Niall Winters
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Towards a socially-just creative technology culture.
#convivialtech
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Ed Newton-Rex
about 20 hours ago
🚨 It looks like the UK government is gearing up to upend copyright law in favour of AI companies, legalising the theft of their work. This is despite creatives' huge protests, and despite previous proposals being roundly rejected by the public. Please spread the word. 🧵 1/4
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Dr Zena Assaad
1 day ago
The Anthropic-U.S. DoD public dispute continues. We have unpacked the latest updates & the safety, legal & ethical concerns in our
@opiniojuris.bsky.social
article
@jessicadorsey.bsky.social
@elkeschwarz.bsky.social
@profbode.bsky.social
@ncrenic.bsky.social
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(Ir-)Responsible by Design? Corporate Guardrails and the Governance of Military AI
[Jessica Dorsey is an Assistant Professor of International Law at Utrecht University School of Law; Elke Schwarz is a Professor of Political Theory at Queen Mary University London; Ingvild Bode is …
https://opiniojuris.org/2026/03/02/ir-responsible-by-design-corporate-guardrails-and-the-governance-of-military-ai/
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Art UK
1 day ago
There are thousands of women artists on Art UK, have an explore for #WomensHistoryMonth 👩🎨 Filter artists by gender, discover our A-Z of women artists, or read stories 👉
https://artuk.org/discover/art-terms/women-artists
#WomensHistoryMonth
'Self Portrait' by Barbara Walker (b.1964) © the artist. 📷 Usher Gallery
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Mythic 🦊
3 days ago
Thinking about this quote from Persepolis creator Marjane Satrapi again.
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Syntax
6 days ago
16 developers. 15 minutes. Single elimination. Round 1 begins March 6. Who do you think is taking it all? Fill out your bracket now at
madcss.com
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Lynn Boylan MEP
6 days ago
‘It’s a slap in the face’ – Irish households are paying twice as much for electricity as data centres
www.independent.ie/business/per...
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‘It’s a slap in the face’ – Irish households are paying twice as much for electricity as data centres
Households in Ireland are paying almost twice as much for their electricity as data centres.
https://www.independent.ie/business/personal-finance/its-a-slap-in-the-face-irish-households-are-paying-twice-as-much-for-electricity-as-data-centres/a1352574572.html
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France Culture
6 days ago
Derrière les images majestueuses du film "Le Chant des forêts", un travail discret façonne l’expérience du spectateur. Celui de Marc Namblard, audio-naturaliste "chasseur de sons", qui capte les voix de la forêt comme d’autres composent une musique. ➡️
https://l.franceculture.fr/NgF
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Stef Walter
8 days ago
Little reminder that axe-con, organised by
@deque.com
is this week!! It's a free online, two days (February 24 25) event, with a very nice line up of talks about accessibility and inclusive design. Want to learn about accessibility? Register, check them live, or catch the replays!
#Accessibility
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axe-con Digital Accessibility Conference | Deque
Join us to learn how to build, test, monitor, and maintain digital accessibility. Hosted on February 24-25, 2026, axe-con is completely free and virtual.
https://www.deque.com/axe-con/
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Entire thread is illuminating 👇
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“The game was created by a team from more than 10 African countries.”
www.theguardian.com/games/2026/f...
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Relooted: the South African video game where players take back artefacts from western museums
Creators say they’re offering Africans a ‘hopeful, utopian feeling’ of retrieving objects looted by colonial armies
https://www.theguardian.com/games/2026/feb/21/south-african-video-game-artefacts-western-museums
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Museums Association
12 days ago
Q&A | ‘It was important not to wait for a finished narrative’ Lucy Edematie on Manchester Museum's Africa Hub, a new type of space that exposes the gaps and silences in the museum's own records
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Q&A | 'It was important not to wait for a finished narrative' - Museums Association
Lucy Edematie on Manchester Museum's Africa Hub, a new type of space that exposes the gaps and silences in the museum's own records
https://www.museumsassociation.org/museums-journal/people/2026/02/qa-it-was-important-not-to-wait-for-a-finished-narrative/
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Financial Times
13 days ago
UCL students win £21mn over Covid disruption in watershed settlement
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UCL students win £21mn over Covid disruption in watershed settlement
Move involving 6,500 claimants is set to put pressure on other universities to compensate graduates
https://ft.trib.al/Qy6eVgx
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Al Jazeera English
14 days ago
‘Journey of hell’: Migrants in Libya endure torture, rape, forced labour
https://aje.news/mclg0p
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Most EU governments hate immigration but it’s looking like demographics are going to force them to change their stance. One would hope they won’t want to have policies that promote declining living standards. (Then again, Brexit.)
14 days ago
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🏳️⚧️ Edible Lecter
14 days ago
Rev. Jesse Jackson's "I *am* somebody..." remains one of the all-time great pieces of 20th century rhetoric / agitprop And he could deliver it at a Black separatist meeting, the Democratic National Convention, or on god-blessed Sesame Street (see below 🥹) RIP to the Voice of the Voiceless
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Jim Pickard
15 days ago
Cuts to overseas aid by the UK are set to go further and faster than those made by the Trump administration in the US, as Sir Keir Starmer’s government wrestles with funding pressures
www.ft.com/content/ad52...
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UK overseas aid cuts to outstrip those of Trump administration
Spending will drop 27% this year from 2024 levels to help fund higher defence budget
https://www.ft.com/content/ad52bf6c-e63e-4913-a7be-26d0a5045da0
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Sérgio Gomes
18 days ago
It's been a while since my last blog post, so I made up for it with a wall of text 😅 This article looks at why JS-heavy web apps tend to miss their performance goals over time, what you can do to somewhat mitigate that, and ends with a plea for us to move back to the server, as an industry.
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JS-heavy approaches are not compatible with long-term performance goals
I’m Sérgio, and I work with Web frontend code. Sometimes I write about it here.
https://sgom.es/posts/2026-02-13-js-heavy-approaches-are-not-compatible-with-long-term-performance-goals/
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Spanish gov decision makes so much sense.
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17 days ago
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As expected, the usual far-right nonsense from Rubio in Munich. Let’s see if / when Harris regurgitates it.
17 days ago
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Diane Zorich
17 days ago
The University of Virginia Archival AI Protocol, a practical framework for evaluating AI company requests to use cultural heritage collections as training data.
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Protecting what remains: Introducing the UVA Archival AI Protocol | UVA Library
https://library.virginia.edu/news/2026/protecting-what-remains-introducing-uva-archival-ai-protocol
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👏👏👏
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
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UK ban on Palestine Action unlawful, high court judges rule
Protest group’s co-founder wins legal challenge against decision to proscribe it under anti-terrorism laws
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/feb/13/uk-ban-palestine-action-unlawful-high-court-judges-rule
18 days ago
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Column resizing in Finder rendered useless as element covered by the horizontal scrollbar. How did this UI make it into Apple production?
19 days ago
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Note: As far as I know there’s been silence from EU Olympic athletes regarding the actions of Frontex. Happy if I’m wrong.
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20 days ago
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People often forget how horrifically cruel EU immigration policy is. EU leaders love and lavishly fund Frontex whose infrastructures of inhumanity are often only reported by an intrepid few
@caitlchandler.bsky.social
for
@nytimes.com
:
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/10/m...
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Inside a Detention Site at the Heart of Europe’s Harsh New Approach to Immigration
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/10/magazine/immigration-detention-europe-busmantsi-bulgaria.html?unlocked_article_code=1.LVA.q_hj.NqFNUUfKwETv&smid=nytcore-ios-share
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“Accuracy matters”
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@perfnow.nl
Hey! Is there a timeline to remove 2025 talks from behind the paywall? Maybe after six months? Thanks!
#perfnow
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Rabih Alameddine
21 days ago
Aqa Mirak, Safavid Iran, 1530s: "Two Princes in Love"
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Sara Soueidan
about 1 month ago
We'll be getting multiple outlines in
#CSS
!! Multiple outlines means no more hacking our way around accessible and creative outline styles with box-shadows that aren't rendered in forced-colors mode! 🙌 Finally!! This is such great news!! 🎉🥳
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My server provider has added openclaw and has invited me to deploy it. What could possibly go wrong 😂😂
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This is a great listen 🎧🌳🌻
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26 days ago
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* Closest French naval vessel 'Flamant' failed to respond to the mayday call. * HM Coastguard prematurely terminated their search even though survivors remained in the water. * Geotagged WhatsApp messages from the small boat were not followed up on.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
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Loss of life was avoidable in worst small boat disaster in Channel, inquiry finds
Cranston report highly critical of systemic failings and missed opportunities around deaths of at least 33 people
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/feb/05/cranston-inquiry-worst-small-boat-disaster-channel-report
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In Afghanistan, a Trail of Hunger and Death Behind U.S. Aid Cuts
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/04/world/asia/afghanistan-us-aid-cuts.html?unlocked_article_code=1.JlA.k4by.8WpgcKXYNNle&smid=nytcore-ios-share
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Joan León
2 months ago
Marketing: Hello, Joan! Can we add a short video as a background in the hero component? Me: 🫠
#WebPerf
#Performance
#TrueStories
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“Where’s the cue ball going?” RIP John Virgo
27 days ago
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Would be interesting to read
@molly.wiki
’s take on this. (cf
www.garbageday.email/p/here-s-how...
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27 days ago
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Piccalilli
27 days ago
We've got a real mixed bag for you to tuck into in The Index #161, featuring some very heavy stuff, but some equally delightful stuff. Sponsored by our friends at Web Day Out.
piccalil.li/the-index/161/
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The Index: Issue #161
We've got a real mixed bag for you to tuck into in The Index #161, featuring some very heavy stuff, but some equally delightful stuff. Sponsored by our friends at Web Day Out.
https://piccalil.li/the-index/161/
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The Economist
27 days ago
Elon Musk’s xAI is a cash incinerator: it is reportedly burning through nearly $1bn a month. Mr Musk may thus be eager to use SpaceX to subsidise his chatbot app
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Elon Musk’s mega-merger makes little business sense
The AI economy’s dealmaking keeps getting wilder
https://econ.st/4c9FtEN
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Eryk Salvaggio
28 days ago
The Google AI preview on “Slop Aesthetics” nailed it for me today — then I looked at the citations and realized it was citing three texts from my “Slop Infrastructures” series and my colleague
@heuser.bsky.social
’s excellent paper ⬇️ — but none of it was there when I checked on incognito mode!
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Cultural Collapse: Toward a Generative Formalism for AI Cultural Production
https://anthology.ach.org/volumes/vol0003/cultural-collapse-toward-generative-formalism-for/
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💯 Tim Cook sold Apple's soul: Not that everything was anywhere near perfect before him but the points made are still very valid.
www.loopwerk.io/articles/202...
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Tim Cook sold Apple's soul
Apple used to stand for something. Now Tim Cook gifts golden statues to Trump, removes apps at the administration's request, and cozies up to accused rapists at White House screenings. The company I o...
https://www.loopwerk.io/articles/2026/tim-cook-sold-apples-soul/
28 days ago
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My thanks to
@playingwithdust.bsky.social
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28 days ago
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Transnational Institute
28 days ago
Fascism doesn’t rise by accident: it’s organised through capitalism, fear, and targeted wars on migrants, drugs, and people in poverty. Read our State of Power 2026 opening interview with
@harshawalia.bsky.social
and Alberto Toscano.
www.tni.org/en/article/l...
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I see bets are being taken on when - not if - the AI summary becomes the *default* in Google Search. 👀
28 days ago
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Microsoft "plans to scale back or remove Copilot integrations across built-in apps" in Windows 11:
tech.slashdot.org/story/26/02/...
29 days ago
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4/5 initial applications by people seeking international protection in Ireland are refused. Wow, that's high. "Minister O’Callaghan stated that in 2025, the International Protection Office (IPO) delivered over 20,200 first decisions and the refusal rate was 81.39%."
www.rte.ie/news/ireland...
29 days ago
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Against the expert position of the Law Society of Ireland, the Dept of Justice has suggested the use of chatbots to provide “guidance on legal issues” to people seeking asylum.
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Refugees in Libya
about 1 month ago
OVER 1,000 PEOPLE MISSING IN THE MEDITERRANEAN FOLLOWING CYCLONE HARRY? What We Know — and What Remains Unaccounted For.
www.refugeesinlibya.org/post/over-1-...
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OVER 1,000 PEOPLE MISSING IN THE MEDITERRANEAN FOLLOWING CYCLONE HARRY? What We Know — and What Remains Unaccounted For.
According to information transmitted through official maritime channels, at least 380 people were reported missing at sea as of 24 January, unaccounted for, for up to ten days following departures fro...
https://www.refugeesinlibya.org/post/over-1-000-people-missing-in-the-mediterranean-following-cyclone-harry-what-we-know-and-what-rema
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Add Capgemini to the list of ICE helpers. (Via FT)
about 1 month ago
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HOPE not hate
about 1 month ago
On
#HMD2026
we remember the six million Jews and five million Roma, LGBTQ+. disabled, political opponents and others murdered by the Nazis, alongside victims of subsequent genocides. Prejudice still continues to day within our communities and across the UK.
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Interesting last paragraph in this FT story: Nvidia ‘agreed to buy as much as $6.3bn [until 2032] worth of cloud services from CoreWeave, becoming a backstop for any “residual unsold capacity”’. (1/2)
about 1 month ago
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Solid take on the "Cursor AI builds browser from scratch" story: "When you start believing your own sizzle reel, you stop doing the tedious validation work that separates a demo from a deliverable."
www.theregister.com/2026/01/26/c...
about 1 month ago
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