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Planting trees in the sea could act as a huge carbon sink and save millions of dollars in storm damage every year.
What is stopping us from doing it?
A new study reveals restoring mangroves could save $800 million in storm damage,
protect 140,000 people from flooding,
and remove almost triple the amount of CO2 produced by cars in the U.S. every year

Planting trees in the sea could act as a huge carbon sink and save millions of dollars in storm damage every year. What is stopping us from doing it?
A new study reveals restoring mangroves could save $800 million in storm damage, protect 140,000 people from flooding, and remove almost triple the amount of CO2 produced by cars in the U.S. every year.

Even "bad for life" is questionable, because despite our best efforts we haven't figured out how to sterilize the whole planet.
Anything we're doing that harms the environment harms _the environment we (and many other species) need to survive_.
If we continue to do so, we (and many other species) will die; much faster than this would happen "naturally".
But life will adapt and go on.
We're really only doing harm to ourselves.

I adjusted my position on the bed ever so slightly and she became sabotabby

It just seems, from my small sample, that Dutch anarchists are doing something very well. I don't know that Dutch anarchists are aware of how well they're doing.
All these rambling thoughts are basically all to say, "hey, we should be learning from each other. What are cool things people are doing that could be shared across the water?"

I wonder if folks in the US realise that when folks elsewhere see a photo like this we see fascism.
Not proto-fascism, nor maybe fascism, not is-he-really-doing-a-Hitler-salute fascism but here-and-now, full-fat, entire-chested fascism. @…

so… uh… how are we all doing

How am I doing? Well I just looked up how to pronounce eschatological, because for some reason I want to be able to describe American foreign policy accurately 😳😝
#USpol

Love having to choose between doing the wrong thing quickly and doing the right thing slowly

Discussion at parents meeting about mobile phones, screen time and other topics, quite clear that most parents (including me).have no clue what our kids are actually doing on their devices..
Also clear how clueless so many parents are about data privacy, security and online safety.
The black boxification of tech will be our downfall.

The quest for the perfect print is ongoing...
(Doing a print swap with @… and this wonderful image is one of his and I want to give it my best! So over the past 2 weeks I've been going through different variations, whilst also updating and re-calibrating my workflow, curves & equipment... still some more to …

student_cooperation: Student cooperation (2012)
Network of cooperation among students in the "Computer and Network Security" course at Ben-Gurion University, in 2012. Nodes are students, and edges denote cooperation between students while doing their homework. The graph contains three types of links: Time, Computer, Partners.
This network has 185 nodes and 360 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Multigraph, Unweighted

@krismicinski@types.pl That's an interesting question. After all, you could imagine doing the same to a human, except they'd run out of bandwidth to process that much information. Whereas if you can fit it in a context window, the AI will read all of it without getting exhausted. So maybe the key is to generate just enough info that will fit in the context?

In 2020, during the George Floyd uprising, hearing the national and international news coverage of the neighborhood where I live, I saw with painful personal clarity something I already knew:
The feel of news coverage — its content, its voice, its perspective — is far more the feel of the org doing the reporting than it is the feel of the reality they are covering.
2/

"If your business model requires doing something unethical, you don't have a business model." --Larry Garfield
By that metric, I don't think there's any big-tech company with a valuation over $1 billion that has a business model.
The entire US economy is well and truly fucked.

The mental issues and criminal character of Trump are illustrated by these two truth social messages. Without mentioning the enormous harm he is doing to the world, the unnecessary killings etcetera
#trump #criminal

On a dark day, it's nice to be reminded that good people exist.
A true cyber citizen just offered meaningful financial support to Metacurity—and it landed at exactly the right moment.
It’s a reminder that this work resonates, even when it feels like I'm doing it alone. Deeply, deeply grateful.

When working for a salary at a company there are many things you end up doing that you tell the org about the downsides and they say thanks but do it anyway.
Some can take a stand a quit. some can't. But hard to find a company where you are never ask to take actions you think is bad or ineffective.

Another 2 days doing external woodwork repairs - the ravages of wet and wind. Very satisfying, and just the weather for it.
Best bit, using a brace and screwdriver bit, rotary drill, 'yankee'/'Barry Bucknell'* screwdriver, when the drill ran out of juice.
*That's a spiral ratchet screwdriver, as used by early 1960s UK TV DIY presenter of that name.
I love old hand tools.

A big reason why I'm AntiAI is explained here:
(Disclaimer: I can't tell you how much of this article is accurate.)
«Software — 43 comment bubble on white
Chardet dispute shows how AI will kill software licensing, argues Bruce Perens:
Alarm bells are ringing in the open source community, but commercial licensing is also at risk.
In doing so, he may have killed "copyleft."»
🪦

Chardet dispute shows how AI will kill software licensing, argues Bruce Perens
: Alarm bells are ringing in the open source community, but commercial licensing is also at risk

opening wednesday of william parker's weekly gig at loove annex in williamsburg. trio with violinist gabby fluke-mogul & drummer tcheser holmes, shapes coming together like wind. and the 13-piece pocketwatch doing "the chant" for an hour, clockwork pulse opening to slow funk & ecstatic blowing/themes/duos/trios. #brooklyn

It's been 21 days without anyone blocking me on Blussky.
I wonder what I am doing wrong!

Oddly, the speed of an old msata drive has gotten slower and slower over time. It's running debian stable, and that means it's regularly doing TRIM.. but hdparm -t shows 40MB/s disk reads. I've read that this often happens due to firmware bugs, so I'm going to try upgrading the firmware.
I grabbed an .exe from Dell's site, and ran it under wine(32) to basically unzip the files. Now a small side quest to install xfce on it and see if I can get a remote root terminal…

RE: https://mastodon.online/@BrentToderian/116536167177925113
Russia and the US are doing this because they want to get at Alberta's oil.
Switching to renewables isn't only about combating climate change - it's also about getting rid…

We need to give people funds for not mowing their lawns.
Won't you love seeing libertarians writhe with anger? Giving people money for not doing something?! And on top of that, having their obstinacy compete with their greed.
#ecology

Learn in public. Write and talk about what you learn. Discover it like archaeology even though it's barely six seconds old. Talk to the people who were there before you, and ask them what they were thinking,
Don't take for granted that people are oracles who will tell you what's good or not. That ship sailed long ago with everyone wanting us to make them an app and make them rich while they gave us only ideas and expected us to do the work.
Instead you have to want to learn and show that you're doing it, and be willing to make messes and mistakes and own them. Because if you're just vibing, you won't get it.

From a recent vacation, a battery-powered trolley recharging at stations. It does not spend much time doing this, and yes, these things exist.

even most real-world génocidaires have denied that’s what they’re doing.

#Shitpost #Shitposting #ShamelesslyStolenFromSomewhereElseOnTheInternetHonestlyICantKeepTrackOfThisStuffAnymore

@… @… If you’re interested in doing some legwork, I would consider contacting the author’s widow :)
I was in touch with her over the phone last year to buy a copy of the book (Website was broken, so I tried the phone number)…

It's a shocking turnover from Mac Allister but what on earth is Van Dijk doing on the coverage after? Abandons the wide open spot which becomes the shot to cover.... empty space?
#LFC

Can’t argue with that, really. I spent most of the day avoiding #DCCRPG prep that needs doing. #ttrpg https://mas.to/@skeletor/1161886782556

Inspirational Skeletor💀 (@skeletor@mas.to)
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One of the things that I needed to do in in an early job was to go into backcountry cabins and deal with haunta virus. It involved going into the cabin, wearing a respirator and a bunny suit, opening all of the windows, and then spraying every surface down with bleach water. They told us that if you get haunta virus, the death is painful and quick.
Dealing with that was kind of easy. Just don't go wander through an old cabin without doing that. Possible person to person infection is scary.

What the flip is "AI journalists"? And please, whoever is keeping "AI People" from joining Mastodon, stop doing it!

“I’d like to say that we’re winning these cases because we’re all a bunch of Johnnie Cochrans or Perry Masons or whatever,” Minnesota attorney general Keith Ellison said. “But the truth is, what he’s doing is patently illegal, and a 1L law student would know it.”
https://www.theguardian.c…

‘We were ready’: Democratic attorneys general lead fight to stop Trump
As some elected leaders choose to play nice with the president, Democratic AGs have done the opposite – to impressive effect

I don’t really have a problem with LLM code review, in fact I think that may be one of the places where it is both good at the task and can be ethically justified, IF:
1. Training is ONLY on unencumbered open source software
2. Qualified humans act on the review.
I think (1) is important because the LLM is doing what a sufficiently high-capacity skilled human could do ethically. Reading code to learn from it. A code review doesn’t replicate training data, so copyright isn’…

I found a solid iOS client for using my LM Studio-hosted models.
The Web Agent is interesting - launches Google in an in-app browser, parses the SERP, and delivers the results of your query back in the chat window - all while you watch what it's doing.
Qwen 3.5 35b performs well with these tasks, even if it's a little slow for interactive tasks on my hardware.
Find the app here:

Pie Studio App - App Store
Download Pie Studio by Jan Stellmann on the App Store. See screenshots, ratings and reviews, user tips, and more apps like Pie Studio.

Doing bits of work that will, over time, just be attributed to "the AI".

RE: https://mastodon.social/@joy/116364861111479854
I will be curious to read the discussions about this over the coming days. Currently going through the Red Team report, and wanted to highlight two things I really appreciate about how they are doing things s…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
The Cure:
🎵 Doing the Unstuck
#TheCure
https://djsfqc-records.bandcamp.com/track/the-cure-doing-the-unstuck-12-remix-european-mix
https://open.spotify.com/track/5QhM82aoKuEdqbMHcI617o

This lunatic… this idiot son of modern-day barbarians is proclaiming that his morally-vacuous plastic-trinket empire is going to commit genocide and what’s the rest of the world doing? Anything? Where are the condemnations? Where are the sanctions? Where’s the mass mobilisation against this Fourth Reich?

“I learn by failing, and if the LLM takes that work away from me, I won’t really understand what I’m doing.”
https://jacobharr.is/personal/i-dont-vibe-code.html

One helluva surgery out of the way, keeping food down, and recovering at my folks' home. No oxycodone for now; I'll try to avoid it. The vestibular system is a giant WTF, but I can still type a little. Oof, this is a journey that really sucks. #LongCovid
I hope others are doing well, if not better than my recent crash anyway.

I'm really bad at marketing. I guess it would have been smart to publish Video, Photos and Blogpost all in one. - But that'S the advantage of doing this just as a hobby right! I don't need to care about reach or impact or so ...
So I only do what I feel like doing, in whatever order I feel like...
So, here's the blog including #photos for the video yesterday:

This is how often I flip somebody off. Never. I just tried doing the double flip-off with both hands. That is something I’ve NEVER tried before. I can’t make the bird with my left hand!!! 😂 … it just becomes a - I don’t know, a grizzled wizened mess.

RE: https://infosec.exchange/@nmott/116360217192111517
Wtf are we doing “Typically, you can interact with the painting. But the sound had been disabled, our guide told us, because it wouldn’t stop eavesdropping on employees and then butting into their conve…

@… I’m okay, sorry you’re not doing well — stuff keeps happening all the time for some reason

"The gratification comes in the doing, not in the results."
—James Dean
#acting #coaching #inspiration

We can save the internet by going back our roots*
*cat memes

I decided I hadn't done enough fixing stuff in a duct tape manner recently so:
- I decided to remove rate limits from my pihole main server and dnsperf it to oblivion
- I believe I caused a database to be corrupted or something doing this
- had to copy databases from my backup to the main
What a fun afternoon
#dns

Why are conservative parties not only always deeply corrupt and often doing illegal things... but also traitorous?
The UCP, "Centurion Project" and "Republican Party of Alberta" are all so tainted with this scandal that Jason Kenney... yes Jason Kenney... is playing the victim.
I feel bad for Albertans, but they've also brought a lot of it on themselves by voting these bozos in time and time again.
#ABpoli #CanPoli #CdnPoli
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/elections-alberta-voter-data-centurion-project-ndp-ucp-9.7189167

This whole thread.
It's a love letter to the Fediverse..
https://mastodon.social/@_elena/116368379234020589
_elena@mastodon.social - Dear Fedi friends,
Next week I have the honor of doing a presentation advocating for the Fediverse in a really prestigious venue (I can't share more now, but I will after it takes place).
I'm currently working on slides and I would love to hear testimonies from YOU. Why the Fediverse is so special to you in contrast to Big Tech platforms (bonus points if you speak French & can reply en français).
I'll share a selection of your testimonies in my slideshow presentation.
Merci beaucoup ❤️

RE: https://mstdn.science/@MarcAbrahams/116354006751734696
First Alhamdulillah from an American president (imagine Obama doing this) comes in a post threatening a Muslim country with war crimes.

Kirk Cousins' Arrival Answers Several Questions for the Raiders https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/onsi/las-vegas-kirk-cousins-arrival-answers-several-questions

Emerald City Comic Con Has Connections to ICE [and] These Cosplaying Romantasy Nerds are Doing Something about It - The Stranger
https://www.thestranger.com/news/2026/03/05/80506618/emerald-city-comic-con-has-connections-to-ice

RE: https://mastodon.scot/@FaithfullJohn/116531903993398867
Is it really so different to industry cartels who are doing just the same, creating exclusive clubs, charging heavily for membership and then inventing "prestigious" awards to give out to them…

Here’s another one for the #oldPeopleOfMastodon. It’s a clip of #PeteTownsend doing the #ColbertQuestionnaire on the

Night Music was such a great show. Cool bands, doing hits and deep cuts, and ending with a group jam that often included rare combos like this one with Debbie Harry backing Pere Ubu doing their biggest hit. 🤩
#music #tvshows #PereUbu

Thinking about #StarWars (the originals) with nostalgia for times where things were simple, with the good guys on one side clearly doing good things, and the bad guys doing obviously bad things every day...
Oh wait, that's actually the case right now in the real world 🙃
#MayTheFourth

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #GuyGarveysFinestHour
Art School Girlfriend:
🎵 Doing Laps
#ArtSchoolGirlfriend
https://artschoolgirlfriend.bandcamp.com/track/doing-laps
https://open.spotify.com/track/5ZSYEtLHBxWMU3jrcE6fjV

Over the weekend, I read Rebecca Campbell's Arboreality (2022). It's an enthralling novella about climate catastrophe, community, and collaboration with the natural world. The story, set in British Columbia, bounces between loss and hope, suggesting that doing the hard work of building a new world from the ashes of the old is how one staves off despair and keeps hope alive.
Check it out.
#SolarPunk

RE: https://vox.ominous.net/@occult/116103841606429399
Extra points for anyone who can explain what she is *doing* here! I cannot ...

Put your name on your work and find like-minded people to share credit with. It is now on you to build not your brand, but the demonstration that you know what's going on.
It is going to be very hard to get a job by printing a list of skills at the top of your resume and hoping to get noticed. It already was and now it's worse than ever.
Be a person on the internet and by that I mean do not hide your person-hood. Your curiosity, your learning, your willingness to consider angles. Professional polish is something the clankers do better than us, because they are trained on all of us doing it.
If not putting your name on your learning, put a stable pseudonym out there. Be known by the work you do and even the mistakes you make and reconsider. Showing that your knowledge has _depth_ is now one of the most important things. We can all vibe up to a basic understanding. It's the people who can see where they went wrong, and course-correct that really are going to carry the day.
You no longer get to be perfect and only show what's finished and polished. And you're gonna have to show your work.

I wrote about @… on the Official Swift Blog https://www.swift.org/blog/building-privacy-first-analytics-with-swift/…

Swift at scale: building the TelemetryDeck analytics service
TelemetryDeck is an app analytics service specifically for developers, designed to manage usage analytics that are anonymized, privacy-focused, and really easy to use. TelemetryDeck is managing the data of over 16 million people every month, helping thousands of app publishers improve their products, and we’re doing it all with a Swift-based infrastructure.

Transit nerds in NYC, I'm begging you to get on board w/ the idea of free bus fares. Aside from fare collection & enforcement slowing down bus speeds, harassment by NYPD is a real thing that people care about.. not just those being harassed, but also by everyone else affected by that harassment.
Buses in NYC are so much worse than the subway, they should not cost the same and we should be doing everything we can to speed them up and make them less shitty.

just now realized I was standing on my toes when peeing, and felt weird about it. have I always been doing that? it didn't feel habitual, but it didn't feel novel either. I'm wondering if this is some misdirected biological urge to mark that tree as high as I can, to advertise how big my business is. we're an authorized reseller of Pen Island art markers, for all your bathroom-stall scribbling needs

I played the #Marathon "server slam" for exactly twenty five minutes. i.e. as long as it took to finish the tutorial mission. I never tried loading into a real mission. Why?
I couldn't figure out what the fuck I was supposed to be doing nearly all the time; and I couldn't READ THE TEXT; icons were too similar; the color choices, while aesthetically pleasing, made some shit reall…

Bungie ask Marathon critics to delay "full reviews" till the release of an endgame zone, and I am wistfully reminded of Vault of Glass
Bungie suggest that Marathon reviewers "hold your full review and impressions until you play Cryo Archive, Marathon's pinnacle endgame zone and experience".

Does anyone know how Kel is doing?
I don't seem to be able to contact him. Which is fine, but in truth I just want to know he's keeping on keeping on ok.
(Obviously he nuked his Mastodon account a couple of weeks ago.)

How I map Ger in Mongolia on openstreetmap
#osm

Cool newer images for mongolia
Following up on https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/lhirlimann/diary/404921, I discovered today that newer/better aerial imagery for some parts of Mongolia were available, hence doing me doing some edits.

PSA: the term for "spaceflight with a crew inside the spacecraft" is "crewed spaceflight", not "manned". This has been the official NASA terminology for ~30 years.
"Crewed" is a much better term because it describes what the people are actually doing (they're not on board for the sake of being on board), plus it also differentiates it from passenger/tourist flights.

US labor experts and economists warn US unemployment benefits are unlikely to protect against AI job losses, and the GOP-led Congress is doing little to prepare (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/05/business/artificial-intelligence-safety-net…

The Federal Safety Net Isn’t Ready for Artificial Intelligence
As fears of A.I.-driven job losses mount, economists warn that unemployment benefits and other programs to help displaced workers aren’t sufficient.

Every time leftists talk about escalating against Trump, liberals point out that Trump is looking for an excuse to invoke the insurrection act. This is true. But they don't notice that he's the least popular president in history and the military has largely already made it clear that they won't be used against civilians. That risk assessment completely lacks context.
Trump could not possibly win against an insurgency because the only thing he could possibly offer to end it would be his own resignation. If Trump tried to escalate to civil war he would either lose or be removed.
More importantly, Trump compulsively escalates. He will continue to start wars because he thinks he's doing a good job and he's a hero. When he gets frustrated at some foreign enemy because he's actually completely incompetent and only able to win against incompetent and wildly unpopular opponents, he threatens war crimes.
I am familiar enough with history to fully believe that he ordered a nuclear strike last night and people said "no." Humanity has been saved multiple times by people refusing to follow orders, and you don't find out until years later. (This is also not the first story of a president dangerously deep in mental decline. Reagan lost the nuclear football.)
The longer this goes on, the greater the risk that eventually someone will actually let him do something unthinkable. But that's significantly less likely if he's trying to fight within the US border.
Just looking at things from a risk perspective, "he's going to invoke the insurrection act" is not nearly as big of a threat as democrats think it is, and it's about time they think realistically about this fact.

I know why I am rewatching The West Wing. These guys and gals are made of tough stuff and actually care about doing the right thing. The best of the best you could vote in. They are not stuffing their faces with cake and telling lies faster than a two-faced evangelical. That's why they are in the White House.

So what exactly is #SanFrancisco doing to mange the risks and problems identified here, #MayorLurie?
‘Creepy surveillance’: why some cities are shutting down Flock cameras amid privacy concerns

So what exactly is #SanFrancisco doing to mange the risks and problems identified here, #MayorLurie?
‘Creepy surveillance’: why some cities are shutting down Flock cameras amid privacy concerns

I am so sorry for those who cannot find anything to eat better than the dogshit in Fascist boot treads. @… https://types.pl/@krismicinski/116189695831443587

Hegseth:
"The dumb, politically correct wars of the past were the opposite of what we're doing here.
They had vague objections with restrictive, minimalist rules of engagement.
No more."
https://bsky.app/profile/atrupar.com/post/3mgdt3r65qn2s

Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com)
Hegseth: "The dumb, politically correct wars of the past were the opposite of what we're doing here. They had vague objections with restrictive, minimalist rules of engagement. No more."

“OK, but what then?!” you ask me, “What are we supposed to do? What is your grand plan for ending this?? What more am I supposed to do?!”
I want you to know that I spent all of December and January here in Minnesota racking my brains with this very question, and I never found an answer. Nothing could possibly be enough. I had no idea what to do. We had no idea what to do. And we were already doing it.
The whole time, we were lost — and we were already doing it.
8/

Oh, I'm not a Monzo customer and I'd assumed posts about a bank doing a "Spotify Wrapped" were satirical.
https://www.theguardian.com/money/2026/mar/07/monzo-customer-language-year-in-monzo-review

‘Mainly, you fast fooded’: Monzo under fire over ‘shaming’ year-end reviews
Bank criticised for tone of spending summaries, with one user complaining to ombudsman over ‘humiliating’ use of data

RE: https://fediscience.org/@tschfflr/116192263709713324
Doing my part for the Streisand effect

Periodic reminder: When people actually _study_ social media, they come to realize that even the most so called "echo chamber" actually tends to be MORE diverse than the communities they'd otherwise inhabit.
The tribal, self-reinforcing social boundaries that reject new information are actually an artifact of _contextless exposure to people with different points of view_. And accelerated by hostility.
In short: echo chambers don't exist. Insularity is a response to disrupted community norm formation by slamming too many people together without context for each other. It's not the social media algorithms directly doing it. It's the social response to those algorithms.

student_cooperation: Student cooperation (2012)
Network of cooperation among students in the "Computer and Network Security" course at Ben-Gurion University, in 2012. Nodes are students, and edges denote cooperation between students while doing their homework. The graph contains three types of links: Time, Computer, Partners.
This network has 185 nodes and 360 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Multigraph, Unweighted

RE: https://mastodon.social/@heidilifeldman/116186352883690890
this. this so much. omg. it's so fucking infuriating to watch local governments doing the same kinds of shit as the federal government (less blatant nazi-ism, but pretty obviously se…

Raiders' Offseason Moves Confirm Their Due Diligence https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/onsi/las-vegas-offseason-moves-confirm-due-diligence

and before i hear one single.
“but they'll be a fight in the streets”
YES. SO DEAL WITH IT!
Iranians Did.
Ukrainians Did.
Czechs Did.
Poles Did.
Chinese Did.
Minnesota Did.
Remember Rodney King?
Remember George Floyd?
.... ya, sometimes it works, sometimes it does not.
But you have a history of doing this kind of thing. You have a history of *demanding this of others*. Don't be afraid.
Get on it.
#theAmericanFascist #usa

Willem challenged us to ask ourselves what we would do if we were living under Nazi occupation. Before all of this, I doubt anyone thought they would be complicit. I doubt anyone said to themselves, "nothing. I would cower in fear and do nothing."
But for 4 years or so we all answered that question again and again with our lives. Now here we are, answering it again... Every day. But it's no longer "what would you do during the rise of Hitler?" It's now, "what would you do after the invasion of Poland," and "what would you do after you knew about the concentration camps?"
For some people, the answer is still, "nothing."
But a lot of people have been brave in the face of it all. A lot of people have died, and a lot more will die. He will die, perhaps after a ruling by some court or other but, honestly, probably not. That's just how these things work out. Lots of people die, some for no reason, some because they stood up against injustice. A whole lot of people do nothing, until it's safe to claim victory... Until it's no longer safe to be on the other side.
That's just how these things go. Fascism is self-defeating, but it causes incredible harm on it's path of self-destruction. The more people who stand up, who risk themselves, the faster it collapses and the fewer it can hurt. That's also just how these things go. It's incredibly dangerous for everyone until enough people take some extra risk and make it safe for everyone again.
But that question still stands... Which one of those groups are you in? Are you proud of what you are doing, or will you look back with shame? Some of y'all have a lot to be proud of, but, if you're not, it's never too late to earn your way into that proud group.

Some organizations are doing panicky things over Mythos.
NHS Goes To War Against Open Source
https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2026/05/nhs-goes-to-war-against-open-source/

NHS Goes To War Against Open Source
The NHS is preparing to close nearly all of its Open Source repositories. Throughout my time working for the UK Government - in GDS, NHSX, i.AI, and others - I championed Open Source. I spoke to dozens of departments about it, wrote guidance still in use today, and briefed Ministers on why it was so important. That's why I'm beyond disappointed at recent moves from NHS England to backtrack on…

#Shitpost #Shitposting #ShamelesslyStolenFromSomewhereElseOnTheInternetHonestlyICantKeepTrackOfThisStuffAnymore

"Everyone forgets comedians are actors. There's no question about it. A Robin Williams cannot say the same line every night for 40 weeks and make it sound fresh unless he's doing an acting job."
—Joan Rivers
#acting #coaching

'Iran can be taken out in one night, and that might be tomorrow night,' says Trump
Trump repeats his usual claims about how well the war is going and how well the US military is doing (“unbelievably well”, he says),
and celebrates the “very historic” rescue of the second crew member of the US F-15 fighter jet downed over Iran last week.
Turning to his latest deadline for Tehran to open the strait of Hormuz (8pm ET on Tuesday), he adds:
"The entire country …

Raiders Land Elite QB Comparison for Fernando Mendoza https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/las-vegas-raiders/elite-qb-comparison-for-fernando-mendoza/

This is a great example of the drum I’m always beating about elected officials: we lead, they follow.
And yes, it matters who we elect, and no, they’re not “all the same” (my dude, come on). It matters •not• because we can count on them to come save us — we cannot and •must• not — but because when we do the work, they can become tools of and extensions of our own power. We elected Moriarty, we set up the situation for her to do this, and now she’s doing it. We led, she followed.
I really hope she pulls it off. I’ll keep doing my part on the ground.

If you’re a open source person yelling at people to “do it yourself” when they have valid criticism of open source projects (yours or others) you 1) need to touch some grass (it can be free and open source grass) and 2) stop doing that

Now is a good time for doing crime
Eons ago, in 2012, I had a weird experience.
My iPhone suddenly shut down.
When I restarted it, I found it was totally reset—clean, like a new device.
This was the early days of iOS, so I wasn’t too concerned until I went to connect it to my computer to restore it from a backup.
But when I flipped open the lid of my laptop, it too was mid-restart.
And then, suddenly, the screen went gray. It was being remotely wiped.

Now is a good time for doing crime
New technology always means new kinds of crime—and new ways to fight it.

If you’re using LLMs to help you with a specific thing when doing your job, they’re not doing the job for you.
Saying “an LLM is a software engineer” is like saying a hammer is an architect.
Just a complete categorical error.
If they actually fully replace you in your job, then you’re probably not doing your job; unless your job was to come up with plausible sequences of words not based on knowledge, skills or experience.

PSA: The MacBook Neo doesn’t work with the new Studio Display from Apple
What are they doing