This is actually quite brilliant, up to and including the final sentence 🔥
Carlton Gibson
@carltongibson.bsky.social
You know, Django 🦄 Former Fellow, 6.x Steering Council and Security Team member. Maintainer of a package or two. Django Chat co-host 🎙️ Not really here. There’s a bridged account from the fedi at https://bsky.app/profile/carlton.chaos.social.ap.brid.gy
I was a guest of William Vincent and Carlton Gibson's #Django Chat podcast, alongside my friend Marlene Mhangami from Microsoft. We chatted about “A.I. in the Real World”, and found a lot of common ground. It was nice to have a hype-free discussion of the algorithms! www.youtube.com/watch?v=4fyG...
AI in the Real World - Marlene Mhangami & Tim Allen
YouTube video by Django Chat
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Here we go again. Sensationalist headlines. Unproven causal links. And unclear migration figures based on shaky proxies. 🧵 Here’s the 2 big problems with the FT's new report… 1⃣They don’t really know how many left. 2⃣They have no idea why they left. 1/6
The UK government will be forced to raise taxes at the Budget in October – but taxes on who? Here are my predictions www.youtube.com/watch?v=KHdU...
Why your government is about to raise YOUR taxes
YouTube video by Garys Economics
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Today is my birthday (turning 29), which is the only time all year that I ask for a repost 🌿 I hope you get lost in fantasy worlds as much as I do 🔮
There is no strict Constitutional amendment against having sex with minors, being blackmailed about it, murdering the person who is blackmailing you, and then altering the videotape of the murder. So it's hard to see why some on the left are so upset with Trump right now. by Jonathan Turley
My 3 year-old was reading the Times when he turned to me, gravely, and asked: "Daddy, why did the senator ask mean questions to the nice plastic surgery lady?" And when I told him "because that lady pledged to liberate LA from socialists," he started crying.
The UK gov't softened tax reforms on the super rich because of the widely reported “exodus” of millionaires fleeing the UK. Our new investigation shows that "exodus" was a complete fiction. #BogusExodus #TaxTheSuperRich taxjustice.net/press/millio...
That officer took deliberate aim at this journalist and shot her. There's nobody standing near her.
Dr. Lucky Tran@luckytran.com · last yr.LAPD fired rubber bullets at Australian journalist @laurentomasi.bsky.social
The top image: The Guardian, July 2016 The article: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... The bottom image: The Guardian, May 2025 The article: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
In case anyone’s wondering, `jacobian . bsky . social` isn’t me. Super flattered that I now rank high enough to score an impersonator tho!
NEW from me: China's CO2 emissions fell ~1.6% in the first quarter and have now been flat or down for more than a year. This is the first time on record that emissions are falling due to clean energy growth, not slow power demand.
Carbon Brief@carbonbrief.org · last yr.NEW – Analysis: Clean energy just put China’s CO2 emissions into reverse for first time | @laurimyllyvirta.bsky.social Read here: buff.ly/6eAcjRU
Was looking for a remark of Wittgenstein's, about the "…" in a series not being of laziness. Thought maybe Claude'll know. Started well. Gave a quote, with a reference, that was right. Then started making stuff up. It was like reading a late-night, last-minute, undergraduate essay.
if the whole world population had emitted as per the richest 0.1% since 1990, the global temperature increase would have been 12.2C 😲
Two-thirds of global heating caused by richest 10%, study suggests
Paper in Nature Climate Change journal reveals major role wealthy emitters play in driving climate extremes
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This is from The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson aired on May 20th, 1977. Carl Sagan says something very important, a strong message that didn't lose any validity since then.
40 Years ago Carl Sagan knew about Climate change and he was so aware of it's impact on Nature more than us we do right now.
Ep181: DjangoCon Europe 2025 recap is now live! We discussed highlights from attending DjangoCon Europe last week in Dublin, Ireland. We both gave talks and shared favorites from the official schedule, social events, and hallway track. djangochat.com/episodes/dja...
DjangoCon Europe 2025 Recap | Django Chat
A quick recap episode sharing thoughts and highlights from attending DjangoCon Europe last week in Dublin, Ireland. We both gave talks and shared favorites from the official schedule, social events, a...
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Two backpacking German teenagers who had obtained ESTA approval from DHS were detained by CBP at the Honolulu airport, strip searched, jailed overnight, and ultimately deported to Japan because immigration officials weren’t satisfied with their lodging arrangements. beatofhawaii.com/why-these-ha...
Did you know that the #Django admin can be themed?! 🤯 Here are 10 packages for the Django admin which can transform it with a Dracula theme, #Bootstrap #CSS, #Tailwind, and more! Jazz up your Django admin today! 🎷 www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2025/...
Django Admin Theme Roundup 2025
Posted by Adam Hill on April 18, 2025
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There's some tasty looking admin themes strutting their stuff over on the Django blog, thanks to @adamghill.com 🤩 www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2025/... #Django
Django Admin Theme Roundup 2025
Posted by Adam Hill on April 18, 2025
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Obviously a good post. Getting shouted at on Mastodon ✅
Carlton Gibson@carltongibson.bsky.social · last yr.New post: Using LLMs as the first line of support in Open Source. With a small amount of prep, we can help users to help themselves, rather than needing maintainer attention, for support requests that we could do without. noumenal.es/posts/llms-f... #OpenSource
I have a joke about Achilles. You’ll remember it forever.
Alex Knapp@thealexknapp.bsky.social · last yr.I have a joke about Prometheus and it really de-livers.
New post: Using LLMs as the first line of support in Open Source. With a small amount of prep, we can help users to help themselves, rather than needing maintainer attention, for support requests that we could do without. noumenal.es/posts/llms-f... #OpenSource
Using LLMs as the first line of support in Open Source
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“Nothing makes you look stronger than saying you’re definitely not going to back down on Monday, and then dramatically backing down on Wednesday"
"Art of the Deal" To Include New Chapter on How To Shit Your Pants and Fold After One Day — The Shovel
“Nothing makes you look stronger than saying you’re definitely not going to back down on Monday, and then dramatically backing down on Wednesday"
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