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Amazed and relieved at the degree to which the coalition have fumbled this election campaign. Hopefully Albanese can land the plane

Just a legal historian here reminding everyone that “high crimes and misdemeanors” do not need to be felonies. They can include political abuses and stupidity, like, hypothetically, destroying the economy and wiping out people’s savings in 3 days.

Right now there are a lot of new eyes on Signal, and not all of them are familiar with secure messaging and its nuances. Which means there’s misinfo flying around that might drive people away from Signal and private communications. 1/

ENCRYPTED COMMUNICATIONS BANGER SKEET JUST DROPPED 13 years ago @scott.hanselman.com

If it’s a choice between good AI and privacy on my phone, I choose privacy

It was literally the perfect American war. Mountains of cash for the military-industrial complex, far away, and no American lives on the line

the most surprising and disappointing aspect of becoming a global health philanthropist is the existence of an opposition team

FFS. If you don’t like Copilot then just don’t use it. There’s plenty of other features in Word that you don’t use. It’s not that hard. This performative outrage over AI features being added to software is such a pointless waste of energy

Yeah, it happened.

Why the fuck is the “don’t step on me” party going around trying to strong-arm restaurants into changing their recipes? www.reuters.com/business/ret...

Get what everyone’s got between their legs locked down, and everything else should just fall into place

Amazing. He’s too lazy and incompetent to even come up with his own bad ideas www.abc.net.au/news/2025-02...

It is impossible to prevent users with legitimate access to data from revealing it to others. If they can see it they screenshot it, write it down, or even remember it with their brains and tell others about it…

Sigh…

Normalize pronouncing DOGE as DOUCHE.

Received a letter from POTUS today purporting to remove me as Commissioner and Chair of the FEC. There's a legal way to replace FEC commissioners-this isn't it. I've been so fortunate to serve the American people and stir up some good trouble along the way. That's not changing anytime soon.

FBI Uncovers Al-Qaeda Plot To Just Sit Back And Enjoy Collapse Of United States

404 - A declassified World War II-era government guide to “simple sabotage” is currently one of the most popular open source books on the internet. www.404media.co/declassified...

I spoke to a talented junior scientist who just got a good faculty job offer in the US and they told me “well I wouldn’t move to 1930s Germany either” so that’s how that’s going

Apple Health estimate death date based on walking activity

A small Chinese artificial intelligence lab, DeepSeek, stunned the world by revealing the technical recipe for its cutting-edge model, turning its reclusive leader into a national hero. Find out how the start-up shocked Silicon Valley: on.ft.com/4jvooqi

“Corporations have neither bodies to be punished, nor souls to be condemned, they therefore do as they like.” - Edward Thurlow, Lord Chancellor of Great Britain (1778 to 1783, 1783 to 1792)

Chill-out Apple Weather - it does this EVERY year

ssd.eff.org#index EFF has a great resource for personal privacy here, even if you don't read the whole thing, it breaks everything down by lists topical to specific interests.

This is just sick. This woman poisoned her child for likes and sympathy online www.abc.net.au/news/2025-01...

“If headlines around the world are any indication, 2025 is already set to be a year of radical uncertainty. To understand that world and to navigate it, we would be well served to embrace the old slogan: ad fontes – back to the sources.“ engelsbergideas.com/essays/the-p...

Of course it won’t actually happen until Trump has been in office for a week, at which point he will promptly take all the credit

Excel is to the US what roads were to Rome

The John Le Carré Advent Calendar - My cartoon for this week’s @theguardian.com Books. (with apologies to @realjohnlecarre.bsky.social and @harkaway.bsky.social)

Utterly incomprehensible nonsense from Peter Thiel. “In hindsight, the internet had already begun our liberation from the DISC prison upon the prison death of financier and child sex offender Jeffrey Epstein in 2019.”

Listen to different audio on each AirPod

Good. They’re crooked as a corkscrew and profit off human misery. The sooner they crash and burn the better off Australians will be

I use this all the time

I'm dead 🤣😅

This is getting exhausting, so I’m going back to my old Twitter rules of muting any mention of Trump or Elon. Highly recommend

When git bisect works, it's like actual magic

Yup. The language is machine code. The usage is generating machine code with languages that make it easy to screw up and deference null pointer etc.

Did you know that .NET has LOTS of useful metrics built in: learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet... #dotnet

We’ve entered the part of Christmas Eve where I mostly just put Muppet Christmas Carol on repeat.

Insane.

on the other hand, it's providing an excellent education in computer network protocols and questioning authority, both essential life skills.

happy black friday everyone