A random tech person @greentechperson.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Excellently written argument about what democrat politicians miss when they avoid talking about 'culture war' issues. Could equally apply to the current UK Labour party. 0225
Reposted by A random tech personGregory Norminton @gregorynorminton.bsky.social · 29/09/2026People support clean energy but think others don't. People support clean air but think others don't. People support low traffic neighbourhoods but think others don't. And they think others don't because vested interests and right-wing media work hard to create that impression. 17040
Reposted by A random tech personTimnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 30/09/2026Friends, while they're trying to talk about fictional machine gods, don't lose sight into what they're all actually powering in real life. You can browse the the entities on the website and use the API, and learn more about it on the DAIR project site: dair-institute.org/projects/sur....dair-institute.orgSurveillance WatchThis interactive map reveals the intricate connections between surveillance companies, their funding sources and affiliations. 3227143
Reposted by A random tech personErika Hall @erikahall.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Friday! If you or anyone you know needs help in these times when promoting your stuff is all on you and it can be such a grind. www.eventbrite.com/e/self-promo...eventbrite.comSelf-Promotion ClinicWe will help you get out of your own way and put your best self out there. 1118
Reposted by A random tech personHeather Burns @heatherburnstech.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Well, yes; I blogged about how this company failed my sniff test back in *2019* after they showed up at a startup pitching event run by, & their product was duly effusively praised by ... the civilian who at the time was known as Prince Andrew. Do I know how to spot them or what. 275
Reposted by A random tech personMonteiro @monteiro.bsky.social · 22/09/2026It's not you. It's everything. Now what? Practical advice and support for recuperating, resetting, and moving forward. Join us this Friday for How to Get Laid Off, the next Mule Summer School session! No gaslighting. No toxic positivity.eventbrite.comHow to Get Laid OffIt's not you. It's everything. Now what? Practical advice and support for recuperating, resetting, and moving forward. 1135
Reposted by A random tech personDoug Parr @dougparr.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Objections to giant water- and energy-guzzling datacentres are holding back Britain, says ex-politician-for-hire whose job it is to get datacentres built www.theguardian.com/politics/202...theguardian.comOpenAI’s George Osborne says datacentre nimbys holding back BritainFormer chancellor, now senior figure at OpenAI, says UK needs datacentres to maintain ‘sovereignty’ over AI tech 2137
Reposted by A random tech personJoseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 22/09/2026New from 404 Media: Meta announced Muse, its AI agent that can book restaurants for you. We've seen internal Meta messages showing Meta is actually testing having these calls being made by human beings in call centers. In those tests its not AI, it's just a person www.404media.co/meta-tests-m...404media.coMeta Tests Muse AI Agent Calls That Are Actually Made By Humans in a Call Center"This has potential for so much negative PR. It could portray us as ‘their AI is not good enough so they still need humans’ kind of coverage for this launch." 23421175
Reposted by A random tech personRyan Calo @rcalo.bsky.social · 19/09/2026“Our AI is scary too” is the saddest PR play 1024161
Reposted by A random tech personRetraction Watch @retractionwatch.com · 19/09/2026Weekend reads: An expression of concern for Nobel Prize winner; DOJ official queried journals on ‘partisan’ views; AI research’s ‘synthetic validity’ problemretractionwatch.comWeekend reads: An expression of concern for Nobel Prize winner; DOJ official queried journals on ‘partisan’ views; AI research’s ‘synthetic validity’ problemIf your week flew by — we know ours did — catch up here with what you might have missed. The week at Retraction Watch featured: Diabetes association turmoil roils journal as group tries to thwart b… 0102
Reposted by A random tech personJonathan Portes @jdportes.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Good straightforward reporting from the Wall Street Journal on Musk's promotion of Restore/Rupert Low/civil war in the UK. Lots of detail, no polemics. The BBC could and should do this. Why doesn't it? archive.ph/eTOS5 14288117
Reposted by A random tech persons. e. smith @sesmith.lol · 16/09/2026Y'all this little newsletter is giving me life right now. Please subscribe, support us, give me hope that people DO want feminist cultural criticism in the world and that they want the people who are making it to be valued and able to pay their rent. 03320
Reposted by A random tech personMolly White @molly.wiki · 15/09/2026Clarity Act has just surpassed 41 NOs in the cloture vote; it will not advance to a full vote. The bill is essentially dead in the water under this Congress. 26956194
Reposted by A random tech personThomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 13/09/2026A Far-Right International Is Assaulting Democracy MAGA and the AfD are united in a struggle against democratic pluralism that transcends national borders. It is an alliance of extremists defined by aggrieved revanchism. Some thoughts from my new piece: 🧵steady.pageA Far-Right International Is Assaulting DemocracyMAGA and the AfD are united in a struggle against democratic pluralism that transcends national borders. It is an alliance of extremists defined by aggrieved revanchism 7611284
Reposted by A random tech personGary the Cat @greatgramsofgary.bsky.social · 13/09/2026Mountain mornings with Gary 49017
Reposted by A random tech personRachel Coldicutt @rachelcoldicutt.bsky.social · 13/09/2026If you don't usually read Dario Amodei's blog post, you might not be aware that at least once a year he drops a very confident one that says something like, "super intelligence is coming at the end of this year, everything will be different". He frequently over-estimates the rate of breakthrough 47915
Reposted by A random tech personIris van Rooij 💭 @irisvanrooij.bsky.social · 13/09/2026"Using some of my own work, I set out to clear up a few relevant concepts from theoretical computer science and computational cognitive science that can help to build conceptual hygiene and immunity against hyped claims about “AI” capabilities." irisvanrooijcogsci.com/2026/09/12/c...irisvanrooijcogsci.comComputational complexity for hype immunityUsing some of my own work, I set out to clear up a few relevant concepts from theoretical computer science and computational cognitive science that can help to build conceptual hygiene and immunity… 918269
Reposted by A random tech personwomensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 13/09/2026'Morning conversation', linocut by Olesya Dzhurayeva, contemporary Ukrainian printmaker #WomensArt ( one of the many hugely talented iinterviewees in the latest womensart book 'Reframing Women Printmakers') 41040206
Reposted by A random tech personEmily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 11/09/2026AI Doomerism has been in the news lately, especially with the loud, viral resignation of Jacob Coxon from Anthropic. Maybe I've missed it, but I haven't seen any statements from CEOs and other execs who are more on the AI Booster side of the ledger. >> 527281
Reposted by A random tech personLizzie Bruce @lizziecake.bsky.social · 02/09/2026A few years ago I put together a UX manual... for interior design! Amazingly, people are still buying it – thank you 😊 I'm thinking of giving it a fancy re-launch, but meanwhile to remind everyone it's out there, the PDF version is reduced by 10%. 🏡 📕 #Books #SelfPublishing #UX #Interiors #NewHomeblurb.co.ukWhat do we do in this room? by Lizzie Bruce | Blurb Books UKFind What do we do in this room? by Lizzie Bruce at Blurb Books. Learn how to improve the day-to-day experience of your home by optimising its interior spaces. ... 142
A random tech person @greentechperson.bsky.social · 10/09/2026My cynical knee jerk thoughts: 1. Will this record anyone who's in the vicinity? How do you get permission from them in an informed manner? 2. I'm sure apple will try to secure this but it will get hacked as it's a potential treasure trove of info 3. Please just don't 032
Reposted by A random tech personJuliette Leroux @jujusg.bsky.social · 10/09/2026I am truly puzzled by the sudden panic about this "AI might kill us all" study. Have you missed the actual existential crisis unfolding? Backed by hundreds of scientists? Accelerating to a point those scientists had not foreseen? Is getting afraid of ghosts a collective coping mechanism? 122
Reposted by A random tech personDoug Parr @dougparr.bsky.social · 09/09/20261/3 Yesterday Reform UK & Tories tried to blame Jaguar Land Rover's troubles on UK climate policy. So did UNITE the Union As BBC explain real problems are: - Trump tariffs hitting USA sales, JLR biggest market - Chinese innovation hitting sales in China, 2nd biggest www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...bbc.co.ukWhy the ‘Temu Range Rover’ is such a threat to Jaguar Land RoverJob cuts come as JLR faces falling sales and intense Chinese competition while trying to switch to electric vehicles. 85223
Reposted by A random tech personTimnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 07/09/2026Speaking of plagiarism: www.scientificamerican.com/article/open...scientificamerican.comOpenAI’s latest math breakthroughs commit research misconduct, experts sayOpenAI released 10 AI-generated results over the weekend. Some mathematicians are unhappy with their approach 12958393
Reposted by A random tech personErika Hall @erikahall.bsky.social · 08/09/2026What makes a conversation truly conversational? Should every interface be a chat now? Is it a problem that "people don't read anymore"? Join us Friday to talk about that. www.eventbrite.com/e/how-to-hav...eventbrite.comHow to Have a ConversationYou're probably in the middle of several right now. Make them better. 052
Reposted by A random tech personMic Wright @brokenbottleboy.bsky.social · 08/09/2026A detail missing from The Times story… the woman who took the photo shared it to a Facebook group called ‘South east patriots’. 23743331491
A random tech person @greentechperson.bsky.social · 06/09/2026Make sure you take action, today, this week, if you can. Don't just sit and read the doom. Getting out into the world and doing something however small will make you feel better and make the world better. 000
Reposted by A random tech personHOPE not hate @hopenothate.org.uk · 05/09/2026🚨 BREAKING: Patriot Platform, a new far right group launched by Tommy Robinson’s right hand man Daniel Thomas (AKA Danny Tommo) has blockaded the port and several roads in Dover. The masked men are from subgroups of PP, including Sussex, Essex, and South East Patriots Here’s all you need to know. 2131398862
Reposted by A random tech personLee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 05/09/2026As gangs of masked men block Dover port, I will just leave this here www.theguardian.com/environment/...theguardian.comFive Just Stop Oil activists receive record sentences for planning to block M25Campaigners receive longest ever sentences for non-violent protest after being convicted of conspiracy to cause public nuisance 3923951157
Reposted by A random tech personMike MacFerrin @icesheetmike.myatproto.social · 04/09/2026Meanwhile this guy's influential papers at Duke are being retracted due to fabricated research data. Far deeper fraud than anything Arday was accused of. Y'all are silent as mice. No "Ariely Truthers" digging in deep. No Substack specials. One press article & it's gone. Everyone knows exactly why.dukechronicle.com‘Insane data’: Duke professor Dan Ariely accused of additional research fraudNew evidence released Monday shows that Dan Ariely, professor of business administration in the Fuqua School of Business, likely tampered with or fabricated data in an influential research paper from ... 24514
Reposted by A random tech personMolly Scott Cato @greenpartymolly.bsky.social · 04/09/2026There could be no clearer signal that Reform propose to be a fascist government The purpose of a state of emergency is to suspend constitutional requirements Politicians and journalists who are committed to democracy should understand and act accordingly www.express.co.uk/news/politic...express.co.ukNigel Farge set to declare 'national emergency' in huge Reform speechNigel Farage will make his keynote speech at Reform UK's conference - follow live 19211121
Reposted by A random tech personRachel Coldicutt @rachelcoldicutt.bsky.social · 03/09/2026Reading this www.theguardian.com/environment/... and thinking how straight-up weird it is that so many people in tech want to spend time litigating the details of hyperscale data centres and not just commit to designing more sustainable solutionstheguardian.com‘Supersizing before our eyes’: UN warns of record El Niño approachingEvent is likely to be largest in at least 1,000 years and will pile extra heat into a world already in a climate crisis 412037
Reposted by A random tech personGreenpeace EU @greenpeace.eu · 02/09/2026Every fraction of a degree of warming counts The sooner we stop climate pollution, the less the Earth will warm and the more death and disaster we can avoid “no good outcomes”? Some are certainly better than others Governments and the EU have the responsibility to aim for the best and save livesinsideclimatenews.orgClimate ‘Overshoot’ Is Coming—Are We Ready? - Inside Climate NewsIf global warming remains above 1.5 degrees Celsius, a new U.N. report says “there are no good outcomes.” 210145
Reposted by A random tech personGeorge Outhwaite @georgeouthwaite.bsky.social · 01/09/2026edge of a cornfield digital painting 2889241
Reposted by A random tech personErika Hall @erikahall.bsky.social · 02/09/2026Monsters are in charge, and absolutely everyone has lost their goddamn minds. So, follow your dreams, friends. No one should have imposter syndrome or an inner saboteur at this point. Friendship is magic. 216023
Reposted by A random tech personPrisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 01/09/2026“We have not overcome our condition, and yet we know it better. We know that we live in contradiction, but we also know that we must refuse this contradiction and do what is needed to reduce it. Our task as [humans] is to find the few principles that will calm the infinite anguish of free souls.+ 25510
Reposted by A random tech personCorporate Europe Observatory (CEO) @corporateeurope.org · 17/08/2026"Oil and gas executives have been enthusiastic about the extra fuel that AI has allowed them to find, and celebrated its emerging impact as 'the next fracking boom'." An important read: AI’s potential climate benefits outweighed by role in boosting fossil fuels, study finds. 🏭🛢️🤖 0118
Reposted by A random tech personZack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 26/08/2026Is politics for profit or the people? “The public won’t forgive us [Labour] if we miss this chance” - even those within Labour can see it's shocking that Burnham is rowing back on another key promise. Democracy should not be for sale www.theguardian.com/politics/202...theguardian.comBurnham drops support for political funding cap aimed at curbing mega-donorsPM said he would set bar at £500k, but trade unions say funding reforms could undermine their ability to donate to Labour 771045323
A random tech person @greentechperson.bsky.social · 25/08/2026Turns out aliens are real, they just live in the ocean 000
Reposted by A random tech personExtreme Temperatures Around the World @extremetemps.bsky.social · 24/08/2026EXTRAORDINARY 43 DEGREES IN WINTER MOST EXTREME EVENT IN WORLD HISTORY Mind blowing winter heat in NAMIBIA 42.5 at Walvis Bay AP right on the ocean HOTTEST WINTER DAY EVER RECORDED IN SOUTHERN AFRCA And next days Widespread 40C+ in South Africa Beyond insane. 17443
A random tech person @greentechperson.bsky.social · 24/08/2026Excellent piece of investigative journalism 011
Reposted by A random tech personwomensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 23/08/2026Marshlands at Sundown (1908) by US painter Alice Pike Barney #womensart 3817149
Reposted by A random tech personDave Vetter @davidrvetter.bsky.social · 20/08/2026Reminder: Dale Vince campaigns against heat pumps because his company, Ecotricity, supplies homes with fossil gas. Ecotricity claim they're going to replace fossil gas with gas from grass cuttings, which is something that will never happen at scale. 923562
Reposted by A random tech personSeb Kennedy @sebkennedy.bsky.social · 20/08/2026Geopolitics is absolutely murdering the case for slow-walking the energy transition. All incentives point in the same direction: electrify & decarbonise everything ASAP 1147
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Wide shot of the BRITISH MUSEUM. There are suggestions of fascism around the streets - tanks, barricades, an Orwellian 'Big Brother'-style poster on a wall. A voice of a TOUR GUIDE emanates from the museum:
TOUR GUIDE:
So the Tapestry tells acrucial chapter of our nation's history...
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[Cut to interior of museum. A long Bayeaux-style TAPESTRY is on display, and the Tour Guide is speaking to a tour group]
TOUR GUIDE [smiling]:
How modern fascist Britain was created.
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TOUR GUIDE:
The Tapestry begins here with the 2008 Crash, then austerity, then the AI Crash...
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TOUR GUIDE:
...and by the end of the room it's just full-on fash.
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CHILD IN TOUR GROUP [gesturing to the tapestry]:
What's this middle bit?
TOUR GUIDE:
This is the 2026 Battle of Legitimate Concerns
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TOUR GUIDE:
[show a reporter standing next to the Dover protests]
Here's the media saying the government have got to do something about the legitimate concerns...
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CHILD:
...About the failure of capitalism?
TOUR GUIDE:
No about brown people on boats
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CHILD:
[pointing at boats crossing the sea on the tapestry]
Are these boats the mega-dinghies?
TOUR GUIDE:
Not all of them
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[we see one of the boats is a giant yacht]
TOUR GUIDE:
That one's a superyacht,
carrying money from the American fascists to the British ones.
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TOUR GUIDE:
You see really it's as much a story of convergence as it is of conflict.
[An alarm sounds in the museum]
DING DING DING DING
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TOUR GUIDE:
Ok, tour over everyone
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TOUR GUIDE:
It's time for the Two Minute Hate!
[They all leave the museum]
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