Nando161
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| Website | https://violetpixel.com/ |
| Currently | Being approachable with a little help from my hat. |
| Formerly | Staff Engineer at Stripe, indie/contract dev before that, ancient/boring stuff before that. |
Justin Michael
@VioletPixel
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Miakoda 
Just a reminder to anyone who clings to belongings, afraid to use them and break or wear them out -
I'm looking at all these stickers people gave me years ago. They're not sticky anymore. I was afraid to stick them, and now they can never be stuck. I never got to enjoy them. This applies to everything. Toys, shoes, anything. Use it and enjoy it. If it gets ruined, you got to enjoy it instead of it degrading having never been enjoyed.
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AltomareSome neat info about 70s hard drive contaminants.
From the DEC RK05 disk drive maintenance manual (DEC-00-HRK05-C-D)
Natasha 
🇪🇺Louvre Thieves Given Immunity After Confirming Jewels Stolen For Purpose Of Training AI Software 🇬🇧
"When we realised these jewels were only stolen to inflate the share price of a company whose entire value relies on the wholesale theft of other people’s art, we had no choice but grant these scamps immunity,” confirmed French prosecutor Alain Barbier."
Pour les non anglophones 🇫🇷:
Les voleurs du Louvre bénéficient de l'immunité après avoir confirmé que les bijoux avaient été volés dans le but d'entraîner un logiciel d'intelligence artificielle
"Lorsque nous avons réalisé que ces bijoux n'avaient été volés que pour gonfler le cours de l'action d'une société dont toute la valeur repose sur le vol en gros des œuvres d'art d'autrui, nous n'avons eu d'autre choix que d'accorder l'immunité à ces escrocs", a confirmé le procureur français Alain Barbier.
Louvre Thieves Given Immunity After Confirming Jewels Stolen For Purpose Of Training AI Software
FRENCH POLICE have immediately ended all efforts to recover priceless Napoleon-era jewellery from the Louvre taken in a daring heist after it emerged the jewels were merely stolen for the purposes of training AI software. "When …
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Ada PalmerAlzheimer’s reversed in mice as scientists restore the brain’s ‘gatekeeper.’ Spanish and Chinese researchers have reversed Alzheimer’s symptoms in mice using nanoparticles that repair the brain’s protective barrier. The treatment cleared up to 60% of amyloid plaques within an hour and restored memory over months by “reminding” the blood-brain barrier how to clear waste. Scientists say the approach could open new paths for treating dementia in humans. https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/10/07/alzheimers-reversed-in-mice-under-breakthrough-treatment/?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email
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Tamsyn UltharaThis campaign ad, by NYC mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani, just reduced me to tears:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bEvVSpN0BXg
I'm a New York City native, although I no longer live there. A big part of me wishes I could vote for Mamdani, campaign for him, and do anything I could possibly do to make sure he's elected, because from what I see, no one else is fucking standing up for us like this. Not even Sarah McBride, a fellow trans woman in the halls of the United States Congress, has a tenth of the guts that Mamdani proudly displays here.
Democrats, if you want to inspire people to vote for you, rather than simply leave them to weigh whether it's worth coming out to the polls for yet another Republican-lite who is ready to throw us under the bus at the first possible chance, this is how you do it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bEvVSpN0BXg
I'm a New York City native, although I no longer live there. A big part of me wishes I could vote for Mamdani, campaign for him, and do anything I could possibly do to make sure he's elected, because from what I see, no one else is fucking standing up for us like this. Not even Sarah McBride, a fellow trans woman in the halls of the United States Congress, has a tenth of the guts that Mamdani proudly displays here.
Democrats, if you want to inspire people to vote for you, rather than simply leave them to weigh whether it's worth coming out to the polls for yet another Republican-lite who is ready to throw us under the bus at the first possible chance, this is how you do it.
