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If you're in #tech and struggling to figure out what your career look like now — this piece is my answer. You've heard "it's here to stay" or "it's better than nothing."
Reject these frames.
Look at the system being built around you. Manufacturing validation for "inevitable" success. Rewriting our roles from human-centered creative to featu…

See what is happening, not what is supposed to happen
The stories we are telling around user research and LLMs have locked us into a doomed framing. Reject the very notion that it is "better than nothing."

«Google hält an 82.000-Dollar-Rechnung fest — Entwickler warnt vor API-Key-Sicherheitslücke:
Weil sein API-Key für massenhafte #Gemini-Anfragen missbraucht wurde, soll ein Entwicklerteam jetzt über 82.000 US-Dollar an Google zahlen. Dabei ist der #TechKonzern selbst von dem Problem geleakter

Google hält an 82.000-Dollar-Rechnung fest: Entwickler warnt vor API-Key-Sicherheitslücke | t3n
Weil sein API-Key für massenhafte Gemini-Anfragen missbraucht wurde, soll ein Entwicklerteam jetzt über 82.000 US-Dollar an Google zahlen. Dabei ist der Tech-Konzern selbst von dem Problem geleakter API-Keys betroffen. In den vergangenen Jahren haben Entwickler:innen API-Keys von Google in vielen Fällen bedenkenlos in ihren Website-Code eingebaut, etwa wenn es um die Einbettung von Maps geht. […]

Curtis Yarvin tourt durch Europa – vom Identitären-Umfeld in Wien bis zu Intellektuellentreffen in Elmau. Wie Claudia Zettel zeigt: Der antidemokratische Blogger liefert Tech-Milliardären wie Peter Thiel die Ideologie für „CEO-Monarchien“. Keine Wahlen, keine Mitbestimmung. Kein Randphänomen.
#TechBros #Demokratie

No matter how many times I tell people we only have two mic inputs, they always think we have more. 🤣
#media #tech #soundboard

Old guy moment of the day: My NAS is starting to die after 13 years of service and my replacement is arriving today along with two 12 TB drives. Made me reminisce about my first hard-drive purchased around 1985 for about $3000 in 2026 dollars, held 20MB and I thought I would never fill it. #tech

People often struggle to find good follows on Fedi. I just realized I have a great resource for this: the list of everyone I've cited for the Product Picnic newsletter over the past year and a bit!
If your feed feels "dead" or not interesting, inject some active #UX #tech

Schema Markup ist die einzige Sprache, die Suchmaschinen ohne Interpretation verstehen. 🗣️Kein Raten, kein NLP, kein Kontext-Ableiten – du sagst Google direkt: Das ist ein Produkt, das kostet 29 €, es hat 4,7 Sterne. Wer kein strukturiertes Markup nutzt, überlässt die Kommunikation dem Zufall. Und Zufall ist keine SEO-Strategie.
#StructuredData

Retrograde (n, v): An upgrade that makes things worse.
e.g., I retrograded to iOS 26 by mistake and now I’m stuck with this piece of shit.
#retrograde #tech

A message especially for my Canadian male followers out there today, but it applies to all.
If you see a story from a woman calling out the behaviour of a man, believe them. Yes, believe them over the 'bro’, especially when there are multiple corroborating stories.
Don’t feign impartiality.
Don't ignore.
Just believe them, it's not that hard.
It's long past time we do this as the default.
It will make us all better in the long run.
That is all.
#BelieveWomen #Tech #Mastodon

This whole thread is such a joy to read, about migrating away from big tech and taking back control of a digital life. #TechSovereignty #TechEmpowerment
#DanmarkSkifter

this was a good episode.
Oh look, chatbot ads | The Vergecast
#tech

Oooch, schluchz:
Ein Gesetzesentwurf zur Einführung einer fünfprozentigen #Vermögenssteuer bringt Kaliforniens #TechMilliardäre in Aufruhr.
Namen wie Larry Page, Sergey Brin und Peter

Tech-Milliardäre drohen wegen Steuerplänen aus Kalifornien auszuwandern
Ein Gesetzesvorschlag für eine Vermögenssteuer in Höhe von fünf Prozent bringt das Silicon Valley in Aufruhr. Peter Thiel investiert drei Millionen Dollar in eine Gegenkampagne

Grammarly quietly made an #AI to sell bad writing advice using famous writers' names. They quickly had to backtrack as soon as people found out.
This gamble reflects a broader trend in the #tech industry: everyone is shipping features as quickly as an

Grammarly shows how prototyping turned into an excuse for not thinking
The industry is in the grip of directionless urgency, and users are paying the price. Strategy has been replaced with half-baked features.

"Urban Farm Shops Combine Dutch Greenhouse Technology and Food-Retail into One"
#Netherlands #Technology #Environment

Urban Farm Shops Combine Dutch Greenhouse Technology and Food-Retail into One
A Dutch agri-tech firm has had the bright idea of combining a greenhouse grow operation with a grocery and delivery business.

More weird news:
"This is a critical piece of #infrastructure for the #European #tech #ecosystem

Trump sucht die besten Köpfe für seinen Technologierat. Gefunden: das halbe Thiel-Netzwerk, ein paar befreundete Milliardäre und ein einsamer Physiker. Elon Musk – der treueste aller Tech-Buddys – ist nicht mehr eingeladen. Laut #golem. #USA

How I Used #AI to #Audit 3 Years of #SmartHome #TechDebt (And Built a System to Prevent It From Happening Again)
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Update zur #2MR – dem demokratiestärkenden #SocialMedia-Festival am 4. Mai in Hamburg:
👉 #MayThe4th
Wir reden über #Technik!⚙️
Wir freuen uns riesig auf strategischen Tech-Talk zur Zukunft von sozialen Medien mit:
🔹 @… von @… #Flensburg
🔹 @… von @… #Leipzig
🔹 @… von @… #Magdeburg
🗓️ Termin als .ics: #Startpaket: #SaveSocial #ATmosphere #ActivityPub

Not a Tech Bro.
Excellent.
#amIaTechBro #tech #democracy #autocracy #idiocracy #humanrights #workersrights #AI

Menschen. Digitale Selbstverteidigung braucht mehr als richtige Argumente – sie braucht Empathie. Warum missionarischer Ton kontraproduktiv ist und was wir in der Debattenkultur ändern sollten, habe ich aufgeschrieben. Mike Kultes zum Toleranzproblem der Tech-Szene: Menschen mitnehmen statt belehren #Toleranz #TechSzene

"TikTok says users can’t upload anti-ICE videos due to technical issues."
The technical issue is that TikTok wants to block LICE videos but an implementation bug also blocks ICE videos. Or something like that. 🙄
#ICE #TikTok #censorship #technology #USA #sarcasm

Starting to believe that “moving fast” in professional environments is actually just “delay this problem for someone else to deal with in the future”.
Context: I’ve been helping oversee an email service provider (ESP) migration for an enterprise org (1,000 people).
Every other day we find unexpected issues that were caused by someone trying to save time and move quickly in the past. And we have to spend the time those people supposedly saved in the past by fixing their issues now, in their future.
No time was actually saved, folks. It was an illusion.
#work #tech #ESP #emailMarketing #marketing #enterpriseIT #workCulture

Was just watching the crew do their thing and two of them were using an iPhone to take pictures and video (note classic “elbows out” photo taking pose by Jeremy on the left) of the pilots doing their thing.
I wonder how many USB charging ports are in the Integrity capsule.
#integrity #artemisII #tech #iPhone #poll
0 ports - cables are hard wired or there are charging pads
1-3 ports
3-5 ports
5 ports

"Meta Wants Data Center in Sunny El Paso to Rely on Natural Gas"
#Meta #Facebook #Technology #Emissions

Meta Wants Data Center in Sunny El Paso to Rely on Natural Gas - Inside Climate News
EL PASO—In October 2025, local officials celebrated the groundbreaking of a 1-gigawatt, $1.5 billion data center for the tech giant Meta.  El Paso Electric had previously stated that existing infrastructure would support the data center and that Meta was looking to tap into a new solar farm. El Paso gets more than 300 days a […]

#agile #scrum #tech #softwaredevelopment