I'm thinking about signing up a pixelfed profile.
Probably I'll do it soon.
Armin Ronacher, who even very recently has previously has been very pro ai agent vibecoding to the point of criticizing critics, seems to have stepped back and asked the question: are AI coding agent users all experiencing mass delusion... including himself? https://lucumr.pocoo.org/2026/1/18/agent-psychosis/
Conversation on lobste.rs is also interesting https://lobste.rs/s/0pxvyd/agent_psychosis_are_we_going_insane
@cwebberChristine Lemmer-Webber "You can use Polecats without the Refinery and even without the Witness or Deacon. Just tell the Mayor to shut down the rig and sling work to the" ape holders can use multiple slurp juices
This is Max, when he was a kitten
I took this picture just after explaining what the vet was planning to do to him when he reached the grand old age of six months
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Anime about someone who makes a living off the prediction markets, but the trick is she's psychic, so she has to constantly be fooling everyone into believing she has really good intuition, and she has to frequently intentionally take dives on bets so nobody notices she's *always* right, and whenever she makes a longshot prediction she has to backfill reading various books she can claim after the fact were the research that caused her to realize her prediction would be right,
"Anyone else out there vibe circuit-building?"
Link: https://twitter.com/beneater/status/2012988790709928305
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46679896
Luxury Yacht is a desktop app for managing Kubernetes clusters
Link: https://github.com/luxury-yacht/app
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46619391
Cows Can Use Sophisticated Tools
Link: https://nautil.us/the-far-side-had-it-all-wrong-cows-really-can-use-sophisticated-tools-1262026/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46681153
I'm sure if we just give that Hitler fellow the Sudetenland, we'll have peace for our time.
Bridgy Fed for Bluesky
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