Here’s one of my more reflective poems, written while waiting for a train at a provincial railway station.
WE DON'T WANT TO KNOW BANKSY'S IDENTITY
STOP INVESTIGATING BANKSY FFS
INVESTIGATE LITERALLY EVERYTHING ELSE
"There's nothing we can do"
"What do you suppose we do?"
"We are powerless"
- The democracy supposedly worth spreading through bombs
We and our 847 partners can have a CSRF vulnerability, as a treat
"Starmer is toast. But the dark forces that brought him to power are as strong as ever."
"In Starmer, the billionaires found their synthetic, laboratory-grown 'man of the people' - one so clueless... that his closest advisors [said] he was an empty vessel through which they ran the government."
The Epstein Files indicate "how completely the billionaire class has captured political life in Britain."
https://www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/starmer-toast-dark-forces-brought-him-power-are-strong-ever
#UKPol #USPol #EUPol #Starmer #Epstein #oligarchy #mandelson .
> The State cannot claim it lacks capacity. It has police, it has a military, it has an airport. It simply refuses to apply scrutiny to US-linked flights in the way it would to almost any other perceived security concern.
https://www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/commentanalysis/arid-41792807.html
Today we had a fire alarm in the office. A colleague wrote to a Slack channel 'Fire alarm in the office building', to start a thread if somebody knows any details. We have AI assistant Glean integrated into the Slack, and it answered privately to her: "today's siren is just a scheduled test and you do not need to leave your workplace". It was not a test or a drill, it was a real fire alarm. Someday, AI will kill us.
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.
There are two problems in computer science:
1. We could do this better
2. We should not do this at all
This guy named Ben Palmer made an "Immigration tip line" and people call it thinking he's ICE.
He records them and shares it with the world.
What do people sound like when reporting their neighbors, coworkers, students? Are they confident they are doing a righteous good thing?
Witness the banality of evil in these sheepish suburban voices.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zJnkikcrHA0
PEERTUBE option: https://kinowolnosc.pl/w/p/av2NQ5ug2M7TgJzkSvyzi6
I swear some systems setup advice on the internet is literally written by intelligence agencies as a psyop
One of these methods for generating a LUKS (full disk encryption) password is not like the other....
I felt that Microsoft Copilot, formerly known as Office, could use a mascot. So I asked Copilot to design something in the spirit of Clippy.
Let me introduce you to Sloppy, a cheerful slightly gooey assistant with glasses and a headset.
🧵 My sense of justice was triggered by #Palantir corporate gaslighting two Swiss investigative journalists on LinkedIn.
This is something most people won’t even see, but I was angry, so I looked while my kid was still asleep.
Here’s what it looks like when tech bros attack journalists while you and I have too much food over Christmas.
Two Swiss journalists spent a year filing 59 #FOIA requests to document Palantir’s 7-year campaign to sell surveillance software to Swiss authorities (army and health services in particular).
📄: https://www.republik.ch/2025/12/09/warum-palantir-zum-risiko-fuer-die-schweiz-wird
The Swiss army’s internal report concluded they couldn’t rule out US intelligence accessing data through Palantir systems, despite reassurances.
Their story hit The Guardian, and #UK MPs are now questioning £825M in Palantir contracts.
The journalists were rejoicing on LinkedIn. It’s a big deal to have your story picked up by mainstream UK media, especially after a year of hard work.
This is where it gets ugly.
US media inching closer to admitting that the country is running concentration camps.
