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nabiha syed

@nabiha.bsky.social

Executive Director @ Mozilla Foundation Mama to Musa and Ibi Definitely have cookies in my purse

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mtsw@mtsw.bsky.social · 2d ago

The biggest technological revolution of our lifetime and it has nothing to do with AI, crypto, metaverse, robots or any of the other massively hyped "tech" the media always talks about instead

Sarah Taber@sarahtaber.bsky.social · 2d ago

Absolutely unbelievable how solar power has taken off worldwide during the Hormuz oil crisis. You don't have to hand it to him, but Trump may have done more to finally kick off a global civilization of effete librul solar users than anyone else in the West

Chart showing solar panel exports from China (the main solar panel maker by a long shot) growing steadily & mightily from 2018 through 2026, then spiking by almost 2x in March 2026.
Letta@letta.com · 2w ago

How can we learn across agent experience, when data is split across many different harnesses? We're releasing `trajectory`, an open-source package that normalizes agent sessions into one token-efficient format designed for agents learning from past experience. www.letta.com/blog/trajec...

Trajectory: A Standard Format for Agent Experience Data

Introducing trajectory, an open-source package that normalizes coding-agent sessions from Claude Code, Codex, Letta Code, and other harnesses into one token-efficient format designed for agents learning from past experience.

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Costa Samaras@costasamaras.com · 2w ago

This misunderstands the role of private vs. public R&D. Private R&D is great but is connected to R&D tax exemptions, & often doesn't spill out into the public domain. There's a notion we can ramp federal R&D spending down & be competitive. We can’t & we shouldn’t. www.whitehouse.gov/releases/202...

OSTP Director Releases Landmark Report and Recommendations for Renewing American Scientific Discovery

WASHINGTON, DC – Today, Assistant to the President and Director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) Michael Kratsios

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Adam Klasfeld@klasfeldreports.com · 2w ago

“Even the Mafia says families are off limits.” Freedom of the Press Foundation’s Seth Stern pulls no punches on reports that Trump DOJ subpoenaed NYT reporters’ relatives.

“Even the Mafia says families are off limits. It’s gross that the administration — in its never-ending effort to harass and intimidate reporters who reveal its incompetence — is going after the communications of journalists’ relatives. The administration’s own guidelines say pursuing journalists is a last resort. But instead, it’s looking for any excuse to snoop on reporters and their relatives, because this has nothing to do with national security and everything to do with chilling journalism. They’re even seeking records from months before the report they claim they’re investigating.The Times’ reporting actually bolstered national security by ensuring that Trump and those who travel with him, including journalists, aren’t flying on an unsafe plane to serve the president’s personal vanity. Trump’s hangers-on should be sending the Times thank- you cards, not subpoenas.”
Buddy Toledo@jessefuchs.bsky.social · 2w ago

I have a lot of doubts and qualms and issues and etc. about LLMs in many contexts—but as far as using them to navigate the nightmare world of our extant digital bureaucracy, I have exactly one thought

J. Wellington Wimpy standing in the corner of a boxing ring with his hands behind his back, saying “COME NOW, GENTLEMEN, LET'S YOU AND HIM FIGHT”
Cat Hicks@grimalkina.bsky.social · 2w ago

This is not the most complex flow I use. This is a toy example compressed for social media. You really want me, a computational social scientist who has also put hundreds of hours of free patient advocacy work into helping people navigate inaccessible, life-changing information, to ignore this

Cat Hicks@grimalkina.bsky.social · 2w ago

I think it is cowardly to not engage with the seriousness of our information problems. There, I said it. It is cowardice to crawl back into explanations like "people are all idiotsssssss if they would just listen to meeeeee and use technology the riiiiiiight way" I have no more patience for it.

Amy Hoy@amyhoy.bsky.social · 3w ago

did threads on the cynical advertising trend but, this is something different. they're emulating like… eames power of 10-type ads crossed with, like, the BASF-style pro-social type ads from the 90s. this is spin. they're emulating their critics first in order to steal the conversation.

Amy Hoy@amyhoy.bsky.social · 8mo ago

why are all these ai ads so awful, cynical, bitter, demeaning, negative, insulting and injurious to the human spirit? whether made with ai, or made to sell ai. the *text* is bleak. including the ipad crush ad in here what the hell is in the water

illumi@yallchemist.bsky.social · 3w ago

I’m saddened to announce the passing of my work colleague, The Zodiac Killer. While we were often on opposing sides of the business, I always enjoyed his silly little scavenger hunts.

Eurosky Sebastian@sebastian.eurosky.social · 4w ago

SMS is actually an often overseen example of interoperability that one can use to explain the benefits of shared protocols to non-tech people. Not only does it work across different cell providers it also works across all cell phones.

Michel Bestaat@michelbestaat.thereforeiam.eu · 4w ago

That is so weird. When phone companies lost their monopoly it was very important that all the new companies would be interoperable, that a user could move freely from one to another. There were working groups that worked on the same for text messaging. That was not successful. The large 🧵1/3

Riana@riana.bsky.social · 4w ago

This admin does so many evil things every day that Idk if I read about this back when the lawsuit was filed & forgot, or if I missed it until now, but withholding ICAC grants - $ meant for fighting child sexual exploitation - from sanctuary cities is truly depraved. www.kpbs.org/news/educati...

San Diego, San Jose suing DOJ over funding to investigate cyber crimes against kids

The lawsuit filed Friday in San Diego federal court states that grants for the Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force Program are now conditional upon the cities following DOJ requirements that a...

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 4w ago

Meta ( and every other company making surveillance glasses) is betting on people’s privacy nihilism and fatigue in the hopes that we view these technologies as inevitable and resistance as futile. Neither thing is true.

rahaeli@rahaeli.bsky.social · last mo.

In other "excellent news from religious bodies", the US Presbyterian General Assembly has formally voted to start the process to (correctly) declare white Christian nationalism a theological error incompatible with the teachings of Jesus: pres-outlook.org/2026/07/pcus...

PC(USA) labels White Christian nationalism "Theological Error"

Calling White Christian nationalism incompatible with the teachings of Jesus, commissioners approved a proposed constitutional amendment and a new policy statement opposing the ideology.

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Paul Frazee@pfrazee.com · last mo.

This is basically what my talks next week are about. If you don’t treat open networks as a database replication problem (and build accordingly) then you will struggle with scale and correctness You don’t try to replicate with rabbitmq

cyber professional@permadeath.com · last mo.

i do think it's funny that rpc maintainers look at event bus models and think they're unmaintainable slop. when that's exactly what event bus maintainers think about rpc models! (one guess what side i'm on though)