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Djoerd Hiemstra 🍉 @djoerd.idf.social.ap.brid.gy · 04/10/2026

The students protesting the genocide in Gaza are right

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Someone recently pointed me to the subtle difference in English between "value-driven AI" and "values-driven AI", and now I cannot unsee that my university simply wants to make money with AI

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Egon Willigh☮gen 🟥 @egonw.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 3h

they will probably be labeled terrorist in modern UK

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Dr. Anna Latour @anna.mathstodon.xyz.ap.brid.gy · 2h

I'm writing a paper and it seems like I'm not even going to hit the page limit? One of my mentors insisted that, if you have a truly good idea, it should not take more than three pages to convince a reader of its merits. I guess part of why I'm not hitting the page limit, is that I have 2 more […]

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 15h

Why is 🇺🇸 media not reporting on this 128 day Albanian protest of Kushner and Ivanka’s insane corruption?

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Henrik Schönemann @lavaeolus.fedihum.org.ap.brid.gy · 5h

I'm eternalized grateful for all the circumstances that lead to me getting to know and love Terry Pratchett in my youth. At a time, when Harry Potter could have become part of my identity growing up, it became Discworld instead. One day, my dad brought back home "Men at Arms" and gave it to me […]

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Christof S. 🇪🇺 @christof.fedihum.org.ap.brid.gy · 17h

"As in any fairytale, accepting magical assistance comes with risk". -- Ted Underwood #ArtificialIntelligence

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Marnix @narbux.mastodon.nl.ap.brid.gy · 21h

"Digitale autonomie is tot nader order uitgesteld" @tkdocs

Screenshot van opentk.nl met daarop een vergaderactiviteit van de Tweede Kamer genaamd 'Digitale Autonomie'. Met daarachter de tekst dat die is uitgesteld waardoor de tekst nu luidt "Digitale autonomie is tot nader order uitgesteld"

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Djoerd Hiemstra 🍉 @djoerd.idf.social.ap.brid.gy · 01/10/2026

Peer reviewing using AI is going great!

Zheng Zhang, Professor at UCSB; Social media post:
Dear reviewers A & B,
How did you manage to provide the same review reports? I mean EXACTLY the same: word by word in every bullet point of strength/weakness, the same conclusion and reference list!!!
This is what happened to our ARR Aug submission 😱😱

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Kelson @notes.kvibber.com · 30/05/2026

Your LLM was trained on my blog. #CommonCrawl

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Djoerd Hiemstra 🍉 @djoerd.idf.social.ap.brid.gy · 04/10/2026

The students protesting the genocide in Gaza are right

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Misha @mishavelthuis.social.edu.nl.ap.brid.gy · 04/10/2026

One of the things that kept going through my head after seeing #NAZA : the students were so incredibly right in their protests. And everyone who told them to back off and effectively forced them to escalate should be so ashamed.

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Philip Theus @philip.social.simplexity.quest.ap.brid.gy · 04/10/2026

"Slop is no problem, just use an AI to find the information in the content" "Surveillance pricing is no problem, just use an AI shopping agent to get a good price" The AI providers are starting a war where they can sell arms to every party involved.

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River 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @riverseeber.net · 04/10/2026

I was immediately reminded of @catsalad

caption: "Correlation vs Causation". 4 images, in all of which, it looks like the animals caused the damage. A duck walking through gates that have been blown apart. A cat sitting in a crater in the cement. A seagull sitting at the bottom of a bent fence. A cat sitting on a broken sunroof.

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Eelco Mulder :mastodon: 🇪🇺 @voorstad.mastodon.nl.ap.brid.gy · 04/10/2026

Mooi hoe de boekhandel je boel presenteert @ilyaz 😅 Maar gekocht en ben benieuwd! #ditisai

Boek "Dit is AI" van Ilyaz Nasrullah naast het boek "This is not AI"

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Tom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

My latest books cartoon for @theguardian.com

Title: Just announced! Three new Gruffalo books commissioned from bestselling authors!

Lee Chilld:
The Gruffalo just wants a quiet life, but when a crime syndicate moves into the deep dark wood, he must use his terrible claws and the terrible teeth in his terrible jaws to protect the fellow.

Sally Rooney:
The Gruffalo moves to contemporary Dublin. He
ill ever see past his orange eyes, purple prickles and poisonous wart.

Kazuo Ishiguro:
After a long absence, the gruffalo returns to the forest and attempts to make sense of his past. Encounters with a mouse, a fox, an owl and a snake uncover long-buried memories, regrets and revelations.

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Chuck Darwin @cdarwin.c.im.ap.brid.gy · 03/10/2026

Google is under fire for clearing over 300 hectares — the equivalent of almost 500 football fields — for two new data centers in the northern part of Finland without concluding the necessary environmental assessments. Despite the assessments still being in progress, the tech giant’s contractors […]

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Henrik Schönemann @lavaeolus.fedihum.org.ap.brid.gy · 03/10/2026

RE: chaosfem.tw/@ellieraejaye/117375856… "To everyone reading this, take care of yourselves. Trans people matter. Trans kids matter. It does not need to be so awful. The world can be a better place, and I’ll never stop fighting for the future we all deserve." […]

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Henrik Schönemann @lavaeolus.fedihum.org.ap.brid.gy · 04/10/2026

Here, fedi, do your thing: For my wifi I need a name and want a pun. I'd love something related to Discworld / Terry Pratchett Ideas? (thanks! 💜)

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Djoerd Hiemstra 🍉 @djoerd.idf.social.ap.brid.gy · 03/10/2026

Dat zou mij ook goed doen..

Loesje poster: smartphonevrij opvoeden. Dat zou mijn ouders goed doen

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Djoerd Hiemstra 🍉 @djoerd.idf.social.ap.brid.gy · 04/10/2026

"Old company had google analytics on most of their products but nobody made any product decisions on it..." What said old company did not realize: It sends all data of its customers to Google, which enables the competitors of said old company to target its customers with advertisements. "Paying […]

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Djoerd Hiemstra 🍉 @djoerd.idf.social.ap.brid.gy · 28/09/2026

RE: mastodon.social/@Carl_Zimmer/117345… "Use AI", they said, "it will speed up your research", they said

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Mx. Aria Stewart @aredridel.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2026

molily.de/web-dev-education So much this. So much destruction in already-weakened technical education.

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The death of web development education

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Ramin Nasibov @nasibov.me · 02/10/2026

minimal clocks

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Koen Hufkens, PhD @koen-hufkens.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 03/10/2026

Anyone have experience with the balcony solar systems IKEA sells (ECOFLOW based)? Do people have any recommendations for lighter weight panels? Any takes on balcony solar are also welcome - reliable brands (especially those who don't need permanent wifi).

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M⑨ddie @mjdxp.labyrinth.zone.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2026

okay, that's pretty good

Except from a Wikipedia article:
During the 2001 Microsoft antitrust case, the names MICROS~1 and MICROS~2 were humorously used to refer to the companies that might exist after a proposed split of Microsoft.

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aburka 🫣 @aburka.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 03/10/2026

So I was paying Google a few bucks a month for extra drive storage because I was too lazy to clean it up but now that they renamed the subscription to "AI Plus" I am super motivated to delete all that shit

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Dan Gillmor @dangillmor.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 03/10/2026

The pro-crypto legislation didn't pass after all, and some of the credit for this surely must go to Molly White. She is without question doing the best, most relentless coverage of that irredeemably slimy and corrupt industry -- joined at the hip with the irredeemably corrupt Trump world. And […]

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J Miller @jmmaok.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 03/06/2026

I read this Amnesty International briefing on generative AI and human rights, and hope you will, too. If you already have concerns about these systems, it will help you ground them in specific aspects of international human rights law. If you use these systems, the briefing should give you […]

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Prof Heino Falcke @hfalcke.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 03/10/2026

RE: idf.social/@arjen/117364443241316215 So, number of first year computer science students has halved (!) at some universities within two years - likely due to being scared by AI. (We don’t see this in physics and astronomy).

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FediForum @fediforum.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 03/10/2026

Somebody who wants to remain anonymous is coming to FediForum and wants to learn more about: The slow but inexorable march of the Fediverse toward total domination of the internet. Join us? 6–7 Oct 2026, online. More info and registration: fediforum.org/2026-10

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OpenTech(AUC) @opentech-auc.social.edu.nl.ap.brid.gy · 03/10/2026

De #NRC, one of the main newspapers in the #Netherlands, set up its own Mastodon server! Journalist @MarloesdeKoning played a key role in this development. We believe ournalists and academics have a special responsibility to start building the alternative networks of the future. Step by step […]

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Marloes de Koning :check: @marloesdekoning.nrc.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2026

De afgelopen weken liet ik me afleiden van het opzetten van de server doordat ik dit verhaal wilde maken, over de vraag of de VS de .nl-domeinen uit zouden kunnen zetten […]

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Henrik Schönemann @lavaeolus.fedihum.org.ap.brid.gy · 01/10/2026

This post, and the story it tells, really resonated with me. Maybe you feel the same :) Thanks @stefano for telling it! littleone.littlefedi.social/@little…

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Phil Höfer @phoefer.suma-ev.social.ap.brid.gy · 01/10/2026

I should get to bed and stop looking at social media but argh. xkcd.com/386

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Duty Calls

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everton137 @everton137.social.vivaldi.net.ap.brid.gy · 01/10/2026

I’ve just brought back an old project I created in memory of Aaron Swartz: his Open Access Manifesto, available in 25 languages thanks to contributions from people around the world. openaccess.eza.link Feel free to send corrections or contribute missing languages. I wish Aaron were […]

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Arjen P. de Vries Timmers 🕊️ @arjen.idf.social.ap.brid.gy · 01/10/2026

Aantal eerstejaars informatica gehalveerd in 2 jaar, in Antwerpen en in Gent. (Hetzelfde geldt voor Radboud overigens.) Wie AI wil inzetten, heeft mensen nodig die begrijpen wat een systeem wel en niet kan. Maar net nu bedrijven massaal op AI inzetten, kiezen minder jongeren voor de opleiding […]

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Eelco Mulder :mastodon: 🇪🇺 @voorstad.mastodon.nl.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2026

Bij de opening van platform Post in #nijmegen met een officiele opening van @vergunst platformpost.nl/programma/nijmegen-… Betoverend. En het uitzicht ook!

Uitzicht richting Oversteek vanuit Nyma toren

Uitzicht richting Vasom vanuit Nyma toren

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burne @burne.waag.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2026

@MarloesdeKoning Deel van hetzelfde verhaal is mijn nieuwe bankrekening. Daar heb ik niet om gevraagd maar wel gekregen: opeens heb ik een 'debitcard' die als twee druppels water lijkt op een creditcard van Mastercard/Visa, met dezelfde 'alles gebeurd door een Amerikaans bedrijf' erbij. En […]

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