Amnesty have issued an apology to JK Rowling and the rest. Adjust your expectations, and donations, accordingly www.amnesty.org.uk/latest/an-ap...

An Apology for A Growing Threat briefing, published on 8 July 2026

Amnesty International UK has made a public apology for the publication of the briefing “A growing threat: the anti-rights movement in the UK”. Click here to read it in full.

amnesty.org.uk

It's time to cancel your Mullvad subscription:

Mullvad's co-founder is bankrolling the far right - Korben

Daniel Berntsson is the co-founder of Mullvad, a highly regarded Swedish VPN service. That reputation is likely about to take a hit, though, since we've ...

korben.info

Real names is an ancient shibboleth for the privileged to attack the disadvantaged. Do read the EFF's brief on it www.eff.org/deeplinks/20...

i only wanna talk about nuclear weapons

someone needs to remake life360 on atproto

Babe, wake up. New man-made horrors beyond comprehension dropped.

you can’t cut back on understanding! you will regret this!

claude mythos weights on annas archive

Ditto for Canada: toronto.citynews.ca/2025/11/25/m... And the EU: about.fb.com/news/2025/07...

Meta pitching app store age verification law to Liberal government

OTTAWA — Meta has been lobbying the federal government for new rules to implement age verification at the app store level — which would place the burden on companies like Apple and Google, not individ...

toronto.citynews.ca

prompt queen

the main reason this part of the "AI" project exists is advertising. lighting money on fire is worth it if it brings the kind of ubiquity that makes people scared to imagine a world where they lose access to these tools. Events like this mass shooting are known and accepted costs of the project

Anyone who thinks English is a great language for specifying a desired algorithm has never read a type theory paper

Give a person a game engine and they'll eventually deliver a game. Teach them to make a game engine and they'll never deliver anything ever again

"Pancreatic cancer mRNA vaccine shows lasting results in an early trial: Scientists caution that more research is needed, but nearly all of the patients who responded to the personalized vaccine are still alive six years later."

Pancreatic cancer mRNA vaccine shows lasting results in an early trial

Scientists caution that more research is needed, but nearly all of the patients who responded to the personalized vaccine are still alive six years later.

nbcnews.com

we couldn’t make it public because the App Store restriction meant it needed to run off-device via a browser and we need to conserve server resources. my brother is a real computer whiz

Just going to leave this here.

Just had this from Planet Labs, the US government have asked satellite imagery providers for "voluntarily" restrictions on access to satellite imagery. Given a lot of them provide satellite imagery to the USG we can probably guess the outcome of not acquiescing to that request.

I don’t think his personal life is any of my business

linear algebra can't hurt you but capitalism definitely can

#neovim version 0.12.0 is out! Almost exactly a year of hard work since 0.11.0. Huge thanks to everyone who worked on it, as well as to all Neovim users! Release: github.com/neovim/neovi... News: github.com/neovim/neovi... Changelog: github.com/neovim/neovi... Here are top 10 most liked features:

Release Nvim 0.12.0 · neovim/neovim

NVIM v0.12.0 Build type: Release LuaJIT 2.1.1774638290 Release notes Changelog (fixes + features) News (:help news in Nvim) Install Windows Zip Download nvim-win64.zip (or nvim-win-arm64.zip fo...

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`cargo run`? no, car go drive

I’m building a command-line note-taking tool, with an Android app and web client planned for later. I’d like to ask some opinions on some aspects of its design. (1/9) #rust #pkm

🎉 The critical amendment 34 (rejecting automated assessment of unknown photos and texts) PASSED by ONE vote, paving the way for the extension of Chat Control 1.0 to be overwhelmingly REJECTED! Initial analysis by @echo-pbreyer.digitalcourage.social.ap.brid.gy : www.patrick-breyer.de/en/end-of-ch...

You did it! 🥳 European Parliament just decided that Chat Control 1.0 must stop. This means on April 6, 2026, Gmail, LinkedIn, Microsoft and other Big Techs must stop scanning your private messages in the EU. #PrivacyWins 💪

Tuta@tuta.com · 5mo ago

🚨No Joke: Conservatives in the EU Parliament (EVP) want the vote on #ChatControl 1.0 to be repeated this Thursday - even though the Parliament already voted NO! 😡 Make sure your MP stays strong. Contact them now! 👉 fightchatcontrol.eu#contact-tool

neovim is amazing. it's one of the best editors ever with a super powerful scripting interface. and yet. it's being destroyed by AI sycophants

learning what "vibe coding" is sure did eliminate my impostor syndrome. like at least i know what my code does

with all the hype around linux. might i recommend some light reading for newcommers to linux