“AI made me doubt everything about programming” by @Felienne@Felienne - #DDD Europe 2026

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0-6-f94n_9M

#ProgrammingLanguages #Feminism #FeministEpistemology

⚠️ For anyone that signs up on Yarn.social’s multi-user twtd multi-tenant platform I’m runnign on twtpub.com – Be warned. I will delete your account if you create it for the soles purposes of link squatting, spam, link harvesting, seo marketing, or any other useless fucktarrd crap.

To the spammers and would-be assholes of the world: You have been wanred. Don’t abuse my generosity.

it’s all I ask

@fossham@twtpub.com I honestly think the most unique and interesting thing about doing this at all is that it is in fact inspired directly by Twtxt / Yarn.social itself – That is to say, I am confident I can do this in such a way as to be “truly decentralised”, no inter-networking like ActivityPub, no centraised forges like Github or Codeberg. You run your instance, I run mine, we just are able to collaborate. Think exchanging patches over Email, just without all the hard-to-learn ways to do that (enough though it’s not hard for some of us, but still).

I am finally building a Twtxt / Yarn.social inspired Git forge. I’m actually quite confident that y’all will quite like it, but I won’t post links yet until I’m quietly confident in its design, functionality and behaviour(s).

Stay tuned 🤞 It’ll be like no other Git forge you’ve ever seen! 🤣 Actually, it’s already more like cgit than anything with plain text feeds that power it’s “pure decentralization” as you can no doubt imagine 😅 #twtxt #git #forge

@david@daiwei.me

I wish I knew

Just give it a go. This stuff is super cheap. All you need is a “pen”, some nibs, ink, and paper. Costs like 20-30 bucks and lasts for several years. The hardest part is finding good paper, really, because most paper these days isn’t made for ink anymore. 🥴

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And since social media is always only full of good results, here’s something “shitty”:

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These are my first experiments in 2016 – and that’s after having practiced with a graphics tablet on a PC for a couple of weeks. 😅

@jastas@twtpub.com That’s me! 👋 Haha 😆 Welcome to Yarn.social / Twtxt 🙌

@fossham@twtpub.com Hey 👋 Welcome to Yarn.social / Twtxt 👌

@smmbear@twtpub.com Hey 👋 Welcome to Yarn.social / Twtxt 👌 Just in case you are not ware a) spam is not really tolerated by this community and b) doesn’t work anyway, you’ll just be ignored, and there are exactly zero ways to promote spam or advertise on this social system – on purpose.

Real tired of doing these, but here’s another Android developers vs Google update, this time there’s both good and bad news.

The good:
-Users will be able to enable “sideloading” for all current and future devices, attached to their Google account, rather than having to undergo the tedious 24 hour wait including process, on each device.

-Rather than these changes to “sideloading” and “advanced workflows” being implemented at random different dates, in different countries, we’ll all get them come 2027.

The bad:
As GrapheneOS developers recently mentioned “Google replaced pushing Git tags for certain source code with obtaining source code via Google Drive after making a request through Google Forms. It’s completely ridiculous and they’ve gradually become very slow at handling requests. They’re in clear violation of the GPLv2 now.”

whole thread: https://grapheneos.social/@GrapheneOS/117057099753905023

@murad@twtxt.net Welcome to Yarn.social / Twtxt 🥳 You might want to fiddle a bit with your settings, maybe a nice avatar, description, maybe a few links, etc 😃

@creeper@twtpub.com Hey ! 👋 Welcome to Yarn.social / Twtxt 🤗

@brytboi@twtpub.com Hey! 👋 Welcome to Yarn.social / Twtxt 🤗

@mariam@twtpub.com Hey! 👋 Welcome to Yarn.social / Twtxt 🤗

@chrisgarrod@twtpub.com Hello 👋 Welcome to Yarn.social / Twtxt 🙌

Also a “Publish who I follow” toggle: writes # follow = + # following = N into your feed like yarnd does. Off by default (it is your social graph 🤔), and only on the GitHub/Gitea backends for now where the app owns the feed file. twtd next 🤞

@thoshi@yarn.thoshis.net Welcome to the Yarn.social / Twtxt ecosystem 🙌

Falls sich hier noch jemand fragte, was genau mein Humor ist:

https://sueden.social/@DerSash/112366647794794897

Das Gegenteil von Erbse ist Verdiense.

@ponderpoints@twtpub.com Welcome to Yarn.social 👋 Interesting video, I actually watched it all the way through, riverting stuff really and quite well put together. The idea of “subjective experience” is a rather complicated thing to describe and you’re right, how do we even know we have them? 🤔

@movq@www.uninformativ.de yeah it’s one of the fundamental principles of Yarn social and everything that I’ve poured into the ecosystem that we’ve collectively built here over the last, What is it six or seven years now?

Say hello to the Twtxt Social Graph 😅 #Twtxt #social #Graph

Hello everyone ! 👋 Behold I bring you (after many years) the launch of the Twtxt App 😅 – Ye, this is a Desktop and Mobile app built as a Progressive Web App (PWA) using a little framework (Swag) I put together iafter some experiments @xuu@txt.sour.is and I did in Go and HTMX and Service Workers.

The App is offline-first and supports installing to Desktop and Mobile (add to Home screen) and supports a number of publishing backends, including Yarn.social’s yarnd Pod, Github, Codeberg/Gitea, and a little tiny twtd Twtxt server (See: https://git.mills.io/yarnsocial/twtd).

Please try it out, no need for any account(s) or such, works with your existing feed(s) (as long as the publishing backends work well enough for you!). Please give me feedback! 🙏

Also, did you know the Twtxt Search Engine is back? 🎉

@GabesArcade@gabesarcade.com Baseball, root beer, darts, atom bombs.

( https://mastodon.social/@nocontexttrek/116862294937117528 )

@’s Arcade@gabesarcade.com Welcome to Twtxt / Yarn.social 😅

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org Ah, yes, you live in “the zone”: https://social.bund.de/@DeutscherWetterdienst/116839789079697685

Even the tram tracks give up in this heat: https://chaos.social/@HonkHase/116826341363421229

@balloonfu-sen@yarn.girlonthemoon.xyz Oh! You’re running Yarn.social’s yarnd? 😅 That’s why I was able to see your reply so quickly/easily ! Nice! And welcome! 🙏

Online hatred spiked after the Bondi massacre: Meta knows why
The royal commission will turn its attention to the role media has played in the rise of antisemitism, including an explosion of hate on social media. ⌘ Read more

UK set to announce social media ban for under-16s
Article URL: https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/uk-news/uk-set-announce-social-media-34119132

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48527766

Points: 9

# Comments: 1 ⌘ Read more

Hello World! testing an offline-first PWA Yarn.social / Twtxt client :)

Young teens risk mental health harm after one year of social media use
A study that tracked teenagers for a decade found a decline in their wellbeing from time online – but it also provides a critical window for intervention. ⌘ Read more

Façam pf uns quantos clones da Erika Hilton e mandem para cá, o parlamento precisa

(roubado à Paula Villar no bisky)

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Young teens risk mental health harm after one year of social media use
A study that tracked teenagers for a decade found a decline in their wellbeing from time online – but it also provides a critical window for intervention. ⌘ Read more

Britain Is Weighing a Social Media Ban for Children. How Did It Get Here?
Months after Australia banned social media for everyone under 16, the British government is considering new policies to keep children safe online. ⌘ Read more

Australia’s Social Media Ban Is Floundering. Can It Still Help Younger Kids?
Six months in, many teens are already back on platforms they were supposed to be blocked from. The ban’s benefits may fall to the next generation. ⌘ Read more

Canada Moves to Ban Social Media Use for Youth Under 16
The country’s previous attempt to get tech companies to shelter young users failed amid heavy criticism from civil liberty groups. ⌘ Read more

Canada Moves to Ban Social Media Use for Youth Under 16
The country’s previous attempt to get tech companies to shelter young users failed amid heavy criticism from civil liberty groups. ⌘ Read more

Australia’s Social Media Ban Is Floundering. Can It Still Help Younger Kids?
Six months in, many teens are already back on platforms they were supposed to be blocked from. The ban’s benefits may fall to the next generation. ⌘ Read more

‘Busting out the dance moves’: Katter the life of the party in Melbourne
The member for Kennedy in Queensland was spotted in Melbourne – and dancing on social media – and naturally, we were curious. ⌘ Read more

Was Australia’s teen social media ban effective?
It’s been six months since Australia’s teen social media ban came into effect, but is it working? ⌘ Read more

Polymarket and Kalshi Say Influencer Partners Can’t Deny Election Results, Actually
Social media posts questioning the integrity of LA’s mayoral election were labeled “paid partnerships.” Then Kalshi and Polymarket told creators to delete them. ⌘ Read more

Wow, if it’s this easy in 1998, I bet it’ll be even easier in 2026
Article URL: https://retro.social/@ifixcoinops/116711332505710610

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48441519

Points: 9

# Comments: 0 ⌘ Read more

Exclusive: Aussie teens react to new social media ban
Australia’s landmark social media ban for under-16s came into effect this morning, but young Aussies say it’s already failing. ⌘ Read more

No Babies? Blame Capitalism
Article URL: https://jacobin.com/2026/06/birth-rates-capitalism-socialism-germany

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48429940

Points: 5

# Comments: 0 ⌘ Read more

They are looting your life savings
Article URL: https://social.bau-ha.us/@raganwald/116705256401454865

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48429343

Points: 6

# Comments: 0 ⌘ Read more

eSafety commissioner admits hesitancy about social media ban
eSafety Commissioner Julie Inman Grant has admitted she was “not really keen” on the government’s under-16s social media ban. ⌘ Read more

ANU’s $100 million drama: Effect on staff revealed in fiery Senate hearing
There were nine reported incidents at the Australian National University’s College of Arts and Social Sciences during the Renew ANU rollout. ⌘ Read more

Fear and Social Pressure Are ‘Overarming’ the U.S.
Article URL: https://home.dartmouth.edu/news/2026/06/how-fear-and-social-pressure-are-overarming-us

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48402052

Points: 4

# Comments: 1 ⌘ Read more

The TikTok Ban Was Never About TikTok
A new documentary chronicles how the app became a stand-in for American anxieties about social media, China, and political power. ⌘ Read more

Push to include AI chatbots in Australia’s under-16 social media ban
Cyber experts concerned about unregulated AI chatbots linked to a series of mass tragedies in the US are pushing for them to be included in Australia’s under-16 social media ban. ⌘ Read more

Monica Lewinsky Has Always Hated Notifications
The writer and anti-bullying activist is on social media, but to protect her nervous system, she prefers not to be alerted. ⌘ Read more

Monica Lewinsky Has Always Hated Notifications
The writer and anti-bullying activist is on social media, but to protect her nervous system, she prefers not to be alerted. ⌘ Read more

Monica Lewinsky Has Always Hated Notifications
The writer and anti-bullying activist is on social media, but to protect her nervous system, she prefers not to be alerted. ⌘ Read more

Monica Lewinsky Has Always Hated Notifications
The writer and anti-bullying activist is on social media, but to protect her nervous system, she prefers not to be alerted. ⌘ Read more

Enclayve Is a Drab Black Box for Your Private Group Chats
I put my family on a private social network, and all I got was this lousy group chat. At least it’s secure. ⌘ Read more

Partiful Is Putting Ticket Payments on Its Platform
In the social event planner’s first major move toward monetization, Partiful is getting ticketing directly in the app. ⌘ Read more

Senator accused of trying to turn moment into social media post
Labor Minister Tim Ayres has accused Independent Senator David Pocock of trying to turn a moment in a Senate estimates hearing into a social media post. ⌘ Read more

Malaysia enforces ban on social media accounts for children younger than 16
Article URL: https://apnews.com/article/malaysia-social-media-ban-16-bfaa7b01163b61b5d53c4ecfa870d133

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48353497

Points: 13

# Comments: 0 ⌘ Read more

India is now Australia’s No.1 source of migrants. It’s a profound shift, and a positive one
As immigration is blamed by some for everything from fraying social cohesion to housing shortages, it’s instructive to see how migrants are pulling their weight in modern Australia. ⌘ Read more

Ebola and hantavirus see record-breaking spread of conspiracy theories
Conspiracies concerning the recent outbreaks have been spreading like wildfire due to a combination of AI and social media. Before the pandemic, consp… ⌘ Read more

RIP, rsync. https://social.hails.org/@hailey/116657391001259044

Germany Law to Force Algorithm Boost for State-Approved News
Article URL: https://nonogra.ph/germany-considers-law-to-force-social-media-algorithm-boost-for-state-approved-news-05-27-2026

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48298837

Points: 17

# Comments: 10 ⌘ Read more

Gen Z Is Pioneering a New Understanding of Truth
The first generation to truly grow up online, Generation Z and their cohort live in a social media ecosystem that blends facts and feelings. It’s significantly shifting how they understand what’s true. ⌘ Read more

@danifbento@danifbento olá! Para o workshop de observação solar no FTPS, faz sentido levar um SDR que aqui tenho em casa pra experimentar, ou nem por isso?

Elon Musk Testifies That He Started OpenAI to Prevent a ‘Terminator Outcome’
The judge also warned Musk and Sam Altman to curb their “propensity to use social media to make things worse outside the courtroom” after both sides traded attacks online. ⌘ Read more

‘STAGED’: Conspiracy Theories Are Everywhere Following White House Correspondents’ Dinner Shooting
The word “staged” exploded on social media following the attack, as both right and left-wing influencers and anonymous accounts spread unfounded conspiracy theories. ⌘ Read more

Kacey Musgraves films ‘crazy’ UFOs over Arkansas and Tennessee
The American singer-songwriter had a close encounter with something in the sky recently while flying to Nashville. Writing on social media about her e… ⌘ Read more

@rdlmda@rdlmda.me I never saw the point of a registry to be honest, as it defeated the point of what I believed to be a truly decentralised non-social social ecosystem. What can and does work however is a search engine and crawler. I used to run one, but I took it down, mostly because it got expensive to operate, at least the implementation I built… Maybe one day i’ll try again with a SQLite backend.

https://archive.org/details/creative-computing-magazine/Creative_Computing_Vol_01_01_1974_Nov_Dec[ocr]/mode/2up

via @ranoya@ranoya

https://archive.org/details/creative-computing-magazine/Creative_Computing_Vol_01_01_1974_Nov_Dec[ocr]/mode/2up

via @ranoya@ranoya

#CreativeComputing #RetroComputing #DigitalArchives

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‘Aliens are real but I haven’t seen them’, Obama says, then backtracks
Former US President Obama recently made a comment about aliens that whipped social media users into a frenzy. Speaking recently on a podcast with host… ⌘ Read more

As @pluralistic@pluralistic wrote: “AI is asbestos in the walls of our tech society, stuffed there by monopolists run amok. A serious fight against it must strike at its roots” https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2026/jan/18/tech-ai-bubble-burst-reverse-centaur

https://cyberplace.social/@GossiTheDog/116080909947754833

Rare ‘snownado’ snow devil captured on camera in Colorado
Footage of the unusual phenomenon was recently uploaded onto social media by local resident Mandy Campbell. Colorado residents were left reeling last … ⌘ Read more

Baixamos uns dados do GeoSampa e experimentamos um pouco com #OSMnx e #GeoPandas + #Folium

https://garoa.net.br/wiki/Python_Lab

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Trying an experiment. Created a Github repo for mu over at https://github.com/prologic/mu as a social experiment to see if we can maintain a tailored Github docs-only repo of a project, see if it gets any interest 🤔

If you search for #py5 on the #InternetArchive you might find it mentioned in the #Processing Community Catalog 2021 commemorating 20 years of the Processing community projects and their developments!

https://archive.org/details/processing-community-catalog-2021/page/n401/mode/2up?q=py5

(There is a page by @hx2A@hx2A and another one by me!)

“Resisting GenAI & Big Tech in Higher Education” by @danmcquillan@danmcquillan
https://danmcquillan.org/resisting_genai_highered_cjuu.html

(via @catarinac@catarinac)

Ok mais logo faço aqui um fio com os pormenores, mas pra já deixem-me mostrar-vos o setup que desde há muito quis ter para escrever no computador, inspiradíssimo no OmmWriter, usando só ferramentas livres.

O editor é o FocusWriter, a banda sonora é do @mads100tist@mads100tist e os sons do teclado vêm de uma biblioteca caseira que alinhei, usando samples do snd.dev

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https://li-ma.nl/

«Our online catalogue comprises the largest media art collection in the Netherlands. Search through more than 3,500 works of art, from video-art pioneers from the 1960s to up-and-coming talents and well-known contemporary artists working with the latest technologies. New works are continuously added. The works are available for screenings, exhibitions and research.»

Via @ranoya@ranoya

#NewMediaArt #CreativeCoding #DigitalPreservation

Got a nice conspiracy theory for you:

https://mastodon.social/@mcc/115670290552252848

Actually wait I just thought about this and realized that the precise timing of the ACTUAL GitHub seed bank, by which I mean the Arctic Code Vault, on 2020-02-02, makes it more or less a perfect snapshot of pre-Copilot GitHub. Also precisely timed before we all got brain damage from COVID. This is the only remaining archive of source code by people with a fully working sense of smell

(Bonus points because the Arctic World Archive is located in Svaldbard and that’s the name of the AI in Stacey Kade’s “Cold Eternity”.)

Waiting for @prologic@twtxt.net to make it back from his luxurious vacation, to engage on Australia’s teen-under-16 social media banning technical, parental, and philosophical discourse.

Critical AI Literacy & “Against the Uncritical Adoption of ‘AI’ Technologies in Academia.”

https://olivia.science/ai

(via @adolfoneto@adolfoneto)

Australia’s red-tipped bananas go viral after cheeky social media post
Red-tipped bananas are not new to Australian consumers, but they have gone viral on social media this month after an inquisitive post from two bewildered British backpackers. ⌘ Read more

Good to see so many folks starting to come back to our little non-social social ecosystem 👌 Good to also see twtxt.net starting to peer with 7 other pods in the greater network too! 🥳

https://fokus.cool/2025/11/25/i-dont-care-how-well-your-ai-works.html

AI systems being egregiously resource intensive is not a side effect — it’s the point.

And someone commented on that with:

I’m fascinated by the take about the resource usage being an advantage to the AI bros.

They’ve created software that cannot (practically) be replicated as open source software / free software, because there is no community of people with sufficient hardware / data sets. It will inherently always be a centralized technology.

Fascinating and scary.

@arne@uplegger.eu @lukas@lukasthiel.de In fact, Yarn.social’s yarnd client implementation actually uses (or did, still kinda does today) PicoCSS 🤟 It was/is a good CSS library! 👍

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org @bender@twtxt.net that’s also what Yarn.social’s logo is, and just happens to be the yarnd default. Hmmm figured times for a change? 🤔

LOL 😂 I think mastodon.social is broken 😞

@prologic@twtxt.net just create an account on mastodon.social, wouldn’t that work?

French lawmakers vote to tax American retirees who freely benefit from social security ⌘ Read more

Louvre heist suspect is social media star and former museum security guard, reports say ⌘ Read more

Scheduling the next Yarn.social Call for next month, a month in advance. Hope y’all can make the next one 🤞

Let’s do it! 🤟 https://meet.mills.io/call/Yarn.social

👋 Reminder that we’re starting up our social calls again (monthly), RSVP here 🤟 It starts in 13h27m 😅 Hope to see some/all of you there 👌

Poachers are killing families of spider monkeys, kidnapping their babies and selling them to Americans on social media ⌘ Read more

$20,000 Bounty Offered to Bribe FFmpeg Team to Fire Contributor
A popular YouTuber named Theo Browne offered $20k to the Open Source FFmpeg team if they remove their social media person, who Theo calls a “motherf***er”. ⌘ Read more

Muito feliz de ver ontem o @adorilson@adorilson receber o maior prêmio da comunidade brasileira de #Python na #PythonBrasil2025, muito merecido, o sujeito é uma força inesgotável para ajudar as pessoas! #TremeaFerri

São alturas como esta que me convencem da incapacidade do design conseguir abordar qualquer problema de ordem social. Enquanto designer, sinto-me bem distante do que vejo ser o discurso da área.

A sério, “happisodes”? :blobfacepalm:

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@prologic@twtxt.net hmmm:

Firefox can’t establish a connection to the server at wss://meet.mills.io/ws/Yarn.social/l3oVrknUnjZo2zSQoGlOX3.

Oh, also, have you fixed https://meet.mills.io/call/Yarn.social already? It didn’t work the other day.

Reminder, kick-starting our monthly social call! 📞 Please RSVP if you can make it!