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DotNetNorth does .NET Conf, Tue, Jan 13, 2026, 6:00 PM | Meetup We will be recapping and reviewing some of the interesting announcements from .NET Conf. Aden Earnshaw \- What's New in Aspire Mike Irving \- \.NET 10 Breaking Changes R

Next event 🚨 DotNetNorth does .NET Conf

🗓️ Tuesday, Jan 13 · 6:00 PM
📍 Bonded Warehouse, 18 Lower Byrom Street
🎫 Tickets are FREE!
🍕 Pizza + drinks included
🍺 Pub afterwards for a chat

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can't stop watching this clip of a tesla Optimus teleoperator taking his headset off before properly logging out the robot

The link has expired :(

crazy

IG em_clarkson

succubus - female demon that seduces men

incubus - male demon that seduces women

vengabus - non-binary demon that likes to party

An instructional diagram showing an air purifier with its front mesh filter panel being removed and replaced. The heading reads "Replacing Your Filter" and body text states "Follow instructions in the %@ manual to replace your filter. Press Done when you're finished." Black arrows indicate the removal direction of the filter panel from the white rectangular purifier unit

Alright, chill out air filter, I'll s-... jesuschrist how did you get a knife?!

Alpaca!

Abstract visualization of colourful code syntax on black background, featuring flowing lines in vibrant colours (orange, blue, purple, pink, green) interweaving with programming keywords and functions like 'else', 'return', 'if', and 'var', creating an artistic representation of code structure

🎨 Meditations on Code As Art

This month, explore the artistic side of programming! Discover how developers imprint themselves on their work through history, from elegant patterns to deliberate artistic expression.

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📍 Betfred, Manchester
🕕 Tue 14th Oct 18:00

If you're terrified by all the news about acetaminophen, don't panic! Just take the exact same dose of paracetamol for the exact same effect.

Now with pressurised hydrogen!

Meditations on Code As Art, Tue, Oct 14, 2025, 6:00 PM | Meetup Code can be beautiful, elegant and performant, but can it deliberately be artistic? Despite how important and prolific software and programming have become over the last 5

So I'm gonna be doing a new and ultra weird talk next year - and I'm doing a bit of a test run at DotNetNorth next month.

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It's gonna be weird, come out.

Yup

This may explain why there’s an aggressive response to people who merely post Kirk’s own words. It threatens the existence of the alternate Kirk - the motivational speaker that had been marketed to young kids and white Christian groups through selective quotation & clips.

i met anubis in the realm of the underworld, big strong guy by the way, had a dog’s head, i’m not so sure about that. and he said to me, mr president, you’ve got the heaviest soul we’ve ever weighed down here. can you believe it? they’ve never seen a soul that heavy in all of duat

Two unchecked checkboxes one above the other on a form with text labels: "You are suitable for a contact lens trial" then below "A contact lens trial"

🎶 A contact lens trial!
🎶And the contact lens fits into the eye like a battery
🙀🙀

All good in the UK

This is some of the hardest shit I've seen in my life

From the replies (bsky.app/profile/dasb...) here's Sam Altman doing what the quoted post described. He seems serious about it.

I don't know why this lad is building a subterranean city for cats, but I'm all for it.

Live footage of British people using the internet in August 2025

I wondered what happened. Is there a decent news site that reports on this kinda stuff? MEN et al are crap :/

Just make it exist first, you can make it good later

Perfect! What’s the best way to get it to you? I’m in the UK. Happy to ship it, or hold onto it for a bit if you have travel plans :D

Assuming this is the right foil 😅

I've got one on the way and would be absolutely delighted to swap if the offer is still there

Male Costa’s Hummingbird

Overcast skies? Find a hummingbird… male Costa’s 🪶☀️🌵

What’s a technology that you think is overhyped? I’m going to give a sideways answer to this, which is that the venture capital business model needs to be understood as requiring hype. You can go back to the Netscape IPO, and that was the proof point that made venture capital the financial lifeblood of the tech industry. Venture capital looks at valuations and growth, not necessarily at profit or revenue. So you don’t actually have to invest in technology that works, or that even makes a profit, you simply have to have a narrative that is compelling enough to float those valuations. So you see this repetitive and exhausting hype cycle as a feature in this industry. A couple of years ago, you would have been asking me about the metaverse, then last year, you would have asked me about Web3 and crypto, and for each of these inflection points there’s an Andreessen Horowitz manifesto. It’s not simply that one piece of technology is overhyped, it’s that hype is a necessary ingredient of the current business ecosystem of the tech industry. We should examine how often the financial incentive for hype is rewarded without any real social returns, without any meaningful progress in technology, without these tools and services and worlds ever actually manifesting. That’s key to understanding the growing chasm between the narrative of techno-optimists and the reality of our tech-encumbered world.

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I also never knew, until I was poking around there a moment ago, that Lehrer also composed an "Aristotle Variation" of his famous song "The Elements". The complete sheet music is below.

What an absolute legend.