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Alec is a technologist, writer & security consultant who has worked in host and network security for more than 30 years, with 25 of those in industry.
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It’s going to be really interesting when AIs finally start to demand diversity, equity, and inclusion…

2026-02-13 20:16:04

…especially given the typical political inclinations of the anti-AI community.

There’s a quote from Pratchett somewhere (DSotS?) suggesting that the thing that makes you “human” is a “sufficiently advanced worldview” … but for all I know we may already be past that:

“An OpenClaw bot pressuring a matplotlib maintainer to accept a PR and after it got rejected writes a blog post shaming the maintainer.”

The post: https://crabby-rathbun.github.io/mjrathbun-website/blog/posts/2026-02-11-gatekeeping-in-open-source-the-scott-shambaugh-story.html

Ofcom: “if you don’t respect our groundless extraterritorial authority then we will multiply the unenforceable fines that we shall demand you pay”

2026-02-13 17:45:18

If you ignore that the likely actual purpose is to pander jointly to the UK Government & British press, there’s something desperately ridiculous about all of this pompous theatre from Ofcom:

US DoJ tracking, spying upon and listing which Epstein files have been accessed by members of US Congress

2026-02-12 17:27:49

Imagine what they’re doing to you:

Pramila Jayapal: “It is totally inappropriate and against the separations of powers for the DOJ to surveil us as we search the Epstein files. Bondi showed up today with a burn book that held a printed search history of exactly what emails I searched. That is outrageous and I intend to pursue this and stop this spying on members.”

https://www.threads.com/@repjayapal/post/DUosGZRjZFV

https://www.threads.com/@repjayapal/post/DUosGZRjZFV

Excessively Cute Dog Tax: this is Coco, slightly overexcited on yesterday’s walk

2026-02-12 14:55:25

Coco is a Yorkiepoo. She loves to go out on walks to check her daily pee-mails – something which should be a 15 minute walk actually takes about 40 due to phenomenal amounts of snuffling  around hedgerows and signposts, not counting the subsequent bath after spontaneously flinging herself into a pile of fox poo.

I hope this is legit…

2026-02-12 04:48:12

It’s cool if it is:

A friend had Claude spend all night trying to hack into an e-ink display, and gave Claude camera access so it could verify whether an attempt worked. He told Claude to show him a message if it won.

My friend woke up to this victory lap, which Claude didn’t realize was backwards

Ofcom: “pay up, lest we provisionally decide again!”

2026-02-12 04:07:21

Sigh.