Samaher Abu Safiya, sister of Dr Hussam Abu Safiya, told Middle East Eye that her family had not heard anything about him for three months. He was detained without charge by Israeli forces while serving as medical director of Kamal Adwan Hospital in northern Gaza.

Video: https://tankie.tube/w/ehWCfvAGY4XvcuHBLJFvzb

#Gaza #Israel #HumanRights #ZionistViolenceMonitor

@skinnylatte

Well, it's accurate. And a lot easier to say.

A few of the Max Ernst collages to feature in his and poet Paul Éluard’s Les Malheurs des immortels (1922), a proto-Surrealist experiment par excellence. See the post on our website: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/eluard-ernst-les-malheurs-des-immortels/

Hey, lets not feed real art into AI, I actually will challange you here, learn Blender, and create something like this yourself.

Released 48 years ago today
The Scream, the debut studio album by Siouxsie and the Banshees, featuring the track Jigsaw Feeling

Siouxsie And The Banshees - Jigsaw Feeling (The Old Grey Whistle Test, Nov. 07, 1978)

#punk #punks #punkrock #gothpunkrock #siouxsieandthebanshees #punkrockhistoy

“In a significant update to its guidelines for prostate cancer screening, the American Cancer Society is now recommending that men get routinely screened for prostate cancer with a PSA test.

“Men at average risk should get a PSA test every two years from age 50 to 69, according to the new guidelines released Thursday.

“Men considered at high risk due to race and family history should start testing earlier, at 45, and most are recommended to get tested every year. Specifically, yearly testing starting at age 45 is recommended for all Black men, who have higher rates of prostate cancer.”

https://arstechnica.com/health/2026/11/in-reversal-american-cancer-society-urges-prostate-cancer-tests-for-all-men/

INT. REDMOND, BUILDING 34. 3:47 AM. A conference room that smells like cold pizza and regret.

Office 365 EVP: Talk to me. Why is Exchange still down?

MID-LEVEL MANAGER (Dave): So, good news and bad news.

EVP: Give me the good news.

DAVE: We found the service that's failing.

EVP: Great. Who owns it?

DAVE: That's the bad news. It's called auth-bridge-final-v2-REAL. The commit history says it was written by "Copilot" and approved by "Copilot."

EVP: Then get the engineer who prompted it.

DAVE: That was Priya. She was in the Q2 "efficiency realignment."

EVP: Her backup?

DAVE: Also realigned. So was her backup's backup. The whole team is a Slack channel now, and the only one in it is a bot that posts "🚀 LGTM" on every PR.

EVP: Fine. Then we read the code and fix it.

DAVE: We tried. It's 340,000 lines of Python that calls a Rust binary that calls a PowerShell script that curls a Gist. The Gist's README just says "dont touch this lol."

EVP: Documentation?

DAVE: One Confluence page called "Architecture (TODO)." Last edited in 2024. The only content is a Mermaid diagram that fails to render.

EVP: Jesus Christ. Can we roll back?

DAVE: To what? The rollback pipeline was also vibe coded. The last time someone ran it, it rolled back to a version that only existed in the AI's hallucination of what the service should look like.

EVP: So what the fuck have we actually been doing for nine hours?

DAVE: Rebooting servers one at a time and praying. Comms is calling that "restarting affected infrastructure."

EVP: ...Is there anyone left who understands how any of this works?

DAVE: Gary.

EVP: Who's Gary?

DAVE: Contractor. 61 years old. He wrote the original Exchange routing logic in 2003 and he's the only one who knows why there's a sleep(7) in the auth handshake. We let him go in January, but HR forgot to disable his VPN.

EVP: Call Gary.

DAVE: Gary says his rate is now $900 an hour, with a 40-hour minimum, and he wants it in writing that he was right about everything.

EVP: ...Pay Gary.

DAVE: Also, the board wants to know if this will affect the AI efficiency numbers for the earnings call.

EVP: Tell them the outage was caused by "an unexpected interaction during a routine change," and that AI agents are "actively assisting with remediation."

DAVE: Are they?

EVP: Copilot opened a ticket.

DAVE: What did the ticket say?

EVP: "Have you tried turning it off and on again?"

@nolan "Make sure to use very long words in your explanation"

@schof @alan @ai6yr

I dropped an OC-192 of long distance traffic.
Had to talk with the public utility commission in person over that.

The missing stylus could have been a more serious issue but thankfully this particular wacom technology is still used today (or at least in the 2010s) in some samsung tablets and phones, which means it's still possible to get a stylus that works. We actually have this one that looks like a fake pencil.

Importantly, this all means I can now use a graphics tablet on my Amiga 1200 .

Still need to source the right version of some software for usable pressure sensitivity, but so far so good :)

@ai6yr what resurrected alpha model copilot is writing these updates

@johntimaeus @schof @alan Oops

@mcc I did you the "Saved" button because I would do a quick pass on work slack and mark all channels read while marking specific messages to review later. Then they changed it to the "to-dos" which required me to set a 'due by' which sucked. Then mystifyingly they brought backed "Saved” but kept "to-dos" in latest update (on my work slack anyway). It's baffling.

But yeah most of it is useless cruft.