Давате ли си сметка за каква апатия става дума, след като в Италия путинистите обясняват, че правителството в България е паднало заради протести срещу еврото...

What does it tell us that AI scrapers are ignoring the more intelligent way of scraping data despite all the indications towards it? https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2025/12/stop-crawling-my-html-you-dickheads-use-the-api/ I don't think the answer is a statement about AI, but about the people behind it?

Planning a visit to the USA just so somebody has to read my posts

I have no idea if banning children from ads-driven social networks is the right thing, but certainly gives us the arguments to try to keep our children off these toxic networks for as long as possible […]

... asked children from two suburbs to draw maps of their neighborhoods. The first group from a community with heavy traffic and little bike infrastructure created maps dominated by red and orange, colors that Appleyard asked the children to use to indicate zones of danger or dislike. The second […]

"The results speak for themselves. Today, Uruguay produces nearly 99% of its electricity from renewable sources, with only a small fraction—roughly 1%–3%—coming from flexible thermal plants, such as those powered by natural gas. They are used only when hydroelectric power cannot fully cover […]

Almost 75% of the UK population supports restricting access of minors to commercial social media. With the amount of crappy ads being pushed who would blame them? Then there are all the other less directly visible problems […]

I'm fortunate enough to be here with the popcorn, but this is some of the wildest market manipulations I've ever heard of https://www.mooreslawisdead.com/post/sam-altman-s-dirty-dram-deal

This is as valid in America, as it is in Eastern Europe and anywhere else: "It’s important to understand that corruption impacts people at all levels of government. Our payoffs included local police and other people in the community, up to higher-positioned people in government. Lots of that […]

Anyone unconvinced of the power of protest need look no further than Bulgaria for proof of the change people on the streets can bring. Rattled by the sheer size of the protests, on December 2 the ruling coalition of GERB populists, pro-Russian Socialists and nationalist There’s Such a People – […]

This article suggests that research in 3D rendering contributed to machine- assisted assassinations of children in Gaza. It is a topic very close to my heart. When I was starting my academic career at the dept. of Digital Storytelling of ZGDV in Darmstadt, Germany, I took a lot of inspiration […]

Some interesting insights how making drivers pay more for their cars indirectly results in everyone losing less time and ultimately becoming wealthier. https://theconversation.com/how-the-uks-dependency-on-cars-slows-down-the-economy-270393 The article is about the UK, but its consequences for […]

Lots of detail here, down to the level of which models are used more for programming (Anthropic) or for roleplay (DeepSeek).

Доживяхме и бюлетина на радио Хр. Ботев да влезе във феди https://masto.bg/@danube

Some great photo in here, but this is still my favorite.

Честно казано, отначало не очаквах да съберем 50 активни потребители, предвид че сме ограничени само с профилите на мастодон. На прима виста изглежда, че само бриджнатите от блускай са поне двойно. https://fedidevs.com/s/NjIw/

Fascinating that AI can produce language, but even more so that language can produce AI...

The story of Spain's #podemos from within. I do believe that anyone interested in politics, the way it is made today, should read this account. It has so much in common with Italy's #m5s, Germany's #piratenpartei and probably dozens of other movements in Europe and across the world that have […]

По-скъпо но паркиране е стъпка в правилната посока "Според решението на СОС част от [средствата от платеното паркиране] ще се връщат обратно в кварталите със [зониране] и ще отиват за благоустройствени проекти, предложени от районните кметове. Става въпрос основно за облагородяване на места за […]

Everyone with ambitions in politics should rewatch this periodically https://youtube.com/watch?v=rStL7niR7gs

Nice! @JoinFediverseWiki has a collection of onboarding resources for the fediverse, and we're all invited to contribute! https://joinfediverse.wiki/Fediverse_onboarding_resources Original call to action, in German: https://social.biblioco.de/objects/66fc0b30-8b67-4ae5-8c20-bdd957d10843 […]

I dislike the term “AI” too, but it’s well rooted at this point. We’re more likely to change assumptions about AI than to replace the term. And the dichotomy between “machine learning” and “LLMs” being proposed as a substitute would actually be worse; it doesn’t identify a real difference. +

#GeorgiaProtests Day 357! ✊🏻🇬🇪🇪🇺 #Resistance 📸 @protest24.bsky.social

My personal heroes and projects I admire are @signalapp @Mer__edith @torproject @gnome @thunderbird @ryanleesipes . I’d much rather have Mastodon be inspired by the contributions of these people and projects to the FOSS and non-profit technology world than trying to rebuild early Twitter. (5/13)

Day 354 of #GeorgiaProtests ✊🏻🇬🇪🇪🇺 🎥 Mo Se

Бонев за рекета между институциите ...министерства, съдилища и други държавни институции са заграбили незаконно поне 1000 места за паркиране в центъра. "Парламентът, прокуратурата, съдилищата си направиха абсолютно незаконни зони за охрана и заеха стотици паркоместа", посочи Бонев. Допълни, че […]

Never forget, car dependency is the opposite of freedom. What’s more “free” than cars, you ask? Choices.

The Tech Review article mentioned by @kissane is worth reading in its entirety: It outlines how many clickbait actors spread dangerous misinformation and fake news not so much out of malicious intent but entirely from a banal profit motive. (Of course there are propaganda actors too who use […]

"Does the leadership at my company promote a xenophobic agenda and use the wealth I help them acquire to donate directly to bigoted causes and politicians I find despicable? Yeah, sure. Did I celebrate my last birthday at Drag Brunch? Also yes." […]

Остават ни още трима участници, за да стигнем 50 пофила в бългаския стартер пакет за мастодон: https://fedidevs.com/s/NjIw/

Прелистената страница Пеехме в захлас „Комунизмът си отива“, но не извършихме реална декомунизация, не направихме лустрация. Сега като гледаме назад, това не е и могло да се случи, тъй като нашата революция беше извършена не от нас, гражданите, а от тогавашните управляващи. Ние играехме – с […]

Defining fun, toys and games ♥️ https://www.raphkoster.com/2025/11/03/game-design-is-simple-actually/

Simply not compatible with their optimisation function This loop explains well why commercial algorithms are incompatible with creativity. "According to this employee, Spotify leadership didn’t see themselves as a music company, but as a time filler. The employee explained that, “the vast […]

This piece is as good as people say it is. Read it to appreciate that writing isn't just about content, but style. AI can't do this. https://lithub.com/maybe-dont-talk-to-the-new-york-times-about-zohran-mamdani/

dream-logic is more powerful than logic-logic and oral cultures must encode knowledge into powerful meme-spells newsletter.squishy.computer/p/llms-and-h...

Meta is in the scam business. According to an internal assessment, 10% of its mind-blowing revenue is generated by scam. As a consequence, Meta actually promotes such content, charging it a higher rate, until a high-profile authority draws attention to it […]

Please take a minute to scroll through this—and share it. It's the story of our time. The Authoritarian Stack: How Tech Billionaires Are Building a Post-Democratic American—And Why Europe Is Next. www.authoritarian-stack.info

Nelle maggiori città del mondo stanno aumentando sensibilmente le persone che usano le bici per spostarsi. Nonostante l’insofferenza degli automobilisti e le paure dei pedoni.

You have an PhD in #digitalhumanities and have plans continuing research in this field? 6-years #postdoc position #UniGraz in the Departement of Digital Humanities #dhgraz available! #jobs submission deadline: 8.12.2025 more info at […]

WSL2 Is now open source I take my words back. There's at least one good thing that came out of Microsoft, and it is now open source https://thenewstack.io/linux-microsoft-wsls-decade-long-journey-to-open-source/ @libre

On 31 March 2026, University College London will be hosting a Festschrift Symposium for Professor M. Angela Sasse, to recognise and celebrate her contributions to the field of Computer Science and human-centred security specifically. We are seeking scientific contributions to a volume that will […]

I was sceptical about what strikes could achieve to stop Israel's violence, but I've witnessed the impact of the strikes in Italy. They could paralyse governments that willfully ignore reality […]

That's an extremely clever idea: "she tries to reduce the time she spends online by keeping her screens in grayscale..." https://english.elpais.com/technology/2025-11-02/audrey-tang-hacker-and-taiwanese-digital-minister-ai-is-a-parasite-that-fosters-polarization.html

Manufacturer issues remote kill command to disable smart vacuum after engineer blocks it from collecting data — user revives it with custom hardware and Python scripts to run offline […]