Ambrose Andrews @znalo@librem.one

Who would have thought that ignoring scientists' warnings about humans' effect on the cllimate would lead to exactly what the scientists predicted?

Iranian news sources this morning released diagrams helping explain how Donald Trump safely made it out of his last international trip near the region.

Trump famously threatened the lives of Iranian peace negotiators yet he himself is now so afraid to be anywhere near negotiaitons that he cut and ran.

He literally left the press core and support staff in his place... surely the press would call that a "human shield" situation, right?

Israeli occupation forces and extremist settlers cut the last water line serving 47 Palestinian families in Ras Al-Ahmar in the occupied Jordan Valley, leaving nearly 200 Palestinians without access to water.

The cutoff threatens their ability to remain in the area and risks forcing them to flee their homes.

#Israel #Palestine #Gaza #Palestinian #Jordan

This article starts with a story from someone who tried Claude Code and found it amazing, but then switches to the same person a few months later seeing what a disaster it’s been. This quote is key:

The problem is that code produced by an AI agent looks reasonable, but can contain ‘hard-to-spot bugs’ that end up causing major problems

LLMs, by their nature, generate statistically plausible output. That is often a set that overlaps with correct output. But the things that are not correct look exactly the same as the ones they are.

Learning to review code is hard. You look for the bugs that you expect to be possible implementing it by using your theory of mind for the person writing the code and the kinds of things that they might overlook (not necessarily a specific person, but the kinds of things people miss) and also common bug classes.

And the big help is that the person writing the code is not thinking adversarially. They are not trying to sneak bugs in. Normally. Unless they’re a supply-chain attacker, and we’ve a depressing amount of evidence that code review doesn’t catch supply-chain attacks.

An LLM is not trying to do anything. It has no intent. But it is a machine that is trained on code that made it past code review. The kind of bugs that it will generate are ones that look like code that appeared in production. This is exactly what an attacker would do: try to write code that looks correct but is subtly wrong.

I’m only being slightly flippant when I say LLMs are a mechanism for brining supply chain attacks in house.

if you've been experiencing a higher than normal call volume for more than a couple months it's actually a normal call volume now & you're just understaffed

Our world on fire.
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https://firms.modaps.eosdis.nasa.gov/usfs/map/#d:24hrs;@-85.5,51.0,4.6z
#Climate
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Israeli real estate companies are marketing land belonging to Palestinians in the West Bank to Jewish American buyers. We spoke to the Palestinians who are being displaced in order to make way for new Jewish settlement construction.

https://mondoweiss.net/2026/07/sip-your-coffee-while-watching-the-sunrise-how-israel-is-colonizing-the-west-bank-by-selling-palestinian-land-to-jewish-americans/

#Palestine #Israel #Gaza

"Solar coaster " is an apt pun to describe the last 20 years or so of Australian government policy on #renewables. A large part of the apparently chaotic ups and downs in policy is due to the belief that the transition will be achieved by dangling just the right combination of incentives in front of households and (directly, but also via households) private industry. Never mind changing technologies, economics and targets. It's a product of blind adherence to neoliberal dogma. If the government had just gone and built/supplied renewables themselves we could have probably gone 100% renewable by now. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-07-18/battery-installation-rates-collapse-solar-coaster-strikes-back/106909726
#energiewende #climate #solar

Another interesting talk: @AdrianVovk is presenting a "new" feature for @gnome he has been working on for a while: save / restore sessions! #GUADEC2026

RE: https://aus.social/@oscarjiminy/116938829627330096

'While we used to pretend data was stored “in the cloud”, the people of Plumpton, about 30 kilometres from Melbourne’s central business district, have recently realised the cloud is more like an enormous vibrating factory that will cover about 490 soccer fields or 8700 residential blocks of land. So much for the housing crisis.
If the Plumpton data centre goes ahead, it will use more energy each year than all of the electricity generated by Victoria’s largest remaining coal-fired power station at Loy Yang. So much for the climate crisis'

Growing list of those born or died on July 5 in any year

Robert Fitzgerald Diggs (born July 5, 1968), better known by his stage name RZA or the RZA, is an American rapper, record producer, composer, actor, and filmmaker.

#blackwomen #blackhistory #indigenous #blackmastodon

I’m standing on the Sydney Harbour Bridge looking into empty rooms in the famous brutalist apartment building, the Sirius. Built as social housing, those people booted out and now between $1.6 and $35m per apartment. The ghosts of the dispossessed will haunt those rich bastards.

On the hypocrisy and complicity of Sydney University with criminal #Israel and its fiendish genocide of Palestinian people. https://honisoit.com/2026/06/usyd-still-allows-collaboration-with-israel-after-ban-on-research-collaboration-with-other-controversial-countries/ #BDS #IsraelFascism #auspol #Palestine #Gaza

The brilliant Sarah Schwartz gives white supremacists, including pro-Israel groups and the Murdoch media a well-deserved serve at the Bell Commission. https://michaelwest.com.au/hitlers-jew-judenrat-kapo-the-cost-of-speaking-out-against-israel/ #ZionismIsWhiteSupremacy #auspol #Israel #IsraelFascism #Palestine

Israeli occupation bulldozers continue demolishing the home of Palestinian Ali Mahmoud Suleiman in the town of Tuqu’, southeast of Bethlehem, after denying him the opportunity to remove his belongings.

#Israel #Palestine #Gaza #Palestinian

Nearly a million passports just exposed on the public internet—and anyone could access them with a simple URL

https://cambridgeanalytica.org/data-breaches-scandals/passports-driver-licenses-exposed-public-internet-2026-51096/

#cybersecurity #privacy #DataBreach #Europe #passport

RE: https://aus.social/@oscarjiminy/116814284675349923

Ta Nehisi Coates

'the Harris campaign followed up...by deploying Bill Clinton to Michigan. There, in the state with the highest concentration of Arab Americans in the country, Clinton told an audience that Israel had been forced “to kill civilians” by Hamas, and that the land between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea belonged to the Jewish people because “they were there first.” Meanwhile, Harris welcomed her endorsement by Dick Cheney'

#gaza #israel #