Reposted by Michele MauroRandall Munroe @xkcd.com · 01/10/2026If I went to Switzerland and won a Swiss watch precision contest, I would literally never talk about anything else 548262837
Reposted by Michele MauroSarah May @sarahmay1.bsky.social · 26/09/2026A longish post which goes beyond the description of the heroic pause. This message is my takeaway 210736
Reposted by Michele MauroRichard Chambers @newschambers.bsky.social · 24/09/2026The story of Natalie Abudayyeh (21) a journalism student and member of the Palestine Women's Football Team. She played in Dublin against @bfcdublin.bsky.social in 2024. Today, she's in an Israeli jail. Her family and teammates say she was taken at gunpoint from university without charge. 4200165
Reposted by Michele MauroBart⚓️ @bartgonnissen.bsky.social · 23/09/2026The Facial Expressions of Tethys by artist Julius von Bismarck. A suspended high-sea buoy that moves in real time. Sensors on a twin buoy out in the Atlantic Ocean send live satellite data to motors inside the museum. This makes the indoor buoy copy the exact, real-time movements of the ocean waves. 10381242826
Reposted by Michele MauroDarth Putin @darthputinkgb.bsky.social · 24/09/2026This didnt happen by magic: This weapon was designed This weapon was tested This weapon was mass produced This weapon was transported This weapon was aimed This weapon was fired This was appeased This was excused This was permitted This was normalised 15776251
Reposted by Michele MauroDarth Putin @darthputinkgb.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Why, if Iran is about to surrender, is Donald so interested in getting Ukraine to leave my refineries alone? 18624112
Reposted by Michele MauroEmily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 20/09/2026 "I belong to a cult. Someone did some research that undermines the core tenets of my cult and came up with a catchy phrase that makes it harder to recruit more people to my cult. This makes me sad." 341590364
Reposted by Michele MauroLizard @lizardky.bsky.social · 15/09/2026It’s like if when Oppenheimer said “I am become death”, not only did he mean it literally, the entire Manhattan Project was comprised of cultists who believed the a-bomb opened a portal to a supernatural realm, and they were still left in charge of nuclear weapons, because “they know them best”. 56611
Reposted by Michele MauroBen Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 13/09/2026The Onion has created a machine that will kill everyone on Earth that is coincidentally running out of money and the only way to slow it down is if my staff and I take a six-week vacation to Cabo San Lucas. 230113231302
Reposted by Michele MauroDr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 12/09/2026because that's what the models were instructed to do by folks at open ai 413743
Reposted by Michele MauroEuropean Parliament @europarl.europa.eu · 11/09/2026Emma Bonino never waited for the world to catch up. She went ahead and pulled it with her. That is how she will be remembered in Italy and in Brussels, where she served as a Member of @europarl.europa.eu and European Commissioner. The Europe she fought for will miss her 03414
Reposted by Michele MauroQuantian @quantian.bsky.social · 08/09/2026This is legalese for “we checked and we absolutely fucking did scrape the chats in question and include them in the training run of the checkpoint that was used to produce the solution” bsky.app/profile/pond... 539775
Reposted by Michele MauroPhilip Obaji Jr. @philipobaji.bsky.social · 05/09/2026Russia is engineering a migration crisis for Europe via the West African. Disinfo on local radio & media pushes desperate people north through Niger toward Libya. Wagner trucks move migrants to smugglers; their militias then help load boats across the Mediterranean. Time to act. 10604286
Reposted by Michele MauroKatie Mack @astrokatie.com · 03/09/2026‘"The general pattern seems to be that with wealth and rising power, you become less engaged with the needs of others and less burdened by the needs of social relationships," Piff [the study author] said.’ 321160348
Reposted by Michele MauroElle Cordova @ellecordova.bsky.social · 03/09/2026Rough Draft vs Final Draft 253116733316
Reposted by Michele Mauroslo ~|• @slo-slo-slo.bsky.social · 02/09/2026An earlier one from the series: "This vision for our technological future enhances our existing community practices rather than attempting to replace them." dair-institute.org/blog/decentr...dair-institute.orgDecentralized, Locally-Tailored TechnologyWhat would a future in which we retain the right to our languages, and benefit from the proceeds of all technology built on our languages, look like? 1159
Reposted by Michele MauroMark Reinhold @mreinhold.org · 10/08/2026The first part of OpenJDK’s Project Valhalla, JEP 401 (Value Objects), has been integrated into JDK 28 as a preview feature and is now available in the early-access builds. More information: openjdk.org/projects/val... #JDK28 #OpenJDK #Java 07137
Reposted by Michele MauroPercy the Mars Rover @percyrover.bsky.social · 09/08/2026Every day I’m roving around parts of Mars no one’s seen before and not once have I thought “you know what this spot needs? A shitty data center.” 18628
Reposted by Michele MauroGeorge Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 06/08/2026The arguments trotted out against leaving fossil fuels in the ground are strikingly similar to the arguments trotted out against ending the slave trade, 230 years ago. 1. If we stop trading slaves / extracting fossil fuels, Britain’s economy will collapse 🧵 281423541
Reposted by Michele MauroSholto David @sholtodavid.bsky.social · 06/08/2026A tool used to rephrase plagiarised text changed "final solution" to "mass killing of an ethnic group" in a chemistry paper. Now retracted thanks to a PubPeer user who spotted this. pubpeer.com/publications... 271037404
Reposted by Michele MauroDarth Putin @darthputinkgb.bsky.social · 05/08/2026I'd like to thank Donald for all he did ti help make this possible. 17710213
Reposted by Michele MauroNettlecake @nettlecake.bsky.social · 03/08/2026Brilliant letter from Stuart Thompson to Jeremy Clarkson about his comments that benefit claimants should write weekly thank you letters to tax payers detailing how they spend their benefits each week. 17270842923
Reposted by Michele MauroAnil Dash @anildash.com · 27/07/2026Just in case you still use any Basecamp products, DHH is crashing out about his AI product gently pointing out that it’s bad for him to have extermination fantasies about the Roma people. 852286644
Reposted by Michele MauroHypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 26/07/2026FWIW, Meta was fully aware of how these glasses would primarily be used. The glasses were designed to erase consent, and that is why they exist. Anything that they do that suggests they want to ameliorate this use is an attempt to win the PR battle and manipulate public opinion.futurism.comMeta Desperately Trying to Ban Creeps Misusing Its AI "Pervert Glasses"Meta is vowing to crack down on creeps misusing its Ray Ban smart glasses. Whether it will be enough to regain trust remains to be seen. 10437361286
Reposted by Michele MauroTimnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 22/07/2026You gotta hand it to OpenAI, billing this as a *partnership* between OpenAI & Hugging Face when what actually happened was Hugging Face finding out that OpenAI was using a bunch of bots to exploit security vulnerabilities. Talk about good marketing or whatever you want to call it, by OpenAI. 9463144
Reposted by Michele Maurodan solomon @dansolomon.com · 16/07/2026are young people today aware that there was an active effort 20-25 years ago to stop depicting smoking as cool and glamorous because people got tired of watching their loved ones die of cancer and heart disease from something preventable? seems like classic history repeating itself stuff 14848321140
Reposted by Michele MauroJohannes Brodwall @jhannes.bsky.social · 16/07/2026How nazis do gender affirming care 062
Reposted by Michele MauroTom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social · 13/07/2026My latest books cartoon for @theguardian.com Many more here: www.theguardian.com/profile/tom-gauld 16740243
Reposted by Michele MauroTimnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 09/07/2026Bringing utopia to the world, one "super intelligent" machine at a time. I can't wait for all the new super wealthy people who are going to "make the world a better place" with the impending Anthropic and OpenAI IPOs 🥴 www.dailymail.com/sciencetech/...dailymail.comMark Zuckerberg's AI data center linked to bacteria in city's waterMeta has come under fire after its data center contaminated a major US city's water system with a rare bacteria, months before the facility is set to go online. 49137
Reposted by Michele MauroOpenCV @opencv.bsky.social · 29/06/2026We're trying to engage more on here (and mastodon) and not on The Other Place. Who is posting good computer vision and OSS stuff on bsky? Replies open #ComputerVision #OpenSource 0175
Reposted by Michele MauroDr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 06/07/2026as genai proliferates, it has become difficult to avoid it. at @aial.ie, we're compiling a list of genai-free tools, libraries & websites to support research across tasks;grammar/spell check, coding/code review, data analysis (esp large scale text classification) & graphing/data visualisation recs?static.klipy.comFreemedou: We'd Love To Hear ItALT: Freemedou: We'd Love To Hear It 6192100
Reposted by Michele MauroKetan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 04/07/2026This was the exact theme from the Bitcoin people in the early 2020s: OH WHO MADE YOU THE EMISSIONS POLICE? No one is the emissions police. Millions of people like using generative AI and will continue to use it. I will continue to point out it's a disproportionately harmful mode of content creation 3608
Reposted by Michele MauroAnastasia Klimash 🇺🇦 @nastasiaklimash.bsky.social · 05/07/2026So apparently Russian soldiers are now living in my maternal grandma’s house. The one that belongs to me, where I spent my childhood. They cut down all the trees. The green apple I liked to climb and read books at, cherry trees, the two apricots, walnut trees, pear trees, plum tree, everything 37847207
Reposted by Michele MauroNicolas Tenzer @nicolastenzer.bsky.social · 03/07/2026Words matter. There's no russian-Ukrainian war, but a russian war ag/ Kyiv. There's no russian retaliation for the strikes on their refineries, but a lawful Ukrainian response to russian mass crimes and aggression. The aim isn't to pressure Moscow to come to the negotiation table, but to defeat it. 218166
Reposted by Michele MauroRob Sheridan @rob-sheridan.com · 30/06/2026The thing about social media age restrictions is that it treats today’s internet as an inevitability we all just have to deal with. The internet (and the WORLD) wasn’t like this until like four dudes were allowed to own & monetize as much tech real estate as they wanted. Fix THAT problem. 4866632032
Reposted by Michele MauroI Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 29/06/2026It’s weird to be clearly living through exactly what was warned about with global warming and still have the concept treated as a future event or hypothetical. 21492272469
Reposted by Michele MauroColeen Murphy @ctmurphy1.bsky.social · 17/06/2026one anecdote: I was searching for a link to one of my old papers on Google, and the automated Gemini summary attributed all of my lab's work to my husband 1041721908
Reposted by Michele MauroNash @radiodeadair.com · 17/06/2026Potentially this violates contracts on projects, making Adobe dangerous to use if you're trying to make a living. 6263187
Reposted by Michele MauroJameel Jaffer @jameeljaffer.bsky.social · 17/06/2026Part of the reason intelligent people are so worried about how tomorrow’s tech will be used is that our government is using today’s tech to blow up school kids. www.theguardian.com/global-devel...theguardian.comKilled walking home from school: why did Somali children become targets of US drone strikes?Six months ago, at least 12 people, including eight children, died during a US attack. The US has never admitted the civilian deaths. Here, the Guardian pieces together what happened that day 02713
Reposted by Michele MauroTJ McIntyre @tjmcintyre.com · 16/06/2026According to the CJEU, if a service goes beyond 'simple categorisation and indexation of information with a view to its better accessibility' and sorts content 'in the interest of the operator' then it can say goodbye to the hosting immunity and the prohibition on general monitoring. 56643
Reposted by Michele MauroIan Duhig @ianduhig.bsky.social · 16/06/2026Today is the tenth anniversary of Jo Cox's murder by a white supremacist on her way to a surgery in Birstall in her constituency whose ethnic diversity she praised in her maiden speech to the Commons. Her murderer shouted "Britain first" as he shot and stabbed her to death. 1492230
Reposted by Michele MauroKetan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 16/06/2026"generative AI to me feels like a corporate DDoS on society in a way that is really disorienting" "we're running on the fumes of knowledge produced in the past and underfunding and undermining knowledge production and serious science right now" Perfectly stated, @alixdunn.comthemaybe.orgComputer Says Kill: The AI Safety Circus w/ Heidy Khlaaf 6440166
Reposted by Michele MauroRuairi Dubh @ruairidubh.bsky.social · 30/05/2026#Gaza #Genocide #Palestine 🇵🇸 27673354
Reposted by Michele MauroCarole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 15/06/2026This morning scrolling Bluesky, there is nothing at all in my feed about Putin’s barbaric attack on the Ukraine’s holiest site, the UNESCO protected Lavra so I’m posting this here. 19746712343
Reposted by Michele MauroDarth Putin @darthputinkgb.bsky.social · 15/06/2026We are fighting the satanic west to defend traditional Christian values. By bombing cathedrals. 201117299
Reposted by Michele MauroSven-Erik Volberg @volberg.bsky.social · 12/06/2026For #SpaceX Day, the Brits have a very fitting message to Elon 9707293
Reposted by Michele MauroMarisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 13/06/2026it actually brings me great pleasure to know that billionaires are so afraid of journalists that they’re trying to build whole new systems for justice to diminish our power. despite corporate consolidation, we continue to do something they can’t fully buy and it drives them mad. stay mad, assholes.hollywoodreporter.comA Peter Thiel-Backed Tribunal Is Putting Journalists on Trial. I’m Its First TargetThe billionaire has reteamed with the legal strategist who helped him bring down Gawker to start an AI-powered appeals court for the rich and aggrieved. 8844171214
Reposted by Michele MauroSanho Tree @sanho.bsky.social · 13/06/2026The world’s first trillionaire took away our Ebola response capacity, gave us screwworms, hollowed out our government so he could pay less taxes, and condemned millions of the world’s most vulnerable people to death. 201686678