Somewhere in your business right now, someone is assembling a picture that no single app can provide. It may be the project manager pulling hours from Harvest and budget data from the finance tool to…

On Tuesday nights, in a room we didn’t pay for, I watched a dozen people give away the most valuable thing they had. They were software engineers, data scientists and one patient designer. Most of…

When Gi from Python Singapore invited me to speak at PyCon Singapore, I decided it was time to explain why I had left. The talk was called So Kiasu, Still Kena Replaced by AI. It is a very…

‘For he who leads the contemplative life cannot help influencing the active ... Philosophical and psychological theories, historical doctrines and all sorts of speculations and discoveries, have…

So obviously AI is extremely evil and the boys over in silicon valley are wetting themselves over their fantasies of destroying the world via sentient computers and how they'll be part of the…

We’ve been covering the story of how a single phone call between two drama queen grown men - Josh Johnson and Officer Tonga of the American Fork Police Department - somehow escalated into a worldwide…

“AI” turns every conversation into a fight, because fighting is what they are good at.

White Supremacy Is Monetized in America. The Receipts Are Overwhelming.A woman walks into a public store, tells two Muslim customers they are not welcome in “a Christian country,” gets…

On World Whistleblower Day, Transparency International Italy officially launched the House of Whistleblowers, a new initiative designed to provide guidance, information, and support to individuals…

The author reflects on a lesson learned during their early career at American Airlines, emphasizing the paramount importance of passenger safety over profits. They contrast this with experiences in…

It would appear that, with AI, everyone is trying to go for the moonshot, the magical combination of elements that will make code write itself autonomously, reliably, sustainably and, more than…

Diane spent thirty years flying into hospitals at 2 a.m. to retrieve organs from the newly dead. Now retired, she has one last delivery to make: the advice nobody gave her. Don't wait until you're…

Two men pleaded guilty in the United Kingdom this week to criminal charges stemming from an August 2024 cyberattack that crippled Transport for London, the entity responsible for the public transport…

The first chapter contains some factual errors which, while superficial, hurt the credibility of the text. Later, we see Paul Allen’s name mangled. The author was a New Yorker writer, but the…

child labourers, Pennsylvania, 1910, photo by Lewis Hine in the National Archives A couple of people have asked me, after I’d written several times about what I call the…

Anyone following developments at NIH will be familiar with a new category for disposition of grant proposals following initial review: CND, competitive not discussed. (Flashback for GenXers like me:…

A generational opportunity to bridge the digital divide was hijacked by Republicans and converted into a giant slush fund for the country's richest technofascists.

“Children derail academic careers even in places with good social nets, like Denmark,” social scientist Misha Teplitskiy of the University of Michigan posted recently on X. Teplitskiy was summarizing…

Signals are the new black I had the pleasure of attending my first LSSO – Raindance Conference a few weeks ago where at least a half dozen times (I honestly lost count) presenters talked about…

They rate limit requests coming from Openclaw or Hermes aka every harness which is not “approved”. You pay a huge price and they think they can dictate which harness you’re supposed…

I recently saw this video where Anna Stansbury, an assistant professor at MIT, explains that people who grew up in poverty end up earning less than their more affluent peers, even when they attended…

The predictability of a post-1950s subdivision in most of suburban America almost renders it impervious to analysis.  After all, there’s nothing exotic about a middle-class home with 3-4…

Pastors need AI that pauses for theological judgment, not autopilot content that outruns discernment and pastoral care.

Yesterday, I wrote about how I’m fed up having AI everywhere. That’s also the case in work’s email. We use Gmail for work 🤯. Here’s a screenshot of one email thread: Gmail UI…

The Elon Musks of the world abuse #sf, #AI companies push eerie next-word predictors into our lives, and prediction markets accelerate corruption. So…, how about reclaiming the format of…

To XPUB Dear Daring Adventurer, by receiving this Fediverse challenge coin, you hereby join the Fediverse Rebel Alliance. As you may notice, this coin has identical sides, unlike military-inspired…

What we covered:– It's been a few months since our last podcast, and in that time, we've seen a huge increase in the number of schools wanting to use Math Academy for this upcoming school year.– Now,…

How to protest slop grenades without getting shanked.

Most stories miss the most critical part of FortiBleed - the firewall wasn't the destination and it wasn't a breach. Attackers are targeting inside the network, capturing creds, exfiltrating data;…

[basierend auf einem Mastodon-Thread ] Wir haben im März 2025 die Gasheizung abgeschaltet. Seitdem - also seit mehr als einem Jahr - heizen und kühlen wir das Haus mit Klimageräten, also…

A day of events organised by the Transformative Justice Collective this weekend!

Whether you like to click around and explore apps on your own, or you prefer getting a tailor-made system ready to go — this episode is for you. Today, we break down 3 starting paths with Nozbe that…

tag(s): #books #pic #link-post Remember when I mentioned I was behind on my RSS feeds? Well, almost a month ago, Nathan posted about his (mis)adventures getting libraries cards in different counties.…

1Password Chrome Extension reveals private keys to 1Password's DOM, and used to do the same on third-party sites

Standardization is the art of getting a room full of people (with competing interests) to agree. Everyone has different viewpoints, of course. Some people also have different motivations. Perhaps…

There have been gleefully apocalyptical headlines about AI replacing people in all kinds of jobs for a couple of years. Recently though, a specific threat to those people building and integrating AI…

streaming "services" will always find a way to screw you

The “cloud” sounds lighter than air, but data centers have a huge environmental impact - starting with the wasteful mining of resources like lithium, copper, and water. Irish technologist and writer…

Evoking versus infringing, and a helluva case for originality clearance. I caught this one in Aaron Moss’s Copyright Lately newsletter, (link to sign up), where he flagged it among four suits…

SpaceX stock has sagged a bit since its early peak, but that's not why Musk isn't a trillionaire. Market cap, as I have noted time and time again, is just eye-candy bullshit . Financial news sources…

No AI was used in writing this post.If academia was a game, I've won it. Tenure, an endowed research chair, awards, leadership positions, an international journal I helped to found and now serve…

Discover why Second Life's focus on profit is killing its community spirit.

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Canícula, the “dog days of summer”, uses the physical and psychological strain of extreme heat as a metaphor for overwhelming conditions that threaten societal collapse amid excess and polycrisis

“Community comes at the cost of convienence” is a great line. Got that quote from an interview with Brennan Lee Mulligan. People want convienence and without knowing it, they gave up what…

Blog post: https://www.davidrevoy.com/article1154/why-drawing-tablet-brands-wont-collaborate-on-linux-floss-drivers

A weekend that started with a grep.app search for leaked password prefixes and ended in a 16-actor Chinese reward-farming (薅羊毛) ecosystem: its script DRM, its C2, its credential theft, and the civic…

I think we have come to the realization as a whole, slowly but steadily, that attention itself has become extremely vacuous. What does a million views mean? It used to mean something. It used to, to…

Visiting Charlotte Museum, the world's only museum focused on lesbians, and some thoughts on how the internet has affected LGBT culture.

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