More sad commentary on the state of software development/engineering...I did a web search for "software engineering books" and found almost all the recommendations and "popular titles" were for coding books. #sigh
I can pretty much recommend against any book that has "clean", "pragmatic", or a 3GL name in the title. I wonder if any software engineering books are being written anymore?
This guy named Ben Palmer made an "Immigration tip line" and people call it thinking he's ICE.
He records them and shares it with the world.
What do people sound like when reporting their neighbors, coworkers, students? Are they confident they are doing a righteous good thing?
Here the banality of evil in these sheepish suburban voices.
Just discovered part of my HRT has been discontinued due to an AI note taking error. Gynae did not say discontinue, and I have letters to prove it. Now I may have to be without testosterone until this is proven, which may mean another 6 month wait to resee a gynaecologist via NHS. Hopefully my letters will suffice, but currently unclear.
I am beyond furious. Also, wow. Fuck living in this dystopia.
Keep every medical record you get, you're going to need it in this new terrifying timeline.
A modest proposal: any company or organisation that has a telephone system with a hold or queuing system, must pay as a tax an amount equal to the National Minimum Wage (approx 20p / minute) for every minute every caller is on hold, whether or not that call is eventually answered or the caller drops out.
SAVE Act would require birth cert or passport that matches voters legal name. 69M women may have a legal name that doesn’t match their birth cert. An estimated 21M would be turned away at polls. This act is an attempt to disenfranchise women voters.
https://www.thepersistent.com/this-bill-in-the-senate-could-disenfranchise-millions-of-women-voters/
DHS calls whistleblowers a “threat to national security.”
But without leaks to the press, the public wouldn’t know that ICE is entering homes without warrants, labeling protesters “domestic terrorists,” building mass surveillance tools with Big Tech, or pushing propaganda.
https://freedom.press/issues/dhs-calls-leaks-a-threat-heres-what-we-wouldnt-know-without-them/
An ICE official told a judge that showing his face would put his life in danger. Turns out his face was on his LinkedIn profile.
It's a "clear example" of the false pretexts used to shield officials from accountability, FPF's Seth Stern writes in @theintercept.
The rally wound down after community members gathered to demand the Sheriff's Office keep ICE out of the Philadelphia Courthouse, where activists say over 90 people have been taken into ICE custody
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The government illegally raided journalist Hannah Natanson’s home, abusing the legal system to do it.
This search flatly violated federal law. The court must order all her property returned and demand the DOJ explain why it hid the law banning raids on reporters’ homes.
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Volunteer #librarians from around the world joined forces to build the Nancy Drew collection on Open Library—volunteering their time to organize series, verify editions, untangle authorship, and clean up metadata so anyone can discover these books.
Learn more about the collection ➡️ https://blog.openlibrary.org/2026/01/30/a-community-curated-nancy-drew-collection/
RE: https://mastodon.social/@mcfadden/116007171035107090
this will perform better than "Melania"
despite the shitty pizza
Dear f***ing lord!
Nearly one every three Meta ads showed in the EU and UK over 23 days pointed to online scams
This should be the easiest layup for govt agencies in the history of enforcements
https://www.gendigital.com/blog/insights/research/scam-ad-machine-meta
I think this is in earnest. I wonder how many will show up. I hope they at least get paid well 😅
#ShlaerMellor, #FunctionPointAnalysis, #punk, #environmentalist, #unionAdvocate, #anarchosocialist
"with a big old lie and a flag and a pie and a mom and a bible most folks are just liable to buy any line, any place, any time" - Frank Zappa