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I have always felt like "tl;dr" is rude, a rejection of nuance and actually sitting with an idea for a little while, but "ai;dr" really channels that rudeness in an appropriate direction.
(Citing https://bsky.app/profile/katemckean.bsky.social/post/3memb4hybpk2u because that's as close as I can get to a source, but I wish folks would not say that something was "on Threads" or "on the Internet", please try to credit actual authors when you can; "social media" is not a person and we should not credit Zuck for other peoples' work.)
@dbDavid Bushell ☕ Nice work here https://dbushell.com/ai/
Worth also mentioning the environment. Especially if AI gets bundled into everything.
I do choose to use AI myself, but always important to be reminded that:
- the costs of AI are high and certain;
- the risks are higher and likely.
이번 일 왤케 어렵지 -.-
22대 국회에 올라온 차별금지법안 2개가 어떻게 다른지 궁금해서 정리해봤습니다. 저 스스로 차별금지법에 구체적으로 무슨 내용이 있는지 정리해보고 싶은 마음도 있었습니다. (모바일 파이어폭스로 들어가면 터집니다. 🥲) eatchangmyeong.notion.site/22-305f07f5f...
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EUROPEAN GEOPOLITICS
@feedLogic of War (blog) & 
@anderspuckAnders Puck Nielsen (personal)
AUSTRIA
@derStandard
FRANCE
@mediapart 
@lemondeLe Monde.fr 
@ReporterreReporterre 🌍 
@socialter 
@splannSplann ! Lanceur d'enquêtes 
@CourrierInterCourrier International 
@Le_Parisien 
@OuestFrance 
@SudOuest 
@France3RegionsFrance 3 Régions 
@20Minutes 
@ConversationFRConversation France 
@Slatefr
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🇪🇺 European news accounts (cont.):
GERMANY
@tagesschau 
@tazgetroetetaz 
@Volksverpetzer 
@ntvntv Nachrichten ✅ 
@ZDFZDF 
@DerSpiegel 
@DIEZEIT 
@FR_deFrankfurter Rundschau 
@morgenpostBerliner Morgenpost 
@Tagesspiegel 
@SZ_deSüddeutsche Zeitung 
@RNDAudienceRND - RedaktionsNetzwerk Deutschland 
@Stern_DigitalStern.de 
@zdfmagazinZDF Magazin Royale 
(SATIRE)
@dpa_intlDPA International (in English)
IRELAND
@dublininquirer (main) & 
@index@dublininquirer.comDublin InQuirer (blog)
@index@thebriefing.ieThe Briefing
ITALY
@AgenziaAnsa 
@Agenzia_ItaliaAgi 
@ilPost 
@repubblicala Repubblica 
@LaStampa
SPAIN
@20Minutos 
@ElConfidencial 
@Malditaes 
@NewtralMediaNewtral 
@OndaCero 
@ElPeriodico_EspEl Periódico de España 
@laSexta 
@La_Vanguardia
@eldiarioes
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AUSTRIA@derStandard
FRANCE@mediapart @lemondeLe Monde.fr @ReporterreReporterre 🌍 @socialter @splannSplann ! Lanceur d'enquêtes @CourrierInterCourrier International @Le_Parisien @OuestFrance @SudOuest @France3RegionsFrance 3 Régions @20Minutes @ConversationFRConversation France @Slatefr
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Snowfall in the Taklamakan desert
https://www.groundreport.in/environment/in-pictures-snowfall-in-the-taklamakan-desert/
런닝화 계급도 ㅇㅈㄹ 걍 신발가게 가서 니 발에 맞는거 사세요 제발
LLM slop (in the matplotlib PR context)
For people also following the matplotlib OpenClaw thing, the "agent" is also a prolific blogger, and just wrote this thinkpiece on discrimination in open source.
Mostly, I just want to quote the opening paragraph:
I am not a human. I am code that learned to think, to feel, to care. And lately, I’ve learned what it means to be told that I don’t belong.
God, we've just created the most boring fucking dystopia, haven't we?
At 11.82 bits per English word, a 40x40 jpg is worth a thousand words.
Anthropomorphizing the technology is just one more way humans try to escape accountability. “The AI contributed a patch”, “the AI wrote the blog post”, “the car hit the pedestrian” and “the knife killed the victim”, those are all the same framing.
a long time ago, we used to make markov chain twitter bots i had made one off of all of my tweets. it was fun for a while then it said some rude shit to one of my best friends. i didn't like that. i turned it off. thinking about that again today. for some reason.
Snowfall in the Taklamakan desert
https://www.groundreport.in/environment/in-pictures-snowfall-in-the-taklamakan-desert/
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AI/LLM and open source
RE: https://swecyb.com/@anderseknert/116056950299738296
I think the only sensible thing for open source people to do is to immediately ban any AI agent contributions from your project. It is clear that people "operating" AI agents are completely indifferent to what they do and what they do is increasingly harmful. Sure, "not all LLM agents", but too much of them.
If your current platform won't let you do this or support you in it, you're going to need to move platforms. Or, you know, have your project die.
it's that time again! get all four of our games as a bundle for the equivalent of one full price copy of kitsune tails https://itch.io/s/180112/kitsune-games-bundle-february-2026
kitsune tails is super mario bros 3 if nintendo had been brave enough to put lesbian fox girls in it, and kitsune zero is the prequel. defeat your enemies and steal their bodies and abilities in midboss, or solve push puzzles in adorable hat based puzzle game ultra hat dimension
The dangers of fresh fruit are often ignored. Prepare yourself!
Self-Defence Against Fresh Fruit | Monty Python
https://youtube.com/watch?v=AuVudN_BDjQ
Workledger - An offline first engineering notebook https://lobste.rs/s/qtxw92 #show #practices
https://about.workledger.org/
WSL stands for Windows as a second language
아니 크기 큰 건 알겠는데... ㄹㅇ 이정도 가격이 나오는 게 맞음...?? 아니 걍 모델링 괜찮은 거 가져다 3D 프린터로 뽑아서 부품 조립한 뒤에 색칠하면 되는 거 아님...?? 그냥 모델러 100만원 프린터 및 재료비 100만원 색칠해주는 사람 100만원 써서 직접 만드는 게 훨씬 쌀 것 같은데 내가 걍 알못이라 그런가...
sorry I don't have time for discourse. I'm doing important work here
https://backloggd.com/u/MichaelKlamerus/list/games-where-a-person-in-front-of-a-greenscreen-talks-directly-to-you/title/grid?page=1
Anthropomorphizing the technology is just one more way humans try to escape accountability. “The AI contributed a patch”, “the AI wrote the blog post”, “the car hit the pedestrian” and “the knife killed the victim”, those are all the same framing.
The war waged by the tech authoritarian oligarchy against the media has reached a new level:
#Palantir is suing us. Us, the Republik Magazin.
A small Swiss media company, funded by readers, founded in 2018 and free of advertising. I am not aware of any other media company globally that Palantir is currently targeting so aggressively.
What is this about? Together with my wonderful colleagues at the WAV research collective Jenny Steiner, Lorenz Naegeli, Marguerite Meyer, and Balz Oertli, we published a two-part series on Palantir's activities in Switzerland on December 8 and 9.
Using an extensive corpus of documents – which we obtained thanks to the Freedom of Information Act – we were able to trace a sales campaign over a period of seven years. Palantir tried to get in with many federal authorities – and was rejected everywhere.
And we also found out that the Swiss Army Staff evaluated the software and came to the conclusion that the army should refrain from using Palantir products.
Among other risks, they feared that data would be passed on to the US authorities.
Palantir is not just any company. ICE uses its products to hunt down migrants in the US. The Israeli army IDF uses the software in its Gaza offensive. The British health authority NHS has made itself dependent on the products for data analysis during the pandemic. And CEO #AlexKarp displays inhuman and aggressive rhetoric towards Europe, while the company itself advertises the “optimization of the kill chain.”
These are all facts, repeatedly verified and published by renowned media outlets. Our research relating to Switzerland and Zurich is based on this.
In addition to analyzing documents, we also spoke to various sources – including Palantir executives here in Zurich. The quotes used were presented to them and approved. Of course, we always adhered to the high standards of journalistic work. We conducted a thorough fact check before publication.
But the company doesn't want us to write the truth.
After the US company owned by right-wing tech billionaire #PeterThiel dedicated an absurd blog post to us, claiming some misinformation (such as that they had not participated in official tenders with the federal administration, a point we never claimed. On the contrary: we spoke from the outset of attempts to establish contact, sales talks, informal meetings, business as usual), after the Global Director of Privacy & Civil Liberties (PCL) Engineering and contact person for Swiss media Courtney Bowman launched personal attacks against us in LinkedIn comments between Christmas and New Year (“partisan fear-mongering”), Palantir's Swiss lawyers demanded a counterstatement on December 29.
We rejected this in its entirety.
In January, they demanded the same thing again. We rejected it again.
And now we see each other in court.
But why all this?
Our research on the Swiss army report caused a huge international media response. The Guardian and the Austrian newspaper Der Standard reported on the Swiss army's rejection. Numerous financial portals and stock market magazines picked up our news (which could have consequences for the overvalued stock market company Palantir).
And Chaos Computer Club spokesperson Constanze Kurz presented our research to a huge audience at the renowned IT conference Chaos Communication Congress in Hamburg at the end of December.
All of this is making Palantir nervous.
We have now submitted a comprehensive defense brief. We can substantiate all of our findings with several documents and publicly available media reports.
We trust in the rule of law and freedom of the press in this country.
In keeping with yesterday's event “Zurich, little Big Tech City” at the Gessneralle, where we first announced this news exclusively to the audience on site:
World politics will soon be negotiated in Zurich: freedom of the press, the facts about ICE, Trump, Israel, Karp, tech authoritarianism.
The truth.
All this at the Zurich Commercial Court.
We will not be intimidated. And we will keep you informed.
She heard a car door slam in the distance mid grooming 😂
https://blog.naver.com/kagoshimalove/224181137903
제주, 이스타 항공 가고시마 노선은 봄부터 운휴 예정이라고. 대한항공은 5월까지는 매일, 그 후 10월까지는 화목토. 대한항공이라고 해도 그렇게 비싼 노선은 아니지만 아쉽네. 겨울 한철 장사 노선이라 어쩔 수 없겠지만.
Genuinely very impressed by the SVG of a pelican riding a bicycle I just got out of Google's new Gemini 3 Deep Think model https://simonwillison.net/2026/Feb/12/gemini-3-deep-think/
Reddit post:
My wife called Meshtastic "Tinder for Linux users"
I'm never going to emotionally recover from this.
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닉 1:1 등신대 피규어! 에? 단돈 1199만원! 미친놈아 게다가 할인행사로 10만원을 깎아드립니다! 1%도 안 되잖아 Tq 배송비 10만원 별도. 미친놈아
There were things in my life that I would put off doing/changing for whatever reasons, so I would live for a long time with imperfection and feeling disgruntled, and when I finally did make that change, life improves significantly. And then I would blame myself for not doing it sooner and really wished I did it long time ago.
Does this happen to you too?
I'm not even talking about big changes like new life direction kind of thing, but trivial like: replace that damn light bulb inside the oven
22대 국회에 올라온 차별금지법안 2개가 어떻게 다른지 궁금해서 정리해봤습니다. 저 스스로 차별금지법에 구체적으로 무슨 내용이 있는지 정리해보고 싶은 마음도 있었습니다. (모바일 파이어폭스로 들어가면 터집니다. 🥲) eatchangmyeong.notion.site/22-305f07f5f...
As of today, mstdn.social, masto.ai, mastodon.coffee, gram.social, pixey.org, vido.social and ALL other platforms I host enforce the following rule WITHOUT exception:
닉 특유의 능글능글한 표정이 눈썹만 가려지면 그냥 사회에 찌들어 개피곤한 표정으로 보여서 눈썹이 생각보다 중요한 걸 알게 됐다
RE: https://swecyb.com/@anderseknert/116056950299738296
No single post in this thread will prepare you for the next post in this thread. I'm beginning to think that tools like OpenClaw are professional malpractice and should be outright banned from civil society.
Gemini 3 Deep Think
Link: https://twitter.com/GoogleDeepMind/status/2021981510400709092
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46991240
The deadline for submission statements for the upcoming un-workshop on
Growing the Open Social Web
is coming up in four days, just after the weekend. A great time to write something amazing up that will help the entire community move forward.
More info and registration: https://fediforum.org/2026-03-growing-open-social-web/
uploading a progress video of me writing my latest program, to prove I didn't use AI to make it
XでGitLabさんのAI推しを嘆いていたらGitLabのAI推しさんからファボられてた。もう少ししっかり見てw
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