@mttaggart same, only a discrete mathematics course taught by a great teacher stopped the slide.

@randahl It was because of Trump.

New privacy report from the Canadian govt on OpenAI:
- OpenAI failed to get consent for scraped data.
- ChatGPT fails accuracy requirements.
- OpenAI fails requirements for personal data deletion.

https://www.priv.gc.ca/en/opc-actions-and-decisions/investigations/investigations-into-businesses/2026/pipeda-2026-002-overview/

#ai #noai #education #bcpoli #canada

Vous connaissez Alpii, la revue qui se veut "un espace d’échange
sur notre relation aux sommets." ?

Maintenant oui.

https://alpii.org

This is *brutal*...

"There are no more juniors. There was a funeral for their passing in 2024. Nobody came. The machine does what they do now, but cheaper. Of course, juniors weren't valuable for what they produced, they were valuable for who they would become: the senior engineer who knows where the bodies are buried. We optimized for output, and abolished apprenticeship. A few years from now, we'll wonder where all the seniors are. We shot them. Nobody will remember."

https://www.stvn.sh/writing/programming-still-sucks-fqffhyp

@cwebber I agree with the blog post that "agentic" isn't much of a middle ground. But I don't think FOSS needs to compete with enterprise head-on in terms of code volume. We've always found ways to punch above our weight and should think harder about this.

@neil @concretedog Thank you for that compliment. And thank you both for blogging/tooting about it in the first place and introducing me to the device. Although...given I have new project ideas for it and have enough already maybe I shouldn't thank you!!

@julian @hejchristian And Codeberg is on German servers and run by a German nonprofit, is that right?

RE: https://social.sciences.re/@Open_Models_Unfoundation/116528078779040755

Glad to see this. Job-seekers should also see items tagged with "oa.jobs" by the Open Access Tracking Project (#OATP, @oatp), since 2009. Crowdsourced. International. Updated continuously.
http://tagteam.harvard.edu/hubs/oatp/tag/oa.jobs

RSS version of same feed.
https://tagteam.harvard.edu/hubs/oatp/tag/rss/oa.jobs

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Enchanté, monsieur le président George Doublevé Buisson.

DeSmog just went to a data centre conference and found gas turbine manufacturers happily and openly talking about how they expect Europe to follow America's completely bonkers fossil gas / data centre boom

https://www.desmog.com/2026/04/29/inside-the-plot-to-cover-europe-with-gas-powered-ai-data-centres/

Does wild yeast collected by Bluesky users make butterfly-shaped bread? Find out in the #Breadsky feed! bsky.app/profile/did:...

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:um3t5kch25i25hc4plpphehl/post/3mkwbdkg2mk2k

FSM - Hackathon Smart & Sustainable Textile

https://fsm.rnu.tn/fra/articles/5428/hackathon-smart--sustainable-textile

#Hackathon #SST

ChatGPT Can’t Pick the Stocks
https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/newsletters/2026-05-06/chatgpt-can-t-pick-the-stocks?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Posted into Emerging Markets @emerging-markets-bloomberg

"Save Social announced that they have secured funding for the next two to three years via two corporate sources, the search engine Ecosia and the Rossmann drugstore chain, with Raoul Rossmann himself as personal donor."
via https://connectedplaces.online/reports/fr161-conference-edition