Daniel Schildt
@autiomaa.org
Studying digital service development. In Finnish: Viestintää, markkinointia, ohjelmistokehitystä, valokuvausta, graafista suunnittelua, ja ties mitä muuta opiskellut. English and Finnish posts. Language filter in the Bluesky settings can be useful.
Ford has rehired hundreds of senior engineers after replacing them with AI backfired and has cost the company billions of dollars. AI adoption is blamed for Ford being the most recalled automaker in the U.S. with 51 recalls covering over 11 million vehicles in the first half of 2026 alone.
I’m so sad to share that yesterday was my last day at Scientific American. It was an honor to work alongside my incredible colleagues and to speak with researchers across the sciences. If you’re looking to hire staff or freelance, please consider me and my other laid off coworkers (🧵)
Remembering my friend Om, as he’s gone. There are many things to say, and so much good work to observe. But the first thing I thought of, on hearing that he’d passed, was that he had chosen to speak up, more than once, to protect the most vulnerable in our communities. … om.co/2026/06/24/1...
Om Malik, 1966-2026
Om Malik passed away on June 24, 2026, at Stanford Hospital after a long health journey with his heart. He was surrounded by family and friends. We invite you to share your remembrances of Om in th…
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one anecdote: I was searching for a link to one of my old papers on Google, and the automated Gemini summary attributed all of my lab's work to my husband
Mel Andrews@bayesianboy.bsky.social · 2mo agoWhen utilized in literature review, LLMs consistently 1. fail to mention female authors in female-led literatures, 2. insist that men are more influential or more heavily cited when this is contradicted by objective citation counts, and 3. attribute women’s work to hallucinated male scholars.
When utilized in literature review, LLMs consistently 1. fail to mention female authors in female-led literatures, 2. insist that men are more influential or more heavily cited when this is contradicted by objective citation counts, and 3. attribute women’s work to hallucinated male scholars.
When generating bibliographies, the models not only omit female authors or misattribute women’s work to male authors; they will also produce lists of works cited in which all work by men is attributed to its authors, while work by female scholars is simply left unattributed.
Just filled my bottle up from this public water fountain, built in 1864
Interestingly, the intuition I felt and spoke from -- that embodied knowing -- is precisely the kind of thing AI, for all of its performative anthropomorphic gesturing at the simulacrum of personhood, can't do. Tech billionaires want us to believe that our embodied/human ways of knowing are useless!
I'm attending a digital humanities event in Montreal. There was a keynote on AI and something about the talk made me wonder if it had been written by Claude. I said as much in the Q&A. As I posed the question, the speaker shifted, looking slightly uncomfortable. What he said next shocked the room +
There's so much to say about this, but what is particularly striking is that the keynote speaker said absolutely nothing about using Claude to write his academic work until I intervened in the Q&A. It appears that he was not going to share this fairly important detail unless asked..
yesterday I reported on GitHub employee concerns about reliability and leadership, and then hours later GitHub suffered a catastrophic outage 😬 www.theverge.com/news/918001/...
Incredibly warm March after such a cold Jan-Feb. The month will go down in history as the first March in Finland with nationwide mean temperature above freezing (0 °C). Practically all weather stations will set new March mean temperature record, except those located further out in the Baltic Sea.
It is kind of comical that by pushing the GenAI hype, Microsoft caused the RAM to become so expensive that they have to reduce the GenAI hype (by removing GenAI from a part of Windows 11 applications).
There are a few things I'm proud of this year, and on this list is the fact that I pranked everyone on my office floor by leaving a new rubber duck around for each day of the Winter quarter. 🐤 Some of the ducks were metaphysical. One was encased in ice. All were discreet.
US plans to start checking tourists’ social media over last five years
US plans to start checking tourists’ social media over last five years
The proposal would be part of the screening process for travellers entering the US under the Visa Waiver Program
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Ethan Zuckerman writes about the problems of text generators: "LLMs are inherently conservative technologies, instantiating the historic bloc that created LLMs into code that is difficult to modify, even for ideologically motivated tech billionaires." ethanzuckerman.com/2025/12/05/g... #GenAI
Gramsci's Nightmare: AI, Platform Power and the Automation of Cultural Hegemony - Ethan Zuckerman
Large language models lock values into place, making it hard to challenge the cultural hegemony of a particular form of western culture
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Kulttuurileikkaukset ovat aina bkt supistusta, velkasuhteen vaikeutusta ja hyvinvoinnin heikennystä (jutusta): “The economic impact these wonderful attractions have unquestionably makes a huge difference to the city each and every year, but just as important is the social value our sites have --,"
Daniel Schildt@autiomaa.org · 8mo agoLeeds has really been focusing on showing how much impact museums can have for the local economy. "every £1 invested in museums and galleries in turn generates £9 for the city." museumsandgalleries.leeds.gov.uk/news-museums... #UK #museum #Leeds
Leeds has really been focusing on showing how much impact museums can have for the local economy. "every £1 invested in museums and galleries in turn generates £9 for the city." museumsandgalleries.leeds.gov.uk/news-museums... #UK #museum #Leeds
News | Museums give city economy multi-million pound boost
The city’s council-run museums and galleries have given a massive £47.3m boost to the local economy over the past year, new figures have revealed.
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The masked burglar broke into the closed Virginia liquor store early on Saturday and hit the bottom shelf. The bandit was something of a nocturnal menace: bottles were smashed and alcohol pooled on the floor. The suspect acted like an animal because, in fact, he's a raccoon.
Raccoon goes on drunken rampage in Virginia liquor store and passes out on bathroom floor
A raccoon broke into a closed Virginia liquor store and drank alcohol from the bottom shelves over the weekend.
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At first they would only take live food when I wasn’t looking, but now they eat straight from my hand. Too cute. 🐟💙
Tiny, colorful baby scallops — a total cuteness overload in one dish! You might think, “This person posts the same creature every year!” But honestly, seeing the same life return year after year is something truly wonderful𓂃🫧
Reduce amount of web browser extensions: www.kylereddoch.me/blog/sleeper... #infosec
"Sleeper" Browser Extensions: How a 7-Year Campaign Turned Chrome and Edge into Spyware
A practical breakdown of the ShadyPanda browser extension campaign that quietly hijacked 4.3M Chrome and Edge users, and how to audit and lock down your own extensions.
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