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Dr. Vespeto, researcher in Atlantis 🇧🇷💌🕴️🌻 @violetters-zye2.com.br · 04/01/2026

#langsky #UtLinguaeVitamHabeant "…fins a la dècada de 1970, en el marc d’una política lingüística orientada a la promoció de la llengua estàndard, les altres varietats eren percebudes com a desviacions fonològiques que calia corregir o fins i tot eradicar." www.vilaweb.cat/noticies/el-...

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El Japó és un país monolingüe?

El Japó és un país sovint percebut com a monolingüe, però en realitat presenta una diversitat lingüística considerable. Aquesta realitat es va fer especialment visible durant la quarta edició del Cong...

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Taylor Barnett-Torabi @taylorbar.net · 25/11/2025

I keep seeing some version of this when it comes to AI-generated code related stats being shared and I am just begging people to dig deeper. I saw folks on here share a stat that says, "AI-generated code contains 322% more security vulnerabilities." And I'm like okay, what's the source on this? 🧵

But the real pattern is more disturbing. Our research found:

AI-generated code contains 322% more security vulnerabilities

45% of all AI-generated code has exploitable flaws

Junior developers using AI cause damage 4x faster than without it

70% of hiring managers trust AI output more than junior developer code

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Trey Hunner @trey.io · 08/10/2025

A great talk by @attacus.net from this year's #PyConAU All models are wrong, but some are useful.

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"Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Reality" - Lilly Ryan (PyCon AU 2025)

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Charlie Jane "Lessons in Magic and Disaster" Anders 🏳️‍⚧ @charliejane.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

My father was supposedly one of the smartest people in the world, and he hated that elitist nonsense. He loathed the idea that intelligence is something you're born with, a single trait that can be measured. It leads to eugenics and bad policy. My latest newsletter: buttondown.com/charliejane/...

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You're Not as Smart as You Think You Are

First, some housekeeping! I have written a novel about a trans witch who teaches her broken-hearted mother how to do magic. She also researches a mysterious...

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Emily Pawley @emilypawley.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

In food history, we notice how super-refined foods--gelatin, vienna sausage, white bread--lose class and become horrifying once they become industrialized. Suddenly, fingermarks in bread dough demonstrate skill, not clumsiness. Post-chatGPT, I'm feeling this about writing. Smoothness feels gross.

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attacus || Lilly Ryan @attacus.net · 23/09/2025

Last weekend I gave a talk at #PyConAU. It’s about quality, scale, LLMs, science, systems thinking, hype, & what happens when the subjective nature of reality meets the assumption that the human experience can be accurately represented to or by machines. You should watch it! youtu.be/GBHGHrlRlKs

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"Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Reality" - Lilly Ryan (PyCon AU 2025)

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Old English Wordhord @oewordhord.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

nosu, f.n: nose. (NO-zuh / ˈnɔ-zʌ) Image: Bible; France, c. 1270-1290; Bibliothèque d'Agglomération de Saint-Omer, Ms. 5, f. 246r. #OldEnglish #WOTD

Medieval manuscript image of a spotty green creature with a long, trumpet-like nose, two hoofed feet and a short tail.

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Alanna Smith @alannamode.bsky.social · 21/07/2025

Maybe the real Ship of Theseus was the Ship of Theseus we made along the way

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Molly White @molly.wiki · 23/07/2025

important context for headlines like this: Altman also runs a company (Worldcoin) that he claims will solve this problem he also created

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Jathan Sadowski @jathansadowski.com · 22/07/2025

Melbourne Folks! I will be hosting a book launch to celebrate The Mechanic and the Luddite! Come hear me chat about the book with Lizzie O'Shea and Chris O'Neill — and have a free drink! • August 14th, 6pm, Victorian Trades Hall • Register for free: events.humanitix.com/sadowkski-th...

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Book Launch, 'The mechanic and the luddite'

Jathan Sadowski in conversation with Lizzie O'Shea and Chris O'Neill for the launch of 'The Mechanic and the Luddite'.

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Chris Person @papapishu.bsky.social · 14/07/2025

We should be putting a gargantuan amount of money into solar and storage. War economy levels. It should be free to have a guy from the government solar your house up. Electricity should basically cost nothing.

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Effy Elden ~ ineffyble @effy.space · 03/07/2025

Sleep-deprived Effy has proven too much for Zoom's meeting summary AI, which has managed to produce something significantly less coherent than even my babbling. ft @attacus.net

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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 19/06/2025

David R. Hagen just solved a small mystery that I mentioned 13 years ago in the mouseover text of a comic drhagen.com/blog/the-mis...

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The Missing 11th of the Month - David R Hagen

Personal website of David R Hagen, scientific software engineer

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 19/06/2025

Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.

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Zig Zag Claybourne @zzclaybourne.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

You counter evil with real life.

Art by Frey Catton and ZZ Claybourne. Gray word balloon against a black background, text reading "Maybe I'm not saying anything we don't know, but isn't that all art/communication anyway? Reinforcement of the known to battle the untrue?"

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Jay Hulme @jayhulmepoet.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

Recently I found myself on Antipope Instagram, where there are endless reels of the current Antipope of the Palmarian Catholic Church. This is, of course, extremely my jam, and I started reading up on them hoping to find some wild theology, but instead I found something WAY better...

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Alondra Nelson @alondra.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

African workers labeling data and providing content moderation are the invisible backbone of AI development. They perform critical labor under challenging conditions, often for minimal pay, yet remain absent from our conversations about the AI value chain.

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attacus || Lilly Ryan @attacus.net · 24/04/2025

Someone should have called Semple an “inhueëncer” by now, surely www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...

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attacus || Lilly Ryan @attacus.net · 23/04/2025

Just had a sudden mental image of a melting moment shortbread cookie, but they were called “teachable moments” and filled with faux pas and the experience of sticking a fork in a toaster

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Sy Brand @tartanllama.xyz · 31/03/2025

I don't think that "bikeshedding" is a good name for what it represents, we should discuss alternatives

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Jathan Sadowski @jathansadowski.com · 20/03/2025

I was interviewed by @attacus.net for last night's broadcast of Byte into IT on RRR Melbourne Independent Radio. This is such a great conversation about my new book! Honestly one of my favorites so far. Huge thanks to @attacus.net. Listen to the episode here. www.rrr.org.au/explore/prog...

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Programs: Byte Into IT – 19 March 2025, Byte Into IT — Triple R 102.7FM, Melbourne Independent Radio

An episode of Byte Into IT on 19 March 2025

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Vanessa Toholka @plasmov.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

Tonight hear @jathansadowski.com in conversation with @attacus.net on his latest 📕 release ‘The Mechanic and the Luddite’. production by @rowenamurray.bsky.social 👏 Dan and me live from 7pm AEDT tonight for tech news & events too! @3rrrfm.bsky.social 📻 ❤️

Cover image: red book cover with hammer and wrench surrounded by cog wheel, with book title ‘The Mechanic and the Luddite - a ruthless criticism of technology and capitalism’ and book author ‘Jathan Sadowski’ next to vertical slice of author portrait, smiling man with glasses and beard, wearing white shirt, blue suit and tie.

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evacide @evacide.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

If there is one leap that the infosec community consistently fails to make, it is this: people who are not like me, who have different needs and priorities, who have less time or are less technical, STILL DESERVE PRIVACY AND SECURITY.

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Alex Hanna @alexhanna.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

Also feel bad for Nikolai. Done dirty first by Edison, then by Elon

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Alex Hanna @alexhanna.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

Amy Kurzweil, daughter of Ray Kurzweil, apparently following into her dad's wild bullshit by mimicking dead people with computers

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Misty De Méo @cdrom.ca · 24/02/2025

If you've got any interest at all in Australian history, please write a word in support of Tim Sherratt - his API keys for national archives services have been revoked, cutting off years of work building tools around them. Contact info at bottom of post. updates.timsherratt.org/2025/02/24/y...

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15 years of work on Trove threatened by the NLA

On Friday, without warning, I received an email from the National Library of Australia informing me that my Trove API keys had been suspended. This threatens the future of 15 years of work helping peo...

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Molleindustria FUTURE? NO THANKS! OUT NOW @molleindustria.org · 12/12/2024

I finished teaching my Playful Theory class, a seminar for studio artists focused on games. It was my first academic course in the post-ChatGPT era, so I tried out a few strategies to handle students potentially skimming readings and submitting AI-generated response papers. Thread🧵

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attacus || Lilly Ryan @attacus.net · 09/12/2024

“…it was possible to view additional registrant information contained within the domain name record (postal address, phone and fax number) […] accessible via developer tools” Inspect Element strikes again! www.auda.org.au/news-insight...

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Data incident regarding domain name records | auDA

auDA is aware there was a software error in a tool on the WHOIS page of its website. Access to the tool has now been removed and users have been directed to an alternate .au WHOIS tool.

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The PS1 startup sound as a lesbian @janus.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

you are not a serious person if your fear of A.I. is “what if scary computer decide 2 extinct humans” and not the health insurance companies using it to sentence people to death

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Frank Pasquale @frankpasquale.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

“The workers showed that it’s possible to fight back against the opaque authority of algorithms, creating transparency despite a corporation’s wishes.” spectrum.ieee.org/shipt

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Shipt’s Pay Algorithm Squeezed Gig Workers. They Fought Back

When their pay suddenly dropped, delivery drivers audited their employer

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kat @kgt.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

Less AI, more poetic computing poetic.computer By koundinya (koundinya.website)

Text in black: "People as computers; poetry as code" with boxes containing screenshots of other websites

How can writing code be an act of resistance and protest?
How can code be expressive?
Where is the space for my identity in the code I write?
What does the decolonizing-code process look like?
What would a programming language look like if it’s decoupled from the burden of producing a software?

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attacus || Lilly Ryan @attacus.net · 05/12/2024

Overheard, a woman at the pub: “I worked at that fucking costume shop, dressed as Fester, wearing a goddamn bald cap, for nine hours. If I can do that, I can do anything.”

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Rowbi-Wan Kenobi @rowenamurray.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

A cast of absolute thousands at the last Byte into IT for 2024! Tune in right now!! Catch us all on the air in 2025! @attacus.net @plasmov.bsky.social me, Alexar, Eric and Mike! On @3rrrfm.bsky.social

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alexandria masse @alexandriamasse.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

i mounted my giant crocheted insects in my studio

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Tom Eastman @tom.eastman.nz · 23/11/2024

Please just don't use any website's DMs for secure communication. Don't do it. Just don't. Don't do it. Please. No.

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m. r. sauter @oddletters.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

bro this is literally what robots.txt was invented to do.

"people are strange. people put stuff in public and then are surprised that it's ...public. they're going to have to realize sooner or later that 'i am going out in public but robots arent allowed to look at me' isnt really sustainable." screenname redacted bc i dont want to fight with this guy.

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Liam 🦆 @liamosaur.ragequ.it · 28/11/2024

me: the whole state vs state and city vs city competitiveness in Australia is silly. all places have their pros and cons. also me, proud Victorian, reviewing something written by a Queenslander:

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Dr Paris Buttfield-Addison 🔜 MIGW26 @hey.paris · 27/11/2024

OK, new idea. The social media platforms should implement age assurance by following the 80s/90s video game model... #auspol #socialmedia

screenshot of age verification quiz from Leisure Suit Larry

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attacus || Lilly Ryan @attacus.net · 27/11/2024

I am emerging from a conference operations bubble to find that they’ve passed the bill that everyone, from the best to the worst people you know, think is an unworkably bad idea. And there’s still an egg shortage, so our traditional method of democratic expression has been cut off.

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Damion Schubert @zenofdesign.com · 26/11/2024

At one point, Twitter was the central hub of the American Internet - BECAUSE of 'lazy linking'. You knew you could find and get to almost any paper, article, news story or creative endeavor likely to interest you from Twitter. Elon didn't understand his core business and sabotaged it.

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attacus || Lilly Ryan @attacus.net · 26/11/2024

Uh… ABC… that’s not… that’s not how “rawdogging” originated www.abc.net.au/news/2024-11...

Honourable mentions

In the Committee's Choice, honourable mentions were given to "right to disconnect" (RTD) and "rawdogging".

RTD refers to a law that grants employees the right to not be contacted about work during non-work hours.

And rawdogging stemmed from a trend online where people would travel on a long-haul flight with no electronic entertainment, devices or reading material.

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attacus || Lilly Ryan @attacus.net · 22/11/2024

I put together a Bluesky Starter Pack for PyCon AU 2024! This is for people speaking, attending, volunteering at, and organising the event in Melbourne this weekend. Are you at #PyConAU and on BlueSky? Message me and I’ll add you! go.bsky.app/JFytL7a

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Andy Baio @andy.baio.net · 16/11/2024

Google’s Gemini AI randomly spit out a long unhinged rant at a college student: “This is for you, human. You and only you. You are not special, you are not important, and you are not needed. … You are a stain on the universe. Please die. Please.” Jump to the last message in this transcript.

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‎Gemini - Challenges and Solutions for Aging Adults

Created with Gemini

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attacus || Lilly Ryan @attacus.net · 16/11/2024

For those of you who know me: what starter packs do you think I should know about? Are there any I should ask to be added to?

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Scare Quotes @quote-unquote.bsky.social · 12/11/2024

Creating two massive moderation lists encompassing all bsky users—people for the Oxford comma, and people against it—so we can have two blueskies both blissfully existing unaware of the other

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Merrin @merrrrin.bsky.social · 05/05/2024

In most of the fields I operate in, I feel like the gains in productivity from having access to generative AI etc are outweighed by the losses from search becoming effectively useless due to generative AI etc

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