Mark @markheckmann

i can’t believe someone solved recipe design decades ago and everyone just decided to ignore it

It takes more balls to release this in 2026 than it took for the Sex Pistols to release ‘Anarchy in the UK’ in 1976. As Brendan O’Neill put it on Spiked, this is real punk.

Boy George @BoyGeorge

6 days ago

#Shalom

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This goat was practicing a charge, but the cat thought it was a sign of affection.

Wenn jemand mal herausfinden will, was es wirklich im Kunstbetrieb heißt, "Haltung" zu haben, und eine klare Position zu beziehen, die nicht bequem und ganz sicher nicht ohne Pushback ist, hier ist das leuchtende Beispiel seiner Zeit.

Boy George @BoyGeorge

6 days ago

#Shalom

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Germany has launched one of the world's best open-source AI models. Soofi S, made by the Soofi consortium, is a 30B parameter model fully trained in Europe and tops the ranking for open-source AI. Huge moment for Europe, and finally some competition for Chinese open-source AI.

A trolley is about to hit 5 people laying on the track You can redirect the car, but the other track has not yet reached regulatory approval or completed its 1 year environmental testing period, so operating a train car on it is a violation of transit regulations What do you do?

A man (reportedly a 37-year-old visitor from Seattle) was caught on video throwing a large rock (described as coconut-sized) at a protected Hawaiian monk seal named Lani. Locals intervened to protect the wildlife.

HERMES AGENT FOR DUMMIES Everyone on X keeps talking about Hermes Agent and I finally get why: Once you have an AI that's always-on, remembers everything, and you can just text from your phone, you're never going back to a regular AI chat window. That's Hermes. You text it like an executive assistant and it just handles things. Think of it like an affordable OpenClaw that actually works and is reliable. I was using OpenClaw earlier this year, but it kept breaking and the costs were adding up, so I quit personal agents for a while. Then I set up Hermes and it's what I wanted OpenClaw to be from the start. Here's how it works: > You can talk to it on 19+ messaging platforms (I use Telegram and Discord) > You give it a personality file called SOUL .md so it behaves how you want. > You give access to your email, calendar, full browser access, and whatever other tools you use through integrations. > And you plug in whatever models you want as the brain. I use GPT 5.5 for heavy thinking and DeepSeek for lighter tasks so I'm not burning tokens on every little request (under $20/month in token spend). And I run mine on a Hetzner server for about $5/mo, which enables Hermes to be always-on and persistent. So you can schedule tasks that run autonomously, even while you sleep and even while your devices are off. For example, I have one that scans my email for customer support tickets every morning, matches customer to stripe data, sends out missing links, checks refunds etc. Stuff that used to take me HOURS. And the part that actually separates it from OpenClaw and everything else: Hermes writes its own skills from experience. Every time it completes a task, it saves what worked and turns it into a reusable skill it can run again without you explaining anything. So it literally gets smarter and better over time for your specific workflows. Here's what other people are doing with it: > inbox zero and calendar management from Telegram on their phone > overnight coding that debugs itself while they sleep > a family WhatsApp bot where 5 people share one agent to get stuff done > daily briefings texted every day at 8am > smart home control through Home Assistant > etc Once you try texting an AI that already knows your whole setup and just does things when you ask, opening a chat window and starting from scratch every time feels broken. This is the first AI agent that feels like a legit Chief of Staff.

“In engineering, you are peer reviewed by reality”. From Rory Sutherland, in this week’s Spectator.

Few months ago my wife cheated on me with my brother We started couples therapy to work through it It turned out the real problem was my "need for control" "Why do you think you own your wife's body?" our therapist rightfully pointed out She said jealousy is a right-winged, primitive emotion I apologized and agreed to open the relationship The therapist said this is very common in Northern Europe She was absolutely right My wife has now six boyfriends and I am happy for her This is what emotional maturity looks like in Europe

Flirting vs harassment explained at workplace.

A conversation many are not ready to have.. Well too bad.

Der Bayerische Rundfunk ist auf eine KI des KI Influencers Herr Tech hereingefallen. #OerrBlog

As a former progressive, this is absolutely accurate and caused me endless frustration with my co-partisans. They fundamentally don’t care if their ideas work. They hardly even have a concept of ideas working. Their entire evaluation function is based on social perception and emotionalism which is, in fact, profoundly selfish and unvirtuous. If you care more about feeling like/being seen as good than you do about results, you’re a selfish parasite. Hardly exclusive to the left, but it defines the leftist project in a way it doesn’t define any other political faction.

CJ @UnderSneege

4 months ago

@edwest After a decade in the public sector I still find this one of the most replicable observations ever made.

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Täglich finden Gruppenvergewaltigungen statt, aber dagegen demonstrieren Luisa Neubauer und Bärbel Bas nie. Das zeigt: Der Fernandes-Fall wird benutzt, um Prinzipien des Rechtsstaats zu beschneiden. berliner-zeitung.de/panorama/die-f…

Chloe woke up at 6:45am and immediately felt proud of herself. She had, after all, not eaten a single animal product in four years. The planet was healing. She could feel it. 6:52am - Applied her morning SPF. The SPF contains beeswax. Chloe does not know this. Moving on. 7:10am - Breakfast: a smoothie containing avocado. The avocado was grown in Michoacán, Mexico, on land where a pine forest was until 2019. It required approximately 320 litres of water to produce. It was flown to the UK. Chloe sprinkled hemp seeds on top. The hemp seeds came from China. Chloe felt connected to the earth. 8:00am - Got dressed. Polyester leggings, derived from crude oil. A bamboo top that was processed using carbon disulphide in a Taiwanese chemical plant. Trainers with a recycled plastic upper that sheds microplastics into waterways with every wash. Chloe's outfit today had a higher carbon footprint than a ribeye steak. Chloe does not know this either. 9:30am - Posted on Instagram about choosing compassion. The phone was manufactured in a Shenzhen factory using cobalt from the DRC, where mining operations have displaced local communities and killed an unknowable number of small mammals, reptiles, and insects. The algorithm served Chloe an ad for oat milk. Chloe liked it. 12:00pm - Lunch: tofu stir-fry. The soy was grown in Brazil. Brazil produces more soy than almost any country on earth. The primary reason is soybean oil: one of the most widely used industrial and culinary oils on the planet. The soymeal left over after oil extraction is fed to livestock as a byproduct. Chloe is aware of the livestock connection and finds it outrageous. She has not looked into why the soy was grown in the first place. The answer is the oil. The oil is in her salad dressing. 1:30pm - Drove to the garden centre. The car runs on petrol. Chloe has a Just Stop Oil sticker on the bumper. This is not being commented on further. 3:00pm - Bought a monstera. The monstera was grown in a Dutch greenhouse using natural gas heating. Chloe put it next to the pothos that is slowly poisoning the neighbourhood cats. 6:00pm - Dinner: pasta with cashew cream sauce. The cashews were processed in Vietnam, often by workers in conditions that would prompt significant commentary if they were in an abattoir. 8:00pm - Watched a documentary about factory farming. Wept. Posted about it. Caption: "We have to do better." Chloe is, by every measure she has chosen to measure by, doing brilliantly. By some of the others, the picture is more complicated. Chloe has not chosen to measure by those.

Zur Erinnerung. Niemand braucht eine linkere FDP. Das heißt: Niemand braucht eine FDP mit Strack-Zimmermann.

Life is amazing: -gyms exist -Christopher Nolan movies exist -hot girls outnumber even moderately put-together dudes 2000 to 1 -you and your wife can get drunk at a dimly-lit steakhouse then go home and watch Titanic and smash all night without a condom -you and your friends can hit the gym then smoke a joint at a Coldplay concert -every food item in the world has been hunted and gathered for you (grocery stores) -you could be working 16 hour days in a coal mine in a third world country -you’re spinning on a sphere in an infinite universe and the fact you’re alive is a 1 in 500 trillion miracle If anyone ever complains in front of you tell them they’re an idiot :)

When you're meeting her parents for the first time 😂