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sine saw square

[tobi lutke @tobi]

I’m thinking about banning Claude code at Shopify until they change their mind and read AGENTS.md and .agents/skills etc.

Insisting on only reading CLAUDE.md sometimes leads to split brain problems when different team members use different tools. Just unnecessary.

[Sophie Corcoran @sophielouisecc]

Looks like they didn’t get the pamphlet

[atlas @creatine_cycle]

how many grams of protein are in the warm touch of a woman

[Boyan Slat @BoyanSlat]

Remember the plastic straw debate?

I was curious how banning straws globally would stack up against @TheOceanCleanup’s current impact.

US beach cleanup data suggests straws make up just 0.005% of plastic pollution.

The Ocean Cleanup is now stopping 2–5% of global plastic inflow (and growing rapidly)

So our current impact is already ~400–1000x what a global straw ban could ever achieve!

[LSE Hayek Society @LSEHayekSociety]

For his Channel 4 documentary, @garyseconomics filmed a debate with @K_Niemietz that we hosted here at the LSE Hayek Society.

Bear in mind- the footage below is what he decided he looked best in. There is a reason the debate didn't make the cut.

[Melissa Chen @MsMelChen]

Bear in mind that during the inquiry into the Manchester Arena bombing, it came out that security guard Kyle Lawler had actually spotted suicide bomber Salman Abedi before.

Abedi was fidgety and sweating in a bulky jacket on a warm night, and carrying a large backpack. Lawler had a “bad feeling” and thought something was wrong, but he hesitated and failed to report it properly. His exact words:

“I did not want people to think I am stereotyping him because of his race… I was scared of being wrong and being branded a racist if I got it wrong and would have got into trouble.”

22 innocents were killed; hundreds scarred for life.

This bloodbath should have been the final wake-up call about the lethal insanity of “anti-racism” and the deranged cult that treats being called racist as the ultimate unforgivable sin.

Instead, Britain doubled down and rammed this poisonous ideology even deeper into the College of Policing’s training.

Time to scrap the race-baiting training and fire the ideologues. Or keep burying more young, innocent Brits.

[Oli Dugmore @OliDugmore]

The justification for charging tuition fees, with reverse triple lock interest, and resulting 9% extra income tax, is the graduate premium.

This, you are told, is the extra lifetime earnings from which you will benefit as a degree holder. And we believe that to be between £100,00 - £150,000 over the course of your career.

But “believe” is the operative word.

The thing is, we don’t know.

But the government does.

That’s because they have something called LEO data - Longitudinal Education Outcomes. And it tracks the university, course, and earnings of nearly 40 million people.

Here’s the kicker: they won’t release the full data to the public, to you. Only to pre-approved researchers. And even then, they don’t get the whole dataset.

That’s because pressure groups that represent universities have lobbied for it to remain private. They say you can’t measure the value of an education in a salary. That it’s about the soul and the mind and enrichment and growing up.

And I agree with them, if only for the fact that they did have a really specific idea of the value of an education when they were taking my money. And indeed the government does too: +9% on my marginal tax rate.

So the ask is simple. Release the records. Let graduates make an informed choice about the actual value of their degree. They just have to press publish.

What have they got to hide?

[barbarism critic @barbarismcrit]

Every fucking one of these documents is like

From: <███████>
To: jeevacation@ gmail. com

Subject: Crimes

I loved killing all those people with you last week. Do it again soon?

Sent From My iPad

[Nariman Gharib @NarimanGharib]

Today I've asked Starlink/X CEO Elon Musk to activate Starlink Direct-to-Cell and Google CEO Sundar Pichai to expand Satellite SOS for Iran during the ongoing internet blackouts and protests.
- https://t.co/4RnSn7QJ0L
- https://t.co/L4Q3dZ1DkI
Many people argue that Iranians don't have modern phones capable of using these satellite technologies. This claim is demonstrably false.

I analyzed our VPN app data (ArgoVPN) from December 2025 in Iran. The results are clear:

• 15% of Iranian users already have Starlink-compatible devices (over 1 million installs in December alone)
• The top 3 most popular devices in Iran are ALL Starlink-compatible: Samsung Galaxy A32, A51, and A54x
• These are mid-range, affordable devices - not expensive flagships

Here's what people miss about Starlink Direct-to-Cell:

It requires ZERO special hardware. No satellite dish. No special antenna. Any LTE phone from the last ~4 years works. The satellites act as cell towers in space, and phones connect automatically when there's no cellular signal.

The technology is ready. The phones are already in people's hands. With 90 million people in Iran, the potential reach is enormous.

The main barrier isn't device availability - it's deployment and carrier agreements.

The Iranian people are fighting for the very freedoms America was built upon. This is an opportunity for American tech leadership to make a tangible difference - not just in saving lives during emergencies, but in supporting the fundamental human right to free communication.

@elonmusk: Please fully activate Starlink Direct-to-Cell over Iran NOW.
@SundarPichai: Please expand Google Satellite SOS to Iran.
🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸@realDonaldTrump @SecRubio: This is a historic opportunity - using American innovation to support freedom without troops or billions in aid. Just technology that's already built. Help the Iranian people break through censorship and communicate with the world.

#TechForFreedom #SatelliteForLiberty #IranProtests

[Jamse @hedwurk]

@marcelpociot @mattpocockuk @pestphp I’m currently migrating a Cypress test suite to Pest with Copilot and will tag this on next week. Thanks for sharing!

[James Woods @RealJamesWoods]

This is what they destroyed today. I am so heartbroken, I can’t speak.

[Evan You @evanyou]

I don’t think RSC itself being a React feature is a problem - it unlocks some interesting patterns.

The issue is the tradeoffs involved in making it work. It leaks into, or even demands control over layers that are previously not in scope for client-side frameworks. This creates heavy complexity (and associated mental overhead) in order to get the main benefits it promises.

React team made a bet that they can work with Next team to polish the DX to the extent that the benefit would essentially be free - so that RSC can be a silver bullet for all kinds of apps, and that it would become the idiomatic way to use React. IMO, that bet has failed.

[Daniel Priestley @DanielPriestley]

78% of UK housing wealth is in the hands of baby boomers.

We have a real problem that 9.4M big family homes are sitting there with a retired couple and 2+ empty rooms.

Boomers don’t want to sell because they’ve paid off their home and it’s not expensive to keep it. If they downsize, everything seems wildly expensive and they have stamp duty to pay.

Families can’t get family homes and are trying to raise kids in flats. We have a housing traffic jam.

A potential solution is a new type of housing that is widespread in Australia - retirement homes. Typically these are bungalows on 30 year leases with a buyback upon death. They have lifestyle and wellness facilities built in and nearby storage. If the boomers move, the family homes become accessible.

[Matt Perry @mattgperry]

🚀 Introducing Motion for @vuejs — A feature-complete port of Motion for React (prev Framer Motion).

Springs, scroll, AnimatePresence, gestures, and yes, layout animations. All that and more, powered by Motion's unique hybrid engine, wrapped up with its simple API.

[Jamse @hedwurk]

@theo There’s a few here as well

[sophie @netcapgirl]

can’t let them down

[Jamse @hedwurk]

@GergelyOrosz Jevon‘s Paradox

[Nikita Bier @nikitabier]

The fact TikTok didn’t sell, despite having many willing buyers, is a testament that it was an agent of the CCP.

[Chris Williamson @ChrisWillx]

The UK is beating Russia.

There were 98 convictions for internet speech in Russia from 2007-2018.

During the same period, the UK had 1400 convictions for internet speech. — h/t @george__mack

[Katherine Boyle @KTmBoyle]

I don’t think I’ve watched a video of these fires that has captured the meaning of home so completely.

Pray for these people. 💙