I’d like to reiterate what I said a while back: integrating LLM-based tools into all corporate and personal workflows is outright dangerous. Even when run locally, most LLMs in use are trained and tuned by corporations that are now deeply in bed with a lawless authoritarian takeover of the US

People who are removing all references to minorities, women, and equality from your public spheres will not hesitate to ask corporations to tune centrally-controlled LLMs to censor the same from your work

If you're planning on travelling south from Manchester Piccadilly by train in August, be aware that Stockport station is closed for most of the month (2-23) and there will be no trains running through it at all. Given how key Stockport is to that part of the WCML, this will create total chaos and is best avoided if possible.

Also there are no Metrolink trams to Piccadilly from most of the network from this week until mid-August (overlapping with the Stockport work).

#trains #manchester

"The opposition to climate action is using anti-trans rhetoric to build its base"

"A new analysis shows 80% of anti-trans groups have financial links to the fossil fuel industry, @yessfun reports" - @emorwee (via bsky)

HEATED: Fossil fuel billionaires are bankrolling the anti-trans movement

https://heated.world/p/fossil-fuel-billionaires-are-bankrolling

👀✨ Something exciting is coming… 👀✨

Applications for the Django Girls Workshop open on Monday 16th of June!

Whether you’ve never written a line of code or are just starting out, this is your sign to learn, connect and try something new 💻💫

Ready to dive in? Learn more here: https://djangogirls.org/en/pyconuk/

#PyConUK2025 #PythonProgramming #SoftwareEngineering #Python #development #ManchesterTech #DjangoGirls #WomenInTech

Generating a #Parkrun pass for #iOS #WatchOS wallet so you don't need to bring a physical barcode:

https://dfyb.run

#running

No lies detected. Queer circles are *STACKED* with the kinds of introverts and neurodivergent geniuses who built the internet for fun (and let cishet bros enshitify it for profit -- Hey... Nobody's perfect).

Name any major FOSS project, I'll find you an LGBT person who is or was instumental. Probably several, and probably in my friends network. Maybe even my relationship graph.

For example PHP has... fuck, I lost count. PHP is *really* gay.