This morning, our Mitsubishi thermostat forgot to turn the temperature up. That's a new one. Usually it forgets to turn it down.

How can you fuck up such a basic piece of functionality?

There is an adapter out there that should make it work with third-party thermostats. This is the final straw, we're gonna have to make that happen. This is completely insane.

"A.I. is going to transform the way we develop software"

In what ways?

"Well, you need to be precise about your requirements, work in short feedback loops, be always cleaning up the mess it makes, and continuously test everything"

I see. Radical changes.

Mexico's president Claudia Sheinbaum Prado announced her country's reaction to Trumps tariffs would come Monday. Well. Here it is.

"In a dramatic, last-minute move, the Trump administration agreed Monday to pause sweeping tariffs on Mexico for a month. [...]"

The spin in the article is ignorable. She made a vague promise, Trump immediately rescinded. Leave it to a strong woman to deal with a bully ;)

Possibly paywalled washingtonpost.com/world/2025/…

Today, Musk’s X social media company became a form of state media when the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) said it would no longer email updates about this week’s two plane crashes—one in Washington, D.C., and one in Philadelphia—and that reporters would have to get their information through X.

From heathercoxrichardson.substack.…

#USPol

February 1, 2025

Throughout now-president Donald Trump’s 2024 campaign, it was clear that his support was coming from three very different factions whose only shared ideology was a determination to destroy the federal government.

^{Heather Cox Richardson (Letters from an American)}

Merz zur AfD: "Keine Zusammenarbeit, keine Duldung, gar nichts"

Die CDU musste sich nach den jüngsten Abstimmungen mit der AfD viel Kritik anhören. Auf ihrem Parteitag versicherte Merz nun erneut, dass es keine Zusammenarbeit mit der Partei gebe - und bekam dabei auch Unterstützung von CSU-Chef Söder.

➡️ tagesschau.de/inland/bundestag…

#Bundestagswahl2025

Merz zur AfD: "Keine Zusammenarbeit, keine Duldung, gar nichts"

^{tagesschau.de}

Petition: Fordern Sie den bindenden Ausschluss der AfD von der Didacta Messe Stuttgart

chng.it/GxjwN7Lj6S

#FediLZ #GEW #Didacta

Fordern Sie den bindenden Ausschluss der AfD von der Didacta Messe Stuttgart

^{Britt Dammann (Change.org)}

youtu.be/XTilR30XCT0?si=B1sE9S…

Wer glaubt, dass Russland es bei Wahlbeeinflussung und Finanzierung von AfD und BSW belassen wird, für den habe ich eine geile Brücke in Amerika günstig abzugeben.

Absolut gut gemachte Simplicissimus Episode.

Anthropic, the company that made one of the most popular AI writing assistants in the world, requires job applicants to agree that they won’t use an AI assistant to help write their application.

“We want to understand your personal interest in Anthropic without mediation through an AI system, and we also want to evaluate your non-AI-assisted communication skills. Please indicate 'Yes' if you have read and agree.”

From 404media.co/anthropic-claude-j…

Mediating everything else in the world through an AI system is just fine, though, and non-AI-assisted communication skills are otherwise unimportant to them.

#AI #GenAI #GenerativeAI #Anthropic

AI Company Asks Job Applicants Not to Use AI in Job Applications

Anthropic, the developer of the conversational AI assistant Claude, doesn’t want prospective new hires using AI assistants in their applications, regardless of whether they’re in marketing or engineering.

^{Samantha Cole (404 Media)}

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European leaders are feeling the strife,
Tariffs have caused them much daily life.
They call it "unnecessary and stupid",
Their sentiment, they've looped and looped it,
In response to the tariffs, they're full of strife.

#GuardianLimerick #Europe #Economics

theguardian.com/world/video/20…

'Unnecessary and stupid': European leaders react to tariffs – video

European leaders call for cooperation with Washington but vow a robust response if needed.

^{Guardian staff reporter (The Guardian)}

A French director in the spotlight,
Was found guilty, it caused a big fright.
For his acts of assault,
But he won't face a vault,
In the #MeToo trial, justice seemed slight.

#GuardianLimerick #France #Film #Culture #Europe #Gender

theguardian.com/world/2025/feb…

French film director found guilty of sexual assault but spared jail in landmark #MeToo trial

Christophe Ruggia given two years’ house arrest over incidents involving actor Adele Haenel in early 2000s when she was 12 to 15 years old

^{Guardian staff reporter (The Guardian)}

There once was a leader named Merz
Who took a risk that caused some stirz
With the far right he played
In a speech where he laid
Out a strategy that might cause some blurs

#GuardianLimerick #Germany #Europe

theguardian.com/world/2025/feb…

Merz doubles down on gambit with German far right in combative speech

Prospective chancellor takes startlingly aggressive line against those protesting against gamble with AfD

^{Deborah Cole (The Guardian)}

So let me get this straight - Chump thinks ALL OF #CANADA should become ONE STATE? The fifty-first state?? Do I have that right?

Wow, Canadians - you could give up your ENTIRE GOVERNMENT, your sovereignty, every shred of your dignity, and trade it all for TWO SENATORS and what would surely be 60 ultra-gerrymandered house seats. What a deal! Who wouldn’t want that?

Hit us as hard as you can with boycotts and trade embargos. Lock the fucking gates to this stupid ass country. #TheDumbestTimeline