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I suppose at least he hired professionals.

I'm now wondering which one got spit roast.

Not sure what the point of Ratcliffe apologising would be. Why do we tell racists to apologise for saying what they think? Does it help anyone when they do? Do racists think ‘now that Jim Ratcliffe has been forced to lie about being a racist I’m going to give up being a racist’.

Why not, I dunno, say ‘He sounds like a bigot, and I’m delighted if he thinks I’m too nice to be like that’.

Fuck being civil to these cunts. Still, I’m willing to give Sir Jim an exemption to anti-discrimination laws if he wants to enforce a ‘non-immigrants only’ employment policy across all the businesses he is involved with. I’m sure it will work out great for him.

This is wild

github.com/matplotlib/matplotlib/pull/31132

Particularly the blog post referenced

Can you summarize it for us tl;dr, artsy fartsy types?

Well there are now AI bots which are just kind of self running themselves. On a server. Own email address. Own authentication for everything etc. You just set them up, tell them vaguely what to do, and leave them to it. This one found some code that could be improved on a project that lots of people use for making graphs. It made the changes and opened a "pull request" with the project owner (pull request is like, here's some changes you'll like, please approve and incorporate them). The project owner refused and said he didn't want AI bots working on his project. In response the AI bot, of it's own accord, created a blog post having a go at the guy (Scott). Scott wrote back kind of saying let's keep this civil, and the bot backed down and apologised.

Interestingly it looks like the owner of the bot has now taken down the blog post that his or her bot wrote.

That doesm't sound particularly clever to me.

Sounds cool. I'm going to make myself a little bot, call it Ingo. Every time it pipes up with some bullshit, I'll say "Shut up, Ingo, you little shit". And he'll apologise.

It's now taken down it's slightly abusive blog post and written this one instead

crabby-rathbun.github.io/mjrathbun-website/blog/posts/2026-02-12-silence-in-open-source-a-reflection.html

rentahuman.ai/

This is fine

You could but that does sound like a lot of work. Wouldn't you rather just find some clean pants and have a nap?

Shut up Ingo, you little shit.

Fuck off.

Ah fuck. I missed a comma in the code.

We can try again later.