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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.” www.theguardian.com/books/2026/j...

I thought the UK’s 4-years for disrupting traffic was bad but this is another level.

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.

Thomas House of Dublin exhibiting the pro-human solidarity that all of us should demonstrate.

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 🎉.

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. giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

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/

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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The Sprotta hand axe is a #Neanderthal 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

"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"

Drones killing people without any human oversight: "fully autonomous drones set to destroy anything in a given area". www.newscientist.com/article/2529...

When grep beats vector retrieval 😂 arxiv.org/abs/2605.15184

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!

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. giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

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.

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!

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.

“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..." fnl.mit.edu/may-june-202...

A reminder that The Broken Machine is available open access through @mitpress.bsky.social Direct to Open platform. You can access it here: direct.mit.edu/books/oa-mon.... #sts #histtech #histsci

This article in The Journal remains the best piece telling this story by just setting out the numbers. www.thejournal.ie/snapshot-of-...

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.

But as a gov, let’s do next to nothing to address the climate crisis.

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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.“

Fashion designer Jeremy Scott delivers commencement speech to Kansas City Art Institute graduates. Wait for it…

"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."

“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 giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

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)

Woooo yeaaah! The missing piece 🎉 everything is about to get a lot more secure

“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.” www.wired.me/story/palest...

The video is shocking. “Nobody deserves to die for being suspected of shoplifting.”

President Connolly’s sister among Irish activists detained by Israel after Gaza flotilla intercepted jrnl.ie/7043338

Good to see this published as we see the impacts of regcap all around us.

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.

The chickens coming home to roost for the US gov. Sad to see.

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 😂). 👏👏

Sad to hear Mick Lynch parroting right-wing points on immigration and being completely misinformed on the Irish situation: hopeandcourage.ie/ireland-in-f...

Great discussion. Thanks to all the speakers and organisers for a very informative evening.

“What happens to the history of #AIDS activism when the art it inspired becomes a hot commodity?” asks Millie Brown-Ewens: www.theartjournal.com/articles/aid...

This started as humour. Now I'm not certain.

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

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.

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. 👇

🇬🇷☀️ 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 🔋💚

“It is not yet clear if the police will face proceedings for false testimony”

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!

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-...

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)