If anyone is interested and has the ability to report this to Wise, it looks like some scammers are trying a BEC-style fraud using a Wise-hosted bank account. Details are: Name: Harrington & Shannon Ltd Account number: 97085898 Sort code: 23-08-01 Swift/BIC: TRWIGB2LXXX

Merseyside Reform UK election candidate who called the Holocaust a "hoax" and "propaganda" has been elected in the local elections. Disgusting people www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/liverpo...

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I dont this actually surprises anyone, but it is pretty clear that the future of the "United" Kingdom isn't great. All the regions are voting for nationalist parties. Even Reform's own statements suggest they shouldn't run a Union of nations. Well done Brexit, the Tories, UKIP. You broke the UK.

Been seeing a lot of tweets about whether pleats are back. Are they "in" or "out?" Are they modern or old? Personally don't like this line of thinking, as it's driven by ready-to-wear trends, which forces you to update your wardrobe every decade. Let me give you another way to think about pleats. 🧵

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I wonder how many collective hours were spent on LOAC computer training, and now America has just decided to not follow the rules of war after all

I charged my EV last night (from 20 percent to 100 percent) and it cost me about $17. Beyond the no gas, the car just rides so beautifully. Got it in July and cannot imagine ever going back to gas car.

She was probably too young and inexperienced...💔 This newborn kitten was abandoned by her mother and left with no chance on her own. Thankfully, she's safe now and receiving the care she desperately needs.😻

Bahahaha. 😁😏 #DJT #DJ6T #FDJ6T #PantsOnFireDJ6T

I recently read an explainer on how LLMs work. It was great. It described how the probabilities of the next work were calculated. I'm pretty sure it was by a comm scholar because I remember thinking that this was impressively technical. But I can't remember who wrote it or where I read it. Help?

NYT says the damage to the hospital was likely from targeting "Network 2", a state-run news outlet. What NYT DOESN'T say is that targeting civilians, even those who happen to work for state-run TV, is a war crime. I wonder why they didn't want to print that? One can only guess... 🙄

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A party that is resolutely anti-bourgeois while being staffed and supported by the bourgeoisie is an intriguing and inevitably impossible strategy. Anyway good luck attracting those Reform voters who hate you.

The Evolution of Pen Testing: A Conversation with Tim Medin

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Unlearning: animals aren’t all evolving into crabs

Now, I am actually a fan of Qatar Airways as an airline, but their constant, misleading, promises are annoying. They constantly offer deals like this (20% off) to Privilege Club (their Frequent Flyer scheme) members. The important part is "Up To". The best saving I've ever had has been 1.2%.

Very seriously, are my standards too high? I expect people to understand they're on a global social media so are talking to people living in other countries, with different customs, accents/words, and food. I expect people to infer some basic meaning and understand if a topic is for them or not.

as a person with adult children who still speak to me, have you tried treating your kids like people rather than property?

Fixed another broken old game. Can you guess what year the newspaper was published? www.monkeon.co.uk/guessthepress/ Looking back, I probably have split this into two games and reskinned it for the music press one. Different audience.

They tell us that LLMs save time and make things easier, but my experience is the exact opposite. LLMs are making research harder.

Unarmed by-stander, Ahmed el Ahmed, a fruit shop owner challenged & took the gun from one of gunman in the Bondi Beach terrorist attack. He went to hospital after being shot in the leg & shoulder by another gunman. Doctors have told his family that he should be OK www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

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In its weird drive to win over Reform voters who will never vote Labour, the Labour party is doing it's level best to make sure Labour voters decide to never vote Labour. Honestly, I am lost for words as to what they are thinking. It feels like every major party is absolutely adrift now.

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labour.org.uk/resources/ma... You can till make a complaint about Akehurst here. Drown them in complaints.

OK - on further investigation, this looks like a dead motherboard which was just incredibly co-incident with the patch timing... Yay. Its a good job I don't need this for work....

So, it looks like the update managed to brick my pc. Sweet.

So, 54 minutes before a call, I decided to allow windows to do an update that said "approximately 7 minutes". 40 min later, PC still rebooting.... So much winning.

Labour’s shift away from “immigration is good but it needs to be managed” to “it is bad” is a gift to essentially everyone they compete with, because it means that they don’t have the right position to be able to attack *anyone*.

Welp, looks like we're teaching the LinkedIn grindset people what The Onion is the hard way.

Glad I voted for the pro-human rights and anti-racism party last election. <<read news>> OK, so I did at least vote

Laurence Turner MP just exposed Trainline for hiding cheaper ticket options AND charging booking fees. Why are passengers paying extra to a company already handing millions to its CEO? Serious question.

I need to raise €3,600 very very fast due to a complete collapse of human rights Law and one narcissist coercive control abusing lunatic. To avoid being homeless at Christmas and the loss critical evidence. I'm sorry.

How many times do we need to point this out? By appeasing the far right, you do not weaken it. You strengthen it. While weakening your own position. There's a vast amount of academic research showing this. But Labour will not listen. www.theguardian.com/law/2025/dec...

Most of us will be baffled at the stupidity: deliberately imposing personal aesthetic preferences over inclusivity & communication. But it’s a good illustration of the importance of aesthetics to the right, & of the fact that authoritarians don’t just want to impose values but also pure preferences.

Do people in the USA really think there will be free unrigged elections in 2026 and 2028?

NEW Extremism, conformity, and the problem of law How the law can (attempt to) regulate extremism, but it can really do nothing about conformism. By me emptycity.substack.com/p/extremism-...

A future. One which is BETTER than one we have now, that people can BELIEVE in. No-one believes in a better future. Either they want to escape into the past or drastically hold on to what we have. No-one really thinks that what comes next won't be horrible for most people.

The inability to have a positive vision of the future is one of the biggest tailwinds the populist Right has at its back, because then politics becomes about RETVRN, and the Right is always going to beat the Left at that game

I’ve been getting a lot of questions lately about the difference between the 𝗘𝗗𝗥 𝗧𝗲𝗹𝗲𝗺𝗲𝘁𝗿𝘆 𝗣𝗿𝗼𝗷𝗲𝗰𝘁 and the 𝗘𝗗𝗥 𝗖𝗼𝗺𝗽𝗮𝗿𝗶𝘀𝗼𝗻 𝗦𝗲𝗿𝘃𝗶𝗰𝗲. They’re related, but they solve completely different problems. Telemetry 𝗶𝘀 𝗼𝗻𝗲 𝗽𝗶𝗲𝗰𝗲 𝗼𝗳 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗽𝘂𝘇𝘇𝗹𝗲. The comparison service 𝗹𝗼𝗼𝗸𝘀 𝗮𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗶𝗿𝗲 𝘀𝗼𝗹𝘂𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻.

So this week shall I write about how killing unarmed civilians is murder or about how unwise it would be to limit the human right against torture. Western liberal democracies in 2025.

I know things are tough everywhere & it's the holidays. I'm sorry. Drowning with evidence storage costs and a fraudulent abusive eviction on the 19.12.2025 - somehow need to get storage costs, airbnb for xmas costs, basic survival. If you can help please, thank you. www.paypal.com/donate/?host...

TIL about a memorial ceremony in Iceland in 2019 to mark the end of a glacier, changing the place name from Okjökull to Ok (jökull = glacier). Uncompromising wording on the bronze plaque: "This is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it".

To me, nowadays at least, the presence of a dropdown list instead of freeform input is almost always a sure sign of programmer laziness or incompetence. The worst offender is a dropdown that lists all years between 1800 and 2025 as potential birthdays. 1/7

Finland has emerged as a global leader in countering “fake news”. Here's how they've done it

Naans don't need flavour, you're dipping them in curry, the curry is the flavour. All the flavoured naan does is disrupt the taste of the main dish.