Ben Curran
@bencurran.dev
He/Him, builds cool stuff in the cloud with devops. Lego Builder, Dad Joker. 3D Printer, Electronics Tinkerer. Views are my own. Might also find me on Mastodon @bencurrandev@hachyderm.io Tiks of Tok @bencurrandev No bio, no posts = blocked
if you want some perspective for how quickly conversations around tech/ai have changed: it was only last year that the US — grappling with fears that China was racing ahead in a tech that they'd once dominated and worried could be used for influence — finally banned ... TikTok.
Can we have this here in Australia? Shoppers should be paid for their efforts in serving themselves #auspol
Model Routing in Microsoft Foundry is a handy feature for routing simple tasks to cheaper models. In this video, I discuss what Model Routing, how it's just another model deployment in Foundry, and how you can configure your agents to use it: www.youtube.com/watch?v=iQ6T...
Stop giving your AI agents the same model! How Model Routing works for Foundry Agents
YouTube video by Will Velida
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This took me several weeks to make because I went through several years worth of corporate/investor/earnings reports but... here it is! The actual, long-term reason Sony killed physical discs, and why they can't go back. youtu.be/_Znc7MVsSlg?...
everyone is missing the point
YouTube video by Alanah Pearce
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Critical ServiceNow AI Platform Flaw Exploited for Unauthenticated Code Execution
Critical ServiceNow AI Platform Flaw Exploited for Unauthenticated Code Execution
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Was it worth it Donnie? Was it worth it? Turning out like everything else you’ve touched.
‘Say yes and never do it’ Mel Brooks knew how to deal with the studios
![That’s probably the most famous scene in the movie, the campfire scene.
I know. He said, “You can’t punch a horse.” I said, “You’ll never see it again.” I kept saying, “You’re absolutely right. It’s out!” Then, when he left, I crumpled up all his notes, and I tossed it in the wastepaper basket. And John Calley, who was running [production at] Warner Bros. at the time, said, “Good filing.” That was the end of it. You say yes, and you never do it.
That’s great advice for life.
It is. Don’t fight them. Don’t waste your time struggling with them and trying to make sense to them. They’ll never understand.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:yvbszlkc7d75ixkid5g2zmw7/bafkreiar4z6n6pfk7wob2gznv6l6euw7ltxbetgto5drfd4wqzjalldp5m)
🪿 What matters is not the eggs It is the Goose itself True value = The power to keep laying eggs 🥚
@puzzmo.com What the heck is Encyclopedia Brown?!? That made zero sense in Circuits. First time I’ve ever used Bolts for an ENTIRE WORD.
Hey, look at Substack promoting Andrew Tate as the #1 new bestseller. The company's amoral leadership & backers will platform anyone, even ludicrously toxic rapists & human traffickers.
The Drasi team used GitHub Copilot CLI as a synthetic user to automatically test their tutorials, and found 18 real doc bugs. Treating doc testing as a monitoring problem is such a smart move 🧠 opensource.microsoft.com/blog/2026/04...
Attn All Lovers Of Doggos, Pupperinos & Furbabies—We Are Collecting Your Pets To Send Them To Beautiful Israel Where Theyll Become Champions
You know how in a library no one’s trying to sell you anything? That’s how the internet was.
"Palantir CEO Alex Karp says his AI technology will lessen the power of “highly educated, often female voters, who vote mostly Democrat” while increasing the power of working-class men." Just saying it right out loud now. newrepublic.com/post/207693/...
Palantir CEO Makes Shocking Confession on Disrupting Democratic Power
They’re saying the quiet part out loud now.
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So a new social media thing called Retro is a thing and was made by one of the former Instagram designers, and is meant to be anti-social media because your friends and family matter? retro.app/@bencurran
Add me on Retro
Photos with friends.
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The LLM actively reduces the available context for the information it provides, which is bad. But even worse, it *trains people to accept information without context*
Now that CNN and WBD are set to become state media in a sale to Paramount/Oracle/TikTok, it is especially important to support independent media. Off the top of my head: www.thehandbasket.co 404media.co www.garbageday.email Add your favorites in the replies. Fuck state-backed media monopolies.
The Handbasket
100% independent journalism by Marisa Kabas
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It seems all Kansas-issued trans drivers' licenses are invalid, effective tomorrow It is now illegal for trans people to drive a car until they surrender their license at a DMV (that most will need to drive to) and have it reissued with the wrong gender marker This was never about woman's sports
Kansas Sends Letters To Trans People Demanding The Immediate Surrender Of Drivers Licenses
"The legislature did not include a grace period."
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Once, technology solved problems. People liked having problems solved, so they liked technology. Tech execs started to think of that sentiment as their due. So when they stopped solving problems, and people stopped liking them, they became outraged. "How dare you not love whatever we give you?"
tante@tante.cc · 6mo agoI am a luddite and to me there is a lot of joy in technology. In technology that we deploy for all our wellbeing. Solar panels and vaccines, high-speed rail and wikipedia. But they joy stems from the feeling of being able to be part of humanity in an embedded, meaningful way. Not from buying shit.
Brenda has been my friend and mentor for 15 years, and not a day goes by when I don’t think about SOME piece of advice or random aside or thing she said and probably forgot about that fundamentally changed the way I see the world. I’m confident this documentary is going to be a banger. Back it.
Game On: A Feature Documentary about Brenda Romero
Help Theresa Loong finish her documentary about Brenda Romero: visionary designer and mentor, shaping the future of game creation!
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Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri (1999). Criminally underrated game.
This May we are getting BOTH a new Murderbot book by @marthawells.com , AND a new Radch universe book by @annleckie.com ! It's time to get excited. www.thefrumiousconsortium.net/2026/02/18/s...
Space Opera series with installments coming up!
This Spring two of my favorite space opera series will be getting new books: the next book in the Murderbot Diaries by Martha Wells, and the next book set in the universe of the Imperial Radch, by …
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Dr Jeremy Walker details the “enormous war chest” of Advance & lists funders inc Gina Rinehart, James Packer, IPA board, Woodside’s Charles Goode & “the priv foundation of Jillian Segal” - who pay Advance to “flood social media with aggressive Far Right disinformation”🔥 #auspol
And we're particularly excited about using this to help open-source maintainers. When we showed this to @frenck.social, the maintainer of Home Assistant, he wrote a workflow that reads the traces for bugs and figures out if they originate in the HA codebase or not. True noise elimination for OSS.
