I didn't know Notes started this trend, but a comparison I heard resonates with that: A build stuff for non CS people like Excel...

Or as a product person mentioned: look long enough at which problems ppl try to solve with Excel and you might find product ideas with a user base estimate

Not only one someone I guess. Read elsewhere: social.wildeboer.net/@jwildeboer/...

Not only the search index but also 25 years of experience identifying shitty websites created only to influence search created for economic gain as well as political motivation.

Thank you and the same to you!

Looks like a lot of fun 😊

The Illusion of Building AI makes it dramatically cheaper to produce software that appears to work. But 'building an app' and 'engineering a system' are two different activities that people keep confusing, and the gap between...

uphack.io/blog/post/th...

This is excellent.

Go work with Ted. You will learn something.

It is with profound sadness that the MetaBrainz Board of Directors announces the unexpected passing of our Founder and Executive Director, Rob Kaye.

Robert’s vision and leadership shaped MeB and left a lasting mark on the music industry and open source movement.

blog.metabrainz.org/2026/02/24/r...

"Leute, wenn ich Putin wäre, ich würde uns doch nicht mit Panzern angreifen, wenn es Facebook gibt. Ich kann doch einfach meine Partei in Deutschland an die Macht bringen und dann muss ich niemanden angreifen."

Das und andere 100% stimmige Argumente von Frau Weisband @afelia.bsky.social bei #Illner

Large banner of Trump unfurled at Justice Department headquarters The DOJ has traditionally operated with a degree of separation from the White House to prevent its powers from being abused for political purposes.

Ich hatte immer gewarnt: "Wenn der Faschismus kommt, wird es nicht wie im Film sein. Es werden nicht unbedingt riesige Banner entrollt".
Ich hatte Unrecht.
www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...

I do like the taxonomy. One thing I wonder: A lot of these models are trained on non curated content available on the public internet. Wouldn't it make sense to also look at what can be done by targeted poisoning of that data?

So beautiful!

Our grad-level "Deep Learning" course (MIT's 6.7960) is now freely available online through OpenCourseWare: ocw.mit.edu/courses/6-79...

Lecture videos, psets, and readings are all provided.

Had a lot of fun teaching this with @sarameghanbeery.bsky.social and @jeremybernste.in!

7 Signs of the New Renaissance YouTube video by Adam Walker - Close Reading Poetry

Do you feel like culture and society are going down the drain?
An optimistic counterpoint: Video essay on why we are on the verge of a new renaissance

youtu.be/73vTEfx5gVg?...

This is quite amazing. Much has been said about the early anticipation of AI with Jorge Luis Borges "Library of Babel", but that shortstory actually had a precursor with Kurd Laßwitz' german shortstory about the "Universal Library". projekt-gutenberg.org/authors/kurd...

Data Poisoning: The Fatal Flaw in Mass Surveillance YouTube video by Addie LaMarr

It's shockingly cheap to dismantle surveillance systems. You can poison them in your free time.
youtu.be/AJf4SNuDnoI?...

Eine Studie hat dokumentiert, dass Elon Musk auf Twitter/X den Algorithmus manipuliert hat, um die AfD vor der BTW 2025 zu stärken.

Für alle Parteien, Politiker*innen und Institutionen zeigt das noch einmal ganz deutlich, was schon seit langem immer wieder gesagt wird:

1/3 grans-united.org/docs/open-le...

Klimakatastrophe, Artenzerstörung, Faschismus, Feudalismus, Diktaturen, Kriegsverbrechen, Arbeitslager, Folter, Raubbau, Menschenhass, Völkermord, Sklaverei, Rassismus, Misogynie und a pro pos: Nach Auffassung des katholischen Chefs sind das größte Problem für den Frieden selbstbestimmte Frauen.

Europe Prepares for a Nightmare Scenario: The U.S. Blocking Access to Tech Trump’s threats have injected new urgency into European efforts to reduce its reliance on American technology.

www.wsj.com/tech/europe-...

There is a real innovation opportunity here. Over-priced bloatware, cloud services and slop engines are ripe for replacement. EU has talent and core infrastructure to do it.

bsky.app/profile/afel... ... A caricature, from a different time

I am looking for a graduate-level intern for next summer to work with my team on large-scale security systems.

If you do large-scale data, formal methods, distributed systems, computer security or anything related, ping me. Or just apply before mid-March.

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Also I do hear Devs complain about slop. I also do hear them complain when books they wrote are used for training. I also hear them complain when AI is trained on all sorts of source code with unclear license provenance - and then used for code that before was written in clean room settings.

Code that's publicly available often is not directly monetized. Think Mozilla's Open Source archetypes.

Developers may not complain, but their employers do have all sorts of barriers in place that prevent commercially important code to find it's way into models.

Never too old to learn new tricks. Well done from you.

This reads like a very exciting and successful year! 🎉

We’re looking back on a successful and exciting year! From local events in Berlin to a (nearly) 24-hour global broadcast, 2025 was all about bringing communities together.

We’ve put together a full recap: plainschwarz.com/2025-reflect...

(68) Psychologische Dimensionen hybrider Kriegsführung und demokratische Widerstandskraft. Mit Marina Weisband

👏👀 A sea of crystal clear takeaways from @afelia.bsky.social on emotions in politics:

"There is an important lesson for Western democracies learned from right-wing populists: politics is not just about rationality, it is also emotion. And we should not allow the right wing to monopolize emotions".

Wohoo!