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James Dudley

@dudleycodes.bsky.social

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Bruno Dias@brunodias.dev · last mo.

People who have a stake in promoting AI hype had a highly publicized "oopsie", the "victim" of which was another group of people with a stake in promoting AI hype, who are now writing about it in terms meant to generate AI hype

Simon Willison@simonwillison.net · last mo.

Hugging Face just published a highly detailed technical account of OpenAI's accidental cyberattack on their systems - it's wild how sophisticated this was: huggingface.co/blog/agent-i... Wrote up some of my own notes here: simonwillison.net/2026/Jul/28/...

PBS News@pbsnews.org · 2mo ago

Veterinary care is becoming increasingly expensive for American pet owners. Attention is turning to a major shift in the industry: private equity firms and large corporations buying up veterinary practices across the country. https://to.pbs.org/3RedOuo

As veterinary costs climb, private equity ownership of clinics draws scrutiny

Veterinary care is becoming increasingly expensive for American pet owners. As prices rise, attention is turning to a major shift in the industry: private equity firms and large corporations buying up...

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David L. Craddock - Author/Filmmaker@davidlcraddock.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Happy 30th birthday, #Quake! If you haven’t yet, read the #longread about the game’s creation FOR FREE @shacknews.com (based on interviews with the dev team), or buy it on Kindle or in paperback. *Shacknews: www.shacknews.com/article/1011... *Paperback/Kindle: www.amazon.com/dp/B07VFBJ8GX

Rocket Jump: Quake and the Golden Age of First-Person Shooters

Based on interviews with the developers, Rocket Jump explores the making of the Quake franchise, the culture that simultaneously shaped and fractured creator id Software, and other developers whose cr...

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That Tom Hall@thattomhall.bsky.social · 2mo ago

RIP Bobby Prince. His music legacy will live on, making inspired music for Commander Keen, Wolfenstein 3D, DOOM, countless others. A true legend. And such a nice man, great musician, wonderful, fun-loving man, nothing but happy memories of him. A loss to the world.

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Corey Rayburn Yung@coreyryung.bsky.social · 4mo ago

This is peak AI mania: identify a task that has long been well- and cheaply-handled by human beings, pay to use an LLM (which is ill-suited for the task), and be completely shocked when it goes disastrously.

Alex Hanna@alexhanna.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Sir, another graduation ceremony in which the students booed AI has dropped. "College graduates were pissed after their school used AI to announce graduates’ names and missed hundreds of names" (via @/FearedBuck on Twitter)

Electronic Frontier Foundation@eff.org · last yr.

Completely unconstrained capitalism turns technology into weapons instead of tools, @karaswisher.bsky.social tells EFF’s Cindy Cohn and @thejasonkelley.com on the latest episode of “How to Fix the Internet.”

Podcast Episode: Smashing the Tech Oligarchy

Many of the internet’s thorniest problems can be attributed to the concentration of power in a few corporate hands: the surveillance capitalism that makes it profitable to invade our privacy, the lack...

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Hacker News 50@betterhn50.e-work.xyz · last yr.

LLM Inevitabilism https://tomrenner.com/posts/llm-inevitabilism/ (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44567857)

The sound of inevitability

Have you ever argued with someone who is seriously good at debating? I have. It sucks. You’re constantly thrown off-balance, responding to a point you didn’t expect to. You find yourself defending the weak edges of your argument, while the main thrust gets left behind in the back-and-forth, and you end up losing momentum, confidence, and ultimately, the argument. One of my close friends won international debate competitions for fun while we were at university (he’s now a successful criminal barrister), and he told me that the only trick in the book, once you boil it all down, is to make sure the conversation is framed in your terms. Once that happens, it’s all over bar the shouting.

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Electronic Frontier Foundation@eff.org · last yr.

“We are talking about technologies that are trying to subvert democratic rule, trying to entrench surveillance, and about a government that uses surveillance technology against its citizens,” EFF’s Saira Hussain told @prismreports.org.

The growing surveillance state in the U.S. is far worse than you imagined

Through legal loopholes, executive orders, and shady contracts, the Trump administration crushes safeguards protecting against surveillance

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Ed Zitron@edzitron.com · last yr.

Newsletter: It's time for a radical new approach to tech CEOs: mocking them, because they talk like idiots and provide little value to society outside of their dedication to shareholder value. They sound stupid, they do nothing, and it's time to fight back. www.wheresyoured.at/make-fun-of-...

Make Fun Of Them

Have you ever heard Sam Altman speak? I’m serious, have you ever heard this man say words from his mouth?  Here is but one of the trenchant insights from Sam Altman in his agonizing 37-minute-long p...

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Electronic Frontier Foundation@eff.org · last yr.

Congress is bringing back the Kids Online Safety Act (KOSA). It doesn’t protect kids—it gives government officials power to pressure platforms to take down lawful speech.

The Kids Online Safety Act Will Make the Internet Worse for Everyone

The Kids Online Safety Act (KOSA) is back in the Senate. Sponsors are claiming—again—that the latest version won’t censor online content. It isn’t true. This bill still sets up a censorship regime dis...

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