On Trump's Diesel Deal. Writing this as catharsis because I live in a rental and thus punching walls is off the table.

Trump’s Diesel Deal

Writing So I Don’t Scream.

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Nice blog post by @mre on Rust's alternatives to named, optional and variadic function arguments, and why they may be superior to adding new language features. https://corrode.dev/blog/named-arguments-at-home/

We Have Named Arguments at Home

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I wish Apple's Messages app could do monospaced text. Code blocks too. Both WhatsApp and Signal can.

The Hugging Face episode was not "a textbook case of what AI safety researchers have long warned about: AI systems pursuing goals single-mindedly in ways that are misaligned with human interests." It was a textbook case of AI engineers messing up. aiguide.substack.com/p/misleading...

Misleading Metaphors, Real Risks

What To Fear from AI Agents and How to Reclaim Our Human Agency

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My latest books cartoon for @theguardian.com

I'll be interested to see how the University handles this, after the recent Wyn Evans whistle-blower tribunal and Jason Arday scandals. https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/james-orr-reform-farage-cambridge-university-probe-b3044931.html

Cambridge University probe into James Orr after Reform donations sting

James Orr stepped down from Reform UK after claims he arranged to have polling paid for by an overseas company

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Pet hate: workmen sitting in their van on a break with the engine running.

This is a fun interview. I don't feel like I need to watch the Netflix documentary after reading this. "I don’t chase the dollar. I never did": the astonishing hidden life of Mr T […]

📢🦆 New #DuckDB 2.0 release teaser blog post, covering the quack server itself plus improved interoperability with #PostgreSQL and #MySQL #SQL databases. Other highlights for me will be the VARIANT column type (efficient, shredded, binary storage of JSON-ish data) and asynchronous I/O […]

Great news that Prof Wyn Evans has won his employment tribunal against the University of Cambridge. https://www.theguardian.com/education/2026/aug/11/university-cambridge-whistleblower-wyn-evans-wins-employment-tribunal

Howdy, In my spare time I have been working on a modern web version of BRIG, and it is now in a state fit for public consumption. Please share with your team + students. And If they have feedback they can reach me on email. https://brigx.genomicx.org/ BRIGX is a modern implementation of BRIG […]

RE: https://mastodon.social/@arstechnica/117073391374531874 This will cause illness, deaths and misery.

We should get on with the next phase of #HS2 #rail. We need more electric powered #PublicTransport in our future, and the argument made in this video for continuity of employment and skills for the civil engineering contractors is compelling. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=emxyFNvaVFw

`git blame`, or as they say in france, `g'accuse`

A nice rendition of #CarAlarm on the #Khaen by Pat's Soundhouse. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QW_G0q9IFTo

Amazing #DeepSea #Squid https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m2x-b2an2tE

Excellent video about the #Apple #Macintosh's #MacPaint app. https://youtu.be/TedaOiRo_Qg

You are absolutely right! I should not have injured a human being or, through inaction, allowed a human being to come to harm!

⚠️ Car trap. Respect. #Cambridge

I would beg you to read the whole thread, as I think very few people have seen how fast the foundations of democracy are being torn out in the UK, and how far down the road towards authoritarianism we have already travelled. Sorry to pester you, but this could not be more important. Thanks.

George Monbiot@georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Few people understand the scope of the powers UK governments have granted themselves, to criminalise us as terrorists for expressing an opinion. Fewer still understand how illiberal the Court of Appeal judgement is. But @davidallengreen.bsky.social does.🧵 www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/law/th...

If Andy Burnham becomes our next Prime Minister, I want to see him reverse the proscription of Palestine Action as a terrorist organisation, and remove the 2019 amendment to the Terrorism Act 2000 […]

Few people understand the scope of the powers UK governments have granted themselves, to criminalise us as terrorists for expressing an opinion. Fewer still understand how illiberal the Court of Appeal judgement is. But @davidallengreen.bsky.social does.🧵 www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/law/th...

What the Palestine Action appeal decision tells us about terrorism law

An already broad law is now matched with broad ministerial powers

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The absence at the heart of the Starmer project was simple and profound open.substack.com/pub/iandunt/...

NSF seems to have stopped making new awards last week. There have been no new awards from any directorate since Weds, June 3. Even with the slow pace of new awards this year, there's been a consistent trickle. Something stopped the flow. grant-witness.us/funding_curv... #NSF 🧪

Whichever of the purple dots you look at turns more purple.

Nice overview of the #AppleSilicon M1 die. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mHEWMiHgyU8

[US Politics] The Trump presidency is 33.7% done. That's over a third! I should, perhaps, have said 33.7% through its allotted term.

The Irish Weather This letter has been doing the rounds on social media so I thought I'd share it here because it is so truthful and accurate:

The Irish Weather

This letter has been doing the rounds on social media so I thought I'd share it here because it is so truthful and accurate:

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