dreams can become reality… #lasercutting #tractor_feed #trypophobia

Today's entry in "why your chatbot, particularly that one, should not be in general deployment" "My car asked my kids a shocking and inappropriate question. That’s how I realized there are few safe spaces anymore" in the Toronto Star [gift link]

I have been loudly, persistently anti-Trump since the beginning. And tonight's election results just make me more sure: *there are more of us than there are of them* A good hard look at Trumpism in action has made that impossible to ignore. Let's take this country back, and let's make it better.

In rogue the bat has a secret defense that makes it undefeatable under digital OSF1 #retrogaming #rogue #gaming #ascii

Every now and then I like to test AI to see how its letter counting is going. It's hilarious inaccuracies amuse me. The "common confusion" where it hallucinates an inaccuracy that I didn't even ask for is just perfect But sure, evaluate resumes based on this crap

The hierarchy of controls in this article is excellent!

New awareness campaign

[stares] god i hate computers

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Next time someone tells you that train drivers "just push buttons" show them this from the BBC

i can't get any work done 😭 this man put all his skill points in willpower

The DVD (1996) is now as old as the original 8-inch floppy disk (1967) was when the DVD came out.

DOOM2.ANS, 1996-09-21 from 192.99.104.14 (FTP)

‘Study after study shows that students want to develop these critical thinking skills, are not lazy, and large numbers of them would be in favor of banning ChatGPT and similar tools in universities’, says @olivia.science www.ru.nl/en/research/...

alex blechman: in my post i invented tech companies misunderstanding what the torment nexus is as a cautionary tale tech company employee: at long last, i have misunderstood the Torment Nexus from classic Alex Blechman tweet "Don't misunderstand what the torment nexus is"

Hey remember that whole "Bluesky doesn't have algorithms" thing

Happy Halloween

Fun fact [*]: they're called "tag"s because the "<" is shaped like the lid used to make "tagine". How is HTML just this young? It seems like it's been around forever. Happy Birthday, tag!

It seems like a small thing but a "Back" button that behaves predictably is actually pretty important. It gives users confidence to explore, knowing that they can always get "back" to where they were.

I turned off Smart App Control. I shouldn't have waited so long. Now the program I'm working on starts instantly, instead of with an 8+ second delay. Smart App Control is incompatible with being a software developer. That's fine, but please document this!

Smart App Control on Windows checks for signatures when loading EXEs and DLLs. This can lead to about one-second delays on each DLL load whenever I have rebuilt my project from source on my machine. So I guess the solution is to enable Developer Mode or turn off Smart App Control

Sharing the ASCII link hover ripple from my tiny folio. Plain JS, minimal CSS, layout‑safe for long labels. Demo: codepen.io/erevan/pen/M...

fun fact: Windows 10 (and 11) have completely borked floppy drive support. but if you plug the same USB floppy drive into an Android smartphone it works fine.

APR / BARBICAN Photography from my 2026 Calendar    I've always loved the blue and yellow arch at Barbican station. So I invited dancer Andreya to interact with the architectural curves.

OCT / KENNINGTON Photography from my 2026 Calendar A ghost train arrives! On this platform travellers have a clear view of trains deep in the tunnel whilst standing well behind the yellow line. I timed the shot as the train passed the light in the tunnel making it look spooky!

My email replies to folks pitching me on "exciting new tools" have been getting shorter these days.

All human progress has led to this - people getting psychic readings from chatbots based on databases obtained by the largest copyright infringement in history, and saying how everyone should "embrace AI or be left behind". Behind what, infogarbage?

Optical Delay Poem

Back in my day, AI used to stand for Adobe Illustrator! And we hated that, too!

I guess corporate found that engagement metrics increase if you don't mention whose birthday it is, because now there's an opportunity to catch you scrolling in the app I'm so tired of the mundane hostility of the attention economy

several years ago I said there should be a reality TV show where each team is given a fixed budget and access to various DIY hardware stores/junkyards and 48 hours to build the best guillotine they can. I'm still disappointed that no one has filled this gap in the market

they called it The Rain Of Terror, ofc

I cannot tell you how many tech journalists at prominent media organizations do not understand this

I'm definitely a Prompt Engineer.

Chad. Jimmy. John. Tim. night shift goes to work when most of us are going to bed. meet our Easterly night crew, a brand new web exclusive—After Dark. www.neorsd.org/AfterDark

WHO NEEDS FREE CURSORS? FREE CURSORS COME GET YOUR CURSORS PIXEL AND VECTOR ALL FREE COME GET YOUR CURSORS BEFORE THEY RUN OUT kenney.nl/assets/curso... kenney.nl/assets/curso...

This is it. Word slurry formed into answer-shaped chunks. This is what Sam Altman says is now smarter than we are.

TLDR; The PSF has made the decision to put our community and our shared diversity, equity, and inclusion values ahead of seeking $1.5M in new revenue. Please read and share. pyfound.blogspot.com/2025/10/NSF-... 🧵

happy Intersex Awareness Day, everyone, from VGAPride!

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It's still an hour until Missing DOS Monday but... I FOUND IT. archive.org/details/MAGP... #Australia #AFL #DOSGaming #Wolfenstein #RetroGaming #MSDOS #RetroComputing #MSDOSMonday

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you know what we could do it hook these all together and maybe run them in special tracks on a schedule

Here is the video or Ronald Reagan saying church and state must remain separate.

Federal Judges— or staff, but same-same— used "AI" to summarize & draft rulings, issued them w/o checking the work, leading to basic factual errors, & thus undermining the facticity & validity of the rulings entire. Gee. Who Could Have Foreseen. *stares directly into the camera like in the office*

This could all be solved with flexible working and a four day week tbh.

I can only posit that reactor cavity water tastes boring because it's so clean, but now we have experimental confirmation

Physicist William Higinbotham was born #OTD in 1910. During the Manhattan Project he was the Electronics Group leader at Los Alamos. In 1958, while working at Brookhaven Lab, he invented one of the first video games: “Tennis for Two.” It ran on an oscilloscope! 🧪 ⚛️ Image: Brookhaven National Lab

anyway if you want to see the posts where I'm talking about the weird things I found (like the penalty for serving liquor with a mouse or weasel in it, or what femoral intercourse is), you can see it on tumblr here: www.tumblr.com/foone/798368...