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Horrifying

look, I’ve been operating on the assumption that we cannot reach Bush 2 numbers because the media environment makes the floor much higher than it was back then (and Fox won’t throw him overboard the same way) but, uh, we aren’t through year one and…

This won’t last long, and GovHK is gonna crack down on the very young doing it

There were rumors that a Filipino domestic helper was found dead in the fire while still holding the family's baby in her arms protecting him. News have reported that she actually survived, but currently in the ICU in critical condition Her name is Rhodora Alcaraz. Hope she pulls thru 🙏

哀怨夾雜了幾日，唔知點舒緩

Images from the Tai Po fire earlier this morning from reporter Gigi Ho-wing chi for Hong Kong’s oldest student newspaper, The Young Reporter

Kinnock voice - "I’ll tell you what happens with impossible promises. You start with far-fetched resolutions....and you end up in the grotesque chaos of a Labour government, a *Labour* government, rejecting visas for homeless 8 yr olds trying to joing their parents"

I have also spoken to a journalist that lives in the neighborhood and he has confirmed that the government "care teams" have started taking over relief centers, kicking out volunteers and taking over supplies donated by the general public.

ReNews: Tai Po Wang Fuk Estate Fire fatalities now at 128 confirmed dead, around 200 remain missing. Of the dead, 89 are unidentified. 16 bodies remain inside the buildings awaiting recovery. Authorities believe more bodies will be recovered in the coming days.

We have eyes. The netting burned like paper How did the govt even determine the netting is up to spec? Did they test it in a lab? Or just go with the mainland certification from the contractor/supplier? We literally just had a bottled water scandal that had to do with forged docs

1/ A grassroots relief effort has sprung to life across Tai Po, and online, as Hongkongers rally to volunteer, offer food, shelter and clothing to the victims of the Tai Po fire tragedy. Read the full story on HKFP: buff.ly/Dv8hIz6

How you can help

AYFKM Read more: abcnews.link/zDQe0jq

Maybe western media should also cover deeper structural issues like bid rigging www.threads.com/@danie.wo.1/...

Seeing a lot of ppl in Britain comparing the HK fire to Grenfell while saying "but the difference is arrests were immediately made in HK" I'd just say our govt is rarely this responsive either, and we shouldn't rule out that they're trying to divert attention from govt corruption and dept failures

Demonstration of fireproof mesh netting. Even under high temperature blue flame, the netting just melts and doesn't catch fire www.threads.com/@kyle2708/po...

According to this Wang Fuk Court resident, the fire alarms didn't sound even if you break the glass bcuz the wires were cut, fire hoses had no water bcuz the renovation project shut the water off (Pls note that this is still anecdotal information) www.threads.com/@mmiinngg_ss...

We are now further away from the theatrical release of Raiders of the Lost Ark (June 12, 1981) than it was from the year it takes place in (1936). We have reached the Indiana Jones event horizon.

A handful of large construction fires in the last 2 yrs (which happened very rarely before) and the recent bottled water scandal, curiously all happened after opposition parties were decimated and entirely driven out of Legco and District Council. An opposition party questioned the project before

if you feel down on yourself because you don't think the work you've done is good enough, remember that half ass is better than no ass

My super modern regulatory plan is that any entity named for a thing from Tolkien has to publicly explain why Tolkien wouldn’t immediately throw it into Mount Doom

(November 28 06:45) • Death toll is at least 94, with 78 injuries (12 critical, 16 serious, 22 discharged) • Search-and-rescue operations for all 7 buildings of Wang Fuk Court expected to be completed by 9am news.rthk.hk/rthk/ch/comp...

Looking for past Garfield Macy's balloons. Found a new reaction image

I have ash in my hair, I have ash on my clothes, I just had dinner 30 minutes ago and I'm tired. I'm going to bed. Hopefully the fire is extinguished tomorrow. Have a final picture of some flowers left behind in the memory of the lives lost in the Tai Po fire.

Painting of Tai Po's Tolo Harbor from last time I was back. With all my heart I wish for peace and justice to the victims of the fire. My hometown and my people ❤️

Checked my Letterboxd. Most recently for me would be The Boy And The Heron

What in the everloving fuck

Absolute miserable person who keeps leaving mean comments to other ppl's selfies 1/3

That seems to me AI coding just shifts the labor from coding to reviewing

Yes; the lesson is to understand the project culture and available resources before dumping code on it.

At the end of the day, there are some folks who are unwilling to plan or discuss or negotiate about HOW the code they write will work. They view the code working - or seeming to work - as sufficient to prove that it should be acceptable. This was true before AI, AI just makes it worse

TL;DR for the nerds: AI dork submit PR to OCAML project with entirely LLM generated code, assuming it all works bcuz it passed his also LLM generated tests, and acting extremely entitled. Maintainers are predictably like "hell the fuck no" (but politely)

Seen on Reddit: "42 is just old people 6 7" And... well... yeah. Can't really argue.

Unbelievably tone-deaf Government-funded "Care Team" having photo-ops in front of boxes of supplies while actual volunteers doing all the work sorting supplies just a stone's throw away Source: www.threads.com/@annoygrass/...

Update on HK fire: ICAC has formed a special taskforce to investigate 宏福苑五級火｜廉署成立專案小組‎ 就大維修工程或涉貪污全面調查 www.hk01.com/article/6029... 🔥最強香港即時新聞🔥 立刻下載：https://hk01.app.link/hknews

Ming Pao newspaper reports that the fatalities from the Tai Po fire now stand at 83.

my brain woke me up this morning with this: JENNA MARONEY: Liz, I need some time off. I'll be playing the title role in the long-awaited direct-to-Peacock followup to 'The Rural Juror.' It's called "The Lizza-Nuzzi Nookie Tizzy."

Reflexively blaming bamboo with no evidence and no effort to address regulatory failures is journalist malpractice but it doesn’t stop there. Portraying living in a high-rises as a poor-people-thing, not a choice people gladly make, is the most condescending West-brained thing I’ve read in a while.

Grenfell had steel scaffoldings. It burned similarly. The bamboo scaffoldings at Wang Fuk Court are still standing. Bamboo can burn obviously, but it clearly didn't fuel the fire here I'm not even opposed to phasing out bamboo scaffoldings, but finding out the real cause is important here

Lol

Ddlm 乜L嘢喺脚手架

Western media fearmongering about bamboo scaffoldings as unsafe and outdated while most of their SFHs and low-rise buildings are entirely made of wood

Happy Thanksgiving, America

What in the everloving fuck

Another update on the HK fire: HK govt has announced that it'll immediately deliver $10000 HKD (about $1285 USD) financial assistance to every affected family. HK govt has also set up a support fund and accepting donations. Acct #: 01287521901597 Bank of China HK

News story regarding the property's insurance policy (Chinese only)

Some updates on the HK fire: Now 75 reported dead It's been reported that the Owners' Corporation (like HOA in US) has an all-risks property insurance policy for up to $2b HKD. But it needs to cover the cost of renovation, repairs, property claims from residents, and life/injury claims

This 2024 post from the DAB’s Peggy Wong is quickly becoming infamous. In it, the pro-Beijing district councillor dismisses fire safety concerns about the Wang Fuk work as malicious rumours misleading the public, and accuses the Democratic Party of “provocatively live-streaming “ from the scene.