Hazel WeaklyThe two hardest problems in Computer Science are
1. Human communication
2. Getting people in tech to believe that human communication is important
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Digital curator, formerly cultural heritage technologist. Was @mia_out on twitter. Melbournian in exile. She/they, because fck TERFs
Dan Ports
Muppet GIF of the DayToday's #Muppets GIF of the Day is...
Steph (crisis version)The Good Friday Agreement only came about through a heroic effort by so many people. A tremendous amount of forgiveness and forbearance was needed on both sides to even sit in the same room as each other after all that had been done to their people. But there they sat, eventually, and they talked, and they agreed.
Peace once seemed to be impossible in Northern Ireland. It wasn't. We've been at peace for 28 years now.
It wasn't easy. But it reminds you of what can be possible.
Joanna HolmanLooking back I can certainly point at things about the Victorian lockdowns that with the knowledge of years of hindsight weren’t optimal policy and restriction choices. The lockdowns were a difficult experience I hope we never have to do again. Still, I will forever be grateful for the Victorian government of that era and their willingness to do unprecedented things in confusing times. As someone with multiple chronic health issues that my first (known) exposure to the virus wasn’t until after I was vaccinated thanks to their efforts might have saved my life. That I lost no-one I know to the virus is more precious than anything I missed out on in those years.
Ciara
Ben Harris-RoxasWell this is grim:
"However, the terms demanded extensive sharing of national health intelligence, including epidemiological surveillance data and pathogen samples, while offering no binding guarantees that Zimbabwe would receive equitable access to medical technologies developed from them."
US’s new scramble for Africa is biomedical imperialism https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2026/3/13/uss-new-scramble-for-africa-is-biomedical-imperialism
AI6YR BenOooh, a prior oil crisis is what turned the Netherlands from a driving country to a bicycling country.
The Guardian: Do we want to keep fixing the same issue? Unlearned lessons from the first big oil crisis
As energy prices tripled in the 1970s due to Middle Eastern wars, Scandinavia, France and the Netherlands sped up green transition
Corin Ashwell 🌍 🌿 🍄🏳️⚧️I’m a big fan of #LondonUK Mayor #SadiqKhan and this just makes me like him more - he’s got these ridiculous SUVs in his sights to improve safety & efficiency on the London road network
Riley S. FaelanThe notion of a broken clock being sometimes right is based on a gross misunderstanding of what information is.
A clock that always shows the same time is never right, even in the moments of the day when the time happens to be what it shows, because you don't gain any information about what time it is by looking at the clock.
This reasoning also applies to chatbots. If you can't tell whether what you have been given is useful information unless you alreay know the information, then you haven't been given useful information.