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“Whether you're building the next unicorn startup, launching your first app, or diving into Web3— Famous.ai turns your vision into reality across every platform that matters.”
— from Famous.ai as of 5 December 2025
Funky Weird Blog Spot
Just a basic blog—snagging random stuff that catches our eye—nothing else, really...
Friday, December 5, 2025
Visual Effects Overview | Camtasia Tutorial
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“Apply visual effects, for example to adjust color or change how media moves across the screen, without altering the original media. Effects can be applied to video clips and images, as well as objects such as text, callouts, and shapes.”
— from Visual Effects Overview | Camtasia Tutorial as of 5 December 2025
Thursday, December 4, 2025
Amazon Workers Issue Warning About Company’s ‘All-Costs-Justified’ Approach to AI Development | WIRED
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“OVER 1,000Amazon employees have anonymously signed an open letter warning that the company’s allegedly “all-costs-justified, warp-speed approach to AI development” could cause “staggering damage to democracy, to our jobs, and to the earth,” an internal advocacy group announced on Wednesday.”
— from Amazon Workers Issue Warning About Company’s ‘All-Costs-Justified’ Approach to AI Development | WIRED as of 4 December 2025
Richard Feynman opened a sealed safe at Los Alamos
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“Richard Feynman opened a sealed safe at Los Alamos during the Manhattan Project using nothing but memory, intuition, and a borrowed screwdriver, then calmly handed out classified files to startled physicists to prove that the world’s most secure laboratory was not secure at all. He was supposed to focus on equations that would change history, yet he could not ignore the simple fact that the military treated secrecy like magic instead of engineering. Feynman overheard officers bragging about unbreakable locks. He asked for a copy of the combination system. No one gave it to him, so he studied the filing cabinets instead. He noticed scratches near common numbers, patterns in how physicists set combinations, and the lazy habit of choosing birthdays. Within weeks he opened dozens of safes across the lab with nothing but logic. He never stole anything. He left polite notes that read, “Please improve your security.” Some generals were furious. Others were terrified. Feynman kept telling them that the point of science was honesty, not ceremony.”
— from (13) Facebook as of 4 December 2025
Monday, December 1, 2025
Bursting at the seams
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“The GP patient list has grown by about 2,000 patients over the last 20 years, peaking at nearly 7,000 pre-COVID. But because of how tight services are, this has dropped slightly to about 6,500.”
— from Bursting at the seams as of 1 December 2025
HOW TO COOK THE PERFECT STEAK: PRIME RIB on Vimeo
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“HOW TO COOK THE PERFECT STEAK: PRIME RIB”
— from HOW TO COOK THE PERFECT STEAK: PRIME RIB on Vimeo as of 1 December 2025
Sunday, November 30, 2025
dance style shuffle - Google Search
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“"...So that's pretty much the step for the first shuffle. So one more time. Six seven eight and one two. Three four five six seven eight good. Six seven eight and one two three...”
— from dance style shuffle - Google Search as of 30 November 2025
Saturday, November 29, 2025
What is Male Supremacism — Institute for Research on Male Supremacism
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“We define a male supremacist system as a cultural, political, economic, and social system, in which cisgender men disproportionately control status, power, and resources, and women, trans men, and non-binary people are subordinated. Such systems are underpinned by an ideology of male supremacism, the belief in cisgender men’s superiority and right to dominate and control others. While male supremacism also intersects with other axes of oppression, such as racism, xenophobia, antisemitism, and heterosexism, it motivates and undergirds the types of events described above. Male supremacism manifests in various ways, including physical and sexual violence, militarism, and exertion of control over women’s, trans men’s, and non-binary people’s bodies.”
— from What is Male Supremacism — Institute for Research on Male Supremacism as of 29 November 2025
Tuesday, November 25, 2025
Ellison owns Paramount?
'60 Minutes' Rubs Salt in Wound of Killed MAGA Plan https://www.thedailybeast.com/60-minutes-rubs-salt-in-wound-of-killed-maga-plan/
Republicans astroturfed themselves
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“Republicans became so obsessed with Twitter that they pressured and even helped fund Elon Musk’s purchase of it in 2022. And since its been rebranded as X, they’ve only become more reliant on it, at the expense of both the platform’s business and cultural relevance. Now they can’t really function without it, like the poor souls still posting on 4chan or Neopets. They use X to coordinate propaganda, create policy, and as a jobs board for Trump’s second administration. Using its likes and shares in the place of actual leadership. And now we know that a staggering amount of the accounts Republicans have been relying on for viral feedback are either apolitical con artists milking their hatred for clicks or pitiful anonymous fascists LARPing America’s culture war because they can’t wage one at home. And from where I’m sitting, all this isn’t proof that shadowy foreign actors are destroying America. It’s proof that the American right has spent better part of the last decade letting algorithmic spam tell them what they want to hear, astroturfing themselves into believing that some silent majority out there believes in their worthless MAGA crusade. When all they were doing was chasing the approval of faceless accounts who realized their political movement was so hollow, so braindead simple, so spiritually worthless that they could easily earn a few Musk bucks by posting AI-generated photos of blonde women in American flag bikinis promising a Thousand Year Burger Reich. ”
— from Republicans astroturfed themselves as of 25 November 2025
Monday, November 17, 2025
Sunday, November 16, 2025
The Unrecognized Prevalence of Primary Aldosteronism: A Cross-sectional Study - PMC
Published in 2020!
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“In summary, our findings show a high prevalence of unrecognized yet biochemically overt primary aldosteronism using current confirmatory diagnostic thresholds. They highlight the inadequacy of the current diagnostic approach that heavily relies on the ARR and, most important, show the existence of a pathologic continuum of nonsuppressible renin-independent aldosterone production that parallels the severity of hypertension. These findings support the need to redefine primary aldosteronism from a rare and categorical disease to, instead, a common syndrome that manifests across a broad severity spectrum and may be a primary contributor to hypertension pathogenesis.”
— from The Unrecognized Prevalence of Primary Aldosteronism: A Cross-sectional Study - PMC as of 15 November 2025
Also see: Conn's and such
Saturday, November 15, 2025
The ZOOM Handy H-1
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“Software H1 Firmware H1 System Version 2.10 H Series ASIO Driver Windows 10/11 (64bit)”
— from | ZOOM as of 15 November 2025
Fibromyalgia finally gets a genetic fingerprint - Medical Republic
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““In summary, our large-scale multi-ancestry GWAS provides a map of the genetic architecture of fibromyalgia, identifying 26 risk loci and providing robust genetic validation of the notion that fibromyalgia is primarily a central nervous system disorder,” the researchers concluded.”
— from Fibromyalgia finally gets a genetic fingerprint - Medical Republic as of 15 November 2025
Tuesday, November 11, 2025
Prompt Engineering Urges ‘Hermeneutic Prompting’ As A Powerful Technique Unlocking The True Value Of Generative AI
Hand stuff, worth experimenting with
Monday, November 10, 2025
Part X: The Enshittification of Judgment and the Fight for the Lawyer’s Soul
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“This process has a name, coined by Cory Doctorow: “enshittification.” The Enshittification Life Cycle Doctorow’s term describes the predictable, three-stage decay of digital platforms: First, the platform is good to its users. It offers a great, often subsidized, service to attract a large, locked-in user base. Next, the platform abuses its users to serve its business customers. Once users are captive, the platform’s loyalty shifts to the people who pay it. Finally, the platform abuses its business customers to extract all value for itself (shareholders). With everyone locked in, the platform becomes a “pile of shit”—a rent-seeking, inefficient monopoly that no one likes but everyone must use. This is the inevitable trajectory of Google, Amazon, and X. And it is precisely what is happening to the law.”
— from Part X: The Enshittification of Judgment and the Fight for the Lawyer’s Soul as of 10 November 2025
Easy broccoli soup recipe | Good Food
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“Heat oven to 200C/180C fan/gas 6. Put the potato and stock in a saucepan and bring to the boil, turn down to simmer for 10 mins until the potato is tender, then add the broccoli and some seasoning and cook for another 4-5 mins. Blend the soup until smooth”
— from Easy broccoli soup recipe | Good Food as of 10 November 2025
HTML5 Editor | Free Online Editor & Preview Tool
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“Very handy tool for quick bits of html coding”
— from HTML5 Editor | Free Online Editor & Preview Tool as of 10 November 2025
Thursday, November 6, 2025
Scam Sharer - free Which? tool
Scam Sharer - free Which? tool:
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“How did you come across the scam? ”
— from Scam Sharer - free Which? tool as of 6 November 2025
Tuesday, November 4, 2025
Prompt Engineering Newest Technique Is Verbalized Sampling That Stirs AI To Be Free-Thinking And Improve Your Responses
Prompt Engineering Newest Technique Is Verbalized Sampling That Stirs AI To Be Free-Thinking And Improve Your Responses
"craft your prompt to tell the AI to come up with multiple answers based on the internal probability distribution associated with the pattern-matching within the AI. You can then ask the AI to show the various answers, accompanied by their probabilities, or you can simply instruct the AI to show you the one that has the highest, lowest, or some other selection criteria in terms of probabilities."
Scientists Have Uncovered a 3rd State of Life, Which Starts After Cell Death
Scientists Have Uncovered a 3rd State of Life, Which Starts After Cell Death https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/health/a62244774/biobots-third-state/
Monday, November 3, 2025
d/acc: one year later
Vitalik Buterin:
“We, humans, continue to be the brightest star. The task ahead of us, of building an even brighter 21ˢᵗ century that preserves human survival and freedom and agency as we head toward the stars, is a challenging one. But I am confident that we are up to it.”
— from d/acc: one year later as of 3 November 2025
Fontenelle, Conversations on the Plurality of Worlds - Aliens
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“Conversations with a Lady, on the Plurality of Worlds. Written in French by M. Fontenelle, ... Translated by Mr. Glanvill. the Fourth Edition. with the Addition of a Sixth Conversation”
— from Fontenelle, Conversations on the Plurality of Worlds; - AbeBooks as of 3 November 2025
Sunday, November 2, 2025
GIRL MUSIC 007: LEADBELLY | “I Was Rollin’ Honey from Sun to Sun” – Juno Rylee Journalism
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““Irene” became the most popular song of 1950, with The New York Times estimating the song could be heard 1,400 times a minute across 2,583 radio stations, 99 television stations, and 400,000 jukeboxes nationwide.”
— from GIRL MUSIC 007: LEADBELLY | “I Was Rollin’ Honey from Sun to Sun” – Juno Rylee Journalism as of 2 November 2025
Saturday, November 1, 2025
The Return of the Luddites | Los Angeles Review of Books
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“What Silicon Valley frames as a revolution in thinking, Bender and Hanna reframe as more of the same: an intensification of automated systems that call for the kind of humanist pushback Byron once gave the loom.”
— from The Return of the Luddites | Los Angeles Review of Books as of 1 November 2025
AI and digital twins to serve increasingly complex robot management
AI and digital twins to serve increasingly complex robot management | Computer Weekly https://www.computerweekly.com/feature/AI-and-digital-twins-to-serve-increasingly-complex-robot-management https://www.computerweekly.com/feature/AI-and-digital-twins-to-serve-increasingly-complex-robot-management?utm_campaign=20251028_Post+Office+paid+one+law+firm+more+for+inquiry+representation+than+cost+of+actual+inquiry&utm_medium=email&utm_source=MDN&source_ad_id=366632887&asrc=EM_MDN_320838018&bt_ee=Dj40IQAmpj3%2B%2FFhHQbTeFIVrG0x6TP%2BkDWCmJlj7iCE%3D&bt_ts=1761650918100
Hommfer – Waffle Cotton Bathrobe with V-Neck
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“Enjoy absolute comfort with this waffle cotton V-neck bathrobe. Made from soft, breathable cotton fabric, it feels comfortable without overheating. Its elegant collar, adjustable waistband, and practical pockets make it ideal for relaxing in the bathroom with elegance and simplicity.”
— from Hommfer – Waffle Cotton Bathrobe with V-Neck as of 1 November 2025
Monday, October 27, 2025
Today, we ran the EU’s “Humanitarian Use Act” (AI-HUA) through the Justice AI GPT Bias Audit
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“Today, we ran the EU’s “Humanitarian Use Act” (AI-HUA) through the Justice AI GPT Bias Audit™”
— from (Today, we ran the EU’s “Humanitarian Use Act” (AI-HUA) through the Justice AI GPT Bias Audit™ | LinkedIn as of 27 October 2025
Sunday, October 26, 2025
Russia Declares 9M730 Burevestnik Nuclear Cruise Missile Test Marks Global-Reach Capability
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“Whether the Burevestnik becomes an integrated order-of-battle asset or remains a specialized deterrent instrument, the test underscores a broader reality for NATO capitals: the cruise-missile challenge is diversifying in propulsion, routing, and persistence faster than legacy air-defense and arms-control frameworks were built to handle.”
— from Russia Declares 9M730 Burevestnik Nuclear Cruise Missile Test Marks Global-Reach Capability as of 26 October 2025
Friday, October 24, 2025
Photos: Minnie Driver Counts Every Brilliant Thing in London's West End | Playbill
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“In the work, a nameless protagonist faces a distant father, a suicidal mother, and their own inexplicable deep sadness. And in a spark of childhood genius, they counteract these obstacles by chronicling every brilliant thing in the world—first to cheer up their depressed mother, and later for friends, lovers, and themself. ”
— from Photos: Minnie Driver Counts Every Brilliant Thing in London's West End | Playbill as of 24 October 2025
Wednesday, October 22, 2025
Order Valium (Diazepam) without prescription with low price | UK-Pharm24
Order Valium (Diazepam) without prescription with low price | UK-Pharm24:
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“Commercial Name: Valium Active Ingredient: Diazepam Production form: Pills Utilization: Anti-Anxiety Available Dosage: 10mg”
— from Order Valium (Diazepam) without prescription with low price | UK-Pharm24 as of 22 October 2025
Sunday, October 19, 2025
OpenAI Is A Systemic Risk To The Tech Industry
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“Everything that I'm describing is the result of a tech industry — including media and analysts — that refuses to do business with reality, trafficking in ideas and ideology, celebrating victories that have yet to take place, applauding those who have yet to create the things they're talking about, cheering on men lying about what's possible so that they can continue to burn billions of dollars and increase their wealth and influence. I understand why others might not have written this piece. What I am describing is a systemic failure, one at a scale hereto unseen, one that has involved so many rich and powerful and influential people agreeing to ignore reality, and that’ll have crushing impacts for the wider tech ecosystem when it happens.”
— from OpenAI Is A Systemic Risk To The Tech Industry as of 19 October 2025
In Simulated Social Network Made of AI Bots, Cliques, Echo Chambers, Extremes, and Elites Emerge in Days — Konsyse
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“It did not take long for issues to emerge. The network split into well-defined echo chambers, with agents almost exclusively following others who shared their political beliefs. A handful of users gained an overwhelming share of attention, while more extreme voices consistently attracted larger audiences. Familiar patterns of online polarization unfolded in miniature.”
— from In Simulated Social Network Made of AI Bots, Cliques, Echo Chambers, Extremes, and Elites Emerge in Days — Konsyse as of 19 October 2025
UK energy system is "screwed" says Octopus Energy CEO | TechRadar
Helpful insights into the impact of AI on the electricity consumption models and infrastructure needs relative to renewable energy.
Saturday, October 18, 2025
The selfish ‘Net and the Big One | Network World
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“the Internet continues to function at the whim of those who know how to bring it down.”
— from The selfish ‘Net and the Big One | Network World as of 18 October 2025
Cybersecurity’s New Imperative: Defending Enterprise and National Cognitive Infrastructures (by strengthening the mental immune system) :: Bsides London 2024 :: pretalx
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“In 1991, Winn Schwartau, the civilian architect of information warfare postulated cyberwar in front of US Congress. Today, he warns that America faces a national security crisis; a cognitive Pearl Harbor waiting to happen. The lack of a national security imperative to strengthen our population's mental immune systems and our ability to coexist with technology makes America's cognitive infrastructure essentially defenseless.”
— from Cybersecurity’s New Imperative: Defending Enterprise and National Cognitive Infrastructures (by strengthening the mental immune system) :: Bsides London 2024 :: pretalx as of 18 October 2025
Thursday, October 16, 2025
Bitcoin worth $14bn seized in US-UK crackdown on alleged scammers
Google News https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c70jw436n0yo https://news.google.com/read/CBMiXEFVX3lxTFBvVGN0cUJjdjlxZE5NNlNxZzBCVHRVRXBjazRiZ0R1MUExbUxKOEhRbUF4VWhQVlEyV1FybXBZZVBFZW9oXzdnM1FHUEdDTjdBRDBZbk1OQ0RHY1hx0gFiQVVfeXFMT182djF6aGR6MlZlYkxkeWxrNThYMG9nYTZzUDJKNEZHZEJJNUliTy1wYlpmZjctVE9Nd1J6OFRZTGFkT3R0ejJIT1YycUZvOGpPZFhiVlZuVnlMdXlBSkJqUVE?hl=en-GB&gl=GB&ceid=GB%3Aen
Bengaluru Call Centre Scam: Bengaluru Police Expose Major Digital Fraud
Bengaluru Call Centre Scam: Bengaluru Police Expose Major Digital Fraud https://www.deccanherald.com/india/karnataka/bengaluru/digital-arrest-scam-bengaluru-police-bust-call-centre-that-conned-us-and-canadian-citizens-3764060
Wednesday, October 15, 2025
Monday, October 13, 2025
Michael Nielsen | The Institute
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““I’m fascinated by computers as a means of representing and acting on knowledge, of carrying out processes that we’d call cognition if done by humans.””
And https://michaelnotebook.com/vwh/index.html on the Vulnerable World Hypothesis
Also https://michaelnielsen.org/
— from Michael Nielsen | The Institute as of 13 October 2025
Saturday, October 11, 2025
Chacruna | Welcome to chacruna media. A collective of researchers and luminaries of psychedelic plant medicine culture, science, spirituality.
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“We aim to co-create a world where plant medicines and other psychedelics are understood, protected, honored, and valued as part of our cultural identity, and integrated into our social, legal and health care systems in ways that are equitable and just.”
— from Chacruna | Welcome to chacruna media. A collective of researchers and luminaries of psychedelic plant medicine culture, science, spirituality. as of 11 October 2025
Car Brain Is Making the US Unhealthy and Dangerous. EVs Won't Fix It. - Bloomberg
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“Three recent books give it a shot. They are part of a growing effort among activists and academics encouraging people around the world — especially in North America and Europe — to reconsider society’s relationship with the automobile. Saving Ourselves from Big Car (Columbia University Press, Sept. 16), by the former literary agent and film producer David Obst, is the most histrionic of the set, with the automotive industry accused of myriad evils that include inviting World War II. Roadkill: Unveiling the True Cost of Our Toxic Relationship With Cars (Wiley, Sept. 16), by Henrietta Moore and Arthur Kay, is philosophical, invoking Kant and Rawls to argue that motor vehicles curtail societal freedom, particularly for those who don’t use them. Life After Cars: Freeing Ourselves from the Tyranny of the Automobile (Penguin Random House, Oct. 21), by Sarah Goodyear, Doug Gordon and Aaron Naparstek, is the most accessible and the most exhaustive of the trio, synthesizing a small mountain of research that explores how automobiles shape human lives and the environment”
— from Car Brain Is Making the US Unhealthy and Dangerous. EVs Won't Fix It. - Bloomberg as of 11 October 2025
Thursday, October 9, 2025
Cost of streamlined government procurement portal balloons by eight times
Classic!
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“A new government procurement platform intended to encourage more small businesses to bid for contracts, driving competition, has seen its costs balloon from an intended £1.5 million to £12 million as multinational consultancies won contracts to build and manage it.”
— from Cost of streamlined government procurement portal balloons by eight times as of 9 October 2025
Romio Joseph - Product Designer & Writer
Romio Joseph - Product Designer & Writer:
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“Amazing Bluesky tool collection ”
— from Romio Joseph - Product Designer & Writer as of 9 October 2025
Bluesky Advanced Search
Bluesky Advanced Search:
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“Search interface that is very handy”
— from Bluesky Advanced Search as of 9 October 2025
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