Silly, or dark pattern to force you to keep them on?
01.03.2026 17:12
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Silly, or dark pattern to force you to keep them on?
Are you watching Dirty Business?
Is it making you angry?
Sign Surfers Against Sewage Petition you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/en...
📝 A priority of consituencies for my idle hands daverupert.com/2026/02/comp...
Reform UK Reform would create ICE-style agency and end leave to remain, Zia Yusuf to say 8h ago
Disgusting and reprehensible though this is, because of the "unique way political neutrality works" in the UK, it is useful for someone to say the quiet part out loud because then it becomes a real thing to be deflected, rather than a hypothetical political imaginary to be lightly conjured
I can’t comment on the training, but we used to use them for testing at a place I used to work, and they were excellent.
digitalaccessibilitycentre.org/trainingandc...
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Farage's claims here are straightforward lies (and it's about time the media/press said so)
The correct figures are 160K (0.3%) and 900K (1.5%)
www.gbnews.com/news/video-n...
The duration of the Level 2 bricklaying apprenticeship endorsed by the UK government is 24 months. It's equivalent to a GCSE.
A Level 3 (equivalent to A-Level) bricklaying apprenticeship required for senior roles is a further 18 months.
But sure, you can train a software developer in 12 weeks.
I wrote a blog around my recent hands-on experiences with various AI Tools and where I’ve found them to be.
It’s not a deep dive, just a code / design based mini-exploration.
better-outcom.es/blog/thought...
Get Palantir out of the NHS
https://notopalantir.goodlawproject.org/email-to-target/stop-palantir-in-the-nhs/?utm_source=bluesky&utm_campaign=PalantirNHS&utm_medium=social_media
Language models & "AI-assisted" coding are feasible without these things. I'm pro that.
I'm not "anti-AI". I'm anti:
* Shipping code at LGTM-speed
* Replacing user research & feedback with hallucinations
* Abdicating thinking
* BDUF in .md files
* Burning the planet for - in most cases - lower productivity & worse reliability
* Stealing IP on an industrial scale
* Technofeudalism
Become uncontainable
Please tell me they use the kung-fu fighting riff as the sound track!
Green party leader branded the strikes a breach of international law. The conservatives party said it was important to understand the full facts before rushing to judgment.
On BBC News today: striking that it’s the two old establishment parties - Labour and the Conservatives - refusing to condemn the US breaking international law and doing what it wants.
Feels like politics stuck in the past, while the public has clearly moved on.
Big bird sitting in a meeting room with Serious People™. The caption reads "Me at work for the first time in two weeks trying to remember what it is I do."
Who's ready for tomorrow?
Tech leaders have pivoted from trying to 10x their dev teams to asking "But what if it *didn't* have to work?"
Some reflections on the difference between seeing systemic problems and being responsible for fixing them, and how authority, boundaries, and neurodivergence shape what makes meaningful change possible.
💯 all of this! This is a brilliant read. Thanks.
Infographic with AI slop published in Nature Scientific Reports
"Runctitiononal features"? "Medical fymblal"? "1 Tol Line storee"? This gets worse the longer you look at it. But it's got to be good, because it was published in Nature Scientific Reports last week: www.nature.com/articles/s41... h/t @asa.tsbalans.se
A bit of a vulnerable post by me but we need your help to get us through what has been a more difficult period than 2020.
It would be really appreciated if you could read and share in your networks too 💛
bell.bz/its-been-a-v...
In which I articulate the case that AGI is impossible and machines just plain cannot think. www.eruditorumpress.com/blog/on-inco...
I don't usually care much for conspiracy theories, but that is usually only because they aren't so extremely demonstrably true.
We are actually witnessing a coordinated attack on all our democracies by the richest people in the world.
World War 3 is a class war!!!
www.authoritarian-stack.info
This might be of interest to a few people
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Apply by 30 November
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Max, head vampire - the lost boys
Amazon just announced 14,000 layoffs. Its CEO made over $40M last year.
UPS announced 48,000 layoffs. Its CEO made over $24M last year.
Intel announced 20,000 layoffs. Its new CEO's pay package is valued at nearly $69M.
This is what I mean when I say the system is rigged.
My colleagues & I have taken a huge gamble to set up @thenerve.news We’re trying to build a new independent publication from the ground up. Social media is our only distribution for now.
Sharing this article in your networks would make a huge difference. Thank you! 🙏🙏🙏
It is possible to cherish the BBC as an institution while also saying that BBC News is failing very badly, day after day, in its duty to inform and that it always fails in a right-wing direction. It desperately needs to recover its integrity
It’s in that place I left that thing that time!
