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privacy, labour, online moderation (he/him)
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Anyone else on Bluesky who's just *not* able to use the mobile app at all anymore, because the age verification system returns an error when you submit a birthdate?

Maybe because it's set up only with app permissions and not full user privs?

Some pretty terrible UX regardless.
The Bluesky "age assurance" prompt. There's an error from submitting a birthdate that reads: "Do not have authorization to set preferences: app.bsky.actor.defs#personalDetailsPref"
December 14, 2025 at 12:51 PM
simli.bsky.social
charles lu's collection looks like a good fit if you're a bomb devil who's got beef with chainsaw man

charles-lu.com
Picture of an outfit that looks like something the Bomb Devil would wear. Picture of another outfit that looks like something the Bomb Devil would wear.
December 11, 2025 at 11:08 PM
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"what are we, a bunch of refugees?"
Excerpt: "G.T.F.O.’s participants are not refugees in the traditional sense—at least, not yet. None were in immediate danger. They could move to Vermont, Massachusetts, or California. They’d all thought about changing states, of course, but had concluded it wasn’t enough. These decisions, I think, say more about the U.S. than they do about the people making them. Nevertheless, [excerpt cut off here]"
December 11, 2025 at 4:07 PM
simli.bsky.social
is there a word for enshittification where companies clearly know how to make great stuff for chinese consumers, but now their own customers at home?

www.bitauto.com/global/news/...
A nice looking VW car in China. A nice looking VW car in China. A nice looking VW car in China.
December 10, 2025 at 9:10 PM
simli.bsky.social
of all places, the netflix windows app is the only way to browse my watch list where i can see more than 2½ shows and movies at a time
Screenshot of the Netflix Windows app. It shows three rows of six (18) shows and movies in one page with the bottom half of the next row of six cut off.
December 4, 2025 at 1:46 PM
simli.bsky.social
c'mon apple

music.apple.com/replay
An error message at the bottom of the page that reads: "Replay requires an active subscription to Apple Music."
December 3, 2025 at 8:59 PM
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ayfkmwts
A screenshot from the same video showing the Pro, Smart, and Genius series side by side.
November 28, 2025 at 1:00 AM
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capitalism.jpg
The YouTube thumbnail of a video comparing NINE different toothbrushes from the same Oral-B iO brand. NINE.
November 28, 2025 at 12:56 AM
simli.bsky.social
All the data about delinquency rates that people are hyping up in the media.

Rather than headlines like "highest since year X", these charts are more instructive.
Figure 1 chart from the linked article showing the increase in delinquency rates for credit cards and auto loans. Q3 is around the highest yet, but the upwards trend is nothing new since the early 2020s. Another credit card and auto loan deliquency chart, but in a year-over-year format (to account for seasonal trends). The most importart part is the auto loan delinquency rate which is appearing to increase for the first time in a while, but it could also be a bounce similar to prior years that trended down but had upward bounces.
November 26, 2025 at 3:24 PM
simli.bsky.social
how many multilinguals haven't been arsed to manually fiddle with the language on their posts on bluesky?

looks like it's easier to just pick one language - as with most tech solutions
Screenshot of the language drop-down in Bluesky posts. It involves manually picking the language of the post from the languages you've chosen. For some reason mine include Portuguese, German, and Japanese even though I'm very much not proficient. Danish and English I can manage though.
November 18, 2025 at 4:23 PM
simli.bsky.social
Nu er der pludelig for mange danskere der får konstateret ADHD ifølge Mette Frederiksen og mainstreammedierne.

Jeg antager kynisk, at de synes, at det koster for meget at hjælpe andre mennesker, så her er tallene for regionale tilskud til ADHD-medicin.

#dkpol #dkmedier

medstat.dk/da/viewDataT...
Oversigt over udbetalte regionale tilskud til ADHD-medicin gennem årene. 2014: 277 mio 2015: 290 mio. 2016: 297 mio. 2017: 295 mio. 2018: 294 mio. 2019: 262 mio. 2020: 196 mio. 2021: 211 mio. 2022: 279 mio. 2023: 461 mio. 2024: 725 mio.
November 18, 2025 at 2:27 PM
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en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opinion...
A dataviz of the polling for parties in Danish politics. The Social Democrats dropped precipitously from last election to almost 20% from their original 30%.
November 17, 2025 at 3:03 PM
simli.bsky.social
dutch politics has to be any statistician's worst nightmare, just look at this mess
A line chart of all the 16(!) Dutch parties showing polling up to the latest election. The party legend on the right barely fits on the chart.
November 3, 2025 at 10:44 PM
simli.bsky.social
are we seriously securitizing ai data centres. are we deadass.
Excerpt from the Atlantic article, quote: Here is where the bubble dynamics get complicated. Tech firms don’t want to formally take on debt—that is, directly ask investors for loans—because debt looks bad on their balance sheets and could reduce shareholder returns. To get around this, some are partnering with private-equity titans to do some sophisticated financial engineering, Paul Kedrosky, an investor and a financial consultant, told us. These private-equity firms put up or raise the money to build a data center, which a tech company will repay through rent. Data-center leases from, say, Meta can then be repackaged into a financial instrument that people can buy and sell—a bond, in essence. Meta recently did just this: Blue Owl Capital raised money for a massive Meta data center in Louisiana by, in essence, issuing bonds backed by Meta’s rent. And multiple data-center leases can be combined into a security and sorted into what are called “tranches” based on their risk of default. Data centers represent an $800 billion market for private-equity firms through 2028 alone. (Meta has said of its arrangement with Blue Owl that the “innovative partnership was designed to support the speed and flexibility required for Meta’s data center projects.”)
October 31, 2025 at 6:18 PM
simli.bsky.social
the eu has released the document for how it scores sovereignty, and it looks like something only the eu could make

commission.europa.eu/document/dow...
A table from the linked PDF of "sovereignty objectives" and their "weight in scoring". Strategic sovereignty: 15% Legal & judicial sovereignty: 10% Data & AI sovereignty: 10% Operational sovereignty: 15% Supply chain sovereignty: 20% Technology sovereignty: 15% Security & compliance sovereignty: 10% Environmental sustainability: 5% Total: 100%
October 30, 2025 at 9:25 PM
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brazilian cartels are using drones against police now

> The cartels are exploiting emerging technologies “to present themselves as alternative centres of power and to intimidate both state authorities and the communities under their control.”

www.bbc.com/news/live/c9...
From the BBC liveblog: Headline: Cartel attack drones 'likely to become the norm', says expert Text: "Brazilian officials say the Comando Vermelho gang used drones to attack police during an eruption of violence in Rio de Janeiro that left 64 people dead. “Drones dropping bombs is now a trend used by heavily armed criminal groups,” says Dr Carlos Solar from the Royal United Services Institute. The cartels are buying civilian drones from the open market and then adapting them to fight against competing gangs and law enforcement, he says. They are forcing the state police and armies to integrate counter-drone attack strategies” at a time when the Brazilian government is tightened austerity measures, Solar says. “This reflects a broader militarisation of criminal organisations,” says Dr Irene Mia from the International Institute for Strategic Studies. The cartels are exploiting emerging technologies “to present themselves as alternative centres of power and to intimidate both state authorities and the communities under their control.” Other Brazilian criminal groups have demonstrated a similar resourcefulness in building weapons from unconventional supply chains, says Mia. “There are documented instances of semi-automatic weapons being assembled domestically using Airsoft components, frequently procured from China, a technique that reduces traceability and cost,” she explains. “It is unfortunate to say that these drones are likely to become the norm,” adds Solar.
October 29, 2025 at 6:56 PM
simli.bsky.social
new ai safety and moderation tools made in concert with openai known as "gpt-oss-safeguard"

one to watch since a lot of the internet will probably operate with this as a moderation layer
Article excerpt: "Gpt-oss-safeguard, which will be publicly available with open source weights and under an Apache 2 license, was designed to specifically help with tackling complex online harms— one of the more challenging parts of managing online platforms. This technology will stand as a permanent shared resource, part of the online safety commons that can never be withdrawn or rolled back. Specifically, gpt-oss-safeguard features two technical characteristics, which make its release particularly significant: 1. It is a reasoning model, so it can explain why it has made the moderation decisions it has. This creates transparency for the organizations using it, which is particularly valuable in nuanced domains. 2. It is configurable to any policy (“bring your own policy,” BYOP), so organizations don’t have to adopt OpenAI’s rules and standards—they can self-determine and apply their own content policies. This also is critical to tackle emerging harms, as organizations may need to rapidly evolve their policies."
October 29, 2025 at 3:09 PM
simli.bsky.social
who's getting the mrbeast briefcase

feastables.com/products/mrb...
A product photo of the MrBeast Briefcase, which is an actual thing and not AI, somehow. Looks both cheap and expensive at the same time.
October 14, 2025 at 3:30 PM
simli.bsky.social
$amd stock is up more than 33% after their openai announcement, absolutely crazy ai economy we have
Yahoo Finance chart showing the AMD stock up by 33.75%.
October 6, 2025 at 1:39 PM
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plex casually decided to run ad detection across my entire library, i hate technology

it's a per-library setting at the bottom of the "advanced" settings
Windows task manager showing that "Plex Commercial Skipper.exe" is using up 18.7% CPU with Very high power usage.
October 4, 2025 at 12:59 PM
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the /active page of hacker news provides a fun glimpse into the kinds of stories that are too much "flamebait" for the tech class

news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4543...
Screenshot of a Hacker News submission title: "[flagged] US government shuts down after Senate fails to pass last-ditch funding plan (bbc.com)"
October 1, 2025 at 11:54 AM
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danish public broadcaster dr is usually admirably restrained in making everything breaking news, but this is what their website, dr.dk, looks like right now
The entire website background of dr.dk is breaking-news yellow. Literally. It's all about the Russian hybrid warfare and the national emergency responses.
September 25, 2025 at 1:48 PM
simli.bsky.social
Ellison's Q&A video from last year is a good summary of the eerie things he's trying to do with AI and data, too:

www.oracle.com/events/finan...
Video screenshot of Larry Ellison saying "We can make it work with a biometric database all over the world".
September 24, 2025 at 1:03 PM
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oh it's for youtubers banned for spreading covid and 2020 election disinfo

also looks like they might open the flood gates for medical misinformation, at the worst possible time of course

judiciary.house.gov/sites/evo-su...
Screenshot of the linked PDF document: Point 18, which reads: "On key issues of medical content, YouTube policies continued to evolve in line with the dynamic environment. Health authorities have changed their guidance over time and Alphabet's policies have evolved as well. YouTube's current approach allows a wide range of content regarding COVID-19 and elections. While the reliance on health authorities in this context was well-intentioned, the Company recognizes it should never come at the expense of public debate on these important issues."
September 23, 2025 at 10:16 PM
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youtube is flirting with the idea of allowing terminated creators to return with a new channel, which sounds like the kind of faint omen that plays on a tv in the background in the first act of a movie
Screenshot of tweet from "UpdatesFromYT" on Twitter. It reads: We've had a lot of questions about a pathway back to YouTube for some terminated creators to set up a new channel. This will be a limited pilot project that will be available to a subset of creators in addition to those channels terminated for policies that have been deprecated. More to come soon!"
September 23, 2025 at 9:57 PM