Ian McKellar

Games as long as test cricket.

I assume this is why my employer removed "surveillance" from the acceptable use policy for our products.

‘A million calls an hour’: Israel relying on Microsoft cloud for expansive surveillance of Palestinians Revealed: The Israeli military undertook an ambitious project to store a giant trove of Palestinians’ phone calls on Microsoft’s servers in Europe

Israel is using Microsoft Azure to store recordings of every phone call made by Palestinians in the occupied territories, then using AI to analyze the contents and select targets. Microsoft is (dubiously) claiming ignorance.

Gil Amelio Wouldn’t Give Trump A Desk Ornament.

YouTube video by Renee Kelly Boney M. - Rasputin (Official Video)

He got a good song!

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‘A million calls an hour’: Israel relying on Microsoft cloud for expansive surveillance of Palestinians Revealed: The Israeli military undertook an ambitious project to store a giant trove of Palestinians’ phone calls on Microsoft’s servers in Europe

I’ve long been disgusted by US tech companies' complicity in genocide, but learning that Satya Nadella personally met with Israeli spies to let them dragnet Palestinian conversations on Azure hits a new level of depravity

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

And unless you're trying to hurt people, sharing information doesn't make you lose any power. It usually makes you gain it.

This is why people lie.

Conversely, mind is the sleep killer.

Pig latin? It works with my kids.

There's a lot of R&D happening globally. A lot of biotech companies are domiciled in the US for tax and lobbying purposes but a lot of the R&D spend (and government funding) is global. I think the world will be fine, even if US patients will get screwed in the next pandemic.

Didn't mRNA vaccines come from Germany?

Ahh yes, I'm doing the "fixing seg faults in development tools" part of my job today.

Apple got sued for knocking off the Swiss Railway clock design so they're probably extra careful about watch faces.

Also round watch faces probably look weird on a square screen and I think all of Apple's watches are still square.

Wait what? There are no third party watch faces?

The Apple ecosystem is confusing.

A year after Israeli politician Moishe Feiglin invoked the mass murder of our Jewish ancestors in the Nazi holocaust as a model to take over Gaza, the calamity of the Israeli government’s genocide has reached a new and staggering level of mass violence.

Another illustration that NYTs default position is normalizing authoritarianism. Once you accept that NYT is a deeply facist and authoritarian the paper makes sense

Way ahead of you.

She put him in charge of DOGE of course!

I am quoted here so let me be totally clear on my take: Jonathan Greenblatt has made a calculated choice to aid the consolidation of authoritarian power by the MAGA movement in exchange for the suppression of criticism of Israel. And the consequences for American Jews will be devastating.

There was PubSubHubHub or something back in the olden days.

Crab Museum

I want to make it to the crab museum some day: www.crabmuseum.org

Muhammad Saeed Al-Sahhaf, when he was delivering obviously false news for a violent corrupt regime.

The new head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics?

Oh, they know

Just need more Muslims to move into luxury apartments.

ACAB includes dogs.

Trump extends deadline for tariff deal with Mexico by another 90 days Move fuels speculation US president may also announce pauses for dozens of countries facing punitive levies from Friday

An authentic Mexican TACO: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...