@mhoye

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Envoy, arbiter, sysadmin.

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Generative AI and Wikipedia editing: What we learned in 2025

Like many organizations, Wiki Education has grappled with generative AI, its impacts, opportunities, and threats, for several years. As an organization that runs large-scale programs to bring new e…

Wiki Education
The IDF now acknowledges that it has killed over 70,000 people in Gaza since October 2023: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/jan/30/israel-military-gaza-death-toll-broadly-accurate
Israel accepts health authorities’ Gaza death toll is broadly accurate, saying 70,000 have died

Israeli military’s U-turn in accepting official figures comes after years of attacking data as ‘Hamas propaganda’

The Guardian
You are being misled about renewable energy technology.

Let's learn and grow. New things are cool!Links 'n' stuff down below. Lots of links.First, the "clean version." Please pass that around.https://youtu.be/Zgxb...

YouTube

A strange but true finding about NYC congestion pricing:

Drivers’ time savings have overwhelmingly gone to those traveling *outside* the toll zone (i.e., driving from Brooklyn to Queens or within NJ) – not those headed into Manhattan.

Me, in Bloomberg:
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-01-30/how-manhattan-s-congestion-toll-speeds-up-trips-in-the-suburbs

#nyc #congestion #manhattan #newjersey #transportation

so, just totally going under the radar that tesla looted subsides from governments like the US for the promise of lowering green house gasses

and is now taking that wealth and dumping it into xAI stock by having tesla buy the stock, a company responsible for making entire towns polluted with methane generators. and those generators are being ran to generate images of woman, many underage, w/o their clothes

the disparity justice across class and even political lines is ever expanding it seems

Buttered Crumpet - a Wallace & Gromit font.

https://jamieclarketype.com/case-study/wallace-and-gromit-font/

Wallace and Gromit Font

Jamie Clarke Type

I have more to write about this, but I think the FOSS world urgently needs to come to grips with the fact that "Sovereignty" and "Liability" are the same thing.

Accountability before the state and accountability to the laws of the state are the same thing,

If devs can be held responsible for their code, what difference does it make at the implementation level if the injured party is the individual or the state?

"Free as in no warranty express or implied" might not be a viable option soon.

The bizzarro-land ethical conundrum of "should we let people just buy political influence with cash just so movies like 'Melania don't need to be made."

I'm thinking about this from an artistic harm-reduction perspective.

every once in awhile I stop for a moment and marvel at the state of journalism that we have to spend so much time convincing them to leave platforms run by literal nazis that actively block their content in the first place.

#mastodonMigration

(The video of ICE chasing a big middle finger on a rolling office chair is AI slop.)