state senator in CA

Well now, that looks quite interesting...

Jim Moylan, the Ford engineer that designed the gas-tank filler indicator, passes away at 80 buff.ly/NvFP3fs <- the Moylan Arrow is everywhere and has helped billions -- even if you've never noticed

“For might makes right! “Until they’ve seen the light “They’ve got to be protected, “All their rights respected, “‘Till somebody we LIKE can be elected…” - Tom Lehrer, 1967 youtu.be/HHhZF66C1Dc?...

Om överflödet av Windows 95-aktiga GUI i Linux (bortsett från de ovannämnda kakelaktiga då). Också om att Windows gränssnitt inte förändrats i grunden sedan Windows 3.11 ersattes av Windows 95.

Microsoft Secrets: Converting a UNIX .COM Site to Windows buff.ly/6xHLLD9 This white paper discusses the approach used to convert the Hotmail web server farm from UNIX to Windows 2000, and the reasons the features and techniques were chosen.

Statements of the form "the AI bubble will crash but the *technology* will remain" are vacuous. Stop making them. The useful tech is the transformer, which already existed and was useful. Generative AI brings no new usefulness to the table, even in business terms, without a VC-funded bubble. >>

We acknowledge that no one has the bandwidth for this, but if it helps: - It’s ‘voilà,’ not ‘wallah!’ - It’s ‘a lot,’ not ‘alot.’ - It’s ‘further ado,’ not ‘farther adieu.’ - It’s ‘flesh out,’ not ‘flush out.’ - It’s ‘sneak peek,’ not ‘sneak peak.’ No worries if not!!!

We're up for BEST INDIE POP ACT at the Radio Wigwam 2026 Awards. Vote for us here: RadioWigwam.co.uk/awards_voting We're about halfway down the page. You can vote once a day, so come back tomorrow and do it again, and if you'd like to repost this for awareness we'd be very grateful.

Discworld QOTD, from Feet of Clay

I have two unwritten rules. 1. 2. (@thejeffputnam on Twitter)

i spent long enough covering crypto shenanigans to absolutely assure you that all the below is simply how it works with money. if you want to interface with the world of real dollars, there is no cryptographic getout. (unless you are a close associate of the President) d-shoot.net/@kib/statuse...

“But what about your pension? If there’s a crash!” A warning that sadly falls on deaf ears for those of us whose pension was our creative work, stolen in the first place to build this teetering edifice of toxic dogshit.

Bad UX or is it Just Me ? https://lobste.rs/s/ue9svd ##satire

LeMonde said, not on our watch

xkcd.com/538/ <- this comic is really about quantum computing. The wrench will always be cheaper and easier. Quantum is what the AI bros want you to think is the _next_ thing.

The singular perfect expression of the idea.

Here’s to 2026

Miniature musical instrument makers admit defeat as violin size requirement for story is declared "too small to build."

another robot highlight for 2025: man wearing humanoid mocap suit kicks himself in the balls

Grey squirrel vs. red squirrel size comparison, during a rare moment of harmony.

Landslide; a ghost story buff.ly/O1gcNhr On March 27, 1964, a converted liberty ship named the SS Chena brought a shipment of supplies to the port of Valdez, Alaska […] which […] sits at the end of a fjord[…] <- this is about the internet, & disinformation, & more. Not earthquakes.

I really like this. I've recently been paying a lot more attention to open source, it just feels healthier. Love this kind of article 👍

read this amazing essay and metaphor by Erin Kissane www.wrecka.ge/landslide-a-...

I remember being in the audience of a speech in the early 80s by then plain Dr David Owen of the SDP, saying exactly this: that a united Europe was equally a match for the US, Russia or China. That's why they wanted us out.

It's not as if we weren't warned.

Well that's shit www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

So we enter The Merrineum; where time means nothing and nobody knows when it's bin day.

The only thing ChatGPT ever does.

Slow Down Take It Easy*

joining the "cybertruck owners only" group on fb is one of the best decisions i've ever made. every so often when i'm scrolling through fb getting pissed off, i get to see a little treat like this

And by the way, training your monster on data produced in part by my own hands, without attribution or compensation. To the others: I apologize to the world at large for my inadvertent, naive if minor role in enabling this assault.

My whole life we’ve been told that The US is simply too big to have high speed rail

What the crater of an active volcano looks like 🌋

set photos make for some challenging, haunting content

Fuck you people. Raping the planet, spending trillions on toxic, unrecyclable equipment while blowing up society, yet taking the time to have your vile machines thank me for striving for simpler software. Just fuck you. Fuck you all. I can't remember the last time I was this angry.

*What happens AFTER hordes of humanoid robots are somehow walking and grabbing stuff, what else will technicians be eager to inflict on themselves and the public "Flying cars," yeah sure, but what other century-old technometaphorical cliches

New blog entry: Webtoons revisited: www.antipope.org/charlie/blog...