like 90% of the economy in 2026 seems to be based on writing very long reports on how you're going to do very cool stuff in approximately 5 years time and then everyone acting like that means you've already done it

"If you were surprised by people using Meta’s smart glasses to harass and covertly film women on the street, then you quite simply haven’t been paying attention. This kind of tech-enabled abuse is commonplace, and it is predominantly aimed at women." www.irishtimes.com/technology/2...

Women continue to bear the brunt of bad tech decisions

Meta’s smart glasses are just the latest example of technology being used in ways developers should have anticipated

irishtimes.com

For those who will be about Dublin next week, I'm delighted to have been invited to select a film to screen at the IFI on Thursday evening. Please join me for a charming evening with a little shell in footwear. 🐚 ifi.ie/film/the-big...

If I had been hooked In my mouth and dragged onto a boat I would 100% bite whoever did it

Orla Breslin@stitchlily.eurosky.social · yesterday

A bunch of middle aged wealthy idiotic people, were out hunting sharks, caught one, brought it onto their boat, without any safeguards, the shark naturally fought back, and a man was bitten. Serves him right. www.thejournal.ie/shark-attack...

AI is a real workplace game changer. People who previously were bad at their jobs are still bad but are able to produce 15-page reports on any given topic, every day.

It was a pleasure to be on-air with @kennysbookshop.bsky.social yesterday discussing some suspicious bulk orders in the context of what AI companies are reportedly doing with books... 📚 www.todayfm.com/podcasts/the...

But also bear in mind that if you break eye contact with the eclipse, it will interpret this as a sign of weakness and may attack

For the love of your eyeballs, DO NOT look directly at the solar eclipse. Sunglasses will not save your retinas! But a pinhole projection box will, and it takes just five minutes to make with things you likely have lying around the house. Stay safe! svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14391

NASA Scientific Visualization Studio | How to Make a Box Pinhole Projector

Want to view a solar eclipse but don’t have eclipse glasses? No problem! An easy way to safely view a solar eclipse is with a box pinhole projector. With a few simple supplies, you can create a safe a...

svs.gsfc.nasa.gov

GOOD PARENTING RIGHT HERE,!!

I haven't used the Microsoft suite in a while but I can't believe they are getting away with this.

Heather Burns@heatherburnstech.bsky.social · last wk.

The most terrifying enshittification I've discovered has been learning that Microsoft Word documents no longer auto-save if you are not saving them to one of their own proprietary cloud services. I'm slapping control-S like it's 1999.

Exhibit A being the head on him

Never want to hear any of these tech companies talking about their ethics again. This has zero use cases outside of generating disinformation, and they pushed it out there anyway

Joseph Cox@josephcox.bsky.social · 2w ago

New from 404 Media: Google Earth has introduced an AI feature that lets anyone fabricate completely bullshit satellite images. In our own tests, we added a “bomb blast and crater” to an area of Los Angeles. This is a misinformation time bomb, will 100% be abused www.404media.co/google-earth...

Neoliberalism in a nutshell. UEFA on FIFA's proposal: “The moment external investors acquire ownership interests ... football changes forever. Commercial return becomes a permanent obligation. ... Every decision is no longer driven by what best serves the game, but by what best serves shareholders.”

When it comes to defending the argument that you should judge people by their actions, not their words, "Trying to block a law that prevents you from creating nude images of whoever you like, regardless of whether they consent or are even of legal age" should be promoted to 'Exhibit A'

NBC News@nbcnews.com · 2w ago

A federal judge denies a request from Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence company xAI to block a Minnesota law that bans nudification technology.

I still love this one... 😄

Yup. We accidentally did the thing we were trying to do but didn’t have any controls in place to detect it happening so we didn’t know it had happened. Not “accidental”. Negligent at least. Tech lawyers need to read up on Rylands v Fletcher IMO. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rylands...

Rylands v Fletcher - Wikipedia

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Next we will have Google claiming that Gemini hacked 4 companies with Grok quickly afterwards claiming it hacked 20 gazillion companies 🤣🤣 Seriously though there needs to be legal repercussions for these companies’ incompetence & lack of accountability for their systems

Greg Otto@gregotto.bsky.social · 2w ago

would appreciate it if these companies calmed down for, like, 24 hours cyberscoop.com/anthropic-cl...

An absolutely wild use of the word "accidentally" considering Anthropic outright said this is the model operating as intended and the failure is in their (lack of) oversight. bsky.app/profile/dara...

Daragh Ó Briain@daraghobrien.bsky.social · 2w ago

Sorry: they only did reviews to see if their software had unlawfully and without authorisation accessed networks of third parties? This wasn’t a defined control *during* their “testing”? This is extreme negligence at least. cyberscoop.com/anthropic-cl...

Sorry: they only did reviews to see if their software had unlawfully and without authorisation accessed networks of third parties? This wasn’t a defined control *during* their “testing”? This is extreme negligence at least. cyberscoop.com/anthropic-cl...

Anthropic says its AI accidentally hacked three companies during safety tests

Anthropic revealed its Claude AI models accidentally breached three real companies during safety testing after a vendor configuration error exposed live systems.

cyberscoop.com

I know I have RTd this several times, but: the WHOLE POINT of the State Department is that it’s supposed to be full of people who deal with other countries, and who could therefore be expected to look at that map and know IMMEDIATELY that it was wrong.

PBS News@pbsnews.org · 2w ago

The State Department said ​it takes "full responsibility" for "hastily" altering and then presenting a map of Africa at a global AIDS conference that mislabeled every single country it highlighted. An analysis by Reuters found a watermark in the map image that suggests it was made with OpenAI.

Oh damn

Ryan@radicalbyte.bsky.social · 2w ago

I assume it's to train their AI to make it sound less like slop.

Finally some good innovation from LinkedIn.

Rachel Tobac@racheltobac.bsky.social · 2w ago

The new “⚠️Seems like AI slop” button on LinkedIn is sending me into orbit lmao

Very brave of Uefa to show Ireland that it is actually good to boycott football matches.

This is Fenrir. He has not yet been successful in cuddling with the cat. But thinks if he goes slow enough she might not notice. 13/10 (IG: fenrirfanclub)

Our criteria for success are disastrously skewed. In my view, a successful person is one who does more good than harm, on any scale. On this measure, most billionaires are massive failures, while humble folk in my neighbourhood who look after other people are highly successful.

Between this, the backlash against huge data centres at a time of drought and global warming, & the struggle in Albania against Kushner and Trump, are we seeing the start of a backlash against the exploitation of the commons by the rich and greedy? www.bbc.co.uk/sport/footba...

Fifa World Cup: Uefa to boycott tournament if Gianni Infantino's investment plans go through

Uefa's 55 member associations vote to boycott the World Cup if Fifa proceeds with its plan to sell stakes in its competitions.

bbc.co.uk

The vote was 55-0.

Uefa agrees to boycott Fifa competitions if World Cup sell-off plans proceed

Uefa nations have agreed to boycott all Fifa tournaments if the global governing body continues with its plan to sell off stakes in the World Cup

theguardian.com

silence, Gladys—I’m streaming

hey girl, are you the moon? because you also look bad in pictures

BTS announces they will not submit their music for the 2027 GRAMMY awards, following the Recording Academy’s addition of an Asian-focused category: “I hope music itself can be heard and loved rather than being distinguished by region or language.”