A king on a sumptuous, much elaborated throne; in one hand he holds a sceptre of office, in the other, the leashes for two fierce stone dogs that guard the throne. The king's head has been replaced with a character who was used as the basis for MAD Magazine's Alfred E Neumann. The new head sports a conical dunce cap. Behind the king is a large group of 1960s business men, seated and standing, in conservative suits. The background is the view from the 80th floor of World Trade Center 3. The floor has been carpeted in sumptuous tabriz from the Ottoman court.
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Today's threads (a thread)
Inside: Billionaires are a danger to themselves and (especially) us; and more!
Archived at: pluralistic.net/2026/03/09/a...
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09.03.2026 17:52
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RECCO - Wikipedia
Just discovered my son's ski suit has this built into the arm. Never even realised, it's second hand! Clever stuff... π
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RECCO
08.03.2026 10:47
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Texas public school teachers are now required to post the Ten Commandments in their classroom. Hereβs how one teacher is handling it.
28.02.2026 16:06
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TIL #Mattermost have pulled LDAP and SSO support for their free version. This is some bullshit. I no longer recommend this service.
25.02.2026 13:59
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First night of #SanRemo !!! π΅
Hurrah for the RAI app.
24.02.2026 19:53
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Reminder that Charles Kushner (Jared's dad), hired a prostitute to sleep with his brother in law, videotape it, in order to blackmail his sister against cooperating with a federal probe into his fraud. She cooperated anyways, he was sent to prison, then later pardoned by Trump.
24.02.2026 11:45
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Apparently Trump's plan for defeating Greenland involves making everyone there fill out forms and wait on hold with the insurance company until they surrender.
Could actually work, come to think of it.
22.02.2026 16:48
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TIL #OpenWebUI always makes a call out to @huggingface on startup unless you set `export OFFLINE_MODE=true`. (Yes, I have paranoid firewall rules. It took me a while to figure out why it wouldn't start.)
20.02.2026 15:58
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Hurrah! Just built a #Scaleway CPU instance from scratch and configured it with our #Ansible tools. Pleased with that. A few kinks to iron out, but we're pretty close now. π
20.02.2026 13:30
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We need to share something important about Mautic's financial situation and what we're doing about it. π§΅
Earlier this year, re-budgeting and membership changes created a $50k revenue gap. For an open source project on lean margins, that's significant.
12.02.2026 16:24
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[Epstein]
I'm astounded this isn't being more widely reported:
"Rep. Ted Lieu Claims President Trump is Accused of Raping Children in the Epstein Files"
https://www.c-span.org/clip/news-conference/rep-ted-lieu-claims-president-trump-is-accused-of-raping-children-in-the-epstein-files/5191713
19.02.2026 12:36
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Also, #OpenWebUI seems to assume the models will be on the same server, and installs a load of crap you don't *really* need if you're separating out the web UI on to a separate machine from the GPUs...
17.02.2026 18:13
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TIL that by default #Scaleway CPU instances (well, #Debian ones at least) have /tmp set up as a 2GB tmpfs partition. Which is probably fine until something like `pip` wants to stash more than 2GB-worth of downloads in it. π¬
Running my pip command with `export TMPDIR='/var/tmp';` prior to it.
17.02.2026 18:11
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So this is quite terrifying, really:
https://theshamblog.com/an-ai-agent-published-a-hit-piece-on-me-part-2/
#AI
17.02.2026 10:06
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Drupal Camp England | Sat, 28 Feb 2026 - 12:00 - Sun, 1 Mar 2026 - 12:00 | University of Salford, Manchester | DrupalCamp England
We have a couple of spare @DrupalCampEngland tickets going, if anybody wants them. The event is in Salford, Manchester, UK, over the weekend of 28th Feb:
https://www.drupalcampengland.org/
#drupal
17.02.2026 10:39
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DrupalCamp Grenoble 2026 | jeu, 9 Avr 2026 - 12:00 - sam, 11 Avr 2026 - 12:00 | Grenoble, France | Grenoble Drupal Camp
Encore quelques jours pour dΓ©poser votre sujet pour le Drupalcamp Grenoble, allez on se dΓ©pΓͺche.
A few more days to submit your topic for Drupalcamp Grenoble, let's hurry.
grenoble2026.drupalcamp.fr
#drupal #drupalfr #drupalcamp #dcgrenoble
16.02.2026 09:42
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Street photo of a JCDecaux bus shelter at a roadside stop, with bare winter trees, traffic lights, and cars in the background. The backlit ad panel shows a large poster of a male footballer in a red jersey seen in profile, looking left, with rain-speckled glass and street reflections across the image. Bold white all-caps text on the poster reads: βIMMIGRATION HAS DONE MORE FOR THIS CITY THAN BILLIONAIRE TAX DODGERS EVER WILL.β
It's somehow funny that people still believe it's immigrants who are dangerous and not billionaires.
everyonehateselon_: Jim Ratcliffe blames immigrants so you donβt blame tax dodging billionaires like him. Donβt believe the lies.
14.02.2026 18:56
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Just tried @nextcloud Talk. OMG, it just works. I'm seriously impressed. Nice feature to keep your calls in the context of group chats as well.
12.02.2026 16:24
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In case anyone was still thinking about going...
https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/articles/c62g4322ywno
#ice #worldcup
11.02.2026 22:13
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Here's alt text describing the image, based on the provided context:
A daytime view shows the Houses of Parliament and Big Ben in London, England, reflected in the River Thames. A boat is visible on the water near the Houses of Parliament.
10.02.2026 19:15
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For almost a year all the nationwide polling in the UK has pointed to Reform winning the next general election, although they'd probably have to go into coalition with the Conservatives. It's still some years off, but is the UK heading for its Donald Trump moment? I sincerely hope not.
09.02.2026 13:12
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Paolo the dog (griffon/Staffie mix) in a selfie with me.
My friend Paolo and I are having a beard growing competition. I think he's winning...
08.02.2026 18:58
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I just noticed #GitHub have started charging a 6% transaction fee if you sponsor someone via them. Pffff... might have to do more direct sponsorship.
06.02.2026 11:57
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04.02.2026 08:17
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