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This is terrible news www.theguardian.com/food/2026/ap...

That's some delay! But I guess even the best of us ship late some times...

America’s intervention in Iran, Feb-April 2026

Truly the Fyre Festival of strategic campaigns.

roadmap.sh/scala Scala Roadmap for learning is now officially published. It contains over 150 nodes with descriptions and links to learning materials. It's aimed at beginners but I'm sure many advanced developers can find there something for them as well. Please repost 😊 #learn #scala

If those advocating the policy were actually confident that it was popular to triple and quadruple the settlement timelines, they would describe the actual proposals, when there is a converted effort to avoid that + talk mainly/solely about 5-10 years www.express.co.uk/news/politic...

@theregister.com Did you know that the Co-Op bank in the UK has had an outage that's lasted most of today and is still ongoing? www.co-operativebank.co.uk/help-and-sup... downdetector.co.uk/status/co-op...

Oil: challenge accepted!

Spain's renewables build-out has structurally decoupled its electricity prices from gas markets. Gas now sets the price in only 15% of hours, compared to 90% in Italy. Countries that invested early in clean power are far less exposed to fossil fuel price shocks. Those that didn't now pay the price.

On Friday we revealed the Companies House vulnerability letting anyone access the private dashboard of any UK company. This is the moment I first saw it demonstrated. My reaction says it all. What do we know? What don't we know? What should companies do now?

Reaching net zero by 2050 is often framed as a cost burden. The UK Climate Change Committee’s latest analysis suggests the opposite. The real risk is fossil fuel dependency.

The idea that if you abandon enough of your principles you can make yourself too small a target for the right wing to bludgeon assumes a fidelity to reality on the part o their messaging that's simply not in evidence. Trump is on TV pretending Biden gave Ukraine F-35s and space lasers.

Does anyone have a favourite book on the history of nuclear weapons? I'm particularly interested in how the physicists grappled with the ethics of what they were unleashing on the world. I fear computer scientists might be the next to have such a reckoning.

Reform are in denial about why they lost by 12% in Gorton & Denton (60% white, 80% UK-born) after losing by 11% in Caerphilly (98% white, 98% UK-born) to Plaid Cyrmu Both seats unusual in seeing more people vote than at last Welsh Senedd/last GE: more voters turned out to stop Reform than supoort

The absolute state of this and everything else on this thread

There's a lot of mean-spiritedness about people who have gone to live in Dubai. We need to help, and ensure they have secure accommodation in the UK for 91 days of the next tax year.

Yup.

The world could be such a nice place if we allowed it. It's all so goddamn unnecessary. There's no need for any of it. It's so beautiful here. It should be so cool to be alive

So the Telegraph is taking this well

There's a "is anyone even reading this" sort of honesty you get in the software update release notes from a project that's been around for a long time.

I have asked the BBC to scrutinise + correct the factually inaccurate claims made by Mr Nigel Farage about why net migration fell in 'Political Thinking with Nick Robinson' Here is the link if you want to do something like this. www.bbc.co.uk/contact/comp...

Amusing - I'm hearing a comeback of XP (Extreme Programming) practice. In the early 2000s these used to be popular (championed by @kentbeck.com). Then died down. They are now surging again. XP practices like small releases, frequent integration, and constant customer input!

Supreme Court absolutely bodies Trump on IEEPA. Just complete groin kicking. They could have said that IEEPA lets him impose tariffs in an emergency but that this didn't qualify as one of those, or he failed to define one. It didn't. It ruled IEEPA doesn't let him impose tariffs at all.

NEW How Palantir captured the Ministry of Defence How a close read of public domain documents show how MoD was commercially colonised by Palantir By me, at FT www.ft.com/content/5207...

A 01:46 introduction to what kind of problems capture checking in #Scala solves. Pushing forward what type systems might do! youtube.com/shorts/TJofT...

People find my posts confusing because they can’t tell if I’m anti-AI or pro-AI. To me that’s like asking if I’m anti-internet or pro-internet. It’s a tool that can be used to build great things and also create terrible outcomes. We wouldn’t have Trump without the internet but I’m not anti-internet

Rupert Lowe tweets his Restore Britain party will vet councillors who want to join - to avoid accepting those who "don't have the stomach" for what needs to be done. His most openly racist supporters say they are "ecstatic". They believe he will set no boundaries at all on overt racism for members

Stay tuned for more updates and check real-time data to monitor auroral visibility. Top tools and info: go.theauroraguy.com/substorm-pra...

Happy Friday! Lots of folks in tech are looking for work right now, so here's a thread of some tech for good (or at least, hopefully not explicitly evil) roles I found around the web.

It's 25 years to the day that proponents of iterative, "lightweight" development methodologies came together in Utah to work on their ski tans and pen the Manifesto for Agile Software Development. I have thoughts, which I've typed out to make them visible. codemanship.wordpress.com/2026/02/11/t...

Complete nut jobs. But it's insane that people even feel they can stand behind such policies, it's pure neo nazi, National Front type crap

Amazon's Tax Bill Plunges 87% After Tax Cuts https://slashdot.org/story/26/02/06/1918235/amazons-tax-bill-plunges-87-after-tax-cuts?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed

Why was Epstein so involved with Brexit and far-right European politics? What did he have to gain?

Tonight’s dumb napkin cartoon…

The general sense of the news reports from the United States is that the federal government has realised it has gone too far too soon in being filmed freely killing civilians in the streets. Public opinion is just not ready for that yet.

Every single time a Trumpist says “the rhetoric of the left is putting people in danger,” wave your middle finger in their face, because they are lying shitbirds without any principles.

Sad fact: The Saturday after Jo Cox was murdered, Tory defector to Refuk, Rosindell, was in Romford campaigning, despite all political parties agreeing not to campaign that weekend. #ukpolitics

heard someone describe the current trend as "day drinking january".

1/ In 2022, one year after Trump incited the seditious attack on the US Capitol, I posted a long thread of images on Twitter, because revisionist attempts to create a false narrative about that day were already well underway. Today, in 2025, I’m re-creating/re-posting that same thread here.👇

Proof is overrated. This is a brilliant talk by Rory Sutherland: [youtu.be/lhlS-Wds02M...] where he makes two essential points. First, it's a huge problem when "rational" people get veto power over creative, innovative, "irrational" people. 1/11

Enhance 224 to 176. Enhance, stop. Move in, stop. Pull out, track right, stop. Centre in, pull back. Stop. Track 45 right. Stop. ... Enhance 34 to 46. Pull back. Wait a minute, go right, stop. Enhance 57 to 19. Track 45 left. Stop. Enhance 15 to 23. Give me a hard copy right there. :P

Every sign tells a story

In the replies to this post I want to collect a few really difficult vibe-coding challenges. Feel free to participate by adding challenges and/or solutions of your own. Winners get fame, glory, experience points and emojis.

A new year cartoon for @theguardian.com books

This is a very good experience report with lots of practical information.

Another arbitrary stop order for offshore wind farms in the US: www.reuters.com/business/ene..., including wind farms that have been under construction for years. How can anyone want to invest in the US when they are subject to arbitrary and lawless decisions by an autocrat like this?

I saw the Stone Roses in Oslo in 1990. Mani was hanging out in the bar after the gig, we said hi and he signed my t-shirt. Really friendly guy, made a big impression on me. www.bbc.com/news/live/cv...

To report 2.7% inflation for November, the Trump Admin excluded data on food, housing, electricity, clothing, medical care, and most other categories. In fact, only 3 of more than 20 price categories were included in the calculations, making the report meaningless. Actual inflation is much higher.