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Gordon Guthrie @foundationsofthedigitalstate.com · 3h

disinformation - its proper Israeliwood

Jack Sapoch @jacksapoch.bsky.social · 5h

Others assets came from scans made by the Scottish Maritime Museum of their boat-building workshop which was downloaded (via @sketchfab.bsky.social) and reimagined by the IDF adornments for underground missile factories.

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Gordon Guthrie @foundationsofthedigitalstate.com · 4h

Roma

an old set of monumental arches with decorative statuary

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Gordon Guthrie @foundationsofthedigitalstate.com · 5h

Roma

Street in the early evening after the sun has set but still dusk, a cobalt blue sky cutting into lit yellow streets

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Gordon Guthrie @foundationsofthedigitalstate.com · 5h

Roma (lol)

The Highlander Scottish pub in Via della Lupa Rome, well ya have to

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Jenny Cohn @jennycohn.bsky.social · 5h

MAGA is freaking out & splintering over a leaked text chain—which TPUSA’s Andrew Kolvet says is real—where Kirk wrote “Just lost another Jewish donor…Jewish donors play into all the stereotypes. I cannot & will not be bullied like this. Leaving me no choice but to leave the pro Israel cause.” 1/

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Gordon Guthrie @foundationsofthedigitalstate.com · 5h

Roma

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Gordon Guthrie @foundationsofthedigitalstate.com · 9h

I aspired to be that good

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Gordon Guthrie @foundationsofthedigitalstate.com · 10h

And I have 3 bridges over the Seine to sell you...

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Gordon Guthrie @foundationsofthedigitalstate.com · 10h

Ferhad Abbas of the PPA represented 360,000 electors. The 5,000 whites in Cameroon were in an electoral division with the same number of seats as the 1m Africans

"We don't know, can never know if France has elected a female, Muslim or black President because we are a colour-blind, secular Republic"

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Gordon Guthrie @foundationsofthedigitalstate.com · 10h

Because there is a rotten lie at the heart of the French State.

De Gaulle proclaimed the French Union of 110m people in Brazaville in 1944

In 1948 all 110m had the vote and lo! the 45m (whites) of the Hexagon (and their internal ex-pats) won a huge majority of seats

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Gordon Guthrie @foundationsofthedigitalstate.com · 11h

I don't think there is any <slavery denial> in the sense of Irish-American <bonded service was slavery but you don't see any of us moaning> but there is an undercurrent of <first colony> which does serve as blame displacement and is not well considered by the leadership

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Gordon Guthrie @foundationsofthedigitalstate.com · 11h

I keep saying to people that the way to get insane growth rates is to turn peasants into urban workers at a pace

South Korea has 50m people in a country the size of Scotland

Find country of peasants and build a city of 5m for them in the Central Belt, presto, massive growth rate

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Gordon Guthrie @foundationsofthedigitalstate.com · 12h

my CTO at the last gaff used to say "all tech problems are people problems at scale"

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Gordon Guthrie @foundationsofthedigitalstate.com · 13h

and that the manuals come in Russian

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peterkwells @peterkwells.com · 14h

The "sovereign AI infrastructure" at the bottom of the FT picture made me spill my coffee

Jacob Aron @jjaron.bsky.social · 15h

Honestly, when the financial press starts printing diagrams like this, isn't it time for a regulator to step in?

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Gordon Guthrie @foundationsofthedigitalstate.com · 13h

he must have done a wry smile at 🎵 When 2 Tribes Go To War 🎵

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Gordon Guthrie @foundationsofthedigitalstate.com · 13h

went to Ukraine on holiday, thanks to an exchange rate fuck up left with £400 in Hyrivna 5 or 6 years ago

Tried to change it in Kraków, hoo-boy did the Poles look down on me

Tried to change it in Edinburgh, no can do too

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Gordon Guthrie @foundationsofthedigitalstate.com · 15h

good read

William Cullerne Bown @williamcb.bsky.social · 15h

The Cabinet reshuffle has clarified Britain’s ambiguous relationship with American Big Tech, I argue here in Renewal.

Renewal @renewaljournal.bsky.social · 1d

"It is hard now to think of a touch point for Big Tech with the UK state that does not fall under the auspices of the Blairites"

@williamcb.bsky.social analyses the government's relationship with Big Tech in light of the recent Cabinet reshuffle

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William Cullerne Bown @williamcb.bsky.social · 15h

The Cabinet reshuffle has clarified Britain’s ambiguous relationship with American Big Tech, I argue here in Renewal.

Renewal @renewaljournal.bsky.social · 1d

"It is hard now to think of a touch point for Big Tech with the UK state that does not fall under the auspices of the Blairites"

@williamcb.bsky.social analyses the government's relationship with Big Tech in light of the recent Cabinet reshuffle

Britain's Big Tech problem

The essence of a banana republic is that the state has the legal form of a republic but substantive power resides elsewhere, in the hands of American corporations backed by a US state that considers t...

renewal.org.uk

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Gordon Guthrie @foundationsofthedigitalstate.com · 15h

Ciao Civita

moody sky scape over hills lit by early morning sun

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Gordon Guthrie @foundationsofthedigitalstate.com · 1d

I remember my 22nd - use of a common data area in Fortran - a global variable

2 years later I spent 8 months debugging that bug

Now I am an Erlang prog, where variables dont fuckin vary

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Terence Eden @edent.tel · 1d

New blog post: How to *actually* test your readme

https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2025/10/how-to-actually-test-your-readme/

If you've spent any time using Linux, you'll be used to installing software like this: The README says to download from this link. Huh, I'm not sure how to unarchive .tar.xz …

How to *actually* test your readme

If you've spent any time using Linux, you'll be used to installing software like this: The README says to download from this link. Huh, I'm not sure how to unarchive .tar.xz files - guess I'll search for that. Right, it says run setup.sh hmm, that doesn't work. Oh, I need to set the permissions. What was the chmod command again? OK, that's working. Wait, it needs sudo. Let me run that again.…

shkspr.mobi

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Gordon Guthrie @foundationsofthedigitalstate.com · 1d

this all the way. I develop inside docker and do my install as a docker file so that its unambiguos and repeatable

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Gordon Guthrie @foundationsofthedigitalstate.com · 1d

its turns a shutdown into a general strike? why would you go to work?

Gordon Guthrie @foundationsofthedigitalstate.com · 1d

How to turn a shutdown into a General Strike

This is the most optimistic I've felt in months TBQH

Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 1d

Typically, federal government shutdowns don't have much macroeconomic impact because all the workers receive backpay after they return. If they never get paid at all, that changes things quite a bit. www.axios.com/2025/10/07/t...

Scoop: White House memo says furloughed federal workers aren't entitled to backpay

A move to deny backpay to up to 750,000 furloughed workers would dramatically escalate Trump's pressure on Democrats to end the shutdown.

www.axios.com

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