Steve Futcher

I think this constant push for immigrants to feel & act ‘grateful’ is so insidious. Let’s change the narrative. Migration is a normal part of human behaviour, not a charity case. If you’re doing your best to do your best, you don’t need to do even more to be accepted. It’s your right to be accepted.

“It has stopped making sense to work,” she said, which certainly explains her approach to opposition."

Genius.

Oh you're a jpg?

I'm sorry for your loss.

UK faces ‘battle for the soul’ of the country, says Starmer amid Reform threat In a rallying cry to progressives around the world, the Prime Minister said allies must stop the ‘politics of predatory grievance’.

“Let’s call it for what it is: bullshit. The truth is, politicians have talked about little else but immigration for decades and in the most dehumanising ways.

Polanski added: “Stop the boats’ is all we hear. Well, today I'm saying ‘stop the bullshit’.”

www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...

Publicity photo of Samuel L. Jackson

Happy birthday to the great eighteenth-century critic and lexicographer Samuel Johnson.

I'll be there..

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Sorry, I'm supposed to be encouraging people to come

There are folk out there using .NET who never had to think about the Global Assembly Cache.

In some ways nature is healing.

I like presidents who know Slavery is bad, not "WOKE."

Email is Easy Everyone knows what an email address is, right?

I scored 17/21 on e-mail.wtf and all I got was this lousy text to share on social media.

Email validation is _hard_ and a lot of websites are waaay to strict

An apartment block where the windows and Juliet balconies look like network ports

This is owned by a LANlord

Tell me you're in SE Asia without telling me you're in SE Asia

Ebook available?

The image shows the 17th century painting “Landscape with Windmills near Haarlem” by the Dutch painter Jacob van Ruisdael.

Disgusted to see this beautiful landscape ruined by wind turbines.

Propaganda: trans women are going to assault you in the ladies’ room

Reality: Drunk armed border patrol agents are going to assault you in the ladies’ room

Bit poky this stadium

It's always Teams...

Or maybe my colleagues are all gits?

Engineered Estrangement | An Interview with Cory Doctorow The author, activist, and technology critic Cory Doctorow on reckless broligarchs and what their 'enshittified' platforms are doing to our future

"By all means, let’s make Mark Zuckerberg’s name a curse for a thousand years. But let’s not forget that he was able to do what he did because policymakers over and over again deliberately failed us."

– Cory Doctorow

bylinesupplement.substack.com/p/engineered...

Guardian headline saying, "‘It’s terrifying’: WhatsApp AI helper mistakenly shares user’s number Chatbot tries to change subject after serving up unrelated user’s mobile to man asking for rail firm helpline"

'Meredith,' some guys ask, 'why won't you shove AI into Signal?'

Because we love privacy, and we love you, and this shit is predictable and unacceptable. Use Signal ❤️

Wetherspoons. Musk and Trump, stripped to the waist, brawling. Farage rings one of his other backers for advice. Tice is dismayed. Putin bowls in. 30p Lee accosts Zia Yusuf.

I would like to recommend a fantastic way for parents to turn a mid-life crisis into cultural exchange across the generations

The lifetime mixtape (as a spotify playlist)

The rules are
- choose one song per year
- but only one song per artist
- you can phone a friend for the last decade or so

Because in none of those cases was copyright infringed.

There are many more applications of advanced ML, what we now call AI, than LLMs. And frankly every other application seems much more valuable to me (at least in a societal sense) than LLMs are.

Hi Tripp, I'm a reporter with the Guardian US, based in New York. I hope this finds you well. I'm reaching out about your most recent article and its inclusion of the claim, "Young Chinese women have small fingers." What is the source of this information? The full sentence attributes the claim that such small fingers make them "nimble" and therefore "valuable" to iPhone manufacturing to unnamed "supply chain experts", but it's unclear whether those same experts are the source of the claim that young Chinese women have small fingers in the first place. Are they? How do they know? Is there a study you can cite? And are we talking length? Circumference? Is it question of muscle strength? Or bone density? What is the normative range for finger size, to what extent do young Chinese women fall outside of it, and how do you - or your sources - know this?

Incidentally, how are you defining "Chinese" in this sentence? As I'm sure you and your supply chain experts know, China is a large country with dozens of ethnic minorities. It is hard to imagine that hand size is a trait linked to national identity, but the lack of specificity leaves the question open. Did hand size among Han Chinese living in Taiwan vs the PRC diverge after the civil war? Could this be a function of political economy rather than a genetic trait? So many questions. Relatedly, how are you defining "young"? Do Chinese women's fingers grow as they age? Or is size not actually the meaningful characteristic? It's hard to tell from the information you provided! I ask all these questions because unless you have answers to them, I am afraid that you may have portrayed racist pseudoscience as if it were fact in an article for the New York Times. If that wasn't your intent, I hope you will reflect upon the long history of certain forces using race science claims to attribute suitability for certain types of labor to certain types of people, and amend your article. Best, Julia Wong

welp I sent an email

How Do You Explain Water to a Fish? In the months after the 2024 election, America still felt fundamentally stable and familiar. I remember walking into class after the election and seeing my queer history professor with the look of hav...

"It’s like being a canary in a coal mine. The early poisonous gases of fascism, the hatred, the propaganda, the calls to purge “undesirables" hit you first. We notice the atmosphere becoming toxic before others do, because we are the ones struggling to breathe." www.thedissident.news/how-do-you-e...

Waste of time if you can still buy screwdrivers and chisels.

Will be writing more about the asylum thing. On delivering on potholes etc though, a reminder of how little £ wriggle room some of these councils actually have

who called it woke pope and not Opus DEI

Pay to play?

When there’s an economic emergency, a climate energy, or a security emergency, our leaders take immediate action. The child poverty emergency has been with us for some time now, yet action seems further away than ever.

good morning, found out about the news by waking up, opening WhatsApp and seeing that a friend had messaged "Oh my god JD Vance has Liz Trussed the pope"