Niet eens een beetje geruststellend. Hoe hebben we ooit goed kunnen vinden dat zulke kritieke overheidsdiensten afhankelijk zijn geworden van private equity? Totaal onverantwoordelijk.

Michael, do you reject Satan? “I do.” And his cookies? “I do.” And his 924 partners? “I do reject them.”

Learned that an anonymous outside expert on submersibles did an interview with the OceanGate Titan investigation, and they released a transcript, with all the names redacted. The first line of his first answer? "I'm sure you're familiar with my film Titanic."

I have a lot of opinions about AI that I rarely see voiced (especially here on Bluesky) and, well, Bert Hubert kind of hits them all. And more thought provoking stuff

To implement robust mitigations across Geomys, I did a survey of open source project compromises in 2024/2025. Three root causes dominate: phishing, control handoff, and unsafe GitHub Actions triggers. All three can be systematically avoided. words.filippo.io/compromise-s...

Spooks on the BBC: “We have to climb onto the roof, through a skylight and plug this thumb drive into the Chinese server.” Spooks on Chinese TV: “We’ve just bought the British data centre. Job done.”

There's really only two file formats

"I wouldn't treat sovereignty as a long-term strategy, that's a mistake. There are things we can do every day." — @marietjeschaake.bsky.social

BREAKING: The mitochondria have released a statement they are ending their long running symbiotic relationship with humans, citing "increasingly poor use of the energy we provide".

There's an old quote supposedly by the founder of Honda: "When Congress passes new emissions standards, we hire 50 more engineers and GM hires 50 more lawyers." Sounds like the Euro automakers do the same bullshit, and sounds like more or less the same result

Thinking today of the Headless Horseman, who must be so frustrated by people dwelling on what he lacks at the expense of all the many things he has.

this is… i… i think sarah’s article has genuinely unlocked all of 2025

Sometimes there's so much beauty in the world,... I feel like I can't take it. And my heart is just going to cave in.

this is correct. and while you would get a nontrivial one off sum from a billionaire tax (not enough for a welfare state, but a lot), the ongoing point of that tax would be prevent billionaires from existing

Depressing subject but very cool thread

“I’m strong and I want to have like fifty kids and a farm” of course you do. You’re twelve. “I don’t want to eat vegetables I think steak and French fries is the only meal” hell yeah homie you’re twelve. “Maybe if there’s crime we should just send the army” bless your heart my twelve year old buddy

working on a new unified theory of american reality i'm calling "everyone is twelve now"

We are alarmed by reports that Germany is on the verge of a catastrophic about-face, reversing its longstanding and principled opposition to the EU’s Chat Control proposal which, if passed, could spell the end of the right to privacy in Europe. signal.org/blog/pdfs/ge...

There are warlords with like six guys and a Hilux who’ve more successfully resisted the United States trying to meddle in their shit

Big tech CEOs have spent more than a decade puffing their chests and saying that they are more like heads of state running global companies with bigger revenues than many countries … but now they’re all folding to actual government pressure faster than any tinpot dictator has ever folded

I grew up in a very religious family, but my dad was killed in a car accident the summer before college. It shook me strongly. That was when I first began questioning, and eventually abandoning, my previously unwavering belief in the existence of my dad.

THE MEME IS REAL

[at my second rodeo] listen up you ignorant sack of shit

YES! Gene therapy in the brain www.bbc.com/news/article...

this is the intellectual conservative two-step: pretend that because they are raising an issue where people of good faith with broadly shared principles could disagree, that we have to pretend the actually existing conservative movement consists of those people. no. we don't.

wrote a bit about how proof engineering feels different from software engineering to me news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4527... i am definitely still in my honeymoon period but i found it helpful to write down

nothing says "we care about your privacy" more than sharing your data with 222 partners

I wrote about Jeffrey Epstein’s birthday book. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

".. it is accordingly not proportionate to the legitimate aims pursued". Yet we continue to try just that for #ChatControl though. For shame. hudoc.echr.coe.int/eng?i=001-23...

As #ChatControl festers, the European Court of Human Rights previously ruled against RUSSIA: "The Court concludes that the [] obligation to decrypt end-to-end encrypted communications risks amounting to a requirement that providers of such services weaken the encryption mechanism for all users" 1/2

can’t wait till they’ve built a bunch of camps on military bases, i wonder who they’ll fill em with and what will happen to them. too bad there’s no historical reference for any of this we could look to for guidance!

From an Atlantic editor. I cannot get over how the entire centrist hivemind is attempting to wish into existence a person, and a movement, that does not exist. You are journalists, you are supposed to describe things as they are, not how you want them to be!

@jakerockatansky.bsky.social and the other QAA podcast hosts did an episode on the politics of Helldivers 2 18 months ago. What looks like a random topic to cover ends up being a prescient warning of trouble brewing. Bizarre meme culture claims another shooter www.patreon.com/posts/101397...

I was expecting the Reichstag Fire parallel to be made, but I did not expect it to come from the right.

“awful people don’t deserve to be killed, but they don’t deserve to be praised, either” is apparently a thought too complex for the pundit mind

I guess this has probably already gone viral somewhere but I am simply dying at this picture of a bear that looks like it hired a photographer to do a glamour shoot

in terms of words with disappointing definitions, dogmatic has got to be up there

why would people who witnessed the horrors of the second world war want to avoid future wars? ahhh I get it now, because of woke

one thing that blew my mind about working in Lean (and is still blowing my mind) is that “variables” (really, let bindings) and “function calls” are all infinitely unfoldable. i can just replace each variable with its definition, each function with its body, any no of levels deep, during a proof.

Hard agree! sootyempiric.blogspot.com/2025/07/comp...

I think about the tweet like “being a billionaire where everyone you meet agrees with you must be the cognitive equivalent of getting kicked by a horse every day” and how we have now democratized that experience for everyone, including actual billionaires, in the form of uber-sycophantic chatbots.

It’s so weird that people latched onto a bunch of mostly bullshit justifications for disliking a technology that has immediate obvious negative societal externalities. It’s made it way harder to teach writing but people scream about imaginary lakes evaporating.

Was trying to find this to confirm it’s real. Turns out it’s from Threads and dril is killing it over there

> to date (despite many attempts) nobody has demonstrated a convincing and effective way of distinguishing between the two This nudged me to finally write a post I've been noodling for years on the intractability of the problem, based on lessons from my favorite book. matthodges.com/posts/2025-0...

They say the road to hell is paved with good intentions. I was honestly expecting something a little scarier