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Title: Gender Census 2025. Text: If you can't easily put yourself into just one of these two boxes, you are invited to take part. Illustration: Two boxes, each with photos of relevant dictionary pages.

The 12th annual international Gender Census 2025 is now open until at least 30th August 2025!

survey.gendercensus.com

It's for anyone whose gender (or lack thereof) isn't described by the M/F binary. It's short and easy, and results are useful in academia, business and self-advocacy.

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Welcome to yet another Thursday; it's not quite Friday but at least it's not Tuesday, right? And of course Thursday means @dylanbeatt.ie, @eli.holderness.dev and I will be recording Tech, Bugs & Rock'n'Roll at 4pm UK time, and you can come watch and chat in the chat!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=yNuh...

A photo of a paragraph from a textbook that reads: Ask your student what he thinks makes atoms stay together. (Answers will vary.) Tell him that scientists have many ideas but do not know for sure because nobody has ever seen inside an atom. Then read Colossians 1:16-17. Everything is held together by the power of Christ Jesus. Without His preserving power, the universe would fly apart. While those who are unsaved struggle to find out why atoms stay together, we as Christians know that God does it. (Bible Promise: I. God as Master)

I’m learning all about electric from a Christian home-schooling book. Turns out the electric works much the same way the moon and insects do: god does it.

a man wearing chain mail and a helmet says i am shocked that you would even imply such a thing .. Alt: a man wearing chain mail and a helmet says i am shocked that you would even imply such a thing ..

I would never!

A screenshot of a test spec for automated transcription software. On one line I have started to type the expected output, and got as far as "And so my fellow Americans", and the autocomplete in the Jetbrains editor has filled in the rest of the line. For context, if you don't know coding stuff, a couple of years ago it only knew which properties a given object has. Now it knows American History 101?

Autocomplete in 2025 is wild

My current tech bugbear is when you're looking to see whether the Wibble library supports Quux, and it doesn't, but the search results show you a wibble-quux fork so you go "yay" and check it out, and it's a three-month old fork with no commits, not even a README update.

The Bluesky notification reminding me that I live in a neofascist nanny state. Text reads: The laws in your location require you to verify you're an adult to access certain features. Tap to learn more.

I hate this country so much. Would the last person to leave please burn it to the fucking ground and salt the earth on their way out?

Not-an-AI summary of Crime & Punishment:

Raskolnikov did it

a woman says it 's fine whatever you 're going to lose ALT: a woman says it 's fine whatever you 're going to lose

Trump: we have to WIN
China:

THANK YOU! Of course it is.

(Who the hell is that? My memory is failing me.)

To be clear, I know why I play bass, but it still amazes me that I've stuck with it for this long.

It's /extremely/ high-functioning if it is ADHD. Look at all the completed projects! Look at all the shit in my garage that I bought, used once if at all, and lost interest in.

The only things I've stuck with in my adult life are coding, tennis and, most recently, bass guitar for some reason.

Normally you'd have to pay £££ for a conference ticket to get @rendle.dev and @davidwhitney.co.uk on the same programme. Or you can come along tomorrow night and see them both for free - our friends @accurx.bsky.social are even providing free drinks and snacks!

www.meetup.com/london-net-u...

Science should study this guy, I'm pretty sure his blood could be used to cure ADHD.

LDNUG July 2025 with Rendle and David Whitney, Wed, Jul 23, 2025, 6:30 PM | Meetup We're back at Accurx in Shoreditch for our July meetup, with guest speakers Rendle and David Whitney. Doors 18:30, first talk starts 19:00 and we'll head to the pub at 21:0

www.meetup.com/london-net-u...

London people! Tomorrow I'll be at @ldnug.org doing the first run of a brand new talk, "How ChatGPT Happened", looking at the history of AI from 1943 until now. Also @davidwhitney.co.uk will be doing a brand new talk, "Code As Art", which I'm really looking forward to seeing. Link in reply.

That movie made me sad because the first one was actually okay for a Netflix original.

I took the kids to see Minecraft; half an hour in I put my AirPods in and listened to Emperor of Sand by Megadeth so I wouldn’t have to hear any more of that horrible, horrible script. Worst movie since Wild Wild West.

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It's the only day of the week when I know what day of the week it even is: Thursday. And that means Tech, Bugs and Rock'n'Roll podcast recording* and livestream at 4pm BST, on YouTube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=xPP_...

*if I ever get round to uploading the audio to Spotify...

lol

"You'll have to wait and see"

(use the alt text if you want to copy and paste this btw)

godsdammit, now i've got that song stuck in my head

My Y-chromosome donor drove the family from the south of England to Greece in one of these when I was 8 or 9. He'd pop the roof up, my little brother and I would get in the bunks, then he popped the roof down again and we'd sleep while he drove. One of my only good memories of the bastard.

"I asked Grok", "I asked ChatGPT",
Well I asked my mother "what will I be?"

Just read an article on ZDnet with the headline "I found a Lenovo laptop that I wouldn't mind ditching my MacBook Pro for - and it's on sale"

The laptop in question scores 7,743 on Geekbench 6.

A Macbook Pro scores ~20,000, depending on which Mx Pro/Max silicon it's using.

Chinese firms rush for Nvidia chips as US prepares to lift ban H20 chips, designed to skirt export bans, are back after Trump meets with CEO.

For all his bluster and bravado about making deals, Trump is obviously extremely biddable given that this happened "just days after CEO Jensen Huang met with President Donald Trump". This is why Nvidia is worth trillions and Trump is a laughable wanker.

arstechnica.com/information-...