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Unpopular opinion: using mocks will never make your tests better. It might make a crappy tightly coupled architecture bearable, but it’s a trap. If you are using mocks, you need to refactor.

Liver's cheap because there's low demand for it. If everyone started eating it, it would become expensive. And even if everyone loved it, it's only recommended that you eat it once a week, or you risk vitamin A toxicity. Would be nice if the secretary of HEALTH knew that!

SecDef Hegseth Announces Trans Scouts In Scouting America Will Be Outed, Segregated The policy is the latest in a trend of organizations capitulating to Trump over transgender people.

1. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has announced that under a new deal with Scouting America, formerly Boy Scouts of America, trans scouts will be forcibly outed and segregated from peers of their gender.

The policy is the latest cruel capitulation.

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Fucking sadists

Getting periods again now? Blame Greg Bovino

Uniquely Modern Weapons greysands.org/weapons

How AI helps break the cost barrier to COBOL modernization | Claude The economics of COBOL modernization have shifted. AI makes the economics work by automating what used to require armies of consultants.

May the garbage fires that come from this light the path.

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Number of workers on zero-hours contracts hits record high There has been a 181,000 increase in the number of zero-hours contracts since Labour was elected.

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Pluralistic: Socialist excellence in New York City (24 Feb 2026) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow pluralistic.net/2026/02/24/m...

Amazon BUSTED for Widespread Scheme to Inflate Prices Across the Economy California Attorney General Rob Bonta alleged Amazon led a price-fixing conspiracy of online retailers to inflate prices across the entire economy. And he's demanding an immediate halt.

Amazon BUSTED for Widespread Scheme to Inflate Prices Across the Economy www.thebignewsletter.com/p/amazon-bus...

Charlie Kirk repeatedly pushed the white supremacist Great Replacement Theory and regularly made racist comments in his public statements.

If we can't call someone so explicitly racist "a racist" without getting fired, who else is off limits?

Donald Trump? Nick Fuentes? David Duke?

Today we rescued a Goldcrest from the mouth of one of our cats. He was obviously traumatised and shaking, but, apart from that, he is fine. We named him Lazarus and he’ll be on his merry way tomorrow morning, after spending the night here. He’ll tell stories of alien abduction.

A new lawsuit alleges DHS illegally tracked and intimidated observers Observers watching federal immigration enforcement in Maine who were told by agents they were "domestic terrorists" and would be added to a "database" or "watchlist" are now part of a new federal class action lawsuit.

Observers watching federal immigration enforcement in Maine who were told by agents they were "domestic terrorists" and would be added to a "database" or "watchlist" are now part of a new federal class action lawsuit. n.pr/4s6JWgo

Due to prevailing rhetorical conditions, the discourse level this evening is DANGEROUS and potentially LIFE THREATENING. All avenues of discourse are hereby CLOSED and discourse is PROHIBITED until the discourse emergency has passed. This has been a message from the National Discourse Service.

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Pretty amazing that comms person at FBI called my @ms.now colleague @kendilanian-nbc.bsky.social a liar and demand a correction only for Kash to post a photo from the locker room

The Data Lords Are Taxing Our Water and Power to Build Their Castles | Common Dreams Data center dukes and barons appropriate land and resources while indirectly taxing the middle and lower class through higher utility bills.

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A person would have to donate plasma 700 times to supply enough to create one plasma television.

No wonder they don't make them anymore.

It was a perfectly valid solution to the problem as it was stated.

Remember the "Artificial Lack of Intelligence" episode of Silicon Valley where Gilfoyle removes his code?
Well...

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The U.S. spent $30 billion to ditch textbooks for laptops and tablets: The result is the first generation less cognitively capable than their parents | Fortune Neuroscientist Jared Cooney Horvath said older generations “screwed up” giving students access to so much technology: “I genuinely hope Gen Z quickly figures that out and gets mad.”

“Horvath noted not only dipping test scores, but also a stark correlation in scores and time spent on computers in school, such that more screen time was related to worse scores. He blamed students having unfettered access to technology that atrophied rather than bolstered learning capabilities.”

Don't Accomplish Everything P50 goals, the shift to exploration, & managing in spite of volatility

Don't Accomplish Everything - by Kent Beck tidyfirst.substack.com/p/dont-accom...

Something Bigger Than AI is Happening Pay attention and read every single word please.

Something Bigger Than AI is Happening - by Shae O. shaeomonijo.substack.com/p/something-...

My journey to the microwave alternate timeline — LessWrong Recommended soundtrack for this post • As we all know, the march of technological progress is best summarized by this meme from Linkedin: …

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Stop Thinking of AI as a Coworker. It's an Exoskeleton. | Kasava www.kasava.dev/blog/ai-as-e...

Exclusive: US plans online portal to bypass content bans in Europe and elsewhere The portal could potentially put Washington in the unfamiliar position of appearing to encourage citizens to flout local laws.

Exclusive: US plans online portal to bypass content bans in Europe and elsewhere | Reuters www.reuters.com/world/us-pla...

Taalas Etches AI Models Onto Transistors To Rocket Boost Inference Adding big blocks of SRAM to collections of AI tensor engines, or better still, a waferscale collection of such engines, turbocharges AI inference, as has

Taalas Etches AI Models Onto Transistors To Rocket Boost Inference www.nextplatform.com/2026/02/19/t...

The only way to make it better is with a green CRT ;-)

The Left Doesn't Hate Technology, We Hate Being Exploited Techno-cynics are all just wounded techno-optimists.

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