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debugging, v: the process of inserting printf statements into code until one's errors reveal themselves

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He's more likely to use a nuke so he can be remembered as the guy who used a nuke

11.03.2026 05:10 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Trying to get my head around the Anti-Corruption Commission's argument that a corruption hearing of a former prime minister is somehow not in the public interest

11.03.2026 01:25 πŸ‘ 200 πŸ” 65 πŸ’¬ 9 πŸ“Œ 1
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Tired: "You didn't break up with me, I broke up with you!"
Wired:

11.03.2026 02:16 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Either population growth is too high so we need to cut immigration, or it's too low and we should encourage more babies. There is no 'more babies but less immigration' option that isn't explicitly and indefensibly racist.

Canavan, true to form, will pretend not to understand this, repeatedly.

11.03.2026 02:20 πŸ‘ 20 πŸ” 5 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 1
The Far Side cartoon from 12/6/1987 depicting a ship full of revelers heedlessly sailing through a body of water with mines bobbing in it, a warship in the background, and a small raft with a couple guys and a gun in the bow. Caption: Through a gross navigational error, the Love Boat steams into the Strait of Hormuz.

The Far Side cartoon from 12/6/1987 depicting a ship full of revelers heedlessly sailing through a body of water with mines bobbing in it, a warship in the background, and a small raft with a couple guys and a gun in the bow. Caption: Through a gross navigational error, the Love Boat steams into the Strait of Hormuz.

today's news dredging up this 1987 Far Side cartoon from my childhood memory

10.03.2026 20:58 πŸ‘ 107 πŸ” 38 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 1

This is AI, sorry everyone! This guy didn't make this. The guy he credits in his pinned post ALSO didn't make it. I found the guy who "made" it on instagram and he didn't make it either: a computer did. Oh well!

10.03.2026 03:24 πŸ‘ 1330 πŸ” 304 πŸ’¬ 40 πŸ“Œ 27
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Tony Hoare (1934-2026) Turing Award winner and former Oxford professorΒ  Tony Hoare passed away last Thursday at the age of 92. Hoare is famous for quicksort, ALGO...

RIP Tony Hoare, March 5 2026, age 92

blog.computationalcomplexity.org/2026/03/tony...

10.03.2026 18:03 πŸ‘ 46 πŸ” 30 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Government seeks power to temporarily ban some people from Australia Overseas visitors planning to travel from certain countries could be temporarily blocked from entering Australia in an attempt by the federal government to stop a wave of people overstaying their visa...

The hypocrisy is so dangerous. While signing us up for an illegal war & claiming it champions human rights of the Iranian people, the Albanese Gov is ramming thru new laws to ban people from #Iran with valid visas from entering Australia.
www.abc.net.au/news/2026-03...

10.03.2026 05:27 πŸ‘ 151 πŸ” 79 πŸ’¬ 8 πŸ“Œ 6
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Is Australia at war? Legally, the answer is yes It's a reasonable question for Australians to ask given the government is sending a sophisticated reconnaissance plane β€” crewed by dozens of military personnel β€” to the Middle East. And legal experts ...

Yes, Australia is joining the war www.abc.net.au/news/2026-03...

10.03.2026 06:00 πŸ‘ 78 πŸ” 39 πŸ’¬ 9 πŸ“Œ 5

Now, for no reason except that it's the subject of my interest today, here is a thread of photographic portraits by Henri Cartier-Bresson β€” scans from his 1998 book Tete a Tete:

06.03.2026 21:10 πŸ‘ 8 πŸ” 5 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 2
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I'm thinking ConSec from Cronenberg's Scanners

09.03.2026 21:10 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

'bombing tehran because he cant bomb brooklyn' is a pretty accurate statement about the far right though not trump himself but 'we have been driven so mad by cultural grievance that we want to obliterate the centers of american global power for no reason' is not a thing youre supposed to advertise

08.03.2026 22:23 πŸ‘ 366 πŸ” 90 πŸ’¬ 6 πŸ“Œ 1
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They've gone and shrinkflationed a dozen ..

08.03.2026 07:55 πŸ‘ 89 πŸ” 17 πŸ’¬ 12 πŸ“Œ 9

β€œI’m not ready to talk to my kids about the existence of queer folks.” Translation: β€œI’m a bigot.”

That’s it. It’s not complicated. This a decision by and for bigots.

08.03.2026 00:40 πŸ‘ 22 πŸ” 5 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Yumi's

08.03.2026 00:59 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

They are really hitting water infrastructure

07.03.2026 23:26 πŸ‘ 387 πŸ” 115 πŸ’¬ 8 πŸ“Œ 1

Hear me out: government subsidised precursors

07.03.2026 22:26 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

So Philip Glass just joined TikTok. He only has like 4 posts and they’re simply him in what I assume is his living room playing the piano. First comment on one I saw was β€œyour piano is too close to the fireplace, you’ll dry it out” and if that’s not the internet in a nutshell I don’t know what is.

06.03.2026 03:10 πŸ‘ 4512 πŸ” 845 πŸ’¬ 55 πŸ“Œ 57

If a Dem victory in the mid-terms just leads to a series of hearings that make good content for social media and not much else things aren't going to get better. Accountability needs teeth, not likes.

07.03.2026 20:47 πŸ‘ 942 πŸ” 167 πŸ’¬ 28 πŸ“Œ 9

A 3T magnet for every home!

07.03.2026 08:47 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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YOU ASKED FOR THIS!

Downfall. Kristi Noem Edition:

06.03.2026 03:22 πŸ‘ 1881 πŸ” 638 πŸ’¬ 75 πŸ“Œ 132

It’s not disingenuous to point out that the NYT did not run a single front page story of the Minab bombing. You don’t dispute this claim because it’s true. And the story that you reference on your webpage does not attribute blame to US/Israel and frames it as an allegation by β€œIranian state media”

06.03.2026 01:10 πŸ‘ 3415 πŸ” 789 πŸ’¬ 37 πŸ“Œ 17

1.5 megawatts, fuckin hell man. that's like half of a factory draw

05.03.2026 19:23 πŸ‘ 268 πŸ” 41 πŸ’¬ 16 πŸ“Œ 2

Guy alters my cartoon by AI in a way my workplace lawyers specifically advised me against, posts his version which violates my intellectual property. I ask him repeatedly to delete, he admits he doesn’t know how then tells me to provide the legal argument for him to do it.
Reported to @bsky.app

05.03.2026 21:35 πŸ‘ 338 πŸ” 78 πŸ’¬ 45 πŸ“Œ 6
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UTC+08:45 - Wikipedia

Disappointed this doesn't include Eucla Standard Time en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UTC%2B0...

05.03.2026 09:48 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
Text from the article outlining a simplistic model of measles vaccine escape risk.

Text from the article outlining a simplistic model of measles vaccine escape risk.

Monoclonal antibody therapies are being developed to treat #measles in response to its recent resurgence. David A Kennedy argues that such therapies risk driving measles virus evolution in ways that might undermine the protection offered by #vaccination. πŸ§ͺ
plos.io/3OJx6q4

05.03.2026 09:10 πŸ‘ 6 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

* wraps

05.03.2026 08:41 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

By Jen Sorensen.

05.03.2026 08:10 πŸ‘ 154 πŸ” 62 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
A Sankey chart titled "Liberal Currents: Path to Funding".

A Sankey chart titled "Liberal Currents: Path to Funding".

This chart I found may answer this question.

05.03.2026 00:28 πŸ‘ 13 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1

And 165 non-artificial schoolchildren were blown up by all this advanced and precise targeting. Congrats to everyone involved on achieving this brave new world.

05.03.2026 03:20 πŸ‘ 793 πŸ” 290 πŸ’¬ 18 πŸ“Œ 6