The First WORLD FENCING LEAGUE is happening April 25th!!! I'M GEEKING!!!
Japanese engineers developed this "Sword Tip Visualisation" tracking technology specifically for this event that will make it so much easier for the average person to see what's going on!
I MUST WATCH THIS ENTIRE TOURNAMENT
For @heatmap.news today, I wrote about this problem and how — given the low snowpack and the bad fire season we're almost certainly in for — breaking through that stigma will be life-or-death. heatmap.news/masks-wildfi...
"His friend Epstein couldn’t get enough of this, the ignominy of it, kept telling people Trump was going to be contestant on Survivor instead —bc he barely had survived."
“His only real business was renting his phony-baloney name”: Epstein..It was said both marveling at it & being disgusted by it"
Just under 1 month to go until this year's Agile Manchester conference: agilemanchester.net
1&2 day tickets available - Freelancer and Group discounts available. If not one of these, you can DM me for a discount code.
Programme: agilemanchester.net/programme-2026
Multiple studies find that requirements misunderstandings are a major factor in avoidable rework.
Specification By Example can dramatically reduce misunderstandings and help build a shared understanding.
Testers, UX designers, PMs etc welcome.
www.tickettailor.com/events/codem...
"Does code quality matter if LLMs can regenerate software from scratch"
LLMs can't regenerate software from scratch. That's not a thing, nor is it ever likely to be.
But thanks for letting us know you're getting your information about LLMs from LinkedIn posts.
The Atlantic's @sfifz787.bsky.social interviews more than two dozen inside sources. "They described Patel’s tenure as a management failure and his personal behavior as a national-security vulnerability."
Spicy read:
www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
James, are you *sure* that’s what’s happening here?
This is also true- the greens are indeed thinking about ‘how’ we go green. Which tbh a lot more people should have in mind.
The problem with repeatedly throwing a dead cat on the table is that you end up with a table covered in dead cats.
This post is not about dead cats.
Vance: "What they have done is engage in this act of economic terrorism against the entire world. As the President showed, two can play at that game."
After getting thrown under the bus with the Pope (and by extension the Catholic church), Hungary, and the Iranian negotiations, one possible way to read this is Vance retaliating by throwing *Trump* under the bus (by specifying that it is "the president" engaging in reciprocal global terrorism).
God grant me the confidence of a man schooling the Pope in theology.
Yup- there’s a word for this. Enshitification
@grahamcwalker.bsky.social ahoy hoy
🚨 Major intervention on defence spending by Lord George Robertson, author of govt Strategic Defence Review, tonight
UK’s leaders have shown ‘corrosive complacency’, putting nation ‘in peril’ while it’s ‘under attack’
PM ‘not willing to make the necessary investment,’ he tells @financialtimes.com
In January I was at a conference in Budapest, hosted at what still remains of CEU in the city. During a break, @zsolt.bsky.social tapped a glass and ushered to the microphone a shy-looking gentleman I’d noticed earlier grazing around the buffet, who he introduced as one of Hungary’s top slam poets.
In years to come will anyone have any idea that Taggart and Alex Ferguson were different people?
Apparently so. I’m about as surprised as anyone. Everyone here is just … yeah, words fail.
Shades of UK at Brexit.
Do we know if there’s any way to block an author on Amazon and audible? I’m rather sick of my tastes suggesting to the algorithm that I’ve any interest in the pedestrian dross of that ghastly bigoted Rawlings woman.
Terrifying revelation. An expert journalist confirms Hungary is acting as a Trojan horse for Moscow. Viktor Orban is accused of actively spying on NATO and leaking highly confidential EU intelligence directly to Vladimir Putin. The corruption is staggering.🤬🤬🤬🤬
New post out:
"Understanding MAGA"
I look at the four different strands that make up MAGA philosophy (such as it is), the contradictions between them, and whether it can survive as a movement post Trump.
(Free to read)
open.substack.com/pub/samf/p/u...
As a Brit I respect queues as much as the next man, but I’m sorry to say if there is a line waiting to throw this man into a wood chipper I’m not sure I’ll respect it.
Legal eagles noticed, and there’s been SOME mainstream coverage. But overall the political class has underreacted to this month’s OLC opinion, ordered up by Trump or on his behalf, declaring the Presidential Records Act unconstitutional. Things are likely being stolen and/or destroyed *right now*.
I feel that over the past 100 years we have now tested to destruction the theory that killing a lot of people in a particular group will make the survivors tremendously moderate, chilled out and peaceable.
Just IMAGINE doing this with sports fans #onhere.
GTFOH.
