Artemis II Astronauts Have ‘Two Microsoft Outlooks’ and Neither Work In space, no one can hear you scream at Microsoft’s legacy software.

lol www.404media.co/artemis-2-as...

Against the Luddites The rehabilitation of Luddism is a vice signal.

"Luddism does not deserve to be rehabilitated. It was a medieval throwback, reactionary and primitive, a pre-Marxist labor convulsion closer in spirit to the Khmer Rouge’s fantasies of agrarian restoration than to the universalist solidarity of Eugene Debs."

open.substack.com/pub/verysane...

Sketch of Minecraft villager ‘construction’.

Kids devising machines to psychologically damage villagers in Minecraft.

2 weeks to go.

A Wind-Powered woman made Tumbleweed That Heals the Desert as It Rolls

www.yankodesign.com/2026/03/20/a...

How Pakistan’s people-led solar boom is easing impact of Middle East energy crisis Falling costs and government incentives make solar an attractive option for many, reducing need for gas

How Pakistan’s people-led solar boom is easing impact of Middle East energy crisis www.theguardian.com/environment/...

‘It beggars belief’: MoD sources warn Palantir’s role at heart of government is a threat to UK’s security Experts say that claims UK data remains under government ownership miss the point that the company has the capability to build its own detailed picture of the British population, and even infer state ...

NEW: Two senior MOD whistleblowers with inside knowledge of Palantir's systems have come forward to @thenerve.news to say government ministers are ignorant of the grave national security risks the technology poses.

Hugely important by @charlienotold.bsky.social
www.thenerve.news/p/palantir-t...

The Am Dash

In case you miss using the em dash — for fear of sounding AI generated. Try the newly
created Am dash
www.theamdash.com

'Smoke me a Kipper, I'll be back for breakfast' - RIP Rob Grant

'They therefore hold unique understanding of (our) operational context, data structures... Re‑running a competitive process would introduce unnecessary delay, duplication of effort, increased cost...'

They considered a fair and open process but decided against it. Someone who should know better.

River bank and dog running in the sun

Well that was nice.

A startup called Germ becomes the first private messenger that launches directly from Bluesky's app | TechCrunch Social network Bluesky now offers private messaging by integrating the startup Germ's E2E encrypted messenger natively in its app.

A startup called Germ becomes the first private messenger that launches directly from Bluesky’s app.

techcrunch.com/2026/02/18/a...

The endless column inches, YouTube videos, podcasts and more given over to the largely non-existent rightwards shift of young men is exhausting.

A small fraction are getting radicalised by the online right. But most young men vote left and liberal! Even more so than millennials did at their age!

Here's a link to the clip: www.instagram.com/p/DUV4M6IjMkC/

Dr manhatan from watchmen sitting on a rock

It's 1998. Peter Mandleson has resigned in disgrace from Labour.

It's 2001. Peter Mandleson has resigned in disgrace from Labour.

It's 2025. Peter Mandleson has resigned in disgrace from Labour.

It's 2026. Peter Mandleson has resigned in disgrace from Labour.

ProMoScribe - AI Audio Transcription Tool - ProMo Cymru A simple, free tool for third sector organisations to transcribe audio files into text. Use it, copy it, adapt it!

Built a small boring transcription tool with AI.

Because useful before product is often ignored.

Some thinking behind building boring useful tools

promo.cymru/project/prom...

I like Ghost but it is is relatively expensive for low volume publishers.

UK's longest ski slope gets go ahead in Merthyr Tydfil Councillors voted unanimously for the scheme in Merthyr Tydfil, which also includes a tropical waterpark.

‘Game changer’ for Merthyr.

Surprisingly the second time a ski slope has been built in the town.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Dog resting on sofa.

Between cheese, wine and bedtime.

Screenshot showing that this is my 2,900th post on my blog

This feels like an appropriately round number for the announcement that my blog has now officially moved from WordPress to Ghost

blog.dougbelshaw.com/welcome

ICE Contracts Company Making Bounty Hunter AI Agents AI Solutions 87 says on its website its AI agents “deliver rapid acceleration in finding persons of interest and mapping their entire network.”

ICE Contracts Company Making Bounty Hunter AI Agents

www.404media.co/ice-contract...

Australian news reporting that the hero bystander here is named Ahmed al Ahmed. Muslim, father of two.

ROCKSTAR UPDATE:

Keir Starmer was just asked about the Rockstar firings in Parliament today where he described the situation as "deeply concerning" and promised it would be looked into by government ministers.

Not that a Starmer promise is worth much, mind.

“Let them be kids!”

But Victoria passed the Adult Time for Violent Crime legislation which can send 14 year olds to adult jails.

Which is it you want them to be? Adults or children?

Or simply not seen or heard at all?

Bit rubbish. Lidl middle finest.

The usual dog walk is now sub aquatic.

Imagine you time travel back to 1847 and you find the left response to industrialization is a) machines will never be as good as human weavers or b) we need to copyright loom patterns or c) it’s a speculative bubble.

You’d say “Y’all. Not helping. What you need is obviously a labor movement.”

Great culture can save lives. Literally.

Amazing letter in today’s @thetimes.com about Tom Stoppard

Six men standing for a group photo after a BJJ competition.

What grappling taught me about b2b sales.

Nothing.

But good to keep moving, competing and be supported in individual competition by a team.

I'm not too old for this...

EPITAPH ON A TYRANT W. H. Auden Poems on the Underground Perfection, of a kind, was what he was after, And the poetry he invented was easy to understand; He knew human folly like the back of his hand, And was greatly interested in armies and fleets; When he laughed, respectable senators burst with laughter, And when he cried the little children died in the streets. January 1939 tfl.gov.uk/poems poemsontheunderground.org

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