Sherif EA

@sherif.eurosky.social

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Tech can be better. Co-founder & co-lead @eurosky.social British, Egyptian, with a French connection Sifa ID https://sifa.id/p/sherif.eurosky.social

Screenshot of companion feature on the mu app, showing a choice of cat and new options of fox and dog. The dog option is highlighted and shows 8 breeds: Labrador, golden retriever, husky, Dalmatian, Rottweiler, cane corso, dogo Argentine and pharaoh hound
4 people in an office around a desk with computers and screen. A fifth person can be seen on a video call on a laptop.
Egypt player Mohamed Salah raising his left hand with his right hand on his left chest, celebrating in a stadium after Egypt's win over Australia. Wearing the red Egypt shirt with the number 10 at the front.
Eurosky website 'Contributors' section showing headshots of six people, Emelia Smith, Bailey Townsend, Florian Killius, Barry Prendergast, fig, and Brooke Higgins, with links to their profiles.
Image of Boaty McBoatface - a yellow autonomous underwater vehicle shaped like a long pill. It was named by a British public competition in the 2010s. It sits on a dock by a harbour with former British prime minister Boris Johnson behind it.
Screenshot of a European Commission webpage published in 2021 titled “Commission publishes study on the impact of Open Source on the European economy.” The page highlights findings that open source software investment in the EU generated major economic benefits and could further boost GDP and startup creation.
Image of a pixelated digital character from the back showing a blue cape with the European stars
Street level picture showing the entrance for he Barbican Centre
Screenshot from Linkedim showing the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index leaderboard with the open weights model Kimi 2.6 outperforming Claude 4.6
Screenshot from Mozilla blog referenced in the post. The text reads: Elite security researchers find bugs that fuzzers can't largely by reasoning through the source code. This is effective, but time-consuming and bottlenecked on scarce human expertise. Computers were completely incapable of doing this a fow months ago, and now they excel at it. We have many years of experience picking apart the work of the world's best security researchers, and Mythos Preview is every bit as capable. So far we've found no category or complexity of vulnerability that humans can find that this model can't. This can feel terrifying in the immediate term, but it's ultimately great news for defenders. A gap between machine-discoverable and human-discoverable bugs favors the attacker, who can concentrate many months of costly human effort to find a single bug. Closing this gap erodes the attacker's long-term advantage by making all discoveries cheap.
Image showing number of Eurosky Social followers as 12,054 followers
Image from the Artemis 2 mission of a solar eclipse showing the moon with a halo of light around it, all surrounded by stars.
A Cavalier King Charles Spanos dog looking at the camera sleepily
Robin Berjon talking about Google's position in the digital advertising market
Diagram illustrating an open, interoperable social media model This diagram presents an alternative to centralized platforms, showing how algorithmic pluralism can function. It consists of three distinct layers: 1. Computing infrastructure (bottom layer) – The foundational infrastructure, which can be operated by one or multiple entities. If controlled by a single entity, it must provide fair access to services built on top of it. 2. Social graph and content data (middle layer) – A shared data layer where users’ connections and content reside. Unlike current platforms, this layer is open and not owned by any single company. Users retain control over their connections. 3. Multiple user-facing applications (top layer) – A diverse range of services and interfaces built on top of the open social graph. These applications offer different user experiences, content moderation policies, recommender systems, and add-on services. Arrows indicate that multiple front-end applications can interact with the same social graph and infrastructure. The diagram highlights the benefits of this approach, stating that by freeing up content data and connections from the control of a single platform, a competitive ecosystem emerges where different services can coexist and innovate. Additional annotations emphasize: • The importance of open social graphs for consumer choice. • The need for fair access to the infrastructure layer if operated by a single entity. This model envisions a decentralized, user-centric social media ecosystem that promotes competition and innovation while preventing monopolistic control.
Poster advert on the London tube for Landlord beer. It reads: Another one that didn't make the grade (sketch of 3 scientists taking away a malfunctioning robot on a stretcher) A.I. is too important to be left in the hands of machines The A.I. we're referring to isn't Artificial Intelligence, it's Ale Intelligence, of course. We're not technophobes, we just don't trust anything incapable of smelling, feeling or tasting to create something as delicately balanced as Landlord. That's why we have four hands-on, Heriot- Watt trained brewers involved in every step of the process, from barley delivery to filling the casks. This way, we can make sure that every sip of Taylor's is as delicious as humanly possible. Machines may one day take over the world, just be thankful you won't be around to drink their terrible beer. All for that taste of Taylor's Please drink responsibly
Poster advert on the London tube for Landlord beer. It reads: Another one that didn't make the grade (sketch of 3 scientists taking away a malfunctioning robot on a stretcher) A.I. is too important to be left in the hands of machines The A.I. we're referring to isn't Artificial Intelligence, it's Ale Intelligence, of course. We're not technophobes, we just don't trust anything incapable of smelling, feeling or tasting to create something as delicately balanced as Landlord. That's why we have four hands-on, Heriot- Watt trained brewers involved in every step of the process, from barley delivery to filling the casks. This way, we can make sure that every sip of Taylor's is as delicious as humanly possible. Machines may one day take over the world, just be thankful you won't be around to drink their terrible beer. All for that taste of Taylor's Please drink responsibly
Screenshot with the following text: The Open Network Economy (On Economy) is the emerging paradigm of platforms, applications and products characterized by decentralization and interoperability, which enable users to curate and choose how they experience and interact with the web. The On Economy is today most visible in its disruption of legacy social media - the centralized, top-down, platforms such as Facebook and X. These platforms, today nearly two decades old, are being challenged by new entrants like Bluesky, a social web platform built on modern decentralized principles and an open protocol. The difference between legacy social media and ON Economy platforms and products could not be starker. Whereas the old social media relied on locking users in, making it impossible to leave a platform without losing their accumulated networks, in the ON Economy, users - whether individuals or businesses - have choice among a range of providers and can move between them without losing accumulated data and networks. In the old social media, users have very limited, if any choice, in the algorithms that feed them information; in the ON Economy, users have a plethora of choice and the ability to curate their own experiences. Critically, because ON Economy platforms and products are built around interoperability and open protocols - with a sufficiently large market, monopolies and lock-in are virtually impossible, making the ON Economy the basis for an open and competitive market where innovation and new entrants can thrive. Legacy social media is known for having worked to capture the entire value chain to the point of turning social media into a no-fly zone for investors; in contrast, the ON Economy seeks to create long-term habitable ecosystems with a constant potential for innovation.
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Screenshot with the following text: • There will be news of various important-looking breakthroughs and advancements, at a glance looking very solid even to us/experts. Digging deeper, or waiting until the practical consequences of these breakthroughs materialize, will reveal that they're 80% hot air/hype-generation. • At some point there might be massive layoffs due to ostensibly competent Al labor coming onto the scene, perhaps because OpenAl will start heavily propagandizing that these mass layoffs must happen. It will be an overreaction/mistake. The companies that act on that will crash and burn, and will be outcompeted by companies that didn't do the stupid.
Screenshot with the following text: • There will be news of various important-looking breakthroughs and advancements, at a glance looking very solid even to us/experts. Digging deeper, or waiting until the practical consequences of these breakthroughs materialize, will reveal that they're 80% hot air/hype-generation. 5) • At some point there might be massive layoffs due to ostensibly competent Al labor coming onto the scene, perhaps because OpenAl will start heavily propagandizing that these mass layoffs must happen. It will be an overreaction/mistake. The companies that act on that will crash and burn, and will be outcompeted by companies that didn't do the stupid.