Notices by Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦 (rysiek@mstdn.social)

RE: https://mastodon.social/@simplex/117406092853652066

Your irregular reminder that #SimpleX's main developer is a transphobe fash trash:
https://mastodon.social/@simplex/114635006786900475
https://x.com/epoberezkin/status/1881832239186759841
https://veganism.social/@pelle/115056152402138933
https://mastodon.social/@simplex/114635062785854547

Predatory rent increases kill.

María del Carmen Abascal, symbol of Spain’s housing protests, dies aged 87
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/oct/07/maria-del-carmen-abascal-spain-housing-protests-dies

Gentle reminder to anyone still on Facebook that Facebook's unchecked power to censor and harm comes directly from the fact that people are still on Facebook.

Meta bans ads for Virginia Woolf play in Spain because they relate to feminism
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/sep/21/meta-ban-virginia-woolf-a-room-of-ones-own-barcelona-teatre-raval

Racist violent vigilante groups are in fact organized by abusive misogynists? Whoda thunk it! 🙄
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2026/oct/06/uk-domestic-abuse-survivors-ex-partners-behind-far-right-street-patrols

I am in *awe* of the bravery of the women who are exposing this. They are putting themselves in danger, knowingly, having gone through the hell of being in abusive relationships with these men.

These women deserve our utmost gratitude, respect, and our undivided attention.

#UKpol #Racism #Misogyny

@EUCommission "the park is dark and dangerous for kids, we should therefore ban kids from that park"

Clown shoes. Fix the damned park.

Hey @EUCommission how about we get some Know Your Customer rules for ad networks and monetization platforms like Facebook, instead of punishing kids for being online?

RE: https://halo.nu/@theguardian_us_news/117191951237689635

To someone who lived (albeit shortly) in a "communist" authoritarian state this sounds eerily familiar.

@david_chisnall @futurebird this also means that you have know the weights and know the biassing factor to be able read that watermark reliably.

And I am going to bet that Anthropic is not going to release those.

In other words, Anthropic will be the only company offering the slop generator, and the service to tell that something got slop-generated.

That's real power right there. Would they not "tweak" the results if it was useful for them, say, to create a plagiarism scandal around someone?

@naruciakk @cczona this piece by @ploum is very on topic:
https://ploum.net/2026-01-19-exam-with-chatbots.html

I am shocked. Nobody could have seen it coming. Nobody, I tell you! :blobcatcoffee:
https://futurism.com/future-society/college-critical-thinking-ai

> As one New York financier told Financial Times journalist Gillian Tett, new hires who were seen as “AI natives” are turning out to have alarmingly shallow ideas. So much so, the anonymous finance worker admitted, that his firm now actively avoids seeking out AI-literate STEM graduates, and opts to comb through humanities students instead.

Oh, the humanities!

#AI

Human in the loop.

RE: https://mastodon.social/@peterjriley2024/117050670148290442

It's 2026 and we *still* have to stand up to the tobacco industry.

Ffs.

RE: https://ec.social-network.europa.eu/@HennaVirkkunen/117008348161347403

Meanwhile, France and Spain are literally on fire because of climate change. 🔥

@drwhax I think we need a bit of nuance here.

As much as I am no fan of LLMs, I can see the value of running them over one's own codebase in order to find vulnerabilities.

But I remain unconvinced that vibe-coded fixes are a good idea, or ever will be. I think this needs to be clearly said.

The reason is that these are fundamentally different problems.

Pavel Sheremet:
https://www.occrp.org/en/investigation/killing-pavel

Daphne Caruana Galizia:
https://www.occrp.org/en/project/the-daphne-project

Ján Kuciak and Martina Kušnírová:
https://www.occrp.org/en/project/a-murdered-journalists-last-investigation

I remember vividly working till 3am to get Ján Kuciak's final investigation published just days after he and Martina got shot to death in their own home.

I have never met them, personally. But I am friends with people who worked with Ján, who knew both of them.

That night (and days before it, and years after it) OCCRP's journalists, editors, tech staff was mourning, but was also furiously working to ensure that Ján's stories do not get silenced by his murder.

And it did not.

Every time a journalist gets murdered for doing their job, there is performative surprise. Performative hand-wringing. Performative calls to action.

"How could it have happened?!"

Well, this is how this happens.

One of the most powerful, and most petty, of men in this world broadcasts to his hundreds of millions of followers, many of them armed, many of them radicalized by the platform he owns, that a specific journalist needs to be murdered for her work.

Mark this moment.

RE: https://cyberplace.social/@GossiTheDog/116986533493228804

During my time at OCCRP three journalists that worked with the organization got brutally murdered: Pavel Sheremet, Daphne Caruana Galizia, and Ján Kuciak (along with his fiancée, Martina Kušnírová).

Elon Musk, a man with a gigantic platform and unlimited resources, is now publicly calling for a journalist to be murdered, because she was doing her job.

Like Pavel, like Daphne, like Ján (and Martina).

Mark this moment. Don't anyone tell you later they are surprised.