HPC Carpentry @hpc-carpentry.bsky.social will become the latest Lesson Program of The Carpentries @hpc-carpentry.bsky.social in September 2026 🎉 They join our existing lesson programs: Data Carpentry, Library Carpentry, and Software Carpentry. carpentries.org/blog/2026/02...

Running a workshop in times of the war: report about the first @carpentries.carpentries.org workshop in Ukraine olexandr-konovalov.github.io/posts/2026/0...

"I'm an AI developer" job search messages are fast becoming the new 419 scam emails.

Short musings on "cognitive debt" - I'm seeing this in my own work, where excessive unreviewed AI-generated code leads me to lose a firm mental model of what I've built, which then makes it harder to confidently make future decisions simonwillison.net/2026/Feb/15/...

Over on threads someone just use ai;dr and we all need to adopt that right quick

My doomer-worry about AI is not that the LLMs become omnipotent and take over the world but that the wealthy and powerful use it as a means to consolidate power and marginalize or lay off skilled workers and also everything about our technological and political and social life gets worse

Microsoft, Google, Meta and Amazon paying influencers $400k-$600k to post months of AI hype content. Absolutely busted, failed industry, embarrassing era www.cnbc.com/2026/02/06/g...

Infosec used to be serious

I think it's best for everyone to understand that the unified class project of billionaires right now is to do to white collar workers what globalization and neoliberalism did to blue collar workers.

Auschwitz was at the end of a process. We must remember that it did not start from gas chambers. This hatred gradually developed: from ideas, words, stereotypes & prejudice through legal exclusion, dehumanization & escalating violence... to systematic and industrial murder. Auschwitz took time.

🟥 We are pleased to announce that the call for Expressions of Interest (EoIs) for Round 2 of the Research Software Maintenance Fund is now open until 25 February 2026, 16:00 GMT. Find out more at www.software.ac.uk/news/rsmf-ro...

UK government teaming up with Meta is looking great.

Dave Matthews and Tim Ryenolds playing Neil Young’s Ohio last night and ends with some Rage Against the Machine.

Really interesting thread!

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I'm starting my next book which is set to be released in 2030. "How to write and deploy software without prompts"

Open AI loses copyright case in Germany. Judge Elke Schwager summarized the case saying that if you want to build something and need components, "then you purchase them and do not use the property of others."

“Women and girls are far more reluctant to use AI. This should be no surprise to any of us. Women don’t see this as exciting new technology, but as simply new ways to harass and abuse us and try and push us offline.”

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The main goal of capitalist LLM use is to take the work of others and pass it off as their own because "meritocracy" and "productivity".

Last 2025 post, on @python.org & @carpentries.carpentries.org values, a great @posit.co conf session feat @mchow.com @richmeister.bsky.social @davisvaughan.bsky.social, the magic of #rstats #python dev cultures sharing best practices, and random #rstats history www.emilyriederer.com/post/py-rgo-...

“Uruguay did what most nations still call impossible: it built a power grid that runs almost entirely on renewables—at half the cost of fossil fuels. The physicist who led that transformation says the same playbook could work anywhere—if governments have the courage to change the rules.”

I call on my party and my government to remove themselves entirely from X and communicate with the public where they actually participate online and can be protected from such illegality.

A great opportunity at a fantastic and supportive research institution

Anyone still running an account on X is now complicit in normalising Elon Musk's Sexual Abuse Website.

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

One of the failure points we see continuously is that to a lot of people, reasonable sounding text feels miraculous enough to seem like a stand in for “intelligence”, so they re define intelligence to suit their awe of LLM output.

Teach like a Luddite! In which I join @philnichols.bsky.social and @anterobot.bsky.social to argue for a Luddite praxis in education grounded in three elements: embracing strategic playfulness; developing localized tactics; and building networks of resistance. Read the article at Kappan:

<Tech bro> of <AI company> valued at <"billions of dollars"> admits <thing that they sell> makes <another thing> vastly worse. timesofindia.indiatimes.com/technology/t...

Imagine a car maker who says they aren't responsible for their product despite the brakes only working when turning right at precisely 27 miles an hour and sometimes steering into trees all by itself.

Funny how arguably the most useful technologies to us as humanity right now (nuclear and GMO) have been routinely vilified by the Guardian, and yet they release this kind of drivel.

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Love this short opinion piece on “mechanical bypass” in analogy to “spiritual bypass”.

The fact is no presenter has ever had to leave the BBC for expressing conservative views, or even explicitly endorsing a right-wing party. Was never a problem for Jeremy Clarkson. Was never a problem for Andrew Neil. Was never a problem for Alan Sugar

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Literally anything else more effective than AI for learning www.cambridge.org/news-and-ins...

Get this: Coffee suppressed atrial fibrillation! Unexpected results for recurrence from a randomized trial in participants after cardioversion from AF #AHA25 @jama.com jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

Six people died from tampered Tylenol and the company pulled 30 million bottles off the market. ChatGPT is accused of urging seven people towards suicide, and OpenAI just assures us they’re still working out the kinks. Billions in investment, zero accountability.

I've created a calculator that gives you the right answer 80% of the time and I believe it will change the world

And that's important, because she was a working scientist with agency of her own and she collaborated willingly with so much more of that work than is usually mentioned. Both by Watson AND his critics. Franklin was a great scientist. Don't sell her short.

Watson’s death is a fantastic reminder that you can be intelligent without being a good person.

Thinking only of Rosalind Franklin today, and what was stolen from her (and so many other female scientists alongside her).

Instead of "complicated" you can just say "racist". It isn't hard.

James Watson, purveyor of problematic racism and bigotry conveniently forgotten for a period of mourning, dead at 97 following a long career admittedly made possible by manwashing Franklin's work. Got it. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/07/s...

The faculty who say we should use AI to grade/give feedback because it's a way for us to "reclaim our time." Line in the sand. It isn't our time. It's theirs. If you have such little respect for your students and their time, quit. Disrespectfully, the rest of us.

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