Based on the oft-touted 'Rules of Bob' for using AI, if Bob the intern blew up a few schools last week, would you still keep him on the payroll? www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

So many are trading short-term convenience without thinking about who is really benefiting when adopting AI (read energy-hungry LLM) workflows. Great blog by Adam Steer at Spatialised: www.spatialised.net/no-ai/

Did somebody mention charm Quarks? home.cern/news/news/ph...

How you can tell the economy is going well, like so well www.wsj.com/finance/regu...

This is from 1975.

leland palmer in the black lodge

I can write a FOR loop without boiling the ocean but you do you

My hairdresser and friend opened her business last week. Tonight it burned to the ground. This is devastating. I’ve set up a fundraiser. If you haven’t done anything for international women’s day yet, here’s a chance to support a women-run business in need: www.paypal.com/pools/c/9nhn...

War Pigs

ICYMI: Motorola partners with GrapheneOS for future phones

Jobs are woke

AI and its supporting infrastructure is just wasteful crap promoted by VCs and property investors that nobody in the real world wants

No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition. Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Anas Sarwar proudly stood by his "old friend" Peter Mandelson despite his dodgy past and links to Jeffrey Epstein. Scotland deserves better.

"Maybe the leopard eating my face doesn't realise that it is eating what appears to be my face." -The New York Times

Ned Ludd would have some ideas about what to do here, just need to figure out the equivalent of frame breaking for datacentres www.knittingtogether.org.uk/industry-tim...

The money I dumped into visa fees and double-paying into the NHS before getting ILR has materially harmed me and my husband, wiping out our savings and keeping us in precarity. And for what? It's pennies to the state, but everything to us. And we got it easy compared to a lot of other migrants!

Worth noting that migrants have a net-positive impact on public funds while Labour UK accepted one of the largest campaign contributions in history from a hedge fund located in a tax haven in 2024 vanessaganguin.com/news/how-to-...

Is this a bit? It has to be a bit ... someone please tell me it's a bit marchforbillionaires.org#why

So much of public discourse around religion has been shaped by the legacy of new atheism, which spent all its time calling the beliefs themselves stupid and evil, while failing to attend to the wider political context in which both secular and religious beliefs operate.

Everyone vs ICE: On the Ground in Minnesota Important episode & reporting by @jamesstout.bsky.social & @margaret.bsky.social out now podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/i... www.iheart.com/podcast/1119...

It’s always funny when palantir employees discover that they work at palantir

Happy Burns Night 💚

“Cant sleep… i’ll just have a quick look at my phone”

Trump has to be lucky every day, nature only has to be lucky once

If you work for the Minnesota National Guard, text me via Signal app at 202-510-1268. I will protect your anonymity.

elected democrats who want their constituents to remain non-violent in their protests of these abuses must actually offer a path for ending the abuses non-violently. they currently are not as a party and it’s a major problem.

The Project Gutenberg website is a neat repository of books that are now in the public domain so you can download them for free. What you do with that information is up to you. www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/2...

🚨 Scottish Green MSPs have secured taxes on the super-rich to help fund schools and childcare in today's Scottish Budget. ✅ Private Jets: taxed ✅ Shooting estates: taxed ✅ Mansions: taxed ✅ Free breakfast clubs: delivered

Yes, they are using #ArcGIS. They have an enterprise site license. #GIS professionals can easily figure out how they are using it to target people. "The DHS GII is a collaborative ArcGIS enterprise environment." www.dhs.gov/gmo/gii

If you want to add pressure to the EU commission to ditch US tech companies like Esri who are supporting the rise of fascism and murdering innocent civilians, fill out the following form as part of an official information request on switching to open-source tech eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-conten...

Just a reminder that Esri proudly touts that they work with DHS, whose agents are currently doing door to door Nazi-style raids in Minnesota. Probably using ther software to support these operations www.esri.com/en-us/indust... #gischat

If you plan to attend a protest or document actions of police and federal agents, use a digital camera that does not connect to wireless or bluetooth. Leave your phone at home or use a faraday bag.

Ell ohhh ellllll!

We gotta tear the whole god-damned thing down

Watching Gremlins with the family. I need to know the mom's backstory. She mercs four of those things in under three minutes. Is she Ripley's great grandmother?

A final surprise for the year - shared maps via URL🎁 This feature lets you share project overviews with people who do not have a Mergin Maps account. It is great for showing data to clients or the public simply. It is in early access now. We would love your feedback. 🗺️✨

As a centrist, I think Donald Trump is bad, but the political and economic conditions that enabled him to become president twice are good

Play fascist games, win fascist prizes www.theguardian.com/law/2025/dec...

I don't care if a non-disabled person accesses a disability accommodation for the same reason I don't care if a child whose parents are rich gets free lunch at school. We don't need to means test being a kind person. I have better things to do with my time than be a cop over social services.

Funny that the same rags that spent the last four years screaming "get them back in the office" are now pivoting to demonising ADHD and other neurodivergent diagnoses. I'm sure it's not related or anything.

No matter how you like to celebrate, hygiene is important

To unlock the needed public finance, rich countries can: 🤑Tax the super rich ⛽️Stop fossil fuel production 🚫Cancel unfair Global South debt ⬇️Cut military budgets

“This isn’t about choosing between the economy and the environment. It’s about recognising that the economy is embedded within the environment, and that the health of the nation depends on the living systems that sustain us.” https://bit.ly/4ajrZW5

AI is here to replace your job, if your job is working with 10 imaginary friends who are all coked-up compulsive liars www.wired.com/story/all-my...

C R Y I N G this is so perfect lmao x: www.instagram.com/reel/DQ7cPSf...

The guy telling you that you can't trust "the government" to manage your healthcare

If you know a 'good' ICE agent, then you probably aren't a good person either