Greg Harvey

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. Image: Aude (modified) https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:80th_floor_of_3_World_Trade_Center_-_OHNY.jpg CC BY 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/deed.en

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Inside: Billionaires are a danger to themselves and (especially) us; and more!

Archived at: pluralistic.net/2026/03/09/a...

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What I Learned Using AI for Drupal Development Tag1 Senior Drupal Developer Ajit Shinde shares how he used AI to solve Trash module taxonomy challenges and speed up test-driven development in Drupal projects.

Reading this feels to me like a version of that #AI study where the researchers discovered developers *felt* like they were going faster with AI but were actually going slower:
https://www.tag1.com/blog/using-ai-for-drupal-development/

RECCO - Wikipedia

Just discovered my son's ski suit has this built into the arm. Never even realised, it's second hand! Clever stuff... 😎

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RECCO

I approve! #ev #charging

https://www.electrive.com/2026/03/03/bristol-gains-150-new-ev-charging-points/

Texas public school teachers are now required to post the Ten Commandments in their classroom. Here’s how one teacher is handling it.

TIL #Mattermost have pulled LDAP and SSO support for their free version. This is some bullshit. I no longer recommend this service.

#! code Meetup March 2026 · Zoom · Luma This is the first #! code monthly meetup. This is a general web dev meetup where we discuss all things related to the web development industry. For our first…

NWDUG is dead, long live NWDUG! Meet the @hashbangcode online meetup, the Phoenix from the flames! Everybody is welcome! 😎
https://luma.com/kyr1krhe

#drupal #php

First night of #SanRemo !!! 🎵
Hurrah for the RAI app.

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.

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.

Trump says he’s sending a hospital boat to Greenland | CNN Politics President Donald Trump said Saturday that he is sending a hospital boat to Greenland, the Arctic island and Danish territory he has sought to acquire.

[uspol]

"It is unclear what Trump was referring to in his post. Greenland and Denmark have free, nationalized health care systems."

🙄

https://edition.cnn.com/2026/02/21/politics/trump-greenland-hospital-boat

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.)

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. 😎

We need to share something important about Mautic's financial situation and what we're doing about it. 🧵

Earlier this year, re-budgeting and membership changes created a $50k revenue gap. For an open source project on lean margins, that's significant.

[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

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...

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. 😬

Running my pip command with `export TMPDIR='/var/tmp';` prior to it.

So this is quite terrifying, really:
https://theshamblog.com/an-ai-agent-published-a-hit-piece-on-me-part-2/

#AI

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

Encore quelques jours pour déposer votre sujet pour le Drupalcamp Grenoble, allez on se dépêche.
A few more days to submit your topic for Drupalcamp Grenoble, let's hurry.
grenoble2026.drupalcamp.fr

#drupal #drupalfr #drupalcamp #dcgrenoble

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: “IMMIGRATION HAS DONE MORE FOR THIS CITY THAN BILLIONAIRE TAX DODGERS EVER WILL.”

It's somehow funny that people still believe it's immigrants who are dangerous and not billionaires.

everyonehateselon_: Jim Ratcliffe blames immigrants so you don’t blame tax dodging billionaires like him. Don’t believe the lies.

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.

In case anyone was still thinking about going...

https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/articles/c62g4322ywno

#ice #worldcup

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.

Ddev mr 2.x (!2934) · Merge requests · Code Enigma / ce-provision · GitLab Ansible based tools for managing Debian Linux servers and AWS infrastructure.

Yay! @ddev support for ce-provision #Ansible development! 😎

https://gitlab.com/code-enigma/ce-provision/-/merge_requests/2934

#DDEV #Docker

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.

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...

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.

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