The EU flag. The field has been turned from blue to orange. In the center of the circle of stars is Trump's open, hooting gob. Behind the orange field we see the faded traces of a printed circuit board.

Crises precipitate change. That's no reason to induce a crisis, but you'd be a fool to let a crisis go to waste. Donald Trump is the greatest crisis of our young century, and the EU looks set to squander the opportunity, to its own terrible detriment.

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I used AI. It worked. I hated it. I used Claude Code to build a tool I needed. It worked great, but I was miserable. I need to reckon with what it means.

I appreciated this article by Michael Taggart, on the temptation to use some of these coding tools and the pitfalls, from the POV of an experienced software engineer.

This is why it's important to fight these issues collectively rather than at the individual level.

taggart-tech.com/reckoning/

Eurosky - Building a thriving open social web for Europe Eurosky is a European initiative to build and operate sovereign social web infrastructure

The cool folks from the Eurosky team just brought you a new site: eurosky.tech, portal to the Atmosphere.

I'd say it's the crispest explanation so far of what the Atmosphere brings:

1. one account
2. that works with a bunch of apps, and
3. your data from all apps is yours, portable, interoperable.

Het is gewoon surrealistisch dat we dit gewoon allemaal laten passeren. Het is nog surrealistischer dat sommigen hier dat land nog altijd steunen. #NYTimes

Israel abolished the death penalty for ordinary crimes in 1954.

Today it was reintroduced, exclusively for Palestinians.

Fuck the statements of concern from the international community, where are the sanctions?

Repeating for those in the back: "The typical Belgian earns as much as the typical Californian but works about 24% less."

I’ve never used any of the LLM chatbots, avoided them even in the early days, because they had all the hallmarks of a major cognitive and psychological hazard from the very beginning

“I’m not gonna use this shit unless I can be sure it won’t mess me or others up” is an entirely reasonable position

"This probably sounds like nightmare fuel to many, but to wealthy VCs and AI and crypto entrepreneurs it’s the next gold rush." is the quote of our time

in-ter-o-per-a-bi-li-ty

It may be an unseemly long word, but it's beautiful to watch at work.

anthropic: I have made AI

tech nerds: you fucked up a perfectly good computer is what you did. look at it. it's got anxiety

x86CSS x86CSS is a working CSS-only x86 CPU/emulator/computer. No JavaScript required!

Where are your "CSS is not a programming language" gods now?!?!? muwahaha. muwahaha.

lyra.horse/x86css/

at last, we have invented retrophenology from the classic Discworld text Don’t Invent Retrophenology

Twitter: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO) YouTube video by LastWeekTonight

Given all the discourse today about Bluesky vs. X... seems like good timing for @lastweektonight.com's latest video on just how bad X has become...

www.youtube.com/watch?v=p7ZG...

The constant condescension about ai is another aspect of it that makes me hate it more. The assumption is you can only be against it because you don't understand it like I do. No man. I don't like voluntarily making every human enterprise dependent on a tech run by a tiny group of financial maniacs

Truly the most stupid timeline. At a point in time where renewable energy has tipped into genuine widespread viability, capital invents whole new ways to fabricate waste and scarcity.

Jennifer @JenYetAgain@beige.party in 2017 a popular twitter game was to type a partial phrase then see what your phone auto-completes it with. this proved so popular that it is now the only business model in the US. Feb 9, 2026 at 4:35:18PM Boosted by 968: Favourited by 1324:

mom they’re roasting the US economy on mastodon again

If you report on tech or are a tech-related decision-maker, please, for the love of Eris, understand that Silicon Valley runs on a hype cycle. Assume *everything* is bullshit until proven otherwise.

it legit rules that the best bluesky feed is run on some guy's computer and he also plays games on that same computer

I miss pattern matching so badly whenever I switch from Rust back to JavaScript—which is not often, I need more excuses to write Rust.
The only thing that really keeps throwing me off in Rust is lifetimes. Whenever I think I've finally grasped the concept, the compiler vehemently disagrees.

Discworld QOTD, from Making Money

"‘Even tyrants have to obey the law.’ He paused, looking thoughtful, and continued: ‘No, I tell a lie, tyrants do not have to obey the law, obviously, but they do have to observe the niceties.’"

Yarn 6 Preview Yarn is a modern JavaScript package manager focused on speed, security, and reliability.

It’s happening. Yarn 6 Preview is here 💫

Yes, we rewrote it in Rust 🦀⚡️

I'm incredibly excited for the future of our beloved package manager. See the benchmarks and plans in our latest post:

A reminder to the news media: “conflicting accounts” is what you say BEFORE the incontrovertible video evidence appears. After that, your job is to ask why one side is lying, not to repeat the lie and pretend no one knows the truth.

If this would be happening in another country, people would talk about murder squads roaming the streets.

Maybe Europe should express solidarity with the protestors in the US, like we do for protests in other violent oppressive regimes.

1. This short thread is about the issue that dominates almost every aspect of politics, and causes or exacerbates most of our problems: the extreme wealth of a small number of people. Here’s the amazing thing: almost the entire political class aligns with the ultra-rich against the rest. 🧵1/10

sleeping black cat ignoring the pets he's getting

In case anyone's wondering: no, the cat wasn't interested at all.

It turns out that delaying the setup of my NAS for backups & a UPS to prevent unclean shutdowns came back to bite me.
Too bad I have to wait until we move before I can set those up though, so *touches wood* no more power outages in the next five months kthx.

So... Unexpected new account! Power went down for all of sixty seconds yesterday (first time in years this happened), my home servers went down and for some reason my PDS was the only disk to be irreparably damaged.