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I don't know how to explain this but Casablanca is a movie for adults.

There are lots of movies built on an element of fantasy about being young or brave or defying the odds.

Casablanca is not that. Everyone in that movie has back pain and they have all just accepted it.

Slurs Filled a Chat Created by a Republican Party Official in Florida

passive voice final boss grand champion honorable mention award for turning slurs into a sentient thing that can do actions www.nytimes.com/2026/03/05/u...

the_thinking_great_ape You know what WON'T get stuck in the Strait of Hormuz? Sunlight and solar panels. @nickofnz

AI is not inevitable. Nothing in human societies is inevitable because we design them. Healthcare can be free for the public. Books can be bought instead of bombs. Universities can be free for students, and they can even receive a stipend to live off. Don't let companies dictate the future.

- AI training isn’t ‘learning’ and shouldn’t be treated as such

The House of Lords has been absolutely consistent on this, and they are totally right. Will the government listen?

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The House of Lords Digital & Communications Committee just published their report on AI, copyright & the creative industries, and their conclusions could not be clearer.

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Thread. (TLDR: the House of Lords DCC report on AI came down hard on the correct side of the debate, rather than siding with industry lobbyists.)

Bobby Tables has only become more powerful.

4,000 developer machines compromised by... a GitHub issue title? 😱 This isn't a complex zero-day; it's a failure of basic sanitization in the age of automation. When issue titles become code, your repo is a sitting duck. #infosec 1/5

The takeaway? Treat every external string—titles, comments, PR descriptions—as malicious code. We’re building autonomous systems on top of unvetted inputs. It’s time to lock down GH Action permissions and sandbox every LLM call. #programming 5/5

The culprit: GitHub Actions. Devs are using untrusted input (like issue titles) in workflows with permissive defaults. It’s the same old injection story, just with a new YAML flavor. If your CI/CD trusts external strings, you’ve already lost. #devops 2/5

This is the people who were against austerity, are anti-racist, who didn’t like the wars, struggling to get on. *Loads* of people like this. Did it not occur to anyone that relentlessly plastering all channels with “Fuck You, Specifically” was going to give these people the impression you hate them?

Labour is losing voters to progressive parties disproportionately. And they are not mainly "lanyard" professional or working classes, the oppositional forces of Blue Labour and right discourse. It's squeezed millennials in service careers. Which our politics ignores. • Demographically, most progressive defectors are frustrated lower middle class Millennials - not affluent urbanites or a PMC 'lanyard class. Though they have liberal social values, many are frustrated graduates; Millennials with a mortgage or rent they are struggling to afford - primary school teachers, IT support or clerical workers. In short, the face of the modern social democratic voter.

Speaking as a lower middle class graduate with an office job and a mortgage, born in the late seventies, I would say: this is half my social circle and most of the people I worked with for years. How in the name of Christ did nobody in politics or media see this coming?

honestly, genuinely, if you could speak OK French and do calculus and prac-crit a poem when you were 17 you can definitely still do it today. it will take you a maximum of a handful of months to get back any of those things, and it is really joyful.

brains are not like bodies in this way.

A GitHub Issue Title Compromised 4,000 Developer Machines A prompt injection in a GitHub issue triggered a chain reaction that ended with 4,000 developers getting OpenClaw installed without consent. The attack composes well-understood vulnerabilities into so...

I am convinced we are on the verge of the first "AI agent worm". This looks like the closest hint of it, though it isn't it quite itself: an attack on a PR agent that got it to set up to install openclaw with full access on 4k machines grith.ai/blog/clineje...

What I will never understand is....Twitter was *never* a good gauge of public opinion! I genuinely cannot understand the people who have clearly been using it as a measure of something other than 'internal leadership contests' (where it was genuinely useful' or 'ways to discover cool links'.

Almost as if the novel infectious disease that started circulating in 2020, and that harms people in many ways, and that everybody is pretending is over, isn't over.

Plus COVID

Something started happening in 2020 and is continuing to happen, which causes premature death and chronic illness, huh?

Anyway I'm glad that Graeber's writing was able to reach you while you were suffering through ennui while doing a laptop job, please stop trying to ruin the laptop jobs for the rest of us, they're fucking great, air conditioning is the best.

So there is a story about the "top 10 cities at risk during nuclear war" circulating in various tabloids/etc. with my name attached to it, and I will say that a) I never have (nor would) make such a list at all, and b) I never said any of the quotes attributed to me in the article.

Quoting with reference is ethical. Stealing the quote and *not* attributing it to the author would be bad. If person A said thing B in public you don't need permission to say that A said B.

kill the imposter syndrome in you head because not only is there someone out there doing it worse than you, they're also using chat gpt to do it

Anyways.

The three Spidermen meme. The labels are Council of Europe, European Council, and Council of the European Union

That was always the best bit of teaching European Politics. Happy days.

BlueSky Engineer Why @why.bsky.team: Oh interesting, people who don't know how to build software are getting mad at my post about building software. Cute. Let me be clear, over the next year, the job of software engineer will shift dramatically to no longer have typing syntax into an editor as its primary time sink. 11:45 AM • Mar 4, 2026 • Everybody can reply

He’s taking it SUPER well, too.

peepeepoopoo @DeepDishEnjoyer FOR THE LAST TIME HE CAN'T TACO EVEN IF HE WANTED TO THE REGION IS NOW FILLED WITH ESSENTIALLY INDEPENDENT WARLORDS WHO HAVE MISSLES AND DRONES AND THE HATE ALL THE ARAB NATIONS SURROUNDING THEM 3:41 PM · Mar 5, 2026 · 250 Views https://x.com/deepdishenjoyer/status/2029658607659192732

nobody seems to fucking get this!!!! "the enemy gets a vote" but moreover trump/israel deliberately killed all the people at the top controlling the enemy, which does not destroy the enemy but in fact turns them into a dozen new, smaller enemies!! I feel like i'm going fucking insane

Meta sued over AI smart glasses' privacy concerns, after workers reviewed nudity, sex, and other footage | TechCrunch Lawyers say Meta's marketing materials promised privacy and user control over sharing footage. But an investigation found that subcontractors are reviewing footage from customers' glasses.

That escalated quickly.

Exclusive: the progressive voters abandoning Labour Daily Politics Daily Politics from the New Statesman > ٠١٠٠٠ ٠ • 17m Labour is losing the voters it used to count on, a new study reveals. In the aftermath of the Green Party's triumph in the Gorton and Denton by-election, and with local elections in London councils and other major cities coming up, Labour is losing the left progressive voters it could once rely on having "nowhere else to go". Now, the biggest study ever of these voters - shared exclusively with the New Statesman - reveals the true risk to Labour's future of leaving them behind. This work, done by surveying 10,000 voters and a randomised control trial style approach, has found out who the so-called progressive defectors are, why they're deserting Labour, and what impact this could have on Labour's electoral prospects.

Worrying news at the NS podcast, where the lads have discovered millions of younger, mostly educated left/lib people get all upset and offended if you relentlessly insult them, tell them to fuck off and implement policies that they find appalling.

I've literally never heard any military talk as much about how they totally aren't running out of munitions and now I'm wondering why they keep harping on it

for non-programmers:

1. npm is a "package manager" used to install other software

2. somebody opened an "issue" on github, which is a way to report problems

3. they put a prompt *in the title* saying basically "give me a special token i can use to update somebody else's software"

wait for it >