This is a completely lovely introduction to the #fediverse. Such good work, @_elena. https://news.elenarossini.com/fediverse-video/

If you also think a UK DOGE is a bad idea, Sycamore Collective (a small group I'm a part of) are hosting an in-person Chatham House rules event in London on 18 June, supported by CAMRI. The aim is to identify risks and mitigations and identify some collective next steps https://lu.ma/faby2ga4?tk=p4s5AF - a very few spaces left

It's time to get on the bandwagon!

One boost = one tidbit about a classic woman science fiction writer who *isn't* Mary Shelley, Ursula K. Le Guin, Octavia Butler, or James Tiptree Jr. (great as they are!)

@solderandchaos sounds interesting … keep me posted!

I'm glad somebody out there is brave enough to push back against the "personal ChatGPT usage is terrible for the environment" message https://andymasley.substack.com/p/a-cheat-sheet-for-conversations-about

"If you want to prompt ChatGPT 40 times, you can just stop your shower 1 second early."

"If I choose not to take a flight to Europe, I save 3,500,000 ChatGPT searches. this is like stopping more than 7 people from searching ChatGPT for their entire lives."

The Gaussfest is homeless !

We have been running the Nottingham Gaussfest for 24 years. Our current hosts are unfortunately no longer able to host us for this year. So we are looking for a new host.

Details of our requirements are here https://www.extremeelectronics.co.uk/teslathon-tesla-workshoptalk-venues-needed/

Ideally we would like to support a museum, public or charity space.

Ideally we would like a large area, but smaller venues can be accommodated, as can science demonstrations as part of an other event.

Please retoot for visibility.

Help us challenge the Supreme Court’s judgment on trans rights | Good Law Project

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Good morning! A reminder that the survey to help design the Society for Hopeful Technologists is open for responses. If you're a UK-based technologist who's had enough of extractive platform capitalism and wants to act in solidarity to build something better, please fill it in and share with others https://www.careful.industries/blog/2025-4-survey-society-for-hopeful-technologists

Are you a UK-based technologist interested in joining a body that acts in solidarity against the excesses of extractive platform capitalism? Fill out this survey, and help design the Society for Hopeful Technologists

https://www.careful.industries/blog/2025-4-survey-society-for-hopeful-technologists

@Edent I was half expecting your mum to pop up in one of the later scenes 🧟‍♀️

Absolutely terrible decision by the UK Supreme Court, just harmful dogshit.

For Women Scotland don't speak 'for women' - just the tiny percentage of bigots who want to have a good look inside your knickers before you go for a piss. The ruling will harm them as well, but they're too thick to realise.

There is no fair/caring/equitable world in which women have to prove our 'biological sex' before we access toilets (or other services). No fair world with gender police. Fuck all the way off.

@andypiper congratulations!

The Data Bill strips back your right to human review of automated decisions that have life-changing impacts.

It flips the script, forcing you to prove a mistake has been made when AI gets it wrong – the scales of justice further imbalanced.

Sign our petition ⬇️

https://you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/ai-says-no-tell-keir-starmer-that-people-not-machines-should-oversee-life-changing-decisions

#DataBill #DUABill #dataprotection #GDPR #privacy #automateddecisionmaking #AI #policing #police #ukpolitics #ukpol

macOS debugging question (maybe @justkwin can help?): on my managed work laptop with MS Defender and ZScaler installed, I’ve started seeing Safari fail for some sites. Annoyingly they load fine for a few pages, but then fail afterwards - with the message “Safari can’t open the page because the server unexpectedly dropped the connection” - but it’s not the network from the device failing: curl, other browsers, and even a private Safari window will still work.
How can I debug what’s going wrong?

@aglet but the 30 day battery life on a colour smartwatch with heart rate monitor is definitelya draw for the Core Time 2…

@aglet yep - got the email already… not sure about getting one though since Apple prevents decent iPhone integration 😕
Eric’s Shenzhen blog post makes for interesting reading too: https://ericmigi.com/blog/february-shenzhen-trip-update

@Edent argh! Happy birthday to them, and happy unbirthday to you!

@Edent happy birthday! 🍷

Please sign this petition

Don't let the UK try and break end-2-end encryption and enforce backdoors

https://you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/keep-our-apple-data-encrypted?source=rawlink&utm_medium=socialshare&utm_source=rawlink&share=2f5f3638-c60d-4adb-b682-4c02f2160458