Once again sorry about the paywall but no gift articles from Le Monde (the headline alone should be enough to to see how things are being viewed).

Le Monde Editorial: Trump's United States is now a threat to democracy in Europe […]

God it's like Dieselgate but worse. HT Ketan Joshi. It turns out that hybrid cars emit far more than the manufacturers like to claim because the fossil engine is engaged a lot more than expected. That's what you get for having a tiny battery too small for the […]

[Original post on mastodon.green]

I keep thinking of this quote from the Great Gatsby:

“They were careless people, Tom and Daisy- they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made.”

Today I found out that one of my customers is using the "social distancing" function that I build for COVID - that means that if you book some seats off a seating plan, it blocks out nearby seats to stop other people sitting there - for their relaxed and […]

[Original post on mastodon.social]

I've started posting on LinkedIn all the unconstitutional shit Trump and Musk are doing to undermine the security and integrity of our government. Mainly because that crowd needs to hear it most. It's incredible how many people in the infosec space are still defending the actions of DOGE and […]

So the UK government has sacked the head of the body responsible for consumer protection and replaced them with the former head of Amazon UK in order to get a greater emphasis on "growth".

I'm sure this will end well...

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c2d3e6zklxgo

#ukpol #ukpolitics

The headline understates it; the state of Florida is _forcibly detransitioning people_:

[Trans] inmates diagnosed with gender dysphoria were rounded up and informed that... policy had been changed, “up to and including hormone therapy.” They would no longer have... clothing and grooming […]

The more I've learned about ancient history and the more I've learned about modern economics and climate change, the more this question keeps me awake at night:

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/dec/28/we-need-dramatic-social-and-technological-changes-is-societal-collapse-inevitable […]

We've reached the point in theft of Palestinian land in the West Bank where settlers are fighting among themselves for who will grab the land, which settlement it will become a part of, and who will be profiting from it.

Folks may be messianic colonizers, but […]

[Original post on social.coop]

If you have untreated chronic pain and constant post-viral brain fog you do not also have a "life of privilege and promise" no matter how much money and education you have or had access to.

All I can say is that cisgender people should look on the almost flawless delivery of this outcome and be afraid over what has been tested and perfected here. This won’t be the last outing for the strategy. Watch out oral contraception. Watch out morning after pills. Watch out HRT. Nothing is […]

People often assume that there are harmful physical effects of precocious puberty that justify the use of puberty blockers, but the reality is that the harms of precocious puberty are purely psychosocial.

The main concern is that kids in early puberty will be teased and feel self-conscious.

A ban on a medication would normally happen to protect patients.

We know that's not the case here.

Puberty blockers were prescribed rarely by the NHS, after lengthy assessments. No harm has been found. Patients say they were necessary and the effects were wanted.

From a medical perspective, this is totally unjustified. A highly promising medical treatment, banned bc the evidence is still being developed.

That's how we know this whole thing is driven by fear and hate of trans people. Anyone saying otherwise is lying or confused about how medicine works.

The worst said about the use of puberty blockers for youth gender dysphoria is that the evidence, while generally positive, isn't as strongly positive as it could be.

On this basis lawmakers are instituting bans.

No harm has been demonstrated and no other treatments have any evidence whatever.

🆕 blog! “Is WordPress.org GDPR compliant?”

A few weeks ago, I got a chance to speak truth to power. I used my WordPress.org account to sign in to the official WordPress.org Slack where the various WordPress dramas were being discussed.

After a brief chat about the latest shenanigans, I […]

@Edent I remember how terrified everyone was of being fined when GDPR first came out. Millions were spent on compliance. So where the fuck is the ICO? Why aren't they slapping down those fabled fines of 4% of global turnover? I want to see someone getting humiliated and financially broken in court.

Unsurprising that police tip rewards are in fact a scam that require jumping through all manner of hoops to collect. All the more reason to not snitch.

https://www.unilad.com/news/us-news/luigi-mangione-ceo-shooting-mcdonalds-worker-reward-333982-20241210