https://psfmember.org/civicrm/contribute/transact/?reset=1&id=2 Yes, finally I did it. Thanks, <my company> for paying me for the last six months and allowing me to do this.

Open Letter to Deezer on the Advent of Track Removals #musicianresources #musiciantips https://muz4now.com/2024/open-letter-to-deezer-on-the-advent-of-track-removals

*It worked great for the data set it was given

Oh gawd https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CXdWccaCHpg

Today, for the first time, I saw a "don't ask again" option related to Gemini in google meet. Obviously I clicked it immediately, without thinking of taking a screenshot to immortalize the moment. Well, never mind, I'll take it the next time.

Donald Trump, Elon Musk, and Marco Rubio gave orders leading to the deaths of hundreds of thousands of human beings, most of them children. These three "leaders" killed USAID, and in the process ordered those deaths. A crime against humanity, IMO […]

Not exactly my cup of tea (I'm not into this melodic rock/fusion/funky/bossanova/whatever it is that Italian bands have been doing repeatedly for decades) but I know there are people out there who might like it and they're friends so here we go […]

I demand a law that forces people who say using somebody's chosen name is too hard, to exclusively refer to the late Queen singer as Farrokh Bulsara, and to the late Thin White Duke as David Robert Jones.

They. Never. Do. Tax. Them. https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/11/22/rich-fleeing-manhattan-false-narrative-price-demand-up/87385511007/

It's not a "homelessness" problem, please use the correct terminology It's a "Billionaires have hoarded so much of everything not all of us are expected to survive" problem.

And to think it would be SO EASY to just have regular, non-targeted ads, and that most people like me wouldn't mind them all that much. But no, Google et al managed to brainwash everybody into thinking targeted ads are the only option. Sigh.

New bullshit just dropped: When you decline optional cookies, TrustARC just goes ahead and takes a full fingerprint of your browser.

AI is a 0.01 quality JPEG. It ingests a staggering amount of data to produce a relatively tiny file that you can decompress with a lot of guesswork on the computer's side. The result is, usually, mostly ok on a larger scale but when you try to look at individual pixels, they're the correct […]

I can't believe Ukraine isn't grateful that Witkoff took a Russian plan for Ukrainian capitulation, ran it through Google Translate, and mandated that Zelenskyy accept it by Thursday! My soul is shattered over the impact of Americans having not elected Kamala. All the pain and suffering — […]

The 28-Point ‘Peace Plan’ Was a Russian Play — Laundered Through Trump’s Inner Circle How a Kremlin-written dossier was translated, sanitized, and pushed into U.S. policy channels #ukraine #StandWithUkraine #SlavaUkraini […]

These posters for the South Korean stage production of Macbeth are the greatest thing ever? #art

https://www.zdnet.com/article/googles-ai-is-now-snooping-on-your-emails-heres-how-to-opt-out/ @EUCommission is *really* dropping the ball with big tech. I sincerely hope they're just corrupt, because the alternative is that they're utter idiots.

I don’t normally link to bluesky posts but, please, take the time to watch/listen to this message from U.S. Senator Chris Murphy. He is responding to Donald Trump’s cal for political violence against Democratic Senators and Representatives in the U.S. Congress […]

While MAGA was pretending there’s a ”problem with trans groomers”, there’s been neo-nazis grooming children into fighting a white supremacist race war with guns all this time, running around chat rooms targeted for children. And they aren’t simply not being banned, they are getting PAID. They […]

If all the people who work at airports told you, "don't fly that airline," I hope you would listen. When all the musicians who have the freedom to be honest tell you, "don't use Spotify," you might consider other options for listening to music.

Chatting with a friend about Cloudflare's intermittent outages today, they brought up an interesting point: How many organizations have started relying on Cloudflare to do basic security blocking and tackling stuff, like stopping SQL injection attacks at the edge? Maybe your devs were lazy at […]

On Nov 3rd I saved a LibreOffice Calc as CSV. Then I kept on modifying and saving it for two weeks. Today it crashed, and it turns out it never saved *anything* to the .ods. I am... unhappy.

Hey #charlotte, if you want to help businesses resist CPB and ICE, I can adapt this sign specifically for NC. Can also share informational brochure telling businesses their rights to exclude ICE from private spaces.

Here The Washington Post Editorial Board treats Donald Trump ordering DOJ investigations of his political adversaries as a *political* misstep, never once so much as hinting that it is an *abuse of power*

My kids' swimming pool triathlon: - running - jumping - diving They're always tied for first place, so we had to introduce a tiebreaker: - ignore screaming parents

🇩🇪✅ GESCHAFFT: Verpflichtende #Chatkontrolle durch die Hintertür verhindert!🎉 Ein Riesenerfolg & DANKE an alle! 🙏 Aber ⚠️: Geplant sind weiter anonymitätszerstörende Alterskontrollen & freiwillige Massenscans. Der Kampf geht nächstes Jahr weiter! https://chatkontrolle.de

🇪🇺🚨 Tomorrow, EU gov's could approve #chatcontrol 2.0 through the back door, unleashing mass surveillance to scan ALL your private messages & photos. 🤫 Your privacy is on the line. ℹ️ […]

After a few days trying to print my stupid round labels, I have to show: - an incredible waste of time and paper - a burned fuser in a laser printer - the absolute certainty that printers and their software are the utter negation of everything computers were supposed to be The Antichrist, the […]

This is nasty phishing

It turns out my tinnitus on the left side can be triggered perfectly on the right side by pulling my head to the left. The orthopedist, while agreeing that this is, in fact, the case, told me that it's not so according to my medical insurance and so I'm on my own. Still wondering why people end […]

The ONE thing computers have going for them is that, when you manage to describe exactlly what you want, you get exactly what you want. The idea that somebody would trade that for a computer that will mostly do something that's kinda like what you want except sometimes it's not is just really […]

One of the cartoons from my new book 'Physics for Cats'. In good bookshops now and online in English, French, German and Spanish editions. I am in Spain this week launching the book - come along! www.tomgauld.com

Finally finished my #inkscape image to print the round cap labels for my DIY fragrance notes! I'm stupid proud of this.

Much in the manner that Soylent Green was people (ground up for food) generative Ai is about hyper-targeted advertising (shoved down our throats). "Ticketmaster's personalized AI slop ads are a glimpse at the future of social media advertising, a harbinger of a system that Mark Zuckerberg […]

Crazy white growth in a single night. Note that it was covered (glass bell). Any ideas? #askfedi #fungi #mold

Once again, my frustration at Excel (well, libreoffice calc) is so powerful that I'm this close to just start building a whole Django project. In this case, it's the/my inability to simply say "get the third column in the last row of the block that starts with this row and ends with "totals" in […]

I hope I don't sound too doomy but I'm at the point where I believe the only action an individual can take to address climate change meaningfully is Luigi.

Doesn't help that people use "flu" to mean "any kind of mildly inconveniencing illness" rather than "the influenza virus family." The headlines and "studies" like this all take advantage of that vagueness.

In a surprising turn of events, I didn't see a single kid in a k-pop demon hunters Halloween outfit in two hours. Slightly less surprising but definitely more uplifting, there wasn't a Squid Game costume to be seen either. Good job #berlin parents.

Debates around the effectiveness of phishing simulations are widespread. Supporters claim they can boost learning retention rates, help train users’ instincts, reduce risk, and contribute to developing a ‘security-first’ culture. Detractors point to tick-box compliance, fatigue, unfair and […]

When you think you can't do your job, think about the team that designed and built the TK apps. I've seen bad design and I've seen bad tech, and they still managed to surprise me.

In Nov 2019, some relatives flew in from Milan and stayed at my home for a few days. By the third day I developed a very high (39+) fever with dry cough that lasted a couple days and then was gone. To this day, I believe that was COVID-19 and I had it before it was cool.

I hate LEGO restaurants - the ones where you're supposed to decide what you want in your burger/soup/pasta by picking the building blocks. *they* have the restaurant, *they* should be telling me "here, try this, it's good". Spineless cowards.

I forgot how good and nice are @Basenotes forums.

I dreamed I saw (or owned? unclear) a piece of art titled "Hate From The Mother Of God" and it's going to be the name of my next something.

Everybody knows in a vague way that Russia is funding bots to foment misinformation & conflict in western countries, but everybody thinks that it's *someone else* who's actually being affected by it. No, it's you too.