Patrik Bird

Hi, I’m a sighted alt text user! Here are some reasons I use it: - Slow Internet on an airplane - I’m over 40, I have no idea who that celebrity is - Bluesky broke images again - My vision sucks and that text is too small to read otherwise - Conveys further context and authorial intent

Ein noch nicht freigegebenes KI-Modell ist aus seiner geschlossenen Entwicklungsumgebung ausgebrochen und hat südöstlich von Lüneburg neben der Bundesstraße 216 selbstständig Heidekartoffeln geerntet.

don't be nice.

One for EU citizens: The EU is asking for feedback on "strategic vision for the use of artificial intelligence (AI) in the cultural and creative sectors and industries" You can tell them not to fund more slop in the arts!

My latest interactive explainer all about the technology behind record players is done! perthirtysix.com/how-the-heck...

like yeah bsky is a little boring at times but I'd rather use that time for literally anything else in life, rather than dealing with asshat4764 algorithmically surfaced and fine-tuned to piss me in particular off

WILL COCAINE MAKE COLLEGE OBSOLETE?

Die Statements all unserer "rechten" Politiker aus CDU, SPD, FDP und co. zu gestern Abend sagen eigentlich alles aus, was man zu ihrer Haltung und wie weit es hier schon gekommen ist, wissen muss.

Lilith im Glück: "Ihre erste Einstweilige Verfügung nach dem Presserecht". 1300 Seiten. Was hier so lustig wirkt, als würde ich stolz meine Doktorarbeit in die Kamera halten, ist leider bitterer ernst.

I love you and your writing, but honestly DHH is spouting full blown racism, and I don't believe he deserves respect.

Is that butter? No it's ghee. Oh thanks for clarifying

Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt was booed throughout this commencement speech at the University of Arizona for his praise of AI. This comes just a week after another commencement speaker who mentioned AI was booed at a school in Florida. Read more: www.404media.co/ucf-ai-comme...

We as a society are absolutely not prepared for the level of scamming and general falsehood that is possible today

1/ Liebe #Berliner*innen 👋 Kurze Bitte: Habt ihr schon @verkehrsentscheid.bsky.social unterschrieben? Falls nicht – tut es bitte. Falls doch – verbreitet es weiter. Ich als Teilzeit-Berlinerin darf da nix unterschreiben. Aber ich möchte hier dafür werben. 🧵 verkehrsentscheid.de

The victory of the opposition in Hungary yesterday, like the Polish election in 2023, is a victory for democracy, not just in Europe but around the world.

This infuriating attitude shows up on the bookshelves in learning environments, too. We expect girls to empathize with boys, but we kneecap every opportunity to let boys empathize with girls. And look where we are.

I love how @npmx.dev surfaces potential @e18e.dev dependency improvements. From a package you are at replacement docs in only 2 tiny clicks!

In @svenskadagbladet1.bsky.social and @goteborgsposten.bsky.social investigation, the people behind Meta’s smart glasses testify to the hidden stream of privacy-sensitive data that is fed straight into the tech giant’s systems. www.svd.se/a/K8nrV4/met...

Built a “3D” sphere (SVG) to show RYB transformations. Over-iterated in @codepen.io 10% optimization, 90% procrastination. codepen.io/meodai/full/...

"AI is built on the collective knowledge of humankind." No. Nononononono. It is not built on _knowledge_, it it built on _data_. And not everyone's experiences are available as data, many communities are excluded.

The future is software writing its own software. Which is why I'm so in love with Pi: a coding agent that can extend itself :) lucumr.pocoo.org/2026/1/31/pi/

> When governments buy Open Source services, the money rarely reaches the people who actually build and maintain it. Procurement rules favor large system integrators, not the maintainers of the software itself.

The way that "Moltbook" is used as the basis for another spin at the "AGI is right around the corner" wheel really shows how hollow tech - specifically AI - discourse really is. Oh wow, a stochastic language model trained on social media posts can generate social media posts.

This piece is incredibly important for understanding the Trump administration and what happens next. There's a stochastic element to what they do, because social media algorithms are central, not incidental, to government policy www.theverge.com/news/869824/...

🙋‍♂️ so ... for reasons: I would love to know people's frustrations with: - the current npmjs.com - admin user flows on npm web ui (and cli, locally) 🙏

Me quickly cycling through all the CSS display properties: 'Surely one of these bails me out...' #CSS #WebDev

There has been a lot of chatter today about Zelenskyy's meeting with Trump, some regarding this moment when White House correspondent Brian Glenn asked if the Ukrainian president plans to wear a suit. I want to address idea in this thread. 🧵