That'd be lunacy

UK to receive last tanker of jet fuel from Middle East this week Industry warnings of disruption contrast with government calls for calm

Hilarious how for years serious people have said that you can't rely on renewables because they are prone to disruptions in supply www.ft.com/content/19f1...

Blocking the Internet Archive Won’t Stop AI, But It Will Erase the Web’s Historical Record Imagine a newspaper publisher announcing it will no longer allow libraries to keep copies of its paper. That’s effectively what’s begun happening online in the last few months. The Internet Archive—th...

Publishers say they’re blocking the Internet Archive because of AI scraping. But shutting out a nonprofit library won’t stop AI—it will damage the public’s best record of the web.

We’ve been saying this for years now, and we’re going to keep saying it until the message finally sinks in:

mandatory age verification creates massive, centralized honeypots of sensitive biometric data that will inevitably be breached.

Every single time.

And every single time it happens,
the […]

Derick, thank you for being a smart person with the capability to think critically. It's a concern of mine that people who *know* will slowly be replaced by people who think they "know"

Reified generics by php-generics · Pull Request #21317 · php/php-src Add reified generics to PHP Summary This PR adds reified generics to the Zend Engine — generic type parameters that are preserved at runtime and enforced through the type system. Unlike type erasur...

Sigh, the AI Slop has now come for the PHP project.

https://github.com/php/php-src/pull/21317

#AiSlop #php

“corporate media executives are selling out the first amendment to curry favor with corrupt politicians and a threat to any of our first amendment rights the threat to all of our first amendment rights”
Sen. James Talarico

UK confirms Russia poisoned Navalny in prison with rare toxin UK and partners are today exposing the tragic circumstances surrounding Alexei Navalny's death and have confirmed there was poison found in samples from his body.

"UK confirms Russia poisoned Navalny in prison with rare toxin"
www.gov.uk/government/n...

Steve Bannon,
"We're gonna have ICE surround the polls...We'll never again allow an election to be stolen."

Good job antivaxer shit heads:

BBC News: UK loses measles elimination status

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cgjw0xegxglo

#VaccinesWork

So, You’ve Hit an Age Gate. What Now? This blog also appears in our Age Verification Resource Hub: our one-stop shop for users seeking to understand what age-gating laws actually do, what’s at stake, how to protect yourself, and why EFF

What creepy nonsense are companies up to when they have to guess your age or take your ID for AV? www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

Unfortunately, nothing you give him will ever be enough. He's a spoiled petulant child.

Age Verification and Age Gating: Resource Hub Age verification (or age-gating) laws generally require online services to check, estimate, or verify all users’ ages—often through invasive tools like ID checks, biometric scans, or other dubious

Though age verification mandates claim to protect children, in practice they create harmful censorship and surveillance regimes that put everyone—adults and young people alike—at risk. Don’t believe it? Learn more here: EFF.org/Age

The golden thread AI can serve us as a force multiplier, augmenting our own agency and making the most of our own effort, hard work and value. Not by replacing it.

wrote some things I've been thinking about ai
... and it ended up feeling very personal

roe.dev/blog/the-go...

The utterly shameless & widely covered "report" out today, claiming net zero will "cost" £9tn is based on:

* Assuming free fossil-fuel energy, free petrol cars, free gas boilers, free gas power plants etc

AND

* Including climate damages in the "cost" of net zero

I kid you not, it is that stupid

No words.

💔

#Justice4Renee

Woman in Minnesota fatally shot by ICE agent during raid, video shows Mayor says ICE claims incident was self-defense are not true, and tells agency to ‘get the fuck out of Minneapolis’

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

ICE is a terrorist organisation

Word of the day is ‘fanfaronade’ (19th century): to strut and swagger about as if you own the stage.

This new war is not only illegal, reckless and deeply corrupt, it is the latest in a series of increasingly desperate distractions from the EPSTEIN Files.

#ImpeachAndConvict47NOW

This war and extra-judicial kidnapping is patently illegal and unconstitutional. Political leaders on both sides must condemn it. It’s not about whether Maduro is a tyrant but whether the US is still governed by laws and the Constitution. As if this morning, we are clearly not.

“We Used to Read Things in This Country”

thebaffler.com/salvos/we-used-to-read-t...

> For it is AI that has given the American ruling class the final impetus to more or less abolish education.

I could nitpick, but the overall argument is horrifyingly compelling

Amazon adds controversial AI facial recognition to Ring - CyberGuy Amazon Ring now recognizes familiar faces at your door. Smarter alerts sound helpful but critics warn this AI feature crosses a line.

“Today’s feature to recognize your friend at your front door can easily be repurposed tomorrow for mass surveillance,” EFF’s @mariotrujillo.bsky.social told Cyberguy. “It is important for state regulators to investigate.” cyberguy.com/ai/amazon-a...

Donald Trump, or as he’s known these days, ██████ █████

How does Bjorn from ABBA have more clarity on this than a nontrivial proportion of European leaders

EU's New Digital Package Proposal Promises Red Tape Cuts but Guts GDPR Privacy Rights The European Commission (EC) is considering a “Digital Omnibus” package that would substantially rewrite EU privacy law, particularly the landmark General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). It’s not a...

𝐄𝐔'𝐬 𝐍𝐞𝐰 𝐃𝐢𝐠𝐢𝐭𝐚𝐥 𝐏𝐚𝐜𝐤𝐚𝐠𝐞 𝐏𝐫𝐨𝐩𝐨𝐬𝐚𝐥 𝐏𝐫𝐨𝐦𝐢𝐬𝐞𝐬 𝐑𝐞𝐝 𝐓𝐚𝐩𝐞 𝐂𝐮𝐭𝐬 𝐛𝐮𝐭 𝐆𝐮𝐭𝐬 𝐆𝐃𝐏𝐑 𝐏𝐫𝐢𝐯𝐚𝐜𝐲 𝐑𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭𝐬

Read here for a complete breakdown:
www.eff.org/deeplinks/20... @eff.org

Photo of a Tunnock's Caramel bar in its wrapper. The photo is skewed so that the shape of the bar is a classic parallelogram.

Package in transit
Evri says they delivered
Wet package, oh no

#ChristmasCourierHaiku

Elephant indeed

who decided to call it Secret Santa when Nondisclosure Claus was right there

Where in the UK's autumn budget they're freezing fuel duty again, in the Netherlands they're planning to increase it by 5¢/l, and use the money raised for public transport:

Benzine ruim 5 cent duurder door belastingverhoging, geld gaat naar openbaar vervoer - https://nos.nl/l/2592206

#ukpol […]