COUNCILS DON'T NEED YOU TO PROVE YOUR IDENTITY IN ORDER TO REPORT A POTHOLE. THEY DON'T EVEN NEED YOU TO *REVEAL* YOUR IDENTITY.

Oh good, It has infected the devtools now.

For the first time, parents will be able to get their 2 and 3-year-olds vaccinated against flu at local pharmacies from 1 October. Jabs are available at 751 local pharmacies across the capital. Find your local pharmacy:

Time for me to deploy my expertise from having worked with databases of individuals and their data in the public sector: whatever you might imagine will be happening behind the scenes of a digital ID card, the actual reality of that dataset is going to be an information governance nightmare.

Quite. So many Labour people on this website visibly have no idea of just how bad things have got for ethnic minorities since they came on, and how their visible indifference lands.

Man they're trying to win the clean energy race while we're dicking around with AI and an Oil/Gas resurgence that even the Oil/Gas industry doesn't want.

4/ Most cenobites are surprisingly reasonable and will leave you alone if you introduce them to a new form of pain or pleasure. Since they're all from like 1700 none of them know about rickrolls or doomscrolling yet

Fuck sake. I'm literally just writing a Word document and saving it to my hard drive. STOP ASKING ME TO USE YOUR SHITTY AI AND YOUR SHITTY CLOUD SERVICE. Why is this decades old basic task such a fucking chore now? It's broiling my shit.

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'Tylenol' is known in the civilised world as Paracetamol 2.4 million children born in Sweden between 1995 and 2019. Studied 186,000 children whose mothers were treated with paracetamol during pregnancy. news.ki.se/no-link-betw...

An update on that insane lease term where the landlord owns everything you create during the tenancy:

"Investment" in generative "A.I." is starting to look like that £50 Amazon voucher that I sent my Dad on his birthday which he sent my brother on his birthday which he sent my sister on her birthday which she sent me on my birthday. Hey, we all got £50!

this is true. it is the unlikely-sounding but real answer to why there is so much fundamentalist Christian support in the US for whatever Israel does (and especially good if what it does causes more antisemitism so more Jewish people move to Israel. they need us all there. to die.)

I was doing some software history research and stumbled on this absolutely FASCINATING letter from 1964: dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/... Some random defense contractor writes in to say "You should deliver a minimal prototype as fast as possible to get feedback and involve users at every stage of labor"

"Tyranny requires constant effort. It breaks, it leaks. Authority is brittle. Oppression is the mask of fear. Remember that." Looking forward to seeing Jimmy back on the air.

For immediate release. Thank you @jimmykimmel.com and everyone who spammed this account in all caps for 5 days with your threats to deny your children joy.

Huh maybe it is the end times and the rapture is tomorrow.

Because the movie Zardoz is on Disney+, Sean Connery is now officially a Disney Princess™.

happy new year, repent your sins, apologize to people, eat a lot

We should all have freedom of movement, to seek a better life for ourselves and our loved ones, and especially to get out of an unbearable situation. Some people vote like they're billionaires-in-waiting, but we're actually all asylum-seekers-in-waiting.

Critical part of the President's new $100,000 charge for H1-B visas: The Administration can also offer a $100,000 discount to any person, company, or industry that it wants. Replacing rules with arbitrary discretion. Want visas? You know who to call and who to flatter.

I cannot describe how bad this is for tech companies. Not the $100K fee on *new* H1Bs, but that their software engineers currently abroad can be turned back (or detained?) at the border with ZERO notice! It brings uncertainty to running a business in the US. Plus (cont’d)

Taps the sign: "Turns out technology isn’t just an amplifier of power, it’s an amplifier of values."

People need to get it in their heads that every single piece of genuinely good art made by a corporation is only good because the people who made it were talented. It doesn’t make the company “good.” Disney has a history of great works and a history of being awful. These aren’t even contradictions.

So, we're talking in our group this morning about how code quality problems can compound each other. e.g., You write some code that's difficult to understand, then you copy and paste that code 5 times. Then the duplications get changed independently and start to drift apart.

Dam been writing a book about this and she just TikToked it in 90 seconds.

It should be called the "US Tech Prosperity And UK Temporary Construction Boom Deal". Looks to me like Big Tech is investing in itself, and dumping some of the footprint on the UK.

It's almost like you don't need the LLM to get the benefits of that.

So small batch sizes are good for productivity :) blog.nilenso.com/blog/2025/09...

Just heard about on BBC News - The NHS is rolling out the Cera AI tool, claiming savings of £1.5m a day by predicting falls and infections before they become emergencies. Great AI success story? Worth noting: almost certainly "classic" ML/predictive analytics on vitals data - not LLMs/GenAi

“We are not working on building an AI agent. We are working to protect Signal from the invasion of AI agents that threaten privacy and that are being implemented in irresponsible ways”

The hypocrisy! You might say. Well, hypocrisy is a show of strength in such cases. The audacity of it is about what they can and can’t do.

TIL: The Tyranny of Structurelessness (infamous essay) "Contrary to what we would like to believe, there is no such thing as a structureless group. Any group of people of whatever nature that comes together for any length of time for any purpose will inevitably structure itself in some fashion."

Seeing posts from managers complaining their devs have given up on "A.I." coding assistants. "They must be using it wrong. Do they need training?" At some point, we may have to admit there's no way to get a tune out of a ham sandwich. And it's not because we haven't had ham sandwich training.

My .NET Bluesky library is finally 1.0.0 (If I wait to figure out CAR decoded for the firehose it'd be weeks away, so sod it) github.com/blowdart/idu...

Disney learned nothing from Andor.

I’m old enough to remember when a lot of people on social media told me that Vance’s remarks in Munich about free speech were to be taken very seriously.

New version of Vogen with three great contributions from the community! github.com/SteveDunn/Vo... #dotnet #.net #csharp #ddd #primitiveobsession #cavey

Coates just doesn't miss. He doesn't. www.vanityfair.com/news/story/c...

Sometimes it's nice to remember that even Marcus Aurelius was like "you don't have to comment on everything bro"

I was about to get back into TikTok since it's not getting banned after all, but it sounds like the plan is to make a US version which would be owned by Oracle and a16z. I think there is a good chance Larry Ellison and Marc Andreessen can succeed at building a platform worse than Twitter & Threads.

For years, I've tried to tell y'all what cops know, and what criminal justice reformers know, about how murders really get solved. Look at how massive the manhunt for both Luigi Mangioni and Tyler Robinson were. Then look at how they were actually caught. 🤷🏿‍♂️ Two phone calls.

New monorail could boost Uk economy by 10% in 5 years says guy who sells monorails. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

.NET STS releases are now supported for 2 years instead of 18 months starting with .NET 9 (the current STS). STS releases now go out-of-support on the same day as the previous LTS release. Upgrading to an STS release will no longer cause you to lose support! devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet/dotne...

What Robert Redford contributed to American films via Sundance is genuinely immeasurable. He was also an extraordinarily talented director--Ordinary People and Quiz Show are two of the best American studio movies of their eras--and an actor who somehow wore his incredible charisma almost shyly. RIP.

Just finished "Living Next-Door to the God of Love" (J Robson) and not sure what to make of it, except 1) yes there is a great novel in there somewhere and 2) damn, that needed a review and copy editor to make it make sense.

Good. Take that nonsense somewhere else. If anyone wants it, it's their problem.

[me, a journalist who spends all day every day on a social media app where the discovery algorithm is personally controlled by its owner, captain birdseye] you know, a lot of people are talking about fish fingers, we should probably cover that

The golden rule of Bluesky

Most people think vowel heavy words are the best to start with on Wordle, but actually consonant heavy words have the best outcomes. So say adieu to ADIEU and hello to PSYCH.