It's #WorldBicycleDay and a good time to mention this graph from Scientific American, first published in 1973, and updated 2025.

A person on a bike is the world's most energy-efficient mode of transport, and it's not even close. Salmon use three times as many joules/g/km to get around, and then it's jet aircraft at 5x.

#BikeTooter #Climate

While nginx and Apache httpd are patched, Microsoft IIS isn't. Microsoft is again too slow to address a vulnerability. Will Microsoft take legal action against this disclosure?

"Microsoft IIS, Envoy, Cloudflare Pingora: No patch available at the time of writing."

https://blog.calif.io/p/codex-discovered-a-hidden-http2-bomb

Aha, so now Kier Starmer is admitting that he uses the disappearing message function on WhatsAp.... thereby usefully disrupting the record of communication (in this instance around the Peter Mandelson affair);

nothing dodgy going on there; as he points out many people use disappearing messages... Yes, but none of them are Prime Minister.

Even if in the end nothing important was lost, we only have Starmer's word for that & to be frank that's going to satisfy few people!

#politics
h/t FT

An internal Microsoft strategy document says that the plan for its just-announced “Scout” personal assistant AI is to “make people addicted” to the tool before rolling out additional functionality.

The document notes that “security and compliance” are important things to figure out moving forward.

https://www.404media.co/microsoft-wants-to-make-people-addicted-to-scout-its-new-ai-assistant-internal-documents-reveal/

With “thanks” to @wendynather for planting the earworm this morning.

Running Up That Bill
To the tune of Running Up That Hill
With apologies to Kate Bush

It disconcerts me
‘Cause I wanna know if it feels
‘Cause I wanna know, know why it concerns me
Do you wanna hear about the deal that I'm making?
Truth, it's truth we’re leaving

And if I only could
I'd make a deal with Claude
And I'd get it to slop our papers
Be vibing up that code
Be running up that bill
Be running out of tokens
Say, if I only could, ooh

Truth could never hurt me
But see how much the model lies
Unaware. It’s just designed for plunder
Ooh, its a blunder on our parts

Is there so much hate for the world we loved?
Oh, tell me, truth does matter, don't she?
Fool, it's fooling me
It's fooling me to make me be happy

And if I only could
I'd make a deal with Claude
And I'd get it to slop our papers
Be vibing up that code
Be running up that bill
Be running out of tokens
Say, if I only could, ooh

Fool
It's fooling me
It's fooling me to make me be happy

Oh, come on, Claude bot. Oh, come on, Co-P
We’ll let you steal this world from us now
Oh, come on, Gem’ni. Come on, come on, Chat-G
We’ll discard our experience, ooh

And if I only could
I'd make a deal with Claude
And I'd get it to slop our papers
Be vibing up that code
Be running up that bill
Make more problems

Say, if I only could
I'd make a deal with Claude
And I'd get it to slop our papers
Be vibing up that code
Be running up that bill
It’s your problem

So if I only could
I'd make a deal with Claude
And I'd get it to slop our papers
Be vibing up that code
Be running up that bill
With prompt goblins

So if I only could
Be running up that bill
With drunk golems

If I only could, be running up that bill
If I only could, be running up that bill

#filk #NoAI

I mean, a lot of other politicians are doing it as well, all of sudden concerned about Police Behaviour, now that a white boy was harmed.

The other week when the Police were taking turns kicking a subdued knife man in the head and that was fine, but handcuff a white boy in need of medical treatment and it's ENTIRELY difference....'the Police have gone too far!'

"Two Tier Policing" indeed..

https://www.thelondoneconomic.com/news/farage-ignores-wishes-of-henry-nowaks-family-by-politicising-his-death-406671/

#HenryNowak #NigelFarage #Farage #ShabanaMahmood #UKPol #UKpolitics