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Kyle Copas
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Comms manager @gbif Writer, poet, communicator, producer—posting about literature, music, science, design, sustainability and #biodiversity. Decolonizing […]

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"The process of coding with an “agentic” LLM appears to be the process of carefully distilling all the worst parts of code review, and removing and discarding all of its benefits."

Very insightful post on #genai by Glyph

(Original title: I Think I’m Done Thinking About genAI For Now) […]
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tldr.nettime.org
June 5, 2025 at 11:42 AM
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luke-drury.mastodon.dias.ie.ap.brid.gy
There's a lot of framing of the anticipated exodus of US scientists as "a great opportunity for Ireland, Europe, etc" which I find deeply problematic. It is not a zero-sum game where one party's gains balance another's losses, but a global tragedy for science and scholarship. Better to think of […]
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May 14, 2025 at 10:34 AM
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Musk and MAGA rail against "entitlements" and federal spending, but USA is a lopsided welfare state.

Exponentially more is spent on subsidizing wealth than supporting the poor, but elites don't count these perks as spending.

Tax breaks on wealth (vs. income). Tax breaks on mortgage interest […]
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mastodon.online
March 11, 2025 at 7:22 PM
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"The past is never the dead. It's not even the past."
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cvg13rmnvzvo
Paris Gare du Nord trains halted and area evacuated after WW2 bomb found
The unexploded bomb was found on tracks near the station, with all Paris trains, plus Eurostar to Brussels, suspended.
www.bbc.com
March 7, 2025 at 1:14 PM
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18F is a group of technologists who left high paying work to serve the American people. They created the free federal tax filing system. An unvetted billionaire just fired them. All their methods are on this free mirrored site https://18f.org/guides/
March 2, 2025 at 7:15 PM
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Paul Lynch, prefiguring an account of “policy changes” under the Melon Husk administration in his 2023 #booker Prize winning novel, Prophet Song:
Quote from Paul Lynch’s Prophet Song. I awoke and began to see what they were doing to us, the brilliance of the act, they take something from you and replace it with silence and you're confronted by that silence every waking moment and cannot live, you cease to be yourself and become a thing before this silence, a thing waiting for the silence to end, a thing on your knees begging and whispering to it all night and day, a thing waiting for what was taken to be returned and only then can you resume your life, but the silence doesn't end, you see, they leave open the possibility that what you want will be returned some day and so you remain reduced, paralysed, dull as an old knife, and the silence does not end because the silence is the source of their power, that is its secret meaning.
March 2, 2025 at 8:55 AM