we need a real plan to stop racists. asking people to fix their hearts isn't going to work without pressure. one thing i'm a fan of is making the targets of bullies and bigots harder to mess with. don't let people just say shit about muslims or trans people or migrants. don't nod to avoid conflict

@news.sky.com Im interested to know the rationale for constantly showing US news during prime time when lots of UK news stories are relegated to the side bar on the TV. Can we not report on politics in the UK?

"Piece of paper"… like a passport… or a visa application? 👀

Sunder Katwala (sundersays)@sundersays.bsky.social · 2w ago

Nigel Farage on whether his gifts/donations were declarable: “All right, perhaps I should have filled in a piece of paper. If that’s the worst thing I’ve done in life — not filling in a form — I would say that’s not too bad.” “I’ve certainly been judged guilty already by the liberal establishment.”

Gabby: What was your highlight of the half time show? Wayne Rooney: When it finished. I thought it was crap. 10/10 punditry. No notes.

So far this is the worst World Cup Final ever

Nuxt 4.5 is out, and it's a big one. 🚀 - ⚡️ Vite 8 - 🦀 Rspack 2, now powered by Rsbuild - 🌊 experimental SSR streaming for faster TTFB - 🩺 a new stable error code system - 🎨 useLayout, named views, and more ... plus a lot of groundwork for Nuxt 5! 💚💚💚

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Nuxt 4.5 is our biggest release in a while. Vite 8, Rspack 2 powered by Rsbuild, experimental SSR streaming, a stable error code system, a new useLayout composable, named views, and a lot of groundwor...

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Messi goes super saiyan in the last 20 of every match and every opposing coach is like, what if he didn’t and we could just defend a narrow lead until the whistle

Light is the left hand of darkness and darkness the right hand of light. Two are one, life and death, lying together like lovers in kemmer, like hands joined together, like the end and the way.

Le Guin on the idea that there is a secret to getting good at writing.

Good read - I see this happening leaddev.com/ai/ai-produc...

AI productivity is burning out your best engineers

Why mid-level engineers are burning out under the cost of AI productivity and four changes to make before your best people leave.

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I don't want to hear another word about how much white European visitors are enjoying ranch dressing while team officials, Africa's top referee, and now one of the world's most celebrated fans are turned away from the World Cup. The USA is an utterly unfit host — it's as simple as that

DR Congo superfan denied US visa to support team at World Cup

Michel Kuka Mboladinga is iconic for his motionless tribute at DRC games, but a US World Cup repeat has been denied.

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I look forward to the day when I no longer have to see issues and pull requests with blatant obvious AI slop. I hate it so much. It makes me not want to code anymore.

Ford has rehired hundreds of senior engineers after replacing them with AI backfired and has cost the company billions of dollars. AI adoption is blamed for Ford being the most recalled automaker in the U.S. with 51 recalls covering over 11 million vehicles in the first half of 2026 alone.

The Carnival Against Fascism crowd on the left, vastly outnumbering the right wing on the right. Brighton brought the noise! Love and solidarity X Pic courtesy of Sussex Police

Credit to the residents of Brighton wholeheartedly. Criticise it all you want but you're wrong. The people of this city are the most welcoming and least willing to put up with this shit of anywhere in the UK. Come try it, it always ends up like this.

Love this city. The racists are all stuck in a shit pub rn being yelled at by *checks notes* Fatboy slim?

I fucking love Brighton 🤩

Trinket@trinketbirdy.bsky.social · 2mo ago

No seriously they're stuck in a shit pub being yelled at by Fatboy Slim

I'm basically interacting regularly with gen AI tech as if I'm a massive AI booster a lot these days. Low energy local model but that's what I'm doing. Partly due to it being mandatory in my work, partly I want to test my skepticism and better qualify what it does do not just what it doesn't.

If you use LLMs to do your data analysis, or if you listen to people who do, you should read this kucharski.substack.com/p/real-signa...

Real signals or artificial stereotypes?

Adventures with a cultural Copilot

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🚀Rolldown 1.0 is here!🚀 Rust-based high-performance JavaScript bundler. 🏎️ Runs at native speed that’s up 30x faster than Rollup 🤝 Compatible with existing Rollup & Vite plugins ⚡The underlying bunder for Vite After 2 years, Rolldown is officially stable and has 20+M weekly downloads.

Brevity is the skill

I think everyone who thinks that it is no longer necessary to understand software engineering principles because of AI should spend a few minutes every day browsing /r/vibecoding. It's so so clear that technical skills are still worthwhile.

Something shocking and out of the ordinary is happening in the UK. While in most comparable countries, healthy life expectancy is rising, here it is plunging steeply. Q. So what marks us out? A. 47 years of extreme neoliberalism, culminating in austerity. www.health.org.uk/reports-and-...

two things I believe 100% about finding intelligent life in the universe 1) we won't 2) it's totally out there

I consistently repeat to folks that they do not in fact ever *succeed* on their own. Sometimes the assistance is visible, often it is submerged. None of the USian billionaires *succeeded* on their own. In fact, most of them continue to benefit from your money, labor, etc....

AI will take over all developer jooooo… **system error: you have run of tokens — please try again after 3d 6h 12m**

Generating software faster, or automating busywork, doesn't guarantee success in business.

One of the hardest things to get across to most software people with great intentions is *how strong defaults are* and how tired everyone else is of dorking around trying to get things to work, but this understanding is the thing that made Apple, for all its many flaws, such a giant.

dan@danabra.mov · 4mo ago

@toni.bsky.team @alexbenzer.com i think yall need to wrestle with the fact that the app’s most distinctive feature (“custom feeds”) is something only (relative) nerds use and benefit from. normal people won’t swipe between many algorithms or whatever. have a look at past designs for “communities”

More context on this #Artemis II image: * This is the night side, lit by moonlight. You can see city lights in Spain & Portugal, & a sliver of day at lower right * The Sun is entirely behind Earth, which makes it a kind of solar eclipse, but w/ Earth doing the eclipsing instead of the Moon: ☀️🌍🚀🌕

This is half the point of Ursula K Le Guin’s The Dispossessed! Being a leftist or even living in a utopian society doesn’t free you from the everyday pettiness and social conflict that come with just being a human being who exists around other human beings, especially when ambition is involved.

Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist@nameshiv.bsky.social · 5mo ago

No shade at OP but this is like when capitalists go "free market just gives everyone more choice" lol I've been in a room with 2+ leftist/socialists and I can assure you that "we are in cooperation not competition" is not just the opposite of what happens but you can set your watch to it happening