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An old dog learning new tricks: UX designer and alpinist looking for our place in the world that doesn't need us anymore.

Happy Birthday to Sir David Attenborough who turns 100 years old this week.

He is someone whose words we should all stop and think about.

#ai

https://www.404media.co/study-finds-a-third-of-new-websites-are-ai-generated/

“The most surprising result was that our Truth Decay hypothesis wasn't confirmed,”

Turns out the internet was a cesspool of disinformation before ai appeared. It was also a lot less "cheerful".

Study Finds A Third of New Websites are AI-Generated

Researchers found the internet is becoming aggressively positive as AI-generated text floods the web.

404 Media
Platforms aren’t what they promised and Big Tech is cashing in. Join us live on May 14 with Cory Doctorow and Wendy Liu to talk about how we fight back. https://www.eff.org/event/effecting-change-enshittification
EFFecting Change: How to Disenshittify the Internet

The internet didn’t get worse by accident; it’s been systematically molded into what we have today. Join Wendy Liu live in conversation with Cory Doctorow about Cory's latest book, Enshittification. Cory makes it clear: platforms are not as promised, Big Tech is profiting, and you should be...

Electronic Frontier Foundation

#tech #ai

The viral claim that Anthropic loses $5,000 per Claude Code subscriber is false.

https://martinalderson.com/posts/no-it-doesnt-cost-anthropic-5k-per-claude-code-user/

Cryptographers create a browser extension password manager that only requires you to remember one password and stores none of your passwords, allowing you to log in to as many sites as you require. People reported feeling more secure and found the system easier to use. https://spectrum.ieee.org/storeless-password-manager?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=fedica-Mastodon-Daily-Pipeline
HIPPO Ditches Stored Passwords and Password Managers

The technique does away with the need for password managers

IEEE Spectrum
Slovenia to air films about Palestine instead of Eurovision song contest
https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2026/apr/23/slovenia-to-air-films-about-palestine-instead-of-eurovision-song-contest
Ireland and Spain will also not broadcast Eurovision after decision to boycott event over Israel’s participation
Slovenia to air films about Palestine instead of Eurovision song contest

Ireland and Spain will also not broadcast Eurovision after decision to boycott live event over Israel’s participation

The Guardian
Wiretext — Unicode Wireframe Design Tool

A spatial design tool where everything renders as Unicode box-drawing characters. Create wireframes, diagrams, and mockups. Share as text.

Wiretext
Professional climber dies after 20 metre fall from Stawamus Chief in Squamish
Will Stanhope was widely known as a free solo climber and was a member of the Association of Canadian Mountain Guides. He was scaling Rutabaga at the time of his fall.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/man-dies-after-falling-from-stawamus-chief-9.7177477?cmp=rss
and the elastic snaps #LBL #Couchpeloton #LBLMen