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Many disturbing things happen around the world. But I promise you that if you will feel better after attending @nicorikken 's and my #FOSDEM talk at 14:00 in K.1.105 (La Fontaine). If not you'll get every cent of your entrance fee back ;) fosdem.org/2026/schedule/event…
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Group of children in a classroom with books in front of their faces + a teacher standing also holding the same book.

FOSDEM 2026 - Automating translation of a bestseller to spark children's interest in coding

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hey, it was a terrible idea to place the Ukrainian and Russian translations on the same page. If you have the time, better edit the slide.

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Albanian Daily News byteseu.com/1763264/ #Albania
Albanian Daily News

Albanian Daily News

Despite a recent increase from 40,000 to 50,000 Albanian lek in January, the country’s gross minimum wage remains the lowest in the region and in Europe,
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#Albania

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I need help! I want to make this vintage cape. I cannot make sense of how the lining works.

Is there a seam on the bottom edge? I don't know much beyond late 1930's and French. The translation is basically "short cape in a matching fabric with faux sleeves of fur."

And no, I don't think this is AI, just an artist not bothering with some of the details. It's pretty common in fashion drawings of this era.

#Sewing

A vintage 1930's fashion plate. The woman is wearing a sea green gown with a matching cape, trimmed in white fur. The dress has a deep v neck and big swag on her left hip. To the left, a line uncolored line drawing shows that the cape has holes in the lining so you can use the the fur as a kind of muff. To the right, the back of the dress, with a deep cowl back, is shown.
#sewing
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@RobotDiver The white fabric is likely fur, per the translation. I've seen extant capes and evening coats with similar fur edgings.

But the ruffle? Maybe it's supposed to be green and the artist got the coloring wrong? That sort of detail only makes sense if it's not fur, but fabric.

I'll see if I can find any extant garments with an extra ruffle next to fur.

@🌬️Robot Diver🌊❄️🌨️

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Some genius made his AI remind him to get milk in the morning and it used up his $20 account balance overnight because it kept checking if it was morning every 30 minutes. Lmao. “AI”

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#AI #ArtificialIntelligence

Benjamin De Kraker @BenjaminDEKR OpenClaw is interesting, but will also drain your wallet if you aren't careful. Last night around midnight I loaded my Anthropic API account with $20, then went to bed. When I woke up, my Anthropic balance was $O. Opus was checking "is it daytime yet?" every 30 minutes, paying $0.75 each time to conclude "no, it's still night." Doing literally nothing, OpenClaw spent the entire balance. How?
The "Heartbeat" cron job, even though literally the only thing I had going was one silly reminder, ("remind me tomorrow to get milk") 1. Sent ~120,000 tokens of context to Opus 4.5 2. Opus read HEARTBEAT md, thought about reminders 3. Replied "HEARTBEAT_OK" 4. Cost: ~$0.75 per heartbeat (cache writes) The damage: - Overnight = ~25+ heartbeats - 25 × $0.75 = ~$18.75 just from heartbeats alone - Plus regular conversation = ~$20 total The absurdity: Opus was essentially checking "is it daytime yet?" every 30 minutes, paying $0.75 each time to conclude "no, it's still night."
#AI #artificialintelligence
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[…] at least 70% of the AI hype that’s bottom-up — eg, excited users — is people who never learned how to actually use their computer suddenly realizing the computer can do things for them

bsky.app/profile/amyhoy.bsky.s…

#theaicon #aihype

#aihype #theaicon
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all the schadenfreude aside, it’s worth remembering that AI and agentic AI is being hyped and pushed on people who don’t know programming, don’t understand APIs, and just assume the AI would do something similar to a person- figure out (or know) when morning is, set some internal timer, then issue the reminder at the right time - all for “free.”

In fact, they are told that the beauty of AI is that they don’t need to know.

The fact that AI is profoundly different and a simple request can have unintended consequences is not talked about enough.

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Mr Sycamore can’t find his snow suit. Cold, blowing and drifting.

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Living hell of North Korea’s ‘paradise on Earth’ scheme back in spotlight in Japan.

Plaintiffs in case say they were lured from Japan, exploited for labour and cut off from families for generations.

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Living hell of North Korea’s ‘paradise on Earth’ scheme back in spotlight in Japan

Justin McCurry (The Guardian)

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New From CULC: National Social Impact Study on Public Libraries in Canada,


From the Canadian Urban Libraries Council:

On January 30, 2026 CULC/CBUC released a first-of-its-kind National Social Impact Study on urban public libraries in Canada, exploring the role public libraries play in community life and social wellbeing by drawing on data and lived experience from more than 18,000 respondents across 26 Canadian urban public library systems.

Background

In partnership with the Danish firms Is It a Bird and It Depends, CULC/CBUC conducted a national study using several research methods, including online surveys and individual interviews. The resulting report offers empirical data that explore in depth the value of public library programs, spaces, and services in the communities they serve.


Direct to Full Text Report
72 pages: PDF.

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Social Impact Study – Canadian Urban Libraries Council

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Shkumbin Pireva predicts who will be the champion in Kosovo and who will go to Europe byteseu.com/1763262/ #ArenaOfStars #KfBalkani #KfDrita #KfGjilani #KfPrishtina #Kosovo #video
Shkumbin Pireva predicts who will be the champion in Kosovo and who will go to Europe

Shkumbin Pireva predicts who will be the champion in Kosovo and who will go to Europe

In the latest episode of the "Arena of Stars" podcast, comes the analysis of Telegrafi journalists, who discussed extensively current developments in local
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#video #Kosovo #kfgjilani #arenaofstars #kfprishtina #kfdrita #kfbalkani

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Ian Dury standing on a street and holding a walking stick. Have you been hit with a rhythm stick? You could be eligible for personal lan Dury compensation.
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I remember constantly playing the B side, on the community centre's juke box. It was called "There Ain't Half Been Some Clever Bastards". Better than the A side too! 😁
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@NormanDunbar
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Playing the B side (of #hitmewithyourrhythmstick #IanDury #IanDuryAndTheBlockheads)

"There Ain't Half Been Some Clever Bastards" was on the B side to get more financial support for Ian and his former mates, bc they owned the copyrights
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The #musicindustry is, was, will be.... messed up for most artists

Check out, 2024 ⭕Paid In Full (really, not paid at all)
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Ian Dury and the Blockhead’s biggest hit, reaching #1 in the UK Charts in 1979. Dury said the song carried an “anti-violence” message. [Verse 1] In the deserts of Sudan And the gardens of Japan From Milan to Yucatán Every womans, every man [Chorus] Hit me with your rhythm stick Hit me! Hit me! Je t'adore, ich liebe dich Hit me! Hit me! Hit me! Hit me with your rhythm stick Hit me slowly, hit me quick Hit me! Hit me! Hit me! [Verse 2] In the wilds of Borneo And the vineyards of Bordeaux Eskimo, Arapaho Move their body to and fro [Chorus] Hit me with your rhythm stick Hit me! Hit me! Das ist gut! C'est fantastique! Hit me! Hit me! Hit me! Hit me with your rhythm stick It's nice to be a lunatic Hit me! Hit me! Hit me! Hit me! Hit me! Hit! You might also like What A Waste Ian Dury loml Taylor Swift Jingle Bells Christmas Songs [Verse 3] In the dock of Tiger Bay On the road to Mandalay From Bombay to Santa Fe Over hills and far away [Chorus] Hit me with your rhythm stick Hit me! Hit me! C'est si bon, mm? Ist es nicht? Hit me! Hit me! Hit me! Hit me with your rhythm stick Two fat persons, click, click, click Hit me! Hit me! Hit me! Hit me! Hit me! Hit me! Hit me! Hit me! Hit me! Ow!

New docuseries Paid in Full: The Battle for Black Music explores the history of racial injustice in the music industry

Paid in Full: The Battle for Black Music premieres 21 September on BBC Two and BBC iPlayer
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#musicindustry #IanDury #ianduryandtheblockheads #hitmewithyourrhythmstick @NormanDunbar @Steve's Place
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Epstein Files: Trump ‘compromised by Israel’, son-in-law's influence cited in FBI report
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Epstein Files: Trump ‘compromised by Israel’, son-in-law's influence cited in FBI report | World News

An FBI report, citing a “credible” confidential human source, claimed that Trump had been “compromised by Israel”. | World News
Shivya Kanojia (Hindustan Times)

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What has been the biggest failure?

#poll #trump #melania #curious

  • Trump businesses (1%, 1 vote)
  • Trump presidencies (11%, 11 votes)
  • The Melania Movie (3%, 3 votes)
  • All the above (84%, 83 votes)
98 voters. Poll end: 19 hours ago

#Trump #curious #poll #Melania

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I spent a lot of time today sitting on a gorgeous beach near Auckland. (Was I stewing about how fucking stupid SpaceX is the whole time? Yes, yes I was. See my previous post if you don't know why.)

Tomorrow I pick up a rental car and start the Beatrice Tinsley lecture tour portion of the #ProfSamLectureTour. I'll have some extra fire for these lectures because SpaceX sucks. More immediately, wish me luck driving on the opposite side of the road tomorrow!

A view looking under a pohutukawa tree across a huge wide beach, toward gorgeous bright blue ocean water, and a few people wandering around on the beach.
#profsamlecturetour
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Tell me about it. I didn’t trust myself when I visited Australia many years ago to drive a car just because I know my brain would revert to habit on driving on the right side.
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Toot Ωncommon - SHUT 🇺🇸 DOWN
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Just remember that whatever turns you make, you as the driver should always stay towards the center of the road and you’ll be fine. At least thats what worked for me.

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Do Colors Exist? by Seth Stannard Cottrell, 2018

This fascinating book presents a collection of articles based on conversations and correspondences between the author and complete strangers about physics and math. The author, a researcher in mathematical physics, responds to dozens of questions posed by inquiring minds from all over the world, ranging from the everyday to the profound.

#books
#nonfiction
#physics

Rather than unnecessarily complex explanations mired in mysterious terminology and symbols, the reader is presented with the reasoning, experiments, and mathematics in a casual, conversational, and often comical style. Neither over-simplified nor over-technical, the lucid and entertaining writing will guide the reader from each innocent question to a better understanding of the world.
#physics #Books #NonFiction
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IBM PC-DOS 5.0 (1991), minty fresh and still sealed after 35 years.
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One of my personal favorites, when it comes to retro operating systems. PC-DOS 5 still included EDIT.COM and QBASIC.COM, as well as an updated DOS Shell with mouse support.
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same here! It was installed on my first PC, a 286 with 2MB of RAM and a 40MB hard disk. I was coming from a VIC20 and it was a huge step forward for me.

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#News: In #Papua, the forest is "Mother"—but she’s being stolen for #palmoil greed 🧐🔥 Prabowo’s #landgrabbing destroys Indigenous rights and risks more deadly floods. Stand with the Awyu and Moi! 🌴☠️🚫 #BoycottPalmOil #HumanRights @palmoildetect.bsky.social archive.is/wU4US?utm_source=ma…
#News #HumanRights #palmoil #Papua #LandGrabbing #BoycottPalmOil

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REPOST: emptywheel @emptywheel on Bluesky

A sound piece of messaging and also an explanation of the way Schumer and Jeffries MAY buy leverage with this deal.

Rep. Jake Auchincloss My statement on the funding deal: The Appropriations package coming to the House contains six bills. Five of them are bipartisan bills that fund the National Institutes of Health, community health centers, and earmarked infrastructure projects in the Massachusetts Fourth, amongst many other programs. | voted Yes on these bills before and continue to support them. The package also contains a sixth bill, which funds ICE for two weeks while Democrats negotiate reforms. | previously voted against funding ICE for eight months. My position has not changed when the timeline shrinks to two weeks; it's still a blank check for a broken agency. | support law enforcement. | reject the ICE paramilitary.
House Republicans are the ones who unleashed this paramilitary. Their conference is now crumbling under the outrage of a free people. Speaker Johnson is trying to whip Republican votes for this package with a one-vote margin. If House Democrats hold the line on No, it is likely that Speaker Johnson would need to negotiate for Democratic votes to pass this package. That would be a moment of leverage for Leader Jeffries and Democrats in the House to extract concessions from Speaker Johnson that may justify a Yes vote. Absent those concessions, | intend to vote No and encourage all Democrats in the House to stick together to maximize our power.
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I definitely don't understand all of the dynamics at play, but I think this deal puts a shitload of pressure on Thune and Johnson, and I can't figure out what leverage they can use to get out of it.
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Chuck Schumer is worse than a Nazi Sympathizer.

He's a Nazi Collaborator and Enabler

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the $75B for ICE from the big bad bill is not affected by these negotiations. ICE will continue to operate no matter what because of that. The argument is about the other DHS funding. The dems have a weak negotiating position in the first place. newsweek.com/a-government-shut…

A Government Shutdown Won’t Stop ICE

ICE funding has emerged as a sticking point in the government funding battle.
Andrew Stanton (Newsweek)
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The media is not going to explain stuff to us, but just now we are finding out the big bad bill also appropriated money for ICE, That is not normal. The GOP was a step ahead on this one.

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@Terryno, they either keep deyning that you were correct even as the consequences physically manifest themselves in front of them, OR they agree as stated, but it is far to late at that point for any peaceable solution.
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@TerryHell, I was blamed for problems I warned people off. "Your naysaying caused this".
@Terry

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"A thimble of love drowns an ocean of hate."
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Vance will visit Armenia on February 9. Babajanyan byteseu.com/1763260/ #analysis #Armenia #information #Media #News #press #RA #Radar #RadarArmenia #Reliable #RepublicOfArmenia #source #unbiased
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Vance will visit Armenia on February 9. Babajanyan

Arman Babajanyan, the chairman of the "For the Republic" party, wrote on his Facebook page:
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