@unchartedworlds@scicomm.xyz2025-07-24 07:30:11
Hosted a BiCon pre-meet yesterday, online. Conveniently there were exactly 12 people there for most of it (not counting me), perfect for dividing into threes! I kept switching the groups so that people could meet different people.
We talked about how we'd each like BiCon to be, and how we could make it more likely to turn out that way.
Top tips: get enough sleep, eat enough food, and don't try to do everything!
Then we also talked about what contribution we might like to make - though I also said, just being there and being friendly and making BiCon more varied is a contribution in itself :-)
Several of the people who'd come along turned out to be already signed up to offer workshop sessions, so we heard a little bit about those.
Two tasks currently available if you want one are (a) keeping an eye on the Zoom setup for the hybrid events, (b) leafleting at Pride on Saturday, so that more people know about BiCon for Sunday. There's usually also opportunities to assist with being welcoming at reception.
In-person BiCon starts tomorrow, and runs Friday till Sunday. The venue is a couple of buildings belonging to the girls' high school, in between the Forest and the Arboretum. I tagged along for a site visit the other day and I think it's pretty good for air quality.
Apparently about 70 people have booked so far. It's also possible to buy a ticket on the day, so that might not be the final total.
As I reminded people last night, you don't have to be bi to come to BiCon! And if you _are_ bi, you don't have to be any particular amount of bi :-)
#BiCon #Nottingham
@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io2025-09-22 16:48:38
You’ll never guess what happened at the Charlie Kirk memorial event in Phoenix yesterday
@tante@tldr.nettime.org2025-07-24 07:48:29
I was talking to someone yesterday (let's call them A) and they had another "AI" experience, I thought might happen but hadn't heard of before.
They were interacting with an organization and upon asking a specific thing got a very specific answer. Weeks later that organization claimed it had never said what they said and when A showed the email as proof the defense was: Oh yeah, we're an international organization and it's busy right now so the person who sent…
@Tupp_ed@mastodon.ie2025-08-23 09:49:17
Yesterday was leaving certificate results day, and for the first time in 29 years it had some domestic relevance. Once it was comfortably established that my son's results were going to see him go on to his choice of third level course, I felt oddly off-kilter.
The Leaving Cert results are a moment where all of the kids your child has grown up with, and who you are (to a greater or lessor extent) aware of as their friends suddenly, all at once, jump forward to a new stage in their…
@rasterweb@mastodon.social2025-09-24 12:22:17
Today's goal is to be a better person than I was yesterday.
@axbom@axbom.me2025-09-24 05:42:45
I was at an event yesterday evening with a group discussion. As I often do, I drew a mindmap on my iPad to summarise what we talked about. I've made mindmaps since I was a kid and truly love them as a thinking tool. I also pride myself in having a real skill in picking up important points and quickly drawing connections and grouping them. I've been doing this for more than two decades.
So I presented the mindmap at the end and of course people asked "What AI tool did you u…
@kcase@mastodon.social2025-07-24 16:06:51
Some of our internal builds have been building with Xcode 26 betas since WWDC, but yesterday evening I went ahead and switched over everything else that isn't on a release branch, so we now have 50 targets building with beta 4.
The most common build issue we've run into in our code is declaring the size of a C array using `const int`, which we now declare as an `enum` as a stronger compile-time guarantee of its constant value:
- const int OFXMLIDLength = 11;
enum {…
@Techmeme@techhub.social2025-10-23 04:26:12
OpenAI CISO Dane Stuckey outlines prompt injection mitigations in ChatGPT Atlas, including a "logged out mode" that blocks agent access to user credentials (Dane Stuckey/@cryps1s)
https://x.com/cryps1s/status/1981037851279278414
@brian_gettler@mas.to2025-09-24 12:26:01
Yesterday, my spouse was interviewed by a local radio host. After she told us about it, I had to ask:
So is he shorter in real life than on the radio?
No one even groaned. In fact, they barely even rolled their eyes. Come on!