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When you not only have a mascot, but he also loves art. We're kicking off Beat Week 2026 today, a one-week giving campaign pitting the University of Georgia against the University of Mississippi to see which can snag more donations. Wouldn’t hate it if Mastodon folks threw us a few bucks.
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There's a #newsletter I like, but had gotten steadily shittier over the past year as the writer has been using too much #AI and reducing the quality.
Last week, he turned on payments and my reaction was - I would have paid for the pre-AI version, but not this.

Obscured windows
#photography

@… True. But wouldn't it be a good idea to have a contingency plan whether you self-host or use a commercial service? 😀

, “lying and deception are rational behaviours to achieve many goals. This is why humans do it. And this is why the AIs do it now.”
Yoshua Bengio
See https://www.theguardian.com/news/2026/sep/

‘If you build something vastly smarter than you, it better be on your side’: can we stop AI from deceiving us?
The long read: We are used to the idea that our fellow humans might intentionally mislead or manipulate us, but the idea that machines can now do the same is deeply unsettling. Researchers are racing to find solutions before it’s too late

When I was a kid, I would complain bitterly when I got sent to bed at 9 pm. “Why have I got to go to bed so early?”
Now as an adult, I look at the clock and I think “Good it’s 9 o’clock I can go to bed now!”

The modern GOP is a cult of personality with almost no room for dissent
and where the dissent exists, it’s because some people think it’s fucking awesome to put up ads calling child rape victims a liar
and others saying well maybe that’s a half-step too far.
But I actually do think the Republicans’ future is pretty bright
and the reason for that is that there’s no evidence that extremism is going to make one bit of difference in their electoral success over the long …

Republican Optimism - Lawyers, Guns & Money
Some National Review guy wrote a Times op-ed about 10 days ago that said basically “sure, Democrats are going to do well in November, but long term, Republicans are gold.” It’s worth at least considering some of this. That cacophony of voices representing itself as Republican would have been unthinkable before Mr. Trump. And it […]

Woohoo! Life out of one of my Sun3/60's!
You could say my transistor tester fixed it - I took the 3 through-hole transistors off the small daughter card, tested them, and soldered them back - and it's alive!
And it's repeatedly arrive, even the next day.
My reading of the service manual is that flashing LED means it's trying to boot; so time for a serial lead!
#retrocomputing

And last but not least for my work on the Magic the Gathering's The Hobbit set.
Bolg, Erebor's Reckoning.
Art Director: Cassie Murphy
This is being shared with the permissions from Wizards of the Coast
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#MTGxTheHobbit