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London Centric reveals a confession from the man behind the anti-migrant TikTok account Reform_UK_2025, created to gain clicks and money. The posts used an AI voice to claim London homes were handed to illegal migrants, smearing residents. The contractor explains the motive: monetize engagement; “Hate brings views,” and he pursued a payout after his first TikTok earnings. SmartLet Estates says a rogue employee ran the account; the company severed ties and police have been alerted. Mayor Sadiq Khan warns of a dangerous, divisive trend driven by algorithms.
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Stripe-no-webhooks is an opinionated TypeScript/Next.js library to implement Stripe payments without manual webhooks by syncing Stripe data to your DB. It provides APIs for subscriptions, credits, wallet balances, top-ups, and usage-based billing, with plan definitions in code and support for seat-based billing and taxes. Quick start: npm install stripe-no-webhooks, stripe-no-webhooks init, migrate, define plans in billing.config.ts, stripe-no-webhooks sync, and configure the billing client. It includes features like credits, wallet, usage billing, pricing page generation, a customer portal, event callbacks, and production setup.
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kw-sdk is a Python SDK for building AI agents that perform knowledge work (research, analysis, writing, decision‑making) with a self‑verifying orchestration loop. It formalizes tasks into briefs and rubrics, delegates work to subagents (search, file I/O, code execution), verifies outputs against the rubric, and iterates until passing before submission. Supports standard/plan/explore modes, checkpointing, streaming, and multiple providers (Gemini, OpenAI, Anthropic). MIT licensed; install via pip from GitHub and consult examples/docs.
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Simon Willison presents Showboat and Rodney to help agents demonstrate and verify their work beyond automated tests. Showboat is a Go CLI (usable via uvx showboat) that builds a Markdown demo document by running commands (init, note, exec, image) and appending outputs and images. Rodney is a CLI browser automation tool using Rod for Chrome DevTools, designed to work with Showboat to capture pages, JS, and screenshots. Together they provide tangible demos and reduce manual QA time, aligning with test-driven development while acknowledging the need for manual checks. Both were built for Claude Code on mobile.
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paperboat.website is a simple, accessible personal site and blog platform with no JavaScript required and no ads. It supports rich text or markdown editing, RSS feeds for each blog, and lets you create up to 10 sites, invite 3 friends, upload images and audio, and use a custom domain with a chosen color theme. It costs 5€ to keep the boat afloat. Maintained by Marv in Leipzig, Germany, it invites users to sign up and share their stories.
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Pedersen fits a hyperbola to five AI-progress metrics to estimate a finite singularity date t_s. Only the arXiv emergent-papers metric shows genuine hyperbolic curvature; the others are linear, so the date is driven by human attention rather than machine capability. The social singularity is already unfolding in 2026: layoffs, trust erosion, and regulatory lag. The pole marks when collective decisions about machines break, not when machines become superintelligent. Caveats: five metrics are limited; Copilot overfits; the result hinges on arXiv.
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Google handed ICE a broad set of data on Amandla Thomas-Johnson, a student activist and journalist, including his bank and credit-card numbers, under an ICE subpoena. He learned of the scope months later and had no chance to contest it. The subpoena offered no justification beyond enforcing immigration laws and requested non-disclosure. Now in Dakar, Thomas-Johnson fears the data could be used to track him. The EFF and ACLU urge tech firms to resist such subpoenas, demand notice, and resist gag orders.
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Lance is a unified data format: a Parquet-like file format, an Iceberg-like table format, and a REST catalog spec. The Lance file format emphasizes fast random reads (WHERE id=123) while maintaining good sequential scans. The Lance table format supports ad-hoc column additions without copying data and preserves MVCC, and it adds index support (B-Tree, inverted index, and vector indexes like HNSW). It sits alongside Iceberg v3 innovations and other AI-era data-lake tools; a competing format named vortex exists, and large acquisitions touched the space.
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Mathematicians disagree on the essential structure of the complex numbers. Hamkins outlines four perspectives: Analytic (ℂ as the degree-two extension of ℝ), Smooth (ℂ with its topology), Rigid (the complex plane with coordinates), and Algebraic (ℂ as an algebraically closed field). He argues Analytic and Smooth are equivalent, while Rigid and Algebraic differ. The choice affects automorphisms and symmetry: i and −i are indistinguishable in the field, and ℝ is not definable from ℂ using only algebraic structure. The piece connects these views to structuralism, noting ℂ can be seen via compatible conceptions, with rigid structure underpinning the others.
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GitHub reported a disruption affecting some services, notably Pull Requests, with intermittent timeouts and degraded performance. A mitigation was deployed and recovery began with ongoing monitoring. The incident is now resolved as of 15:58 UTC on Feb 10, 2026; a detailed root-cause analysis will be shared when available.
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The post explains a DIY method and a calculator for building foamcore drawer organizers, aimed at board-game storage. It covers materials (foamcore sheets, a sharp knife, straightedge, cutting mat, glue, pins), assembly steps, and sizing panels. With 5mm foamcore, panel sizes are: two sides W x H; two sides (D-10mm) x H; base (W-10mm) x (D-10mm). It discusses variations (risers, stackable sections, dividers) and notes the author built a calculator app to automate cuts, plus links to related resources.
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A simple greeting to the entire world.
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America is in a historic AI investment boom, with AI-related fixed investment over $1 trillion annually. Data-center spending is at a record pace (~$42B annualized) and real computer investment tops $270B; software investment exceeds $750B. Combined, AI data-center, computer, and software spending surpass $1T a year, about 3.5% of US GDP. Much hardware is imported (Taiwan, Mexico, Malaysia), so foreign producers capture much of the GDP impact. 2026 is expected to break more records as Alphabet, Meta, Amazon, and Microsoft expand capex.
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Shows how Go can be tricked into redefining functions at runtime by editing memory. Obtain a real function’s address (e.g., time.Now) with reflect, read its machine code, and install a JMP to a replacement (myTimeNow) while using mprotect to flip memory protections. If successful, calls are redirected without caller awareness. But many pitfalls exist: Go can inline or alias function pointers, overriding methods risks memory corruption, and only some functions are safely overridable. A Linux/AMD64 wrapper exists, but this is dangerous and generally not recommended.
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Bloomberg shows a block page claiming unusual activity, asking users to verify they’re not a robot, enable JavaScript and cookies, and review Terms/Cookie Policy. It directs contacting support with a reference ID, provides a block reference ID, and ends with a Bloomberg subscription pitch.
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ECB President Christine Lagarde urged Europe to end dependence on American payment rails, noting most EU payments run through Visa, Mastercard, PayPal or Alipay and data leaves the EU. In response, the European Payments Initiative (EPI) and the EuroPA Alliance signed a pact to build a pan-European, interoperable network around the Wero wallet, spanning 13 countries and about 130 million users. Wero has 47 million registered users and €7.5 billion in transfers; Germany live in 2025, with France/Belgium in 2026; cross-border P2P in 2026, e-commerce/POS in 2027. Skeptics cite funding and entrenched habits, but momentum is rising.
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James Randall recalls starting programming at seven in 1983 on a machine with little power, cherishing hardware whose bytes and pixels were knowable. He longs for the 8-bit through 486 era, when building felt like an engineering adventure. Since then computers shed personality, becoming appliances, and platforms turned into monetization engines. AI isn’t just a new tool but a shift in what it means to be good: he reviews and guides code, not typing it, and decades of judgment ride on prompts. At fifty he calls this a fallow period—a redefinition of building and identity, not burnout, but change.
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