[US pol] What will happen when trump dies? Its obviously inevitable, same as all of us, but he's really old and very obviously in terrible health, propped up by money and access to the best possible care. If he just croaks in the shower, how will it be spun? Hes already not much more than a […]

Well this is pretty cool. Our house is at an intersection corner, we have a huge ICE OUT OF LA banner extremely prominently... I'm about to write letters and walk them to every neighbor and start to be a phone tree. (fuck the internet it's fascist tech now, phones are bad enough). I think I'm […]

Egad, it works. Took me this long to get around to finish printer code and final check the hardware. While the sound is satisfying as expected (and since this is not something i need to live with daily its all pleasure) tractor feed, "top of form", tangles […] [Original post on tldr.nettime.org]

It seems far off but a strike at this scale would be enormous. https://www.may2028.org/

DOX ICE

Our dog Disco makes a really specific snd peculiar sound when he talks to the chickens. They line up along rhe fence for the dogs, seemingly oblivious to their murderous intent. The sound is s single utterance, rhe usual outburst (bark) but trails into a half dozen quieter 'guh' sounds close […]

About a year ago the AI and LLM chatter forcto be too much; then it was 80 anti 20 pro, but no one said anything new, it seemed, so i just blocked posts containing those two short acronyms. What a relief! A few weeks ago i deleted the filters, just to see. Its now 95 anti 5 pro, but other than […]

vim has correct syntax highlighting for the PL/M language. Because of course it does.

OMFG in a recent post instead of ActivityPub I used the name of another protocol. I can't find the post or I'd edit/reply there. I'm so embarrassed. I certainly know the difference, I might have seen it in an adjacent column of text and typed that. I used the word "we" in an ambiguous way; the […]

1/2 LOL this is how you stop enshittification of hobbyist networks! It's easy: you don't argue with them, you shit in the sink and they no longer want to be there. DONE AND DONE. No one ever talks about social class. I think today still it embarrasses people. It's foolish and harmful. Stop […]

Then there was this. Lol, I bet many folks think ruinous greedy shits in tech are a new thing. There's solid reason why I don't trust most tech folk. http://www.bbsdocumentary.com/library/CONTROVERSY/LAWSUITS/SEA/ Good old Thom was a big proponent of the enshittification of FidoNet. They […]

I now own two domain names for words with clean english structure and very typical formations, and with zero (0) internet results.

Here is a "FidoNet Onboarding" extremely analogous to fedi onboarding. https://wiki.preterhuman.net/FidoNet_New-Sysop_Orientation_Information There's more than a little revisionism etc going on here... There were a lot of really awful people back then. The RC system ("Regional Coordinator") […]

Does anyone remember the goings-on of the IFNA -- International FidoNet Association? If you do you're old (or will be soon after learning about it). It left little record. It was a debacle, in the end, ruination brought on by certain folks in the late 80's trying to enshittify the FidoNet, to […]

["suicide rightism", creepy insights into MAGA minds] Riffing indulgent but fascinating take on fascism as a suicide cult. It's pretty compelling in it's way. Don't look at this as factual, but an arty emotional take on a truly fucked up phenom we're living through. This is some wild shit […]

Someone has an opinion

Hydrogen as fuel is petroleum propaganda.

@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]

Me and Dave Dictor of MDC, some 80s San Francisco lez gay etc parade.

I posted this question a while ago and was surprised that I got zero responses (even "foolish question"!) Is there any qualitative difference in security, risk, tracking, whatever writ broadly, to an android phone, on mobile data only vs wifi only?

Sad but very clever appeal for fundraising for a dog with cancer.

Do people really enable app notifications on their phones? Why?!! Ok ring ring and sometimes texts but when I start getting them, I turn them off! So annoying! Oh I do lurv my calendar bleep.

For a couple weeks now we've had dozens and dozens of butterflies and moths all over the yard. I have video but Pachli can't upload video.

THE BAD BATCH is a pretty great movie. Amazing soundtrack.

Re watching the movie THE BAD BATCH. Damn. Great soundtrack. Brutal. Cynical.

Well Newsom is good at this, at least. https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2025/8/13/2326951/-Governor-Newsom-s-Press-Account-raises-the-bar-on-mocking-the-rapist-in-the-WH

I wish technical people would stop "innovating", and make useful things. And stop fucking with shit already working.

Its a bargain at half the price! Why pay less?

Our dogs watch out for each other. Devo is pretty skinny and has some place where he slips into the forbidden buffer area around the gate. But it's only one way, for some reason, so every time he does it, he's stuck. About once a week. I'm in my little lab building working on shit. Doors […]

I think emoticons are a communication abomination. There i said it. They're too small to parse, and fkn use words already. Ok it's s tiny yellow face. How am I supposed to discern the features that are literally 10ths or hundredths of a millimeter? If you make them large enough to see, how the […]

Bought some replacement brain cells. Do not want to run out.

Regarding at least android phones, how much, if any, qualitative difference of phone tracking and spying is there between mobile data tower type service, vs wifi only? I know that browsers are their own pernicious world.

Damn, congressional assault on political non-profits. Lefty ones, that is. My boyfriend works for one, CIPC. https://homeland.house.gov/2025/06/11/chairmen-green-brecheen-launch-probe-into-200-ngos-over-their-use-of-taxpayer-dollars-during-the-biden-harris-border-crisis/

@driscoll Hi! Hey did I give you a pile of documents with that old cpm machine? I'm doing what I thought I never do -- making a modern (sic) emulated z80 box with nifty features. Lots of cpm stuff is available online but turns out the Phoenix Software z80 stuff is extremely scarce and I know […]