"Get rich or try sharing" Pasteups seen in New Orleans, Louisiana

It goes to the whole "people get angriest when a site enforces any policy against someone they have a strong parasocial relationship with" thing! (And, conversely, "people get angriest when a site doesn't enforce their interpretation of a policy against someone they parasocially despise".)

I feel like this is an important piece of context people who are now calling for bluesky to adopt a more minimal moderation policy may be missing. Bluesky wanted to do this! They were dragged away from this model because it DID NOT WORK.

You have no idea how true this is. Because of my job, I have seen some of the Really Bad Stuff. And I gotta tell you, of all the awful shit my job has made me do, that's the one that's stuck with me.

I have been saying for years that Linux containers are not a security boundary and I am not particularly sorry to be shown to have been right again

I dreamed of days like this

"Malort advent calendar" is already such an unhinged concept but every little window just having Malort in it really pushes it over the edge into something transcendently funny

If you know, you know, and by now you should know. Desert Bus Day 1. LET'S GO!!!!!! Tune in on Twitch and support Child's Play and the longest-running charity stream in the galaxy. desertbus.org

Did you know that Wisconsin produces 60% of the U.S. cranberry harvest? Did you further know that Wisconet supports the Wisconsin cranberry growers, with 5 weather stations installed at cranberry sites? Now you know.

Hey New Yorkers, I have a question/I need help: Has anyone ever successfully gotten a hold of someone at the NY Department of Labor? I'm having a weird issue with my labor.ny.gov account and every single phone number I try to call says "high call volumes" and disconnects me immediately

Bershere's Formula for Failure: There are only two kinds of people who fail: those who listen to nobody... and those who listen to everybody. —fortune(6)

I think my 'most woke opinion' is that all people are created equal, endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. It turns out the necessary conclusions are so woke we still aren't quite there 250 years later.

'“Why do the models give these attackers what they want 90% of the time but the rest of us have to deal with ass-kissing, stonewalling, and acid trips?”'

The reported H100 index is down like 33% from peak

This reminded me of something very important I don’t think I ever shared here,

Hanson's Treatment of Time: There are never enough hours in a day, but always too many days before Saturday. —fortune(6)

Kind of enjoying that I can, a little bit at least this year, go into hibernation.

Claude couldn't run Anthropic's soda fridge back in June, why should we trust them now when they claim it can perform a sophisticated attack program? www.anthropic.com/research/pro...

I've been trying to express exactly this discomfort with modern interface design and especially LLM design and this lady nailed it back in *1993* ("A Small Matter of Programming", Bonnie A. Nardi)

I designed an otter blanket! Up for presale on my kofi this weekend. 🦦

Yeah, that was gonna be the outcome.

More than anything else, powerful men - like the ones who run the NYT - believe in the legitimacy of power itself. Because if it isn’t legitimate, they have to start asking hard questions about the world and themselves.

The sun is at its peak in Wyoming. WYO 130 Green Rock Trailhead, 11/13/2025, 11:57:24 AM

Anyway every CSA survivor you know is about to have an exhausting few weeks, so maybe try to be cool instead of insufferable.

I don't know if it will matter that I've said this, but I'm gonna say it anyway: Some topics are not for jokes and shitposting. Don't do it. Treat serious topics with the gravity they warrant.

The enshittification has come for The Wirecutter, where it now takes more and more clicks to get to the actual articles, which was the last way that I was personally giving them any custom so good job guys

No matter what decision you make in any scenario, ever, precisely 50% of the people involved (the reporter or the reportee) will be pissed off at you. It's the nature of the job.

The violent rhetoric policy at every site I've ever seen the policies for, aka a lot of them, is by far the longest, most contextual, most conditional policy that involves careful parsing all the way down to verb tenses and examples with single-word differences between minimal pairs of sentences.

You absolutely cannot include a "quoting something else" exception in the violent rhetoric policy, because if you do, you do not have a violent rhetoric policy. Violent rhetoric is too embedded in our culture and you can find a quote to make any threat you want to make.

Maybe it comes down to what seems to be Rule One of content moderation: Content moderation will sometimes be unfair. One price for using social media is that at some point, you will be moderated unfairly. Rule Two: Any attempt to get around a rule by being cute is itself a rule violation.

There is a very good reason why the thing I say most consistently about situations like this is "the violent rhetoric policy is my least favorite policy to write and enforce, and the policy that creates the most upheaval among the userbase when it is applied"!

If you see a screenshot from X on here and you’re thinking of reposting it but you don’t recognize the account, here’s some advice: don’t, because there’s a very good chance it’s a fucking Nazi.

Huh. The mastodon server I use is down. “Yay”

4 years ago your Prez blasted claims that Russia plans to invade Ukraine as "alarmism". Half true. The idea we had a "plan" has turned out to be alarmist.

Every office has an executive tier whose emails are like: saw on news , , can we replce complianc dept with web 3 and a worker tier whose emails are like: Dear Jim, First of all, I *love* this idea! Unfortunately, I spoke with Legal and identified a few issues with this approach. For starters…

This is what is supposed to happen a few years into a market being oversupplied not before a massive expansion of the industry. We may have to update the emissions from the LNG industry to account for all of the money going up in flames in the next few years.

So Pakistan is *paying* Qatar to *not* deliver LNG because even including this penalty payment their solar PV and battery spending is much better value for money and saves them billions. How fascinating!

In fantasy worlds you know there's gotta be guys who become huge nerds for other species. Like there has to be an orc who's obsessed with dwarven culture, he dresses like a dwarf and listens to dwarf metal and keeps talking about the heroic virtues of mining etc.

The rich do not believe they should be held accountable for anything. It's up to us to do something about it.

she’s a 10 but Excel thinks she’s October

I think you have to have been an adult in the 1990s to understand that this is possibly the most Bill Clinton thing ever, and that the GOP right *still* fail to get him and only get themselves in so attempting will drive them even more insane.

Gestures in the direction of that server that was running Dan Kaminsky’s (very open source) DNS proxy to Alfabank back in 2016

always remember:

This man is an optimist, but I would like it if he were right

I want SHERMAN

A reasonable amount of humor in the presentation of suggestions for simple sabotage will relax tensions of fear.

I think "adults in the room" takes on a very different vibe now.

I used to play LARPs—I got elected Pope once, not the game you might have heard about, long story—and there’s something delightfully LARP-like about THE DEATH OF STALIN. It really is just anxious people with guns

People who openly defend pedophiles are not necessarily pedophiles, but they have announced themselves as a safe space for pedophiles to dwell. Keep your babies away from any and all of that.

Okay, so, we’re all going to have to agree that it’s wrong to have sex with children. Like, if you don’t agree with me inside your own head, you should keep that inside until you tell a therapist. Also, people who defend pedophiles can not be trusted with your children. At all. AT ALL. EVERRRRRRRRR.