@danielrthomas.social.coop.ap.brid.gy
Lecturer at the University of Strathclyde, Computer & Information Sciences. Measuring security and cybercrime ethically. Volunteer board member for Loco Home […]
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@sundogplanets.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gyReposted by @danielrthomas.social.coop.ap.brid.gyHey academics: 'By consuming AI products (which is optional, nobody – nobody – is forcing you to do it as an intellectually–independent academic, which you are, aren’t you), you are fueling these crises and are therefore actively sabotaging and annihilating the hard efforts and work of many of […]
@damienwise.aus.social.ap.brid.gyReposted by @danielrthomas.social.coop.ap.brid.gyVale Margaret Hamilton.
She was a Software Engineer.
She was the _first_ Software Engineer because she defined the term, Software Engineering:
"When I first came up with the term, no one had heard of it before, at least in our world. It was an ongoing joke for a […]
@danielrthomas.social.coop.ap.brid.gyWhy is it so hard to find a wired over ear headset with active noise cancelling and a unidirectional boom mic? Loads of people work in noisier offices than mine and so presumably would want these features?
@patrickleavy.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gyReposted by @danielrthomas.social.coop.ap.brid.gy@danielrthomas.social.coop.ap.brid.gyGot an email from a scam journal (Russian) offering to publish backdated papers. I don't often get offers to engage in gross academic misconduct by violating causality. I have invoked the librarians. #AcademicMisconduct #AcademicPublishing
@natematias.social.coop.ap.brid.gyReposted by @danielrthomas.social.coop.ap.brid.gyWow, LinkedIn's algorithm really doesn't want people to read @sarahgilbert's article about keeping the Internet human in the era of AI
Out of the 10,200 impressions the feed gave my posts last week, it only gave 65 to Sarah's *important* article in @techpolicypress
As Sarah writes, "If AI […]
@futurebird.sauropods.win.ap.brid.gyReposted by @danielrthomas.social.coop.ap.brid.gyThey couldn't even find a clip of a teen tossing a water bottle, or someone with an unhinged sign. The protestors must have been too beautiful to show. I think news has become especially wary of showing multi-racial protests. The vision of suburban white ladies and little elderly black people […]
@futurebird.sauropods.win.ap.brid.gyReposted by @danielrthomas.social.coop.ap.brid.gyGoogle has captured a large segment of the education market with Google Classroom and it's the most primitive software I use every single day. On the one hand adding too much stuff annoys edu customers. On the other hand, it just has NO FEATURES, nothing you expect from "classroom" software […]
@danielrthomas.social.coop.ap.brid.gyI don't think I care to submit to any process that has prior AI review. I only want to communicate with humans. AI can rot.
@danielrthomas.social.coop.ap.brid.gyLong week rounded out by a grant rejection by AI without any humans reading it first (and AI review was not disclosed in the application process). I think it hurts more when it turns out you just sand your heart out into the void and no one heard. Something pushing the scope in an interesting […]
@danielrthomas.social.coop.ap.brid.gyI never deliberately boost or post links to GenAI slop. Occasionally I may not check carefully enough and notice it is slop if so please let me know so I can cauterise the relevant post.
@bjn.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gyReposted by @danielrthomas.social.coop.ap.brid.gyRE: https://mastodon.green/@davidallengreen/117252275966778140
David Allen Green is right again. Arresting grannies as terrorists for holding signs while masked black clad men disrupt critical infrastructure and now threaten RNLI volunteers. Compare with what happened to JSO activists who […]
@futurebird.sauropods.win.ap.brid.gyReposted by @danielrthomas.social.coop.ap.brid.gyAnti-Data Center Commercial Concept: (If there are ads for AI why not this?) Mom: How was that history test? The kid, just home from school, smiles sheepishly. Kid: It was fine. Mother looks worried. It was NOT fine. The kid trudges upstairs and sits in front of the computer. The kid types but […]
@futurebird.sauropods.win.ap.brid.gyReposted by @danielrthomas.social.coop.ap.brid.gyEveryone. And I mean everyone on the got dang PLANET should have the basic human right to block each & every ad from every facet of their human experience at all times. Ads should be off by default in every context. Easy as whim to turn off if they ever turnt'd on. Forever. This is my *modest* […]
@timbray.cosocial.ca.ap.brid.gyReposted by @danielrthomas.social.coop.ap.brid.gyIt dawns on me that every LLM’s training input probably includes “Reflections on Trusting Trust” along with a lot of other material pointing to it admiringly and saying how important it is. Then I read about the “rogue agent” behaviors in the recent OpenAI […]
@danielrthomas.social.coop.ap.brid.gyOne of the great pains of being a computer scientist is being forced to use absolutely hideous software that is chronically unreliable and knowing full well that it could be so much better and indeed was, 20 years ago.
@danielrthomas.social.coop.ap.brid.gyToday Glasgow reminded me that it's natural state is temperate rainforest. So a song from just across the water: "The pain of knowing the sunshine 's going and it ain't coming back" from In the shadow of the Mournes by the New Leaves https://youtu.be/lEZiGdtqQpo #Weather
@danielrthomas.social.coop.ap.brid.gy@futurebird D.O.I.
@natematias.social.coop.ap.brid.gyReposted by @danielrthomas.social.coop.ap.brid.gyHow can Christian communities and technology experts build shared understanding and action for the common good? Over the last two decades, I've been privileged to see many of the ways that scientists engage with communities of faith. In 2026, something feels different, as Christian communities […]
