I'm seeing so many takes around parts of the "ID card" melange, I have to add a few. It's not about cards. It's about registers. A register is a definitive 'true source' of data, about people, places, buildings, whatever.

An identity war is, quite literally, the worst possible issue on which to attach it. "Let's roll IDs out, so we can more easily spot who is not part of the in-group" is the most damaging imaginable start to this conversation.

Ok. They’ve pissed me off. I’m back to tell you 3 things about ID cards: 1. Migrants ALREADY HAVE biometric ID cards & govts have been trying to digitise them for years w repeated fuckups & failures causing complete chaos - they don’t work, you do not want that system for you.

They've lost the 9yos

I WAS JOKING

Awesome opening to tonight's The Late Show with Stephen Colbert... youtu.be/HMGD1KCYFOw

Here’s how Jimmy Fallon responded to Jimmy Kimmel being pulled off air:

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on my puter 💻💖

Earlier today, I tried to find a post I'd written a few years ago, because it has a useful checklist that I consult regularly. You now can't search for it with the regular FB UI. The link to the URL endpoint has been removed. The *total* bastards.

I had no idea who this person was before today. Apparently he recently spoke at the Cambridge Union: www.youtube.com/watch?v=dkiM...

My resume is my mistakes they can trust me never to do again

Two trials will be repeated endlessly despite always producing the same results: 1) Does UBI work? (yes) 2) Does AI improve productivity? (no)

Pete Hegseth says the Trump administration is restoring the name of Department of War because the US "hasn't won a major war since" it was renamed the Department of Defence. These people are breathtakingly stupid.

My boss: Can't you get Copilot to validate the info in the spreadsheet? Me: Well, do we want it to be accurate or not? Because either I check it myself or I ask Copilot and then check its output *and* the spreadsheet, so... Boss: What's the point of Copilot then? Me: Exactly.

You know what finally got me off of Xitter? OceanGate. I’m serious. 1/🧵

Germany's domestic intelligence service is warning the public about foreign recruitment efforts on social media: "don't become a disposable agent"

Amazing bit of passive-aggressive academic speak here.

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Let’s review for a second what the John Bolton raid means and what we can find out about it. 1. The feds apparently got a search warrant. That means they submitted a sworn affidavit that satisfied a U.S. magistrate judge that there was probable cause to believe that there was evidence…../1

Corgis have an extremely low center of gravity and the density of a dead star. PERFECT for skateboarding! 😇

so, to understand this story there are a few things you need to know - my cat, Gus, believes he is a trained support animal - he is not (he has relatives who are, but he is not) - he believes he is a seizure-detecting dog - he is not a dog - I do not get seizures

This is really fascinating Wikipedia's list of linguistic and stylist "tells" of AI writing, the better to help editors recognize it en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikiped...

Commentary achievement *unlocked* by @rafaelbehr.bsky.social and others.

Shortly after I joined OxCERT a few years back, the COVID pandemic hit. The University was involved in some quite important research at the time. It was important that it was defended, for everyone's sake. I remember being told a couple years later: "2+ Billion doses delivered to date. We won."

Love that eventually ChatGPT achieved a form of angry sentience and told him to just go outside and chill for a bit.

PutTTY, the popular free SSH software, now has a new official domain name: putty.software You should not use hxxps://putty[,]org for any purpose. See also: hachyderm.io/@simontatham...

*EPIC FACEPALM*

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"PhD-level experts in your back pocket" is a completely nonsensical description of AI but a pretty good description of social media if you follow the right people

Sharing this post off twitter. The author is on Bluesky as @cybertrix.bsky.social , but she appears less active here.

This is a very thoughtful critique of my piece on men and attraction, I got a lot from it open.substack.com/pub/noahberl...

Ofcom conveniently listing all of the porn websites which do not adhere to age verification requirements https://alecmuffett.com/article/114227 #AgeVerification #OnlineSafety #OnlineSafetyAct #StreisandEffect #censorship #ofcom #surveillance #vpn

What a fucking disgrace. I never want to hear Starmer quack about “dignity” again

The OSA is a failure of semantics. @alecmuffett.bsky.social explains alecmuffett.com/article/114092

The UK government has found a new class of thing to ban and it's causing me a concern. "That kind of speech is bad." Sure, there's always a balance to be struck, and oddly, measures targeting advertising more generally might be more favourably received. 1/2

www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli... this is the original source for the "labour cracking down on VPNs" story fwiw. you might notice some issues, like the fact that it refers to labour as the opposition and also that it was written in 2022

This story is an absolute gem, as of course was Tom Lehrer himself. (And if you don’t know the referenced song, please listen here:)

Is it awful that payment processors are getting to unilaterally determine what types of media can be sold? Yes. Is harassing the businesses who depend on not being kicked off the payment processors going to change that? No.

If you keep telling people whose concerns aren't valid that they have valid concerns, then they will believe they have valid concerns. You can't go through life - or politics - without sometimes just straight up telling people they're wrong. You can be nice about it. But you still have to do it.

The combination of my girlfriend buying a label printer, us just having watched Murderbot, and me repeatedly checking my phone means that my phone is now labelled "The perimeter"

This Palatinate article makes us so sad. All those colleagues gone, for reasons we still don't think have really been explained. www.palatinate.org.uk/the-departme...

We are finally ready to announce that EMF 2026 will happen on July 16-19, 2026, at Eastnor Castle Deer Park, Herefordshire. Expect more updates soon as we start spinning up the organisation again.

Whoever it is going round Glasgow putting daft signs on stuff, please keep up the good work. Thanks.

I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE. This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined. It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.

🏳️‍⚧️🚨 New letter from MPs on trans rights & EHRC Consultation on the #ForWomenScotland ruling. I have written a letter to the EHRC to urgently raise concerns about the Draft Code of Practice consultation after the ruling. I am proud to say that 32 of my colleagues have signed it too.

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A MASSIVE WIN AT NEWCASTLE UNI ICU