Johan Alkstål

Johan Alkstål

@johanalkstal.online

🇸🇪 Sweden Web developer remotely @ timetoact-group 🇦🇹 "It takes a fool to remain sane" I like to keep things simple I love melodies and rhythms I want everyone to be happy I hate that society works against that https://www.johanalkstal.online/

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Johan Alkstål
@johanalkstal.online

Melancholic about BioWare closing. The legends that have worked at that company have created some of the best gaming experiences of my life. The name carried joy and kinship for a young guy with a big imagination and a love for great stories and characters.

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Electronic Frontier Foundation
@eff.org

The wait is over! EFF’s Privacy Badger is now available on Safari for macOS. When you use Privacy Badger, you join a movement of millions taking a stand against online tracking. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

eff.orgAnnouncing Privacy Badger for Safari on macOSExciting news for Safari users: Privacy Badger is now available on Safari for macOS! You’ll need Safari version 26.5 or higher to use it.Whether you want to protect yourself from data brokers or just

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Svante Thunberg
@svantethunberg.bsky.social

Trollfabriker? Inget problem. Otaliga lobbyister? Inget problem. Att 3 koncerner äger 70% av tidningssverige? Inget problem. Kryphål kring donationer? Inget problem. Att kalla folk för boskap? Inget problem. Att människor med invandrarbakgrund röstar däremot? Då är plötsligt demokratin under attack.

Johan Alkstål
@johanalkstal.online

"I can't help but read it as an unwillingness to take responsibility, as an industry, for what we put into the world and for what we do to ourselves. Tools, unfortunately, simply cannot be the neutral" deadsimpletech.com/blog/no-such...

deadsimpletech.comThere's no such thing as Just a Tool | deadSimpleTechHeidegger thinks about tools like so: a tool is something (a thing that has being in the Heideggerian sense, not necessarily an object) that represents an extension of human capabilities in some way. ...
Johan Alkstål
@johanalkstal.online

True.

Timnit Gebru@timnitgebru.blacksky.app

Reading proofs from book & remembering what I wrote in 2015: "I am very concerned about the future of AI. Not because of the risk of rogue machines taking over. But because of the homogeneous, one-dimensional group of men who are currently involved in advancing the technology.”

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Hendrik Mans
@hmans.dev

If you run Omarchy I will judge you

aly@aly.codes

re: omarchy trying to create parallel infra to subvert the linux community and kick trans/female/black people out i know some people think that sounds crazy but DHH literally is doing a podcast tour saying that is exactly what he's doing lol

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Niklas Blomqvist
@blmqvst.bsky.social

Jag vet inte med er, men jag är sur för: Sänkt a-kassa Tonårsutvisningar Karensavdraget Dyra mediciner Hög arbetslöshet Tvärstopp för gröna investeringar Hot om hyreshöjningar Nedskärningar i välfärden PISA-resultaten Dåliga pensioner Bankernas övervinster För att nämna några exempel.

Johan Alkstål
@johanalkstal.online

Pet peeve: multiple trailers being released for a movie! Are they worried we'll forget about it? Just release one trailer, keep it under 2 minutes or you're just spoiling it, and make it a good one! I don't want 4 trailers, each 3 minutes long. Just give me one good trailer leaving me intrigued.

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Lea Verou, PhD
@lea.verou.me

🔥 New blog post: Dark mode toggles that expose three states (system, light, dark) seem like the best option. Until you think about user goals, that is. Before rushing to disagree, hear me out. lea.verou.me/blog/2026/da... PS: As a data point, @jakearchibald.com was converted after reading this 😅

lea.verou.meDark mode toggles: two states are enough • Lea VerouYes, the underlying model must have three states, but one is always irrelevant to the actual user goal. Users do not seek out solutions to problems they don’t currently have. A lot of the hate towards...

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Jason Hickel
@jasonhickel.bsky.social

Replying to @jasonhickel.bsky.social

For all the replies saying "but public transit is terrible, I have to wait an hour for the bus"... comrade, what you are suffering from is the *absence* of public transit.

Johan Alkstål
@johanalkstal.online

"AI/LLMs are the perfect tool for the capitalist because it doesn’t matter if it works; it threatens the workforce either way. Both of these scenarios result in the same outcome: reduced worker solidarity, reduced worker skill, and reduced worker wages. " henry.codes/writing/it-d...

henry.codesIt doesn’t matter if it worksUltimately, whether LLMs "work" as a technology or not doesn't matter. The widespread adoption and deployment should be regarded firstly as a threat to the labor force.
Johan Alkstål
@johanalkstal.online

It's very cool that we are still exploring and revising what we know about things!

404 Media@404media.co

For 150 years, paleontologists assumed that the first vertebrates to leave the sea for land evolved a tadpole phase, similar to modern frogs. Immaculately-preserved fossils disprove that, scientists say.

404media.coA New Fossil Discovery Just Rewrote 150 Years of Evolutionary TheoryFor 150 years, paleontologists assumed that the first vertebrates to leave the sea for land evolved a tadpole phase, similar to modern frogs. Immaculately-preserved fossils disprove that, scientists say.

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tante
@tante.cc

A court in Munich declared that Google is liable for their "AI summaries" and all its hallucinations. This brings "AI" slop in line with all other products: "AI" is basically the only product where a provider can deliver unchecked garbage and put all liability on the consumer.

the-decoder.comLandmark German ruling declares Google's AI Overviews are Google's own words and makes it liable for false answersA German regional court has ruled that Google is directly liable for the content of its AI search overviews. According to the court, previous limited liability protections for search engine operators don't apply to AI overviews. In this case, Google's AI had falsely linked two publishers to fraud and made claims that didn't appear in any of the linked sources. The ruling could set a precedent for AI-generated content liability worldwide.
Johan Alkstål
@johanalkstal.online

We keep hurting our own for no good reason.

patak@patak.cat

Heartbreaking. And a wake-up call. It is no longer about being difficult to find a way to sustain yourself through your work online. It is no longer sustainable to keep a website up now. Axel has done so much for the web and all of us. Buy one of his books if you can. We've learned so much from him.

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Eric Ravenscraft
@lordravenscraft.bsky.social

still not quite over the fact that i watched 15 year olds get sued for millions of dollars for downloading twelve songs and now we all have to accept AI slop because every tech company in the known universe decided that IP laws don't exist now that they're inconvenient for them

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Roland Meyer
@bildoperationen.bsky.social

Some theses on #slop. A thread. Slop is automated ideology. It's content made of content, optimized for circulation, prompted, shaped, and refined through feedback loops of adaptation to platform conditions 1/