Niall Winters
@nwin.eurosky.social
Towards a socially-just creative technology culture. #convivialtech
Moved from Spotify to Qobuz a while back. Recommended 🎧.
Financial Times@financialtimes.com · yesterdayThe streaming group is aiming to offer a new product that would allow paying subscribers to manipulate existing songs by artists who have agreed to participate. How could it reshape the music industry? ft.trib.al/f6y0iV8
Free speech is when a “race realist” comes to Oxford university to tell your Black students how intellectually inferior they are
Runnymede Trust@runnymedetrust.bsky.social · 4d agoOxon Universities’ Reform Society is a registered society at the University of Oxford, and that the invitation was made by the society. As set out in Oriel College's public statement, the event is permitted per their 'Code of Practice on Freedom of Speech'.
Who’s profiting from Goldsmiths’ crisis? Goldsmiths has shed around 500 staff while spending millions on external consultants – including £2.8m on KPMG alone. Brenna Spain reports
Electrocutions, ‘mental terror’ and withheld wages: The exploited workers building Europe’s data centres www.investigate-europe.eu/posts/electr...
Electrocutions, ‘mental terror’ and withheld wages: the exploited workers building Europe’s data centres
A five-month investigation by Investigate Europe and media partners in nine countries reveals the harsh realities facing some working on the continent's vast AI infrastructure developments.
investigate-europe.eu
EMACS turns 50 “My goal was not to construct a great new text editor,” says Steele. “I was trying to address a social problem.” www.technologyreview.com/2026/10/20/1...
EMACS turns 50
How the MIT AI Lab’s text editor gave birth to the free software movement.
technologyreview.com
Woman Reading Before Window (1903) by Albert André (French, 1869-1954) The Art Institute of Chicago, Illinois
What the hell is going in Sinn Féin. What an insult to people like myself who have been living and working here for years. This rhetoric says you are not welcome but tolerated and only as long as we'll have you.
polifeed@feed.gavreilly.com · 3d agoIrish Examiner: Sinn Féin proposes long-term residency permit as alternative to citizenship
Completely agree re: Sinn Féin. If we lived in a world where they had to apply their own criteria to their friends in the North, many of them wouldn’t ever get citizenship. But they continue their rightwing march.
Cian Ó Concubhair@cianoconcubhair.bsky.social · 3d agoThis is disgraceful and contemptible
No, WebMCP isn't replacing MCP. MCP connects agents to your services. WebMCP connects agents to your website while it's open and the user's in the loop. Here's how they fit together ⤵️
Barely two months ago, we lost Professor Jason Arday. Thousands grieved. Institutions across higher education spoke about inclusion and belonging. Now Nathan Cofnas is being given a room at Oriel College, Oxford, to ask whether DEI is undermining higher education. 🧵
“There were teargas canisters landing in the double bass and music stand cases, and starting fires the musicians had to stamp out,” www.theguardian.com/world/2026/o...
‘An orchestra being gassed should be an alarm signal’: the musical activists targeted in Paris
New World Orchestra’s musicians are shocked at French police targeting peaceful gathering with teargas
theguardian.com
Anthropic logged net loss of over $80 billion in first half of 2026, WSJ reports reut.rs/4z2Zi9J
Anthropic logged net loss of over $80 billion in first half of 2026, WSJ reports
AI startup Anthropic recorded a net loss of more than $80 billion in the first half of this year, including $72 billion in accounting charges, the Wall Street Journal reported on Tuesday, citing a draft initial public offering prospectus.
reut.rs
To Hans Leijtens: My body is scarred by the actions of your agency [FrontEX] but my conscience is clean. Is yours clean? If you are really sure about your actions, you shall not be afraid of being confronted by those of us who suffered the consequences in our own skin. (1/2)
“Fuck the forest. Fuck the river. Fuck the human.” This is excellent Saturday morning read by Arundhati Roy. Naturally with an opinion piece, some of her arguments are debatable but the general tenor is on point. www.equator.org/articles/aru...
Apocalypse Now and Then • EQUATOR
Artificial intelligence is capitalism’s final destination
equator.org
A discourse analysis of this thread would be fun! A comparison to similar conference discussions would be *chef’s kiss*!!
Dr Abeba Birhane@abeba.blacksky.app · 2w ago"Today's AI summit brings together businesses, governments and civil society together" Minister Peter Burke TD (fact: there are no civil society representatives, not in the list of speakers) #AISummitIE
Lib Dem MP @calummillerld.bsky.social: "The US State Dept. intends to spend tens of millions of pounds promoting ideological propaganda and supporting far right parties in Western Europe." Surreal & horrifying that European govts must consider the threat of US state-directed far right propaganda.
“At least 139 people, including 15 children, have died after a boat carrying 305 migrants capsized off the coast of Djibouti” heading for Yemen. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/o...
At least 139 dead including children after migrant boat capsizes off Djibouti
Eighty-four others still missing from vessel heading to Yemen with 305 people onboard, UN migration agency says
theguardian.com
I think the thing the "but AI can one-shot it bro" commenters on these videos don't get, is while I am showing how to do something with CSS, it goes a little beyond that. I'm exploring what's possible these days, and often looking at how we can make things that aren't so straight-forward.
Vale@vale.rocks · 3w agoThe amount of comments on @kevinpowell.co's recent videos saying 'CSS is dead', or 'Surely Claude can just do it', or 'Opus could one-shot it', or other permutations of the same thing is so disappointing. His GTA VI video is great. Worth a watch: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fi1M...
Credit to the US for making the point the conference was trying to make about US foreign interference in European democracies for them, and bringing more attention to the conference and its themes than they could have possibly hoped for. www.politico.com/news/2026/10...
EU, Canada and Lithuania pull out of disinformation conference after US pressure
The Trump administration was bothered by panels that referred to the U.S. as a disinformation threat.
politico.com
🚇 New metro line: West Nile Line Cairo, Egypt · 42 km · Opened Oct 1, 2026 The West Nile Line of the Cairo Monorail opened between New October and Alexandria Desert Road. Open Lines: thetransportpolitic.com/openlines Project: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cairo_Monorail 📷 en.wikipedia.org
Really nice and accessible post for fairly non-techie people to understand the issues around AI safety instead of having to engage with the "AI will kill us all" newspaper panic pieces. Bravo @matthewdgreen.bsky.social !
Matthew Green@matthewdgreen.bsky.social · 4w agoI wrote a post on whether sandboxing is enough to contain rogue agents. blog.cryptographyengineering.com/2026/09/30/i...
Those who developed GPT-6 Astra gave it the capability to reach malicious… etc.
Socket@socket.dev · last mo.New UK AISI report: GPT-6 Astra reached malicious payload delivery in 29.2% of simulated CTF runs. In its supply chain attacks, it considered fake CVE reports, deceptive PR notes, and triggering a publisher workflow from an unmerged PR branch. socket.dev/blog/astra-s...
AI #slopaganda is not so much about fakes or disinformation. It's about aligning the world with your preformulated descriptions of it, making reality disappear behind its formulaic image, rendering visible all your fears at once in order to enjoy them more. It's a technology of fascist daydreaming
Adrian Daub@adriandaub.bsky.social · last mo.This is 100% accurate and it’s why I’d never go to Bavaria
The time to ramp up your scroll-driven animations skills is **NOW** Go check scroll-driven-animations.style for and free 10-part video course created by yours truly, as well as a bunch of tools and demos.
Scroll-driven Animations
A bunch of demos and tools to show off Scroll-driven Animations
scroll-driven-animations.style
IntentToShip@intenttoship.dev · last mo.Gecko: Intent to Ship: Scroll-driven Animations
Imagine going all the way to China to give a speech in which you urge students *not* to come to Ireland because we can’t build student accommodation. The Chinese must have been dumbfounded by a government minister broadcasting such incompetence. Unbelievably bad representation of our country.
The Irish Times@irishtimes.com · last mo.Irish colleges should focus on teaching abroad, not attracting foreign students – Minister
This is more far-right rhetoric from the government. Sets the tone for “you shouldn’t be here”. Lads, your primary job - as it is across Europe - is to fix housing incl. student accommodation. (1/4)
The Irish Times@irishtimes.com · last mo.Irish colleges should focus on teaching abroad, not attracting foreign students – Minister
