Dave

My boy. Lost him this week after 18 priceless years. Thanks Len. #caturday

"We were getting pretty good at building software that worked. We had figured out the solution to a lot of humanity's big problems. But then we realized that with so many technical challenges overcome, all we were left with were the political and social problems. Ugh."

The machine did not "go rogue." The machine belongs to and is the responsibility of the people who own it. Hold those people accountable for their goddamn machine.

Software engineering could and should be done with the same care as any other type of engineering. This is a post in honor of Margaret Hamilton (and also a subtweet of all vibe-coders everywhere).

Does my Speak-n-Spell feel pain when I type O-U-C-H? The jury is out. Philosophers and neuroscientists say that's fucking stupid, but I called a guy from the Center for Pretending that Household Electronics Are Sentient and he said there's no way to know for sure.

Jeff Bezos and I are very different people. For one thing, he is a sociopathic billionaire who built his fortune by monopolizing bookselling while I am a penniless author of books. He was born in 1964 and is 62; I was born in 1971 and am 55.

Ever since I was a little boy, I always wanted to begin Monday mornings by double factor authenticating on my smart phone to enable me to use a Word processor

Ulez has delivered remarkable public health gains in a short period. Sadiq deserves more credit than he’s had for defying Labour pressure to U-turn after Uxbridge. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Benjamin Netanyahu is a war criminal.

I respect France's commitment to not working on a holiday.

Can we all just remember when Farage starts whining ‘everyone is out to get me’ that Jo Cox was murdered immediately after he unveiled his breaking point poster & he has caused more division, more hurt & more national harm than any other politician in the last few decades.

Mad to me that England are in an actual World Cup Final at Lord's today and dweebs are going on about the Formula 1

Here's a thing. The Oval was packed tonight for the women's T20 World Cup semifinal. Pretty much nobody is covering it - the football world cup, the Stokes debacle, Wimbledon, they're all taking up the space. But still. The ground was totally full. That tells you everything about the state of it.

Forget Cruyff, Gullit and Van Basten this is the best ever moment in Dutch football.

Nigel Farage is a demagogue who has little regard for facts or the truth. Journalists covering him have no such excuse app.prospectmagazine.co.uk/story/73749/...

Recently got caught pocketing 5 million quid? Better start a race riot!

I see Simon Heffer, in Michael Gove's Spectator, is once again repeating his lie that Enoch Powell's Rivers of Blood speech wasn't about race.. I debated Heffer recently (at the Oxford Litfest) - here's what I said. archive.ph/bqKZF

In the way that if your car broke down in the middle of the woods at night the best option is to simply allow yourself to be killed by the local Leatherface type character

Superb Fuzzy Animals

Football has the greatest moment of joy on tap - celebrating a goal - and they chuck it in the bin and swapped it for VAR, to chase a perfection that nobody can agree on.

It's coming

For instance, instead of writing π or 3.14, one can now elegantly write E(E(E(1,E(E(1,E(1,E(E(1,E(E(1,E(E(1,E(1,E(E(1,1),1))),1)),E(E(E(E(E(1,E(E(1,E(1,E(E(1,E(E(E(1,E(E(1,E(1,E(E(1,1),1))),1)),E(E(1,E(E(1, …

Road race: pope mobile vs golf cart, each driver is allowed one gun, no reloads

In Turkey, an elderly man who earns his living by shining shoes is visited every morning at the same time by a cat that asks to have its fur brushed. The man never turns down this little friend.😍👍💙

A friend took her toddler to our local church messy play and they made Easter biscuits that included small Jesus figurines. The prominent JESUS IS NOT EDIBLE sign over the craft table unintentionally kicking off the next Christian schism.

The reason Joanna Marchong hates the NHS is that she's paid to do so by the right-wing Adam Smith Institute, which lobbies on behalf of the private healthcare industry.

You know how in a library no one’s trying to sell you anything? That’s how the internet was.

The political and media voices calling for the government to instantly and unquestioningly get behind Donald Trump’s plan-free war are increasingly out of step with UK public sentiment, it seems.

Just fascinating to see Blair, a man whose reputation was ruined by the Iraq war, advocate joining a war that is exponentially stupider and more chaotic. How is it possible to learn nothing from the worst mistake of your life?

WWJDFFS

US and Israeli strikes on Iran are hugely dangerous: irresponsible, provocative and illegal. Starmer must call out these so-called ‘allies’ - who are acting as rogue states - and use all UK levers to uphold international law.

Thank you Gorton and Denton 💚

A few months ago I got the story of a duck who aspires to curling greatness stuck in my brain and simply couldn't get it out until I did this

QTP with a sequel that really hits

Please spread this far and wide, as stories don't get much bigger than this. When the government blocks even the intelligence services from telling us we're heading for environmental catastrophe, you know we have a problem. A very big problem. Thank you. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Dim twat, goon up for Reform? (4,7)

In the light of recent political confusion about the identities of Iceland and Greenland, we feel the need to post again this map of our local geography.

The world must boycott the World Cup and the Olympics. It is both the only moral choice and will actually get the attention of these dead-eyed clout demons.