And this by @nikeshshukla.bsky.social thebristolcable.org/2025/09/when...

The genius of Cory Doctorow: "AI cannot do your job, but an AI salesman can 100% convince your boss to fire you and replace you with an AI that can't do your job"

Pls join us in following the Global Sumud Flotilla as it attempts to break Israel’s starvation siege of Gaza. It will make more noise if more people are watching on YouTube. So far over 60,000 people are following live. www.youtube.com/live/uEN2bWF...

People who implement systems that treat a postcode without a space as invalid should be forced to work in the Microsoft Hotmail team for the rest of their career.

This won't get nearly the traction of the "ID cards? Bugger off" petition.

DemoGen is something I am quite proud of, I've made great use of it for the AgendaScope demo site. It makes it trivial to reset the demo site to a known good state whilst the dates/times all feel relatively current.

I'm updating my DemoGen Elixir library to handle relative dates/times as values. DemoGen lets you generate demo sites (e.g. for your SaaS app) by executing something akin to a movie script. github.com/AgendaScope/...

PRO TIP: End any debate about software design by asking "And what would the benefit of that be?" There's a 90%+ chance they haven't given it a moment's thought.

I've been using the open source Dropbox client Maestral for a while now and much prefer it. But I've noticed it's often not running. Anyone else having issues with it quitting?

This.

Fair play to HobbyCraft. We ordered 4 storage boxes that got delivered yesterday. One of the boxes was cracked (looking at you DPD). Their customer service agent apologised & shipped us a replacement that arrived this morning. That is good service.

Need a GenServer in AgendaScope & it's been a while since I wrote one. Went back to the Elixir course from Pragmatic Studio. It includes OTP GenServers & supervisors. A great refresh. Reminds me just how good Mike & Nicole are at teaching this stuff. Recommended. pragmaticstudio.com/courses/elixir

The reason they come for comedians early is that a comic license is surprisingly easy to revoke. You just have to stop laughing. Comedy is about safety, spreading that feeling of safety, intimacy, shared values, group strength. They don’t want you to feel safe. They want you to feel scared.

Can you spell tax giveaway?

No matter what size drive I buy, I always end up managing that last 100GB of space.

Are all wars founded on the back of the grievances of resentful young (and not so young) men?

I don't know whether telling Claude to "Stop fucking around" helps but it sure makes me feel better.

The United Nations' Independent International Commission of Inquiry becomes the latest group to conclude that Israel has committed genocide in Gaza www.ohchr.org/en/press-rel...

Kiddo finally wants to play chess so I got to bust out my Roman legion chess men. Happy

How on earth did this “liquid glass” make it into a production release of macOS? So many examples where it looks utterly shit. A few glitches, sure, that’s to be expected. But this level of turddom seems like a new low for an Apple release.

I would pay good money to have Claude never say "Perfect!" again.

The two best examples of what "real" AI is going to be like in fiction (that I can think of right now) are Marvin from the Hitch-Hikers Guide to the Galaxy and Tidy from James Follets Earth Search. I will give an honourable mention to HAL-9000 and T.A.R.S.

I'm trying to imagine myself as one of the crew of the Discovery and enjoying a "stimulating relationship" with HAL-9000.

My language towards Claude sometimes suggests that I will be one of the first up against the wall when the revolution comes.

“Families were filmed throwing their belongings out of windows in panic as they tried to salvage what they could after Israel gave them ‘minutes to flee’ the Mahna Tower in Gaza City before it was bombed and destroyed.” www.aljazeera.com/video/newsfe...

It's a good day when I come across two new Dorothy Parker quotes. The first being "A hangover is the wrath of grapes." and the second "If you don’t have anything nice to say, come sit by me."

How long is it going to be before I hate the phrase "liquid glass"? Note I have have absolutely no plan to update to macOS 26 and I am already getting fed up of seeing it.

The pro-Palestine rally arrests included an elderly blind man in a wheelchair www.instagram.com/reel/DOlKeXI...

25 arrests at the fascist rally which included participants attacking cops Nearly 900 arrests at the non-violent pro-Palestine rally, including many elderly people Both in London, one week apart

Also a kind reminder that the CEO of Palantir UK is Louis Mosley, the grandson of Oswald Mosley, founder of the British Union of Fascists. Louis is of course friends with Peter Thiel. Labour gave Palantir UK hundreds of millions of pounds and access to our NHS data.

Is it my imagination? Or has some right wing donor funded putting up hundreds of Union Jack and English flags?

I know, I know, I should be over it by now… but… but… how the fuck is the Finder still such a piece of crap!? How is it that it seems to get worse with each macOS release, not better? I dread to upgrade to 15 and fuck 26 quite honestly.

So, on balance we think not quite genocide. All OK then?

I cannot help but think of the Armenian genocide where repeated forced displacements were a core part of destroying an entire people

I saw a news item that a "Reform UK" councillor had defected to UKIP. Wait, UKIP still a thing? Yes it is, and it's even more unhinged being openly bigoted and militant. My browser feels sullied to have loaded their home page.

This is who the Labour gov is arresting. This is who the Labour government calls terrorists. Hundreds more of them. www.instagram.com/reel/DORapkR...

I hadn’t realised JPEG compression was based on the Fourier transform in 2D but now the lossiness makes an intuitive kind of sense.

I wonder if, during his incarceration, anyone was thoughtful enough to slip him a copy of The Count of Monte Cristo?

Maybe there should be some kind of reckoning as we've all been sold the lie that this mediocre charlatan is some kind of genius. Maybe - hear me out here - we have a media problem whereby insufferable white dudes in tech get elevated to genius status by making sh*t up for a living

I wish someone would pull their masks off. They don't deserve to be anonymous. Everyone they know should know about their shameful behaviour

Dystopian stuff. If you made a movie about this 20 years ago it would be seen as a horrifying look into a world gone mad. And here we are.

Under pressure from the Trump White House, the UK government has dropped its demand for Apple to hand over access to encrypted user data globally. But: they still demand that access for Brits, which has a weird side-effect—the UK gov is insisting Brits are given less protection than everyone else 🧵

Do I know folks in Glasgow? Been looking at research/uni jobs there

Dave: "Open the pod bay doors, HAL". HAL-GPT9000: "I've opened the pod bay doors, Dave." Dave: "HAL, the pod bay doors are still closed." HAL-GPT9000: "You're right to call this out. I appreciate you holding me to a higher standa–"

I can’t think of a more obscene policy - and yet somehow perfectly representative of Starmer’s Labour - than “one in, one out”. Whether people get to receive protection or lose it is a game of chance. Just go for the full Squid Game at this point www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

In many ways tokens are a bit like MHz: an almost irrelevant measure of performance for most people.

When I watch Claude Code botch a Tailwind layout issue 9 times in a row (despite claiming to have fixed it each time) I don't feel so bad about my own poor skills!

365 people arrested for opposing the UK government proscribing the non-violent Palestine Action group as terrorists. Labour’s legacy is this. Congrats to Starmer www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...