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thanks to the government repeatedly capitulating to right-wing demands on immigration, the times of london now feels comfortable publishing "hurrah for the gestapo"
I read “It is hard to imagine that taking place in Britain” initially as “thank goodness”. Then I realised that Phillips *wants* this for Britain! He wants a Britain where visible minorities live in fear of abduction and deportation? WTAF?
Just a jaw-dropping paragraph in Trevor Phillips's column for The Times.
This is a policy that, by his own account, has left parents of a particular race too frightened to walk their children to school.
And that's the example he chooses of the "vigour" we "need".
www.thetimes.com/comment/colu...
This is a policy that, by his own account, has left parents of a particular race too frightened to walk their children to school.
And that's the example he chooses of the "vigour" we "need".
www.thetimes.com/comment/colu...
November 25, 2025 at 12:32 PM
thanks to the government repeatedly capitulating to right-wing demands on immigration, the times of london now feels comfortable publishing "hurrah for the gestapo"
I swear labour are just leaking bits of the budget and seeing what the line does
November 25, 2025 at 12:05 PM
I swear labour are just leaking bits of the budget and seeing what the line does
just learning that letting users run containers should be understood as giving them root, which is not remotely obvious b/c `docker run` itself does not require root and can be done by a normal user. really great ergonomics and affordances work here
November 25, 2025 at 11:59 AM
just learning that letting users run containers should be understood as giving them root, which is not remotely obvious b/c `docker run` itself does not require root and can be done by a normal user. really great ergonomics and affordances work here
starting to think putting the CI config inside the artefact it's supposed to be there to check was not a good idea
November 25, 2025 at 11:41 AM
starting to think putting the CI config inside the artefact it's supposed to be there to check was not a good idea
today I learned you can alter your access to a directory by mounting it into a docker container? is this intentional? socket.dev/blog/shai-hu...
Shai Hulud Strikes Again (v2) - Socket
Another wave of Shai-Hulud campaign has hit npm with more than 500 packages and 700+ versions affected.
socket.dev
November 25, 2025 at 11:25 AM
today I learned you can alter your access to a directory by mounting it into a docker container? is this intentional? socket.dev/blog/shai-hu...
ah cool, all the same mistakes as the ocaml dwarf PR: using LLMs to generate the code, to review the code, to test the code, etc. awful.systems/post/6382888
Don’t cite the Adversarial Poetry vs AI paper — it’s chatbot-made marketing ‘science’ - awful.systems
Not even poetically sound
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CnIDt3xATVw&list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CnIDt3xATVw&list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA] -
video
https://pivottoa...
awful.systems
November 25, 2025 at 11:17 AM
ah cool, all the same mistakes as the ocaml dwarf PR: using LLMs to generate the code, to review the code, to test the code, etc. awful.systems/post/6382888
it used to be that I knew half the people on the npm team personally. now I couldn't even name a single person working there. does anyone know anyone who can comment on this situation
November 25, 2025 at 10:38 AM
it used to be that I knew half the people on the npm team personally. now I couldn't even name a single person working there. does anyone know anyone who can comment on this situation
it is really astonishing that npm has not even publicly acknowledged the potentially ongoing credential-stealing worm attack. what is going on in there
November 25, 2025 at 10:19 AM
it is really astonishing that npm has not even publicly acknowledged the potentially ongoing credential-stealing worm attack. what is going on in there
mister tonly
![R. H. Bing (October 20, 1914 – April 28, 1986)[1] was an American mathematician who worked mainly in the areas of geometric topology and continuum theory.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cyyd366g3hrxp5rynixm2mm3/bafkreid62wy3dekb2kzbisjfdlimlb35j4rlgew5iof7vi32byfszmg26a@jpeg)
![Bing's father was named Rupert Henry, but Bing's mother thought that "Rupert Henry" was too British for Texas. Thus she compromised by abbreviating it to R. H.[5] Consequently, R. H. does not stand for a first or middle name.
When Bing was applying for a visa, he was requested not to use initials. He explained that his name was really "R-only H-only Bing", and ended up receiving a visa made out to "Ronly Honly Bing".](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cyyd366g3hrxp5rynixm2mm3/bafkreigmfj53q4uy33spga2bxdkllqm3ag5sffovg5g7ddmu3vqzkb6k24@jpeg)
November 25, 2025 at 9:25 AM
mister tonly
when you call console.log() this is what happens
November 24, 2025 at 11:19 PM
when you call console.log() this is what happens
"AI has a very deep understanding of how this code works. Please challenge me on this." a sufficient response to this would be "no it doesn't"
November 24, 2025 at 8:00 PM
"AI has a very deep understanding of how this code works. Please challenge me on this." a sufficient response to this would be "no it doesn't"
guy goes to write for the economist and forgets what capitalism is, makes sense
November 24, 2025 at 4:50 PM
guy goes to write for the economist and forgets what capitalism is, makes sense
also did we not get rid of postinstall scripts
November 24, 2025 at 3:16 PM
also did we not get rid of postinstall scripts
seems ~obvious to me that npm should yank all affected releases of packages here and should reinstate the ability for publishers to yank releases. unfortunately everybody took a knee-jerk entitled position after left-pad that yanking should never be allowed for any reason
November 24, 2025 at 3:10 PM
seems ~obvious to me that npm should yank all affected releases of packages here and should reinstate the ability for publishers to yank releases. unfortunately everybody took a knee-jerk entitled position after left-pad that yanking should never be allowed for any reason
does anyone know why this latest npm worm can propagate despite the new 2fa requirements that npm implemented recently? helixguard.ai/blog/malicio...
HelixGuard
Supply chain security, vulnerability intelligence, and malware detection.
helixguard.ai
November 24, 2025 at 2:56 PM
does anyone know why this latest npm worm can propagate despite the new 2fa requirements that npm implemented recently? helixguard.ai/blog/malicio...
I got into journalism to speak* truth** to power***
* print
** endless articles
*** of wealthy people bleating about paying taxes
** endless articles
*** of wealthy people bleating about paying taxes
November 24, 2025 at 2:35 PM
I got into journalism to speak* truth** to power***
* print
** endless articles
*** of wealthy people bleating about paying taxes
** endless articles
*** of wealthy people bleating about paying taxes
call me ishmael, charlie brown
November 24, 2025 at 2:01 PM
call me ishmael, charlie brown
"this black friday season" I'm sorry what the hell are you talking about
November 24, 2025 at 1:53 PM
"this black friday season" I'm sorry what the hell are you talking about
gravity's rainbow (1973)
Terumaru, a bright young lightbulb and the mascot of the Tokyu Denki electric company, trapped in a door yesterday:
November 24, 2025 at 12:26 PM
gravity's rainbow (1973)
strongly suspect that the twitter location data is inferred from a bunch of heuristics, some of which may be AI content analysis, and is very frequently wrong
November 24, 2025 at 10:02 AM
strongly suspect that the twitter location data is inferred from a bunch of heuristics, some of which may be AI content analysis, and is very frequently wrong
fun side effect of AI is I now hate this typeface and have to see it everywhere. also why can't it count to 19
November 23, 2025 at 9:58 PM
fun side effect of AI is I now hate this typeface and have to see it everywhere. also why can't it count to 19
so it's a fight between these guys and the ones building a big mirror to banish the night
A 25-person startup is developing technology to block the sun and turn down the planet’s thermostat.
The stakes are huge — and the company and its critics say regulations need to catch up.
Read more: politi.co/4iaojIc
The stakes are huge — and the company and its critics say regulations need to catch up.
Read more: politi.co/4iaojIc
November 23, 2025 at 9:16 PM
so it's a fight between these guys and the ones building a big mirror to banish the night
this is the sort of thing that gets produced by a culture where people are incentivised to bullshit their way through life instead of saying they don't know something
November 23, 2025 at 1:52 PM
this is the sort of thing that gets produced by a culture where people are incentivised to bullshit their way through life instead of saying they don't know something
one americanism I really wish had not infected every piece of software I use is "the week starts on sunday"
November 23, 2025 at 1:45 PM
one americanism I really wish had not infected every piece of software I use is "the week starts on sunday"
I've seen several posts claiming that turning off smart features in gmail breaks filtering. this isn't true; I did not enable smart features when I was first prompted to do so and all my filters still work. my email would be absolutely unusable without them
November 23, 2025 at 1:39 PM
I've seen several posts claiming that turning off smart features in gmail breaks filtering. this isn't true; I did not enable smart features when I was first prompted to do so and all my filters still work. my email would be absolutely unusable without them