HOME | Smidge Project SMIDGE is a Horizon Europe project analyzing online extremist narratives' impact on middle-aged individuals.

This is also really interesting - and the database, focused on the EU, seems to be freely available. It focuses on how Middle-Aged folks are using Social media.

www.smidgeproject.eu

Ooooof. "Boomerslop" has to be the worst concept ever and I hate that it exists so much.

now we have seen our blue marble from new angles will we take good care of it?

> The controversy associated with the statement “Ada Lovelace was the first computer programmer” reveals more about modern attitudes towards women [than her] achievements. [Her 1843 algorithm] was so advanced, that it was still utilised in record-breaking computation of Bernoulli numbers in 2008.

A two-page spread from Muppet Magazine's Spring 1984 issue, entitled "Great Moments (and neat stuff) in Computer History." A short bio of Ada Lovelace is its first entry.

Meanwhile, the first place I learned about Ada Lovelace being the first computer programmer was...Muppet Magazine.

I don't know about you, but I trust Scooter's expertise on this. *nods firmly*

Very much looking forward to getting into this!

OMW back from #TakeBackTech and am newly inspired by the range of creative and highly active orgs and people who are fighting AI, tech fascism, and data centers in their towns. I do not regret to inform you, following Femi Taiwo, that we will win.

@mediajustice.bsky.social @conmijente.bsky.social

Scoop: NSA using Anthropic's Mythos despite Defense Department blacklist The government's cybersecurity needs are outweighing the Pentagon's feud with Anthropic.

Hey babe your fave AI company is besties with the military and the NSA

"The military is now broadening its use of Anthropic's tools while simultaneously arguing in court that using those tools threatens U.S. national security."

www.axios.com/2026/04/19/n...

The struggle I’m now having is with students who have a ‘disclosure of AI use’ in their dissertations, permitted by their dept/institutions…

Good news! We found the cats a home! But they still need a foster home for the next month! Please help us spread the word so we can find a good foster home for them!

This is fundamentally the business model of for-profit software since 1995.

The first hit is free, kid.

Singer-songwriter Michael Smith pleads guilty to defrauding music streamers out of millions using AI in first-ever case of its kind A US man has pleaded guilty to defrauding music streaming platforms after creating thousands of AI-generated songs

www.nme.com/news/music/s...

Oh interesting.... I feel like we've known there are "bot" listeners for a long time.....

Song with millions of streams banned from Swedish charts for being AI creation Song 'Jag vet, du är inte min' by the "artist" Jacub, with millions of streams, has been banned from Swedish charts for being AI creation.

www.nme.com/news/music/s...

There's a lot of references to AI music accomplishments inside this one.

Anna's Archive to pay $322million after losing court case for scraping "nearly all of the world’s commercial sound recordings” from Spotify Shadow library Anna's Archive has been ordered to pay $322million (£237million) for scraping "nearly all of the world’s commercial sound recordings” from Spotify.

www.nme.com/news/music/a...

It's hard to articulate the level of anger & rage I have about watching this happen. I first saw weev doxx people I love *TWENTY* years ago. I spoke to founders of multiple social networks about the risk of these people over 15 years ago. I wrote about it all a dozen+ years ago. They let it happen.

Unhappy to report the phishing one is quickly becoming a real problem now. Why go to the trouble of social engineering when people will just give up their ID, financial info, biometrics, etc. to an AV portal? There's no standards so how can you differentiate a fake one from a real one?

Currently the most excited about a piece I’ve been since the Enshittifinancial Crisis. It’s time to publish The Stargate Files (working title): the guide to the end of Oracle

A screenshot of a white-on-black terminal depicting a 19x19 go board in ascii graphics, with empty grid intersections as periods, and black and white as Os and #s

It’s absolutely incredible that one of the largest Japanese-run Go servers, which has been running since 1992, is still accessed entirely via Telnet. And while most players use GUI clients that use Telnet under the hood, you can still connect manually and get ASCII graphics streamed to you

This is the issue with theoretical work these days. Data isn't collected as means unto itself unless we've lost the point of experiment & observation. Without explicit theory to house data it's meaningless. Duhem-Quine, underdetermination of theory of by data is lost on people.
olivia.science/theory

Fascists will tell you that women shouldn't do science, that they're less good at it, and that they don't even like it. They should be at home tradwifing it up for some dude.🤡

Reality tells you that women are out here curing cancer.

Dr. Doudna, Dr. Kariko & Dr. Türeci (a co-author on this paper👍🏿👩🏻‍🔬)

An AI agent opened a store in San Francisco. Then it forgot the staff Andon Market is a live experiment in autonomous business. Already, shoppers have noted the odd inventory.

www.fastcompany.com/91526099/and...

Well, this will be interesting to watch. 👀

I am so, SO sorry. I had to give up caffeine COMPLETELY for about a decade and it was a bad time. Honestly, you never get used to it. I am only JUST able to start having some caffeine sometimes in moderation, like, every other day or every two days.... I hope the same is on your path.

This is such a great article. Looking at what benchmarks ARE and what they actually measure is important. It's up there with self-certifications around quality and safety.

rdi.berkeley.edu/blog/trustwo...

Thanks to @jacobasper.com for sharing this with me! <3

Record profits are unpaid wages and unpaid taxes.

'AI shamans' tell the fortunes of curious South Koreans The sound of tinkling bells drifts through an alley in central Seoul, an unmistakable sign that a shaman is near -- although in this case the mystic is a robot powered by artificial intelligence.The r...

Oh, now this is fascinating. Has anyone tried one and want to share? (genuinely curious)

www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/ar...

The BBC's Accessibility Guide has several resources, including step-by-step instructions to using assistive technologies. The resource includes insight into several assistive technologies, including VoiceOver, JAWS, NVDA, TalkBack, ClaroRead, and Dragon.

bbc.github.io/accessibilit...

if you've been enjoying blacksky working today thank @rude1.blacksky.team and the team with a donation

I am so pissed off that the press have completely ignored this crowdfunder. When we were trying to buy the land they were slathering all over posting about it, but when the government fucked us over and pulled their ~£0.5mn contribution, we’re just blanked now. www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/warleigh-n...

That was lovely, thank you for sharing! I had no idea gamers had grabbed unc and started using it as an insult. 👀

this is beautiful