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Niall Winters @nwin.eurosky.social · 15h

Really nice and accessible post for fairly non-techie people to understand the issues around AI safety instead of having to engage with the "AI will kill us all" newspaper panic pieces. Bravo @matthewdgreen.bsky.social !

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Niall Winters @nwin.eurosky.social · 30/09/2026

Those who developed GPT-6 Astra gave it the capability to reach malicious… etc.

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Roland Meyer @bildoperationen.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

AI #slopaganda is not so much about fakes or disinformation. It's about aligning the world with your preformulated descriptions of it, making reality disappear behind its formulaic image, rendering visible all your fears at once in order to enjoy them more. It's a technology of fascist daydreaming

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Bramus @bram.us · 25/09/2026

The time to ramp up your scroll-driven animations skills is **NOW** Go check scroll-driven-animations.style for and free 10-part video course created by yours truly, as well as a bunch of tools and demos.

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Scroll-driven Animations

A bunch of demos and tools to show off Scroll-driven Animations

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Niall Winters @nwin.eurosky.social · 25/09/2026

Imagine going all the way to China to give a speech in which you urge students *not* to come to Ireland because we can’t build student accommodation. The Chinese must have been dumbfounded by a government minister broadcasting such incompetence. Unbelievably bad representation of our country.

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Niall Winters @nwin.eurosky.social · 25/09/2026

This is more far-right rhetoric from the government. Sets the tone for “you shouldn’t be here”. Lads, your primary job - as it is across Europe - is to fix housing incl. student accommodation. (1/4)

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Niall Winters @nwin.eurosky.social · 23/09/2026

“I had to trust Muse with my most personal data, which included connecting it to my bank accounts, [credit cards] and email… Two weeks in, I found Muse to be the most useful A.I. app I had ever used.” Nothing went wrong but an agent with that level of access 😯 www.nytimes.com/2026/09/22/t...

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I Gave My Life Over to Meta’s A.I. Agent and Was Blown Away (Gift Article)

Muse, Meta’s A.I. agent, helped handle my dental insurance, booked dinner reservations and created a podcast for me. It also required my most personal data, and trust.

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Jan Rosenow @janrosenow.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

🔥 HOT OFF THE PRESS For the first time ever, @iea.org has published a dedicated Electrification Report. An absolute treasure trove of data. Here are the key takeaways that stood out to me when I peer-reviewed it. 🧵

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Rest of World @restofworld.org · 21/09/2026

By backing free AI models, Nvidia could lock in hardware dominance in the UAE, pulling the country closer to the U.S. and challenging Chinese open-source AI. restofworld.org/2026/nvidia-open-so…

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Nvidia’s free AI model could push the UAE closer to the U.S.

The Emirates owns the machines but rents the intelligence. Nvidia’s next free AI model could change that.

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Jason Kint @kint.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Eye popping. Court just unsealed Summary Judgment motions in New York Times v OpenAI / Microsoft. Easy to see why the AI companies had so many redactions (pink). Their own people wrote the lede for NYT, the "largest theft of labor in human history"... "more and more substitutive..." /1

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Barry Pollard @tunetheweb.com · 15/09/2026

We just launched experimental ad metrics in the Chrome User Experience Report (CrUX): - Ad Count - Ad Density - Ad Weight: Network - Ad Weight: CPU These metrics are a set of ad-related measurements that provide transparency into sites' ad experiences. developer.chrome.com/blog/crux-ad... 1/8 🧵

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New ad metrics in Chrome User Experience Report | Blog | Chrome for Developers

Learn about the new ad metrics now available in the Chrome User Experience Report (CrUX)

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Count Cormacula @cormacos.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

More of his support acts bailing on what is probably the biggest opportunity of their career because some things are worth more than money. I’ll go see BEOGA wherever they play next. Fair play.

“We have made the decision to depart as Ed Sheeran’s band on the remaining US Loop tour, following the silencing of Macklemore by zionist lobbies.
We are a traditional Irish band who never saw ourselves playing in stadiums of that size and that opportunity is not lost on us. We have been friends with Ed for over 10 years now and will continue to be. We believe in dialogue as a means of progressing the plight of the Palestinian people.”

“As musicians, playing to those crowds every night is the stuff of dreams but to play in venues that silence anyone advocating for a Free Palestine is simply not an option for us.
It’s important that everyone knows that the real enemy is the zionist lobby. They have worked tirelessly to silence artists who want to speak freely about a genocide happening before our eyes, for fear of retribution.
Research how much Robert Kraft has done to fight the BDS movement. That will give you a sense of what we’ve all been up against.
We were there for Macklemore’s performance and speech. We fully supported his message, so did most of the audience in Met Life Stadium which terrifies the lobbies. Go back and read the transcript if you’re in doubt.”

“We are Irish people who understand colonialism. As founding members of the Irish Artists For Palestine movement, we are committed activists for justice and will continue to be.
This whole episode is once again serving to distract from the real issue, over 1000 Palestinians have been killed since the most recent so-called ceasefire.
Up the workers.
Free Palestine.
BEOGA”

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Michael Lobel @mlobelart.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Happy birthday to David Wojnarowicz, groundbreaking artist, writer & activist, who raged raged raged against inequity and injustice at every turn. If he hadn’t died of AIDS, like so many leading lights of his generation, he would have been 72 years old today (thread)

A black-and-white photograph of artist & writer David Wojnarowicz, with added elements including red and yellow flames along the right side of his body, and maps over his face and neck

A photo of artist David Wojnarowicz wearing a jacket; on the back is a pink triangle and the legend, "If I die of AIDS-forget burial-just drop my body on the steps of the F.D.A."

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Jeremy Keith @adactio.com · 14/09/2026

Journal: Stalling installing Trying to get past Webkit’s blockage at the W3C. 🔗https://adactio.com/journal/22757

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Philip O'Connor @philipoconnor.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

There's a single seat between the two blocks in the Swedish election - it will be hard to convince me that the Centre Party aren't going to do a rug-pull & go back to the right. Once again, the Social Democrats pissed away the chance of a lifetime by trying to be more racist than the racists.

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Niall Winters @nwin.eurosky.social · 12/09/2026

For those in Ireland, please consider signing. It’s important to help get the #keepitfive campaign going by raising awareness of the negative impacts of changing the citizenship requirement from five to eight years. c.org/GPvrYXVL69

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Sign the Petition

Petition Against Increasing Irish Citizenship from 5 to 8 Years

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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 11/09/2026

Shanah Tovah, New York! Wishing all Jewish New Yorkers celebrating a sweet, joyful and meaningful Rosh Hashanah. Here’s to a new year filled with health, happiness and blessings (and yes, even another Knicks championship).

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Niall Winters @nwin.eurosky.social · 11/09/2026

Excellent points on AI in this open letter from a bunch of Fields Medalists. “But solving problems is only a tool and proxy for achieving the primary goal of conceptual understanding and insight.”

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Quantian @quantian.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Dancing very very VERY close to saying “OpenAI stole our almost-complete proof of Navier-Stokes from internal access to our ChatGPT sessions because they were desperate to scoop Anthropic” which is absolutely 100% a believable thing OpenAI would do right now cims.nyu.edu/~tristanb/st...

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Niall Winters @nwin.eurosky.social · 08/09/2026

My email to my local TD this morning opposing the proposed change to timeline for gaining #Irish #citizenship. I encourage everyone to do the same. To those with much bigger social media presence than me, please consider boosting.

Text of my email opposing the proposed change to timeline for gaining Irish citizenship.

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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

In honor of Uber shutting down in Nigeria this week, here’s my favorite story about Uber in Nigeria.

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Niall Winters @nwin.eurosky.social · 04/09/2026

"A dozen of the most powerful executives in tech looked at a man who wrote that a British march calling for the deportation of non-white citizens was 'heartwarming,' and decided he was the person they wanted to hand a multimillion-dollar foundation to." #DHH brennan.day/normalized-f...

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Normalized Fascism in Open Source: $12 Million Given to DHH

Open source has become a safe harbor for far-right politics, from David Heinemeier Hansson's white-nationalist rhetoric and the Omarchy Foundation's $12 million in patron funding to so-called apolitic...

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Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences @pnas.org · 03/09/2026

Soundscapes of ancient forests are made possible through reconstructions of the sound-producing structures of insects from the Jurassic period. These ancient relatives of today’s katydids lived in what is now Inner Mongolia, China. In PNAS: ow.ly/xee550ZISxP

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Niall Winters @nwin.eurosky.social · 02/09/2026

The New Delhi metro “is 33 percent solar-powered, and its train cars capture brake energy in batteries. Last year, the trains ran 99.9 percent on time.” www.nytimes.com/2026/09/02/h...

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How the Delhi Metro Became a Leading Transit System (Gift Article)

This year, the Indian capital’s subway system passed New York’s in length.

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kate bush’s husband @airbagged.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Democrats have spent 3 days attacking a streamer btw

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Asked 100 Devs @asked100devs.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

These won't start hitting YouTube until next week, but figured I'd give an early release for people following this account, since they've been answering the questions that have helped make this happen 🙂 My very first guest was @nerdy.dev

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Niall Winters @nwin.eurosky.social · 13/08/2026

If you like ambient, tune in. Wonderful listen so far! Ambient Orbit Live from the Kilkenny Arts Festival on RTÉ Lyric FM: www.rte.ie/radio/radio/...

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RTÉ lyric fm

Ireland's Classical Music & Arts Station on 96-99fm

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Michael Clemens @mclem.org · 12/08/2026

Incredible. When E—n M—k & his crew obliterated USAID in a weekend, they deleted a vast trove of publicly-funded knowledge: the Development Experience Clearinghouse. A Canadian high school student (!) happened to have downloaded the entire thing for a project. AidData has now posted it for all.

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Before reimagining development data, remember what we’ve learned

Why we’re publishing a free, searchable, and ungated archive featuring a quarter-century of USAID evaluation reports.

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Niall Winters @nwin.eurosky.social · 12/08/2026

A new album by Kristen Bell or Emma Watson anyone? An AI scam associating #AIslop music with real people is all over the music streaming platforms. (1/2) www.instagram.com/reel/DbrRSWm...

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Instagram

Create an account or log in to Instagram - Share what you're into with the people who get you.

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Maybe this will finally get politicians to care about climate change: “The brutally hot summer is set to cost the EU economy €180 billion this year — that’s equivalent to roughly 1 percent of GDP, which is all the growth the bloc was expected to generate in 2026, according to new analysis.”

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Europe’s scorching summer is erasing its economic growth, says report

Dutch growth is set to be almost entirely wiped out, and France could be pushed into a contraction.

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Athena Kugblenu @athenakugblenu.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

The Guardian once asked me 'what one change would you make to achieve Black equality in Britain?' and it feels appropriate to share my answer again

Athena Kugblenu: Allow Black people to be mediocre too!
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I would like to replace #blackexcellence with #blackmediocrity. True equality is when our talent:recognition ratio is allowed to be as broad as white people’s. Lewis Hamilton had to win two Formula One titles before he bagged BBC Sports Personality of the Year in 2014; Greg Rusedski only had to get battered by Pat Rafter to win his. Kwasi Kwarteng steered the economy towards an iceberg and got sacked. Jeremy Hunt drove the NHS over a cliff, now he’s chancellor. Don’t get me started on how many football clubs get ruined by freshly retired white footballers while very qualified Black managers are overlooked. When the arc of the moral universe bends towards Black people failing upwards as their peers do, we will be in the promised land.

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Niall Winters @nwin.eurosky.social · 01/08/2026

Two great blogposts on authorship in the time of the LLM. 👇👇

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Niall Winters @nwin.eurosky.social · 30/07/2026

Not a word from Dragsted here on changing Denmark’s horrifically inhumane immigration policy. All he says is he’s against “reimmigration”. Extremely telling*. *Happy to be wrong. Perhaps I missed it elsewhere & as part of the gov negotiations immigration policies have been watered down?

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Ada Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Africa is smashing all the solar records. The continent installed more grid-connected solar in the first half of 2026 than in all of 2025, and with projects under construction the year could finish at triple the previous record. buff.ly/NirgzLn #ShareGoodNewsToo

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African 2026 on-grid solar additions surpass those of 2025 | African Energy

The latest analysis from African Energy Live Data shows despite a slow 2025, solar capacity additions in 2026 have already surpassed each previous year. Falling costs and several recent agreements…

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Wendy Lyon @wendylyon.eurosky.social · 29/07/2026

Glad to see so much uptake of this story which was first reported by Shamim, but please be aware this is entirely typical and unsurprising behaviour by the DOJ. It’s particularly cruel when the students are from Gaza but it’s also part of a pattern of unjustified visa refusals

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Bodleian Social Science Library @bodssloxford.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

We are pleased to announce that access to EThOS (E-Theses Online Service) ethos.bl.uk an open access discovery platform for UK doctoral theses, managed by @britishlibrary.bsky.social has now been restored. Find out more at tinyurl.com/mvtunxvt

A degree scroll rolled up and tied with a tassel ended string. Next to this is a Mortar Board Graduation cap.

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The Journal @thejournal.ie · 29/07/2026

Glen Hansard, Oscar-winning songwriter and lead singer with Dublin band The Frames has died aged 56. jrnl.ie/7116253

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Niall Winters @nwin.eurosky.social · 28/07/2026

The Irish DoJ says Gazans w/ full scholarships were rejected b/c of: “not supplying original bank statements, a failure to account for gaps in their education, and a failure to supply strong evidence that they will return home once their course of study is completed.” www.rte.ie/news/educati...

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Concern over study visa refusal rate for Gazan students

Concern is growing in Irish universities over a high rate of refusal of study visas to students in Gaza who are due to take up college scholarships in Ireland this September.

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Niall Winters @nwin.eurosky.social · 28/07/2026

In fairness, great marketing 😂👇

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Niall Winters @nwin.eurosky.social · 27/07/2026

💥‼️ WOW ‼️💥 “In 1985, two women artists, a generation younger, invited me to a meeting to start a new kind of feminist project… We decided to call ourselves the Guerrilla Girls” Joyce Kozloff reveals she was one of the founding members! artjournal.collegeart.org?p=19775

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Feminist Interview Project: Joyce Kozloff interviewed by Helena Reckitt and Maura Reilly - Art Journal Open

A new installment of the Feminist Interview Project celebrates activist and artist Joyce Kozloff

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Niall Winters @nwin.eurosky.social · 26/07/2026

I don’t really follow much sport but like the passion shown here… rivalling Brazilian football commentary!

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