Palantir's Swiss Exit Highlights Global Data Sovereignty Challenge | NewsCase Switzerland's military has terminated its contract with Palantir Technologies Inc. following a security audit. The review concluded that U.S. intelligence ag

I've just seen this from the Swiss
www.newscase.com/palantirs-sw...

ISO - ISO 8601 — Date and time format ISO 8601 is the internationally accepted way to represent dates and times.

only if prefixed by the year.
www.iso.org/iso-8601-dat...

WCAG scores for accessibility, AA=Fail, AAA=Fail, Contrast Ratio=1.35, "very poor"

You might want to get your accessibility people to talk to your comms people

Revealed: Palantir deals with UK government amount to at least £670m – including £15m contract with nuclear weapons agency Exclusive: Nerve investigation finds Trump ally Peter Thiel's surveillance firm has won at least 34 contracts, including management services for Britain's nuclear deterrent, with MPs warning of 'gapin...

@thenerve.news has some more if you are interested
www.thenerve.news/p/palantir-t...

Thanks :-)

This is what a digital coup looks like “We are watching the collapse of the international order in real time, and this is just the start,” says investigative journalist Carole Cadwalladr. In a searing talk, she decries the rise of the “bro...

I've only just come across this video from @carolecadwalla.bsky.social and I'm glad I took the time to watch. You may want to think of this as a non-algorithmic recommendation. www.ted.com/talks/carole...

I received a rather wishy easy response
bsky.app/profile/near...

The Landlord's Game - Wikipedia

I was looking for the other half of the rules just the other day. From the landlord's game.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lan...

I’ll never forget the horror of the Covid wards | The Observer

observer.co.uk/news/nationa...

Boils my blood, this "best not offend the right wing rich men"

We Wing Any Car - Pay tax like a billionaire Add wings to your car and enjoy the same tax loopholes as private jets.

I came across this #tax related site wewinganycar.com
I've signed up and I recommend everyone does, it'll save you 1000's in tax. Assuming you are a #billionaire, which I'm not but you never know, I might win the lottery

Having been listening to @iandunt.bsky.social 's book "How Westminster works...", I am surprised he (or probably his minions) had time to deal with it.
It is disappointing that, given Twitter's high profile and issues within, why GCS have not taken it upon themselves to re-evaluate

I wrote to my Daniel Zeichner MP who asked Darren Jones MP; "All platforms are assessed against the high standards for digital safety set out in the Government Communication Service (GCS) SAFE framework."

The last GCS assessment of X was made in April 2023.

Read it, X FAILS very quickly

When I'm in power you won't believe the punishment for headlines like this⁉

@iansample.bsky.social and @hannahdevlin.bsky.social might want to chip in here?

I'm assuming there is a way to communicate displeasure, I'll be having a look later

Two in five arrested for last summer’s UK riots had been reported for domestic abuse Police data indicates overlaps between public violent disorder and domestic violence and abuse

I can see how they would feel unsafe.
40% of the protesters from the previous Farage Riots were domestic abusers. Unless they start in Bristol where it goes up to 68%

For "Fact Nerds"
40%: www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
68% www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/bristol...

The "news" BBC on 6Music yesterday, paraphrasing "WHO selected some Palestinians to come to the UK for medical care, they will reach the UK via a THIRD country", let's feed the racists a bit more meat shall we?

I can't reach level 11 rage now, what will I do this afternoon?

Perplexity is using stealth, undeclared crawlers to evade website no-crawl directives Perplexity is repeatedly modifying their user agent and changing IPs and ASNs to hide their crawling activity, in direct conflict with explicit no-crawl preferences expressed by websites.

Well, there's this, not sure it's mentioned in the article
blog.cloudflare.com/perplexity-i...

Is this a Kickstarter?

Best bet, only put "power point demos" in front of customers and say that's what it is.
Throw away code is rarely thrown away 😕

Truly. The distinction between the treatment of elderly Gaza demonstrators and far-right protestors suggests a complete breakdown in our moral compass.

As I said, details. No one (sensible) writes policy on social media covering this kind of detail :-)
And what do I know?
My point is education should be open to all. The stored/horded wealth due to accidents of history embedded in some institutions should be redistributed

I think every institution of further education should be so well funded (and going should be free) that we remove the option to select a specific uni. Apply for a course and the luck of the draw.
There are details that'd need sorting but we need to tear down the nonsense of privilege wherever we can

I don't know what the emoji is for wry smile.

I know you are taking it to the extreme as a counter point but there have always been levels of detail, which I think we both appreciate.

Sometimes I've been quite vague with the LLM and "it worked™️"
Other times, as you say I'm at the point of code

Flippantly :-) "We've been throwing the dice in the river, look they don't work. Darn you slipper snake oil dice salesmen"
I'm open to persuasion either way at the moment. I still want answers to
* Long term cognitive decline
* Env Impact
* Copyright theft
* Are we just code reviewers now
* Juniors?

Maybe dice don't help (wrong tool /number of sides)

One thing for sure is that the people I've seen being successful are being very specific in their prompts. Which leads the the obvious points
1. Are you being so specific you could just write the code
2. Why were we not being this specific before

Echoes of AI: Investigating the Downstream Effects of AI Assistants on Software Maintainability [Context] AI assistants, like GitHub Copilot and Cursor, are transforming software engineering. While several studies highlight productivity improvements, their impact on maintainability requires furt...

I saw that. At this point you can choose a study to back up you own point of view.

I have found using an #LLM both faster and slower for #genai based development
Equally I found riding a unicycle hard and easy depending on experience and approach

arxiv.org/abs/2507.00788

Yes. I was trying to see what the DEFRA team had to say on the topic. I've spoken to them and they do recommend frequently starting a new prompt. I couldn't find a reference in the docs defra.github.io/defra-ai-sdlc/

London’s low-traffic zones ‘cut deaths and injuries by more than a third’ Exclusive: Study also finds no change in number of casualties on roads just outside low-traffic neighbourhoods

NEW: Big study of low-traffic neighbourhoods in London suggest they cut road injuries and deaths by more than a third within their boundaries with no apparent negative safety effect on nearby roads. This feels a *major* boost for proponents of such schemes.

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...