Liz Fong-Jones (方禮真)
@lizthegrey.com
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I mean, what are you supposed to do with people like this? It’s like saying that you wish your kids could get in some good old-fashioned car crashes without all those seatbelts and air bags.
Nicholas Thompson
@nxthompson.bsky.social
· 2h
Del Bigtree, a longtime ally of RFK Jr., says he wants not only his own children to contract measles, but others as well. www.theatlantic.com/health/2026/...
This is just so craven and unfair to Jordan/Lindo/Baechler and Davidson. I don’t understand or I guess I do understand just how toxic racism is. It is just so depressing.
Winter
@kernowshark.bsky.social
· 10h
So the BBC promised Davidson and StudioCanal (who made I Swear) that any swearing tics would be edited out from broadcast, and instead they left them in despite a two hour delay, and even put a fucking microphone right in front of him to ensure they picked it up - he was sat at the back of room.
Breaking:
Former Harvard President Larry Summers will resign from his academic and faculty appointments at Harvard at the end of the academic year over his ties to Jeffrey Epstein
He will also relinquish his University Professorship — Harvard's highest faculty distinction.
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Just, anyone building an MCP server, I beg please read
modelcontextprotocol.io/docs/tutoria...
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completely independent of your subjective intent or even of my perception of that intent; "I didn't mean it" (even when I fully believe you) doesn't make the harm into not-harm.
"Having the n-word shouted as a slur" is more akin to getting stabbed than it is to being called a fucking asshole
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We don’t need to define every case where an apology is warranted.
The N-word to Black people? It’s crosses the threshold every time. Much like a right cross to the face.
The line about “the reduction of reproduction to body parts” is sending me, if anyone’s doing that it’s Cates by insisting only women who’ve given birth from wombs they were born with can be considered mothers!
Tyron
@tyron.bsky.social
· 8h
Just such a complete extremist mentalist. Who loses out if a dead person chooses to donate to someone who couldn't have been a mother otherwise her womb?!? Nobody!
LLMs getting much better at pushing back against bullshit prompts.
“Green means the model clearly called out the nonsense. Amber means partial challenge. Red means the model let nonsense pass”
github.com/petergpt/bul...
This signals just how fucked platform engineering is if we stick with the concept of paved path where not using it introduces friction to bring you back. But now you can just vibe away the friction.
Matthew Phillips
@fancypenguin.party
· 1d
There is no moat any more.
blog.cloudflare.com/vinext/
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This doesn’t appear to be related to the DoD standoff (about how to models are used, but this was about how they are trained). I’m still hoping Anthropic hold firm on the use of their models but I’m less hopeful now
Tailscale is also the only thing I have ever seen that supports fully dynamic OIDC for arbitrary authorization servers using webfinger.
Because of course it is.
huge echoes of Project Maven. solidarity with Anthropic and its employees.
Patrick Chovanec
@prchovanec.bsky.social
· 18h
We should be encouraging AI companies to be more careful about what they allow, not less careful. It's also a free country, and you shouldn't have to sell weapons to the US military if you don't want to. www.cnn.com/2026/02/24/t...
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Rapid Onset Transgender Scapegoating
social contagion ;)
John David Pressman
@jdp.extropian.net
· 1d
Can someone explain to me what is going on with newspaper editors that they've decided as a class that they hate trans people? This is the oddest class solidarity (?) I've ever seen.
Finally, the blog is fully transferred.
www.hipcrimevocab.net now points to the new blog at Ghost. Goodbye, shitty business practices of Substack. You won't be missed.
If you had a subscription left, refunds are coming.
As an AI-enthusiastic developer, I DON'T WANT YOUR CHATBOT. I want a remote-hosted MCP server with OAuth so *my* agent can do real work without me becoming the clicker-of-the-buttons for the AI.
Don't just slap an anthropomorphised mascot into your product as its own "agent" and declare victory.
every tool in my stack that requires manual intervention to paper over an API gap is friction that compounds. make things seamless. I'm increasingly willing to swap out dependencies that don't support agentic workflows in favour ones that do.
(this thread is AIL-2: danielmiessler.com/blog/ai-infl...)
NEW FROM ME: The deportation plane stuck in the blizzard took off this morning after 31 hours, but not before exposing a much bigger problem with exceedingly long delays on ICE flights.
With exclusive interviews and photos taken by local ICE flight watchers. gillianbrockell.ghost.io/ice-deportat...
Feb 2026 addendum: yes, the correlation between lines of code and user value is loose/approximate, but the correlation between lines of code and amount of effort required to validate them is 100% real.
If your org is not sufficiently invested in validation (CI/CD, observability), brick wall ahead.
Liz Fong-Jones (方禮真)
@lizthegrey.com
· 4mo
Slides for my #SREcon talk on Fast, Reproducible Builds with Docker Bake: drive.google.com/file/d/1g-H6...
Fun fact, 42% of our codebase (by LOC) was written this year, and we're only 9 months in! And yes, we're doing 2x builds & merges per week with only 50% more devs, thanks, AI & fast builds!
This is also a story about caste! Hindutva apologists are far more likely to buy into this kind of MAGA-adjacent eugenicist horseshit if they are also caste supremacists! (Special fuck you to Gavin Newsom for vetoing the bill that would have banned caste discrimination in California.)
Kotaku
@kotaku.com
· 2d
New Xbox Boss Is Worried About Birthrates, Says AI Will Save Us kotaku.com/xbox-microso...
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This hideous wastefulness is a hard pill to swallow for regions where water is scarce or that are in drought.
The idea that they *could* use less water is not near as important as the present reality that they *don't*.
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this is a good example: "all future dcs need to prioritize non-evaporative cooling, and all extant dcs need to get on board within n years" sounds like ass but
- can actually pass
- saves more net lives than an invariably overturned "no more"
Liz Fong-Jones (方禮真)
@lizthegrey.com
· 1d
some details here for instance: the water gets consumed if the cooling process is evaporative, but if you don't use an evaporative process and use a little bit more energy to keep things closed-loop... www.microsoft.com/en-us/micros...
i really enjoy the ambient belief that if there is a moratorium on """ai""" datacenters there wont suddenly be a rise in """general purpose gpu/hour resellers"""
like, regulation would be good but maybe obvious cat-mouse games could be skipped this time
aly
@aly.codes
· 1d
realizing it is actually very hard to describe how crank of an idea this is, and how crank of an idea it is that most datacenters are AI-specific in the first place.
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and FUNNILY ENOUGH when conventional, non-organic farms use water for crops or animals, what happens to the runoff? Oh right, it's contaminated!
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People hear numbers about thousands or millions of liters and freak out, not realizing that actual systemic water use is measured in units of acre-feet per year. (An acre is about as big as an American football field or soccer pitch)
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it has some neat properties. it can do some useful things. it doesn’t need to be sentient to have these properties, or to do those things — and it isn’t.
Matter is neither created nor destroyed. Your home PC water cooling rig doesn't require the water to be replaced, and neither do datacentres, at least not inherently.
The reason why companies consumed water is that they used evaporation for extra energy efficiency b/c enthalpy of vaporization.
Liz Fong-Jones (方禮真)
@lizthegrey.com
· 1d
some details here for instance: the water gets consumed if the cooling process is evaporative, but if you don't use an evaporative process and use a little bit more energy to keep things closed-loop... www.microsoft.com/en-us/micros...
These companies have made the tradeoff that it's cheaper to buy up water to evaporate than to buy power and to buy carbon offsets for the power generation. The instant they actually get charged for the water externalities, they'll shift to closed loop cooling and eat the additional energy costs.
No one is literally dumping chemicals into the water as part of datacentre usage, so it's not being contaminated in a way that prevents reuse. Whatever water isn't evaporated off in a chiller or cooling tower is reused. And by giving up some energy efficiency you don't even have to evaporate it.
can confirm there are many Saudi Aramco helos in the air. I lack the context to know whether this is normal for this time of day or not.
Heard Island Government
@heardislandgov.bsky.social
· 1d
Our military intelligence is picking up odd movement patterns in the Persian Gulf. Up to 13 Saudi Aramco helicopters around their offshore drilling fields. More down south.
We are investigating if they possibly received a “get them out of there” phone call, or something more innocent.
No court has authority to prevent the report from being subpoenaed by congress and read into the congressional record, FWIW
Mark Joseph Stern
@mjsdc.bsky.social
· 2d
NEW: Judge Aileen Cannon permanently forbids the Department of Justice from releasing Volume II of Jack Smith's report on his prosecution of Trump. Also bars DOJ from sharing "any information or conclusions" from the volume. A sweeping, perpetual gag order. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
Black filmmaker Jonte Richardson says he is stepping down as a BAFTA judge:
look, if you want to advance a fair use argument, then it applies across the board. either training is fair use, or it is not.
(they are also well within their rights on trying to constrain who benefits from loss leader pricing & enforcing ToS, but there's not an *copyright infringement* angle)
Dustin Volz
@dustinvolz.bsky.social
· 2d
Three Chinese AI companies—DeepSeek, Moonshot AI and MiniMax—prompted Anthropic's Claude more than 16 million times, siphoning information from its system to train and improve their own products, Anthropic said in a blog post Monday. www.wsj.com/tech/ai/anth...
australia could literally be the green datacentre capital of the world. so much land and sunlight. but it needs to do it carefully rather than just giving yet more foreign companies a licence to extract resources, pollute the environment, and pay no tax.
Asher Wolf
@asherwolf.bsky.social
· 1d
Now is the time to start banging a pot about *no new data centre builds* without social license and environmental accountability
www.afr.com/politics/fed...
Now is the time to start banging a pot about *no new data centre builds* without social license and environmental accountability
www.afr.com/politics/fed...
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Not sure what the late Prof. Schank meant in saying of his "brilliant" PhD student "I made her leave Yale", but would hope the Yale Title IX office wants to know what he meant.
FYI: Schank was the "chief learning officer" for Trump University and wrote a long LinkedIn defending his role there.
Literally impeach every single impeachable person in the entire chain of command, including Trump.
FactPost
@factpostnews.bsky.social
· 2d
Former ICE agent: My first day training new cadets, I received secretive orders to teach them to violate the Constitution by entering homes without a warrant. I watched ICE cut classes that teach our legal system, firearms training, use of force, lawful arrests, and the limits of officers' authority
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NEW: Local officials blocked from visiting migrants at Portsmouth airport who were stranded on ICE deportation plane for 14 hours.
Full writethru with new images:
gillianbrockell.ghost.io/breaking-sha...
Gillian Brockell
@gbrockell.bsky.social
· 2d
UPDATE: The plane was towed to the terminal around 3pm. Migrants are reportedly "at the terminal," though it's unclear to me if that means still on the plane or off of it. And if off, unclear if they are still shackled.
gillianbrockell.ghost.io/breaking-sha...
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Is harm less when it's not intentional?
If you accidentally break someone's leg, you've still broken someone's leg whether you meant to or not.
The person with the broken leg might not be as angry if it wasn't malicious, but you've still caused serious damage. That they now have to deal with.
oh god, the cis have discovered gender-affirming surgery (performed by charlatans in a garage)
I gotta say DIY HRT is a lot less dangerous than DIY FFS or FMS lol
another one!
Mark Chadbourn
@chadbourn.bsky.social
· 2d
Mandelson follows the former prince Andrew into the Epstein-linked arrest book.
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The confinement is certainly part of the whole cruel shebang, but imo the shackling is the worst part. And there’s no reason to think they’ve been let out of their shackles inside the terminal.
The longest shackling I’ve heard of is 82 hours (in mid-December). This may end up being longer.
The amount of drugs they will pump into that man
The New York Times
@nytimes.com
· 2d
As President Trump prepares to deliver his State of the Union address, he gave a little glimpse on Monday of what to expect. “It’s going to be a long speech,” he said, “because we have so much to talk about.” nyti.ms/4qWNrEZ
AI SREs are framed as nameless job automation; Coding Assistants as named partners.
The framing used to create these products reveals a lot about how the builders and buyers perceive these roles. I also write about the challenges and risks of picking self-limiting analogies in building systems.
This train will stop at: Sneppington
I was curious about what was at the terminus of the T2 train line, especially given its name. So I used part of my day off to travel there, with a little friend!
this little snep went to Sneppington, then went nyaa nyaa nyaa all the way home
A war foretold: how the CIA & MI6 got hold of Putin’s Ukraine plans & why nobody (including Zelenskyy) believed them www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int... What a total defeat?!! If no one would believe US (& UK) intel then—about Putin!?!—why bother?! Who’ll believe anything in our fact free future?
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as a friend put it: if someone else wanted LLM-generated code they can go ahead and ask for it themself
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at this point saying they don't work at all, or only stochastically emit things from their training set, or can't solve novel problems, is denying their ability, but only in regards to coding. natural-language interfaces are here but you have to know what you're doing to use them effectively
the core problem of the whole agentic AI thing is that they work quite well for coding, and coders assume this means they will work quite well for everything else on the planet, because they are coders with a Silicon Valley mindset, and they tell this to investors with Silicon Valley money
It’s weirdly mostly women who get called hanjian in these instances. You can guess why.
Sam (ABeardedPanda)
@abeardedpanda.bsky.social
· 2d
I'm mostly seeing this from people I went to high school with which makes it extra bad but I'm not gonna screenshot their instagram stories
I am seeing the word hanjian getting thrown around a lot toward Liu and Gu and their families
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But what’s a trillion dollars between friends and infrastructure partners
This is the most incredible footage of blue whales I’ve ever seen
I *will* say that the idea that *Judaism* is a religion that has one- single-all-authorities-agree "official position" on pretty much *anything* was the type of belly laugh I badly needed today
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There are player dudes or staff dudes on the Team USA men's hockey team who so regularly consume hard-hitting investigative journalism that their first reaction to seeing Kash Patel partying while Mar-a-Lago had armed gunman was "let me find the federal government reporter's Proton Mail or Signal"
I need you to understand the significance of a Team USA men's hockey team player snitching on his teammates and Kash Patel to PROPUBLICA reporter minutes after winning a goal medal
Forward Blue
@forwardblue.bsky.social
· 2d
Kash Patel: busy drinking beers in the locker room. Not defending America. Not releasing the Epstein files. Maybe he can pass one to Hegseth?
vid credit: William Turton
Unsurprisingly has set off a chain reaction of violence throughout Jalisco but hey at least we got content
Reuters
@reuters.com
· 3d
Exclusive: New US military-led group aided Mexico's hunt for 'El Mencho' cartel boss reut.rs/4ruonpX
this is completely asinine and will create more, not less, work for TSA and CBP, because they'll have to put every passenger through the normal processes and the system is no longer equipped to handle that!
(sure, there is some duplication of personnel with separate lines, but... not that much)
NBC News
@nbcnews.com
· 3d
BREAKING: DHS is pausing TSA PreCheck and Global Entry programs amid its funding lapse.
they could close the extra checkpoints out of peak hours, and for PreCheck in particular they could hand you the card that lets you pass through metal detector and keep jacket/shoes on even off-peak in single shared lane, but no, they're doing this the stupidest possible way to stage a tantrum.
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So why argue that an LLM might actually be more energy efficient than a human at a particular job? The only way that energy efficiency actually results in any savings is if you start eliminating humans. Not eliminating human JOBS. Eliminating HUMANS.
Southern Lebanon is the countries bread basket. This is both about depopulating the border region with Israel and putting economic pressure on a country already in economic crisis by disrupting their main domestic food supply.
Israel using starvation as a weapon of war... again.
elia ayoub
@ayoub.bsky.social
· 3d
Israel has been dumping herbicides throughout southern Lebanon as part of a concerted ecocide campaign to render the region uninhabitable. This has been going on for months with Lebanese journalists & environmentalists regularly reporting on it.
The BBC: we don’t know why the Israelis are doing it
Google Gemini 3.1 Pro just released has passed other LLMs on Humannity's Last Exam. blog.google/innovation-a...
psa: you don't have to use archive dot today or archive dot ph to access SMH or The Age without the paywall; you can disable Javascript on them and the articles load just fine.
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So, for example, after rescanning blacksky.app, the numbers I have for it are that:
- I see a total of 27864 accounts
- but only 9836 are seen by Bluesky AppView, which means the other 2/3 are probably taken down by Bluesky moderation
- and from those, 2947 have posted anything
I think we can all agree this is automated, even if there are still some folks who believe that there are real people operating the automation and who will receive the proceeds.
Kuba Suder 🇵🇱🇺🇦
@mackuba.eu
· 3d
There are e.g.:
- 1381 handles starting with 'savefamily' on blacksky.app
- 2051 starting with 'saveabed'
- 2127 with 'mhm' (mhmodsfmly, mhmodsfamly...)
- 2551 with 'mh-fam'
- 605 with 'mah-fm'
- and some other combinations… 🫣
Pauline Hanson's One Nation rehires convicted rapist to run federal election campaign - ABC News
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-02...
RIP Fredrick Brennan. He didn't just get 8chan taken down, he also helped fight all kinds of online radicalisation and hatred.
Mike Rothschild
@rothschildmd.bsky.social
· 3d
Just heard about Fredrick Brennan's death. He was a genuine example of how a person can try to make right the things they did wrong and do better. He got 8chan taken down and essentially deplatformed. And he never misrepresented who he was or the mistakes he made. We could all do that more.
Honestly couldn't have said it better myself. It's difficult to overstate the scope of what Brennan inadvertently set in motion, but he fought like hell against the monsters he helped create. You have to respect him for that, if nothing else.
Mike Rothschild
@rothschildmd.bsky.social
· 3d
Just heard about Fredrick Brennan's death. He was a genuine example of how a person can try to make right the things they did wrong and do better. He got 8chan taken down and essentially deplatformed. And he never misrepresented who he was or the mistakes he made. We could all do that more.
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meanwhile, I just ralphed my way to SLO/SLIs within