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Amazon has laid off 30,000+ workers over the past year and is now recruiting some former employees back, including for AI roles. This is now a common practice in tech. Nearly 2/3 of new hires in the information sector were former employees returning to their companies, according to ADP data.

Tyrannosaurus xkcd.com/3300/

Trade xkcd.com/3290/

An innovative floating offshore solar project that generates electricity and converts seawater into drinking water. The farm near Gran Canaria produces 85 MW of renewable electricity while using that same power to operate reverse osmosis systems that desalinate seawater #ActOnClimate #renewables

Google I/O summary - shipping an LLM to your Chrome whether you want it or not - destroying search once and for all - pervert glasses 👍

I drove down to Oregon this past weekend and stopped by Multnomah Falls in the Columbia River Gorge. I was amazed at how tall the falls were. The bridge gives the scene scale, but standing below the falls is what really makes you feel its height. You have to look way up to see the top.

AI creativity is that which can say, “I studied 10,000 French Academic paintings and here is the most statistically typical result.” Human creativity is that which can say, “I studied 10,000 French Academic paintings and now I’m so sick of it, I’m gonna go invent Impressionism.”

“Every kid starts out as a natural-born scientist, and then we beat it out of them. A few trickle through the system with their wonder and enthusiasm for science intact.” ― Carl Sagan

Mandated 3D printer censorware is doomed to fail for its intended purpose, but will still manage to hurt the professional and hobbyist communities using these tools. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

You have more in common with the people of Iran than you do with anyone in this administration, any member of the technocracy, anyone who is profiting from this war, or any billionaire. When you see Iranians forming human chains outside key infrastructure sites, you should feel a sense of kinship.

Many Washington Post readers have been notified via email that their subscription rates are set to increase. Nestled at the bottom of these emails, you’ll find an asterisk and the following: “This price was set by an algorithm using your personal data.”

There's no reason for Iran to attack NATO nation Turkey—but a drone did. Iran denies sending it. There's no reason for Iran to attack a UK base in Cyprus—but a drone did. Iran denies sending it. Now Azerbaijan has been attacked. Iran denies involvement. I think this is Israel.

Hahahaahhaa hell yeah. The future rules! THE FUTURE RULES!

More reports of Gmail turning over email content to ICE are coming out now. techcrunch.com/2026/02/10/g...

The Chinese government will ban cars with retractable door handles, popularized by Tesla, starting on January 1st 2027. A recent Bloomberg article has linked these handles to at least 15 deaths in incidents involving Teslas. People dying due to his bad decisions is familiar territory for Elon Musk.

WhatsApp API flaw let researchers scrape 3.5 billion accounts 🔥🕵️‍♂️🎯 Researchers compiled a list of 3.5 billion WhatsApp mobile phone numbers and associated personal information by abusing a contact-discovery API that lacked rate limiting!💥🧱💼🩲 #news #technews www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/securit...

I am sure this will be hugely unpopular with a lot of people; but I think AI prompt visibility tracking is generally a big and expensive waste of time. 🤷‍♂️

This video of Chicagoans intervening to save a man from being abducted off the streets by ICE is making the rounds on Instagram. Community action works. Source: www.instagram.com/reel/DPZL2AL...

Please - stop doing the screenshot no link thing on Bluesky. This platform does not punish you for posting a URL. You picked up the habit from Meta apps? Stop doing Mark Z's bidding. Link ESPECIALLY to authors, reporters, bloggers, etc. where you quote the work.

What's the word for when a university famous for economics and in possession of a $10bn endowment screws up its finances badly enough it has to sell a whole research institute? www.ft.com/content/4501...

Absolute all-timer sentence in today's @nytimes.com

OBAMA: It's fair to say that 80% of the world's problems involve old men hanging on who are afraid of death and insignificance, and they won't let go. They build pyramids, and they put their names on everything. They get very anxious about it.

The @graphene_os account on TikTok that's getting a lot of interaction is fake and impersonating us. If you have an account there, please report it for trademark infringement. TikTok's reporting system for impersonating doesn't work for this but reporting it for trademark infringement should work.

The richest man on earth owns X. The second richest man on earth is about to be a major owner of TikTok. The third richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. The fourth richest man owns The Washington Post. See the problem here?

This reminds me of this comic, that David Revoy just created recently: framapiaf.org/@davidrevoy/...

It’s incredible how companies are threatening employees to use AI or else but then have no idea how or what employees are supposed to do with it.

Overnight, this extremely well-funded tech company run by a billionaire has gone from “There’s no way we can possibly stop our plagiarism machine from convincing children to kill themselves” to “If you type anything we don’t like, we’re calling the cops.” Either way, they take zero responsibility.

Some notes on the insecurity baked into Perplexity's Comet "AI Browser" - the Brave security team reported serious prompt injection vulnerabilities in it, but Brave themselves are developing a similar feature that looks doomed to have similar problems simonwillison.net/2025/Aug/25/...

Wow! 642,564 downloads of LibreOffice version 25.8 in just one week! That's an incredible start. What an amazing testament to the power of opensource software. Great work😊

Somebody on LinkedIn said what we're all thinking.

still thinking about the Montana knife maker who said you don't have to worry about tariffs if you buy american. and then three months later, he realized he imports swedish steel and german equipment. and even MiUSA equipment costs $100k more now because of tariffs

PSA. old.reddit.com exists if you don't want to use their JS-riddled, gamified, ad-thingie.

“Tell people there's an invisible man in the sky who created the universe, and the vast majority will believe you. Tell them the paint is wet, and they have to touch it to be sure.” — George Carlin

Krishnan Guru-Murthy, "Should Britain recognise the state of Palestine?" Sarah Champion, "Yes" Krishnan Guru-Murthy, "Should Britain call this a genocide?" Sarah Champion, "I can't see it as anything other than a genocide"

JavaScript broke the web (and called it progress) - via @jono.id‬ #seo

CEO of Oreo Cookies: the oreo cookie is as important as oxygen

We ran a randomized controlled trial to see how much AI coding tools speed up experienced open-source developers. The results surprised us: Developers thought they were 20% faster with AI tools, but they were actually 19% slower when they had access to AI than when they didn't.

And what's worse, is it's effectively for nothing. More god damn LLMs