I do not intend to welcome 2023. I will head butt it to establish dominance. It’s the only language these years understand.

starting the new year watching a guy love his job too fucking much with more energy than a triple espresso can give me. I already know any resolutions I make are doomed. Thanks Sam Ryder

Driver of an ideological wrecking project chastises man who used a different ideological wrecking project for political expediency.

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I am a victim of the most trivial of curses, which is reading about pickleball once and becoming my wife’s chief pickleball explainer every time the NYT references it in the crossword

this japanese vlogger lady i watch has become blackpilled

Lots of people making fun of the Met for not having anything better to investigate, but did they consider the officers who can’t do anything better than manning the complaint box? I thought not bbc.co.uk/news/uk-englan…

If your workplace has a big SRE team, it's important to consider their UX when you're writing your software. You've gotta make it easy for your SREs to manage your software correctly. blog.adamchalmers.com/signals-vs-ser…

Today we're announcing Wildebeest, an open-source, easy-to-deploy ActivityPub and Mastodon-compatible server built entirely on top of Cloudflare's Supercloud cfl.re/3DOJA7y

Why did early microprocessors have decimal (aka BCD, binary coded decimal) arithmetic instructions? A short thread.

this is what its all about. just hanging out with the boys building contraptions

obsessed with making etymology charts, here's one showing how suffering, euphoria, and ferret all come from the same root word

"We're not as smart as we think we are!" In his research into "How to Invent Everything," @RyanQNorth uncovered a number of inventions that humanity could have invented centuries or even millennia before we actually did, from compasses to hot air balloons to buttons.

Would a stochastic parrot describe bribes as “chickens”, unprompted? Does a stochastic parrot feel emotion by studying the affectations of teens writing like they’re in their 20s? The solution to AI underperforming is not to drag humanity down with it. nymag.com/intelligencer/…

NEW | On the other f-word, Tories, Labour + Lineker, and anti-refugee policies: ONE OF THOSE DAYS. Newspapers that censor 'fuck' are equally quick to avoid saying "fascism". Liberals? They offer the same monologues as on the last "one of those days". brokenbottleboy.substack.com/p/one-of-those…

One of my YouTube commentators makes a very worrying point…

I wonder if the Conservatives would bankroll a libel action for this doomed attempt if the MP’s local newspaper reprinted a story, or if a campaigner leafleted the story to his constituents. (You can surely defend it, but it’s not cheap or fun to do!) opendemocracy.net/en/tory-mp-arr…

Don't forget the message we want to spread this #WorldOtterDay from Battersea Park Zoo ! Say no to Pet Otters! #wildmeanswild

Decided to join the hype: Bentley vs #Linux

Somebody bearing a striking resemblance to a Metropolitan Police constable thought he would help himself to whatever he found in my (stupidly) unlocked car. His reaction when my spotlight shines on him is priceless, but he carries on! Wonder if Netpol (account inactive) has any opinions on this?