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=...

“It actually doesn’t take much to be considered a difficult woman. That’s why there are so many of us.” ― Jane Goodall 💙 RIP to a real one. My childhood hero

Portland is not "war ravaged." This is delusional and dangerous. Sending troops into American cities doesn't make our communities safer — it just stokes fear and stirs up chaos. Trump is plunging further into authoritarianism every single day.

If you would like to volunteer for PEPR (THE Privacy engineering conference) next year please see: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Imagenes aéreas de los incendios: es.greenpeace.org/es/noticias/...

What a great bio @rude1.blacksky.team has: “move fast and break chains”

Subscribe to 404 media, they do amazing work: www.404media.co/r/68abf93a?m...

$100K/year per worker for H-1B visas is practically a death knell for the program. This will create a significant wave of outsourcing and will hurt local economies dependent on tech workers. If you paid me to sabotage America’s economy, I couldn’t do a better job than the Trump administration.

Data & Privacy jobs at Netflix: explore.jobs.netflix.net/careers?quer...

North Korean operatives that do not know the next thing about programming pass technical interviews at well paying tech companies using claude code (page 11) www-cdn.anthropic.com/b2a76c6f6992...

Queda un mes para que se vote en la comisión ChatControl, que es la violación de privacidad más grande de un un país (o alianza de, en este caso) democrático España está a favor, montado ruido, contactad a vuestros representantes fightchatcontrol.eu

Cuando Vox vota en contra de la ley para reconocer la figura del bombero como empleado público: www.eldiario.es/castilla-y-l...

Este es el mismo señor que tampoco fue responsable de ignorar los avisos de AEMET en 2022 justo antes de que empezara el incendio de la sierra de la culebra

Hasta cuando?

Que el incendio de sanabria esté activo despues de casi 2 semanas es llorar

Asociación de afectados por los incendios de la sierra de la culebra. Hazte socio y dales voz: www.laculebranosecalla.es/registro/

Necesitamos un plan forestal diseñado a medias entre la gentes de los pueblos de castilla e ingenieros de montes. El incendio de la sierra de la culebra del 2022 debería haber sido el ultimo.

El presidente de la diputación de zamora pasando sus vacaciones haciendo de bombero. De verdad. www.eldiario.es/castilla-y-l...

Lo que yo quiero saber es lo que vamos a hacer para que no se queme el monte en el 2026. Hay problemas en el mundo muy difíciles de resolver. Este no lo es.

And this why the onion is going out of business

Los piromanos deberían tener una sentencia tan larga como lo que tarde el bosque en regenerarse.

So.close.to.magic

5 rules for faster SQL: www.tinybird.co/blog-posts/5...

“A man used to have just body and soul. Now he needs a passport too or else he would not be treated as a man”

On hype, tech & valuations

Subscribe to wired, they do such good work

Leading news outlets call on Israel to allow foreign press into Gaza, say their journalists there are starving www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_ent...