Zach

One of my favourite sides of politics/media.

Ludovic [center] poses with a group of friends at the Combo Breaker fighting game tournament

After fighting game community member Ludovic Mbock was arrested by ICE, his family and friends have been working non-stop to bring him home
aftermath.site/ice-ludovic-mb...

They’ll be hearing from his father

Same, all of the spam/activations I've gotten recently are to my +discord email alias, presumably from the Zendesk breach :(

Here's our 25-min video news-documentary version of the story of Red Bull, the whistleblower who leaked me the secrets of a crypto scam compound while trapped as a forced laborer inside it. www.youtube.com/watch?v=zOcN...

Hope you'll watch and consider the immense scale of this global crisis.

This wasn’t easy to share, but it mattered.
Thanks to WIRED for documenting what I witnessed.
It shows what’s happening behind online scam operations.

Arcane Roots - A Wave, Across The Sea (Official Visualiser) YouTube video by Arcane Roots

arcane roots are back and I might cry right here right now

Which is to say: I'll continue following you and supporting your, as I value your tech insights as much as I roll my eyes for the Claude posts (which are very obviously not written for me as an audience)

While I disagree with your stated position (I refuse to use generative AI in any capacity, especially at work), the fact that you've already received some abusive, strictly adversarial comments 5 minutes after posting is why I agree that there can't be real conversations about it online, which sucks

That ending moved me to tears. Thank you for your work, Andy. May Muzahir live a long, happy life and make the amends he seeks.

He Leaked the Secrets of a Southeast Asian Scam Compound. Then He Had to Get Out Alive A source trapped inside an industrial-scale scamming operation contacted me, determined to expose his captors’ crimes—and then escape. This is his story.

Last year, a human trafficking victim trapped in a crypto scam compound in the Golden Triangle region of Laos contacted me. He then proceeded to leak to me a huge collection of the compound's internal materials.

Then he had to get out alive. This is his story.

🧵👇 www.wired.com/story/he-lea...

Line graph showing the number of CVE publications per year since 2013, where 2013 - 2016 average just under 10k CVEs per year, 2017 - 2021 averaged roughly 20k per year, and 2022 - 2025 increase nearly linearly from 25k per year in 2022 to just under 50k in 2025

With fear of sparking *that* discussion again, it can't be ignored that we're creating more code than we can reasonably review and feel confident in. The modern use of "software engineer" is an affront to actual engineering and the pursuit of quality.

(from cvedb.github.io/years.html)

unrivaled thumbnail game

This is why those of us who live here keep telling you he cannot be our president. For every fun “anti-Trump post” there’s something like this.

This is the same for where I grew up in the IE - not close enough to SD to be scorned by the move, not close enough to LA to root for the Rams when they returned.

just caught the vod, congrats on the win!

Coming soon: Simpler pricing and a better experience for GitHub Actions - GitHub Changelog On January 1, 2026, GitHub will reduce the price of GitHub-hosted runners by up to 39% depending on the machine type used. The free usage minute quotas will remain the…

Exempt per the official release: github.blog/changelog/20...

"Runner usage in public repositories will remain free. There will be no changes in price structure for GitHub Enterprise Server customers."

Some people took down entire websites, changed mission statements and mandates or dropped entire projects at the start of this year

But kept the job
Kept the title
and kept posting online telling other people what they can do to save the world

But couldn’t even hold the line themselves.

I am 100% pro Larian doing whatever pervert shit it wants and I can’t wait for another game where you can like, fuck a squid or whatever, but it really does further drive home the two-tier system of enforcement on storefronts. Bg3 contains basically everything small games get banned for

One of the best things I've read about the AI bubble and how we should think about it from Cory Doctorow

pluralistic.net/2025/12/05/p...

I play Pentiment while working and it makes my brain do the Bradley Cooper LIMITLESS thing, +10% total brain power for each separately licensed copy I watch concurrently.

My Father-In-Law Is A Builder / We Can't, We Don't Know How To Do It | Know Your Meme My Father-In-Law Is A Builder is a phrasal template tweet format originating from Christian commentator and Twitter user Jeremy Wayne Tate in mid-2023. The

The "we don't know how" bit is a reference, specifically to a tweet about humans not knowing how to build cathedrals any more: knowyourmeme.com/memes/my-fat...

I appreciate the nuance here - let me amend my statement from "appear pro-Trump/Republican" to "appear naive about US politics". I agree that Dems have been corporately captured as he claims (see: shutdown vote, the GENIUS act), but faith in modern Republicans to fight for citizen's rights is inane

Here's some tweets from that make him appear pro-Trump/Republican, which he (allegedly mistakenly) sent from the Proton account rather than his own personal account: archive.ph/LlbSj

I still use the full Proton Suite with this knowledge, but it's certainly not "untrue" that Andy tweeted the above

They're Hacking Your Packets (and How to Stop Them!) YouTube video by Chris Wilson

really love Chris Wilson on his content creation arc, great video www.youtube.com/watch?v=x4RN...

Anyway, Wild Dark Shore was a really fun read, enjoyed it quite a bit

Discord communities with dedicated book channels have filled that void for me more recently, but I'm at the whims of these particular strangers having read the book I just finished, not the entire internet of fellow readers, and that bums me out

I used to go to Goodreads after finishing a book to find a sense of fleeting community with others who enjoyed a book, and it's really a drag to see so many self-serving, excoriating reviews in an attempt to "build a brand" as a critic

cohost being gleefully eviscerated and now itch as well – single digit teams are going to make mistakes. they should receive feedback when they do, but treating them like faceless corporations will ensure that only the faceless corporations will stick around to provide these services.

An AI slop factory apparently tried to rewrite our article about AI not replacing workers en masse, but hit the paywall... so just summarised the paywall. If this is the robot that takes my job I'll be v embarrassed