For my newsletter this morning, I called for a ban on Grok after X, the child porn app formerly known as Twitter, started removing the clothes of women and girls in photos posted on the site. www.burnsnotice.com/grok-the-chi...

Are there any people who are currently working on the unix 2038 problem, I have a colleague who needs info for an article.

tl;dr Block these domains and you’ll have broken several links in this attack’s kill chain: Webhook[.]site My-board[.]org ngrok-free[.]app rf[.]gd If you followed @badsamurai ‘s advice and used his block lists, you’d have already blocked a couple of them […]

Please — and I can't believe I have to say this — please do not lick your employees.

Low-key one of the best lines in the Murderbot Diaries: >> “It was just an energy weapon,” Amena muttered to herself, in a very bad imitation of my voice.

This article by @anildash squarely hits in the feels, names and articulates what's happening in the tech industry, and points towards pragmatic things we can do. Notably — and I cannot sufficiently underscore how crucial this is — Anil spells out that power by its very definition is […]

One of the strongest factors in building and motivating an organization as a leader is saying out loud regularly that you care about people. As Alicja frames, it's the difference between knowing what ice cream tastes like and actually eating ice cream. It is so SO meaningful to tell people […]

Got stuck at Donner pass. Anyone know any good parties around here?

Chain Control to Major Tom Chain Control to Major Tom Take your protein pills and put your snow chains on (Ten) Chain Control (Nine) to Major Tom (Eight, seven) (Six) Commencing (Five) countdown, engines on (Four, three, two) Check ignition (One) and may snow's love (Lift off) be with you

@sue "a team of people worked for a year on a thing, and now that we've fed the thing to a code generator, it takes an hour to spit it out again" is what I'm getting from this.

On the viral tweet about claude generating in an hour what a team at google had apparently built in a year, the OP provided more context which.. of course it was a misrepresentation of what had actually happened

Oh no: "‘Foldy Bird’ uses your foldable hinge to play Flappy Bird, and it hurts my soul" "If you don’t end up breaking your phone from a low-stakes rage quit, playing this game enough will surely do that for you." https://9to5google.com/2026/01/03/flappy-bird-clone-for-foldables/

I'm anticipating a lot of grief in 2026 after a hard end to 2025, so I'm not looking forward to the many January conversations about everything to look forward to in 2026 You can't skip processing grief and jump straight into hope. The grief will consume you and turn into despair, or you'll […]

The “Just coffee, black” meme brutally deconstructed: https://knowyourmeme.com/videos/433740-just-coffee-black h/t @gruber

A reminder that insisting on "respectful discourse" is just another form of tone policing.

me: "git confit ..." shell: "does this look a kitchen?"

One of the best journalists in recent history has a new and scary scoop: The feds are pouring HUGE amounts of cash into big banks, apparently to avoid a new (and predictable) meltdown. Once again, Wall Street makes reckless bets, and gets rewarded for failure […]

I brought a 3.5” floppy disk into my lab. One of my interns said “oh cool, you 3D printed the save icon!” I spontaneously broke my hip.

Silicon Valley, drunk on exponential curves and both terrified and entranced by endless funding rounds, has given us the "Hero Developer": a figure who ships features at midnight, who “moves fast and breaks things,” who transforms whiteboard scribbles into billion-dollar unicorns through sheer […]

I'm a very nuts-and-bolts kinda guy and this morning I'm struck VIVIDLY by just how weird that is Like I read so many threads on here that go, like, 🐰 I have a problem affecting me 🦆🐇🐴🐢🐀 40 post discussion 🐹 The actual problem is capitalism AND THAT'S THE END OF THE THREAD And like, 🐹 isn't […]

"Numbers are not that complicated" "Really? Then how many numbers are there?" "At least three"

We're glad this powerful piece is drawing way more attention to how dubious some of these oft-invoked tropes from Chenoweth's writings are. For example, most folks taking these at face value probably aren't aware that their views on anti-Nazi resistance amid the Holocaust are...not good.

My editor is probably going to ask me to change this sentence, so I'll share it with you. "If you have no privilege escalation issues because you’re already running as root fucking fix that shit."

Eat the rich It's French revolution time, baby

Adin Ross is 25 years old, has 7 million subscribers on Twitch, 4.5 million subscribers on YouTube, and livestreams daily to hundreds of thousands of people. **This is him finding out what fascism is.** Chat, are we cooked?

Happy holidays, fediverse! I got you a megathrust earthquake, soil liquefaction, spine-tingling papers about the way our networks confound knowledge, and a PDF in a pear tree. It's my wrap on a year of trying to make sense of how we make sense of what's happening to us […]

i don’t post a lot of personal stuff here but I want to say a) in september 2024 I had a mild case of covid and I spent almost a year dealing with the fatigue b) dealing with mysterious health stuff is hard and scary and I wish the best to anyone else who is in the middle of something like that […]

Stop Christianising your December countdowns with the word "advent" challenge level: impossible.

Help Project Protocol raise $5000! Thousands of Californians returning to the community after incarceration face a parole system that’s fragmented, difficult to navigate, and often focused on monitoring rather than supporting them. Project Protocol is redefining what parole can be: a system […]

Do you know what the empathic pig intestines said to the witch? "I'm feeling offal" Happy cupcake day!

Burnout recovery leave, day 5: A few days without any goals was good I played some games until I stopped enjoying them. I wrote a diary to /dev/null. I ate the plums that were in the refrigerator. High allostatic load sucks, but guess who has a resting heart rate under 50 again? #burnoutrecovery