doug.algo

To proponents of age verification, food for thought. Children have no credit history, making them the perfect, "clean" identity to steal without raising immediate red flag . We lack a security infrastructure to protect kids from ID theft. Now is not the time.

All civilisations collapse for basically the same reason: they could have responded to reality but they didn't. Our civilisation is no different as we face the consequences of runaway climate collapse: we can but we won't. “New Orleans is in a terminal condition, and we need to be clear with the patient that it is terminal,” he said. “There is an opportunity for palliative care, we can transition people and the economy. We can get ahead of this.” But, he added, “no politician wants to first give this terminal diagnosis. They will speak about it behind closed doors, but never in public.” theguardian.com/us-news/2026/m…

Congratulations to you. Children are innocent and lovable. Those 168 children that your boss killed in the school in Minab, and you justified, were also children. When you kiss your baby, think of the mothers of those children.

Today is a hard day. I shared this note with the @linear team today: We’ve made the difficult decision to increase our workforce. This is not a cost-cutting exercise or a reflection of anyone’s performance. We’re simply reimagining every role for the agentic AI era. We’re hiring. We’re sorry about that.

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Dejan Kulusevski. A thread on why he's been missing a year. What we can piece together for what this 'it's just a knock' was, why he needed a 2nd surgery and his 'small intervention' lead to him limping around in Sweden. R9 connection, and when he will most likely return.

.@ZackPolanski is spot on here, the Greens aren't splitting the left vote because this Labour party isn't left wing.

The idea is to find a group of people most people regard as terrible examples, use them to make revoking passports a more acceptable form of punishment, then expand it from there.

"Forgive me, Father, for I have dripped."

This is a Pulitzer level photo.

Rayo Vallecano have reached the UEFA Conference League final. The club’s supporters are known as one of the strongest anti-fascist and anti-zionist fan movements in Europe, and have stood out for their long-standing solidarity with Palestine.

Jimmy Wales has said that Australia's social media ban is a disaster. He's completely right about that. The evidence suggests that it's trivial for young people to evade bans with VPNs or borrowed accounts, but adults still have to hand over ID to access lawful content online.

The entire album was mixed by me on FL Studio. 😝

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🧊 Big release for #JavaScript supply chain security: @pnpmjs 11 now defaults to a 1-day Minimum Release Age, blocks exotic subdependencies, and adds a new Allow Builds model. A strong step toward reducing exposure to fast-moving npm attacks → socket.dev/blog/pnpm-11-a… #nodejs

Age verification is the Trojan horse for complete control of the internet. Imagine you'd have to register your identity to read a newspaper. That's what this is about. They say it's for the children, but it really is about taking away your right to use the web anonymously.

Hawley's GUARD Act just passed committee 22-0. Every American would have to upload a government ID or submit to a face scan to use an AI chatbot. Even for asking for algebra help or fixing a billing issue. The framing is child safety but the result is a national ID system for talking to a computer. reclaimthenet.org/senate-panel-b…

I’m sorry, but I’m not gonna be nicer about this. Neocon boomers are mortgaging my generations future by amassing trillions in debt, turning America into a pariah on the global stage, and getting our troops killed for another failing war. I have to watch these neocons lie about the state of this war on TV every single day. Then, the moment I push back and assertively ask, “hey, what’s the actual goal here?” I have a legion of neocon boomers telling me I should know my place. Or I should wait my turn to talk with the grown ups. Fuck that, genuinely. I’m not claiming to have all of the answers or be all knowing. But young people deserve a seat at the table to fight for our interests as well. 95% of media is made up of boomers in suits who created these problems, and being nicer isn’t going to fix them.