2025-12-04 19:30:52
Business Insider launches a monthlong pilot AI program to publish quick news stories, edited by BI editors, created using a GPT trained on its archives (Jamie Heller/Business Insider)
https://www.businessinsider.com/ai-pilot
Business Insider launches a monthlong pilot AI program to publish quick news stories, edited by BI editors, created using a GPT trained on its archives (Jamie Heller/Business Insider)
https://www.businessinsider.com/ai-pilot
📮🔒 New post on the blog
No more tokens! Locking down npm Publish Workflows
https://www.zachleat.com/web/npm-security/
Includes a checklist of 8 important things you can do to improve your security footprint when using GitHub and npm.
In Germany it's a day to remind volunteering "Tag des #ehrenamt ".
Well I can't contribute a lot besides reminding about the efforts of the trail maintenance teams of the alpine clubs.
Recently I made a video for the local alpine club about that (I should ask if I'm allowed to publish it on my peertube as well 🤔)
Hey Now! Best of David Boles, Blogs: Vol. 16 (2025): Buy Now!
Hey, there! Welp, it's that time of the year again -- yes, time for us to ask for the indulgence of your continued, kind, support for this blog by buying our eBook -- Best of David Boles, Blogs: Vol. 16 (2025) -- to show your support so we may continue to publish this blog without advertising while still being able to cover our yearly, ongoing, online publication costs…
I want to do a gross thing and publish AI-generated (but lyrics by me!) to Spotify and such. It is an album making fun of AI in a theater format. Any recommended services? It's looking like DistroKid is the way to go.
Nice to see POSSE at the top of Hacker News right now: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46468600
Yeah, why not neglect all the good recommendations in the #Python ecosystem, and instead fork your own C extension package, force people to build it with #ZigLang (it's still C), add unconditional dependency on that, and on top of that, refuse to publish wheels, "allowing for optimised compilation according to your machine's specific architecture and capabilities, instead of some (low performance) common denominator."
Fortunately, looks like #Gentoo can just ignore all the fancy crap and compile it with GCC.
https://pypi.org/project/ruamel.yaml.clibz/
[UPDATE: didn't last long: https://sourceforge.net/p/ruamel-yaml/code/ci/6846cf136e775ed0052cdef6ff02330269c86011/]
Yes, I am like this: I publish Terraform/Opentofu providers and I have no choice but to use Github to host the releases (this is a requirement of Hashicorp #Terraform registry and #Opentofu registry), BUT I develop on @…
Ukraine, Russia publish videos from Myrnohrad, claim control of front-line town: https://benborges.xyz/2025/12/28/ukraine-russia-publish-videos-from.html
"How Scotland’s Landowner Biodiversity Legislation Could Transform Land Management Worldwide"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #Scotland
This took a lot of tedious work but I’m now npm token free, weee!
The @… ecosystem is now using Trusted Publishers (https://docs.npmjs.com/trusted-publishers
#Meshtastic community: is it rude to have an automated system publish events to a private (unencrypted) channel (on the order of averaging one every 5 minutes, maximum) if the radio channel utilization on my local mesh is really low (currently rounds to 0%)?
Been getting double-posting issues on mastodon.social server here. Quite embarrassing having to delete the duplicate replies.
Thought could be a Phanpy bug but seems unlikely because Phanpy implements `Idempotency-Key` (https://docs.joinmastod…
'A recent post by Marcelo Emmerich proposes replacing package managers with a “prompt registry.” Instead of publishing code, library authors would publish AI prompts.'
Also, the Wikipedia article about sniffing your own farts shows this guy's portrait.
(quote from this post: https://nesbitt.io/2026/01/30/will-ai-make-package-managers-redundant.html)
Germany's Federal Administrative Court rules that German government should publish a Climate Protection Program with effective measures to bridge the massive gap with its 2030 targets.
https://background.tagesspiegel.de/ene
I told my friend @… about academic journals and the fact they cost money to publish in and that the biggest ones have higher profit margins than Google and make billions and he almost broke down crying
A look at NY's RAISE Act, requiring AI companies to publish safety protocols and disclose serious incidents, as its co-sponsor is targeted by a pro-AI super PAC (Ashley Capoot/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/11/24/raise-act-new-yo…
from my link log —
Publish, Review, Curate to upend scholarly publishing.
https://anil.recoil.org/notes/coar-prc
saved 2025-12-08 https://dotat.a…
"Speaking about jokes, “Considered Harmful” is one of the most recurring ones in the history of programming. Not that the countless papers, blog posts, videos, podcast episodes, and conference talks that featured these two words as a suffix were funny, but because it is a trigger: one that fires up specific alarms in the systems of software developers, immediately commanding our utmost attention."
The headline below is wildly incorrect.
It should read:
"D's cave, again. Allow ICE to continue".
It isn't just trump who is TACO, it is the D-party.
By passing most of the funding the D's have given away their leverage to affect things in the future. Schumer could publish a book titled "The Art of Losing".
I do not think the D party knows the word "No".
"Deal struck to keep government funded, Trump and D…
Two newspapers knew, but not the Congress.
The New York Times and the Washington Post learned of the secret US government raid to abduct Venezuelan president Nicolšs Maduro before it happened, but did not publish what they knew “to avoid endangering US troops”, Semafor reports
https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2026/jan/04/nicolas-maduro-jailed-us-attack-venezuela-donald-trump-reaction-latest-news-updates-live?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
The Paper Factory: How Academia Turned Research into Production — From publish-or-perish pressure to the erosion of creativity in modern science https://research-reviewer.blogspot.com/2025/10/publish-or-perish-research.html
Publish (on your) Own Site, Syndicate Elsewhere
#POSSE
The Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) said that it would not publish the October consumer price index (CPI)
– one of the country’s key reports for inflation data.
“BLS could not collect October 2025 reference period survey data due to a lapse in appropriations.
BLS is unable to retroactively collect these data,”
a statement on the agency’s website reads.
The report was set to be released in November,
and would serve as an important barometer for the Feder…
Yesterday, I wanted to quickly post something on my blog when I realized that my blog generating process was broken after upgrading to Debian 13.
So I had to analyze the situation, got lost in my complex shell script hell and decided to merge it into one single script without lots of dated stuff.
Next I realized that one of my own libs has a minor issue with Python 3 strings: had to migrate to raw strings to get rid of very valid warnings.
Well, I could not publish that lib…
from my link log —
Peer-reviewed preprints and the Publish-Review-Curate model.
https://www.coalition-s.org/blog/peer-reviewed-preprints-and-the-publish-review-curate-model/
saved 2025-12-09
USA Today Co., which owns the Detroit Free Press, plans to acquire The Detroit News from MediaNews Group and continue to publish it separately (The Detroit News)
https://www.detroitnews.com/story/business
#today I have downloaded, converted and eyeballed ~21 million data points (temperature and humidity from around my home over one year)! Charts appearing on the page soon... I hope to publish this as an open data set and/or refer to it from a new paper...
#writingcommunity Please, I'd love your thoughts, insights, advice. I have two books trad published, very different, different publishers. One is a big publisher and has been in print for 30 years. But even with that, what I am writing now is so out there, I don't think a trad publisher is going to pick it up. So where and how to publish? 1/2
In the USA there's now bipartisan acceptance that "steaks cost almost 17% more than a year ago" ,[1] 60 % of shoppers buy less beef,[2] 37 % consider plant-based substitutes[3] but not clear how many would simply increase e.g. pulses or go fully #vegan. Prices of lentils are down[4] and production of pulses is expected to go up.[5]
[1]
RE: https://social.anoxinon.de/@Codeberg/115571974726858890
Codeberg is down right now, as I was trying to publish a file. Am I upset? Not at all! So thankful to Codeberg for being a great alternative to "other" services out there. Keep up th…
"Opponents of AfD lawmakers say that their push to publish sensitive details about national security could benefit Russian military planning."
AfD Pushes to Publish German Information That Officials Say May Help Russia - The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/14/world/europe/germany-far-right-afd-russia-security-secrets.html
We need more folks who understand POSSE and why it's crucial to a) personal digital sovereignty, b) functional open (democratic) societies, and c) a free and open Internet: Publish on your Own Site, Syndicate Elsewhere.
canonical: https://indieweb.org/POSSE
popular media:
Would it be acceptable, now, for the media to routinely publish photos of the president that have been altered to make it look like he pissed himself?
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jan/22/white-house-ice-protest-arrest-altered-image
Good example why open sources projects should self-publish or even counter-publish as a GNA in @…
Distributed publishing is not weakening the security advisory publication but it’s providing additional valuable sources.
#gcve
“Live Region Support”
https://adrianroselli.com/2026/01/live-region-support.html
Just about to publish, Chrome updated, I re-tested, and my results for dynamic descriptions went sideways. So, I dunno, QA that for me?
Won’t it feel good to correct me? You know…
QUERY: grad student journal #acrel https://networks.h-net.org/group/announcements/20131920/query-grad-student-journal
The RAISE Act requires AI companies with $500M in revenue to publish safety protocols and disclose safety incidents within 72 hours, with fines up to $3M (Isabelle Bousquette/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/articles/new-york-sign
Publishing a #Java-based database tool on MacAppStore (MAS)
https://tanin.nanakorn.com/publishing-a-java-based-database-tool-on-mac-app-store-mas/
Is there a way to configure an npm package to *require* provenance and fail any publish attempts that don’t have it? I don’t think the Trusted Publisher stuff has that option, if I’m reading it correctly.
In Ukraine, the fog of war is enhanced with atmospheric fog.
It is not only the physical battles that are affected by this fog, but also the global speculation about a scene most journalists refuse to visit and report from.
Like blind men describing an elephant that lives in the next town away from them, they publish lies and rumors they can not substantiate.
Giorgio is actually on the ground in Ukraine, reporting the truth he witnesses first-hand.
The Russians would…
As a now-long-former subscriber to F&SF—because of my own limited time, nothing to do with what's documented—this is still disappointing to read (including today's update). https://www.scottedelman.com/wordpress/2025/11/12/a-dream-denied/
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette is shutting down, but wants to sell you a subscription to read the story.
https://www.post-gazette.com/local/city/2026/01/07/pittsburgh-post-gazette-final-edition/stories/202601070073
Added a category manager and category state section to the Exocortex Log app.
Have now organized and cleaned up the categories in my ten year database and so we can get some views of the time spent in each category.
We see that through September and October I was in a routine of work and slack with a bit of social a couple of times a week, until the end of November when I went away for social at a conference all weekend. I saw a demo there of a person using Shakespeare, and then when I got back started doing some vibe-coding, shown in in Red.
A break from that to go away at the weekend to a long social party then finish it off and publish a few days ago, since when Vibe Coding has dropped off a little.
#lifeLog #app #exocortexLog
@dawid@social.craftknight.comOne of those eye-openers from @… .
I actually went to my unused facebook account to publish it there. 'Cause it's there where it's needed the most.
(and on threads and stuff)
https://…
[OT] US National Security Strategy 2025 https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/2025-National-Security-Strategy.pdf Can someone publish the Russian original please? Thank you! 🧠🇪🇺
BBC News: New US security strategy aligns wit…
Like why would you spend hours or maybe even days or weeks on writing an essay or argument and refining it and agonize over the details and then you take a shit in the middle of it before you hit publish
Sources: Bari Weiss asked 60 Minutes to add new material to its CECOT piece, suggesting a Stephen Miller interview; Weiss: my job is to publish the best stories (Michael M. Grynbaum/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com…
Netflix announces a partnership with iHeartMedia to exclusively publish at least 15 video podcasts beginning in early 2026, including The Breakfast Club (Jessica Testa/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/16/business/media/netflix-iheartme…
CFP — Women’s Voices (KU, May 18–20, 2026) https://networks.h-net.org/group/announcements/20134984/cfp-womens-voices-ku-may-18-20-2026
My opinion - Foreign media in countries like #Australia, where this piece ran, shouldn't publish #Chinese government op-eds unless #China's state media publishes foreign diplomat op-eds.
"To future historians—not just of computing, but of humanity—the current period will be a dark age.
How was Facebook used by students in the 2010s? We cannot show you, that version of Facebook is not hosted anywhere.
What correspondence did Vint Cerf have as president of the ACM with other luminaries of computing industry and research? We do not know; Google will not publish his emails."
Apple Daily founder Jimmy Lai is found guilty of colluding with foreign forces to endanger national security and conspiring to publish seditious articles (Kanis Leung/Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/hong-kong-jimmy-lai-ve…
Amazon is testing an AI tool called Kindle Translate that automatically translates books into other languages, for authors that self-publish on the platform (Lawrence Bonk/Engadget)
https://www.engadget.com/ai/amazon-is-test
Tomorrow, I'll be publishing a #WebDAV provider for #Terraform
It handles HTTP Basic, TLS and mTLS authentication.
It supports write-only attributes to deploy secrets, including deployment of ephemeral secrets.
In a few weeks, I expect to publish another version implementing…
CFP — Women’s Voices (KU, May 18–20, 2026) https://networks.h-net.org/group/announcements/20134985/cfp-womens-voices-ku-may-18-20-2026
I would note that "please don't make the alien enemies from Halo into an allegory for real world groups" is almost exactly 24 years too late.
https://www.techdirt.com/2025/11/10/hey-microsoft-are-you-gu…
Evening Standard plans to outsource its digital operations to Independent Media effective March 1; the Standard will still publish its weekly print newspaper (Charlotte Tobitt/Press Gazette)
https://pressgazette.co.uk/news/independent-set-to-take-over-r…
I’ll publish the link to mine here after I finish personalising it and add ipv4 to my reverse proxy :3
Microsoft, Meta, and sources say, Google will not publish diversity reports and data this year; Amazon, Apple, and Nvidia released diversity data this year (Paresh Dave/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/google-microsoft-and-meta-have-s…
"UK Newspapers Publish More Ads for Polluting Products Than Climate Coverage "
#UK #UnitedKingdom #Climate #ClimateChange
Netflix announces a partnership with iHeartMedia to exclusively publish at least 15 video podcasts beginning in early 2026, including The Breakfast Club (Jessica Testa/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/16/business/media/netflix-iheartme…
Sources: OpenAI has become more guarded about publishing research on AI's economic harms, prompting at least two economic research staffers to leave (Maxwell Zeff/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/openai-economic-research-team-ai-jobs/
Amazon is testing an AI tool called Kindle Translate that automatically translates books into other languages, for authors that self-publish on the platform (Lawrence Bonk/Engadget)
https://www.engadget.com/ai/amazon-is-test
The Northern Standard, a local newspaper for #Monaghan and #Cavan is ceasing publication next week after 186 years. #MastoDaoine #newspaper
Google will now publish new source code to the Android Open Source Project twice a year, down from releasing source code for each quarterly Android release (Mishaal Rahman/Android Authority)
https://www.androidauthority.com/aosp-source-code-schedule-3630018/
QUERY: grad student journal
https://ift.tt/1xfnvjD
Contention Vol. 7, Issue 1 Dear Colleague, The new issue of Contention has…
via Input 4 RELCFP https://ift.tt/vIFjTtB…
CFP — Women’s Voices (KU, May 18–20, 2026)
https://ift.tt/A6LWkOz
Mining the Logs: Sources on Blue Humor URL …
via Input 4 RELCFP https://ift.tt/YCFdgGn
CFP — Women’s Voices (KU, May 18–20, 2026)
https://ift.tt/N6te8Zf
Mining the Logs: Sources on Blue Humor URL …
via Input 4 RELCFP https://ift.tt/UKD6cyd
CFP — Women’s Voices (KU, May 18–20, 2026)
https://ift.tt/qD4O8pC
Mining the Logs: Sources on Blue Humor URL …
via Input 4 RELCFP https://ift.tt/EFfmOqe
CFP — Women’s Voices (KU, May 18–20, 2026)
https://ift.tt/fhjrJNH
Mining the Logs: Sources on Blue Humor URL …
via Input 4 RELCFP https://ift.tt/EFfmOqe