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www.biscui.tech | Web Dev, Coffee enthusiast, techno head. You can find me being a nerd in my office, 7 days a week. ☕ 🏳️‍🌈
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biscui.tech
Started reading Careless People and the witty deadpan writing got me hooked.
Obviously the substance is dramatic, but the presentation has its claws right into me.
October 12, 2025 at 3:57 PM
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thomaszimmer.bsky.social
That’s the genius of the polarization narrative: It provides the language for a lament that satisfies the longing for unity – while constantly fueling it in turn! – by offering a consensual interpretation. It is a form of elite consensus re-established through the back door.
September 28, 2025 at 4:18 PM
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nicoespeon.com
CFP for /dev/mtl 2025 is open 👉 www.papercall.io/dev-mtl-2025

If you are in Montreal, it's a great opportunity to share your knowledge with local communities!

Talks are ~40min, English or French

Feel free to submit multiple talks 😉

@nickyt.online @jorgevergara.co @scastiel.dev @ruyadorno.com
PaperCall.io - /dev/mtl 2025
*English version below* 🇫🇷 Rejoins-nous le 28 Novembre 2025 pour une journée remplie de présentations des communautés tech locales! L'événement aura lieu à Montréal et proposera des présentations te...
www.papercall.io
June 11, 2025 at 10:40 AM
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joolia.bsky.social
not to be histrionic but I kind of feel like the confluence of Trumpism, algorithmic social media, and LLMs have placed language and the fundamental proposition that words have meaning under unprecedented strain and it’s freaking me out more than a bit
May 30, 2025 at 1:26 PM
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parismarx.com
whenever i hear mark zuckerberg says the research meta is funding says social media isn’t bad for people, i think of tobacco execs saying smoking isn’t bad for your health
May 8, 2025 at 11:31 PM
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tc39.es
ECMAScript Excitement 🎉

Today, TC39 advanced these proposals:

2️⃣ export defer
1️⃣ Compare Strings by Codepoint
April 16, 2025 at 7:12 PM
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parismarx.com
i love when the tech ceos confirm what i’ve been saying for years

yes, the US is worried about its geopolitical position, but the tech industry has seized on that fear and amplified it to protect its own power by trying to stifle regulations and antitrust cases
Google says DOJ’s proposal for breakup would harm U.S. in ‘global race with China’
April 22, 2025 at 12:33 AM
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infrequently.org
"Why is CSS-in-JS terrible for performance?" is a great interview question, actually.
April 22, 2025 at 12:48 AM
biscui.tech
> in an era marked by those in positions of power telling shameless, blatantly self-promotional lies, that sort of selfless truth telling is more admirable and important than ever.

Thank you @agreenberg.bsky.social for an amazing book. Now onto 'Tracers in the Dark'
April 3, 2025 at 10:20 PM
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mmasnick.bsky.social
I wrote something about the secret police kidnapping and disappearing students over their op-eds, and wondering what happened to all those people screaming about the "free speech crisis on campus."

www.techdirt.com/2025/03/27/t...
Trump’s Secret Police Are Now Disappearing Students For Their Op-Eds
For years, we’ve been hearing breathless warnings about a “campus free speech crisis” from self-proclaimed free speech warriors. Their evidence? College students doing what colleg…
www.techdirt.com
March 27, 2025 at 7:10 PM
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parismarx.com
🚨🇳🇿 Join me in Auckland on April 10 where I’ll be talking about countering the Trump threat and escaping the dominance Silicon Valley has over our lives.

Now more than ever, we need digital sovereignty — and we’ll need to work together to build it.

Register here: digitalsovereignty.lilregie.com
Digital Sovereignty in a Time of Rising Fascism The United States is collapsing into an authoritarian state controlled by tech billionaires that is intent on waging economic warfare against its former allies — yet the digital technology we rely on every day for school, our businesses, and even our national security remains tightly coupled to it. How can we start the process of decoupling? What do data and digital sovereignty look like when the United States is no longer a trustworthy ally? And how can we work internationally to protect our shared interests? Come join Paris Marx and a panel of guests to explore these questions and start considering an alternative approach.
March 26, 2025 at 2:17 AM
biscui.tech
My heart is warm
gameinformer.com Game Informer @gameinformer.com · Mar 25
Game Informer is back! The entire team is returning and we can't wait to reconnect. Come join us to celebrate the best in games, the people who make games, and the people who play games from all around the world.

www.gameinformer.com/letter-from-...
March 25, 2025 at 8:01 PM
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brenttoderian.bsky.social
Mike Myers, Canadian legend, SNL, March 1st, 2025. #ElbowsUp #CanadaStrong
Mike Myers in “Canada is not for sale” t-shirt
March 22, 2025 at 11:50 PM
biscui.tech
New Android update lets us install a native Linux terminal.
March 14, 2025 at 2:14 PM
biscui.tech
Highly recommend 'Tech won't save us' for its political & tech commentary. It serves as a great reality check.
techwontsave.us Tech Won’t Save Us @techwontsave.us · Mar 6
The UK is embracing AI at any cost as it’s desperate to increase economic growth. But is that a good strategy?

This week @meadwaj.bsky.social joins @parismarx.com to discuss what’s happening in the UK and the consequences of allowing US tech to dominate.

Full ep: techwontsave.us/episode/266_...
March 7, 2025 at 1:13 AM
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mmasnick.bsky.social
Wrote up something about Techdirt's recent coverage, and why (whether we like it or not) we need to be a "democracy blog" now, rather than just a "tech" blog (not that we've ever been just a tech blog).

This story is *the* story and it impacts everything else.

www.techdirt.com/2025/03/04/w...
Why Techdirt Is Now A Democracy Blog (Whether We Like It Or Not)
While political reporters are still doing their view-from-nowhere “Democrats say this, Republicans say that” dance, tech and legal journalists have been watching an unfortunately recogn…
www.techdirt.com
March 4, 2025 at 8:05 PM
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cybershell.bsky.social
Damn this HorizontalScrollView and I have a lot in common
January 7, 2025 at 4:46 AM
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scarletcoral.ca
Belle suprise au micro de @niedesrochers.bsky.social mardi à l'émission radio Le 15-18 : @parismarx.com pour parler (en français) des géants de la tech : « Voir les milliardaires de Silicon Valley prendre le contrôle du gouvernement des États-Unis, je n’avais pas vu ça arriver »

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Pourquoi les géants de la tech s’allient-ils à Donald Trump?
Le 15-18 | « Voir les milliardaires de Silicon Valley prendre le contrôle du gouvernement des États-Unis, je n’avais pas vu ça arriver », avoue le Canadien Paris Marx, auteur, conférencier et animateu...
ici.radio-canada.ca
March 6, 2025 at 5:37 PM
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samuel.fm
new blog post: atproto by example part 1

in which I cover how to use the full potential of lexicon for building atproto apps
atproto by example part 1: records and views — mozzius.dev
by Samuel · 11 min read
mozzius.dev
March 5, 2025 at 12:58 AM
biscui.tech
This is simply awesome.
I'm betting big on atProto, this is why.
anirudh.fi Anirudh Oppiliappan @anirudh.fi · Mar 2
For the past 4 weeks, @oppili.bsky.social and I have been building @tangled.sh—a fresh take on decentralized git collaboration platforms.

Tangled is built on atproto, and designed to be decentralized from day 0. Read the introduction here: blog.tangled.sh/intro
introducing tangled
a git collaboration platform, built on atproto
blog.tangled.sh
March 3, 2025 at 4:19 AM
biscui.tech
Incredible presentation by @gbj.dev
I strongly believe in wasm-based interactivity.
The Future of Rust Web Applications - Greg Johnston
YouTube video by Rust Nation UK
www.youtube.com
February 28, 2025 at 2:51 PM
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clementmangin.com
Some AI engineers, in their delusional arrogance, think of themselves as the epitome of human genius on the brink of reaching the singularity, elevating themselves to godhood and 'saving humanity' from whatever their hubris dreads.

But, garbage in, garbage out, and their snake might devour itself.
ninajankowicz.com Nina Jankowicz @ninajankowicz.com · Feb 27
A pro-Russia content aggregation network is churning out at least 3 MILLION pieces of propaganda per year, all on sites that are virtually unusable by humans.

So what's the goal? We explore the idea that it might be to flood LLMs with pro-Russia content:
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Executive Summary A pro-Russia content aggregation network, Pravda, appears to be set up to flood large-language models with pro-Kremlin content, The American Sunlight Project has found. Over the past several months, ASP researchers have investigated 108 new domains and subdomains belonging to the Pravda network, a previously-established ecosystem of largely identical, automated web pages that previously targeted many countries in Europe as well as Africa and Asia with pro-Russia narratives about the war in Ukraine. ASP’s research, in combination with that of other organizations, brings the total number of associated domains and subdomains to 182. The network’s older targets largely consisted of states belonging to or aligned with the West. Notably, this latest expansion includes many countries in Africa, the Asia-Pacific, the Middle East, and North America. It also includes entities other than countries as targets, specifically non-sovereign nations, international organizations, audiences for specific languages, and prominent heads of state. The top objective of the network appears to be duplicating as much pro-Russia content as widely as possible. With one click, a single article could be autotranslated and autoshared with dozens of other sites that appear to target hundreds of millions of people worldwide. ASP researchers also believe the network may have been custom-built to flood large language models (LLMs) with pro-Russia content. The network is unfriendly to human users; sites within the network boast no search function, poor formatting, and unreliable scrolling, among other usability issues. This final finding poses foundational implications for the intersection of disinformation and artificial intelligence (AI), which threaten to turbocharge highly automated, global information operations in the future.
February 27, 2025 at 4:52 PM
biscui.tech
Started to feed long form articles into bsky.app/profile/elev... and it's so good. Articles become compartmentalized podcasts with excellent audio.
bsky.app
February 26, 2025 at 12:46 PM
biscui.tech
Incredible tech.
EXTREME SERVER SIDE RENDERING
www.scd31.com
February 26, 2025 at 1:45 AM
biscui.tech
Having the biggest army in the world shift right creates an immense power imbalance where democracies will be overwhelmed by dictators.

It's not looking good for the world order.
A Sad Moment in American History
YouTube video by Senator Bernie Sanders
youtu.be
February 22, 2025 at 6:35 PM