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Political bias in AI: Where the AI models stand
Political bias in AI measures where every major AI model stands on charged political and ethical questions: run many times, no web search, plotted with error...
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Countries are competing to see which can carry out mass surveillance the best
USA and their friends in the surveillance alliance Fourteen Eyes have demonstrated that they have the capacity, the desire and the experience to monitor who they want, when they want, anywhere in the world.
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Wikipedia Workers in Britain set global first by seeking union recognition
Wikipedia workers in Britain request union recognition with UTAW, national branch of the CWU
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Long Island's decommissioned nuclear power plant
Driving on Route-25a through East Shoreham, you’d never guess there was anything unusual about the gated road heading off toward the coast. But go down a ways… …and suddenly, it’ll appear through the trees… Long Island’s only nuclear power plant, closed and shuttered since it was decommissioned in 1994. Today, it sits…
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Thomann takes legal action against Fender
For brand diversity and innovation: Why we are taking legal action against Fender's cease and desist demand.
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Wikipedia Workers to Seek Union Recognition
COMMUNICATION WORKERS UNION 24/06/2026 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Wikipedia workers in Britain are setting a “global first” by becoming the first body of workers at the online encyclopaedia to seek union recognition. British-based employees at the Wikimedia Foundation (WMF) wrote a letter to mana
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PR spam today looks like email spam in the early 2000s
OpenClaw became the fastest-growing repo in GitHub history almost overnight. The PR data offers a preview of what the future of open source contribution may look like.
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Extreme Heat conference cancelled due to extreme heat warning
We regret that this event has been cancelled due to the red extreme heat warning issued by the UK Met Office.
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California AB 2047 makes 3D printers off-limits to students, educators, business
A plain-language guide to AB2047 you can share with your school board, PTA, or neighbor. Learn what's at stake and how to take action.
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United Wizards of the Coast recognized by NLRB
Today is a momentous day for the workers of Arena! After months of planning, waiting and organizing, our dream is finally a reality; the votes have been counted, and our union of UWOTC-CWA has been officially elected.From this day forward, we have a union!To the thousands who signed our petition letter, the…
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Signs you're a dangerous terrorist: using Signal, moving zines
The unusually long sentences criminalize being an anti-fascist activist, reading the wrong zines, and using the wrong communication apps. They're incredibly dangerous.
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In memory of the man who put red and green squiggles under words
Starting in Word and expanding to nearly every other word processor, and even things that aren't word processors.
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What we call "age verification" is actually mass surveillance
The literature on harms to kids from online platforms is complex and nuanced, rife with people citing small, ambiguous studies as iron-clad evidence that kids are being destroyed by the internet:
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The Coming Loop
Loops, harnesses, and why even loop skeptics may end up with them.
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Crypto in 2026: Oh, This Is the Bad Place
Personal blog of Stephen Diehl - Software engineer writing about technology, programming, and the future
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Job application asked for my SAT scores
Yesterday I was looking at YC jobs to see if there were any interesting small startups hiring in my area (while I otherwise love my current fully-remote job,...
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Jobs and Software Is Fucked
Or how I decided to scream into the void about how awful the job market is. I'm still in a very sour mood after the latest rounds of interviews but ultimatel...
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Japanese symbols that speak without words
I look at the Japanese symbols that carry meaning entirely on their own.
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The last Romans are still around
For some of us, our Roman Empire actually is the Roman Empire. As far as pre-modern states go, the Roman Empire was incredibly powerful, culturally influential, and well documented. Rome’s expansio…
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Investors get real-time view of UK bond market activity for the first time
For the first time, investors and market participants can access a single, real-time source of prices and trading activity across the UK bond market, following the launch of its bond consolidated tape, operated by ETS Connect UK.
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Did my old job only exist because of fraud?
Early in my software engineering career, the UK-based startup I worked at, GenieDB, was taken over by a US Venture Capital fund, Frost VP, owned by Stuart Frost. I was functionally the only piece that came to the US. The code was rebuilt, the rest of the team eventually rotated out, even the core strategy was…
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The 100k whys of AI
One of the most painful arguments I keep having with fellow techies is the question of whether you can distinguish between human-written and AI-generated text.
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Don’t use AI to write things that you present as your own work
...also don't tell lies. But I'm getting ahead of myself already. I keep running into people online who openly say that they use AI to do their writing for t
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The Wholesale Plagiarism of Obscure Sorrows
Without permission, a marketing agency republished the entirety of John Koenig's Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows book, replacing its art with AI slop and adding new AI words. Their unauthorized site now ranks higher than the real one everywhere.
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SMPTE Makes Its Standards Freely Accessible
WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. — June 17, 2026 — SMPTE®, the home of media professionals, technologists and engineers, has announced that its entire Standards catalog is now freely available to the global media technology community.
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Cyberdecks, going analog, and convivial technology
People are moving away from corporate controlled tech, and making their own. How the designs of cyberdecks are being driven by women. And how medieval guilds, Luddites, and the Arts and Crafts movement are all connected to our current moment.
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LLMs Are Complicated Now
Back in 2022 and 2023 there were two big branches of machine learning happening at Meta1. The LLM work that led to Llama was a clean, smooth stack of repeated Transformer modules; the recommendatio…
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