When people ask me what the phrase "artificial intelligence" means, my short answer is, it means "venture capitalists, give me some money".
But OUP asked me for a longer answer, given here and summarized in the section headings:
Any UK-based #retrocomputing folks on here planning to attend https://www.vintagecomputerfestival.org.uk/ at Aintree in September?
Have you been to events organised by Simon Hewitt before? https://www.vintagecomputerfestival.org.uk/a-brief-history-of-vcf-gb/ What did you think?
Please boost for reach! Thank you!
Is High Mileage Right for You? Experts Break Down How to Find Your Volume Sweet Spot
https://www.runnersworld.com/training/a71841267/low-mileage-vs-high-mileage-runner/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
Posted into Training @training-RunnersWorld
Digital sovereignty for the win 🇪🇺🎉
German states Bavaria, Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania and Schleswig-Holstein lead the way for German digital sovereignty as they ditch Microsoft and switch to open source alternatives 🥳
Only together we can fight Big Tech ✊
Is your country also becoming digitally sovereign? Let us know in the comments below 👇
@Tutanota great, now I'm only have as pissed by Bavaria for using Palenthir 🙃
Judge orders #EJeanCarroll be paid $5M plus interest after jury found #Trump sexually abused [raped] & defamed her
E. Jean Carroll can be paid the $5 million that was set aside after a jury found 3 years ago that Trump sexually abused her in 1996 & defamed her after she publicly revealed the attack, a federal Judge Lewis A. Kaplan ruled Wednesday.
#law #rape #defamation #SexualAssault #RapeCulture #misogyny #power #AbuseOfPower #ViolenceAgainstWomen
https://apnews.com/article/trump-e-jean-carrol-sexual-abuse-defamation-fe911fa64d58b03b4d96a628a5cdccb0
This is true.
I fucking love that these conversations are actually happening.
It gets better: his costume may violate a 14th century law banning the wearing of armor in Parliament.
https://www.legislation.gov.uk/aep/Edw2/7/0/section/wrapper1
Our next major update is coming! #LibreOffice 26.8 will be released in August, with many new features, improvements and fixes. Help our community to test the first beta version: https://qa.blog.documentfoundation.org/2026/07/08/libreoffice-26-8-beta1-is-available-for-testing/ #foss #openSource #freesoftware
I just had to buy one for meme purposes.
@Gargron ‘Meme purposes’ right
Bruh, we don’t judge your diet or dessert choices on Mastodon!
I had 3 hours straight of back-to-back intense meetings on various aspects of satellites destroying astronomy with different groups of people. This dishcloth I knitted during the meetings expresses my sentiment perfectly.
C’est qui qui a fuité aujourd’hui ? C’est Folliot
https://bonjourlafuite.eu.org/#Folliot-2026-06-18
Tice has written to the boss of the National Crime Agency (NCA) asking if he will investigate whether the body is responsible for leaking his private financial information to the media.
These are the acts of a desperate man or a Joker
NEW POST
After setting out her factors of viability, @bboeckel now reports on her experiences with local LLMs for programming. She compares them with two standard tasks and tries the best LLM in day-to-day use
https://martinfowler.com/articles/exploring-gen-ai/local-models-for-coding-experiences.html
"I don’t think the PSF should take a position on which 70s comedies are funny - again it’s too open to challenge"
Some ships are lost at sea.
But "lost" does not always mean "gone".
#Wyrdwednesday
https://wiki.sunkencastles.com/wiki/The_Ghost_Ship_(Pellworm)
L'IA nous sauvera ! (avec la clim', en prime, enfin sauf qu'il faudra choisir entre les deux)
@nitot c'est tellement réaliste que c'en est triste à pleurer. Les humains plein d'hubris ne comprennent pas
New Zealand’s Rate-Hike Gamble Comes at a Tough Time
https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2026-07-08/new-zealand-s-rate-hike-gamble-comes-at-a-tough-time?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
Posted into Bloomberg Opinion @bloomberg-opinion-bloomberg