I don't recall any previous transformative technologies that had to be sold to the public so hard. No one in 1999 was going, "Guys. Cell phone? It's coming, whether we like it or not. I think it's important, FOR WOMEN ESPECIALLY, to learn about cell phone. So that we're not left behind!!"

As @goodlawproject.org have pointed out, among many others, Palantir is a company inextricably linked to the Health Secretary, Wes Streeting, and the Labour government as a whole. When they come out with scary shit like this it is time to cut ties, fast.
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@martinfornusek.bsky.social a worthy addition for the "Two Hard Things" page (martinfowler.com/bliki/TwoHar...)

Generating software faster, or automating busywork, doesn't guarantee success in business.

You’re right.

That might not be enough time to bury the Statue of Liberty and distribute 400 million ape costumes.

Refugees and AI Centering the lived experiences of refugees and their power building work in fighting against surveillance technologies.

🔇🔇🔇 On Friday April 17th (9am PDT/5pm CET/7pm EAT), we'll have a virtual event introducing our Refugees, Migrants and AI research program which centers the lived experiences of refugees and migrants and puts power back into their hands🧵

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FYI if you’re talking about the #Artemis II mission and you want to get the spaceflight terminology right, the mission is “crewed,” not “manned.” (NASA made the terminology change official decades ago, so this isn’t new, but a lot of folks just aren’t aware.)

I’ve posted it before, but it feels evergreen

The two hardest problems in Computer Science are

1. Human communication
2. Getting people in tech to believe that human communication is important

Stealing this meme from @comradediamat.bsky.social 😑

Say No to Palantir in Europe A powerful US spy-tech company run by billionaires is linked to genocide in Gaza, helps ICE separate families, and fuels Trump’s war with Iran. And now it’s quietly expanding across Europe gaining acc...

A powerful US spy-tech company linked to genocide in Gaza, ICE deportations, and Trump’s war with Iran is now expanding across Europe into our hospitals, police and data systems. We must expose it and stop its expansion action.wemove.eu/sign/2026-03...

Microsoft #Copilot is now injecting #ads into pull requests on #GitHub

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When they were murdering journalists in Gaza, they claimed they were Hamas. Now they’re murdering journalists in Lebanon, they’re claiming they are Hezbollah.

Cartoon by @andertoon.bsky.social

The bill has been approved. Israeli prisons will turn into guillotines for Palestinians. Hundreds will be executed in the next few weeks. 9300 hostages now in Israeli custody. Dark day for humanity. Unforgettable memory in the Palestinian cause history.

Israel’s holocaust of Palestinians reached a horrific new low today. No different than trains heading to gas chambers. Shame on everyone silent about this.

Israel has pushed ground forces into multiple areas of southern Lebanon

They've displaced huge numbers of civilians...

Yet it barely registers.

Russia did the same in Ukraine and the world responded with sanctions, outrage and coordinated pressure

The double standards are UNFORGIVABLE.

Who is surprised Wikileaks didn't leak this?

if Wikipedia, an org with a shoestring budget and volunteer workforce can ban use of llms, what excuse do large orgs and universities have

if you want to know the history of this kind of policy, I made a podcast two years ago that explained why these tests make no sense, how they were already used and eventually abandoned by the IOC in the 80's and 90's, and the devastating impacts they have on real athletes: www.tested-podcast.com

57 of my fellow students were arrested, academically disciplined, and barred from campus 2 weeks before finals.

And then the visas of some of those students were quietly revoked.

And then the DEI office was killed.

And then we watched our mentors’ grants evaporate over “woke”.

I gazed into the abyss, and the abyss just walked right past me, pretending not to see.

What the fuck.

Strange situation where we await a statement from Iran to check whether there's any truth to what US president is saying.

"Over the last few years, American tech oligarchs have become the greatest argument against their own existence.
The sheer scale of their erratic behavior and political interference proves that extreme wealth concentration is a structural threat to society."
-Joni Askola

Regeringen drar tillbaka rapport – hänvisar till studier som inte finns Regeringen drar tillbaka rapport av den nationella samordnaren för sociala barn- och ungdomsvården. Den refererade till studier som inte tycks finnas.

Swedish gov't report had to be withdrawn due to non-existent references: "We don't know what happened." Meanwhile, literally everybody knows what happened. #AIslop

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These stories really are coming thick and fast at the moment🙄

Guess what?

The Canadian school is NOT 'banning food at lunchtime' during Ramadan🤦‍♀️

Obviously...

And if you BELIEVED it to be true, then you need to ask why you would choose to believe such an obviously ludicrous headline?

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AI actually is causing a lot of unemployment in tech.

Not because it has been able to successfully replace anyone's job, but because the big tech companies are all gambling so much on becoming trillionaires that they have to throw tens of thousands of workers into unemployment to pay for it.

One thing that AI evangelists seem to assume, particularly legal AI evangelists assume, is that the thinking and analysis is quick, and the writing is just tedious busywork that slows us down.

But the writing IS the thinking and analysis. You work out the thinking and analysis by writing it down.

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