My cat Rainbow likes to sit in this basket in my bathroom. My daughter painted a portrait of Rainbow in the basket. I hung it in the bathroom, naturally. Then I got a photo of Rainbow sitting in the basket underneath the painting.

Interop, drop by drop https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/11/the-eu-made-apple-adopt-new-wi-fi-standards-and-now-android-can-support-airdrop/

I had the displeasure of reading an article in the Harvard student paper by an economics major who said in apparent seriousness that comp sci majors are wasting time on theory classes like “Introduction to Algorithms and their Limitations” when they could be learning REAL skills like prompt […]

I would not have thought of this flavor combination, but these brown butter rosemary rice krispie treats were delicious!

'it is extremely difficult to completely stop users from recreating any kind of content that’s in the training data, and OpenAI can’t remove the copyrighted content from Sora 2’s training data because it couldn’t exist without it" #youwouldntsteal […]

Astrophotographer snaps 'absolutely preposterous' photo of skydiver 'falling' past the sun's surface | Live Science This photo is breaking my brain. 🤯 https://www.livescience.com/space/the-sun/astrophotographer-snaps-absolutely-preposterous-photo-of-skydiver-falling-past-the-suns-surface

important announcement: Odin *is* allowed on the big bed #dog #dogs #dogsofmastodon

Okay, but hear me out, what if we produce an entire generation of students who are *all* the ones who did nothing in the group project?

Got this snack in a $5 mystery snack bag at a Chinese grocery. Fell down a rabbit hole of cultural context trying to figure out what it was before I tried eating it.

I took my son and his friend to a Playboy Carti concert and it is making me feel extremely Old. It's too loud and the music sounds like noise. (Which is really annoying because I *enjoy* some noise.)

I used to teach at KAIST and this is a great development from their CS folks -- provably correct translation from C to Rust. https://news.kaist.ac.kr/newsen/html/news/?mode=V&mng_no=54270 #kaist #c #rust

This is an extremely weird exercise in co-branding. Have people been clamoring to build with real bacon?

“This was a very very bad vote”

This is an important, eloquent piece by @aphyr - worth a boost I’d say: https://aphyr.com/posts/397-i-want-you-to-understand-chicago

Is this anything https://homes.luddy.indiana.edu/ccshan/for/for.html

"With a second set of competitive wins beginning with his June 27, 2010, Emmy and concluding with his March 4, 2018, Academy Award, he has broken his own 'fastest to complete' record, establishing a new fastest EGOT interval at 7 years and 8 months." Robert Lopez so bored with the game that he […]

1. In a devastating decision for trans kids in Kentucky, Michigan, Ohio, and Tennessee, the 6th Circuit has ruled students can bully trans kids by repeatedly misgendering them. Trans kids also are not allowed to return the favor to their bullies. Subscribe to support our journalism.

The former DoJ employee who threw a sandwich at a federal agent during President Trump’s law enforcement surge in DC has been found not guilty of assault. https://wtop.com/dc/2025/11/man-who-threw-sandwich-at-federal-agent-in-washington-is-found-not-guilty-of-assault-charge/

„Meta internally projected late last year that it would earn about 10% of its overall annual revenue – or $16 billion – from running advertising for scams and banned goods, internal company documents show. A cache of previously unreported documents reviewed by Reuters also shows that the […]

when compiling C code, enable the -fPIE option to compile to Proto-Indo-European, for maximum compatibility with all CPU architectures developed on the Eurasian continent

We're in Guatemala this week for my birthday. We stopped by the small town of Santiago Sacatepéquez yesterday to see their festival of giant kites for Dia de Los Muertos, and it was incredible. The only bummer is that we won't get to see the flying of the kites today.

Of course we don't live in Gun Town. That place is obviously absurd and could never exist in real life. We live in nice safe Car Town.

On this day, 56 years ago: "At 10:30 p.m., 29 October 1969, the first ARPANET message was sent from this UCLA site to the Stanford Research Institute." https://ethw.org/Milestones:Birthplace_of_the_Internet,_1969 #arpanet #internet #history #otd #onthisday #technology

43 years ago today, readers the world over opened their newspapers and gazed upon cow tools for the first time. happy birthday cow tools. you look great.

please enjoy: my Wasm-hosted, Wasm-targeting build of Clang/Clang++/LLD: a self-contained, 25 MiB (gzipped) pure function https://www.npmjs.com/package/@yowasp/clang

I'm surprised to learn this week that French and British museums consider theft wrong

Well everyone, we had a good run, but Harper's has discovered gooning. We have to invent some new Weird Sex Thing now. https://harpers.org/archive/2025/11/the-goon-squad-daniel-kolitz-porn-masturbation-loneliness/

The Cheesecake Factory menu is a horrible fever dream full of surprises.

If someone had said “if Trump gets elected, he’ll literally bulldoze the White House” just a year ago, everyone - right, left, and center - would have told them to shut up and stop exaggerating.

RE: https://infosec.exchange/@josephcox/115418529417016167 everyone keeps asking me if they can fuck the chatbot. buddy, they wont even let me fuck–*holds finger to earpiece* hold on, I'm receiving an update–

@Gankra Have you seen Fil-C yet? https://fil-c.org/ This bit made me think of you: "InvisiCaps can also be thought of as a software implementation of CHERI." https://fil-c.org/invisicaps

Good morning! I am looking for contract work. If you have 10-15 hours a week of work on a well defined technical project (‘we need to move 6 websites by this date’, ‘we need to hire a team to do an infra migration’, ‘we need to complete an accessibility audit and figure out next steps’, ‘we need […]

Struggling with vibe coding? You just need to get better at prompting. Here is a six video series "course" to teach you how to write the most effective AI prompts and get the most out of vibe coding! (Do you ever wonder what it would be like if there were some special language for giving […]

/2 The Roberts Court 6-3 majority is best understood not as a genuine or legitimate independent adjudicatory body but as a ceremonial adjunct to the Trump government, like a First Lady or a second-born prince in a constitutional monarchy.

Killing time while my son is at a haunted house with friends, I stopped at Texas Roadhouse for a drink. They stacked up these bottles of tequila in the bar next to me. I looked it up, it costs $10 retail. I didn't even know you could buy a bottle of tequila […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

The reported indictment of NY AG Letitia James is chillingly frightening. James secured verdicts against Trump and his private company for fraud, violating New York State law. He’s not using the full force of the U.S. government to retaliate against her. Trump is a dictator.

the biggest problem we *already have* in open source right now, which we have oversimplified into the term "supply chain security", is the lack of understanding that putting a dependency in your project's dependency set (package.json, pyproject.toml, requirements.txt, cargo.toml, etc) is not […]

Get a shirt, get a hoodie, be cozy as the authoritarian impulse flails about desperate to push through and consolidate power. A do it at a discount! Will you buy a whole new wardrobe designed by me? Maybe. Will @threadless re-share this? I dunno. Have I […] [Original post on mastodon.online]

TIL there's a "Suburban Life Magazine" about the Philadelphia suburbs. I discovered this because the medical specialist whose waiting room I'm sitting in has the cover he appeared on framed: https://www.suburbanlifemagazine.com/ (I would be shocked to find out that the magazine is *not* a […]

We went from "we will deport the worst of the worst" to "we will deport anyone here illegally" to "we will round up anyone who looks wrong" to "people who live in cities are the enemy" essentially overnight.

Pritzker pointing out that ICE lies first and immediately, knowing journalists will catch up later if at all. Coming from a sitting US governor, that’s an amazing breakthrough […] [Original post on mastodon.murkworks.net]

ICE admits that up to 50% of arrests in its Chicago raids are "collateral.” These aren't statistics. They are parents taken from their children, neighbors taken from our communities. When does a "collateral" U.S. citizen child's trauma matter? This isn't law enforcement; it's a campaign of terror.

We found this Jeju green mandarin honey tea at the Korean grocery and it's delightful!

Extremely pleased to announce the release of the ActivityPub Fuzzer! This is a tool that runs in a local development environment and (partially) emulates known ActivityPub software. It can even create a fake local "public fire hose" shaped like what you might see if you hooked your […]

Medbeds are just a way for conservatives to fantasize about universal healthcare without being called "socialist." It's a permission structure, an outlet for that unspeakable desire to see a world where the reaction to a person being sick is the very obvious thing: help them, help them get […]

robots who girl,, ​:neobot_pleading:​

TIL that Bose, the audio company, is named after its founder Amar Bose, a Bengali man, and thus ought to be pronounced bɔʃu.

FYI, the best place to check and see what that cool fireball you saw in the sky was, is this website: https://fireball.amsmeteors.org/members/imo_view/browse_events You can even report your sightings! This helps scientists to find meteorites, though I think a lot of the sightings now are […]

My study of old #folklore gets more and more relevant to current-day affairs. Example: All of these narratives about "Things That Cause #autism " are basically recycled folk tales about #changelings . Right now, we are at the: "The child is WRONG somehow - the mother must have been careless!" […]