“Sam Altman sounds like Neo was the bad guy in the Matrix” …jajaja ayayay, via the @thebulwark.com

“When the great breakthroughs of science followed one after the other so rapidly, there wasn’t time to take stock, to ask the sensible questions” (never let me go, kazuko ishiguro)

Me encanta este coworking donde no se oye la palabra pipeline y los que trabajan detrás tienen una fruteria. Los de al lao una empresa de limpieza.

Boring software foreverrrr

Wikipedia receives hundreds of legal demands every year to remove user-written content. Almost all are rejected. We spoke with Wikimedia’s legal team about how Section 230 helps protect volunteer editors and public knowledge. www.eff.org/pages/inter...

We have now reached Orwellian levels of denial.

Subscribe to @404media.co they do amazing work exploring how technology, bigtech, data brokers, AI, consumer rights, privacy and the internets interact.

Este video es LO MAS

El website de renfe, cuando crees que no se puede hacer peor pues SI SE PUEDE!

With all that is going on I missed the US left the world heath organization?

No comments finance.yahoo.com/news/openai-...

You simply cannot on one hand claim to be serving the country and trying to make it safer for its citizens and on the other hand shoot its citizens for exercising their Constitutional Rights. Credibility and trust are non-existent. The agency has lost legitimacy. Absolute and total failure!

The data breach to end all data breaches, 2 billion records: www.ibm.com/think/news/n...

International workshop on Privacy Engineering in Lisbon in July: www.iwpe.info/index.html

Wikipedia’s 25th year anniversary: wikimediafoundation.org/wikipedia25/

Everybody thinks 'https://' stands for 'hypertext transfer protocol secure' but it actually stands for 'head to this place, sucka' followed by a colon and two laser sounds

Restroom safety w/o cameras: www.ces.tech/ces-innovati...

What EU doing?

Classify sensitive data without seeing it: www.ethyca.com/news/enginee...

What! Warp drives science is a real thing! From NASA: m.youtube.com/watch?v=Xohh...

It’s not about drugs. If it was, Trump wouldn’t have pardoned one of the largest narco traffickers in the world last month. It’s about oil and regime change. And they need a trial now to pretend that it isn’t. Especially to distract from his sinking under Epstein and skyrocketing healthcare costs.

Python numbers every programmer should know: mkennedy.codes/posts/python...

When we can no longer use wassup because of “helpful AI features” is going to be sad.

Talk to the city, an open source AI tool for public discussion that preserves individual voices: talktothe.city

Seeing this bubble grow from the front row and yelling into the void as we head towards 2008 part deux is making me lose my mind.

Goodness to come: anonymized chat logs from ChatGPT on their court fight with NYT. www.reuters.com/legal/govern...

Skynet: www.aboutamazon.com/news/company...

How the climate denying crowd follows the playbook of tobacco companies in the 60s and 70s, deny everything and fund the ‘science’ you like” (plus many other great points): youtu.be/15hg1qD1FQ8?...

reminder: buynothingproject.org may be the antidote to some of your Xmas consumerism blues. I am currently regifting (after several years of love) a stuffed 🦒 go.buynothingapp.com/links/s/c5a2...

La madurez es que se te cuele la típica señora en la carnicería y que te de igual

App stores and government censorship: www.aclu.org/news/free-sp...

Deep dive into memoization and deep learning: blog.kjamistan.com/a-deep-dive-...

Great high level explanation of how the attention mechanism works in LLMs: blog.kjamistan.com/how-memoriza...

Wikipedia is hiring a DBA for those dbs that hold critical knowledge in 150+ languages: job-boards.greenhouse.io/wikimedia/jo...

Netflix engineering culture explained by the CTO: youtu.be/sAp9RjO79cU?...

Verguenza total

#MozFest folks! I'll be on the Main Stage at 4 PM today, in conversation with @signal.org's Udbhav Tiwari and @mozilla.org's Lauren Hendry Parsons talking about Unlearning Privacy.

“Reduce operational friction for your current and vacation self”

“We and our 940 partners really care about your privacy”

Saving water with technology. Algorithms to detect water leaks: aganova.com

Las fiscalia investigarà al presidente de la junta de castilla y leon por los incendios de este verano, siguiendo la denuncia de la asociaciòn “Bierzo Aire Limpio”. elpais.com/espana/2025-...

The future is here

The Python Software Foundation was recommended for a $1.5M grant from the National Science Foundation. The terms of the award said PSF could not work on DEI, whether or not the grant funding was used for it. PSF therefore declined the funding. Science suffers, but commitment to core values remains

Aws outage but, hey, no worries cause you can still read #wikipedia cause it is unaffected and this is not by chance.

The U.S. spending $20B to bail out Argentina seems completely random until you find out that hedge fund billionaires bet on their right wing government’s doomed economic plan and could lose a lot of money. So this is actually a U.S. hedge fund bailout which explains why Trump cares.

Mozilla Festival in Barcelona in November, so many good speakers: www.mozillafestival.org/en/speakers/

Cassandra analytics, OS (from Apple!) to dump data from cassandra to Iceberg and others: github.com/apache/cassa...

Neflix’s 2026 software engineer intern role is up (come and see what Netflix is all about for 12 weeks): explore.jobs.netflix.net/careers?pid=...