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The combination of this with the fact that you can routinely convince models to spit out their training data verbatim should make anyone exposing these models through public interfaces rethink that. Sanitize your inputs, ffs.
https://cyberplace.social/@GossiTheDog/115978385132170439
#nevent1q…asw6

2026-01-28 21:58:33 UTC

Wild that a one day general strike in one city has made an entire executive caste flinch. Might be a lesson in there.

2026-01-28 21:23:17 UTC

The Onion, four days ago: https://theonion.com/democrats-condemn-ice-for-murdering-without-proper-warrants/
The real-life Democratic party, today: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:ihpglfqq3dapqjmwl2ntktil/post/3mdj2skxkok23

2026-01-27 17:57:31 UTC

Information for future conference organizers considering a US location.
https://infosec.exchange/@briankrebs/115962508398912420
#nevent1q…sy5m

2026-01-27 01:49:45 UTC

I hadn't considered this at all but it's genuinely horrifying, particularly if you are invested in open practices as way for our next generation of developers to learn from each other.
Conversations with chatbots about technical problems are privatizing access to the learning experience itself.
https://michiel.buddingh.eu/enclosure-feedback-loop

2026-01-26 19:02:06 UTC

I just got a message from somebody saying I should read his book that he got AI to write about about how to get the most out of AI.
At least when a tree falls in a forest you can definitely say something happened.

2026-01-25 14:53:31 UTC

"From the creators of Heaven's Vault" ok I'm in.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/3838370/TR49/

2026-01-24 20:30:04 UTC

"We estimate that the Metaverse could generate $4 trillion to $5 trillion in value by 2030."
Happy three year anniversary to McKinsey's "A CEO's Guide To The Metaverse".
https://www.mckinsey.com/capabilities/growth-marketing-and-sales/our-insights/a-ceos-guide-to-the-metaverse
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/115/951/961/132/833/224/original/591dc93b636a47e3.png

2026-01-24 17:57:02 UTC

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Firefox preferences -> Privacy and security -> permissions -> autoplay.
Put your own mask on first.
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/115/951/358/658/726/337/original/8567f487cfa9a983.png
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/115/951/362/510/122/108/original/6bab9502540395e8.png

2026-01-24 17:41:31 UTC

If someone in uniform can demand your immediate compliance on penalty of summary execution then you have no rights and you do not live in a free society.
Don't watch the video.

2026-01-24 14:17:53 UTC

Increasingly angry so many people are happy to say "well what did you expect, is anyone surprised by this, why don't you have backup plans, it's your own fault," whenever a corporate IT system wrecks somebody's life for clicking the wrong button. It's sanctimonious victim blaming and it's one hundred percent bullshit, a symptom of a deeply immature industry getting permission to fuck up from an army of deeply immature people.
Reflexively shilling for corporate negligence should humiliate you.

2026-01-23 19:34:30 UTC

Today in e-waste news, I just learned that electronic pregnancy tests are the paper pregnancy tests wrapped in a scanner that tells you what the paper says.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kpBabwFB90Y

2026-01-23 18:37:27 UTC

If you're using Bluesky, can you search for "minnesota strike" and drop a screenshot in here?

2026-01-23 17:18:04 UTC

This is funnier when you know it's a picture of Jared Leto playing Skeletor.
https://mas.to/@skeletor/115945540203989184
#nevent1q…ehgk

2026-01-23 16:54:23 UTC

Bitlocker is backdoored. (edit: Or, at least, if you accept Microsoft's recommended practices for key handling, you are backdooring yourself.)
https://www.forbes.com/sites/thomasbrewster/2026/01/22/microsoft-gave-fbi-keys-to-unlock-bitlocker-encrypted-data/

2026-01-22 19:48:50 UTC

Excuse me _what_ in the _what_.
https://infosec.exchange/@0xabad1dea/115932018225462583
#nevent1q…k3mn

2026-01-22 16:26:44 UTC

My friend @nprofile…2y0d has an excellent thread here about finding and dealing with CPU bugs.
https://mas.to/@gabrielesvelto/115939583202357863
#nevent1q…280h

2026-01-21 19:44:02 UTC

"Calling Lexx a Canadian Doctor Who is like calling Neon Genesis Evangelion a Japanese Duck Tails."
An astounding but one hundred percent correct sentence.
https://www.metafilter.com/211904/Canadian-TV-needs-to-get-weird-again#8805381

2026-01-20 19:31:51 UTC

A story written in search results.
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/115/929/088/001/525/147/original/70a4aaad40786219.png

2026-01-19 16:45:23 UTC

Having a bunch of ill-formed thoughts here about poppy bulbs, coca leaves and how the dose makes the poison, when it comes to vibe coding as a practice.
I am starting to suspect that computing as a culture and practice has been cultivating a deep _vulnerability to_ LLM slop for a long time now. Via Stack Overflow and any number of forums for years without collectively realizing that's what we were doing.

2026-01-16 00:11:05 UTC

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It's difficult to stay optimistic in the world, I know, but here's a fact: about forty percent of the carbon we burn goes towards move the other carbon around so it can be burned in other places.
This industry is going to collapse faster than anyone realizes.

2026-01-15 15:15:07 UTC

It's cheaper - a lot cheaper - to build renewable capacity than it is to keep operating coal, and that math is already rolling up fast for oil.
https://www.independent.co.uk/climate-change/news/india-china-coal-power-renewables-b2899298.html

2026-01-13 16:42:48 UTC

There are plenty of reasons to hate PDFs but “cops don’t know how to redact things” is a gift that gives and gives and gives.
https://www.404media.co/police-unmask-millions-of-surveillance-targets-because-of-flock-redaction-error/

2026-01-13 15:48:35 UTC

Legibility, debugging and maintenance are all the same thing on different time scales. How will we fix things that no effort went in to understanding in the first place?

2026-01-13 15:45:54 UTC

Offended that the supercomputer in my pocket just hangs now and then now, on the most basic stuff. The most recent iOS upgrade has not been good, but it’s not the glass UI, it’s.., basic stuff. Hanging on autocorrects. Bad lag in the interface.

2026-01-12 22:05:46 UTC

Watching my children’s first experiences with the unix shell is reinforcing my belief that we need something a lot more forgiving for learners, at the very least with reliable undo.

2026-01-08 21:14:42 UTC

Daughter just came home to tell me the teachers at school tried to confiscate her vape but they couldn't because it's actually a kazoo.
"I made a kazoo noise at them and I could see them dying on the inside so I made a sad kazoo noise instead. I don't think it helped."
The grin on her face.

2026-01-07 23:50:57 UTC

Shoutout to all the libertarians out there, proudly and stridently saying absolutely nothing at all as they wallow in the spineless cowardice we could always see, to all the champions and defenders of second amendment gun ownership rights showing us that what they truly wanted most of all for all their talk of rights and freedoms was to be the ones wearing the jackboots, to be the bullying shitheaded thugs we could always tell they were desperate to be.

2026-01-07 19:18:45 UTC

Ok, so: after Discord, where?

2026-01-07 16:28:45 UTC

https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/115/854/756/138/968/110/original/fdfb13c6443c1c12.jpeg

2026-01-07 16:25:54 UTC

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Followup: The persistence of the idea that computer science is about computers is ironically a manifestation of the two most notorious problems in computer science.

2026-01-07 16:14:46 UTC

I went looking for the lyrics to Oscar The Grouch's "I Love Trash", and found a page bafflingly attributing them to ... Aerosmith?
That's wrong, but it turns out it's not _that_ wrong, because Steve Tyler sang an odd rock cover of I Love Trash on an new-to-me Muppets album from 1998, "Elmopalooza!".
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elmopalooza!_(soundtrack)
... which is a long way around of introducing what ultimately found. Please enjoy En Vogue singing "I Want A Monster To Be My Friend."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DfUByt8jhKo

2026-01-07 14:21:13 UTC

The idea that programming is about generating code makes exactly as much sense as the idea that cooking is about generating shit.

2026-01-06 18:25:26 UTC

We're an AI first company. Our mission is to streamline your experience and let you turn ideas into execution at the speed of thought. To join our team make PDFs out of your cv and cover letter, upload the PDFs, then retype all the text in the PDFs into more textboxes. Copy/paste is disabled. A question that is illegal to ask is mandatory. <>[]{},%#$ characters forbidden. Accents forbidden. The back button breaks everything. You have been logged out for inactivity. Click here to restart.

2026-01-03 14:16:41 UTC

The President starting a war to avoid the press cycle from getting caught molesting a little girl is already the plot of a movie.
Pretty good one, too. Mark Knopfler did the soundtrack, it's great.

2026-01-03 13:49:40 UTC

A reminder, that no US military operation of any scale has involved a declaration of war since 1942.

2026-01-03 00:47:30 UTC

"Root claims that the platform’s gender ratio “makes the Smurf village look like a feminist utopia”.
Remember when we found out that Ashley Madison's core competency wasn't connecting humans, it was stringing lonely dudes along with chatbots, and like eleven women had ever used that site at all?
'cause I've got a prediction.
https://masto.deoan.org/@neurovagrant/115828221980987378

2026-01-02 16:09:58 UTC

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I would like to grant you a magic power for helping people through computer changes.
Before you so much as put your hands on anyone else's machine sit down next to them and ask: what have you done that's made this machine feel like it's yours?
Can you show me what you mean?
Don't do _anything_. Watch and listen and make a list. Don't sneer, don't roll your eyes, nothing but listening and saying, show me.
You'll learn more about this person in five minutes than you have in a decade.

2025-12-31 17:52:32 UTC

I had no idea that Windows was doing fractal incremental feature rollouts now and it sounds like an absolute goddamn disaster for anyone who needs to support a senior with a computer.
I did not expect the year of linux on the desktop to happen because everyone else in the world started fucking up their own shit in catastrophic, undiagnosable, incomprehensible ways.
https://www.windowscentral.com/microsoft/windows-11/2025-has-been-an-awful-year-for-windows-11-with-infuriating-bugs-and-constant-unwanted-features

2025-12-26 17:08:43 UTC

MongoDB exploit in the wild, every version going back a decade.
https://cyberplace.social/@GossiTheDog/115786817774728155
#nevent1q…9ej9

2025-12-26 02:43:03 UTC

The psychological swoop of the fediverse.
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/115/783/558/585/406/234/original/df1ece0e821a6617.jpeg

2025-12-23 18:06:54 UTC

Inspired by @nprofile…zu8f, I'm repacking the Tools For Most Problems Bag in preparation for a trip to the relatives, because I'm the person expected to fix the things. I don't have a go bag, but I have this.

2025-12-23 14:41:29 UTC

Bicycles for your mind are great and important but libraries are public transit for your mind and we need them too.

2025-12-21 17:57:44 UTC

New to me personal infosec idea: the deadname canary.
https://mastodon.social/@fesshole/115758701342987137
#nevent1q…v2nx

2025-12-20 20:29:57 UTC

The cost of a manual pasta maker, the price of shipping replacements for the two broken plastic parts - the only two plastic parts - in the machine, and the price of the parts.
Actual cost of the part is I suspect $1.
I frequently find myself thinking, would it be cheaper to (a) buy the thing I want, (b) make it myself, or (c) build a _machine shop to build the machines I need to build the thing myself_ and it is genuinely upsetting how often the economical choice is floating between B and C.
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/115/753/755/321/532/787/original/feb9667d170a8ca0.png
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/115/753/753/516/870/764/original/9c090b445ca06be1.png
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2025-12-18 21:39:06 UTC

If I understand this correctly the reason RAM has quadrupled in price is that a huge quantity of RAM that hasn't been produced has been bought with money that doesn't exist to populate GPUs that also haven't been produced to go in datacenters that haven't been built powered by infrastructure that might never exist to meet a demand that doesn't exist at all to make profit margins that mathematically can't exist and economists talk about this thing they call the "rational markets hypothesis".

2025-12-18 18:44:18 UTC

TIL that Christa McAuliffe, the teacher who died in the Challenger explosion, wasn't the first-choice person NASA wanted to put in that seat.
Their first choice was _Big Bird_:
https://www.nbcnews.com/science/weird-science/nasa-confirms-talks-fly-big-bird-doomed-shuttle-challenger-n353521

2025-12-18 15:41:03 UTC

Any #mathstodon people following me who'd be willing to entertain a possibly dumb question? It's about prime numbers and the Collatz Conjecture, which I fully understand are a one-two punch of math crankery, but I'd like to put it to somebody who can tell me "this leads nowhere but crankdom for sure" so I can put it behind me.

2025-12-17 20:08:45 UTC

They key insight here is that the Anthropic executive strata apparently _do_ believe their chatbot is sentient but do not believe in consent.
https://mastodon.social/@GossiTheDog@cyberplace.social/115733770996480813
#nevent1q…dska

2025-12-16 21:18:58 UTC

YEARS
YOU SPENT YEARS BRAGGING THAT YOU HIRED THE BEST ENGINEERS IN THE WORLD
ONLY THE VERY BEST
BUILDINGS FULL OF 10X ENGINEERS
AND YOU GAVE THESE BRILLIANT GENIUS OUTLIER CODE MONSTERS TOOLS YOU SAID WILL MAKE THEM EVEN 10X MORE PRODUCTIVE
IT WILL 10X YOUR 10X
AND FIRED THOUSANDS AND THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE SO YOU COULD AFFORD THEM
AND THEY TRIED THOSE TOOLS AND DON'T WANT THEM
AND DON'T USE THEM
WHAT DOES THAT TELL YOU
MOTHERFUCKER WHAT DOES IT TELL YOU
https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/12/microsoft-slashes-ai-sales-growth-targets-as-customers-resist-unproven-agents/

2025-12-15 15:33:28 UTC

“Org you’ve never heard of acquires company that operates your remotely managed home robot” is now a threat model in play.
https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2025/12/roomba-maker-irobot-swept-into-bankruptcy/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

2025-12-15 01:52:52 UTC

This both real and a decent metaphor, so it is time for me to re-tell a story.
Ever heard of The Ping Of Death?
There was a couple of years there - years, hand to god - where you could throw a single malformed or too-large packet across the network at any IP you could see, and if you malformed it just right for its OS, you could crash the machine. You could kill a Windows machine with one line in cmd.exe.
It was bad, but almost nobody knows how bad.
https://mastodon.social/@Natasha_Jay@tech.lgbt/115719291112552201

2025-12-14 19:01:59 UTC

Does anyone know how the "anti-cheat" video game systems of the world feel about custom keyboards, particularly when it comes to macros? My son wants to build something that helps with Helldivers but also wants to be able to keep playing Helldivers.

2025-12-13 14:28:20 UTC

My lazyweb friends, are there any deep-weirdness embedded-systems keeb weebs On Here? No disrespect to the switch-lube-and-QMK kit-bangers among us, but I've got a 512Kb STM32 here with 16MB of QSPI hanging off the side of it and the 4MB - yes, 4MB - of C I need to shim into this thing are refusing to be Inserted In The Usual Fashion so I think I need to talk to some of the serious perverts.

2025-12-12 17:11:47 UTC

Disney gives OpenAI a billion dollars, sets new world record for ransom payments.
https://9to5mac.com/2025/12/11/openai-and-disney-reach-landmark-agreement-to-license-characters-on-sora/
Anyway here’s a Mickey Mouse 35mm camera.
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/115/707/696/963/308/282/original/77d03fc6adeeda9e.jpeg

2025-12-11 04:12:10 UTC

Lazyweb, is there a “this approach doesn’t work” index somewhere for math proofs around famous unsolved problems?

2025-12-11 03:02:05 UTC

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@nprofile…lpav That one scene in The Maltese Falcon where Sam Spade pauses in the middle of his tirade at the police to ask the stenographer.
"You getting this all right, son, or am I goin' too fast for ya?"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=angjU7p2AZI

2025-12-10 17:14:17 UTC

"AI-first just means Agile now".
[ me with a thousand yards stare audibly racking in like a shotgun shell ] "Yes."

2025-12-08 16:40:37 UTC

The companies whose whole job is understanding the Real Cost Of The Finding Out Part do not want to play this game at all.
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/115/684/919/084/870/678/original/228b6678670aebfd.png

2025-12-08 03:17:50 UTC

You've heard of 'what if the Ship of Theseus was sentient', but now it's time for 'what if Plato's Cave refused to show you any shadows that might offend the cave's sponsors or damage the cave's brand?

2025-12-07 23:16:50 UTC

Fantastic comment on Metafilter, on masking, that it is a constant burden of translation to be understood by a neurotypical audience.
https://www.metafilter.com/211325/Melting-Spoons-and-Autistic-Burnout#8790866

2025-12-07 22:56:16 UTC

Lazyweb, if I want:
- to run Linux
- on a decentish ARM processor
- that will drive 2+ 4k displays,
- in a quiet-ish, mini-ish form factor
... are there options in the world that are purchaseable and not "give up on the Linux part and get a Mac Mini"?

2025-12-04 12:44:51 UTC

A kid home sick today, and I find myself once again infuriated by the amount of time, money and effort we've put into the mandatory indoor air quality improvements in our schools and public institutions to mitigate this ongoing pandemic, because as far as I can tell that amount is zero.
We could solve this problem.

2025-12-01 15:44:43 UTC

We should all be deeply suspicious of people asking for both "efficiencies" and "resiliency"; those conversations are really about safety margins and blame.
https://toot.yosh.is/@yosh/115636179939389381
#nevent1q…z7k2

2025-11-30 01:25:17 UTC

Just for a second I was thinking “makes sense, obviously any receiver can also be a transmitter” before the galaxy brain warmed up enough to ask why the remote control has wheels.
https://mastodon.nz/@KiwiEV/115634999926506083

2025-11-29 20:30:39 UTC

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"Controversy at [technology] [conference] as participants found to be using [technology] at [conference]".
How would that sentence even make sense for any conference or technology that was doing anything worthwhile? Even the NFT people didn't sink to that level of straight up epistemological tail-eating nonsense. What the hell are we even doing here?

2025-11-29 19:55:31 UTC

"Controversy erupts at the plagiarism machine conference when it turned out people were using the plagiarism machine to do plagiarism."
This is genuine comedy.
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-03506-6

2025-11-29 19:08:27 UTC

We know from the Panama Papers (and the Paradise Papers, and the Pandora papers, and and and) that basically all the hard-right political parties and their proxies in North America and Europe are being quietly shadow-funded by Russia and a collection of ideologically-aligned oligarchs, so it would be great if elected politicians acted as though they understood that, and that condemning antifascist protest is sending a clear signal they've been bought by the wrong side.
https://www.euronews.com/2025/11/29/mass-protests-in-the-central-german-town-of-giessen-against-new-afd-youth-group

2025-11-29 18:10:35 UTC

I feel like the greenroom136 people might know their audience. Like, their whole audience.
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/115/634/326/197/996/467/original/e6ce62d56481f21d.png

2025-11-27 19:00:36 UTC

If you’re the sort of person who likes to experiment with the ergonomics of their workplace, you should know about threaded inserts and cheese plates. By fitting the standard 1/4”x20 “tripod screw” threading, you can use them with inexpensive articulating arms (see smallrig.com) to make experimenting with new setups very easy.
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/115/623/144/385/076/704/original/e9c63f7dc01ada8d.jpeg
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/115/623/159/234/501/146/original/1285a61021b09441.jpeg
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2025-11-26 17:15:10 UTC

Imagine letting your whole worldview, how you learn about anything, get filtered through a silent corporate-brand-sanitation machine.
Banning books seems adorably quaint by comparison. Your brain would end up as polished and smooth as the inside of a urinal.
https://mastodon.social/@aesthr@wandering.shop/115615047257445939
#nevent1q…huux

2025-11-26 02:16:46 UTC

Pretty weird that all these news articles extolling the virtues of not owning anything nice are getting so common these days, I wonder what's up with that.
https://www.cnn.com/2025/11/19/health/video/floor-sleep-benefits-wellness-digvid

2025-11-25 16:23:54 UTC

the site is called medium because nothing on it is ever rare or well done send toot

2025-11-25 15:26:51 UTC

Democracy Dies In [checks notes] uh, ok, whatever this is.
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/115/611/035/448/796/700/original/45d31d7284e8716f.png

2025-11-24 20:03:00 UTC

It's so beautiful.
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/2025/11/x-about-this-account/685042/?gift=nwn-guseqS6cY1kVeEKZAcCrBXkH5imrvoYRXquoAEY&utm_source=gadzooks&utm_medium=fedi&utm_campaign=share
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/115/606/451/714/681/209/original/57d4493ac46c93e4.png

2025-11-20 19:37:05 UTC

Is anyone making commodore-homage keycaps that have the right symbols on the _front_ of the key caps?

2025-11-20 17:12:03 UTC

"Adversarial poetry" is an amazing sentence on its own, but "Our central hypothesis is that poetic form operates as a general purpose jailbreak operator" is so beautiful.
https://arxiv.org/html/2511.15304v1

2025-11-19 15:24:12 UTC

Back in the day at a previous gig I tried and largely failed to convince anyone that sudden upswings in people sharing detailed instructions about screwing around in the guts of the product should be treated the same way sudden upswings in crash rates: a capital-I Incident that deserves near term attention and careful retrospective investigation.
What is this, if not a user expectation going so badly unmet that people are _happy_ to risk bricking their box to fix it?
https://wandering.shop/@susankayequinn/115576953025427384
#nevent1q…n8re

2025-11-18 13:12:06 UTC

Schadenfreude but for other people's downtime.
Fedischadenfreude.

2025-11-17 18:07:20 UTC

The dissenting view: https://exple.tive.org/blarg/2025/11/17/dissent/

2025-11-17 14:22:35 UTC

Businesses create their customers, and the perfect customer for any ad-revenue-driven company is somebody impulsive, angry, frightened and just tired enough that they keep clicking the things making them impulsive, angry, frightened and tired.
Ad blockers and filters aren't just basic information security hygiene, they're also practical psychological self-defense.
https://www.salon.com/2025/11/17/dont-blame-women-for-mens-loneliness-blame-capitalism/

2025-11-16 19:47:28 UTC

How did I miss this!?!?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sword_of_the_Sea
"A game by the art director of Journey, inspired by 1080 Snowboarding, Shadow Of The Colossus and Werner Herzog", what in the WHAT, ok brb gotta go spend some money

2025-11-16 17:10:21 UTC

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I suspect that a lot of the problem is not "we are old", onlly that we are genuflecting to old ideas without realizing it.
"File folder", "Address book", the list goes on and on. It's not that we're old, it's that we're trying to recreate the familiar in this new unfamiliar but infinitely mutable land without noticing we're doing that, without finding room in the new and without trusting each other to know it.

2025-11-16 16:58:05 UTC

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How many of you have ever held a phone that looked like this? When did any video calling system _ever_ look like this?
But now that everything is just one undifferentiated glowing rectangle what else are you going to do?
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/115/560/424/702/729/560/original/1b2c4558cfc1fcc9.png

2025-11-16 16:55:09 UTC

People say "do you feel old" here, but damn y'all where's our new iconography gonna come from if everything is a goddamn glass rectangle?
https://23.social/@leyrer/115559137012685196
#nevent1q…yeyg

2025-11-16 01:16:11 UTC

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Millions of people in a contracting job market have had their livelihoods threatened if they don't use it. Millions of people are being measured by how much they use it whether it benefits them or works or not, millions use it to generate material to appease algorithms controlled by the same companies controlling the AI, and even these numbers are reported by the companies invested in their going up forever, who cannot be trusted at all to tell us a real truth.
Where is the human want, here?

2025-11-16 00:43:55 UTC

If something has a lot of very bad externalities, and just the ones we know about cause major damage to important physical, social and informational ecosystems, then “lots of people want it” just… isn’t a compelling argument.

2025-11-15 15:53:53 UTC

This is that oddball 4th gen iPod touch with no rear camera.
It’s last update was iOS 9.3.5, so it’s missing a few of that platform more recent conveniences, but it’s still one of my pieces of mobile computing ever made.
It’s so small.
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/115/554/501/788/387/347/original/1909491988a03f97.jpeg
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2025-11-14 17:29:32 UTC

I was biking up Broadview this week when I saw a guy carrying a great stick, so I pulled up and said hey man, that’s a great stick! And he said “right!?” So I told him to have a great day and he said “I am!” and held his stick aloft triumphantly. Anyway, I think we need more of that in the world and I hope he enjoyed the rest of his day as much as I enjoyed that moment. You’ve gotta have room for joy in your life, and sometimes that means you’ve gotta make room for joy in your life.

2025-11-14 14:27:35 UTC

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@nprofile…e4ry Somebody in their advertising org is absolutely making fun of them here. If anyone's got a copy of The Onion's "Our Dumb Century", there's a page on 1929 saying nearly that exact phrase, that "The Stock Market Is Unstoppable!".
You turn the page and the next headline, in some huge hundred-point font, reads "PENCILS FOR SALE".

2025-11-12 15:29:54 UTC

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"My battery is low and it’s getting dark" - part of a tweet from journalist Jacob Margolis reporting from NASA, explaining the last received diagnostic messages from the Mars Rover, later (incorrectly, but poetically) interpreted as the literal text of the final message.
(See: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/357155193_My_battery_is_low_and_it%27s_getting_dark_The_Opportunity_rover%27s_collective_persona )

2025-11-12 15:06:17 UTC

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From an unrepostable follower:
"The light inside is broken, but I still work" - a sign taped to a vending machine, spotted by a Twitter user. (originally "the light inside has broken".)

2025-11-12 14:58:27 UTC

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"I will face god and walk backwards into hell" - a Dril tweet about yelling at zoo animals.
"You cannot kill me in a way that matters." - a Tumblr shitpost about mushrooms.
"Do you think God stays in heaven because he too lives in fear of what he's created?" - Spy Kids 2, the children's movie.
And now:
"Babies are born worshipping unknown gods." - a Dwarf Fortress bug report.
Any other good candidates?

2025-11-12 14:13:25 UTC

Filing this one beside "I will face god and walk backwards into hell" and "you cannot kill me in a way that matters" on the list of Impossibly Powerful Phrases With Baffling Origin Stories.
https://toot.cat/@pup_hime/115531963842950277

2025-11-10 15:11:53 UTC

The wild, wild experience of being pleasantly surprised by US Supreme Court news.
https://apnews.com/article/supreme-court-same-sex-marriage-50eb4ad421911696e742d8c4fb4962fd?utm_source=onesignal&utm_medium=push&utm_campaign=2025-11-10-Breaking+News

2025-11-08 01:15:28 UTC

Some BODY once told me
That Williams guy would would roll me
I really should have changed all the locks
Now I’m feeling kinda dumb
Cause I knew the day would come
That he stole
All the plumbs
From my icebox

2025-11-06 16:54:48 UTC

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@nprofile…x33s @nprofile…q9fu If you don't have a lot of cultural bench depth among the people in the room at the earliest stages of some product's life, people who feel safe and empowered to speak up, then an awful lot of your design and iteration process is going to end up wasted.

2025-11-06 02:22:14 UTC

The first steps towards a cure for prostate cancer. The thing that killed my dad.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41588-025-02388-8