It's 2026. Puberty blockers have been banned on the basis of a fake study conducted by a generalist paeditrician. Hormones for under 18s have been banned on the basis of a fake review conducted by a head injury specialist. Both remain available for cis kids because that's 'different' somehow

Medical transition for trans kids is now banned for new referrals on the NHS. Trans kids in the UK can still go private or DIY (for now). This means the new clinics that replaced GIDS are close to useless at best, conversion therapy at worst. 1/5

It's not that AI is useless. It's that AI is useful like asbestos was useful.

As @davidgerard.co.uk has posted elsewhere, the maintainer of the library HarfBuzz has gone all-in on vibe-coding. typo.social/@behdad/1161... and xcancel.com/behdadesfahb... (apologies for linking to the Twitter proxy service) A note on why this is a worry in the thread ->

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OH in the airport: *answering phone* “Hello. Oh, okay. Yep… Yep… Listen, mate, I’m out of the country so it’s not gonna happen. Yeah I’m out for a while… Okay… Bye.” I’ve gotta respect that level of “nah I’m on holiday”.

1) Ban medication being prescribed because you say there is insufficient evidence to support it, even though it's prescribed internationally 2) Say you're going to set up a trial to get evidence that it's safe and effective 3) Pause that trial getting evidence because of "unquantified risk"

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The UK, where they’ll take away the meds you need to be functional, deny the care you need to feel like life is worth living, remove whatever you need to bring your disabilities from insurmountable to manageable… … and then portray you as lazy if you don’t have a job.

oh.... my god?? actual chart from learn.microsoft.com/en-us/traini... btw

How can people be so stupid to believe *anything* an LLM spits out without manually double checking everything? This isn't a bug, there's no way to "fix" this. This is all that LLMs are - next word predictors, and they don't care about facts vs fiction, just probability.

and this is the slot machine logic at work

One of the things that really fucking annoys me about AI is that people *do not understand it* (on purpose, bc these companies want it that way) and they assume it’s as reliable as the computers they’ve been using their whole life when it’s actually about as reliable as your least capable intern

The NHS closed Tavistock over trans care concerns – there were just eight complaints all from cisgender people. 1. JK Rowling 2. Maya Forstater 3. Helen Joyce 4. Graham Linehan 5. Kathleen Stock 6. Posie Parker 7. Wes Streeting 8. Rosie Duffield www.thepinknews.com/2026/02/11/n...

This is completely consistent with everything I know and believe about Keir Starmer, the Labour Party he runs, and the British political establishment in which it is founded

Digital asbestos.

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I'm still writing code the hard way. I'm slow. I like to think critically about every line of code and fiddle with variable names until everything looks right. I treat code as a liability and try to ship only what's necessary. It's hard to imagine writing code any other way.

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The biggest problem with “Gas Town” is that it’s an absolutely hilarious satire of everything fundamentally broken with using LLMs in software engineering that, for some reason, people seem to be taking seriously.

CONTINUE TELLING EVERYONE YOU KNOW THAT AI IS THE STUPIDEST SHIT EVER IT IS WORKING CONTINUE TO MAKE ART YOURSELF CONTINUE TO WRITE THINGS THAT INSPIRE YOU THE WHOLE POINT OF BEING ALIVE IS TO CREATE COOL SHIT AI STRIPS US OF THE POINT OF BEING HUMAN

surely this is some other baroness doctor cass? the baroness doctor cass i know and love would be horrified at such a reckless approach to intervention

As we’ve been telling you from the start, ‘safety’ laws like the Online Safety Act are likely to make us all less safe.

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Leo made fun of me for posting like I’m a Pokémon NPC

programmers used to be a disagreeable group of hoary, argumentative skeptics corporations were loathed, suits were maligned and distrusted, bc corporate suits tried to sell lies & traps and now it's like "hey, yeah, i'd like 2 orders of Oops All Traps, supersized!" and i don't get it

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Microsoft is so fucking stupid. Microsoft renamed Microsoft Office to Microsoft 365 Copilot App I'm not joking

Keeping my death certificate stored conveniently on my phone for when I need it

I dunno who needs to hear this but using AI at your Early Concept phase, or for ideation, is literally the worst place to deploy it It isn't creative, what it does is hand back tropes. That's what the model does: sift for likely responses to an input It's like building your foundation out of memes

it's crazy to use AI in CONCEPT ART bcuz it will never be able to CREATE its own CONCEPTS. so not only are you saying you're too lazy to pay someone or to do the work yourself, you're also saying your okay with building all of your shit on unoriginal ideas and almagamation of existing work.

“Here’s your meal, full of delicious lead” I don’t want it. No thank you. “Well, what about if we just use lead in the cooking process? You can’t even taste the lead in the final meal” I’m leaving. “You’re being childish. Soon everyone will be cooking with lead” have you fucking listened to yourself

Happy git birthday @cilium.io!

Just so I'm clear on this, computer memory has tripled in price because a bunch of it that hasn't been produced yet has been ordered to populate GPUs that aren't installed in data centers that aren't built yet in order to service a demand that doesn't exist to make profits that don't happen.

Oh, here's a big surprise. The transphobes don't believe in ADHD either.

Apropos of nothing, this is your reminder that #ADHD, and other #neurodiverse conditions, are not “over-diagnosed” and are not new.

Ashley James, celebrity star of Good Morning has resigned from Girl Guides in response to their exclusion of trans girls.

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The big takeaway is that not every breach is a crack squad of expert state-sponsored hackers. Sometimes it’s just one person hitting F5 periodically.

i have many followers from this country 🏳️‍⚧️God bless wherever u are

I don’t know if anyone else notices or cares, but when I see a presentation in which the speaker uses obviously generated-AI images to illustrate their slides, it makes me immediately less confident in whatever other content they’re presenting.

I am proposing for TalosCon 2026 that part of our conference budget is hiring an artist to help create speaker slides We will ask speakers to not use AI and have an artist available to brainstorm images and create them I’d love to do this for Kubecon and @socallinuxexpo.bsky.social too #noAI

the bbc changed their article from saying 'trans woman' to saying 'biological male who identifies as a woman'. even if you don't care about trans ppl it should alarm you just how captured the bbc has become. they will no longer even say 'trans woman'. that's not normal and shows massive bias.