In a lengthy report, Reuters exposed five years of Meta practices and failures that allowed scammers to take advantage of users of Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp.

Hello, Malta! My first time in your beautiful country and I'm so happy to be here. Looking forward to meeting the writers who will be attending my workshop on Saturday.

Here in Valletta, Malta with @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social and @goblindegook.bsky.social (photo by Luis). Guess which one is me? 😉

Okay, for the folks who asked: here's the majority AI view, writing up the reasonable, thoughtful view on AI that the vast majority of people in tech hold, that gets overshadowed by the bluster and hype of the tycoons trying to shill their nonsense. anildash.com/2025/10/17/t... Please share!

Newsletter: This is The Case Against Generative AI, a comprehensive analysis of a financial collapse built on myths I’ll dispel, the markets’ unhealthy obsession with NVIDIA's growth, and the fact that there is not enough money in the world to fund OpenAI. www.wheresyoured.at/the-case-aga...

Yes, two of my favourite topics combined: cookery and badmouthing Sam Altman.

STAGGERING: This new study of 133 countries is the first to estimate the impact of all USAID’s work. In 2 decades, it has saved *92M* lives. Current cuts, if not reversed, are forecast to cost up to *14M* lives thru 2030. www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

I imagined the Chatsubo in 1984. 41 years later I opened its door. Neuromancer is in production.

I wrote a thing. goblindegook.com/2025/two-day...

Internet users advised to change passwords after 16bn logins exposed

A Brief History of Young People Today Don't Want to Work 🧵

📢 Meetup: Construir blocos com a Interactivity API 🗣 @s3rgiosan.dev 📍 Sede da Eupago, no Porto (Praça Artur Santos Silva, 74) #WordPress

i don’t think i’ve ever missed alt text *because* of this setting. alt text is easy, fun, polite, necessary, &—critically in the age of “govt openly enthusiastic about eugenics & ending accessibility initiatives”—the right thing to do, especially if you’re on bluesky to inform or drive action.

Freedom is when the boss tells you what to write and think. bsky.app/profile/maxt...

Lol John Oliver set up a how-to guide for how to make Meta make less ad $$$ from you. johnoliverwantsyourraterotica.com

The more I think about this, the more it feels like the real trick in Severance is the separation of grievance (the reason to organize) and agency (the ability to organize.) If you can’t remember being exploited were you actually exploited?

Google spent billions of dollars on this shit.

I keep this tweet from @kenwhite.bsky.social at the ready for this very thing.

Trump hated TikTok (because China) until it helped him win an election (as even he acknowledges) and now he’s going to save it and take a victory lap. So he’ll have X, TikTok, Insta, and Facebook all working on his behalf. That’s a big difference between now and 2017.

At Meta, speech is so free it has flown away.

I’ve been a software engineer for almost 20 years and let me tell you: I don’t trust most programmers to write code correctly, with or without AI assistance, let alone do any job outside their field of expertise.

Ann Telnaes, who has worked at The Washington Post as an editorial cartoonist since 2008, says her cartoon criticizing billions currying favor with Trump was spiked — and now she has quit the paper

🛠️ Littlefoot for Footnotes 🔍 @goblindegook.bsky.social maintains littlefoot.js, a lightweight, jQuery-free fork of Bigfoot.js for footnotes. He asked me if I could integrate it with the Footnotes block — so I did! 😃 🌐 github.com/s3rgiosan/littlefoot 🙌 Feedback is welcome! #WordPress #OpenSource

Exceedingly important discovery: Ikea Kallax shelves are exactly two LEGO studs wide. A simple bracket shape like this will stay in place without any support.