Dave T-W @davoloid@qoto.org

Folks, as you're spinning your quips about Navalny and the Putin regime in your reactions to today's news, please remember that Alexey's family and millions more people are in mourning.

Hmmm.... the #LabourParty has overturned sizeable majorities in tow previously 'safe' #Tory seats in this week's two by-elections (in #Kingswood & in #Wellingborough).

But, while these may be indicative of a swing to Labour, they may also indicate a swing (on the right) towards Reform, which likely compounded a voting 'strike' (staying at home) by previous Tory #voters.

For leftists, the problem will be if #KeirStarmer takes this as vindication of his tack to the right & policy weakening!

Florida authorities want to make it sound like this particular school just messed up - but they deliberately created the environment in which this is bound to happen.

This is the feature, not the bug of the reactionary assault on multiracial pluralism Florida has spearheaded. 1/

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/florida-school-asks-parents-permission-african-american-author-read-st-rcna138685

The emphasis on “parents rights” is part of an attempt to make every reactionary white person a deputy of the reactionary state and have them help weed out and oppress dissent and deviance. It’s a fundamentally authoritarian vision of society. /end

“We are living in a world in which nobody is free, in which hardly anybody is secure, in which it is almost impossible to be honest and to remain alive.”
― George Orwell

Are economists selfish? Not according to Monopoly

Against my better judgment, I was recently prevailed upon to play a game of Monopoly with the family. It soon developed in a fashion that has become familiar: everyone tried to rip everyone else’s face off, except me. I proposed a mutually beneficial deal to each player, offering extra concessions myself to make sure those deals go

https://timharford.com/2024/02/are-economists-selfish-not-according-to-monopoly/

#UndercoverEconomist

Wellingborough voters facing historic opportunity to reject cronyism by giving disgraced MP’s job to his girlfriend https://newsthump.com/2024/02/15/wellingborough-voters-facing-historic-opportunity-to-reject-cronyism-by-giving-disgraced-mps-job-to-his-girlfriend/

Vote Count Binface for Mayor of London and I will rename the Overground lines, as follows... #VoteBinface #MakeYourVoteCount

#bird #crow #smart #spikes

These crows removing the bird-prevention spikes from this new condo. They are not having it!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Bn9FONAkUA

(2/2) As for code, researchers have documented "disconcerting trends for maintainability. Code churn – the percentage of lines that are reverted or updated less than two weeks after being authored – is projected to double in 2024 compared to its 2021, pre-AI baseline."
https://visualstudiomagazine.com/articles/2024/01/25/copilot-research.aspx

Needless to say, there are also lots of other issues. Generative AI remains a double-edged sword.

Cutting it close for Valentine's Day? Cut these out. https://brianmcfadden.org/2024/02/02/2024-valentines/

Gimme money, VC idiots. https://www.dailykos.com/story/2024/2/9/2222337/-Cartoon-New-tech-trends

Sportscaster: It is finally Super Bowl Sunday!

Other Sportscaster: Oh I thought it was Superb Owl Sunday hahaha

Owl: We get one single holiday the entire year and it's just a big fucking joke to you people.

They wouldn’t be able to ban the flipper zero in the USA because of our 2nd amendment right to bear ARM’s which everyone knows refers to the processor

Tucker Carlson’s two-hour interview with Vladimir Putin may not have revealed much that we didn’t already know, but it did inspire a lot of good jokes.
https://t.co/3dYc5urnh1