An EU based social network called W, built on ATProto (and initially a fork of Bluesky?)… cybernews.com/tech/europe-...

A great article about the EU digital fairness act on addictive design and the big tech industry’s 900 Brussels-based lobbyists fighting against it. corporateeurope.org/en/2026/02/a...

i'm sorry that happened to your bite coins :(

"I am my own original sin. One someone is always willing to forgive. Until enough of you demand that I be better."

The real world of being a software engineer and working as part of a team. These are some valuable lessons. 21 Lessons From 14 Years at Google - addyosmani.com/blog/21-less...

call me crazy but it really feels like “World’s Richest Man Creates AI Chatbot That Generates Child Porn” would’ve been a huge international outrage requiring a governmental crackdown not even 24 months ago

Hi, I’m lymphoma.

some things i’m taking into the new year.

please let “bugs bunnying” become the slang for manipulating an LLM into ignoring its guardrails, i have never seen a more succinct and evocative term for it

CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1965: 20-1 CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1990: 75-1 CEO-to-worker pay ratio today: 280-to-1 Trickle-down economics was always a sham. Nothing has ever trickled down.

Me using a vibe-coded UI:

Anyone wanna buy Jello Biafra's '89 Toyota Celica? 212k miles, runs fine.

Behavioural sink, quite fascinating. www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/t...

Wordle 1,635 4/6* ⬛⬛🟩⬛⬛ 🟨⬛🟩⬛🟨 ⬛🟩🟩🟩⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Look at the symmetry.

Endless Spite 2 fest. Onlooker (from Teeside) “Don’t be a flag fucker” — Onlooker “I think he’s the greatest frontman I’ve ever seen” — Carl Glover.

Endless Spite 2 fest. Fast Blood (from Newcastle)

Endless Spite 2 fest. Hidden Youth (from Leeds)

This never fails to make me laugh lol

Well this blows my tiny mind. How? How‽ youtu.be/qlrpeYdm9Ec?... Now heading down a beatbox 🐰🕳️

Or is it. I’m going to Endless Spite festival later - yorkshire-gig-guide.com/news/endless... I can post a few shots. Check out Onlooker, from teeside, they’re awesome live.

That’s your lot.

I’m also really interested in Authentication Transfer Protocol (ATP) and have been working on understanding it in my free time. I’ve got authentication working and I can post to both Bluesky and other schemas. I’m now thinking about designing the schema I need for the app I am working on.

Maybe I’ll write more things here. Maybe. I’m getting better at chess.

“Because at the end of it all, when the curtain falls and the seats are empty — it’s just you. So live for yourself. You only have you.” — letters from rosie

Hello whirled. This is a test post from my ATP app

Sandwich man leaving court

Was this the best use of my time today? No. Is it the most amusing way I could have spent the last 90 minutes? Absolutely. Pattern is free here: bit.ly/4nGGCGc

A fantastic piece on how the open philosophy of the web has been eroded and what we can do about it.

Its more of a saxophone solo than a question really

This is owned by a LANlord

GitHub advocating for a European Sovereign Tech Fund to ensure critical open source software is funded and maintained. github.blog/open-source/...

I kinda think the way people use ChatGPT is sort of aspirational because it seems to emulate the way rich people have sycophants lying to them all the time until they lose touch with reality and also their entire minds

Artist Marcel Duchamp poseswith his "readymade" sculpture Bicycle Wheel #BicycleBirthday July 28 (1887-1968)

Carol Moseley Braun, first black female senator: ’Sexism is harder to change than racism’

We don’t talk often enough about the Superman issue where, fed up with pedestrian deaths from car collisions, he sets out to try and destroy every car in the city.

Top tip. If you’ve got those little black flies in your houseplant soil pop some spiders in for a buffet. It seems to have cleared the problem up.

STOP USING AI FOR ALT TEXT. THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER.

this is the "utility" yall are defending. this is what's worth the accelerated heat death of the planet and the suffering of humanity. there's a heat dome over 80% of the us, with wet bulb temps over 100F, and electric companies are raising rates 2-3x/year for data centers btw.

I saw David Gest in Kings Cross station struggling to get his ticket to open the barrier. He looked at me, I looked at him, then gave him a little nod of recognition. The barrier opened and he ran for his train.

Study on London 20 mph limits shows: - collisions ⬇️ 35% - casualties ⬇️ 36% - fatal/serious injuries ⬇️ 34% - child casualties ⬇️ 46% - child deaths ⬇️ 75% - walkers, cyclists, motorcyclists killed/seriously injured ⬇️ 28% etsc.eu/20mph-limits...

I'm biased, but this report is a must-read for anyone looking to understand the state of AI in 2025. It explains how AI is entrenching power for big tech and the oligarch class, speeding deregulation, dislodging human expertise and threatening workers—and how there's still time to refuse all that.

A reminder of how these assholes behaved when we stole THEIR shit. They came for kids’ MP3s. House raids. Absolute terror. So no, we’re not gonna let you steal OUR shit.

🔗 “Our brains, evolved for tribal politics and campfire stories, are ill-equipped for the moral ambiguity of a system with no soul to save or damn.” —Tina He on how AI dehumanises us, it doesn't know what it's doing, drawing a parallel with Arendt's banality of evil substack.com/home/post/p-...

Glad to feature interviews with the engineer John Paul Peters, vocalist/guitarist Chris Hannah of @propagandhi.com, and mixing and mastering engineer Jason Livermore from The Blasting Rom!

@gregsoden.bsky.social thanks for the Making of At Peace podcast. Today is an exciting day!

our new "At Peace" LP comes out this Friday. Here's a track from it called "No Longer Young". Yes yes we know...file under "no shit Sherlock" etc etc . youtu.be/YxRchr2Tm3k

No, very much the opposite. We should be supporting and encouraging cycling, not putting barriers in the way, and not supporting a false narrative about who is to blame for the problems on the roads.