Norwegian F-35s have been deployed to patrol Polish airspace.

@rstephens.me teaching us all about how to take advice from cartoon dogs.

an extraordinary person with an extraordinary legacy who nevertheless didn’t take herself too seriously when Gary Larson published this cartoon, she was in Africa and her institute was horribly offended and drafted a complaint the whole thing was defused when she returned - she found it funny

yes this

Probably unpopular reflection from this Labour conference - mainstream political parties including this one are no closer to being able to understand how delivery in government can lead to popularity. Just as there have been no obvious paths to growth since 2008.

This is why I say patience is key when working with language models. If the output is directionally correct, or even just wrong in an interesting way, let it keep iterating and see where it goes! scottaaronson.blog?p=9183

While vote counting in Moldova continues, it's already clear: Maia Sandu's PAS party is in the lead. Moldova refused to be made a russian colony. It chooses Europe. It chooses freedom. 🇲🇩🥳

"Security expert & writer Edward Lucas proudly showed off his Estonian identity card... "My experience is that people's scepticism about digital ID tends to evaporate when they go and see it in operation first hand." www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

In Estonia, digital identity enables people to interact with government services online, from filing taxes to founding a company, both of which can be done in minutes. Voter restriction by obstruction of access to physical voting either by location or time would not work in Estonia voting online.

i understand the worries, at the same time the mandatory ID-card in the Netherlands has not led to big problems/issues. The coming European Digital Identity Wallet (EUDIW) also shows promise because it is privacy-by-design (at least they tried ;-), sadly not for the UK.

A well-designed digital ID removes barriers that hit the poorest hardest — lack of documents, inability to prove identity, job availability, exclusion from finance, work and state support. Just another few reasons I support digital ID.

I get that the news cycle is packed right now, but I just heard from a colleague at the Smithsonian that this is fully a GIANT SQUID BEING EATEN BY A SPERM WHALE and it’s possibly the first ever confirmed video according to a friend at NOAA 10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)

The Times has gone completely mad on this subject. The UK govt has taken a completely normal step, one taken by three quarters of the govts in the world with more following. The real q is: what is the govt going to do now it has taken that normal step?

Farage asked on @lbc.co.uk whether he agreed with on the unproven link between paracetamol and autism “I have no idea... We were told thalidomide was a v safe drug and it isn’t. who knows. I don’t know, you don’t know…when it comes to science I don’t side with anybody. It’s never settled.”

is claude down? (the new xyz is down ..)

Me: "Did you remember?" Husband (panicking): "What?" Me: "The 21st niiiiiight of September"

This is quickly mushrooming into a real international incident www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/0...

Musk accuses the LibDem leader of "cowardice" for opposing Musk's advocacy of pre-emptive violence (interethnic conflict, anti-migrant violence & partisan violence) to kick off a British civil war. This shows that Musk just has no idea of the gravity of advocating political violence & civil war

Pet parrots which typically live alone (whilst those in the wild live in large flocks) were given the technology to call each other. They would use it for up to three hours a day, and developed favourite friends 💔 on.ft.com/3K05vhS

Still the best explanation of Russian tactics and the difficulty of deterrence. From: Yes, Prime Minister.

Oregon, Washington, Hawaii and California are creating their own vaccine guidelines.

Ha

At the risk of sounding like a government spokesperson, I wonder if we're too gloomy. NHS waiting times are falling, as are net migration numbers. Growth hasn't been fast, but it's improved. Real wages are growing. Inflation is a bit sticky, but much reduced.

When Yorkshire cricket dismissed the p-word as banter, all hell broke loose in media+politics There is a p-word epidemic on X Yet the platform keeps that abuse online + now Elon Musk personally promotes a fascist who uses it incessantly Why is there infinite tolerance of lawless pro-racism X?

The Meowpolitan Line

If you can’t articulate both the “why” and “what” of your current plan, why it advances the strategy, how it attacks or side-steps the current obstacles (and what those even are), then it’s an unclear plan, and possibly just wrong. Here’s how to do that:

I would buy this album in a heartbeat (@fakemusic_br instagram) #funk #acdc

Reminder that Putin has never said he wants a trilateral meeting, had never said he would respect Ukrainian sovereignty, and has never said he wants to end the war. Not to be a downer, but the discussion of security guarantees is premature.

The United Methodist Church (UMC) will divest from Israel bonds and from other governments maintaining illegal military occupations, making it the first church in the world to make such a pledge. mondoweiss.net/2025/08/unit... #Palestine #Israel

It’s 2050 and a teen girl is torrenting a .tar.gz file of all the consciousnesses of all the tech bros who uploaded themselves into the cloud in a bid for immortality and modding them into The Sims 4

Hello! For those just discovering the @talkingpostgres.com podcast—and those already on this 30-episodes & counting #TalkingPostgres journey with me—we just dropped a new 3-minute trailer (02:52 to be precise) & it is FUN 🔥 🎧 talkingpostgres.com/episodes/tal... 📺 youtu.be/ZWMb9qmTpSY?...

T.I.L that gov.uk runs their CMS (which is huge) on Kubernetes: docs.publishing.service.gov.uk/kubernetes/#... Better still, the docs are MIT and anyone can make a PR / contribute: github.com/alphagov/gov...

different day, same internal struggle

Some news from @oxide.computer: we got a raise! Our annual salary now stands at $235K. oxide.computer/blog/oxides-...

Little known that Franz kafka was actually a British civil servant

Nietzsche abhors a vacuum www.worldofmoose.com/products/nie...

Isn’t football so much better than men’s football?

As the Trump administration continues to defy the law, a quotation from Robert Jackson's opening statement at the Nuremberg Trial of Nazi Leaders comes to mind: www.roberthjackson.org/speech-and-w... /1

God I love Union Station

House always wins

this is a real bugger. DJ was a lovely bloke.

To friends and network of @codepope - I very sadly have to share that DJ died on Tuesday, 8th July. Unexpected, and a big shock to many of us in the UK tech community. We shared the news with the @hackwimbledon community that he created, earlier today. A really warm, generous human who wanted […]

In his most explicit comments yet about the prospect of sending the sophisticated weaponry to Ukraine, Trump suggested that European allies would pay for the weapons as he renewed his criticism of Russian President Vladimir Putin. on.ft.com/463sjq1

Chances of the deal actually working are low, but PM has achieved the impossible by persuading Macron to accept returns www.independent.co.uk/voices/keir-...

New post up, with a bunch of thoughts on what drives me personally, and my own 40-year career (h/t @lethain.com). I have a pretty unusual life story. But one of the reasons I love the tech industry so much is how common unusual stories like mine have historically been. charity.wtf/2025/07/09/t...

Recruiting

Anyone here reading night eaters by Marjorie liu and sana takeda?