US govt software appears to be designed to be abysmal as part of the ‘govt can’t be seen to do anything well’ world GOP inhabits. It’s not a bug that US govt sw looks like this. bsky.app/profile/onek...

onekade@onekade.bsky.social · 16h ago

This is not a joke. This is a screenshot of the actual case management software used by Massachusetts' 11 District Attorneys. Must-read work here by @nasser.wiki nasser.blog/dial-up-just...

Talks about #US #USA #USN shipbuilding order for #SK #SouthKorea shipyard(s) maritime-executive.com/article/whit...

White House Pushes Congress to Build Warships and Non-Combatants Overseas

Reports coming from Korea are that the Trump administration is pushing back on the U.S. Congress while calling for building two warships and two non-c...

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we must recover the old wisdom

Hypnotic. The parliament roll for 3 Jas I (1605/1606), which includes the acts passed in response to the Gunpowder Plot [C 65/182]

There's too much heat and angst over some aspects of AI. there are ways like with craft making vs machine mass production or poetry and hand crafted precision prose vs mass comms AI use/users settling into the same camps: different objectives so different allowances. ...

Die Zeit reports Russian intelligence planned to assassinate Stefan Thumann, head of German drone maker Donaustahl.

Zelensky said Ukraine will prioritize destroying Russian ballistic missile launchers to reduce the number of strikes on the country. He called this strategically important and said Ukrainian forces know which enemy launchers must be targeted.

Nato to ‘urgently’ get air defences for Ukraine, as Zelenskyy warns of surge in Russian missile production

Nato to ‘urgently’ get air defences for Ukraine, as Zelenskyy warns of surge in Russian missile production

After Ukraine failed to shoot down a single ballistic missile fired by Russia on Wednesday, the president urged allies to increase supplies of Patriot interceptors Nato is working to get Ukraine the air defences it “urgently needs”, its secretary general has said, after Kyiv failed to shoot down a single Russian missile in an attack on Wednesday, and as Volodymyr Zelenskyy warned that Moscow was seeking to significantly boost missile ⁠production ahead of winter. Speaking at a National Security and Defense Council meeting on winter resilience, the Ukrainian president did not rule out the idea that stalling missile supplies from western allies were “aimed at making Ukraine, so to speak, more willing to compromise” in peace talks with Russia. Continue reading...

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More problems for Farage Tice and their Reform cabal of crypto spongers and crim associations. How did loand become donataions and why weren't these declared? FT shows there is more gaps to Reforms declarations. www.ft.com/content/4abf...

The chaos being created by Reform in local government is almost as scandalous as the issues around its funding at national level.

Reform Party UK Exposed@reformexposed.bsky.social · 18h ago

Reform UK Warwickshire under George Finch’s toxic leadership have haemorrhaged councillors. They have now just 17/57. He wouldn’t survive a vote of no confidence.

And at a time when Farage is in the doldrums thanks to multiple crises. She should be nailing that one not distracting from them bsky.app/profile/jame...

James Ball@jamesrball.com · 14h ago

This is genuinely the single most needless self-inflicted political clusterfuck I've seen in some time. It was a council selection: all Badenoch had to do was get him dropped as a candidate. Instead she's turned it into a multi-day saga she now personally owns.

Having said it was okay for Bonehill-Paine to be a councillor because it was just bins, instead of dropping him, Badenoch has given him an advisory role – *after* Jewish groups refused to meet with him? Does she just never want this story to end, or....what.

Denmark operates an autonomous drone in the Baltic, a substantial but unmanned platform. A Russian warship just approached it, surveilled it inc with helicopter, then went off. What would Denmark do if they'd invented some nefarious excuse to board it? www.wesodonnell.com/p/russia-jus...

Russia Just Red-Teamed Denmark’s Robot Picket Line in The Baltic Sea

A Russian corvette carrying roughly 100 sailors approached a Danish vessel carrying none

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There's a very famous Marcella Hazan recipe for 'the worlds best tomato sauce' for pasta: put italian tomatoes (not watery mushy ones) into a pan with a peeled and halved onion and 200g or so of butter. And then gently heat. Watch the butter melt in and let it slowly cook (no bubbling) ...

The so called migrant invasion of the Spanish exclave of Morocco was blindingly obviously not a spontaneous refugee problem. More on that will be understood as time goes on - including the Spanish intelligence failure to see it coming. It was very clearly organised in advance, ...

Smol Paul and his new sidekick Smolla Paula: the wobbly monochrome partnership in crime we all need right now. Thank you so much for contributing to our fundraiser so we could make this happen -- I can't stop laughing at their little faces!

Hearing that not only has Badenoch banned Grant Shapps from standing as an MP (she did that because of his views, not - more reasonably - because he was just incompetent), she's banned MPs from even talking to successful ex Tory regional leaders like Ruth Davison and Andy Street #bbcpm Gobsmacking.

There's yet another piece on #bbcpm #bbcnews re the prisoner release shenanigans. However worthy the speaker is re the problems once release *for the love of jourmalism* ask her what she expects the govt to actually do in sept/oct. Its all very well to oppose something, but the govt (thanks to ...

People who bang on endlessly about "two-tier justice" and write fevered articles about a Labour "police state" seem remarkably relaxed about letting the state do anything it wants to people who have been locked up.

The Tory "plan" to send prisoners to foreign jails isn't getting enough scrutiny. What is the legal basis for banishing British citizens to Albania? Whose laws are they subject to? How many prison staff have to go over? Are family visits just abolished? How many prisoners are we talking about?

The Tories are angry about the murder of Widecombe, but are fine to have as a candidate someone who is just out of prison for his treatment of a Labour MP? They claim to be the party of law and order - but this is just hypocrisy of a new level.

North Korean missile unit deploys in Russia for Ukraine war, Kyiv says. www.reuters.com/business/aer...

Feedback number 3245 of the month for Apple: there’s no way in Podcasts to mass delete followed series though the UI. Nor can it be done in Shortcuts because their isn’t an exposed Intent from the Podcasts app. So my Dormant collection from years ago when I did use it now blocks my return …

Oh my. Apologies on two fronts ahead of time: that it’s a link to Twitter, and that it’s an AI generated video. But *giggles* justify it this time 🤣 x.com/dave43law/st...

dave lawrence 🐟🐟🐠 (@dave43law) on X

Brilliant 🤣🤣🤣

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Its good that #bbcr4today just covered the news of the man seen in video in Kyiv being hunted down by a Russian drone in a safari-like man hunt. Crazy that no mention was made that *this was a war crime*

Well today is starting off so joyfully with Claude. In its work to find me some disk space to free up, it first told me (in effect) to buy a bigger machine. Now, it was about to go scan some external drives - for reasons it cant explain. ffs. killed that one.

Have to love the world we're moving into with AI and its foibles. Its 4am and I just had Claude Opus 5 tell me (in effect) the answer to the challenge I set it (to find disk space to free on my machine) was instead to buy a bigger machine. *screams*

Carplay becomes boatplay: varioous brands of small boats in US are getting a version of carplay more suited to water navigation .... 9to5mac.com/2026/08/04/a...

Apple CarPlay expands to select pontoon boats with on-water navigation - 9to5Mac

CarPlay will soon move beyond the road, with Crest and Balise set to bring Apple’s in-car interface to the helm of select pontoon boats.

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One of the (few) success stories from the Tory years was that somehow, despite starting very late compared with other European countries, the broadband FTTP/Gigabit buildout really kicked off. Massive investment means we're about to become the 2nd biggest market in Europe, after France...

Lithuania is moving to manufacture Ukrainian-designed drones under a bilateral "Drone Deal," with production set to use Ukrainian technology. The partnership expands Ukraine's defense manufacturing abroad as Kyiv works with allies to increase output and build production capacity.

Lithuania moves to produce Ukrainian drones locally under bilateral defense pact

The project will manufacture Ukrainian-designed drones in Lithuania using transferred technology, expanding Ukraine's production capacity abroad while strengthening Europe's defense industry.

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