Mary Branscombe

Over here they kept the age limit (and the shingles vaccine is gated to much later as well, though you can pay to get that early)

Thanks! I definitely have a shorter fuse than usual

SIGINT lives

There is a trope in VC fueled startup companies that are "wildly successful decacorns" or whatever that basically just reduce to "what if federal crime, but with a computer 🤔"

Interestingly, this tanker is being reported to be part of Iran's shadow fleet, suggesting they hit their own tanker, as a theatrical way of demonstrating their 'commitment' to closing the Strait of Hormuz.

An article by Ryan Hunt @mozilla.org about WebAssembly & JS 📜

It covers upcoming web platform features that will improve the performance & ergonomics of using Wasm with JS by eliminating glue code 👍

🔶 Wasm-ESM integration (Firefox are actively implementing)
🔶 Wasm Component Model

This whole situation has created an opportunity for shitty people in your lives to self-identify.

I've seen at least one Green activist saying "we can win in Wales" post Gorton and Denton, and I am begging please let's not get anglocentrically carried away and remember that tactical anti-Reform voting in Wales needs to take Plaid Cymru into account

this is exactly why trying to guess what happens next is a fool's game. we're very clearly flying by the seat of our pants and reacting to whatever intel the Israelis hand us. normally we'd have actors like the NSC & the State Dept. driving things forward, but clearly that's not happening atm.

Also, there are some kinds of pain I get that even really high dose codeine doesn’t stop, just makes me super groggy but still having muscle spasms, 1 star would not recommend

Had one at the next table in Zurich that I rather liked; it was Davos week and he was rattling on about Musk’s humanoid robot numbers and she shut him down completely by saying “I don’t think Musk has humanity’s interests at heart”. Just totally bodied him…

And I have an entire thread of migration case studies and advice as my pinned skeet; keep following the thread and it includes a summary of costs

It feels like the friction to make that work would just be too high for anyone to accept?

I can kind of pretzel my brain so it makes sense but it requires so much distrust in the system someone would be using that I can’t work out why they’d be using it

I’m an 8-9 hours person and this is grinding on me

But at the moment I’d do a moderate amount of damage to get a decent night’s sleep so it definitely has value!

Although there are other dangers with killing the signal and not affecting the source. If I’d been able to medicate away my hip pain I’d have carried on doing the exercise that caused my bursitis and making it last for longer and probably get worse

A lot of apples and oranges going on in media analysis comparing Iranian drone capabilities with what the Russians are doing to Ukraine.

Russia drone launch sites are not vulnerable to the level of airpower that the US and Israel can exert on Iran.

I shared a post the other day that was about putting OpenClaw in a Docker sandbox which presumably would work for Claude too?

This is why I'm a heavy user of Claude Code for web, Anthropic's cloud hosted version of Claude

I don't care what happens in the sandbox if it's running on Anthropic's machines and not mine

AIUI you will see eg a fuel plane but not the coterie of ducklings it’s there to feed, or one plane out of a wing rather than all of them

I do appreciate all the people who read this guff so I don’t have to

Just woke up and my mind is still stuck on this. Can't shake the sense that the push to quickly sell out millions of acres in Alaska to extract oil is basically a climate bomb flying under the radar even though the fallout will impact everyone, everywhere by magnifying the climate crisis worldwide.

Three panels showing a bench on a small hill in London on a grey drizzly day. A man in a fedora carrying a suitcase arrives, then he is joined by a woman carrying an umbrella and a man in dark glasses reading a newspaper. They all look shifty and hurriedly converse: "Good." "Very." "Agreed." Then they all walk off down the hill. Caption: Every month, the Espionage Book Club discuss a classic work of spy fiction at a clandestine meeting. To minimise the risk of exposure, infiltration or surveillance by hostile agents, conversation is restricted to the essentials.

My cartoon for this week’s @theguardian.com books.

Bear with me if you can as I attempt to use HPV vaccines to demonstrate why many can’t see the danger of RFK Jr.

TLDR: Disease prevention takes time and discipline. Not discipline of an individual, but the ability to invest in public health when the benefits may not be immediately clear.

I’m far too old for even private vaccination and it grinds my gears that it’s available to gay men at a much later age than it is to women because the assumptions that an older woman is already infected rest on other assumptions about women not changing their sexual behaviour later in life

Alt text three photos and a twitter post all showing a tanker by night with helicopters approaching and commentary on seizing the ship

Belgian MoD statement on the tanker seizure.

Her being stateless / false flagged is given as the legal justification, UNCLOS article 110 specifically mentioned.

www.mil.be/fr/news/les-...

Very interesting. Shadow tanker seized by Belgium and France and immediately ”lack of flag” seem to be the reason.

That might set precedent for many more seizures.

Our Bulgarian of Romanian descent plumber asked me to figure out if his painkiller of choice from back home was available here and I looked it up and it’s a literal painkiller that blocks the nerve signals sending the pain rather than tackling the inflammation and yeah no, amazingly NOT