Episode 2 is up! Beforecast, my new podcast about history and our present, starting with a deep dive into Machiavelli. beforecast.fm has links to all the podcast sites, and the YouTube link is below.

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Historian Ada Palmer on the real Machiavelli. Episode 1 is out now. Subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Pocket Casts, YouTube and more.

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Blogged: If developers have autonomy, mastery and purpose, what do you need testers for? In which I consider some answers, but also question the premise. smallsheds.garden/blog/2026/if...

If developers have autonomy, mastery and purpose, what do you need tes

That's a big if, though.

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Exciting news! “And Loki in His Prison” is up for pre-order!!! There is a 25% off sale through Barnes & Noble for both hardcover and e-book during W 9/9-F 9/11. Order your copy here. buff.ly/ry0xKYk

"It's just not our money to keep, and it felt really good to give it back," Panic co-founder Caleb Sasser said. "That's an easy way to know you made the right decision."

Playdate maker Panic is refunding tariff fees to customers

Panic is refunding customers who purchased a Playdate device and paid a 19 percent fee imposed by the now-rescinded US tariffs.

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Excited to share this short & sweet article I wrote with @samhforbes.bsky.social! Teaching coding inclusively: if this, then what? doi.org/10.31235/osf... The title perhaps says it all; we show through arguments and examples what women experience in programming class and what to do to remedy it.

=========================== Agile Time Machine latest update =========================== The Agile Time Machine is a community-driven document capturing the original essence and spirit of Agile. You can check it out here => bit.ly/AgileTimeMac...

your apartment, the sport of basketball, and the Republic of Korea are all social constructs. mere recognition of this fact does not actually make the question of whether you are standing in your own apartment, playing basketball, or a Korean national up in the air until settled by op ed editors

A new EU-hosted GitHub alternative for private repos and managed CI, with unlimited users, AI agent tools, and one-click portable exports

It's an interesting contrast seeing people claim that due to GenAI testing is no longer deterministic and then reading Kem Caner's 2012 article "The Oracle Problem and the Teaching of Software Testing". kaner.com?p=190

The Luddites loved technology. They owned looms at home and would ‘mod’ them to count threads. Their battle was against worker exploitation. The degradation of their rights, safety and wages. They were against a handful of rich businessmen owning the means of production. Sound familiar?

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George Lucas likens AI sceptics to luddites clinging to horses and carts

« We identify how philosophical naivety, characterized by the uncritical adoption of reductive frameworks regarding consciousness, intelligence, and ethics, creates tangible organizational and technical liabilities. » 🔥

On the Philosophical Naivety of Engineers in the Age of Machine Learning - Topoi

This paper examines the paradoxical decline in engagement with philosophy of science among engineers precisely when machine learning (ML) systems are increasingly performing complex epistemological fu...

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I want to recommend @typst.app. It's a new alternative to LaTeX that's much more intuitive and easy to use — but still very powerful. I have been using it exclusively and am very happy. typst.app

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Blogged: How do I know my testers are doing a good job? smallsheds.garden/blog/2026/ho...

How do I know my testers are doing a good job?

What you measure, gets amplified.

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It's important to remember, the people who bought into this shit have been constantly, consistently sold a drumbeat lie that tells them "AI is Magic & It Can Do Anything," a lie reinforced by absurd stock valuations & credulous news coverage in indices & outlets these kinds of people treat as gospel

We have also truly been here before... olivia.science/before/ 3/n

A lot of media coverage of the ‘AI’ reading of the Herculaneum scrolls really fails to understand what’s happened here. There’s no language processing happening, the AI/ML is not trained on a corpus of texts or language. It can detect ink to see shapes. HUMAN EXPERTS are then transcribing the text.

> Microsoft is promoting Copilot to enhance its profits. This does not mean it will enhance your organization's goals or workflows. Caution is warranted.

Dwayne Monroe@cloudquistador.eurosky.social · 3mo ago

I was asked to create a risk analysis of Microsoft 365 Copilot for a labor council and it occurs to me that others may find it useful. Voila! padlet.com/verdigris21/...

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I just moved my account to @eurosky.social. It was really straightforward thanks to this guide: eurosky.tech/accounts/mig...

Account migration instructions with EU-HAUL — Eurosky

Eurosky is a European initiative to build and operate sovereign social web infrastructure

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Tech sovereignty (for AI) or a livable planet, you choose! "Europe must prioritize artificial intelligence over its immediate climate ambitions or risk surrendering its tech sovereignty to China." www.politico.eu/article/euro...

Europe must choose between AI and climate goals, data center lobby says

Tech sector says only carbon-emitting gas plants are reliable enough today to power the EU’s AI goals.

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A number of older students say they're glad they're getting out of college now, and they feel sorry for younger siblings and students for whom AI is so much more crushing that they'll have far fewer experiences of learning on their own.

Some people are asking if there were any "AI optimists." Many students would say something about how AI can be valuable for some things. But I was asking how it effects their education. In my small sample, no, nobody really described it as *improving* their education.

"Q: What is Big AI primarily selling? A: Labor replace­ment, with mass unem­ploy­ment as a likely conse­quence. Some disagree or call it doomerish. Why? It’s exactly what AI grandees have been telling us. " matthewbutterick.com/extinction-l...

Matthew Butterick | Extinction-level capitalism

Matthew Butterick

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a little on the nose for capitalism that the world’s first trillionaire is a nazi conman

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Miscommunication often happens because a lot takes place between hearing what someone says and answering to it. Join the eye-opening workshop led by Christopher Chant & Joep Schuurkes and learn how to communicate better. See more: agiletestingdays.com/2026/session...

Joep Schuurkes draws on more than 20 years of experience in the testing industry to reach an insightful conclusion: testing has always been about revealing software quality, regardless of how its methods and approaches have evolved over time. Read more: agiletestingdays.com/2026/session...

Love this news but hate the "surprise comeback" framing. Teams around the globe worked incredibly hard to protect & expand mangrove forests & it worked! Please just say, "We tried and we succeeded! Go team Earth!" We must admit our victories to give people the heart to keep trying! #ShareGoodNewsToo

Margot Finn@eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 4mo ago

'a new study shows that since 2010 the world has been gaining more mangroves than it has been losing - driven by stronger legal protections and increased public awareness of their importance, sparked by disasters such as the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami.' 1/2

The valuation of SpaceX is based on this page in their filing*. Estimated future market: 28.5 trillion Of that Grok/AI is: 26.5 trillion 93% of the SpaceX valuation is Grok NINTY THREE PERCENT OF THE SPACEX VALUATION IS GROK!!!! * www.sec.gov/Archives/edg...

Blogged: Thinking in threes about software testing Where I apply some Magical thinking to how we talk about software testing. smallsheds.garden/blog/2026/th...

Thinking in threes about software testing

Sometimes you need a touch of Magic.

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