I jump between Python IDEs, but nice to see Python stick with DEI, and tell the US to stick it for trying to use funding to wage its culture wars.

BleepingComputer

Python rejects $1.5M grant from U.S. govt. fearing ethical compromise

The Python Software Foundation (PSF) has withdrawn its $1.5 million grant proposal to the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) due to funding ter...

If you are doing online campaigning in the year of our lord 2025 and your instant/easy share buttons are still just 'post to Facebook' & 'post to Twitter' then you are not paying attention.

Notes on the Palestine Action proscription appeal

Notes on the Palestine Action proscription appeal

Amnesty UK and Liberty joined the judicial review challenging Keir Starmer’s Labour Government’s nonsense proscription of Palestine Act...

The best doom reports from 2025

The best doom reports from 2025

This was the year of Project 2025, a sort of dystopian teaser of coming attractions once the MAGA regime moved back into the White House after the ...

Life goals. (Context: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simona_Kossak)

Anthropomorphic designed AI is a waste. Erik Brynjolfsson agrees with me. We don't need to create more human machines, we already know how to make humans.

Client Challenge

Happy anniversary to those who celebrate

Too many people really thought this was just a story about stuff happening in a galaxy far, far away.

Nearly 60,000 civilians who've fled Al Fashir to escape the large-scale atrocities that the world knew would happen — as it had been clearly predicted by human rights monitors — are missing.

Lighthouse Reports

The Killing Fields of Al Fashir

As the Sudanese military’s top brass secured their own safe passage out of a besieged city they left tens of thousands of civilians in the hands ...

The biggest winners in the AI sector, from early next year, will likely be who can best short the market. We need a dead pool for which bots go quiet first.

AI bubble to deflate as firms delay spend, warns Forrester

ai-pocalypse: Gap between vendor promises and business results set to trigger market correction, research firm predicts

American sanctions are being used to memory hole Israeli war crimes: we need new platform stacks asap

American sanctions are being used to memory hole Israeli war crimes: we need new platform stacks asap

YouTube wiped over 700 videos from its platform documenting Israeli human rights abuses from accounts run by the Al Mezan Center for Human Rights, ...

"LLMs deceive us, not by intent but by the frame assigned to them by people who develop and sell them."

Cybernetic Forests

Thoughts on Hinton

On Consciousness in Programs Geoffrey Hinton recently won a Nobel Prize for his work on backpropagation, a foundational piece of research that con...

Naïve art with a wink at Dadaism.

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Autonomie und Solidarität (@autonomysolidarity@todon.eu)

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Long been a listener of the This is Not a Drill podcast, but Gavin Esler’s interview this week with Bruce Schneier, in “Big Tech, A.I. and the dictators – Inside the future of authoritarianism” is maybe one of the best episodes I’ve caught. It has the spoilers about how democracy ends. Enjoy.

Big Tech, A.I. and the dictators – Inside the future of authoritarianism

What will happen when dictators realise just how useful big tech and the data it gathers could be for them? How is this already happening – and h...

It's not that there are no valid uses of the tech stack we presently call 'AI' but so much of Gen AI's market investment is dedicated to unsolving solved problems. Take representing reality. We already have it. Fabricating realistic images makes no sense. There are cameras, and you can go outside.

Leaked docs show Google and Amazon created routes, known as "winking mechanisms," to bypass their legal obligations in order to sell their cloud services to Israel's military for use in its many war crimes. https://www.972mag.com/project-nimbus-contract-google-amazon-israel/

Hello yet again, cruel world

Hello yet again, cruel world

It’s a brand new blog on a new publishing platform. The jokes, however, are old.

Still get spam calls to the dorment mobile number from the Ledger hack. They go straight to bot but enjoy the transcripts. "Prudential compliance division of blockchain. Our records show that your wallet is currently in a dormant status and immediate action is required to resolve this issue. To have one of our agents contact you within the next few hours, please press one now. Your prompt response is important to ensure compliance and resolve this matter. Thank you." Lol.

At what point do we decide that it's not a good idea to allow massive sections of the Internet to rely on just one company?