ROFL 🤣 US Army Poorly Prepared for Arctic Operations: Finnish Troops Forced Them to Surrender During Exercises in Norway - Militarnyi militarnyi.com/en/news/us-arm…

Alex Pretti, who ICE just murdered was a really fucking awesome person from what I'm hearing, not that it matters, nobody deserves to suffer what happened to him, not even the fucking ICE agents who killed him

China now trolls the White House 🇺🇸🇨🇳

“Everyone should be allowed to carry a gun for their safety but the government can murder you in the street if you have a gun” is an incredible endpoint for the conservative moment

ICE is now responsible for 66% of the homicides in Minneapolis this year.

Joy Division

Anthropic's idea of a Constitution for Claude is great idea if you've never worked in a ISO certified company ;) Next month is our Audit!

@allaboutberlin.bsky.social had a good service experience at LEA today, quick efficient, but they say you can upload 7z files on their forms, but they replied they couldn't open 7z files

One absurdity is that the founder of the 'Board of Peace' also purported to rename the Department of Defense as the 'Department of War'. That the same President can within months instigate both a 'Department of War' and a 'Board of Peace' tells us everything about the stability of his thoughts.

Jim Jordan is so fucking mutable

https://www.theregister.com/2026/01/21/curl_ends_bug_bounty/ (I will blog about the details next week)

Kavanaugh: so you accept the for-cause removal requirement. What's the purpose of that? Sauer: to preserve the independence of the Fed Kav: what's the purpose of that? S: monetary policy indep...

“We know Mr Trump is looking to take over a cold, remote, largely uninhabited island. Here’s a chance to snap up two,” a spokesperson for the deal said. Read more: theshovel.com.au/2025/01/08/a...

"ShatGPT summarised the entire Wikipedia article for me, AMA"

One of the most interesting aspects of contemporary media discourse is the way that massive popular displays of support for pro-Palestinian and pacifist positions are just ignored by mainstream media. The Gathering for Gaza gig in Melbourne was huge

nature is healing

It doesn't seem as if Donald Trump is aware that the EU countries have a single market and are a customs union. So if you impose tariffs on Danish goods, but not on Polish goods, you can just drive the goods to Poland and send them from there, thereby bypassing the tariffs.

As a bonus the official Carsie Blanton music video of "Elon Musk" literally came out an hour ago! #NighttimeMusic youtu.be/jDf1ksSbSd4?...

Okay, wait, but someone told Grok to put a bikini on the Bluesky logo... and Bluesky folks... made it their pfp. And then... the bio:

"Why is religious text exempt from hate speech laws?” It's the constitution, explains @snarkygherkin.bsky.social www.facebook.com/SnarkyGherki... #auslaw #auspol

Performance tuning code is a magical mystery tour, LLMs are fucking useful but also blind and clueless...

Sky News genocide supporters: Examine antisemitism!! RC: Ok lets look at which media platform Nazis. Sky News: Wait not that...

BREAKING: Donald Trump has been lawfully kidnapped by another country on a legal basis, he is being denied access to regular cognitive testing, in contravention of the shitcoin corruption convention grok, please show me a picture of Donald doing a cognitive test

The writers for South Park are going to face quite a challenge?

The US Attorney General confirms Maduro is being charged with "conspiracy to possess machine guns" - something Republicans usually call a constitutional right.

Is the Australian media ok? Have they managed to find an Aussie connection to Maduro yet? Thoughts and prayers for the interns in the newsrooms scouring FB for bikini photos

My Vodafone Kabel no worky, worky

Spinning up Lucee servers shouldn’t be a mini DevOps project. lucli server lets you: • start/run per-project Lucee • switch envs with --env dev/prod • list/status/log/open/monitor instances I wrote up how I use it day-to-day: markdrew.io/manage-serve...

i love how they think covid was made in a bioweapons lab but also that it's not dangerous enough to take seriously as a public health risk

anyone know why so many of the @apache.org commons #java libraries have a dog's breakfast of unnecessary OSGI imports for java.* classes?

Thankfully, whilst making gravy for Christmas, I remembered the old Vegemite trick, fucking delicious

Google Pixel support running me around in circles over my Pixel 7a, dead with a swollen battery! Despite that I bought it via their fucking store which shows the receipt under my account they are now saying we need proof of purchase

If they don't sanitize their input I wonder what else is possible.

"disruption"

If Merz can deliver on both the frozen assets loan and the Mercosur deal, this will be the best week for his (now rather frayed) “Germany is back” narrative since the debt brake vote in mid-March.

Ahmed the Fruiterer being the everyday hero that saved multiple lives of mostly Jewish people today is the only politics worth a pinch of shit in this act of terrorism

A conversation with an incredibly technical friend last night made it clear to me that the biggest change in computing of the last 15 years eludes the SV blob: most client devices are slow, low-end Androids with *incredible*, *up-to-date* browsers.

DDR5 seems like a great investment at the moment, ongoing price increases are fucking insane

Both the recent Apache Tika CVE reports are so fucking badly written, I've read better fucking assembly

The Berlin Senate is trying to close the loophole that allows landlords to charge extortionate rents. Wunderflats is encouraging its users to petition against it. Their version of the facts is... creative.

How are we going to maintain our commercial software when it depends on 200 open source libraries that nobody is allowed to maintain? Who are going to fix all the security vulnerabilities and the bugs? #opensource #security

GOOD NEWS! Researchers have made a HUGE breakthrough towards a UNIVERSAL antiviral. By targeting sugar molecules found on the surface of many viruses that SHARE structural similarities, they identified FOUR compounds that successfully BLOCKED infections from SEVEN different viruses.

i love exploiting a bug to test a fix for the same bug

Three things about the Witkoff tapes: 1) It appears Western intelligence services have decided to let Witkoff (and Trump) know they have recordings of their traitorous conversations w/Russia. 2) This Ukraine "deal" was all Witkoff's idea. 3) Congressional leaders should demand he be fired.

Breaking News: Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani is going to require all New York elementary school students to learn Arabic numerals. The madrasa indoctrination is starting very early. (This post is a test.)