Mastodawn

In case you were wondering, before this morning's Iran attack, Polymarket had yet another spate of likely inside traders betting that the US would strike Iran by February 28.

Per the due diligence investigation service Bubblemaps, the wallets used were first used 24 hours earlier.

Betting prediction websites are national security risks, not Anthropic.

par ticke Mar 6

Dan Gillmor Mar 5

RE: https://mastodon.social/@eff/116178635828161083

This is why blocking ads and trackers is not just a suggestion. It should be a baseline of your online existence.

par ticke Mar 6

Paul Chambers🚧Mar 6

RE: https://hachyderm.io/@skinnylatte/116178918067111125

"Use Proton!" everyone screamed in all-caps for a while now... #pronton

No different than the others...

https://www.404media.co/proton-mail-helped-fbi-unmask-anonymous-stop-cop-city-protestor/

par ticke Mar 6

Emeritus Prof Christopher May Mar 6

Good news: the Govt. has decided to pause its potential relaxation of copyright laws to facilitate the theft & scraping of 'protected' content by AI/LLM 'research'.

Less good: after a consultation which largely demonstrated significant support for leaving copyright as is, Labour is still thinking how it can accommodate Big Tech's demand to be allowed to steal information with impunity.

So copyright remains in play, leaving uncertainty for anyone depending on its rules.

#copyright #AI
h/t FT

par ticke Mar 6

Medieval Illumination Mar 6

Three Little Boars. Gaston Phoebus, Le Livre de la chasse, Paris ca. 1407. NY, Morgan, MS M. 1044, fol. 1v.
#medieval #MedievalArt

par ticke Feb 21

Pavel A. Samsonov Feb 17

“AI can make mistakes” might as well be the slogan of our era. Even boosters admit that you need to spin the vibe code slot machine a few times to get a jackpot.

An employee with that degree of consistency would be fired.

So how do we redirect some of that unlimited grace from machines to humans?

https://productpicnic.beehiiv.com/p/corporations-demand-perfection-from-workers-but-ai-gets-unlimited-slack

#UX #UXDesign #LLM #AI #tech #softwaredevelopment

Corporations demand perfection from workers, but AI gets unlimited slack.

LLM users have bottomless patience for inconsistent tools, and no grace left for their colleagues. What if we could flip it around?

The Product Picnic

par ticke Feb 21

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occult Feb 20

Computing in the year 2029 as depicted in UNIX WORLD magazine, 1985.

#UNIX

par ticke Feb 21

Open Culture (Official)Feb 19

The Ancient Egyptian Book of the Dead: A Guidebook for Surviving the Afterlife

https://www.openculture.com/2026/02/the-ancient-egyptian-book-of-the-dead-a-guidebook-for-surviving-the-afterlife.html

The Ancient Egyptian Book of the Dead: A Guidebook for Surviving the Afterlife

The saying 'You can't take it with you' may be a cliché to all of us here in the twenty-first century, but it would hardly have made sense to an ancient Egyptian.

Open Culture

par ticke Feb 21

Open Culture (Official)Feb 19

Herbie Hancock Explains the Big Lesson He Learned From Miles Davis: Every Mistake in Music, as in Life, Is an Opportunity

https://www.openculture.com/2026/02/herbie-hancock-explains-the-lesson-he-learned-from-miles-davis.html

Herbie Hancock Explains the Big Lesson He Learned From Miles Davis: Every Mistake in Music, as in Life, Is an Opportunity

One thing they don’t teach you in parenting school is how to guide a young child into making fewer mistakes in her homework, while also communicating to her that mistakes are not “bad” but often “good” in that they can be conduits for creative thinking and intuitive pathways to progress.

Open Culture

par ticke Feb 21

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