Mastodawn

#GeoPolitics: Imagine that you're a superpower who picks a fight with a theocratic regime half way across the world for no good reason. And you're about to proudly declare victory when the theocracy goes on a rampage, pulls the entire neighborhood into the war, blocks a strategic shipping channel & causes a severe oil supply shock.

And that's when it hits you! You forgot to top up your Strategic Oil Reserves before entering the war! 🤦

#IranWar - The war of #Hubris & #Blunders!

Andrew Shields Feb 28

stumbling into drunkenness

Scapegrace
Alison Hurwitz

#Poetry #AlisonHurwitz #Scapegrace #OneArtPoetry #Blunders #Mistakes

https://oneartpoetry.com/2026/02/23/scapegrace-by-alison-hurwitz/

Scapegrace by Alison Hurwitz

Scapegrace My son does not want Anne of Green Gables to make any more mistakes. First, a blunder sends her best friend stumbling into drunkenness— the raspberry cordial which was really currant win…

ONE ART: a journal of poetry

RTL Nieuws Feb 19

𝗖𝗵𝗲𝗳 𝘀𝗽𝗼𝗿𝘁 𝘃𝗮𝗻 𝗥𝗔𝗜 𝘀𝘁𝗮𝗽𝘁 𝗼𝗽 𝗻𝗮 𝗯𝗹𝘂𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗿𝘀 𝗯𝗶𝗷 𝗼𝗽𝗲𝗻𝗶𝗻𝗴𝘀𝗰𝗲𝗿𝗲𝗺𝗼𝗻𝗶𝗲

De chef sport van de Italiaanse televisiezender RAI is opgestapt. Paolo Petrecca kreeg veel kritiek op zijn verslag van de openingsceremonie van de Winterspelen.

https://www.rtl.nl/boulevard/artikel/5569264/chef-sport-van-rai-stapt-op-na-blunders-bij-openingsceremonie

#Chef #RAI #blunders

Chef sport van RAI stapt op na blunders bij openingsceremonie

De chef sport van de Italiaanse televisiezender RAI is opgestapt. Paolo Petrecca kreeg veel kritiek op zijn verslag van de openingsceremonie van de Winterspelen.

RTL Boulevard

Linda Rose Smit Feb 6

‘Oh, vind u?’ Minminister Keizer kan gewoon nu al naar huis. Scheelt weer. Wat een arrogant stuk vreten is dat ook. Het Peter principe is hier sterk. Om DK er niet gelijk bij te slepen. #bbb #blunders

N-gated Hacker News Jan 10

Welcome to the Silicon Valley of tech #blunders, where software is intentionally designed to give your resume a boost by ensuring eternal maintenance nightmares. 🤡 Why solve problems when you can just create more with a Distributed Monolith and endless committees? 🚀 If you're looking for the blueprints to software purgatory, you've found your heaven. 🔥
https://worstofbreed.net/ #SiliconValleyTech #SoftwareDesign #MaintenanceNightmares #DistributedMonolith #SoftwarePurgatory #HackerNews #ngated

worstofbreed.net - Home

The premier destination for Resume-Driven Development, Over-Engineering, and Resume-Padding. Why build simple solutions when you can build a distributed monolith?

N-gated Hacker News Dec 17

🎩🕵️‍♀️ Ah, the thrilling tale of unremarkable #security 101 #blunders dressed up as a #hacker #novel. #Default #credentials, really? 🐱‍💻 But hey, at least they mastered the art of fancy acronyms and #CVE name-dropping! 🙌
https://mdisec.com/inside-posthog-how-ssrf-a-clickhouse-sql-escaping-0day-and-default-postgresql-credentials-formed-an-rce-chain-zdi-25-099-zdi-25-097-zdi-25-096/ #name-dropping #cybersecurity #HackerNews #ngated

Inside PostHog: How SSRF, a ClickHouse SQL Escaping 0day, and Default PostgreSQL Credentials Formed an RCE Chain (ZDI-25-099, ZDI-25-097, ZDI-25-096) - Mehmet Ince @mdisec

It was yet another day at the office. Our team was internally discussing moving to a different platform analytics solution. Our team was really leaning more towards Posthog. It’s one of the brilliant -I personally believe it’s the best- products on the market. And that’s where the story has begun… We have a somewhat unconventional—some […]

Mehmet Ince @mdisec

N-gated Hacker News Jul 18, 2025

📰 Ah yes, the thrilling saga of tripping over #foreign #keys while trying to keep your #database #integrity intact — because who doesn’t love a good faceplant into SQL? 😂 Like a true heroic tale, this guide fills you in on how to transform your #Django #ORM into a minefield of foreign key #blunders, ensuring you achieve maximum chaos with minimum effort. 🚀
https://hakibenita.com/django-foreign-keys #SQL #HackerNews #ngated

How to Get Foreign Keys Horribly Wrong

Common Pitfalls and Potential Optimizations in Django

N-gated Hacker News Jul 13, 2025

Ah yes, the riveting tale of "Oops, I Did It Again" programming patterns! 🎉🤦‍♂️ Because who doesn't love a language that practically rolls out the red carpet for #bugs and blunders? It's like engineers are playing a perpetual game of 'Spot the Trap'—what could possibly go wrong? 💻🐛
https://thetechenabler.substack.com/p/programming-affordance-when-a-languages #OopsIDidItAgain #ProgrammingPatterns #Blunders #SoftwareEngineering #Debugging #HackerNews #ngated

Programming affordance: when a language's patterns make it natural to make mistakes

Many of my philosophies in work life, my volunteer life, and my personal life stem from experiences. As a developer, many of those come from being burnt by rough edges or mistakes, just as health & safety principles come from accidents.

The Tech Enabler

Bibliolater 📚 📜 🖋Jun 26, 2025

💻 **AI blunders: Six-finger hands, two suns and Jesus Christ on a surfboard in a stormy sea**

"_AI's cultural bias was apparent when a user prompted the tool to depict Jesus Christ walking on water in a stormy sea and received an image of Christ on a surfboard in a stormy sea._"

🔗 https://techxplore.com/news/2025-06-ai-blunders-finger-suns-jesus.html.

#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #MachineLearning #Technology #Tech #Blunders @ai