@claredillon.bsky.social
Loves InnerSource and Open Source.
Privacy is a big deal for cars, especially electric cars. Many are worried about Chinese cars. What is worth remembering is that Western car manufacturers all fail on respecting user privacy www.mozillafoundation.org/en/blog/priv...
#Privacy #EV
Ireland, Day 1056 of The Rain. Everything is saturated to the grey of the sky. Moss covers every surface. The outdoors sounds like constant static. The entire staff of Met Éireann is on mental health leave. I’ve forgotten what dry clothes feel like.
It is still a yellow weather alert.
#SpeirGorm
“A key driver of China’s AI momentum stems from its aggressive embrace of open models, a shift sparked by DeepSeek’s breakout success. Since then, Chinese AI labs have jumped on the open-model bandwagon.The turn to open models in China “has dramatically reduced costs for developers & enterprises,””
11.02.2026 08:29 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
When AI was added to a tool for sinus surgery: “Cerebrospinal fluid leaked from one patient’s nose. In another… a surgeon mistakenly punctured the base of a patient’s skull. In two other cases, patients suffered strokes after a major artery was accidentally injured”
www.reuters.com/investigatio...
“The climate scientists we surveyed were unambiguous: current economic models can’t capture what matters most – the cascading failures and compounding shocks that define climate risk in a warmer world – and could undermine the very foundations of economic growth.”
This should be THE story everyday.
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Here's your chance to shape the future of EU tech policy. Share your opinion by February 3.
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This article is a very useful reframing of the tired “Europe falling behind in tech” whinge.
Europe has actually build the foundations for socially useful tech, for decades.
What it has not done is attempt to create Empires by extracting cash from that work.
ploum.net/2026-01-22-w...
Charles Yang of Time for Three absolutely slaying me. I would lose my mind if I heard this live. Even crappy phone speakers made me scream and cry.
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“One mile on a bike is a $.42 economic gain to society, one mile driving is a $.20 loss.”
“Which means that Copenhagen, a city of 1.2 million people, saves $357 million a year on health costs because something like 80% of its population commutes by bike.” #CityMakingMath
Some costs aren’t costs.
AI & Humans: Making the Relationship Work
Leaders of many organizations are urging their teams to adopt agentic AI to improve efficiency, but are finding it hard to achieve any benefit. Managers attempting to add AI agents to existing human teams may find that bots fail to faithfully follow their…
AI and the Corporate Capture of Knowledge
More than a decade after Aaron Swartz's death, the United States is still living inside the contradiction that destroyed him. Swartz believed that knowledge, especially publicly funded knowledge, should be freely accessible. Acting on that, he downloaded…
We are pleased to announce the 13 - 16 April 13, 2026 Software Citation Workshop in San Diego, California — an interactive, cross‑disciplinary event focused on advancing best practices, implementation strategies, and community engagement for software citation in astronomy research (and beyond).
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The cyberpsychologist says that Grok’s ‘nudify’ controversy is not just a 'bad app' issue — it is a global governance challenge...
jrnl.ie/6928174
In the meantime, the replay from December on the Value Paths for OSPOs and ISPOs by @claredillon.bsky.social is online, together with all the previous sessions.
🎥 You can watch them at ospo-alliance.org/onramp/past_...
bsky.app/profile/ospo...
Beneath a banner reading "Mathematical Society: 2025 Meeting" some stick-figure mathematicians are having a conversation. Mathematician 1: "Any other development from the year to cover, before we wrap?" Mathematician 2: "Oh, the teens picked a new funny number." Mathematician 3: "Aww, I'm glad to hear they're still doing that." Mathematician 4: "I'll add it to the list". She is drawn writing the number "67" onto a whiteboard that already contains the following numbers: "23 (skidoo!). 42. 1,337. 69. 58,008. 420."
Absolutely top-notch comic-ry from #XKCD today.
23.12.2025 09:20 — 👍 4 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
Extract from Rob Reiner's Wikipedia Filmography 1986 - Stand By zme 1987 - The Princess Bride 1989 - When Harry Met Sally 1990 - Misery 1992 - A Few Good Men
Rob Reiner: I'm going to make a coming of age drama, a fantasy adventure story, a romantic comedy, a psychological horror and then a courtroom drama.
Us: Across your entire career?
Reiner: In a 6 year period.
Us: That sounds-
Reiner: -Each one will be arguably the best movie in that genre.
The tenants of "The Complex" the brilliant arts space just off Capel St Stop are being evicted in January and the city can't afford to lose yet *another* cultural space.
Please sign & share the petition to save The Complex
At a meeting Monday, councillors fumed over the govt's delay of Dart extension meant to serve thousands of homes. “If we keep taking money away from these projects and delaying them, we’re just going to condemn people to slowly losing the will to live in gridlock.”
03.12.2025 08:00 — 👍 23 🔁 6 💬 2 📌 1“Maybe we’re onto something.”
“How can we tell? We’ve only done this 187,623 times with the same success every single time. Could be a fluke.”
I’d never have guessed.
23.11.2025 18:11 — 👍 49 🔁 21 💬 0 📌 0
Read this interview with @peterthorne.bsky.social to understand how dire the situation is with respect to US science funding. The US has played an outsized role in Earth observations and global coordination, and even if other nations decide to step in, it would take at least a decade to recover.
19.11.2025 11:43 — 👍 142 🔁 60 💬 5 📌 2
UK consumers warned over AI chatbots giving inaccurate financial advice
18.11.2025 06:04 — 👍 81 🔁 46 💬 8 📌 4
People support structures that support them. Who in your workplace is the biggest slopAI enthusiast?
news.stanford.edu/stories/2025...
"The research built on some other ethically dubious scholarship, which posits that personality traits can be sussed out just based on a person’s facial features."
futurism.com/future-socie...
Cartoon showing how each time vehicles have gotten bigger, it’s led other people to think their vehicles need to be bigger too. The final panel shows people discussing that they’ll need to install whirling spike clubs, or else be destroyed by other drivers…
True story.
Via @xkcd.com
Mind Blowingly Good Cycle Lanes planned
That’s a bold statement. I like it
www.timeout.com/london/news/...
Map of Europe showing four clusters linking air transport and regional economies. Dark pink regions, including London, Paris, and Madrid, are high income and facing saturation. Orange regions are tourism-dependent, lighter orange have lower income and business travel, and yellow show low business travel demand but high outbound tourism. Text notes that airports in London, Paris, and Madrid are expanding despite saturation. Source: New Economic Foundation
NEW: Air traffic growth is not a guarantee of economic growth, despite industry claims.
These claims, often echoed by governments to justify airport expansion, are undermined by new research.
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It’s awesome to see this — but seriously, it’s so damn frustrating that we have to fight this fight in every city when the science couldn’t be clearer. Get the cars out, make more money for local shops, and build cities that are exciting, healthy, and happy for everyone.
08.11.2025 06:56 — 👍 189 🔁 61 💬 0 📌 1
The world’s first trillionaire initiated a move that has left more than half a million people dead, most of whom are children.
07.11.2025 07:39 — 👍 12666 🔁 5526 💬 374 📌 489📣 I am hiring a postdoc! aial.ie/hiring/postd...
applications from suitable candidates that are passionate about investigating the use of genAI in public service operations with the aim of keeping governments transparent and accountable are welcome
pls share with your networks
