Beating the heatwave with fun!

Critical reflections on day two of the brilliant Knowledge Summit in Dublin, written the morning after the night before in the Guness Brewery. https://thecynefin.co/supermindlessness/

They want to go faster, so they push their foot harder on the accelerator — more people, latest tool bandwagon, incentives, etc. — all the while also pushing down hard on the brake with their other foot.

I guess a positive thing to share is just how quickly the #solar adoption has been in recent years.

The world now has 3 Terawatt of installed solar capacity. The first Terawatt took 68 years and was reached in 2022. Another Terawatt was added in the last 18 months!

Mel Brooks is turning 100 years old tomorrow. Everyone knows and loves his comedy. Not everyone knows he served as a US Army combat engineer in WWII and was in the Battle of the Bulge.

Happiest of birthdays to the GOAT of mocking Nazis. ❤️

https://www.vice.com/en/article/the-hilarious-way-mel-brooks-taunted-nazis-on-the-world-war-ii-battlefield/

Incident Report: CVE-2026-LGTM

https://nesbitt.io/2026/06/26/incident-report-cve-2026-lgtm.html

“This is not a story about a bicycle company. This is a story about what happens to leaders, in any industry, who let the network around them collapse into a single tight cluster of agreement.”
https://mikefisher.substack.com/p/the-network-you-cant-see

@mralancooper tech bros will reinvent the bus from first principles and then throw each other under it

Today is federated wiki’s 15th birthday.

See our first commit that explains it all: https://github.com/WardCunningham/Smallest-Federated-Wiki/commit/40f056aea84a2faa68b1156b90eed71e0218fff7

@davidallengreen if they carry on using the cross of St George the mayor of Genoa may send another invoice

@wendynather I'm really liking people framing this (and social media) as "cognitive pollution". Don't know who said it first, but we don't pass laws to stop kids from eating paint with lead in it - we ban lead in paint.

The fact that we're willing to rely on LLMs to generate code knowing that it only mostly works because that code has been generated before thousands of times is not an indication that stochastic models are good, it's a massive, punishing indictment of computing as a field.

Using an insanely huge expensive model to quasi-reproduce work that's been created thousands of times already isn't productive or efficient. It's a symptom of profound failures of language, practice, process and imagination.

Study finds narcissism the only trait that predicted objections to remote work. The higher the opinions of themselves leaders expressed, the more they coveted power and status — the more they favored return-to-office mandates. https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/22/opinion/office-work-wfh-bosses.html

RE: https://social.overheid.nl/@BZKopensource/116770424383243538

Sweet. Dutch government needed improved accessibility for its https://social.overheid.nl Mastodon instance. It decided to cofinance this, and the features landed in the brand new 4.6 release. “In this way we invest in our own communication tools and those of the full fediverse at once.”

Frank Oz did the voices of both Miss Piggy and Yoda, and damn, what a crossover that would be. "Oh Lukie, Han have you seen, hm? A little alone time, he and moi should have…"

NEW by me

What the Palestine Action appeal decision tells us about terrorism law

An already broad law is now matched with broad ministerial powers

The Weekly Constitutional at Prospect
https://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/law/the-weekly-constitutional/73890/palestine-action-appeal-home-secretary-terrorism-law

This is utterly fascinating and a thing of absolute typographic beauty: https://storiedcolors.com

#typography

Pull Requests as the measure of productivity when they’re the problem.

Alistair Davidson @moh_kohn on 'How building an HTML-first site doubled our users overnight': 'Build a web application that works on a playstation portable on a 3G connection - if you do, it will work for all your users, and it will still work 30 years from now' https://mohkohn.co.uk/writing/html-first/

@spaceinvader “patch your shit”is a little hard when it’s the windows 2000 systems keeping water on safely for a city and the person who installed the system and attached pumps is now dead.