Niall Winters
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Towards a socially-just creative technology culture.
#convivialtech
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“I think my voice would be better expressed by an unthinking machine who has plagiarised all of the world’s authors and has come up with this terrible soup of bad writing.”
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Dave Eggers: ‘Once you have a machine think and write for you, you’re cooked as a species’
As his new novel is published, the US author talks about nurturing the next generation of creatives, debating Sam Altman – and why he writes on a boat in San Francisco Bay
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2026/jun/27/dave-eggers-once-you-have-a-machine-think-and-write-for-you-youre-cooked-as-a-species
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I thought the UK’s 4-years for disrupting traffic was bad but this is another level.
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Aaron Stewart-Ahn
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Cannot fucking believe an external 4TB SSD drive that cost me $200 last year is now $1100. Had to check receipts to make sure. They’re really out there trying to keep you from having a PC, phone, or a gaming console so they can have hallucinating, polluting chatbots that drop bombs on kids’ schools.
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MisterJayEm
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Thomas House of Dublin exhibiting the pro-human solidarity that all of us should demonstrate.
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Their drones were super noisy when delivering, so god only knows what it was like if you lived beside on of their hubs. If they’d quieter technology maybe they’ve have succeeded. A BIG WIN for the right to enjoy public shared space 🎉.
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Hillary Clinton says Trump’s Board of Peace is the “best option” for Gaza. She didn’t want him to be President but his ideas are fine for others.
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The world may not like Trump’s Gaza plan — but there is no alternative
If even I, an implacable opponent of the president, can accept this as the best option, then surely others can too?
https://giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/actions/redeem/55bd71f4-f5a9-499d-a841-8ffd4318f158
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Jeff Sharlet
18 days ago
At the end of the term I asked my college creative wriing students to submit anonymous thoughts on AI. No real surprises: Mood ranges from resignation to despair, capitulation from embittered erosion of standards to total, feelings of betrayal from deep to furious. 1/
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Brendan Harkin
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Where are all the big brave men who were burning people out for "the people"? Too ashamed to show faces and stand over their actions today.
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Nina Willburger
22 days ago
The Sprotta hand axe is a
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masterpiece. The flint tool was found in northern Saxony in 1996 and dates back to 50,000 to 80,000 years ago. This hand axe demonstrates not only the technical skill but also the aesthetic sense of its maker, as it is noted for its carefully...🧵1/2 📷 me
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Richard Meredith
22 days ago
"We're shipping so much more code with AI!" "Good, stable code?" "Oh heavens no. No no no. not at all. We couldn't possibly"
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Drones killing people without any human oversight: "fully autonomous drones set to destroy anything in a given area".
www.newscientist.com/article/2529...
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Fully autonomous drones have killed human soldiers for the first time
A senior figure in the Ukrainian defence industry told New Scientist that a test took place two years ago involving fully autonomous drones set to destroy anything in a given area, with confirmed casu...
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2529849-fully-autonomous-drones-have-killed-human-soldiers-for-the-first-time/
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When grep beats vector retrieval 😂
arxiv.org/abs/2605.15184
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Is Grep All You Need? How Agent Harnesses Reshape Agentic Search
Recent advances in Large Language Model (LLM) agents have enabled complex agentic workflows where models autonomously retrieve information, call tools, and reason over large corpora to complete tasks ...
https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.15184
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Titus 🇵🇸
26 days ago
Hello friends and welcome to another “how’s ESM vs CJS doing?!” A big win this time, at a year of `require(esm)` available! 38.0% of the popular npm packages now have ESM, up from 33.4% half a year ago. ESM-only is up from 12.6% to 16.0%. Particularly this non-dual, “vanilla” growth is very big!
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Milei is all-in on AI, including allowing AI agents to be limited liability companies. I kid you not! “You shall know the person by the company they keep” etc.
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Javier Milei: Argentina invites AI to free itself
As we enter a new era of technology, AI must be permitted to develop without premature regulation
https://giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/actions/redeem/b3f91460-b668-40dc-9e1a-00f0ce101060
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Interesting points made by Sulzberger but no effort / offer to use the resources of the NYT for building a community to address any of the important concerns he raises. Everyone can just go off and do their own thing, an approach that IMHO is doomed to failure unfortunately.
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Thoughts on the “content guidelines”
@timothyunwin.bsky.social
? Interesting to see our various critiques of “[X] 4 Good” from back in the day still being relevant!
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Jan Rosenow
about 1 month ago
NEW
@iea.org
data: clean energy investment is now more than double fossil fuels. $2,155bn vs $1,008bn in 2025. The crossover happened around 2016. Since then the gap has only widened. What was a narrow lead a decade ago is now a >2-to-1 split.
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eileen chengyin chow
about 1 month ago
“I write with dismay, grief and sorrow for the permanent closure of MIT Libraries Barker, Dewey and Rotch, and termination of library staff in those libraries. For MIT to be closing three of its four major libraries..."
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Lament for the MIT Libraries - MIT Faculty Newsletter
https://fnl.mit.edu/may-june-2026/lament-for-the-mit-libraries/?fbclid=IwY2xjawSEL-FleHRuA2FlbQIxMQBzcnRjBmFwcF9pZBAyMjIwMzkxNzg4MjAwODkyAAEeXhZgkzacyRdYz2I0SNvu3C_XUxxzJdpjtYYjui_oj4HUtNUVOPE_19HxBu0_aem_7Om_lQdmEqnRnH-6e6pyYg
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Edward Jones-Imhotep
about 1 month ago
A reminder that The Broken Machine is available open access through
@mitpress.bsky.social
Direct to Open platform. You can access it here:
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#histtech
#histsci
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Simon McGarr
about 1 month ago
This article in The Journal remains the best piece telling this story by just setting out the numbers.
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Kieron Gillen
about 1 month ago
The animation chat has me thinking one telling thing - in the years since AI arrived, there's not been a ground-up indie phenomenon, like we saw with earlier tech (Flash, etc). It hasn't unlocked anyone's creativity. For all the anti-gatekeeping rhetroic, nothing anyone cares about has been born.
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But as a gov, let’s do next to nothing to address the climate crisis.
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Carmen Huidobro
about 1 month ago
I'm available for consulting from June. Dev work, DevRel, Dev Education, Content Creation, and helping teams make sensible decisions about automation without betraying their users. 17 years exp, Vienna-based, remote across Europe and beyond. Boosts massively appreciated 💜
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This is the best thing you’ll read all day:). “[T]he same Geniza letters reveal an astonishing degree of interdenominational cooperation, matched by almost complete absence of animosity against other communities.“
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That Dragon Guy
about 1 month ago
Fashion designer Jeremy Scott delivers commencement speech to Kansas City Art Institute graduates. Wait for it…
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Eryk Salvaggio
about 1 month ago
"We must avoid the 'Babel syndrome,' the idolatry of profit that sacrifices the weak, a uniformity that neutralizes differences, and the pretense that a single language — even a digital one — can translate everything, including the mystery of the person, into data and performance."
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Encyclical Letter of His Holiness Leo XIV Magnifica Humanitas (15 May 2026)
ENCYCLICAL LETTER MAGNIFICA HUMANITAS OF HIS HOLINESS POPE LEO XIV ON SAFEGUARDING THE HUMAN PERSON IN THE TIME OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE [ Multimedia ] ___________________________
https://www.vatican.va/content/leo-xiv/en/encyclicals/documents/20260515-magnifica-humanitas.html
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“It’s a recolonisation of our health system… They can create vaccines and diagnostic tools with our data and we get scraps off the table” said Ayoade Alakija
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Donald Trump reboots foreign aid with cash-for-data strategy
After gutting USAID, Washington is striking transactional deals that some critics liken to ‘recolonisation’
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FT pours cold water on the WSJ report on
#Anthropic
becoming a consistently profitable company: “Despite improving margins, Anthropic is unlikely to remain consistently profitable as it increases spending on computing power to meet rising demand for its products.” (1/2)
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James
about 1 month ago
Woooo yeaaah! The missing piece 🎉 everything is about to get a lot more secure
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Staged publishing for npm packages | npm Docs
Documentation for the npm registry, website, and command-line interface
https://docs.npmjs.com/staged-publishing
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soleil ho
about 2 months ago
“Palestinians thought that by showcasing all of our vulnerabilities online, by sharing our grief, we’d [get] empathy; people would interfere, would move,” she says. “But it [was] the complete opposite: social media helped dehumanise Palestinians.”
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Palestinians Risked Their Lives to Document Gaza, Then Came The Algorithm
In Gaza, survival unfolds alongside a fight to be seen in a digital world increasingly shaped and manipulated by algorithms.
https://www.wired.me/story/palestinians-risked-their-lives-to-document-gaza-then-came-the-algorithm
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The video is shocking. “Nobody deserves to die for being suspected of shoplifting.”
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Dr Mary McAuliffe
about 2 months ago
President Connolly’s sister among Irish activists detained by Israel after Gaza flotilla intercepted
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President Connolly’s sister among Irish activists detained by Israel after Gaza flotilla intercepted
At least six Irish activists have been detained by Israeli forces this morning, according to organisers.
https://jrnl.ie/7043338
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Good to see this published as we see the impacts of regcap all around us.
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about 2 months ago
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Skewering Bertie is a top Sunday morning read. Sweeney has a great pic of him and McDowell from back in the day too. Ireland has moved on but we’re still dealing with their horrific policies and now their woeful attempts at acceptance through far-right rhetoric.
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The chickens coming home to roost for the US gov. Sad to see.
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Great evening at the Bia!Zine launch. 🚀 Great food and a wonderful vibe. Many congratulations to Victory and the entire team for a job extraordinarily well done (no pun intended 😂). 👏👏
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Sad to hear Mick Lynch parroting right-wing points on immigration and being completely misinformed on the Irish situation:
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Ireland in Focus: Mind the Gap - H&CC
Far-right mobilisation has evolved into a hybrid model combining street activity, online amplification, symbolic encampments, and localised intimidation.
https://hopeandcourage.ie/ireland-in-focus-mind-the-gap/
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Great discussion. Thanks to all the speakers and organisers for a very informative evening.
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“What happens to the history of
#AIDS
activism when the art it inspired becomes a hot commodity?” asks Millie Brown-Ewens:
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AIDS Is Not Over. Why Does Its Art Feel So Historical? | The Art Journal
https://www.theartjournal.com/articles/aids-is-not-over
about 2 months ago
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Steve Fenton
about 2 months ago
This started as humour. Now I'm not certain.
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Corbin Crutchley
about 2 months ago
We at TanStack just had a major attack against our Router packages. We have a postmortem out now explaining what happened and how we mitigated the response:
tanstack.com/blog/npm-sup...
No other TanStack packages outside of the Router monorepo were impacted
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Postmortem: TanStack npm supply-chain compromise | TanStack Blog
On 2026-05-11, an attacker chained a pull_request_target Pwn Request, GitHub Actions cache poisoning across the fork↔base trust boundary, and OIDC token extraction from runner memory to publish 84 mal...
https://tanstack.com/blog/npm-supply-chain-compromise-postmortem
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Zeerak Talat زیرک طلعت (they/them)
about 2 months ago
This article is great in highlighting the professional and personal costs of using generative AI and the alter of efficiency that we're sacrificing it all on.
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Kenya turns down Microsoft data centre in order to develop national capacity first: ““To switch on that one data centre, we would need to shut off power for half the country. That’s when I knew there was a problem,” President Ruto said. 👇
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Younity
about 2 months ago
🇬🇷☀️ Greece is set to build the largest public cooperative solar park for farmers and vulnerable households in Europe ⚡🌍 The new 105 MW project in Western Greece will help supply energy to 147,000 farmers and 17,000 vulnerable households — a major step for energy security and affordability 🔋💚
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Greece to install largest public cooperative solar park for farmers, vulnerable households
The Greek authorities plan to install a cooperative solar power plant for the supply of 147,000 farmers and 17,000 vulnerable households
https://balkangreenenergynews.com/greece-to-install-largest-public-cooperative-solar-park-for-farmers-vulnerable-households/
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“It is not yet clear if the police will face proceedings for false testimony”
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rich harris
about 2 months ago
For all that individual Googlers care deeply about the web, the company behaves like a colonial power — carelessly extracting resources for the empire. You just have to hope the bad ideas succumb to its institutional ADHD (like FLoC, Topics, AMP...) without causing too much damage. It sucks!
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Well, well, well Amodei and Musk get into bed together: “We’ve agreed to a partnership with SpaceX that will substantially increase our compute capacity.”
www.anthropic.com/news/higher-...
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Higher usage limits for Claude and a compute deal with SpaceX
We’ve raised Claude's usage limits and agreed a new compute partnership with SpaceX that will substantially increase our capacity in the near term.
https://www.anthropic.com/news/higher-limits-spacex
about 2 months ago
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Really interesting thread here (see replies also). IMHO the strength is in a strong curriculum design (as Josh notes) that scaffolds student learning. AI can’t do this to a high standard yet but its clear selling purely on skills no longer cuts it. (1/3)
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