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Gautier

@gautier.dev

Hi fellow Svelters!

I just concluded an investigation to know whether it's possible to use the experimental Node SEA feature with SvelteKit, and I'm thrilled to announce that the answer is yes!

You can read all about it there:

Bundling a SvelteKit app into a single binary

The odyssey of packaging a SvelteKit application using the upcoming Single Executable Application (SEA) Node feature through a custom adapter.

gautier.dev

December 28, 2025 at 11:39 AM

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Elena @ Real Scientists DE

@realscientists.de

Vielleicht eh mal ein paar Non-Tech-Bro Follow-Empfehlungen von mir zum Thema KI:

• @emilymbender.bsky.social
• @abeba.bsky.social
• @timnitgebru.bsky.social
• @olivia.science
• @alexhanna.bsky.social
• @mmitchell.bsky.social
• @irisvanrooij.bsky.social
• @swachter.bsky.social

January 9, 2026 at 12:13 PM

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Justin Mikulka

@justinmikulka.bsky.social

"Just as AI does not require fossil fuels or nuclear power, modern mobility does not require internal combustion. What requires them are the vested interests whose business models collapse when energy and movement decentralise."

Good read.

AI Did Not Demand Centralised Power. Vested Interests Did.

There is a comforting lie spreading fast, repeated by governments, legacy energy players, defence contractors, and now increasingly by parts of the tech sector itself. It says that artificial intellig...

www.linkedin.com

January 7, 2026 at 12:14 PM

tom

@callmetom.bsky.social

GIF, are we progressing faster than we should?

James Vincent @jjvincent.bsky.social · Dec 27

another robot highlight for 2025: man wearing humanoid mocap suit kicks himself in the balls

December 27, 2025 at 7:20 PM

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Django Wexler

@djangowexler.bsky.social

I'm laughing out loud because, *twenty years ago*, a friend in robotics told me that showing off a dancing robot is what you do when your robot sucks, and a *group* of them even more so.

October 12, 2025 at 4:50 PM

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Ramon Astudillo

@ramon-astudillo.bsky.social

Artificial intelligence and crowd intelligence better grow hand in hand.

Ramon Astudillo @ramon-astudillo.bsky.social · Oct 6

there is also the "lets return to the timeline where we did not fuck up the internet as a tool for democratic empowerment and non-transactional value creation" folk. There are many of those. Where I put "internet" you can also put "AI".

October 6, 2025 at 12:03 AM

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Echobit

@echobit.de

I think every programmer can relate to this. I had to remove the sixth panel though - let’s just say it was definitely not kid-friendly. 😂

A five-panel meme featuring a man in a suit (Vince McMahon) reacting with growing excitement:
1. Caption: “You find a third-party library that does something niche you were looking for” – he looks mildly intrigued.
2. Caption: “It’s open source and free to use” – he looks pleasantly surprised, eyes widening.
3. Caption: “It’s actively maintained, with the developer regularly fixing issues” – he looks thrilled, smiling in amazement.
4. Caption: “It actually has a good README with benchmarks, screenshots, and how to import it in your project” – he leans forward, eyes wide, very excited.
5. Caption: “It has a small wiki with code examples for every method/API” – he throws his head back in ecstatic awe, mouth wide open.

September 27, 2025 at 4:41 PM

tom

@callmetom.bsky.social

Great to hear that @jimmykimmel.com is back ! Seems like the Land of the Free still has some Freedom of Speech left if enough sane people stand for it !

September 22, 2025 at 8:02 PM

tom

@callmetom.bsky.social

Interesting distinction

Ramon Astudillo @ramon-astudillo.bsky.social · Sep 21

Something ugly but true. There are two types of people with strong drives. Macro-level driven people have clear material objectives and care less about the "how" than the "what". Micro-level driven people enjoy finding a space to solve hard problems and learn, for them the "how" is the "what". 👇

Gergely Orosz @gergely.pragmaticengineer.com · Sep 21

Someone asked me about my advice to devs for "traditional software engineers" who resist change.

My advice:

Being a true tech professional means you keep your toolset sharp, and up-to-date. If you refuse to do so, you are probably not a true professional, but (cont'd)

September 22, 2025 at 10:07 AM

tom

@callmetom.bsky.social

Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · Sep 19

OK, I started this related critical AI list too here: olivia.science/ai#allies with allies & resources — @jsanofranchini.bsky.social @annakornbluh.bsky.social @ehayot.bsky.social (let me know if I failed to tag anybody)

and importantly, feel free to contact me to add more! 🤍

September 19, 2025 at 10:48 AM

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Thomas Wolf

@thomwolf.bsky.social

first test in plugging the $100 Amazing Hands on a (cute) humanoid instead of grippers - pretty happy about it

Hand: github.com/pollen-robot...

Humanoid: www.pollen-robotics.com/reachy/

September 10, 2025 at 5:34 PM

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Michel Nivard

@michelnivard.bsky.social

Feels like models (local or API) are being held back by their UI currently…need more than a chat window, need to be able to write and organize projects (so perhaps note taking app, obsidian like) but also need to run/validate its code so IDE like. Perhaps a UI that can flick between those views.

September 9, 2025 at 8:27 AM

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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ

@olivia.science

Finally! 🤩 Our position piece: Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia:
doi.org/10.5281/zeno...

We unpick the tech industry’s marketing, hype, & harm; and we argue for safeguarding higher education, critical
thinking, expertise, academic freedom, & scientific integrity.
1/n

Abstract: Under the banner of progress, products have been uncritically adopted or
even imposed on users — in past centuries with tobacco and combustion engines, and in
the 21st with social media. For these collective blunders, we now regret our involvement or
apathy as scientists, and society struggles to put the genie back in the bottle. Currently, we
are similarly entangled with artificial intelligence (AI) technology. For example, software updates are rolled out seamlessly and non-consensually, Microsoft Office is bundled with chatbots, and we, our students, and our employers have had no say, as it is not
considered a valid position to reject AI technologies in our teaching and research. This
is why in June 2025, we co-authored an Open Letter calling on our employers to reverse
and rethink their stance on uncritically adopting AI technologies. In this position piece,
we expound on why universities must take their role seriously toa) counter the technology
industry’s marketing, hype, and harm; and to b) safeguard higher education, critical
thinking, expertise, academic freedom, and scientific integrity. We include pointers to
relevant work to further inform our colleagues.

Figure 1. A cartoon set theoretic view on various terms (see Table 1) used when discussing the superset AI
(black outline, hatched background): LLMs are in orange; ANNs are in magenta; generative models are
in blue; and finally, chatbots are in green. Where these intersect, the colours reflect that, e.g. generative adversarial network (GAN) and Boltzmann machine (BM) models are in the purple subset because they are
both generative and ANNs. In the case of proprietary closed source models, e.g. OpenAI’s ChatGPT and
Apple’s Siri, we cannot verify their implementation and so academics can only make educated guesses (cf.
Dingemanse 2025). Undefined terms used above: BERT (Devlin et al. 2019); AlexNet (Krizhevsky et al.
2017); A.L.I.C.E. (Wallace 2009); ELIZA (Weizenbaum 1966); Jabberwacky (Twist 2003); linear discriminant analysis (LDA); quadratic discriminant analysis (QDA).

Table 1. Below some of the typical terminological disarray is untangled. Importantly, none of these terms
are orthogonal nor do they exclusively pick out the types of products we may wish to critique or proscribe.

Protecting the Ecosystem of Human Knowledge: Five Principles

September 6, 2025 at 8:13 AM

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#TeslaTakedown

@teslatakedown.com

The world Elon and his pals want to build is like something out of the most dystopian sci-fi you've ever read. #teslatakedown #MuskMustFall

50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · Aug 31

This is a must-read article.

The Techlords and Their Ideology Are Mortal Enemies of Humanity | Common Dreams

The techlords intend to bring humanity to the brink of collapse and then, in a magic trick, rise to power, saving the species or themselves as the last specimens.

www.commondreams.org

August 31, 2025 at 4:14 PM

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Denise Wheeler

@denisedwheeler.bsky.social

The new ICE song by Jesse Welles nails it.

ICE isn’t recruiting heroes, it’s recruiting the bitter, the rejected, the ones desperate for a badge to cover their failures.

Losers with power become the most dangerous kind.

(c/o Caroline Codsi)

August 29, 2025 at 12:18 AM

tom

@callmetom.bsky.social

Looks like Oxford's AI Chair agrees with @garymarcus.bsky.social on LLMs being a "hack" rather than actual intelligence. Rightly so - and it becomes clearer and clearer throughout academia and even the industry!

www.youtube.com/watch?v=7-Uz...

@ox.ac.uk

Oxford's AI Chair: LLMs are a HACK

YouTube video by Johnathan Bi

www.youtube.com

July 14, 2025 at 3:20 PM

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Simon Willison

@simonwillison.net

"Design Patterns for Securing LLM Agents against Prompt Injections" is an excellent new paper that provides six design patterns to help protect LLM tool-using systems (call them "agents" if you like) against prompt injection attacks

Here are my notes on the paper simonwillison.net/2025/Jun/13/...

Design Patterns for Securing LLM Agents against Prompt Injections

This a new paper by 11 authors from organizations including IBM, Invariant Labs, ETH Zurich, Google and Microsoft is an excellent addition to the literature on prompt injection and LLM …

simonwillison.net

June 13, 2025 at 1:35 PM

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Meta Resistance

@metaresistance.bsky.social

ICE TRIED TO ROLL OUT IN Manhattan-New Yorkers said "NAH" AND SENT THEM BACK INSIDE!!

June 13, 2025 at 10:13 AM

tom

@callmetom.bsky.social

"The most powerful thing the rich can do to keep the mass of ordinary people poor, is to make ordinary people selfish."

Great insights from @garyseconomics.bsky.social

Also, I would add vain - and the world's biggest apps are build around vanity (instagram, ...).

www.youtube.com/watch?v=gY81...

Gary Stevenson on Surviving the Broken Economy and His Mission to Stop Rising Inequality

YouTube video by High Performance

www.youtube.com

April 16, 2025 at 9:38 AM

tom

@callmetom.bsky.social

#Musk Bodycount so far
www.impactcounter.com/dashboard?vi...

Impact Dashboard - Impact Counter | Impact Counter

Visualize the human impact of funding changes for aid and support organizations.

www.impactcounter.com

March 30, 2025 at 10:48 AM

tom

@callmetom.bsky.social

It's has simple as that #Musk #Tesla
Fight #Fascists #Trump

March 30, 2025 at 10:46 AM

tom

@callmetom.bsky.social

Hey @aravindsrinivas.bsky.social, please hide the news segments (tired of the orange baboon) and stock ticker on the perplexity main page by default.

It's really enjoying to the point that I consider using it less.

March 26, 2025 at 7:58 AM