Mastodawn

Scottish Greens will introduce a 10:1 pay ratio for any company or organisation receiving significant funding or contracts from the Scottish Government.

This would mean bosses can only raise their own salaries by also improving the salaries of their lowest paid staff.

https://greens.scot/news/greens-will-curb-executive-pay

Kees N ✅🔻8h ago

Milcom Miasma 11h ago

DROP DATABASE

This should _not_ make me laugh but schadenfreude is real.

9 seconds is damned impressive. I couldn't manage that on my best day as a SysAdmin.

"Claude-powered AI coding agent deletes entire company database in 9 seconds — backups zapped, after Cursor tool powered by Anthropic's Claude goes rogue"

Src: https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/claude-powered-ai-coding-agent-deletes-entire-company-database-in-9-seconds-backups-zapped-after-cursor-tool-powered-by-anthropics-claude-goes-rogue

*Edited link.

#AIFail
#AI

Claude-powered AI coding agent deletes entire company database in 9 seconds — backups zapped, after Cursor tool powered by Anthropic's Claude goes rogue

PocketOS founder blames ‘Cursor running Anthropic's flagship Claude Opus 4.6’ plus Railway’s infrastructure for data disaster.

Tom's Hardware

Kees N ✅🔻8h ago

The Whore of Blahbylon 10h ago

#LGBT #Diversity #Equality #DEI

Kees N ✅🔻8h ago

Kees van der Leun 20h ago

The Israeli destruction machine at work, in Lebanon this time.

Israel destroys solar panels in south Lebanon
https://aje.news/4jyo2u

Israel destroys solar panels in south Lebanon

Al Jazeera

Kees N ✅🔻8h ago

Prof. Sam Lawler 14h ago

Don't worry, Sam, SpaceX won't ACTUALLY launch 7,000 satellites! (There are currently 10,296 Starlink sats in orbit)

Don't worry, SpaceX said they'd get their satellites fainter than magnitude 7! (They have not https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/link_gateway/2025MNRAS.544L..15M/PUB_PDF)

Don't worry, they won't actually start Kessler Syndrome! https://outerspaceinstitute.ca/crashclock/

Don't worry, they won't actually launch a million AI data centres into orbit!! https://theconversation.com/a-new-space-race-could-turn-our-atmosphere-into-a-crematorium-for-satellites-276366

This is the fucking worst I-told-you-so https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/astropix.html

Kees N ✅🔻8h ago

Servelan 21h ago

The Chief Justice and His Wife Took $20 Million From Firms He Rules On. I'm Filing for His Disbarment Today.

https://cmarmitage.substack.com/p/the-chief-justice-and-his-wife-took

The Chief Justice and His Wife Took $20 Million From Firms He Rules On. I'm Filing for His Disbarment Today.

And you can too.

The Existentialist Republic

Kees N ✅🔻9h ago

Kirsten Verdel 16h ago

Trump Day 462: Trump says ballroom is necessary after attack; claims he didn’t fall but ducked; attacker states in manifesto that he can no longer tolerate “pedophile, rapist and traitor”; WHCD was not classified as special security event: https://reportersonline.eu/trump-day-462-after-attack-trump-says-ballroom-is-necessary-claims-he-didnt-fall-but-ducked-at-request-attacker-states-in-manifesto-that-he-can-no-longer-tolerate-pedophile-rapis/

Trump Day 462: After attack Trump says ballroom is necessary; claims he didn’t fall but ducked at request; attacker states in manifesto that he can no longer tolerate “pedophile, rapist and traitor”; WHCD was not classified as special security event; Democratic House leader says no focus on impeaching Trump - Reporters Online

New decisions from Trump, and new fallout. An overview of day 462. – The military intercepts a sanctioned merchant ship from an Iranian ‘shadow fleet’ in the Arabian Sea that is attempting to break the blockade of Iran. According to Central Command, the ship is being sent back to Iran under escort. – Acting Attorney […]

Reporters Online

Kees N ✅🔻9h ago

Dan Kletter 🥑1d ago

❝Here’s a thought experiment: what happens if you just... put a computer on the internet and wait?❞ https://arman-bd.hashnode.dev/i-left-port-22-open-on-the-internet-for-54-days-here-s-who-showed-up

Kees N ✅🔻9h ago

Ed Suominen 22h ago

Do you use the exclamation-point !1234 expansion on your history of commands in the #bash #commandline ?

	Yes I live dangerously, with reckless abandon
	Yes, but I squint hard at history first
	What are you smoking?
	What’s a command line?

Poll ends at 5:12am.

Kees N ✅🔻9h ago

VRTNWS 1d ago

Met steun van het leger snijden Israëlische kolonisten Palestijnse kinderen de weg naar school af

In het Palestijnse bedoeïenendorp Umm al-Kheir op de bezette Westelijke Jordaanoever lopen kinderen niet langer naar school, maar tot aan een prikkeldraadhek. Kolonisten sloten de route af, waarna Israëlische soldaten de leerlingen met traangas en geweld verdreven.
#news #vrtnws #vrt
https://vrtnws.be/p.jGJdmeOq0

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