Don’t let the door hit you in the ass

Sweden’s quite right-wing, and Spain is likely to have a Vox-led neo-Falangist government after the next election.

A Communist one-party state hosting it would be somewhat polarising.

Maybe Switzerland could?

When denaturalisation for crimes is on the table, the question is where one draws the line between crimes one can be stripped of citizenship for and ones for which any citizens would be punished equally. The obvious point is where the crimes constitute some form of treason: if you fight in a war against your country on behalf of an enemy state, it’s not reasonable to expect to keep your citizenship.

If one goes beyond this and just says arbitrarily serious crimes can cost the offender their citizenship, one has a slippery slope, with the forces of populism pushing down it. Let’s say any naturalised citizen who commits murder will be denaturalised and deported: after all, we don’t want foreign killers in our country. Then what about attempted murder, or negligent homicide? Or any acts of violence? Or drug possession (illegal drugs kill, you know), or tax fraud (it costs the hardworking taxpayer millions). Or just giving off the vibe of being a bad one.

The “false basis” clause in particular opens up the possibility of denaturalising anyone who is caught not being on their best behaviour, if it’s phrased as them having lied in their oath of naturalisation. Of course, this would not be applied universally, but selectively.

The year the wretched remnants of humanity go back to doing all their computing in uxn on salvaged GameBoys

You can estimate the ambient temperature in a photo of a sleeping cat from the cat’s pose: if it’s cold, they’ll form a loaf to conserve heat, and if it’s hot, they’ll sprawl out to dissipate it.

Papier-maché code

It’s only a matter of time until in-band encoding of exceptional values (such as “*” to mean various things other than an ordinary password hash) is recognised as being as great a liability as nullable pointers (the original “billion-dollar mistake”). (And one could indeed consider naïve pointer types as a subset of in-band exceptional values.)

Britain is a country that put a man on the sex offenders’ register for fondling his bicycle in his locked hotel room, which cleaning staff happened to enter while he was doing so. There, any sexual proclivity that’s not designated safely normal is considered potentially dangerous and proscribed, just in case. (After all, can you prove that someone who gets aroused by bizarre things you and I and the justices of the High Court cannot imagine as erotic won’t escalate from that to committing horrific crimes?)

Fuck Ecco and their Putinist pandering. Maybe they can pivot to making army boots for orcs.

Are they banning witchcraft and unicorns as well?

Of course it’s slop

Rewriting, or marshalling swarms of slop-extruding bots to accrete an impressive-looking, notionally working mockup?

The BBC Micro logo was also based on the Athenian owl, only in a computer-age geometric style

Surely an epic memelord like Musk would be all over it being 420.

The repository is built entirely using LLMs, with no human-written code. The drawing and interaction code is ported from Blender’s sources, and the behavior is checked by tests: C, Python, Rust and JavaScript suites, the tkinter side-by-side programs and the GPU parity test.

Hard pass.

“Socialism” can mean different things, from European-style social democracy or Keynesian economics to Marxist-Leninist totalitarianism. The Reaganites having spent the past four decades using the word to mean anything beyond an Ayn Rand pipe-dream of pitiless free-market competition hasn’t helped.

That sounds very concerning

Once you get past the cute framing (“pineapple on pizza: you either love it or hate it, but know Italians see it as an affront, right?”), this looks like a stalking horse to legitimise the idea of “religious freedom” rights, like those of pharmacists to refuse to sell birth control.

A vibeslop reworking of this.