Nick Cotter
@ecstaticdisregard.bsky.social
It was like that when I found it.
In the process of moving to ecstaticdisregard.eurosky.social
In the process of moving to ecstaticdisregard.eurosky.social
Moving to ecstaticdisregard.eurosky.social for kicks
March 13, 2026 at 11:16 AM
Moving to ecstaticdisregard.eurosky.social for kicks
Trump Administration Opens the Door for ICE to Target Anyone Suspected of Being Trans
Trump Administration Opens the Door for ICE to Target Anyone Suspected of Being Trans
Under a new rule, the State Department will be able to revoke trans people's visas over "misrepresentation." It'll give ICE grounds to suspect all trans people of being in the US illegally.
open.substack.com
March 13, 2026 at 9:00 AM
Trump Administration Opens the Door for ICE to Target Anyone Suspected of Being Trans
Reposted by Nick Cotter
“Returning to 1.5 °C does not return the world we knew. Species gone will remain gone. Migration routes will be severed. Forests may have turned to cropland, or asphalt, or memory. “The path up and the path down are not mirror images,” Trisos said. Cooling does not retrace the route.”
March 12, 2026 at 4:43 PM
“Returning to 1.5 °C does not return the world we knew. Species gone will remain gone. Migration routes will be severed. Forests may have turned to cropland, or asphalt, or memory. “The path up and the path down are not mirror images,” Trisos said. Cooling does not retrace the route.”
Ig Nobel Prize ceremony moves abroad over US safety fears • The Register
Ig Nobel Prize ceremony moves abroad over US safety fears
: This is not satire, but we wish it was
www.theregister.com
March 12, 2026 at 1:46 PM
Ig Nobel Prize ceremony moves abroad over US safety fears • The Register
Shipping a button in 2026
Shipping a button in 2026…
YouTube video by Kai Lentit
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March 12, 2026 at 9:52 AM
Shipping a button in 2026
“if a similar energy crisis occurred in 2040 and no further action had been taken to cut UK emissions, then average household energy bills would increase by 59%. In contrast, bills would only rise by 4%, if the UK was on the path to net-zero by 2050”
CCC: Net-zero will protect UK from fossil-fuel price shocks - Carbon Brief
The “cost” of cutting UK emissions to net-zero is less than the cost of a single fossil-fuel price shock, according to a report from the CCC.
www.carbonbrief.org
March 12, 2026 at 9:00 AM
“if a similar energy crisis occurred in 2040 and no further action had been taken to cut UK emissions, then average household energy bills would increase by 59%. In contrast, bills would only rise by 4%, if the UK was on the path to net-zero by 2050”
Quote post with your preferred native wildlife to feature on Bank of England bank notes.
March 11, 2026 at 4:01 PM
Quote post with your preferred native wildlife to feature on Bank of England bank notes.
“PostgreSQL's new features now let you copy those statistics down to your development environment, allowing you to simulate the plans for production workloads without needing to copy in all of that data first.”
Production query plans without production data
Radim Marek describes the new pg_restore_relation_stats() and pg_restore_attribute_stats() functions that were introduced in PostgreSQL 18 in September 2025. The PostgreSQL query planner makes use of…
simonwillison.net
March 11, 2026 at 1:36 PM
“PostgreSQL's new features now let you copy those statistics down to your development environment, allowing you to simulate the plans for production workloads without needing to copy in all of that data first.”
“The cost of these code improvements has dropped so low that we can afford a zero tolerance attitude to minor code smells and inconveniences.”
AI should help us produce better code - Agentic Engineering Patterns
AI should help us produce better code - Agentic Engineering Patterns
AI should help us produce better code - Agentic Engineering Patterns
AI should help us produce better code - Agentic Engineering Patterns
simonwillison.net
March 11, 2026 at 9:00 AM
“The cost of these code improvements has dropped so low that we can afford a zero tolerance attitude to minor code smells and inconveniences.”
AI should help us produce better code - Agentic Engineering Patterns
AI should help us produce better code - Agentic Engineering Patterns
Reposted by Nick Cotter
Just signed this petition.
"It’s time for Keir Starmer to pick a side. From protecting our right to peaceful protest, to getting us off dangerous fossil fuels, the UK can be the alternative to everything that’s wrong with Trump."
"It’s time for Keir Starmer to pick a side. From protecting our right to peaceful protest, to getting us off dangerous fossil fuels, the UK can be the alternative to everything that’s wrong with Trump."
Starmer must choose: billionaires or people and planet
From protecting our right to peaceful protest, to getting us off dangerous fossil fuels, the UK can be the alternative to everything that’s wrong with Trump. Add your name and urge Keir Starmer to cho...
act.gp
March 9, 2026 at 5:21 PM
Just signed this petition.
"It’s time for Keir Starmer to pick a side. From protecting our right to peaceful protest, to getting us off dangerous fossil fuels, the UK can be the alternative to everything that’s wrong with Trump."
"It’s time for Keir Starmer to pick a side. From protecting our right to peaceful protest, to getting us off dangerous fossil fuels, the UK can be the alternative to everything that’s wrong with Trump."
“The doomers want you to believe that the game is already over. The accelerationists want you to believe that you don't need to play. Both positions are comforting in their way, because both relieve you of the burden of actually doing something.”
A soft-landing manual for the second gilded age
A soft-landing manual for the second gilded age
A soft-landing manual for the second gilded age
By the summer of 1945, West Berlin had been reduced to rubble. Allied bombing, the Soviet ground assault and Hitler's insistence on Götterdämmerung had destroyed roughly a third of the city's…
www.joanwestenberg.com
March 4, 2026 at 1:36 PM
“The doomers want you to believe that the game is already over. The accelerationists want you to believe that you don't need to play. Both positions are comforting in their way, because both relieve you of the burden of actually doing something.”
A soft-landing manual for the second gilded age
A soft-landing manual for the second gilded age
“Carthago delenda est” is the original “two hard boiled eggs” gag from antiquity
March 4, 2026 at 12:03 PM
“Carthago delenda est” is the original “two hard boiled eggs” gag from antiquity
Reposted by Nick Cotter
I know Proportional Representation isn't the 'sexiest' of subjects. But this article is as good an explanation of why it's an urgent need as any I've read.
Labour took almost two-thirds of the seats on one third of the votes in 2024. We can't risk Reform doing the same.
share.google/m7rOBvuIZdHd...
Labour took almost two-thirds of the seats on one third of the votes in 2024. We can't risk Reform doing the same.
share.google/m7rOBvuIZdHd...
Want to stop Farage with your vote? At the moment you can’t – and Starmer must fix that | Polly Toynbee
The PM’s in-tray is overflowing. But he can’t afford to neglect the real issue that is distorting our politics and the way we live, says Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee
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March 4, 2026 at 11:16 AM
I know Proportional Representation isn't the 'sexiest' of subjects. But this article is as good an explanation of why it's an urgent need as any I've read.
Labour took almost two-thirds of the seats on one third of the votes in 2024. We can't risk Reform doing the same.
share.google/m7rOBvuIZdHd...
Labour took almost two-thirds of the seats on one third of the votes in 2024. We can't risk Reform doing the same.
share.google/m7rOBvuIZdHd...
Stop Burning Your Context Window — We Built Context Mode | Mert Köseoğlu
Stop Burning Your Context Window — We Built Context Mode
MCP server that reduces Claude Code context consumption by 98%. 315 KB becomes 5.4 KB.
mksg.lu
March 4, 2026 at 9:02 AM
Stop Burning Your Context Window — We Built Context Mode | Mert Köseoğlu
“when I watch someone at 3am, running their tenth parallel agent session, telling me they’ve never been more productive - I don’t see productivity. I see someone who might need to step away from the machine for a bit...I wonder how often that someone is me.”
Agent Psychosis: Are We Going Insane?
Agent Psychosis: Are We Going Insane?
Agent Psychosis: Are We Going Insane?
What’s going on with the AI builder community right now?
lucumr.pocoo.org
March 3, 2026 at 5:06 PM
“when I watch someone at 3am, running their tenth parallel agent session, telling me they’ve never been more productive - I don’t see productivity. I see someone who might need to step away from the machine for a bit...I wonder how often that someone is me.”
Agent Psychosis: Are We Going Insane?
Agent Psychosis: Are We Going Insane?
From experience, this is true. The skills I got it to cook up front were useless, but after getting into the swing of things I got some use of process-oriented skills out of it.
LLM-generated skills work, if you generate them afterwards
LLM-generated skills work, if you generate them afterwards
LLM-generated skills work, if you generate them afterwards
LLM “skills” are a short explanatory prompt for a particular task, typically bundled with helper scripts. A recent paper showed that while skills are useful to LLMs, LLM-authored skills are not. From…
www.seangoedecke.com
March 3, 2026 at 1:46 PM
From experience, this is true. The skills I got it to cook up front were useless, but after getting into the swing of things I got some use of process-oriented skills out of it.
LLM-generated skills work, if you generate them afterwards
LLM-generated skills work, if you generate them afterwards
On the plus side, I don’t doomscroll my watch.
Why I Gave Up My Smartwatch
Why I Gave Up My Smartwatch
Why I Gave Up My Smartwatch
Somewhere between the first time I tapped my wrist to skip a song and the three hundredth time I anxiously checked my resting heart rate, I started to hate my Apple Watch. The promise of the…
www.joanwestenberg.com
March 3, 2026 at 9:01 AM
On the plus side, I don’t doomscroll my watch.
Why I Gave Up My Smartwatch
Why I Gave Up My Smartwatch
Google API Keys Weren’t Secrets. But then Gemini Changed the Rules.
Google API Keys Weren’t Secrets. But then Gemini Changed the Rules.
Yikes! It turns out Gemini and Google Maps (and other services) share the same API keys... but Google Maps API keys are designed to be public, since they are embedded …
simonwillison.net
March 2, 2026 at 5:08 PM
Google API Keys Weren’t Secrets. But then Gemini Changed the Rules.
OpenClaw deletes inbox despite being told not to: “During the compaction, it lost my original instruction”
A quote from Summer Yue
A quote from Summer Yue
A quote from Summer Yue
Nothing humbles you like telling your OpenClaw “confirm before acting” and watching it speedrun deleting your inbox. I couldn’t stop it from my phone. I had to RUN to my …
simonwillison.net
March 2, 2026 at 1:10 PM
OpenClaw deletes inbox despite being told not to: “During the compaction, it lost my original instruction”
A quote from Summer Yue
A quote from Summer Yue
I’ve had the most success so far by basing my CLAUDE.md on Kent Beck’s “tidy first” prompts.
Red/green TDD - Agentic Engineering Patterns - Simon Willison's Weblog
Red/green TDD - Agentic Engineering Patterns - Simon Willison's Weblog
Red/green TDD - Agentic Engineering Patterns - Simon Willison's Weblog
Guides > Agentic Engineering Patterns
simonwillison.net
March 2, 2026 at 9:00 AM
I’ve had the most success so far by basing my CLAUDE.md on Kent Beck’s “tidy first” prompts.
Red/green TDD - Agentic Engineering Patterns - Simon Willison's Weblog
Red/green TDD - Agentic Engineering Patterns - Simon Willison's Weblog
The sword that was broken. Anyone know any good local Elvish smiths?
March 1, 2026 at 9:52 AM
The sword that was broken. Anyone know any good local Elvish smiths?
“It was all theatre. Dario never had a chance.”
The whole thing was a scam
The whole thing was a scam
The whole thing was a scam
The fix was in, and Dario never had a chance.
open.substack.com
March 1, 2026 at 8:20 AM
“It was all theatre. Dario never had a chance.”
The whole thing was a scam
The whole thing was a scam
Reposted by Nick Cotter
where have I heard this one before
February 28, 2026 at 3:18 AM
where have I heard this one before
How do I cancel my ChatGPT subscription? | OpenAI Help Center
How do I cancel my ChatGPT subscription? | OpenAI Help Center
Subscription cancellation options and details
help.openai.com
February 28, 2026 at 9:42 AM
How do I cancel my ChatGPT subscription? | OpenAI Help Center
We Will Not Be Divided - AI employees letter regarding the US invasion of its own companies
We Will Not Be Divided
Employees of Google and OpenAI stand together to refuse the Department of War's demands to use AI models for domestic mass surveillance and autonomous killing without human oversight.
notdivided.org
February 28, 2026 at 9:08 AM
We Will Not Be Divided - AI employees letter regarding the US invasion of its own companies