Michele Mauro

as always, @elaineburke.bsky.social nails it! this "100% digital" i.e. accessing digital boarding pass through their app, gives Ryanair and involved data brokers unprecedented access to your data

Post from Sarah Kendzior on her Substack account, dated 11/10/2025: “I’ve been suspended from BlueSky. I don’t know why. I wasn’t online much today, and the last things I posted were excerpts from my substack newsletter articles. The suspension followed without explanation. It seems there’s a crackdown. If you enjoy my work and want to make sure you can access it, subscribe! It’s free — I would never paywall in times of peril — and voluntary paying subscribers keep it going. It would be great to have your support at this time. Thanks!”

What the hell’s this all about, @bsky.app?

#FreeSarahKendzior

A group of Israeli settlers attacked Palestinian industrial and agricultural facilities in Tulkarem, in the occupied West Bank, causing large fires and injuring several people.

Clear out toys now!

Love being reminded to do this every year. It's a win/win all round

Just been invited to the launch event of a report considering the 'future of the UK's research system' where they will be considering the creation of disruption labs named after Ada Lovelace and the report will be introduced by a panel of five men

A painting of a bird beside the text "you're gonna rot your brain with this shit"

OpenAI faces 7 lawsuits claiming ChatGPT drove people to suicide, delusions OpenAI is facing seven lawsuits claiming ChatGPT drove people to suicide and harmful delusions even when they had no prior mental health issues.

Six people died from tampered Tylenol and the company pulled 30 million bottles off the market. ChatGPT is accused of urging seven people towards suicide, and OpenAI just assures us they’re still working out the kinks. Billions in investment, zero accountability.

A painting of a bird beside the text "consider that perhaps no one is interested in your opionion because it is fucking awful"

Thinking again how perverse it is that Musk was given a $1T salary as his cuts to USAID has led to 600,000 deaths. What a shameful world.

i’ve said this before but lemme say it again. it makes absolutely 0 sense to talk about “misuse” of llms because there is no clear use or purpose for llms to begin with. genAI is a purposeless tech floating around looking for uptake

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HISTORY REPEATS: This 1905 illustration, From the Depths by William Balfour Ker, is going viral again for a reason. Then, it captured a gilded elite dancing above the suffering of workers — their wealth literally built on the backs of the hungry below

Your data, their rules The growing risks of hosting EU data in the US cloud

Your data, their rules

the AI powered dystopia you've been waiting for

Locutus assimilation tip: Social media is the Borg. You have joined willingly. Resistance is futile.

Screenshot of start.spring.io showing the new configuration section.

A new feature dropped on start.spring.io!

Because you all love YAML so much, we've added radio buttons to switch the configuration format from properties to YAML. Hope you brought a ruler and don't live in Norway!

"Sono russo": violenza, paura ed eredità del pensiero imperialista - Valigia Blu L'attacco di un uomo lettone di lingua russa a una famiglia ucraina ha fatto il giro del mondo. Quanto avvenuto su quel treno svizzero è però il riflesso di una mentalità e una cultura ben radicata.

🧵 “Sono russo”: violenza, paura ed eredità del pensiero imperialista | @hannaperekhoda.bsky.social
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Turkish football federation finds hundreds of referees have betting accounts Turkey’s football federation will launch disciplinary action against referees found to have bet on football matches after discovering that hundreds of them had betting accounts

Turkish soccer referees seem onboard with at least the betting part of this strategy:

www.theguardian.com/football/202...

There is something truly remarkable about Generative AI.

Several years in this revolution, half of the US GDP dumped to make these tools free, and i can't think of a single generated artifact, text, image, sound, video that had a significant cultural impact.

Python was awarded a funding grant, funding grant asked Python foundation to remove all diversity and inclusion initiatives they have.

Python foundation said no and rejected the grant.

If you use Python, send a few dollars to the charity to keep it going. I’m pushing a dono on behalf of ScamGuard.

Ed Luce watching democracy die in the United States of America

Just a thought: How about we stop shaming the poor for buying things that may not be essential, and start shaming the rich for making a profit off things that are essential?

A worker sorts through a large pile of e-waste in an industrial facility, highlighting the environmental impact of discarded electronics.

We're seeing lots of headlines about the catastrophic impact of massive data center expansion. But what else could data centers look like?

In my perpetual quest to seek out alternative technofutures, I want to highlight the really cool work of Keolu Fox.

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Tools and Trends - The State of Developer Ecosystem in 2025 Explore key software developer statistics for 2025 in the State of Developer Ecosystem Report. Trends, insights, and tools shaping the developer world.

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Sam Altman (@sama) We made ChatGPT pretty restrictive to make sure we were being careful with mental health issues. We realize this made it less useful/enjoyable to many users who had no mental health problems, but given the seriousness of the issue we wanted to get this right. Now that we have been able to mitigate the serious mental health issues and have new tools, we are going to be able to safely relax the restrictions in most cases. In a few weeks, we plan to put out a new version of ChatGPT that allows people to have a personality that behaves more like what people liked about 4o (we hope it will be better!). If you want your ChatGPT to respond in a very human-like way, or use a ton of emoji, or act like a friend, ChatGPT should do it (but only if you want it, not because we are usage-maxxing). In December, as we roll out age-gating more fully and as part of our “treat adult users like adults” principle, we will allow even more, like erotica for verified adults.

Translation: After we built an addictive tool based on stolen data, exploited labor and plundering the environment, which pushes kids to commit suicides, we were like, why not cash in on "erotica"? After all, this is what building so-called AGI that "benefits humanity" looks like.

opentelemetry-tracing/warehouse-nord/src at master · nfrankel/opentelemetry-tracing Demo for end-to-end tracing via OpenTelemetry. Contribute to nfrankel/opentelemetry-tracing development by creating an account on GitHub.

I've "vibe-coded" a new #Gleam-based component in my #OpenTelemetry demo.

Conclusion: I learned absolutely nothing. I won't use coding assistants in this way ever again.

Of Models and Tin Men- A behavioural economics study of principal-agent problems in AI alignment using large-language models One of the challenges in assessing the capability and safety of LLMs is their opacity; AI safety researchers sometimes refer to them as “giant inscrutable arrays of fractional numbers” [6]. Since many of their capabilities emerge down- stream, we cannot reason about their high-level functioning theoretically from first principles, but rather we have to resort to empirical enquiry and actual experiments (c.f. [7, 8, 9]). This is analogous to using the scientific method to understand human cognition. The human brain is similarly opaque, and therefore behavioural psychologists test their hypotheses using controlled experiments with human subjects. Accordingly, researchers have started to adapt empirical methods from cognitive psychology [10], and behavioural economics [11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 14], to the study of large-language models

the flaw in this logic is that all commercial llms (by opeAI, google, anthropic etc) hardly share information about their models inc training data, evaluation processes or benchmarks. they basically operate under a “trust me bro” attitude. hence why this analogy is misguided and/or flat out wrong

i’m looking to recruit a postdoc to work on this (documentation + evaluation on accuracy, reliability and societal impacts). hope to advertise detailed descriptions of the role in the coming weeks

Maybe the slash stands for "root"?

Even better: taking the Bus to the airport in Cluj (RO) today, I discovered that friday it's free transport day. So, no payment problems. Nantes (FR) does the same in the weekends, and the city centre was all busy with locals and tourists.