Reposted by @aglimme.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gyMike Olson @mikeolson.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 3h$80.7bn lost in the *first half* of 2026. www.wsj.com/tech/ai/anthropic-reven… 002 2
Reposted by @aglimme.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gyDon Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 18/10/2026Tommy is not actually a registered voter in Michigan. Tricia McLaughlin is the former DHS spokesperson who kept telling the public that everytime ICE shot someone, it was because they were weaponizing their car against the masked security agent 502301548 2.3K
Reposted by @aglimme.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gyElizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 18/10/2026I had what I considered to be a gift of doing a 5k down the Avenue of the Giants. It was simply magnificent. I confess I teared up at the start. I’m always grateful when my legs are going to work that day so I can experience something like this. 515610 156
Reposted by @aglimme.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gyChris Kluwe, adjudicated poaster @chriswarcraft.bsky.social · 18/10/2026This is a masterclass in effective communication while also not being afraid to point out bigotry for what it is. We should be so lucky to have someone like this in our government. 833511474 3.5K
Reposted by @aglimme.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gyM.S. Bellows, Jr. @msbellows.c.im.ap.brid.gy · 13/10/2026My new theory: anyone who actually has feelings of empathy knows that machines simply... don't. However, sociopaths' sense of empathy is muted at best; often, they believe the rest of us are making it up, and they learn to approximate sympathy, concern, etc. based on mimicking outward […]c.imOriginal post on c.im 2021 21
Reposted by @aglimme.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gyabadidea @0xabad1dea.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 13/10/2026Anthropic is bragging about rolling their own from-scratch in-house version control system because git couldn't keep up with their 30,000 commits per day, and it doesn't seem to occur to them for a nanosecond that they are not fixing the actual problem in their engineering practices but making […]infosec.exchangeOriginal post on infosec.exchange 131157 57
Reposted by @aglimme.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gyCM Harrington @octothorpe.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 12/10/2026“Fridges in France hit by cyber attack” Again, I ask: WHY THE FUCK IS YOUR INFRASTRUCTURE CONNECTED TO THE INTERNET?? 115 5
Reposted by @aglimme.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gySophie Labelle @assignedmale.bsky.social · 12/10/2026Freedom of choice 4424131 424
Reposted by @aglimme.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gyJacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 12/10/2026I am way too online for my own good, and I had an unreasonably large twitter following, and I really *enjoyed* twitter for a lot of years, and yet leaving there and never looking back was maybe the easiest what-felt-like-a-big-ethical decision I've ever made. 523470365 3.5K
Reposted by @aglimme.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gyWeltzeitgeist @wackjackle.norden.social.ap.brid.gy · 11/10/2026Soulless techbros. Insufferable pieces of shit. 203 3
Reposted by @aglimme.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gyChuck Darwin @cdarwin.c.im.ap.brid.gy · 09/10/2026A one-time 5% wealth tax would bring Silicon Valley's billionaires' wealth back to where it was just 31 days ago (when it was "just" 178% higher than on January 1, 2023). They'd rather let 3 million people lose their health insurance than let that happen. 0130 30
Reposted by @aglimme.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gyDon Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 09/10/2026My man ended USAID, condemning millions to death 594502895 4.5K
Reposted by @aglimme.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gyJason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 08/10/2026this is the funniest thing i've seen in a looooong time. city passes new rule allowing prayer before city council meetings. satanist prays. city council then debates proper time to "undo the curse that was just put on our city" www.404media.co/it-is-done-h... 722083505 2.1K
Reposted by @aglimme.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gyLeah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 24/09/2026AP Stylebook warns against anthropomorphizing AI systems: “Avoid language that gives them human characteristics… Instead, explain what a system does, how well it performs, who built it and who could be affected by it.” 1970202260 7K
Reposted by @aglimme.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gyVee @veroniqueb99.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2026For anyone that was paying attention, or knows the beginnings, this started a decade ago. time.com/article/2026/10/01/donald-… 111 1
Reposted by @aglimme.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gyTim Carmody @tcarmody.bsky.social · 02/10/2026This is the funniest thing I've seen today, possibly ever 40120593115 12.1K
Reposted by @aglimme.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gyhighly praised and little read @hannah.posts.rat.pictures.ap.brid.gy · 28/09/2026If you told me twenty five years ago that 2026 would feel like if douglas adams wrote cyberpunk i would think i’d be enjoying it more 1642 42
Reposted by @aglimme.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gyErik Uden 🚩 @erikuden.mastodon.de.ap.brid.gy · 25/09/2026Open AI stole this guy's research solving one of the millennium problems and just pretended it was theirs. Plagiarism machine did plagiarism. Good explanation here: youtu.be/vPG6a2gAFeo 1411 11
Reposted by @aglimme.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gysarah jeong @sarahjeong.bsky.social · 23/09/2026i've always wanted to visit iceland sure wish i hadn't been holding that monkey's paw when i said it 324273170 4.3K
Reposted by @aglimme.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gyabadidea @0xabad1dea.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 21/09/2026I've had people ask before why I post art that's been drawn on lined or grid notebook paper and not blank drawing paper. It's honestly a big psychological hack: blank drawing paper is for "real" art and I'm afraid to mess it up, but art on lined paper is legally "a doodle" and the art cops have […]infosec.exchangeOriginal post on infosec.exchange 62241 41
Reposted by @aglimme.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gyTom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social · 20/09/2026My latest books cartoon for @theguardian.com 10932275 932
Reposted by @aglimme.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gyMike Olson @mikeolson.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/09/2026Should clarify: I absolutely support legal liability. I just think it has to be broader than Palantir’s CEO proposes. I also believe that regulation is a powerful and essential tool. We should use both. 002 2
Reposted by @aglimme.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gyMike Olson @mikeolson.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/09/2026I mostly agree with Alex, here. I go a little further, though. The companies that train and release these models are certainly responsible for the results of their use. So too, though, are the companies and individuals who deploy them — say, government contractors using them in intelligence or […]mastodon.socialOriginal post on mastodon.social 102 2
Reposted by @aglimme.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gyMike Olson @mikeolson.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/09/2026I'm on kind of a Berkeley roll here (see what I did there?): www.dailycal.org/news/campus/berkel… 001 1
Reposted by @aglimme.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gysarah jeong @sarahjeong.bsky.social · 17/09/2026hugging face is the most terrifying indicator of where the ai race is, in the sense that the industry is facing completely solvable collective action problems while guided by entrenched, unoustable leaders with the foresight and moral fortitude of above-average pigeons 8720126 720
Reposted by @aglimme.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gyGrassroots Joe @joeinwynnewood.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 14/09/2026One other thing. I know some folks are panicking over Judge Luttig's warning that Rs could stop Dems from being seated in the House in Jan. Our best defense is to make damn sure we build not just a blue wave, but a blue tsunami in Nov. A tsunami whose size becomes apparent long before Nov. 3rd […]mstdn.socialOriginal post on mstdn.social 005 5
Reposted by @aglimme.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gyJacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 12/09/2026And the constitutional settlement of it is absolutely part of the inherited structure of the U.S. constitution, which whatever else it was, was *not* an attempt to turn back the constitutional clock to the Stuart side in the English Civil War. It's one unified federal purse. 5/ 61039113 1K
Reposted by @aglimme.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gyJacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 12/09/2026The king says "ah, but I'm creative and can extract revenue that isn't called a tax. And, neat trick, now I can spend it on creating my own personal army that Parliament didn't authorize." This was fought out, 350 years ago. 4/ 121328186 1.3K
Reposted by @aglimme.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gyJacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 12/09/2026Money that comes into the United States government is government revenue. It is part of the public fisc. There's not "taxpayer money" and then "extra bonus money outside the rules." It's all taxpayer money. And spending *any* of it requires Congressional authorization. 2/ 121884382 1.9K
Reposted by @aglimme.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gyabadidea @0xabad1dea.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 07/09/2026reading a book from the nineties that's musing on "why are Stone Age cave paintings only ever found in very deep, inaccessible places [that are maximally protected from the weather and later human activity]? there must be some systematic Significance to this" and I want to shove the red dots […]infosec.exchangeOriginal post on infosec.exchange 51034 34
Reposted by @aglimme.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gySophie Labelle @assignedmale.bsky.social · 04/09/2026There are graphs 6418145 418
Reposted by @aglimme.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gyJens Ohlig @johl.mastodon.xyz.ap.brid.gy · 30/08/2026Meanwhile on Wikipedia en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Lake_Ont… 2636 36
Reposted by @aglimme.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gyAngry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 26/08/2026“My parents died so fuck yours too,” is quite the argument against reasonable healthcare 1698187194975 18.7K
Reposted by @aglimme.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gyHeidi Li Feldman @heidilifeldman.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 28/08/2026USPS is now claiming that it is “too late” for the plaintiffs to obtain judicial relief. Addressing this, Talwani used the USPS’s own earlier claims as to why the plaintiffs’ previous effort to obtain relief was too early. 6/ 107 7
Reposted by @aglimme.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gyMarc Hedlund @marcprecipice.bsky.social · 26/08/2026Man, this is incredible work for East Bay transit riders and advocates. 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 0205 20
Reposted by @aglimme.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gyJohn Siracusa @siracusa.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 25/08/2026💸 💸 💸 www.apple.com/mac-studioapple.comMac StudioMac Studio with M5 Max and M5 Ultra. The ultimate pro desktop. Exceptional performance. Extensive connectivity. Runs powerful AI on device. 923 9
Reposted by @aglimme.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gyAna Marie Cox @anamariecox.com · 20/08/2026I don't think the Natalie stuff is sex, I think it's just *deeply weird* and that's what has everyone leaking about it--if it were sex, that's something people could understand and even rationalize. Instead, they're in the uncanny valley of relationships and everyone in the WH is squicked out. 1382462247 2.5K
Reposted by @aglimme.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gyThe Gneech! Awww Yeah @the-gneech.meow.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/08/2026Well ouch. 6150235 235
Reposted by @aglimme.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gyMike Olson @mikeolson.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/08/2026Howdy! If I were a better media guy, I would not do a Friday night news drop. But here's some good news I got on Friday! I'm on the board of directors of the Cityside Journalism Initiative: citysidejournalism.org We're a non-profit news outlet with an annual budget of around $5M. We […]mastodon.socialOriginal post on mastodon.social 111 1
Reposted by @aglimme.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gyMike Olson @mikeolson.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/08/2026In July, Nieman Lab published a ranking of the top non-profit news outlets in the country. Our Berkeley (berkeleyside.org) and Oakland (oaklanside.org) newsletters were number 18 and 22 nationally […]mastodon.socialOriginal post on mastodon.social 100 1
aglimme.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy @aglimme.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 07/08/2026This is not a drill, Swanton Berries at Montery Market! @mikeolson 000 0
aglimme.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy @aglimme.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 07/08/2026@mikeolson I remember when I was a kid you could call a number that NASA set up and listen to the communication of Voyager as it finished it's planetary mission. The expectation being that would be the end . . . 40+ years later here we are. IFLS 000 0
Reposted by @aglimme.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gyMike Olson @mikeolson.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 07/08/2026On Nov 18 of this year, the Voyager 1 spacecraft will be one light-day from Earth -- more than 16 billion miles. Voyager 2 will be nearly 14 billion miles away. There's a quiet, heroic effort by NASA techs to keep these 49-year-old spacecraft functioning. The technology and parts we knew how to […]mastodon.socialOriginal post on mastodon.social 2114 14
Reposted by @aglimme.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gyMike Masnick @masnick.com · 06/08/2026How much of this is a story of accidental cyberattacks and how much of it is learning we don't know how to properly sandbox these tools for cybersecurity testing? 3143982 439
Reposted by @aglimme.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gyElizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 02/08/2026I know that the norms are to invite Cabinet members to speak. But this is not a normal time, and very few people can counter a Gish Gallop—even experienced journalists. You simply can’t win against bad faith arguments, delivered with confidence, from lying shitbird with unearned authority. 48628 86
Reposted by @aglimme.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gyJustin Sheehy @justinsheehy.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 31/07/2026"Rogue AI" sure does get a lot more headlines and freakouts than "badly written program" despite that being what this is about. Similarly "it escaped containment" sounds like an alien or monster broke down a wall, instead of "the program we wrote was run in an environment that was connected to […]hachyderm.ioOriginal post on hachyderm.io 114 4
Reposted by @aglimme.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gyMike Olson @mikeolson.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 29/07/2026Congratulations to Walk/Bike Berkeley and my pals in the Radical Bike Lobby for their organization and commitment to this project. 6/6 011 1
aglimme.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy @aglimme.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 29/07/2026@mikeolson I’ve been saying for a while that the city should make McGee and the streets around Berkeley Hort one way and add angled parking all around the block. Replaces all the shop parking and let's the bike lanes fit on Hopkins. 011 1
Reposted by @aglimme.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gyMike Olson @mikeolson.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 28/07/2026I am resolutely in favor of Councilmember Kesarwani's plan described in this article: www.berkeleyside.org/2026/07/27/hop… I got hit by a truck while riding my bicycle in West Berkeley on June 10. Fractured rib, facial lacerations, extensive […]mastodon.socialOriginal post on mastodon.social 222 2
