as always, @elaineburke.bsky.social nails it! this "100% digital" i.e. accessing digital boarding pass through their app, gives Ryanair and involved data brokers unprecedented access to your data

What the hell’s this all about, @bsky.app? #FreeSarahKendzior

A group of Israeli settlers attacked Palestinian industrial and agricultural facilities in Tulkarem, in the occupied West Bank, causing large fires and injuring several people.

Love being reminded to do this every year. It's a win/win all round

Just been invited to the launch event of a report considering the 'future of the UK's research system' where they will be considering the creation of disruption labs named after Ada Lovelace and the report will be introduced by a panel of five men

Six people died from tampered Tylenol and the company pulled 30 million bottles off the market. ChatGPT is accused of urging seven people towards suicide, and OpenAI just assures us they’re still working out the kinks. Billions in investment, zero accountability.

Thinking again how perverse it is that Musk was given a $1T salary as his cuts to USAID has led to 600,000 deaths. What a shameful world.

i’ve said this before but lemme say it again. it makes absolutely 0 sense to talk about “misuse” of llms because there is no clear use or purpose for llms to begin with. genAI is a purposeless tech floating around looking for uptake 1/

HISTORY REPEATS: This 1905 illustration, From the Depths by William Balfour Ker, is going viral again for a reason. Then, it captured a gilded elite dancing above the suffering of workers — their wealth literally built on the backs of the hungry below

Your data, their rules

the AI powered dystopia you've been waiting for

Locutus assimilation tip: Social media is the Borg. You have joined willingly. Resistance is futile.

A new feature dropped on start.spring.io! Because you all love YAML so much, we've added radio buttons to switch the configuration format from properties to YAML. Hope you brought a ruler and don't live in Norway!

🧵 “Sono russo”: violenza, paura ed eredità del pensiero imperialista | @hannaperekhoda.bsky.social www.valigiablu.it/treno-imperi...

There is something truly remarkable about Generative AI. Several years in this revolution, half of the US GDP dumped to make these tools free, and i can't think of a single generated artifact, text, image, sound, video that had a significant cultural impact.

Python was awarded a funding grant, funding grant asked Python foundation to remove all diversity and inclusion initiatives they have. Python foundation said no and rejected the grant. If you use Python, send a few dollars to the charity to keep it going. I’m pushing a dono on behalf of ScamGuard.

Ed Luce watching democracy die in the United States of America

Just a thought: How about we stop shaming the poor for buying things that may not be essential, and start shaming the rich for making a profit off things that are essential?

We're seeing lots of headlines about the catastrophic impact of massive data center expansion. But what else could data centers look like? In my perpetual quest to seek out alternative technofutures, I want to highlight the really cool work of Keolu Fox. 🧵

State of Developer Ecosystem 2025 Report by @jetbrains.com, Tools and Trends: devecosystem-2025.jetbrains.com/tools-and-tr...

Translation: After we built an addictive tool based on stolen data, exploited labor and plundering the environment, which pushes kids to commit suicides, we were like, why not cash in on "erotica"? After all, this is what building so-called AGI that "benefits humanity" looks like.

I've "vibe-coded" a new #Gleam-based component in my #OpenTelemetry demo. Conclusion: I learned absolutely nothing. I won't use coding assistants in this way ever again.

the flaw in this logic is that all commercial llms (by opeAI, google, anthropic etc) hardly share information about their models inc training data, evaluation processes or benchmarks. they basically operate under a “trust me bro” attitude. hence why this analogy is misguided and/or flat out wrong

i’m looking to recruit a postdoc to work on this (documentation + evaluation on accuracy, reliability and societal impacts). hope to advertise detailed descriptions of the role in the coming weeks

Marie McGowan, 89, has died 3 years after a brutal assault during which she was put headfirst into a rubbish bin. Her attacker, Alex Bailey, believed she was "a man dressed as a woman." This is the world the transphobes are creating "to protect women." RIP Marie. share.google/PFaI5YTh9tBw...

Award-winning pain researcher here. This is not something that can be done. Hope this helps.

Updates like this are an attack on user agency. People shouldn't have to buy new hardware or pay for extensions to ensure their devices are secure.

I am being asked to tell my department which pieces of lab equipment should be supported with backup power because they expect rolling blackouts and brownouts in 2026 due to increased energy demands from AI. In case you're wondering how my day is going.

I've always said this, but since last November, I've been pointing this out frequently in whatever venues to whatever audiences I can: "The planet NASA studies most is Earth."

aaand we are officially in the hide-your-neighbors stage

BREAKING Prime Minister of South Africa: “If international law means anything, Netanyahu must be arrested. Otherwise, the ICC is a Western puppet.” #ICC #Netanyahu #NetanyahuWarCriminal #Justice

Banning controversy reveals #Bluesky’s #decentralized aspiration isn’t reality

Weird how they put all their efforts into using technology to replace human creativity and art and then say creative arts degrees are useless.

The elimination of USAID is a moral atrocity and all involved made a choice to enable, and then lie about, ending the lives of some of the most vulnerable people in the world.

Flying cars are the perfect example of a point solution: trying to solve a systemic problem (traffic) with an individual product (fly over the traffic). But traffic is not a technology problem; it's a social problem. Remote work, congestion fees, and dense transit-connected housing solve it better.

Thanks, New Yorker

this! legitimate, trusted, and verifiable knowledge/reality are becoming a thing of the past

“…that Sora is being used for stalking and harassment will likely not be an edge case, because deepfaking yourself and others into videos is one of its core selling points.” Far from an edge case, it’s the primary use case.

Applications for JamCoders, a 1 month free algorithms & programming camp for Jamaican high schoolers, are now open. Head over to jamcoders.org.jm#apply. No programming experience required for students. We're looking for students & teaching assistants. Deadline January 31.

👀 Add #Java 25 support 🤩 #MyBatis #SQL

Oracle employees who expressed support for Palestine were "referred to internal mental health resources." Oracle is about to own TikTok.

"We're going to create superintelligence" How about making outlook search work first. How about that

If you read only one thing today, read this letter written from prison, where she has been languishing for several months, by the awesome Georgian journalist Mzia Amaghobeli. She dared to speak the truth to the Moscow's puppets. EU leaders don't have her courage. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

“Terrible things are happening outside. Poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes. Families are torn apart. Men, women, and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared.” Diary of Anne Frank January 13, 1943

There's a really great MinutePhysics video about the aesthetics- and physics-based reasons for the number of wind turbine blades: youtu.be/pgqkti7yePk

Written 55 years ago, Schulz's heartfelt clarity cuts through the noise, even today. h/t @tisserand.bsky.social

Please - stop doing the screenshot no link thing on Bluesky. This platform does not punish you for posting a URL. You picked up the habit from Meta apps? Stop doing Mark Z's bidding. Link ESPECIALLY to authors, reporters, bloggers, etc. where you quote the work.

As a former gamer, I cannot overstate how big of a deal this right-wing takeover of Electronic Arts is. Are they going to create video games where they kidnap and dismember journalists like Jamal Khashoggi?