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@jwtownshend
My friend makes great zines
Theyve got one about UK Land & Housing, one about people coming to the UK in small boats and a new one "Now is not the time for business as usual"
https://thebookshelf.org.uk/zine/

The ratio of things you want to change to things you can change is typically 99:1. But focusing on that 1% is worth every minute. Do not feel inferior because you have to leave 99% unsolved. Do your 1%. Trust the community. Other people will be inspired to work on their 1%. In sum we can reach 120%. Take your ego out of the equation. Do what you are good at. We will win. And celebrate your every little win. Locally. With your friends. Peace :)

#Stoicism #SharingIsCaring

FCC censorship czar Brendan Carr wants control over daytime talk shows.

Today's your last chance to use our action center to file a public comment with the FCC telling him to follow the First Amendment and back off.

https://freedom.press/action/tell-the-fcc-to-stop-retaliating-against-abc/

Somebody told #DeepSeek to build in-browser ransomware and it gleefully complied - https://www.theregister.com/security/2026/07/01/somebody-told-deepseek-to-build-in-browser-ransomware-and-it-gleefully-complied/5265311 "'The original incomplete DeepSeek sample can be transformed into a fully functional attack with minimal effort,' Check Point researcher tells The Reg" #ai

It's game over once the AskAPunk pages supports video files

Comrades, not friends is a new book about the Revolutionary Front, one of Europe’s most important antifascist, working-class organizations of the 21st century.
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Revealed: landmark Scottish #AI project has no prospect of meeting renewables promise - https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/jul/06/lanarkshire-scotland-ai-datacentre-project-renewable-energy "Government and developers privately acknowledged Lanarkshire datacentre site had power provision ‘issue’" I predict most will be similar

A legal challenge to a policy that shuts independent reporters out of the Utah statehouse can move forward.

Lawmakers shouldn’t wait for the courts. They can restore access for all journalists by ending this unconstitutional policy now.

https://courthousenews.com/10th-circuit-revives-utah-journalist-lawsuit-over-denied-statehouse-credentials/

Secret Panel HERE 🎵 https://tinyview.com/mrlovenstein/2026/07/05/shake-it

#LoRes Mesh is designed to be _public interest infrastructure_. We're trying to sit in the grey area between a network of autonomous servers and a centralised system. Instead, we're looking for multiple parties to come together and collectively steward a commons that is important for everyone.

As part of this, we've made a breaking change to the API that apps use to talk to lores-node, in order to better support each LoRes Node being part of multiple Regions. This change is a bit philosophical, so lets talk first about what a Region is, and why it supports good stewardship of the commons.

https://lores.tech/blog/binding-apps-to-regions/

#NeighbourhoodFirst #P2P #P2Panda

I have a break from the heat today, but not the stupidity. https://www.gocomics.com/brian-mcfadden/2026/07/06

FIFA was already one of the most corrupt major sports organizations on the planet. Given that, doing Trump's bidding by revoking the US player's red card is not exactly surprising...

Latest comic: Future historians baffled by Slop-henge

#environment #climatechange #technology #corporations #DataCenters #pollution

Sports are political.
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Code reviewing was never the most interesting thing to do. But it had one important element. That, if done right, it was knowledge exchange between the reviewer and the coder. That can be quite motivating. Helping a fellow coder to become better. Reviewing "AI" written code does NOT come with that potential reward. The machine doesn't learn the way a human does. This turns code reviewing into a menial, fruitless task that leads to frustration instead. That's my observation and opinion.

#Doonesbury by #GarryTrudeau for July 5, 2026 | GoComics

https://www.gocomics.com/doonesbury/2026/07/05

#Humour #Cartoon

OpenAI's Stargate UK was completely fake

just a press release

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/jul/04/openai-apparent-failure-visit-key-site-questions-stargate-uk-project

RE: https://kolektiva.social/@beka_valentine/116845902133405690

An excellent thread here. So much of what I see people pointing to as LLM's benefits for coding relates to long-standing problems in software engineering that the field just hasn't addressed. And LLMs don't solve these problems, at best the just paper them over and make dealing with them less tedious -- while reinforcing the problematic dynamics.

So yes it's great that people with no programming skills can create software to solve their prolems. But if we had collectively spent a chunk of the literally billions of dollars that are going to "AI" building on the early approaches to this from 25+ years ago (Hyperscript, Logo) that don't have the same downsides, we'd be in a much better place today.

I know we've talked about this before but I'm just so disgusted with how useless most search engines are now. They all second guess me.

The most obscure or unusual word is ignored so it's very hard to search for the intersection of a popular thing and an obscure thing.

I have a theory that for many people search has never worked well for them since they just didn't use computers very much, or it was not explained well. Now those of us who found search effective get to see what it was like.