Dogs do not have a germ theory.

Atomic Aircraft, cover of NEWSWEAK, 4 June 1956.

The Friendly fZ80 manual is up now. Yesterday's was pretty close. https://www.bleeve.me/fZ80/Friendly-fZ80-operators.pdf Will be printed in 6 x 9 size, glossy covers.

A few months ago I started a new backup scheme, where I take hourly snapshots of my home dir. It's become very useful. But it does grow, home is 600 GB and the incremental blob some 2tb. So I'm thinking of chopping old ones off at one snapshot per day (instead of hour) and maybe, past some 2nd […]

OK the Friendly fZ80 web page is now usable, the release code is there and info on upgrading the few machines out there now. The book is nice, it will go for printing hopefully tomorrow. Boards all made, I have all the part necessary to assemble except cabinets which will be i hand before the […]

I haven't posted a link to a news site in very many months (Florida gun chick man does not count). It's been good, and I will keep it that way. But I will this time because it's all BIZARRO CRAZY TOWN IN TRUMPVILLE. Invest your life savings in the market for ringside popcorn. And maybe a […]

Let's all move to Florida! And buy guns! And chickens! What the hell. https://www.rawstory.com/chicken-guns-argument-florida/

Devo says good night.

Cory Doctorow's coinage of the word "enshittification" was exactly the conceptual framework this cultural moment needed. It took a couple years to catch on! It is the framework that makes clear the interconnectedness between truly old world greed, oh-so-modern Apple corp etc, right wing politics […]

JD Vance blames Biden. I think this is an excellent path for them to follow.

Ok! Packaged and working. Aluminum chassis, big rubber feet, stainless hardware with nylon washers, actually more 1970 than 1980, but the color is very 2020 (Mtn 94). I can't afford silkscreen panels but I'm making transparent stickers for the front panels […] [Original post on tldr.nettime.org]

So he's officially dead. How could they tell?

Daylight savings, except for dogs and cats.

If air traffic the controllers ignored the law that disallows work stoppage, the US would be at a standstill until they got whatever it was they they demanded. It's not like you can replace them. Maybe the military has some.... There's not many smallish disciplines with such concentrated power.

I fkn lurv aria https://aria.dog/barks/forklift-certified-license/

Birb

Wikipedia is enough reason for there to be an internet.

HOLY SHIT, on my stupid MP/M project, a bug I thought I had fixed kept coming back... it had aspects of a heisenbug, in that one arbitrary compiled exhibited no symptoms, and another, symptoms that pointed to one thing (a very specific window-sizing action) then another compile, small changes […]

As the sake bottle came out of the fridge Disco came over, jumping up a bit and licking his lips to indicate he wanted some. he got another shot-glass full. Now he's asleep on the sofa.

I hear sports noises outside.

Spring back! Fall ahead! I almost forgot!

So as of today, we have two alcohol-seeking dogs. We do not foist alcohol on our dogs. These knuckleheads sought it out on their own. Josh left a vodka and tonic on a sofa side table and went to the bathroom or something. On return Zuzu has her head in it, lapping away. She's 13 lbs so it […]

OMFG on impulse we PAID FOR this movie, THE ASTRONAUT, oh wow, it's plan 9 from outer space bad. Starts off "ok" in that moderate budget sorta way, every trope and scene constructed from familiar cliches. Ok fine. But wow it just gets worse and worse then worser and worserer. I laughed through […]

I hope Sam Altman chokes on a radioactive shrimp.

This agave thingie is about 12 inches from reaching a multi-kilovolt power line.

1/ A longtime Wired editor just wrote a mush-brained essay about how he totally missed the political rot of Silicon Valley (& still doesn't get it). But in the late 1990s, a Wired journalist warned of a toxic ideology bubbling up from tech. Paulina Borsook has largely been erased. Let's change that

OH MY $DIETY LIBRE OFFICE PAGE STYLE SUCKS. It took me hours to figure it out and how to get page numbers to start at 1, 8 pages in. Page styles are an immutable linked list! Wtf! It's totally stupid.

Disco had a PDT (parietal duct transposition, we call it spit eye) almost two weeks ago. His first weekend was predictably rough, but wow what a difference! It's like he's a 1 yr old dog again. He was certainly in more pain than we realized. Happy and goofy and his eye drips on the floor when […]

Cooking a roast in the oven at a very low temperature is a perfect illustration of an integral function.

Sex flies. This is all they do. It may not get evident but they circle and circle the there's front burst of coming togetherness like little fights or fucks. I'm assuming fucks because they never leave.

92f tomorrow? That's stupid. Do not want. That's 306 degrees Kelvin for those so inclined.

UBC Computer Science invites applications for up to two full-time tenure-track positions with the following priority areas: visualization, robotics, reinforcement learning, data management, and data mining. Applications are due Wed Dec 10, 2025 […] [Original post on cosocial.ca]

I accidentally typed the word "suppary" and it freaks me out.

We've recently done some work on our house after living in it 25 years and rearranging some of the junk displayed on shelves etc. I bought this radio I think in a Tucson junk shop around 2000 intending on repairing it. It's on perfect, new condition. Looking it up it's apparently made in 1946! […]

The kind of greeting I get every time I come back from a bike ride.

All of our dogs, back 30 years, actively like eating food from fuzzy/hairy pillows and things. Like, nibbling broccoli bits out of the fur. My theory is it reminds them of mommies hairy dog boobies. But most of our dogs are hairless so what's with that.

@cryptadamist > nice thread but since i'm pretty sure you got a lot of the info from my article it would have been nice to see a shoutout credit Thanks for bringing it up. I didn't mean to hijack your thread. Mine was completely inspired by your post. Excellent thread inspired by your blog […]

Debugging code has never been so easy. Tools wise at least.

First off, this guy is crazy smart, his views on LLMs, which I posted here to a great silence (too many people seem to think that the problems with LLMs are technical? lol, yes I'm making fun of you). The book he's referring to below, about "Process knowledge", is directly about human skill […]

Every political punk band in all of punk was right.

As a thought experiment -- I am NOT doing this, but I played it out for an hour -- what if I had a modern smart phone -- for maps, music, note taking, etc -- but the smart phone does NOT have a phone carrier, has never been registered, just a pocket computer with wifi. ... And a separate dumb […]

I'm not an atheist; I just don't give a shit about the question, it''s too stupid to try to answer. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russell's_teapot My opening sentence is my response to this, but I'd come to this decision long before I read this: ...philosopher Paul Chamberlain contends that […]

Watch out where the huskies go and don't you eat that yellow snow. https://abcnews.go.com/US/fda-warns-public-eat-possibly-radioactive-shrimp-sold/story?id=124780934

Holy shit, something actually intelligent to say about LLMs. Lol, my own post and any replies to this will be filtered out by my block list. I'll have to suspend it. "Large language models are cultural technologies. What might that mean?" ... "In In Gods We Trust, Scott Atran provides a […]

... a bit tl;dr but from mycfri me Randy, this 1976 (!) paper by Brian Eno is fascinating, and new to me... https://monoskop.org/images/8/8c/Eno_Brian_1976_2015_Generating_and_Organizing_Variety_in_the_Arts.pdf

Why?!!

OMFGWTFBBQ voice texting combines the WORST OF EVERYTHING STOP IT STOP IT NO

Look at how easily we have forgotten that the purpose of laws is not to punish guilty people. They're to protect innocent people. The goal was not ever to catch every criminal.

Oh for fucks sake is this true?

Me on the left at some Radical Faerie event, probably 1990 or so. At the Wolf Creek Oregon land, the old barn behind us. We shat in latrines, dropped lime (calcium compound) on the turds, washed our hands in bleach dip. You could easily tell who did not […] [Original post on tldr.nettime.org]