Joe Lanman

"AI" skills are basically just documentation and it says something about how documentation only gets resources and respect if it is framed as "technology". Which has gender bias all over it.

replace maths lessons with slay the spire

The Legacy of India’s Quest to Sterilize Millions of Men Breaking the Cycle: Part 1 In 1976, men across India were drastically changing their behavior. Some were abandoning the beds inside their homes to sleep in fields; others were skipping major festivals...

"In 1976 alone, the Indian government sterilized 6.2 million men"
pulitzercenter.org/stories/lega...

Puffing Anthropic because Hegseth bashes Anthropic is like sticking with Platner because Schumer backs MilIs. I get the impulse. I think for many it’s born of fatigue. The desire for a simple binary. If bad guy says X, not-X is true. But friends, there’s a whole other alphabet we can work with.

Not a real docter

Large tortoiseshell butterfly confirmed no longer extinct in UK Early spring sightings show colourful insect is a resident species for first time in decades, says conservation charity The large tortoiseshell – an elusive and enigmatic butterfly that became extinct in Britain in the last century – is a UK resident species once again, with a flurry of early spring sightings. Britain’s list of native butterflies has increased to 60 with the return of the insect after individuals emerged from hibernation in woodlands in Kent, Sussex, Hampshire, Dorset, Cornwall and the Isle of Wight. Continue reading...

Large tortoiseshell butterfly confirmed no longer extinct in UK

Google currently has malware as the top ad for 'claude code', great job Google

I ask what the feedback from women has been on the film and he says he rates the opinion of his wife, Nancy Strang, although her favourite bits were when the women were speaking. Which wasn't often.

Oof
From that Charlotte Edwardes interview with Louis Theroux
www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...

Any recommendations for North wales with the family? Big kiddo wants to do zipworld, but would love some other suggestions.

I’m embarrassed to say I’ve never been to Wales other than through it for ferrys to Ireland.

Making work from home the default would put a real dent in carbon emissions from commuting

Slay The Spire 2's placeholder art should be a lesson to all the developers caught up in AI-generated nonsense Rather than get caught up in the generative AI debate, Slay The Spire 2's developers have worn their placeholder art on their sleeves

www.rockpapershotgun.com/slay-the-spi...

"Movies are like a machine that generates empathy"
Roger Ebert

Hey folks, any content designers or design systems people who contract, I’m trying to get a picture of the state of the market at the moment. Are you finding roles more or less prevalent than usual right now? And are rates lower, about the same, or higher than what you’re used to? DM me if easier

Hive mind! My partner has fairly extensive bilateral sensorineural hearing loss and is meant to wear hearing aids but found the NHS ones very uncomfortable.

We’re looking at private options, and I’m wondering if anyone in my network has any recommendations?

Westminster Meeting House raided by Metropolitan Police again. Statement: “For Quakers, faith and action are inseparable. Peaceful protest, prayer and nonviolent action are integral parts of many Quakers' religious life. Whilst we take the planning of criminal acts very seriously, we believe that this incident is a deliberate targeting of committed young people who want to make our country a more equitable place. This raid is part of a systematic stifling of dissent. That this is the second time in a year that the police have raided our meeting house dramatically illuminates the broader trend in the UK of cracking down on those who disagree with the government. The right to protest is fundamental to our democracy. It's a key part of how people make their voices heard between elections.” – Oliver Robertson, Head of Witness and Worship Quakers in Britain, 5 March 2026

Yesterday evening, for the second time in a year, the Met Police raided Westminster Quaker Meeting House and arrested a number of young nonviolent activists.

STATEMENT: www.quaker.org.uk/news-and-eve...

NEW ANALYSIS: UK emissions fell 2.4% in 2025 as coal fell to a 400-year low. Incredibly, we used less coal last year than than in 1600, when Queen Elizabeth I was on the throne and Shakespeare was writing Hamlet.

All the details in our article: www.carbonbrief.org/...

Uh oh Slay the Spire 2 is out

Building a robust frontend using progressive enhancement How to build web pages so they work in HTML first: starting with HTML, extra styles and features, using JavaScript.

I'm not sure they need reviewing? The points here still stand

www.gov.uk/service-manu...

Quite literally the official chatbot of the war in Iran

Joplin seems good, simple open source notes app, with a choice of storage including Dropbox

joplinapp.org

Ah sorry, missed spare, sounds like a good approach!

I wouldn't regard any agentic stuff as safe. There's still no solution for prompt injection. So.. if you want to do it I'd put it in a virtual machine or it's own physical machine, and be very careful what you give it access to

Like I said, no cookie for Dario.

If America still had the rule of law, this would be the easiest prosecution ever, but we all know absolutely nothing will happen.

Wow that's a lot of neon

US-Israeli strike on girls' school kills at least 85 students, Iran's judiciary says At least 85 students have been killed in US-Israeli strikes that hit an Iranian girls' school in Hormozgan province, Iran's judiciary said on Saturday. Washington has not commented on the reported str...

We killed 85 schoolgirls. We are not the good guys.

Marathon is pretty Wipeout inspired huh

I'm now recruiting for a crucial post in my team - Curator: Parliamentary Art Collection. A rare chance to work with a wonderful collection in a unique setting.

Please do share, and feel free to get in touch with any questions

Some of the most beautiful hand-drawn diagrams i've ever seen. Turkish "Justice Gazette", 1920, artist: Cerîde-i Adliyye.
Source [substack] casualarchivist.substack.com/p/poetic-jus...
#türkiye #infographics #stunning

I'm saying it's the exception, not the rule