I just read in the Wall Street Journal that certain areas of San Francisco remain a โ€˜no go zoneโ€™, despite the best and most valiant efforts of our amazing โ€˜only good mayor in a whileโ€™, the billionaire whose mama paid for his campaign.

The no go zone, supposedly, includes the place I live in; where in the same article the same mayor says โ€˜it also has the highest number of childrenโ€™

#SanFrancisco

Y'all know that this weapons grift deal is just a distraction from Epstein, right?

Puppyfucker still likes to rape little girls.

Aะผะตั€ะธะบะฐะฝััŒะบะธะน ะฟั€ะตะทะธะดะตะฝั‚, ะธะดะธ ะฝะฐั…ัƒะน!
#AmericanPresidentGoFuckYourself

And so the reality of running a council & the views of ReformUK have (without much delay) collided, as Kent Country Council discover the sending migrant workers home might have a major impact on the ability of the council to deliver social care..... oh dear, reality has bit them in the bum.

#ReformUK #politics #migrants #workers

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African Leaders Mourn the Death of Former Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari telesurenglish.net/african-leaโ€ฆ

Latakiaโ€™s Burning Coast: Sectarian Purge Masked as โ€˜Wildfireโ€™ Under Syriaโ€™s New Government orinocotribune.com/latakias-buโ€ฆ

activistpost.com/podcast-g-edwโ€ฆ

Let's see what DR SUCHARIT BHAKDI has been up to....

DR SUCHARIT BHAKDI WITH AN URGENT WARNING. HE IS NO LONGER OPTIMISTIC. truthsummit.substack.com/p/dr-โ€ฆ

... and.....

FOLLOW-UP ON DR SUCHARIT BHAKDI'S URGENT WARNING. STATS INDICATE 50% SINGAPORE POPULATION DROP WITHIN 10 YEARS. truthsummit.substack.com/p/sinโ€ฆ

Yup, the hard part isnโ€™t writing code.

Iโ€™m always a bit cautious of the argument that the barriers are a good thing. That easily slips into harmful gatekeeping if we arenโ€™t careful. Itโ€™s not good when programming is inaccessible or unwelcoming.

What โ€ขisโ€ข good is that writing code slows you down and (if youโ€™re good) makes you โ€ขthinkโ€ข about what the heck youโ€™re doing โ€” the work @saraislet is talking about โ€” with a depth and detail that no amount of chin-stroking and up-front design work can match. Skipping that work, however you skip it, is a false gain.
infosec.exchange/@saraislet/11โ€ฆ

in reply to Paul Cantrell

Where that understanding goes wrong is that humans have perception and experience and common sense. And yes, people are foolish and fallible โ€” but ultimately humans are the adaptable element of complex systems[1], and when we design processes involving humans, we always, always lean on that adaptability.

If we say โ€œwalk out the door,โ€ humans generally will not just walk face first into the wall just because the door is behind it.

Code will โ€” unless you tell it not to.

[1] how.complexsystems.fail/#12

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in reply to Paul Cantrell

So much of the work we do in software is about asking not just what โ€ขdoesโ€ข happen when the developer runs their own code, but what โ€ขcouldโ€ข happen when the code is running in the wild, out from under the watchful eye of its author.

Thatโ€™s really, really hard. Itโ€™s a large portion of what makes development time-consuming and labor-intensive.

And itโ€™s something you can only do if you actually understand what the code โ€ขmeansโ€ข โ€” both to the computers and to the humans.

4/

in reply to Paul Cantrell

A lot of the design work that goes into programming languages and tools is about prompting developers to โ€ขthink about meaningโ€ข: tests, types, scope, compile errors, runtime errors โ€” all about โ€ขpreventing code from runningโ€ข in the presence of an expectation/reality mismatch.

Iโ€™m always on high alert for tools that promise to speed development by letting developers skip the thinking.

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in reply to Paul Cantrell

This AI vibe coding (โ€œkids should not go into coding as a careerโ€) era reminds me of that guidance counsellor in high school (circa 1995) warning us to stay away from the computer industry at large b/c he read an article about Moorseโ€™s law (I assume) and figured they can only make these darn computers run so fast and then thatโ€™s itโ€ฆ this was before any true adoption of the Internet.

Hands on coding experience as youโ€™re describing would dispense all the theory.

Ref: Iโ€™m still gainfully employed fixing mainframe code ๐Ÿ™ƒ

in reply to Paul Cantrell

In a saner environment, weโ€™d be having a reasonable conversation about that: in what ways, if any, can a machine that repeats contextual patterns with no sense of meaning augment humans thinking through tricky things? In ways can it mislead? When, if ever, is it worth the tradeoffs? the resource costs? etc etc.

Right now, the off-the-charts money and hype make that reasonable conversation impossible except perhaps in hushed corners. (Please do not have that argument in my replies. I am tired.)

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Grรผne machen Druck auf Regierung fรผr temporรคres Aussetzen des EU-Israel-Abkommens derstandard.at/story/300000027โ€ฆ

"Advantage over the enemy": Indian Air Force Su-30MKI successfully fired Astra missiles at targets, which are being developed for the advanced LCA AF MK1A fighter en.topwar.ru/267960-preimuscheโ€ฆ

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๐Ÿ‡ต๐Ÿ‡ธMinisteri de Salut Palestรญ - Gaza ๐Ÿ‡ต๐Ÿ‡ธ

Comunicat de Premsa

โญ•๏ธEl personal mรจdic presoner en els centres de detenciรณ de l'ocupaciรณ experimenta condicions trร giques i difรญcils.

โญ•๏ธL'ocupaciรณ israeliana imposa estrictes restriccions als presos en general i al personal mรจdic en particular.

in reply to Verรณnica Alonso Pรฉrez

โญ•๏ธL'advocat del pres, Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya, descriu el seu delicat estat de salut i la denegaciรณ deliberada de tractament.

โญ•๏ธL'advocada del Dr. Abu Safiya, basant-se en la seua รบltima visita, descriu la brutalitat a la qual รฉs sotmรฉs durant els interrogatoris i les constants pallisses.

โญ•๏ธEl Dr. Abu Safiya, detingut des del 27 de desembre de l'any passat, ha perdut 40 kg i patix hipertensiรณ i debilitat cardรญaca.

in reply to Verรณnica Alonso Pรฉrez

โญ•๏ธ 360 professionals sanitaris han sigut arrestats des de l'inici de la guerra genocida en la Franja de Gaza.

โญ•๏ธ Entre els detinguts es troben metges amb experiรจncia i especialitats importants, accรฉs que se'ls ha negat a pacients i ferits.

โญ•๏ธ El Ministeri de Salut insta les autoritats competents a intervindre urgentment per a criminalitzar les prร ctiques de l'ocupaciรณ contra el personal sanitari detingut i pressionar-los perquรจ siguen alliberats.

Ministeri de Salut
14 de juliol de 2025

Gironde โ€“ CRA de Mรฉrignac : De malhonnรชtes gens ciblent les siรจges des boรฎtes complices
attaque.noblogs.org/post/2025/โ€ฆ

"La Grappe / samedi 12 juillet 2025 Pour participer ร  la construction dโ€™un centre de rรฉtention administrative, il faut soit adhรฉrer ร  la politique xรฉnophobe de lโ€™ร‰tat, soit ne pas faire le lien entre les deuxโ€ฆ Il est de plus โ€ฆ Continuer la lecture โ†’"

Troyes : ยซ Mort aux nazis ยป
attaque.noblogs.org/post/2025/โ€ฆ

"Lโ€™Est รฉclair / samedi 13 juillet 2025 Trois mois aprรจs que la permanence du dรฉputรฉ RN Jordan Guitton, installรฉe rue Georges-Clรฉmenceau ร  Troyes, a รฉtรฉ vandalisรฉe, [et un an aprรจs une autre visite ; NdAtt.] elle a de nouveau fait โ€ฆ Continuer la lecture โ†’"

KYIV INDEPENDENT:
Russian drones strike Sumy, Kharkiv oblasts killing 1 person, injuring at least 21

Russian troops launched drone attacks on Kharkiv and Sumy oblasts on July 14, killing one person and injuring at least 21, local authorities reported.

kyivindependent.com/russian-drโ€ฆ

#Ukraine

Greek theatre teacher Efi Lazou wrote and directed a theater play as a private individual, with the title "Anne Frank speaks to the children of Palestine".

The shows were done in a private space with zero involvement of her school.

Yet, the Administration for Primary Education (under the Ministry of Education) has launched an investigation against her, trying to fire her due to that play.

#Greece #EU is complicit in the #genocide in #Gaza #Palestine.

alfavita.gr/ekpaideysi/483907_โ€ฆ

Which Way Western Man by William Gayley Simpson

Throughout his long lifetime, William Gayley Simpson was a widely traveled and careful observer of Western civilization and its relations with the non-White peoples of the world, especially the Negro and the Jew. An exceptionally deep thinker, he traced the sickness that has overtaken the White man's world in the 20th century to its roots in Jewish world conspiracy and its coordinated aggressive moves against us. Simpson reveals the deception inherent in our money system, which isn't based on real wealth at all, but on debt and fantasy, and it cannot do other than cause trouble for the people condemned to use it as their medium of exchange.

The author also shows why Feminism is not the liberation of woman, but the enslaving of them to Jewish interests. Simpson reveals the fundamental incompatibility between Capitalism, which he calls "The Machine," and the human psyche. He goes into great detail about the physiological basis of . . . colchestercollection.com/titleโ€ฆ

The Colchester Collection is the Web's largest curated archive of pro-White books, with almost 1,800 of them in one of our 22 different catalogs.

He gets it: Trump is not an aberration.

"The Achillesโ€™ heel of the ruling elites in Europe and in the United States today is that even though theyโ€™re presiding over the political crisis of neoliberalism, the legitimacy crisis of neoliberalism, theyโ€™re thoroughly wedded to the regime. They have nothing else to offer."

jacobin.com/2025/07/trump-foreโ€ฆ

Fractures within US President Trump's MAGA support base are deepening over an alleged cover-up of the Epstein files, after the DOJ and the FBI concluded that there was no 'client list' and nothing suspicious about convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein's death.

Once keen to talk about the Epstein case, the president has now described sustained interest in the affair as "a desecration", urging Americans to focus on other issues.

newarab.com/news/tucker-bannonโ€ฆ

๐Ÿ•Ž ๐Ÿ‡ต๐Ÿ‡ธ โ˜ฎ๏ธ
#Gaza #Palestine
#Press #News

Hรถchster Masernstand in den USA seit mehr als 30 Jahren

In den USA sind die Masern weiter auf dem Vormarsch, die Infektionszahlen haben den hรถchsten Stand seit mehr als 30 Jahren erreicht. Ein Grund ist offenbar die wachsende Impfskepsis - auch in der Regierung. Von Nina Barth.

โžก๏ธ tagesschau.de/ausland/amerika/โ€ฆ

#USA #Masern #Impfpflicht

โšก๏ธ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ฆUkraine's parliament to consider solidifying government reshuffle in coming days โ€“ source (more) ukrinform.net/rubric-polytics/โ€ฆ #Ukraine #NukesForUkraine #Germany #France #Italy #OSCE #PACE #CoE #SouthKorea #Press #News #Taiwan #Media #Japan #USA #US #UK #EU #NATO #UnitedStates #UnitedKingdom
#EuropeanUnion #russiaUkraineWar
#11yrInvasionofUkraine #RussiaIsATerroristState #TrumpIsARussianAsset

Das ยปnur zwei Prozent der globalen CO2-Emissionenยซ-Argument reflektiert nicht nur Verantwortungslosigkeit, Rรผcksichtslosigkeit und Ignoranz, sondern auch eine extreme Kurzsichtigkeit.
Wer die Grรผnde dafรผr noch nicht verstanden hat: Bitte den Artikel lesen! โฌ‡๏ธ
spiegel.de/wissenschaft/menschโ€ฆ

KYIV INDEPENDENT:
Germany says EU discussing 'more than 3' Patriot air defense systems for Ukraine

"From the EU perspective, the talks are about more than three Patriot systems for Ukraine," a German government spokesperson said.

kyivindependent.com/germany-saโ€ฆ

#Ukraine

โš ๏ธ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ฆInjury toll from Russian war criminals strike on Zlatopil civilians rises to ten (PHOTOS and more) ukrinform.net/rubric-ato/40149โ€ฆ #Ukraine #ECHR #ICC #ICJ #Hague #WarCrimesTribunal #NukesForUkraine #Germany #France #Italy #OSCE #PACE #CoE #SouthKorea #Press #News #Taiwan #Media #Japan #USA #US #UK #EU #NATO #UnitedStates #UnitedKingdom
#EuropeanUnion #russiaUkraineWar
#11yrInvasionofUkraine #RussiaIsATerroristState #TrumpIsARussianAsset

#feature The #gaza marine #gas field, located off the coast of the Gaza Strip, is a strategic resource with high economic potential for #palestine, but has long been at the center of legal and political disputes.

Situated approx 35 to 36 kilometers (20 to 22 nautical miles) west of Gaza City in water depths of about 603 to 610 meters, the field was first discovered in 1999 by British Gas (BG) using seismic technology (...)

๐Ÿ“ฐ Report: DEFA Press Tehran

defapress.ir/en/news/86431/isrโ€ฆ

Today in Labor History July 14, 1896: Legendary Spanish anarchist and military strategist Buenaventura Durruti was born. Durruti helped organize attacks on the government of dictator Miguel Primo de Riviera in 1923. He was influential in the anarchist federation FAI and the syndicalist union CNT. He is probably best known for leading thousands of anarchist troops (the Durruti Column) against the Franco dictatorship.

#workingclass #LaborHistory #anarchism #durruti #cnt #fai #spain #fascism #antifascism #dictatorship #union #durruticolumn #antifa #antifascism

In a country where half the population suddenly is labelled terrorist because of their views, how does the police do their "job"? Report from the not any longer so great Britain

thecanary.co/uk/news/2025/07/1โ€ฆ

Chinese makers of air conditioners have witnessed explosive growth of exports to Europe, Southeast Asia and North America.

Data from the General Administration of Customs showed that China's exports of air conditioners stood at 31.67 million units in the first half, up 13.2 percent in June alone from the same period last year. The country's total output of air conditioners reached 17.58 million units in June, an increase of 35.3 percent year-on-year.

chinadaily.com.cn/a/202308/15/โ€ฆ

#climatecrisis

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