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Towards a socially-just creative technology culture.
#convivialtech
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TechTonic Justice
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The Nation quoted our Inescapable AI report! AI in public programs can shape whether people get care, afford medicine, keep food on the table, or stay housed. Read more:
https://www.thenation.com/article/society/ai-luxury-class-social-programs/
https://www.techtonicjustice.org/reports/inescapable-ai
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Getty
1 day ago
Happy
#WorldBookDay
! Did you know there are over 300 books to read and download for free in the Getty Publications Virtual Library? From books on antiquities to books on sculpture, thereâs something for everyone. New books are added regularly! Start your art book collection:
gty.art/443oqhx
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Weather data from CDG âmay have been caused by people tampering with the equipment to shape the outcome of wagers on Polymarket.â
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French weather service alerts police to tampering after suspicious Polymarket bets
Users of weather forum say Paris temperature data may have been manipulated for wagers on prediction market platform
https://giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/actions/redeem/a4221aac-de80-4225-92f9-b3819d93e916
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Helen Kennedy
3 days ago
Priceless post from the official White House social media
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@socket.dev
I think your work is excellent and perhaps I'm missing something. But I've a question that I hope you can help with please. When I was looking at your data for express 5.2.1, a High CVE was highlighted:
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express - npm Package Security Analysis - Socket
Fast, unopinionated, minimalist web framework. Version: 5.2.1 was published by wesleytodd. Start using Socket to analyze express and its dependencies ...
https://socket.dev/npm/package/express/overview/5.2.1
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Will be interesting to see what emerges from this. Will their differing cultures (particularly wrt funding) scupper even well-intentioned collab? Good to keep an eye on this đ.
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Ruth Coppinger TD
7 days ago
If you had doubts about who Independent Ireland are and some of the fuel protest leaders - well theyâre showing us. Protesters and those whose livelihoods are at stake should have nothing to do with the far right or bigotry.
#fuelprotests
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Perhaps the cynic in me is winning out here, but with an upcoming IPO, I think Anthropic could be over-hyping Mythos. For a reality check (via Heidy Khlaaf on X /
heidyk.com
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Dr Heidy Khlaaf
https://heidyk.com
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Iâm so sick of the Guardian whoring for the far-right.
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Eamonn Sweeney
9 days ago
Magnificent example of the pretence that Ireland is a liberal redoubt and that anything which would seem far right coded elsewhere is perfectly forgivable here. It's honestly becoming our new equivalent of pretending to the Yanks that we all wear green and believe in leprechauns.
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Part II from
@louthforever.bsky.social
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Libération
9 days ago
Beyrouth : les vies en ruines de l'immeuble Hamad. C'est la une de LibĂ© jeudi. Le 8 avril, les frappes israĂ©liennes ont tuĂ© au moins 350 personnes au Liban. Arthur Sarradin est allĂ© chaque jour Ă la rencontre des survivants dâun bĂątiment du quartier de Ain Mreissi oĂč 27 habitants sont morts.
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Phil Hawksworth
10 days ago
Shortest talk ever on CSS layout.
@kevinpowell.co
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@smashingconf.com
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A jury could convict Palestine Action protestors of âcriminal damageâ leading the judge to sentence them as terrorists. The jury will not be told in advance that this is a possible outcome of their decision. The UK press has been court ordered not to report this story.
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Defend Our Juries on X: "BREAKING - @zarahsultana exercises Parliamentary Privilege to expose the unjust nature of the Filton 24 re-trial. UK press has been court ordered not to publish these details. âIf convicted, they and 18 others will be sentenced as terrorists, but the jury will not be told thatâ https://t.co/dmjrltCqde" / X
BREAKING - @zarahsultana exercises Parliamentary Privilege to expose the unjust nature of the Filton 24 re-trial. UK press has been court ordered not to publish these details. âIf convicted, they and 18 others will be sentenced as terrorists, but the jury will not be told thatâ https://t.co/dmjrltCqde
https://x.com/defendourjuries/status/2044112590565941741?s=46
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The sideshow of politicians of all stripes waffling instead of systematically addressing our energy issues. Tiny example: âŹ400m would pay for a plug-in 800W balcony solar panel for *all* homes in the country (~2m dwellings).
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PĂ©ter Magyarâs Tiszaâs is still very rightwing but defeating OrbĂĄn is a necessary first step. *Chefâs kiss*!
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Hungary election live: Viktor OrbĂĄn concedes defeat in Hungarian election after 16 years in power
Long-serving prime minister beaten by opposition after early results showed clear lead
https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2026/apr/12/hungary-election-latest-results-viktor-orban-peter-magyar-fidesz-tisza-russia-europe-live-news-updates?filterKeyEvents=false&page=with%3Ablock-69dbf1ff8f08ff62487f805e#block-69dbf1ff8f08ff62487f805e
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#HungarianElection
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Europe Elects
13 days ago
Hungary: National parliament election Turnout at 11:00 AM CEST 2010: 24.78% 2014: 23.23% 2018: 29.93% 2022: 25.77% 2026: 37.98% Source: Nemzeti Vålasztåsi Iroda †europeelects.eu/hungary #Hungary
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Adam Argyle
13 days ago
Why does AI suck at front-end? đïž trained on garbage đ it can't see â it doesn't know why đïž no environmental control there's no human v20.2.1 to target. we're a LLM combinatorial explosion ‷
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Brexit Bin đȘđș đŹđ§ đ©đȘ
13 days ago
The Cardinal of Washington Robert McElroy has called on Catholics to go beyond just prayer in their struggle to protect democracy and end the war in Iran. It's almost as if the Catholic Church has been reborn since Leo took over as Pope. I've seldom seen it so willing to stand up for what's right đ
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Financial Times
13 days ago
Hungarian voters turn out in force for biggest test of OrbĂĄn era
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Hungarian voters turn out in force for biggest test of OrbĂĄn era
Election follows bitter campaign that has energised both government loyalists and opposition behind Péter Magyar
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Ireland listen up. Main point đđbut also âup to âŹ100,000 per vehicle will â also be âavailable for electric utility vehicles and trucksâ.
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Clear and insightful piece on the blockades (note the point on language in the post!), amongst the best Iâve read. Solid critique of the position taken by
@paulmurphy.pbp.ie
/ PBP and how they need to do better. Worth the 3mins of your time this AM!
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SiobhĂĄn Dowling
14 days ago
Now not even letting people's medicines get through. "Yesterday, accompanied pharmaceutical freight was permitted through, but that has now stopped also since yesterday afternoon. "There is currently about a mile of a tail back of trucks.
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I do hope so although the opposition arenât a whole lot better. As the Guardian noted: "...the best case scenario for Hungary is a return to electoral democracy under a Magyar government. Liberal democracy, however, will probably remain out of reach for now."
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There we go: co-ordinating delegitimisation of the state. Textbook MAGA(-adjacency) grifting. đ
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The irony! Also
#aislop
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About time but GardaĂ shouldnât be wearing face coverings.
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Jacob Birken
14 days ago
0/6000 words: "I'll never finish this text đ" 3000/6000 words: "Ha, this is going great actually đ" 5500/6000 words: "I'll never finish this text đ"
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SeĂĄn Clancy
14 days ago
Racists brining the country to a standstill this week (under guise of fuel crisis) tried to intimidate one of the great charities in the country last night. MSOĂ have been feeding the unhoused for 11 years on O Connell street. Ugly scenes but beautiful show of solidarity from the people they feed.
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This is such a good idea from
@npmx.dev
. Anything the reduces dependencies is đŻ!
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More on James Geoghegan. đ
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Caregivers not being able to visit vulnerable elderly clients because of the
#fuelprotest
. "Your carer has no petrol or diesel to come and care for you" - Carer interviewed on
@rteradio1.bsky.social
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A key spokesperson for the
#fuelprotest
movement owes tax of over âŹ500k and has been convicted of animal cruelty and he's supposed to be taken seriously. Remember, this is in a country where a Presidential candidate had to withdraw for owing a former tenant âŹ3k.
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Fuel protester had âŹ550,000 Revenue judgments
A prominent protester in the fuel blockade has had six judgments for a total of almost âŹ550,000 secured against him by the Revenue Commissioners and animal cruelty convictions.
https://www.rte.ie/news/2026/0410/1567612-james-geoghegan/
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âIf God would order a genocide in Deuteronomy 20,â Ingersoll said, citing a passage in which God instructs the Israelites to âdestroy every living thingâ in certain cities, âwhat makes you think he wouldnât cause a girlâs school to be attacked?â
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Pete Hegsethâs holy war: the militant Christian theology animating the US attack on Iran
The bible-thumping US defense secretary is overseeing another strategic disaster in the Middle East. Is this a war or a crusade?
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2026/apr/10/pete-hegseth-christianity-iran-war-crusade
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Just to note, Cavalcanti et al in a Lancet paper predicted that the âdissolution of [USAID] could lead to more than 14 million additional deaths by 2030.â
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@tanitatikaram.bsky.social
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Ketan Joshi
15 days ago
Related: this very good thread from Dave It's one thing to warn of a *risk* (and every tonne of coal burned causes avoidable harm) but the wild directional extrapolations we see emerge in times like this are intensely frustrating
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Rima I Anabtawi
15 days ago
The front page of L'Orient-Le Jour tomorrow
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Joe Noonan
15 days ago
Signs.
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Note the support from Stephen Yaxley-Lennon. Lots more digging on who is organising and paying for the protests. First out of the traps is the storyđ
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Robert Smith
16 days ago
Hall of fame FT correction
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This otherwise good analysis fails to say that each of Netanyahuâs decisions to go to war were wildly popular. While there were huge protests against his plans for the judiciary, he is the *longest serving* Israeli PM ever, and not for no reason.
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In a war with no winners, Netanyahu looks like the biggest loser
As Iran and US agree fragile ceasefire, Israelâs conflict has turned out to be a bust and, say opponents, âa political disasterâ
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/apr/08/war-with-no-winners-netanyahu-israel-iran-us-ceasefire
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Lina Mounzer
17 days ago
400 dead so far, over 1000 injured, dozens and dozens missing. This is one hour into the massacre. I have no idea what the death toll will be in the end. Also, they have announced âanother waveâ of attacks coming
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Ulises GascĂłn
17 days ago
đ 7 out of 10 of
#security
reports for
#Lodash
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#Express
are invalid. The current spike is LLM-generated noise eating volunteers' time that should go to releases, features, and real bugs.
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Visits to Elmina Castle for all European UN Ambassadors after this vote. ââŠthe global south treated the resolution as a simple moral proposition: the truth about one of historyâs greatest engines of human theft, racial capitalism and underdevelopment.â
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Tony Roberts
19 days ago
Meta provides metadata to military to target mass murder. Meta promotes WhatsApp as a âprivateâ social network, including âend-to-end encryption' of messages but there is nothing private about WhatsApp-targetted assassinations of children and civilians.
www.commondreams.org/news/meta-ai...
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Rights Advocates Demand Probe Into Reports That Israel Uses WhatsApp to Target Palestinians | Common Dreams
"The Israeli Lavender system, supported by artificial intelligence, identifies Palestinians by tracking their communications via WhatsApp or the groups they join," said a Palestinian digital rights gr...
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Skylar Grayson
20 days ago
NASA just dropped this image of Artemis II astronaut Christina Koch looking back at us. The first woman to ever see our planet in its entirety. Iâm not crying youâre crying đ„čđđ§Ș đž: NASA
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It's absolutely unbelievable the levels of social engineering maintainers have to be alert to these days. Hopefully the general media pick up on
@sarahgooding.bsky.social
's story to raise awareness more widely.
#npm
#nodejs
#security
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Dominic McCann
20 days ago
UK electricity grid is very low carbon today (windy and a bit sunny). As a consequence very little gas fired power generation is active on the grid (probably just the "spinning reserve").
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