First in the uncategorized cookies and 3rd in sandwich!

if you never get a taste for the money they're paying you, they won't be able to pay you for anything you don't want to do

ME: Now Mom, just remember, there's a lot of disinformation and AI in your social feed and your friends' Facebook. MOM: I know! My friend sent me this crazy post where someone used AI to make an image of a giant frog fighting Army troops! ME: ... okay, no, that one's ... goddamit, Portland.

www.theverge.com/news/793362/... Google decided giving the user malicious information isn't a vulnerability. How's that mission statement going? They've made the underlying problem unsolvable. Still, they should at least fix and reward findings when users have even less hope to protect themselves.

The clearest explanation of the new US COVID vaccine rules I could find. I rushed to get my shot today just before finding this, but it matched my experience.

Hey Europe, can you put off your authoritarianism crisis until we're finished in the U.S.? Thanks!

blurbusters.com/crt-simulati... is cool. Motion clarity by imitating a CRT as hard as you can The 120 Hz demo (www.shadertoy.com/view/X3ccDN) works in Chrome+Android after I disable chrome://flags/#throttle-main-thread-to-60hz . But on Mac, I get pink smearing (Chrome/Safari/Firefox)

Whatever they claim, Google is still taking away the freedom to install what you want in Android without their permission: android-developers.googleblog.com/2025/09/lets... . Killing anonymity will allow/force them to block some devs like Apple does: www.macrumors.com/2025/08/27/a...

nobody died on it that I know of but the British grew a 2,300 mile hedge across India to impose salt taxes - www.bbc.com/future/artic...

oh HELL NO

Damon Lindelof takes a stand.

Occasionally, I see discourse about boycotts hurting innocent employees of the target companies. So before it starts again: I'd rather no one undeserving loses money, sure. But boycotters' money will still go somewhere. Different people doing something useful will get paid instead.

Sadly, I have nothing from Disney to cancel, but others certainly should. I need a "supercancel" where I get some money back for my old Hulu subscription to forget what I watched.

Google Desktop is back! www.androidauthority.com/google-app-f...

BUT SHE’S GOT A NEW BOOK!

I had the privilege to work with Joseph H Condon at Bell Labs. (To us he was just "Joe"). His father was Edward U Condon, an important physicist who in time was head of the US's National Bureau of Standards, back when the US government cared about such things....

a great post by @mikejudge.bsky.social where he put together secondary metrics on AI coding that equate to travolta-coat.gif mikelovesrobots.substack.com/p/wheres-the...

Google recently made incredibly misguided changes to Android security updates. Android security patches are almost entirely quarterly instead of monthly to make it easier for OEMs. They're giving OEMs 3-4 months of early access which we know for a fact is being widely leaked including to attackers.

Google may be locking down Android sideloading less than they said at first. adb-only for unidentified apps is less bad, and having done security there, I can imagine good faith thinking behind it, but I still don't like restricting general purpose computing. www.androidauthority.com/how-android-...

That's not a knife Now THAT'S a knife www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09...

There are exceptions (drawing, photography), but I think people are ill served by the imprecision, inefficiency, and inflexibility of a phone or tablet, except for consumption. I get frustrated just trying to express complex thoughts on phones. Autocorrect even pushes me away from "advanced" words.

For anyone who wants to understand web search ranking and the role played by user behavioral data, the Google Search antitrust ruling from today is lucid and detailed in the section on Data Sharing Remedies. (And probably before.) storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Google is planning to require government name and ID to even sideload onto Android. At this point, I might as well switch to an iPhone. For the moment, at least there's GrapheneOS. developer.android.com/developer-ve...

still think Saints Row IV is an incredible send-up of video game romance. there's a button prompt on every friendly NPC that just says "romance" and pressing it plays a canned cutscene where you hook up, except for Vice President Keith David who turns you down

"AI 2027" argues that AI will reach roughly human level in roughly 2027. This just happens to be right about when OpenAI would expect to start to run out of money. I argue that this is not a coincidence at all, and its predictions are all wrong. www.verysane.ai/p/agi-probab...

I imagine it costs more to do the work to cull the inactive links and do all this migratory work than to just keep storing the links, especially at Google. blog.google/technology/d...

The article was taken down "due to concerns about the controversial subject matter" - luckily, it was archived and can be read here! web.archive.org/web/20250719...

In a stunning moment of erotic fervour, calculator demands BOOBS.

I personally like "wumpora" github.com/NetBSD/src/c...

Perplexity launched their own browser (Perplexity Comet) which reinforces the “next Google” vibe.. When Goog did Chrome, they had the best sec team on the planet, & part of their pitch was security, tab isolation, etc. It bodes badly that sec doesn’t get a mention now at all..

The mascots for TV Osaka are Takoru-kun, whose head is a takoyaki (fried octopus ball), and his travelling companion, Takobee, an octopus.

Be careful out there, everyone.

I love how he managed to find the one unobjectionable provision in the whole gigantic monstrosity and *that's* what he's choosing to complain about

This wasn’t a joke btw. It works. You’d be surprised how much uwu breaks guardrail implementations.

MY GOD, people. Please, link to your news sources rather than just attaching a screenshot of a tiny out-of-context snippet that could've been made by anyone or could've been corrected since the screenshot.

Myakumyaku, the mascot for the Osaka 2025 Expo, in “Myakumyaku’s House” at the event:

If your law is good when there are good people in office, but dangerous when there are bad people in office, your law is bad.

dammit

So much "AI security" chatter I've been unfortunate enough to read has been the opposite of the clearly true thing below.

Came for the democracy, stayed for the systemd

also it's a terrible act across the board and Democrats should stop selling out to the crypto lobby

Let's talk about bursty growth in social networks and why decay like shown isn't necessarily a sign of a problem. Every month, a new group (cohort) of signups shows up. Inevitably, their usage will drop off, but a new cohort will show up after them. Here is an illustration, 1 color = 1 month. 1/2

Uesama, a hyperrealistic head on legs, promotes Sof’ ice cream.

Peter Watts remains very good at what he does

Any recommendations for ad-free Android and web-based RSS readers? Paying is fine. Hosting by someone else is better. I just want Google Reader. @feedly.com has been getting more irritating, and it's stuffing in "AI" and pop-ups where I don't want them. It takes me 7 clicks now to search my feeds.

userland ROP on day 1 💪

This game was deeply moving (in lots of different ways I won't spoil) and was also sometimes hilarious. Very highly recommended if you're interested in narrative games