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News

AlphaPhoenix: Dragonflies hunt by predicting the future.

Not just bikes: North-American fire depts. are getting people killed.

SMBC: Sharing, xkcd #2972: Helium Synthesis.

Software

Alex Russell: Reckoning.

Carson Gross (CEO of HTMX) @ Big Sky Dev Con 2024: A theory of open-source marketing.

Andrew Moore @ Tech Over Tea #231: Firefox & Privacy Preserving Ads.

Ryan Sipes @ GUADEC 2024: Thunderbird’s death and rebirth.

The EU AI Act is here.

Low Earth Orbit (LEO) satellite systems like Starlink cause environmental harm regulators didn’t prepare for.

AI

Simon Willison @ PyCon 2024: Imitation Intelligence and text.

Shitty tech ℹ️

Jim Stephanie Sterling - No more room in hell: How tech & games are rotting.

Leonard French: Inside Elon Musk’s trashy advertising lawsuit (X Corp v. GARM et al)