I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture. They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1

Famously anti-king #satire

What happens if pregnant women stop taking Tylenol? Untreated fevers during pregnancy can cause more harm than taking paracetamol @nature.com www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Great to see you over here, @anarazel.de I missed your posts. Thanks for all the great work you've been doing on AIO the past years.

the unfortunate cost…

Everyone has their own sense of when things went completely off the rails, but my mind returns again and again to the founding of Fox News in the late 90s. Naked RW propaganda plopped itself down alongside legitimate journalism and everyone just accepted it. Everything else has followed from that.

Bizarre really doesn't cover it. Life is awesome.

The rampant data sharing fueled by online tracking has serious consequences. Privacy Badger blocks online tracking to prevent your browsing data from being used against you. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

I slipped past 3k followers somehow and although that's just a number, I can't help but wonder how many of those are bots that I've missed.

Furthest I've been N: Helsinki, Finland E: Alma-Ata, Kazakhstan W&S: Miami, U.S.

What the social commentary looks like when you're... married?

Randomly wondering to myself when searching for "King's day" will start to return July 4th instead of April 27th.

What we're running into headlong (societal destruction) and how we maybe able to stop it.

Reducing SO2 pollution saves lives! But it's really important to slash CO2 emissions, too, because "recent aerosol cuts may have contributed ~0.14C of the ~0.5C of warming the world has experienced since 2007." Important explainer from @hausfath.bsky.social www.carbonbrief.org/explainer-ho...

For my gravestone: I lived in interesting times.

Can we at least get a mandatory test for PD for politicians/government members and C suite executives out of all of this? The clown show of narcissists on full display all over the world should be a good enough incentive.

‼️ Russian Railways April 2025 Loading Update Thread Wow

Such a beautiful, deeply technical and geeky article. Beware of the many rabbit holes, though.

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So 2025 comes before 1984. Huh.

I suddenly wonder if, should earth's climate remain survivable, thousands of years from now, stories would survive about how a trojan horse became the downfall of the wealthiest and most powerful human empire ever, in a historical blink of an eye. I doubt they'll match the classics, though.

To understand why I'm on a list of "doomers", you only have to follow the person doing year round, all day "live" reporting on how our climate is changing before our eyes. (Obligatory bloodpressure warning for this account, take care of yourself.)

Who can help her out?

Lubach is weer geniaal: opgewekt deprimerend. youtu.be/GOUsXI2hmuc

Watching the real time fall of an empire and my mate dryly comments: The Netflix series about it will be longer than the actual event. He isn't wrong.

I don't believe in TA (I don't trade), but if I would, I'd be having a ball today...

Marking 2K followers. Probably still a quite few bots amongst them but I'll take it. It's a bigger audience than I ever spoke to. (And I don't have much to say.)

If US leadership won't honor NATO responsibilities anyway, isn't Europe now free to send troops to Ukraine, to fight? Russian threats are empty so let's push back harder.

On a lighter note, globalism seems dead. 🤷‍♂️

Many #researchintegrity sleuths are volunteers with little financial support for their often-daunting work to uncover #scientificfraud. One of the most prominent, Elisabeth Bik, has now provided money to change that. @elisabethbik.bsky.social @science.org www.science.org/content/arti...

Let's create a Wiki that documents all the responsible owners, managers and boards of directors of every company that is actively working to destroy democracy. Legal accountability is dead but at least we can let surviving historians know whom was responsible for the destruction of civilisation.

Fosdem is awesome again. The largest gathering of open source software developers in the world is happening in Brussels and is bigger than ever with many "first timers" joining this great community.

Een groep Nederlandse weerbedrijven heeft het KNMI aangeklaagd. Waarom? Ze vinden dat de nieuwe KNMI-app te gebruiksvriendelijk is en geen advertenties bevat. Ze vrezen dat dit hun verdienmodel onder druk zet.

I just tried this on Threads and can confirm 🙃

If you haven't seen it yet, go watch "The Six Triple Eight". Very moving and a very (currently) relevant look back at war in Europe, besides showing the racism and misogyny that probably caused Harris to lose the elections. It's on Netlfix.

By flooding Bluesky with porn, crypto/forex/engagement scam and other bots they are trying to make the platform unusable. Don't let them win. Report and block every bot that you come across. Report and block every account that posts unlabeled explicit photos and every other bad actor. For Bluesky.

Ann Telnaes deserves praise for sacrificing her job at the disgraced Washington Post in service of journalistic independence open.substack.com/pub/anntelna...

Your index includes the columns used in the WHERE clause, but are you sure that filtering happens on index entries before accessing too many table rows? dev.to/franckpachot...

Happy New Year!

The DevOpsDays Amsterdam #CfP is now open until January 31 and we're looking for workshops, 25-minute talks and ignites: talks.devopsdays.org/devopsdays-a...

So my first real post here will be short, whimsical, and to the point: Arcane is insane.

Just heard from a customer migrating 50 TB of MySQL over to Postgres planning to leverage Crunchy Bridge for Analytics. The performance they're seeing on Postgres operating on Iceberg is huge for them.