It looks like Meshtastiay have Copilot enabled? I only see individual comments by the slopbot instead of whole PRs, but it would be good to see any clarification on how plagiarism bots are able to sign CLAs. https://github.com/meshtastic/firmware/pull/7873

How have I slept on Link Click? It's actually really good?

In retrospect, the dotcom bubble wasn't a bubble because the Internet was useless or anything less than transformative. It was a bubble because VCs hadn't yet figured out how to monetize it. Yet another way the AI bubble is far, far worse.

Ah, yes, refreshing the package tracker for a package that's due on Monday is a helpful and useful thing to do. Good fucking lord.

A thing I've noticed with two different streaming companies is trans rights failures are a good canary for much worse things to come. I ditched Spotify and I ditched Netflix over giving money to transphobia…and now 5 years later everyone's like "AI! War profiteering!" and I'm like huh not my problem

Two days until HAPPYEND shows at the Northwest Film Forum, I'm so excited. Saw it at SIFF, and it was truly wonderful. https://nwfilmforum.org/films/happyend/

Throwing away all your political capital after a historic off year election for a 1 year continuation of ACA funding is absolutely pathetic.

I've made the calculus, and I'm not in a great place to leave the US. But that's not a calculus I make lightly, nor one where I think my intentional and reasoned choice to stay should persuade anyone else to stay as well. Please consider whether you're able to leave, and if so, what your […]

Thread. I thought this was going to be about Wallace Shawn but it's more complicated than that and actually checks out

How does Tesla even have $1T to pay Musk those kinds of salaries?

Speaking of AI, I've before made the point that the Python community is on the whole too comfortable with slopware and slopware vendors. A look at the schedule for the PyData event this weekend gives a good illustration of how bad it's gotten. https://pydata.org/seattle2025/schedule

Fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck. https://blobfox.coffee/@Ember/115507736529184708

All because some of you out there are still buying Teslas from a Nazi.

My search skills are failing, but trying to find an essay I read a few years ago about understanding gen-alpha humor through the lens of historical artistic movements embracing surrealism in response to fascism. If anyone happens to have a link, I'd very much so appreciate it!

Once, I was working on a Python interface to a software package named "Liquid," so I named it "big-boss." That way, if you ran `git clone big-boss`, you'd get Liquid Snake. https://mastodon.social/@tef/115506180856099799

Running spell-check on specfic prose is always fun. What do you mean "infoaugs" is misspelled? I know it's correct, I just made it up!

Woof, cold day to be out on the motorcycle.

To put this in scale, Elon Musk's salary from Tesla alone could fund the SNAP program for the entire country into 2034.

Is DigiKey's login screen putting anyone else on an infinite redirect loop? I'm getting that in both Chromium and LibreWolf, even after clearing all site data...

I hate how the word "optics" gets used in politics now, but I'm also enough of a descriptivist that I see this post and go "wow, that's really bad optics." https://mastodon.murkworks.net/@moira/115504893059858496

I think a lot about that one line from the second X-Men movie, "have you tried not being a mutant?" In that one singular line, the movie effortlessly pivots an analogy about the civil rights struggles of the 1960s, struggles against racial oppression, and recontextualizes it to be about […]

This is terrible news. Transgender Americans need the ability to travel without being outed by government document. The Supreme Court supports efforts by the Trump administration to make us second class citizens.

And that's a wrap

Watch it, team. Shit's ramping up. Same smash-and-grab we've seen everywhere else, now in Redmond and Issaquah. https://www.king5.com/article/news/community/facing-race/washington-immigration/ice-arrests-multiple-people-redmond/281-ff97f1cb-2ee0-42da-972a-65fd8df1a8d2 #redmond #issaquah […]

[snark] Linux is so hard to use and configure. https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/11/what-i-do-to-clean-up-a-clean-install-of-windows-11-23h2-and-edge/

Well, that's a spot of rain, to be sure.

Why in the hell is the Zoom package 230 MB *compressed*?

AI is inseparable from fascism

A stray thought about using KDL to configure sending MQTT topics over Meshtastic: ``` // On the client side mesh "mesh-channel" "/dev/ttyACM0" mqtt "local-bus" "localhost" mqtt "remote-bus" "example.com" bridge "to-remote" { source "mesh-channel" sub "example/+" pub "foo/" try { sink […]

Spoilers for Chainsaw Man reze arc but this is really good bsky.app/profile/did:...

This is the second "rule" I've noticed in Trump anti-trans policymaking in @erininthemorning.com (are you following her? You should)'s reporting this week ( bsky.app/profile/did:... ) Separately, this is also a "rule":

Google Maps is pretty much the only Google cloud service I still use¹. This might be the push I need to get rid of even that last thing. https://techcrunch.com/2025/11/05/google-maps-bakes-in-gemini-to-improve-navigation-and-hands-free-use/ ___ ¹There's some slight exceptions here and there […]

Julian: Last year Quark asked me how to set up a blog. Julian: To protect this station I just opened a text document on the computer and put an address at the top. Julian: I've read some of it. Even by Ferengi standards it's... pretty shocking.

Mamdani has a transition team? Pffft, that's not so special. I've got my therapist, my HRT doctor, my surgical team, my lawyer...

Lot to be happy about in the Seattle results, but uh. Why is Harrell doing so well? Fucking hell.

Let's fucking go

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Just a few hours left to tell Sara Nelson to go fuck herself.

Earlier, I made a typo DNC → DNS, which invites the idea of a sign saying "number of days since it was the DNC fucking things up for everyone."

OK, I am breaking my rule about linking to fascist propaganda, and I probably should not do so. But I am too absolutely bewildered at literal whitehouse.gov hosting an *incredibly* and *virulently* racist attack on Hakim Jeffries (that's not the surprising part) in the form of a.... MySpace […]

Good lord. But seriously, it's a great reminder that (a) voting matters, and (b) if Trump has anything to say about it, we will *not* have an election of any recognizable kind in 2028. https://hachyderm.io/@jenniferplusplus/115493062501821437

"I've had COVID19 enough" is both highly relatable, and a horrifying reflection on how *normalized* catching a life-changing illness has become. I've personally only caught COVID once that I'm aware of, and it absolutely changed my life and my body in ways that have made day-to-day life much […]

existence of TransCanada Corporation implies the existence of CisCanada Corporation

I have no idea whatsoever why the port on this dev board labeled "USB-UART" doesn't show up as a serial port, or indeed, why it doesn't even show up in lsusb. It should be the port I use to program this thing, but instead USB_DEV seems to work? […]

apropos of *waves arms ambiguously at the world* I am so fucking sick of hearing about "filter bubbles" or "needing to listen to the other side" or "hear difficult ideas". this is a non-problem. an anti-problem. ensconce yourself in a filter bubble. find safety. to do otherwise is self-harm.

Mean time from purchasing a product to SSHing into it.

I did not expect that the Wikipedia distance between No Nut November and Prison Planet was a single link, but wow. Folks aren't exaggerating when they call that social media trend fascist. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_Nut_November

It's wild to me that even over a year after updating my passport, my deadname still persists everywhere in the financial and medical systems. I'd naively have thought the passport would be the hardest step.

A startling number of lines in QInfer, QuTiP, and conda were, in retrospect, workaround for not having lazy imports. E.g.: late importing to break circular dependencies, to reduce startup time, or to mitigate the impact of missing optional dependencies […]