“To opt out, GitHub users should visit /settings/copilot/features and disable "Allow GitHub to use my data for AI model training" under the Privacy heading.” https://www.theregister.com/2026/03/26/github_ai_training_policy_changes/
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Also if you live in the Yukon, don’t miss next week’s Tech Yukon AI & Data event series, where (among other events) I’ll be on this panel as the obligatory “but what if… less AI?” person. 😁 Should be fun! https://techyukon.ca/event/ai-us-navigating-connection-in-the-age-of-ai/ #Yukon #Whitehorse
“Our purpose as humans is to find joy in lifting each other up by creating solutions together instead of destroying, and when you see it from out here it doesn’t change it, it just absolutely reaffirms that.” Jeremy Hansen: https://www.theguardian.com/science/live/2026/apr/10/artemis-ii-return-splashdown-nasa-orion-moon-live-updates?CMP=share_btn_url&page=with%3Ablock-69d7ceac8f08a86a0e5629f0#block-69d7ceac8f08a86a0e5629f0 #Artemis
“To be palatable to elite funders, neoliberal public service organizations frame social issues as commitment and effort problems rather than power problems.” (via @skinnylatte@hachyderm.io) https://www.philanthropy.com/opinion/commons-krause-talentcrisis/
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@beep I knew I had to finally write it after my extremely disorganized list of things to reference didn't fit on one screen anymore. 😂 ("Is this ...Zotero?!")
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@b0rk@social.jvns.ca As someone who grew up in Saskatchewan that image (and alt text!) makes me really happy. 😄
“They’re destroying more than fifty research facilities across thirty-one states, labs that house decades of irreplaceable long-term science, the kind you literally cannot restart once it’s gone.” https://www.hatchmag.com/articles/trump-administration-orders-dismantling-us-forest-service/7716263 #uspol
“…then it might be time to worry that you’ve already gone too far in putting a function that’s crucial to your company’s survival on the other side of a corporate boundary.” Dan Davies on vendor lock-in: https://backofmind.substack.com/p/brain-donors-of-the-firm
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@miclgael Codeberg migration is on my "once my newborn is older and I'm not as busy" to-do list. 😂😭
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@miclgael But I remember (fondly and sadly, from a long time ago) when I wanted to be a real programmer as measured by GitHub commits. 😅 Things have changed a lot.
“Sadly, NS&I is not unusual. The Civil Service Pension Scheme is not unusual. These failures are how citizens experience the state’s financial promises.
If the state continues applying a broken method of transformation to the architecture of public financial stability, people will increasingly start to wonder if those promises can be kept.” Ben Terrett: https://www.computerweekly.com/opinion/NSIs-modernisation-programme-A-3bn-lesson-in-how-to-lose-public-trust
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@danschnau@mastodon.social @twifkak@mas.to @beep@follow.ethanmarcotte.com Aw thanks to you both – means a lot!
"You're always navigating the tightrope of, respecting the institution that you're trying to subvert." The brilliant @honeygolightly@mstdn.ca at #fwd50 @fwd50@mastodon.social
“What if we found people who struggled with government services, and hired them to help us design better services?” Martha Edwards #fwd50 @marthaedwards@mas.to
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“I’ve reviewed a lot of tech products over the past decade and a half, and all I can tell you is that it is a failure when you ask people to adapt to computers. Computers should adapt to people.
Asking people to make themselves more legible to software — to turn themselves into a database — is a doomed idea.” Nilay Patel: https://www.theverge.com/podcast/917029/software-brain-ai-backlash-databases-automation
“Nous devons nous désensibiliser des outils américains et reprendre le contrôle de notre destin numérique.” David Amiel, ministre de l'Action et des Comptes publics (France): https://www.numerique.gouv.fr/sinformer/espace-presse/souverainete-numerique-reduction-dependances-extra-europeennes/ #DigitalSovereignty #GCdigital via @sleepycat@infosec.exchange
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@joelanman@hachyderm.io Joe congratulations, this is really cool! Looking forward to digging into all of these updates! 🎉