every time i see a white guy in their fifties radicalized by the twitter algorithm into racism and extremism i think about how it's a total failure of the youtube algorithm to instead radicalize him into home brewing, elaborate A/V setups, or DIY solar

I think I might take one of these "under 20 minutes" AI skills courses the UK Govt. seems very keen on everyone doing and live-post it here... Maybe we can all learn something together! The press release sends me to aiskillshub.org.uk/aiskillsboost/ - let's go and see!

Following coverage over the weekend of Sir Paul Nurse's comments that suggested that the only reason that a Fellow should be expelled from @royalsociety.org is scientific misconduct, I have written to him to explain the risks such an attitude poses of increasing sexual harassment in STEM.

🧵 Ok, off-topic #adhd rant, because I'm angry, and in particular, I'm angry at companies that take advantage of people who are desperate for help. In this case, some crap called Liven, but I've seen many more. Now, I have #adhd. It's not a superpower; on balance, it sucks.

The era of "platforms are neutral" is long behind us (or rather it was never really true, but now it's much more obvious). If you're active on X, it may be worth asking yourself if you're just chasing a dopamine hit that evaporated several years ago.

I call on my party and my government to remove themselves entirely from X and communicate with the public where they actually participate online and can be protected from such illegality.

I understand the pressures on the BBC, but Radio 4's coverage of the Minneapolis shooting is an example of "bad balance". It's all "the Trump regime says she was a terrorist, but Democrats say it was murder". The BBC has the footage. It doesn't have to treat truth and falsehood as equally valid.

Grok is awful; it's the very worst example of what running AI without any guardrails and concern for harm looks like. But let's not forget that it's people - and let's be clear here, those people are men - who are telling Grok to make those images.

🗣️ LET’S MAKE CURIOSITY COOL IN 2026

The Telegraph here advocating an surprisingly aggressive response to unwanted Christmas gifts.

Having spent some time looking at the state of #rustlang UI libraries and frameworks, I've decided to see how much of a TUI modular synth it's possible to make. Seeing as ideally most interactions should be through hardware control surfaces...

Do you think we could combine Musk's ludicrous Mars ship obsession with the self-obsessed narcissism of the ultra-rich tech bros to convince them of some kind of B-Ark scenario? Like, we're all coming, but make sure there's ubiquitous GenAI, and everything's financialized before we get there?

Kind of a fun milestone today - the first basic implementation of a DCB sample on Eventrica code! See github.com/eventrica/ev... for the details, but... well, it's pretty cool. It already feels like a nice way to implement relatively complex event-driven logic.

Introduce yourself with five concerts you've seen: The Prodigy Orbital Moderat Jon Hopkins Squarepusher

RC 1 is out! I forgot to post about RC 0, but here we are. At this point API and disk format are unlikely to further change - now it's all about stabilization for the final release... crates.io/crates/fjall...

So majority of positive responses to Labour proposals on asylum seekers coming from Tories, Reform, and likes of Tommy Robinson. Majority of horror from rest of Labour and everyone else. If you were a Labour minister, shouldn't that make you stop and think? To doubt, to question? Shameful.

Number of refugees per 1,000 people: 🇱🇧 Lebanon: 137 🇩🇪 Germany: 31 🇸🇪 Sweden: 23 🇧🇪 Belgium: 14 🇳🇱 Netherlands: 13 🇬🇧 UK: 6.5 We are not a "generous country". There is no crisis, other than a bankrupt political elite scapegoating the most vulnerable people on Earth.

This is as bad as anything proposed by Reform. Leaving refugees in permanent limbo and unable to build a new life in the UK would be a complete abdication of our humanitarian responsibilities www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

What does AI even mean in this context?! www.theguardian.com/education/20... It's never clearly explained, it sounds like there's some kind of formula - why would AI even be theoretically helpful here? Uncritical slop reporting of uncritical slop usage - complete absence of journalism. Come on!

10/10 take. No notes.

Let’s take a look at the whole “there are too many black people on TV” thing, shall we? After Pochin claimed Black people in TV adverts “made her mad”, all her supporters tried to use 👇🏼 as their excuse for why she was somehow justified in her overt racism. Spoiler - she isn’t! 🤨 🧵 1/22

Bizarrely, I've never really touched Python, and have no meaningful connection to it, but nevertheless - hats off to them for showing how to stand up and put principles first. Always good (if all too rare) to see a tech community with a decent moral core.

like whatever your position is on AI, you would be disingenuous to deny that it was almost completely supply-driven

The thing to understand about fascism is that most people you know will be bought off. Bought with promises of peace and stability, bought with business opportunities or paid with actual cash. Most people aren't going to resist. Get used to it and get used to operating in that environment.

Define your musical taste in eight artists Moderat Radiohead Jon Hopkins Massive Attack Bicep David Devant and His Spirit Wife Orbital The Prodigy

Treating the far right moment in the UK as a manifestation of displaced economic concerns or social media radicalisation - these are signs of a country that still refuses to fully come to terms with the history, depth and breadth of its ongoing racism problem.

Do not interact. Do not contribute. This is not Twitter. We do not get baited here, we block here. You hated Twitter, so stop trying to recreate it. Block here are nuclear. Take advantage and subscribe to this list blocking all government accounts in one go. bsky.app/profile/eva....

I'm excited to share what I've been working on with @erikjee.bsky.social: RustNL's #rustlang Maintainers Fund! Many people and companies contributing to Rust, but there are fewer and fewer paid positions for general maintenance (reviews,cleanups,etc). We need to fix that. bsky.app/profile/rust...

That this is being done by in effect saying, no, no, all these years the Equality Act 2010 was actually a trans bathroom ban is such a fucking farce. If ghouls in the Labour party want to do this, they should have the courage to bring it to parliament rather hiding behind the SC and a bs quango.

Today has been quite productive on eventric-core, one of the fundamental parts of Eventrica. Really must do an in-depth thread about the ideas behind it...

🧵 So, Discord breach... The most surprising thing here is that anyone is surprised anymore.

This does sound like a cracking read, if (as seems likely, given the balance of probability) a free copy doesn't migrate to my doorstep, it'll have to go on the increasingly bankruptcy-inducing books-to-be-bought list.

I'm giving away this signed 1st edition h/b of my new novel (it has a tiny jacket rip which means I wouldn't sell it) to one person who reposts this. You might like it if you like: Folkloric creatures Old records Intricate psychedelic stories The idea of circular time All shares much-appreciated.

What would a social network look like in an ideal world? I'm not entirely sure it's this... I dashed off some quick thoughts while they were still in my mind, I'll come back and refine further later, perhaps... blog.xyncro.com/bluesky-thin...

Half-baked tales of rulings turning on chicken nuggets are no basis for cutting Britain adrift. My Times piece on the Tories’ policy of leaving the ECHR based on spurious claims. www.thetimes.com/comment/colu...

The Times finds it "unacceptable" that people who came here legally in 2021 and have been living and working here since should allowed to stay. The sad decline of a once great newspaper into ignorant xenophobia and casual racism archive.ph/TFZY9

Stress-Free Eric Adams Spends Day Bribing Pigeons In Central Park

So Keir Starmer is going to say that Growth is the answer eh? Well, I'm glad they've learned the lesson about promises they can't keep and targets they don't know how to influence. If only somebody had thought of growth before! Bet all those politicians aiming for stagnation feel pretty silly now.

Is there a reason I ask that the Times are using a picture of asylum seekers in a boat to describe rules for migrants who came on legal routes such as skilled worker visas for doctors?

So exhausting..

Fascinating take from Rachel Reeves that you can support racist policies without being racist. With all due respect, no, you can't. As Tutu said about oppression, choosing neutrality puts you on the side of the oppressor. That was neutrality; you shouldn't need to question actual support.

Bless those who think the Home Office can successfully carry out a huge IT procurement exercise for digital ID cards for implementation before the next general election.

1/ Whatever you think of digital ID, the process matters. And in 2025, this is still how we make big public policy. 👇

Reminded of this in a broader sense today, looking at various politicians' responses to the latest Reform proposals for what would be effectively racial purges. Stop condemning this stuff because it's not economically or legally viable and start condemning it because it's monstrous and fascistic.

You know why ethnic minorities in the UK always feel second-class as if they're never safe in this country and could be asked to leave at any time? This is why:

Well, that’s a bit awkward… #crowdstrike

Oh look, a hand-wringing article in the Guardian decrying the (increasing) abuse of gender non-conforming women in public toilets. They're going to be really mad when they find out about all the transphobic articles platformed in the... <checks notes> ...Guardian? Ah.

Intelligence and discernment are not the same thing

Trans people have been around your whole life. You’ve been sharing bathrooms with them your whole life. They’ve been in your communities your whole life. They’ve even been playing sport your whole life. And you didn’t care *at all* till a few years ago when every right wing org decided you should