you have to treat people like this with the same seriousness as you would a guy screaming at you about the lizard people on the street; they have a similar relationship with reality.

BREAKING: Britain’s High Court rules that the government’s decision to outlawed the protest group Palestine Action as a terrorist organization was unlawful.

I increasing believe that in these early days of agentic coding frenzy, the highest impact thing you can build is tooling around testing, lightweight formal methods, or fuzzing: anything that makes verification easier. Seriously, there's never been a better time to learn stateful property testing.

pure elite capture - the uk just folded to a hardline anti-trans campaign pushed by a tiny number of people www.thepinknews.com/2026/02/11/n...

at long last we have created p-zombies, from the classic philosophical thought experiment "the existence of p-zombies is morally neutral"

Pretty much the most important thing happening in the world right now. www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-chi...

Welp learned the hard way that condensed milk and evaporated milk are not basically the same thing

At long last, we have created the Luftballons from classic pop song 99 Luftballons!

I had to rethink a lot of priors during the 6 months last year when LLMs went from “can’t add” to “can’t do undergrad hw math” to “can’t find group isomorphisms it takes me an hour to do by hand” to “Can’t reinvent obscure parts of my thesis from scratch reliably given only a vague description”

at long last, we have created the wallet inspector, from the classic financial crimes paper don’t create the wallet inspector

Some of you got exactly what you wanted and you think we're stupid enough to believe you're sad about it

If in the 1800s a few of the railroads made hyperbolic claims about steam powered robots being around the corner, you would *still* be badly wrong to dismiss locomotives as a nonsense tech that would go nowehere. Your life is *going* to change due to this shit. I didn’t say ‘always for the better’

this may be the most English man ever to exist.

I continue to think it’s very funny to put anarchists in the same set as Maoists and MLs. They very famously had a falling out, like 150 years ago! Just nonsensical vibes

anyway the consultation shuts tomorrow, one minute to midnight UK time: www.gov.uk/government/c... Amnesty have some good guidance here. Go on: media.amnesty.org.uk/documents/Am...

the whole thing is of course completely revolting. 20 YEARS to settlement for refugees? no settlement if you’ve ever had a criminal conviction or a tax debt? 10 YEARS added if you’ve ever received benefits? partners and children on their own routes to settlement? What are you even TALKING about

Square Enix's is streaming Xenogears-music on youtube all day today - and while I certainly wouldn't mind the announcment of a rerelease for current systems, this is also rather nice. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ATLZ...

Regional differences are so interesting

coding assistance lets you fast-track important projects that improve your life, such as reformatting every single site you read into the old vbulletin 3.x default template

“Suspected political message” is so funny We didn’t understand it and we don’t think we’d like it if we could

Just occurred to me that if Charles had happened to have died young, Britain would be a republic right now

“Slop” is sometimes too unkind for this but sometimes not: we funded a surprising amount of art with industrial voiceovers, translations of corporate marketing, newspaper ads, those stories before recipes. It was load bearing. This has been captured by big corps for decades but AI accelerates it.

good of example of the way that Gen Ai harms art is not through really replacing capital a Art but by replacing human slop with robo slop, and the dirty secret is that slop pays the bills and subsidizes actually good art.

anyways. someone said that bay area cnl is basically the neolib version of psl, and i think that's right. these kinds of self-marginalizing actions are, in many ways, deliberate: they alienate outsiders, but in precisely that same moment they solidify the in-group's solidarity. that's the point

Ice basketball. Played on skates and the ball is extra bouncy

I'm sorry the guy changing the rules on the fly is named what

Well this should tank him, shouldn’t it

On Feb 7 2020, Dr Li Wenliang, known as one of the first whistleblowers on COVID, died from the disease in Wuhan.

why won't hakeem jeffries firebomb a walmart, says keyboard warrior who also won't firebomb a walmart

the whole Luigi thing has definitely made me go "oh so that's how charles manson got all those marriage proposals in prison"

Mexican-American RGV CBP officers who are particularly psychotic and inhumane make more sense if you consider them as modern Border Reivers

I’m not really an opsec guy but leaving your Strava public is about the same level of caution as leaving your Venmo public

Guy wants to take a large European state and turns it into a continent-spanning empire, with the other countries subservient at best? And invades Russia, disastrously? Yeah that’s napoleon

How will I find out what state Belgium is closest in area to (Maryland)

Heroes come in many forms and this is one of them

He’s just describing The American Dream but you’re supposed to hate it for some reason

We gotta give blanket amnesty 350k people lose status is just not a thing that should be possible

I just saw a grouse from the train! Think that’s a first for me. It’s good to get out of the city now and then.

AI coding agents can be used to improve mastery as well. It requires extra work to ask follow up questions and dig deeper into topics. Story is always the same: learning is about the work you put in.

A quick reminder of what #BigFebruary is about… Thanks to the magic of the cosmos, we start gaining daylight much faster in Feb than in Jan. Over 20 mins a week - setting us up for Spring. This chart is by @neilrkaye.bsky.social and is one of my all time favourites.

This afternoon saw a kid with a hat like Liam Ramos’s and almost did a hard reset, barely avoided weeping Very happy to hear he’s been ordered to be released but he and his father never should’ve been taken.

father of the year

Leetcode is insidious because it feels like doing it will help me get a job, but it's absolutely not what I should be doing right now

If I may have the temerity to paraphrase Frederick Douglass, I will unite with anybody to fuck ICE and with nobody to do MAGA shit.

Pennsylvania Epic Fantasy

Reading some of the responses to Stancil and learning that people don’t know the difference between slavery and forced labor—which is still legal in the US, extremely bad, and should be outlawed—but isn’t slavery.

Stupid Facebook engagement bait revealing to me that the correct pronunciation of "Tamaqua" is apparently a non-obvious local shibboleth

9-9-6 was a Chinese term invented mostly to show how depressing and lifeless work culture was; watching softbrained AI guys adopt it as an ideal is ... well, entirely predictable

If Bilbo had Chat GPT