This is actually quite brilliant, up to and including the final sentence 🔥

I was a guest of William Vincent and Carlton Gibson's #Django Chat podcast, alongside my friend Marlene Mhangami from Microsoft. We chatted about “A.I. in the Real World”, and found a lot of common ground. It was nice to have a hype-free discussion of the algorithms! www.youtube.com/watch?v=4fyG...

An addendum to today's post paulkrugman.substack.com/p/trump-pro-...

Here we go again. Sensationalist headlines. Unproven causal links. And unclear migration figures based on shaky proxies. 🧵 Here’s the 2 big problems with the FT's new report… 1⃣They don’t really know how many left. 2⃣They have no idea why they left. 1/6

The UK government will be forced to raise taxes at the Budget in October – but taxes on who? Here are my predictions www.youtube.com/watch?v=KHdU...

Today is my birthday (turning 29), which is the only time all year that I ask for a repost 🌿 I hope you get lost in fantasy worlds as much as I do 🔮

Why billionaires are funding the far right

There is no strict Constitutional amendment against having sex with minors, being blackmailed about it, murdering the person who is blackmailing you, and then altering the videotape of the murder. So it's hard to see why some on the left are so upset with Trump right now. by Jonathan Turley

The Great Hunger is coming

My 3 year-old was reading the Times when he turned to me, gravely, and asked: "Daddy, why did the senator ask mean questions to the nice plastic surgery lady?" And when I told him "because that lady pledged to liberate LA from socialists," he started crying.

The UK gov't softened tax reforms on the super rich because of the widely reported “exodus” of millionaires fleeing the UK. Our new investigation shows that "exodus" was a complete fiction. #BogusExodus #TaxTheSuperRich taxjustice.net/press/millio...

That officer took deliberate aim at this journalist and shot her. There's nobody standing near her.

The top image: The Guardian, July 2016 The article: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... The bottom image: The Guardian, May 2025 The article: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

In case anyone’s wondering, `jacobian . bsky . social` isn’t me. Super flattered that I now rank high enough to score an impersonator tho!

NEW from me: China's CO2 emissions fell ~1.6% in the first quarter and have now been flat or down for more than a year. This is the first time on record that emissions are falling due to clean energy growth, not slow power demand.

Was looking for a remark of Wittgenstein's, about the "…" in a series not being of laziness. Thought maybe Claude'll know. Started well. Gave a quote, with a reference, that was right. Then started making stuff up. It was like reading a late-night, last-minute, undergraduate essay.

if the whole world population had emitted as per the richest 0.1% since 1990, the global temperature increase would have been 12.2C 😲

This is from The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson aired on May 20th, 1977. Carl Sagan says something very important, a strong message that didn't lose any validity since then.

40 Years ago Carl Sagan knew about Climate change and he was so aware of it's impact on Nature more than us we do right now.

Ep181: DjangoCon Europe 2025 recap is now live! We discussed highlights from attending DjangoCon Europe last week in Dublin, Ireland. We both gave talks and shared favorites from the official schedule, social events, and hallway track. djangochat.com/episodes/dja...

Two backpacking German teenagers who had obtained ESTA approval from DHS were detained by CBP at the Honolulu airport, strip searched, jailed overnight, and ultimately deported to Japan because immigration officials weren’t satisfied with their lodging arrangements. beatofhawaii.com/why-these-ha...

Did you know that the #Django admin can be themed?! 🤯 Here are 10 packages for the Django admin which can transform it with a Dracula theme, #Bootstrap #CSS, #Tailwind, and more! Jazz up your Django admin today! 🎷 www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2025/...

There's some tasty looking admin themes strutting their stuff over on the Django blog, thanks to @adamghill.com 🤩 www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2025/... #Django

total clarity here from @edwardluce.bsky.social www.ft.com/content/4c4b...

Obviously a good post. Getting shouted at on Mastodon ✅

I have a joke about Achilles. You’ll remember it forever.

New post: Using LLMs as the first line of support in Open Source. With a small amount of prep, we can help users to help themselves, rather than needing maintainer attention, for support requests that we could do without. noumenal.es/posts/llms-f... #OpenSource

“Nothing makes you look stronger than saying you’re definitely not going to back down on Monday, and then dramatically backing down on Wednesday"

Liz Truss tried her best but, as with so many things, if you want something done properly, you need to get the Americans to do it.

YOU WILL RESPECT MY AUTHORITY! #Tariffs www.politico.com/news/2025/04...

Imma just leave this here: "The Sahara alone could theoretically host enough solar capacity to meet global electricity demand four times over..." greenfingers.info/chinas-solar...

Did you all read @carltongibson.bsky.social latest post on "If I were starting out now..."? You should. It's full of great advice for anyone starting out a career in technology. buttondown.com/carlton/arch...

Django 5.2 has arrived! 🚀www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2025... Featuring a composite of new feature – auto-importing models in the shell. Composite primary keys. BoundField override improvements. Version 5.2 is Long Term Support (LTS) 👉️ 3 years of support, until April 2028. We hope you like it!

Yes, Jeremy Hunt did buy 7 flats and paid less stamp duty because of a Tory loophole introduced in 2011 www.theguardian.com/politics/201...

Who are tax loopholes for?

I've been following @garyseconomics.bsky.social for a while. He gets beyond the usual choice between the same policies from Red or Blue. This video is absolutely on-point. Does it track what you've seen happening in your country? www.youtube.com/watch?v=pUKa...

Quick, “trickle down” is not doing it. We need something new. “Abundance”?

The Government should not be balancing the books on the backs of the poor and disabled. On @lbc.co.uk I called for a wealth tax instead. A wealth tax of just 2% on assets over £10 million would raise £24 BILLION per year. Let's tax extreme wealth, not punish the poorest.

As a nonpartisan journalist, I report without fear or favor. Here's why I dutifully say "Gulf of America" over and over again on the air.

Taxing the rich more is difficult but it's necessary

Django Chat Podcast #178, Django and Rust Tooling with Lily Foote, is now live! Lily joins us again to talk about the new Steering Council, composite primary keys in Django 5.2, working with uv package manager, and more. djangochat.com/episodes/dja...

@djangocon.us is more than a conference; it's a community! 🎉 Relive my experience and find out how you can join us this year dev.to/veldakiara/d...

Got the route plotted from Spicy Waypoint to Spicy Waypoint for my DjangoCon Europe talk 🌶️ — A month to go, that’s almost unprecedented 🥳 #DjangoConEurope

From interview of Lee Bollinger, 1st Amendment scholar who served as dean of @UMichLaw, president of @UMich, and president of Columbia University. www.chronicle.com/article/were...

With PEP 2026 rejected, how do you remember what year a #Python version will be released? Remember that Python 3 turns everything up to 11 (slight Spinal Tap reference); take 3.N, add 11 to N, and that's the year of initial release. E.g. 3.14 is coming out in 2025 (this year): 14+11 = 25.

Astonishing! And yet ... global electricity generation from fossil fuels continues to increase every single year. It's amazing how a story of ongoing global failure to even *begin* the "energy transition" gets twisted into a narrative of "astonishing" success.