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Nic
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I’m an English hacker from a long time ago. I am trying to help rewild the Internet. https://weblog.ferrier.me.uk Emacs help and advice if you ask.
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Statement: We don’t need billionaires anymore and should stop engaging with them.
Idk if you remember but back in the day there was a webtoon about what it would be like when the electronic computers all fried because of a magnetosphere switch. Y2K it was called? They had loads of crazy mechanical computers to substitute.

This would be way better!! Chickens everywhere!!!
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🚨 BREAKING 🚨

📈 Since the election of our new leadership team, our membership has doubled, now sitting at more than 140,000.

And this is just the beginning: join.greenparty.org.uk
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What would you do tomorrow if you were in charge of the country's finances?
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Doing my own syntax highlighting (finally): alexwlchan.net/2025/syntax-...

I’ve redesigned the syntax highlighting on my blog to use a smaller colour palette, so I wrote a bit about what I’ve changed, how it works, and why I think it’s better.
Doing my own syntax highlighting (finally)
I've redesigned my syntax highlighting scheme to use a smaller colour palette. Here's what I've changed, how it works, and why I think it's better.
alexwlchan.net
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Honestly, the mainstream media reaction to Zack Polanski entering the elites’ own conversation space…

…with widely-held public opinions…

…tells you everything you need to know about why our mainstream media is a closed shop, broken, and no longer fit for purpose.
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UK public opinion might just be expressing a move to the left - at last ...
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Great to hold a press conference in Swindon this morning to welcome the new Green Party councillor group.

Swindon now has 3 Green Party councillors. They didn't leave Labour - Labour left them!

www.youtube.com/live/UvrRzp6...
Green Party leader Zack Polanski holds news conference
YouTube video by Sky News
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This is the worst. What we did was put everything in storage so we didn’t have to think about it. So now I’m forever going “where’s my …” and moaning about the bill.

So what we did was the worst. Actually your way is smart.
This is all going to end in a giant kicking at some point.
Blast! Forgot alt text:

A picture of a slightly chipped English tea cup and saucer and a rainbow pulsing backlit keyboard indicating the pause of celebration after much typing of tunes of C which can be glimpsed on the monitor behind the tea’s pot.
I’m ’avin tea, to celebrate, like:
The chat app I’ve been live streaming the hacking of for the last few weeks just sent its first successful two way uncorrupted chats.

If anyone cares.

Buildings things is good.

Yes signal is great. But it’s not the best. I don’t need signal security all the time!!
Mammary Monday!!

/slaps hand to torehead

How have I not thought of that before???
I did. Didn’t like it.

I think I’m just saying:

There’s even diversity among Emacs users.
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More disturbing reporting from The Nerve.
How can a scrappy startup in 3 weeks leave BBC trailing in its coverage of Russian interference in our politics?
I just do git add -p.

I’m a long time Emacs guy but I don’t use magit.
Yeah. Haven’t had time to read the article but surely modal editing is obvious.

When you have a fixed resource (keys on keyboards) you can either combine them like chords (press everything at once) or like latches (one at a time but additive).

If Joy hadn’t done it someone else would.
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I interviewed Paulina Borsook, who warned of tech culture's toxic underbelly over 30 years ago.

She wrote a prescient and scathing book, "Cyberselfish."

It tanked her career, but a new generation is discovering her work as tech fascism tries to kill democracy 👇

www.youtube.com/watch?v=DL-k...
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Which was your favorite Elon lie?

My personal was that the boring tunnel would sell low cost bricks to create housing lmaoooo
Other Elon Musk lies
(not complete list)

Water for Flint, submarine rescue Thailand, Autopilot FSD, never need another raise, Solar City bailout, $420 funding secured, pedoguy, boring tunnels/bricks, $35k TM3, neuralink, Bipap, ventilator prod, engineer degree, Mars 2021, Tesla founder etc.

$TSLAQ
Everything tech has done over the last 10 years has failed.

AI yet another.

Because they’re not addressing the question of how people can program their computers to get value.

That’s the value of a computer. That it can be programmed.

Everything else is just one program.