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Quae nocent, saepe docent. Irreverent cybersecurity & IT ethics prof. History gets worked into all my conference talks and classroom lectures. Allergic to extremes. Science & facts are important. Don't spread dis/misinformation. 🌻

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Ada Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
New Zealand makes cervical cancer screenings free for all women aged 25 to 69. Until now, 55% of eligible women paid NZ$35 to over NZ$100 a visit, a cost that hit younger women hardest. The move backs New Zealand’s goal of eliminating cervical cancer by 2040. buff.ly/VWuxtYX #ShareGoodNewsToo
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Free cervical screening for women aged 25 to 69 - Inside Government NZ
The Government has announced cervical screening will be free for all eligible women aged 25 to 69, from 1 March 2027. Cervical cancer is one of the most preventable cancers. Almost every case is…
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Zack Whittaker @zackwhittaker.com · 16/09/2026
I don't know who needs to hear this; please don't ask people in public/group settings if they have kids. It happens a lot. Today I said no. But it hurts like hell because all you want to say is, none that made it to term, so you can hold onto every precious memory of the happiest times in your life.
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tomwellborn3rd @wellborn.net · 16/09/2026
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Ana Marie Cox @anamariecox.com · 17/09/2026
New cat just dropped. Landed on its feet, it’s fine.
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Meet the First New Cat Species Discovered in 100 Years
A small, spotted tiger cat from Bolivia may just be the beginning of a wave of new small cat species.
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Rosemary Mosco @rosemarymosco.com · 18/09/2026
Humaning.
A four-panel comic. In panel 1, a Northern Cardinal and American Goldfinch perch above a busy crowd in a city, looking down. The cardinal says "It's a nice day to go humaning." The goldfinch says "Just look at them. Majestic." In panel 2, a close-up of the two birds. The cardinal says "Nobody tells you that you'll reach a certain age and suddenly get into humaning. I hit 3 years old, and then bam."The birds are looking out over the crowd scene. In panel 3, the cardinal says "Their calls sound funny to us, but each one has a unique meaning." Below, people are saying various things: "I'm tired." "Where's my phone?" "I'd murder a burrito." In panel 4, the birds look down excitedly at a man walking by. The cardinal says "Wait, is that a guy who got dressed in the dark and put his shirt on inside out and backwards?" And the goldfinch exclaims, "Holy... that's a lifer!"
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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 24/02/2026
when people talk about AI used in moderation of social media posts, you must remember there is always the human-in-the-loop, often a woman, often in the Global South, always dehumanised and forgotten 1/n www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
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‘In the end, you feel blank’: India’s female workers watching hours of abusive content to train AI
Women in rural communities describe trauma of moderating violent and pornographic content for global tech companies
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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 18/09/2026
honestly some of the most apocalyptic impacts of "AI" will be shit like this, and most of the doomsday dipshits predicting SkyNet can't be bothered to notice or care
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UnitedHealth uses AI model with 90% error rate to deny care, lawsuit alleges
For the largest health insurer in the US, AI's error rate is like a feature, not a bug.
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wendy norris @wendynorris.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Must read thread that highlights: • testimony of OpenAI and Microsoft executives under oath • illegal/unethical/monopolistic news website scraping • intended to put news organizations out of business • consolidation of news/info flow within apps that they control Shoot GenAI into the 🤬 sun
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Nicolas Hénin @nicolashenin.net · 17/09/2026
Nice campaign by the Norwegian Consumer Council about the declining lifespan of products. Enjoy!
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
He’s got a point!
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The Computrix @thecomputrix.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y0hd...
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Cars 2006 The king Crashing At Finish Line, Last Race. Best Ending! (8/8) DopeClips
YouTube video by Perception TV
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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
🚨 SOUND UP ⬆️ A billboard truck blaring data center noise and display GOP campaign contributions from Al has been seen driving around the GOP convention in Dallas. A+ no notes 👌🏽
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Sharon 🪳🌹 @sharonk.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
if this was in an evangelical movie about the antichrist you'd think it'd be a bit much
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CosmicHomicide @cosmichomicide.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Premise = idea Premises = location Your server is on-premises, people. And no, you aren't fooling anyone with "on-prem".
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Anger
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 10/09/2026
@crampell.bsky.social breaks down the math of Trump’s claim that every U.S. citizen will receive $5,000: “ If he were to give $5,000 to  every US citizen adult,  it would be over a trillion dollars…the entire federal budget…about $7 trillion.  So yeah.  Don't think that's happening.”
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 10/09/2026
"You’ve learned in war college classrooms that military power is only one element of national power. You’re about to see that proven in real life." ICYMI, @markhertling.bsky.social on some of the many lessons of 9/11:
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A Letter to Myself on 9/11
No man—and no country—can live life in reverse.
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The Computrix @thecomputrix.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Brilliant! youtu.be/xYtaBfwpg_k?...
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Eminem - LOSE YOURSELF (Sung by 331 Movies!)
YouTube video by The Unusual Suspect
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The Computrix @thecomputrix.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
www.ibtimes.co.uk/museum-nicol...
Outlines of Nicolae and Elena Ceaușescu at a museum in Târgoviște, Romania.
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The Computrix @thecomputrix.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Chicago Symphony Orchestra Omaha Symphony Orchestra Lincoln Symphony Orchestra Lincoln Civic Orchestra U2
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The Computrix @thecomputrix.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
I need to see this.
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The Computrix @thecomputrix.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Richard didn't kill the little princes.
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AltStateGov @altstategov.altgov.info · 21/08/2026
Pentagon officials fired Max Lederer today ahead of his planned retirement. (Article from yesterday) Erik Slavin, Editor in Chief of Stars and Stripes has also been fired today. Stars and Stripes has been an impartial source of news for our nation's servicemembers. This could easily now change.
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Stars and Stripes publisher could be fired before planned retirement, sources say
Max Lederer, longtime head of the US military news outlet, says his ‘philosophy of leadership’ differs from Pentagon’s
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Tobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
James Bond: you think I haven’t faced death before? Supervillain: oh, I don’t expect you to die, Mr. Bond. I expect you to suffer. *opens travel funding reimbursement software I think you will find your motorboat rental and casino reservations especially complex James Bond: no. no. pls kill me
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The Computrix @thecomputrix.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
I only recently heard about this - clearly it wasn't about SA - and I constantly say that I don't ask permission - folks need to spend some time in the real world.
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Andres Guadamuz @technollama.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Fahrenheit 451 or Rainbows End? AI, books, and copyright law One of my favourite science fiction novels is 'Rainbows End' by Vernor Vinge. The year is 2025 (yes, seriously), and the world is a mixture of the familiar and the bizarre. Advances in medicine allow older people to become mobile and…
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Fahrenheit 451 or Rainbows End? AI, books, and copyright law
One of my favourite science fiction novels is 'Rainbows End' by Vernor Vinge. The year is 2025 (yes, seriously), and the world is a mixture of the familiar and the bizarre. Advances in medicine allow older people to become mobile and youthful again, but these newly young old people are unprepared for the world in which they awaken, full of digital wonders and wearable tech, particularly augmented reality, which is everywhere.
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The Computrix @thecomputrix.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
I was alive (albeit a little kid) for Nixon/Watergate and now is still worse.
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Andres Guadamuz @technollama.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Why does AI in science fiction so often miss the mark? A few days ago there was an interesting post by Andrew Curran that got a lot of responses which was discussing why AI in science fiction often does not have the capabilities that AI already has in reality. I thoroughly agree with that take,…
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Why does AI in science fiction so often miss the mark?
A few days ago there was an interesting post by Andrew Curran that got a lot of responses which was discussing why AI in science fiction often does not have the capabilities that AI already has in reality. I thoroughly agree with that take, but I think that there is much more going on in why AI in science fiction often feels wrong, and I think that it has to do with the reasons why we have artificial intelligence in media in the first place.
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Andres Guadamuz @technollama.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
OpenAI wins first battle in ongoing Indian copyright lawsuit A fascinating ruling from the High Court of Delhi in India regarding the very high-profile case of ANI Media v OpenAI (decision here). Asian News International (ANI) is one of India's largest news agencies, which supplies text and video…
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OpenAI wins first battle in ongoing Indian copyright lawsuit
A fascinating ruling from the High Court of Delhi in India regarding the very high-profile case of ANI Media v OpenAI (decision here). Asian News International (ANI) is one of India's largest news agencies, which supplies text and video syndication to broadcasters and publishers across South Asia. They sued OpenAI alleging copyright infringement during the training phase, as well as reproduction of its articles on the output phase.
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The Computrix @thecomputrix.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
#2 will try to kill me regardless.
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The Computrix @thecomputrix.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
I tell people I was born during the Johnson administration - Lyndon, not Andrew 😏 - it's fun to see someone discussing Andrew 😀
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The Computrix @thecomputrix.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
TIL about www.museodelprado.es/en/the-colle... - rejected in 1906 because the truth hurt - now in the Prado
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The satyr - The Collection
Set inside the prison at the Torres de Quart in Valencia, in a scene whose conceptualization represents the artist’s most ambitious exercise in formal synthesis, two human groups are architecturally d...
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The Computrix @thecomputrix.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
Bonded mother/kitten pair in Charlotte NC need a furever home www.reddit.com/r/Bondedpair...
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From the Bondedpairs community on Reddit: Mama & baby will be separated if no home is found within a week💔-Foster/Rescue are full.Location 📍:Charlotte,NC,USA
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Rep. Emanuel Cleaver @cleaver.house.gov · 13/07/2026
We should have learned that you can’t manage a public health crisis by ignoring it. Politicizing science and weakening disease surveillance doesn’t make threats disappear, it only makes us less prepared to respond.
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The Computrix @thecomputrix.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
www.reddit.com/r/blackcats/... @cosmichomicide.bsky.social
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From the blackcats community on Reddit: Adopted as a kitten and returned after 13 years 💔. Location 📍:Charlotte,NC,USA
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The Computrix @thecomputrix.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
I miss those days. The 1990s were glorious.
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ACM Ethics @acm-ethics.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0... (gift link)
I no longer use virtual for online life, because its effects are only too real, even visceral. It grants power without responsibility or consequence. Moral panics and witch hunts are built into human nature and feature frequently in history. But they end. Online, the inquisitions follow one another seamlessly.
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Michael @nomad-notmad.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
Odile (the Black Swan from Swan Lake): She is designed to look like Odette - but with a dark, seductive edge. Her goal is to seduce Prince Siegfried and trick him into breaking his vow of fidelity to Odette. This Australian Black Swan seemed perfectly cast for the role #birds of #Australia
a red beak and one red eye are surrounded by black feathers. The swan was resting on the shore beside a lake, with it's bill tucked into it's back feathers
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ACM Ethics @acm-ethics.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
A colleague noted, "The thing that should keep people up at night isn't AGI. It's that we are making irreversible physical infrastructure decisions at extraordinary speed with essentially no public oversight, driven by capital that moves faster than democratic institutions can respond."
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ACM Ethics @acm-ethics.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
What hath we wrought? A civilization that will risk the last viable clouded leopard breeding program in the Western Hemisphere so that someone can generate an AI image faster. @nashvillezoo.bsky.social www.nashvillezoo.org/our-blog/pos...
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Say Yes to Nashville Zoo, Say NO to the Proposed Data Center
What is going on?AI Data Centers are being built at an alarming pace, posing possible risks to diverse and vulnerable communities. The next one could be located just feet away from one of the most fra...
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The Computrix @thecomputrix.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
I'm making this required reading for the tech ethics students.
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The Computrix @thecomputrix.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
www.cnn.com/science/pata...
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Penguins are helping scientists track ‘forever chemicals’ in Patagonia | CNN
Researchers fitted Magellanic penguins with chemical-absorbing leg bands to gather data about pollution in the ocean.
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The Computrix @thecomputrix.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
Today is also Tchaikovsky's birthday: youtu.be/rUuusqy50yk?...
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Tchaikovsky - Valse Sentimentale
YouTube video by The Wicked North
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The Computrix @thecomputrix.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
In honor of Brahms' birthday today youtu.be/TzVFzSediQc?...
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Brahms' Lullaby for Meow - Lunch Dream of Haburu
YouTube video by Haburu
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Bachtrack @bachtrack.com · 07/05/2026
“I played over the music of that scoundrel Brahms. What a giftless bastard!” Tchaikovsky and Brahms shared the same birthday (7th May 1840 and 1833 respectively) and actually got on rather well. Enjoy our top ten playlists for each: bachtrack.com/playlist-bes...
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Kevin VanOrd 🏳️‍🌈 🐻 @fiddlecub.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
Well. Today is the birthday of both Johannes Brahms (1833) and Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840) so I'll probably have a whole music thread, starting with: Brahms' 4th symphony, an easy favourite for me. Also: the LSO plays its collective ass off in this performance.
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Brahms: Symphony No. 4 | London Symphony Orchestra & Nathalie Stutzmann
YouTube video by DW Classical Music
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The Computrix @thecomputrix.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
And here I thought it was this www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ln2X...
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Nighttime Daytime Bird
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Angry Staff Officer @pptsapper.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
It’s the 250th year of American independence, and the Pope and the King of England are reminding Americans of their revolutionary values, principles, and ideals Somewhere, John Adams is confused as fuck
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Dylan Orosz🩵 @finalboyo.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
Epic Showdown.
Blue Jay and cardinal
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The Computrix @thecomputrix.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
Found out recently that these awesome critters glow under UV light!
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Guy Verkroost @guyverkroost.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
2131 #cassowary #birdphotography #birding #NaturePhotography #nature #bird
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