Anthony Cunningham

Anthony Cunningham

@sqferryman.bsky.social

Mid-life crisis actor.

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Tom Campbell ⁂
@is.tomcampbell.in

Digital sovereignty for AI is speculative. Digital sovereignty for social media is a real need. 👉 action.openrightsgroup.org/tell-your-mp...

action.openrightsgroup.orgTell your MP: Government must move away from toxic social media platformsWhat’s going on? Tell your MP to support the 'Public sector communications, decentralised platforms and local journalism' EDM (Early Day Motion) 411, tabled by Siân Berry MP. No member of the public s...
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C)@doctorow.pluralistic.net

But AI has *nothing to do* with digital sovereignty. It is *not* load-bearing. All it takes to understand this is a little thought-experiment. Imagine that we removed all the chatbots from Canada, or the UK, or the EU, or the USA. What would fall down? Nothing important.

Anthony Cunningham
@sqferryman.bsky.social

On the plus side I have an idea for the next installment in the Sisu franchise where Aatami goes to Mountain View.

Guardian Environment@environment.theguardian.com

‘Pure arrogance’: anger in Finland as Google illegally fells 250,000 trees for datacentre

theguardian.com‘Pure arrogance’: anger in Finland as Google illegally fells 250,000 trees for datacentreCompany ordered to stop work at two sites in country, which has found itself at forefront of tech firms’ latest push
Anthony Cunningham
@sqferryman.bsky.social

Go to your camera roll and search “boat” and then post a pic of a boat you like.

Rick Innis@rickinnis.bsky.social

Go to your camera roll and search “boat” and then post a pic of a boat you like. Lake Ontario / Niigaani-gichigami

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Anna from Ukraine
@annafromukraine.bsky.social

And then I saw a brutally dark meme on X: An American at the gas station: “Why is this diesel slightly red?” “Never mind. There’s just a little Ukrainian blood in it.” 🇺🇸 Let your representatives know what you think. 🫂 Drop some virtual hugs for Ukraine below.

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Odd This Day
@oddthisday.bsky.social

So, happy 89th anniversary of the day Oswald Mosley tried to sell fascism to Liverpudlians—and someone concussed him with a brick

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Chris Lintott
@chrislintott.bsky.social

As expected, the Prime Minister's promise to sort out the mess of funding for Jodrell actually meant nothing - it seems the government would like it to be some sort of heritage theme park when you can go and see where we used to do science. 🔭

Margot Finn@eicathomefinn.bsky.social

'The University of Manchester is seeking alternative funding sources to keep scientific work at Jodrell Bank going after hearing that lost UK Research and Innovation funding would not be restored despite interventions by the prime minister.'

timeshighereducation.comManchester seeks alternative Jodrell funds despite Burnham pledgeUniversity exploring new revenue streams to continue important scientific research at site, as astronomers remain concerned about the future of facility
Anthony Cunningham
@sqferryman.bsky.social

I wish that this talk had been available when I was starting out as a programmer and reading "Hackers".

Mallory Moore@sexabolition.blog

opentranscripts.org/transcript/p... Will cap this thread off with a link to Allison Parrish's talk on the ways that birth of the "Hacker" mythos directly fucked with Margaret Hamilton's efforts to model weather systems at MIT.

opentranscripts.orgProgramming is Forgetting: Toward a New Hacker Ethic - Allison Parrish | Open TranscriptsI wouldn't be surprised to find out that many of us here today like to see our work as a continuation of say the Tech Model Railroad Club or the Homebrew Computer Club, and certainly the terminology a...

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Mallory Moore
@sexabolition.blog

Seeing people joke about software engineering in the wake of Margaret Hamilton's death. Obviously there's a difference between what's largely euphemised as software engineering presently and the discipline she strove to create.

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Alan Paxton
@alanpx.bsky.social

Radio 5 says Jeffrey Archer divided opinion. Presumably as to whether his perjury or his novels were his greatest crime.

Anthony Cunningham
@sqferryman.bsky.social

Well this just sucks. Getting a response from a creator to a question about their work is one of the best things about social media. Looks like that's another thing of the past.

Adrian Tchaikovsky@aptshadow.bsky.social

Welp, scammer finally got a response out of me. Instead of the "I just came across book and was immediately stuck by" it was a straight up reader question - in this case "how much of the series did you have in mind when writing the first book." On replying, I got the response:

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Hazel
@hackneyhaz.bsky.social

Kemi Badenoch on Today defending the neo-Nazi council candidate by saying that it is right to give those who have previously been radicalised a chance. Badenoch on Shamima Begum, whom was groomed by Islamic State when a child, "Citizenship is a privilege, she forfeited it." 🤔