Falsehood flies, and truth comes limping after it; so that when men come to be undeceived, it is too late, the jest is over, and the tale has had its effect: like a man who has thought of a good repartee, when the discourse is changed, or the company parted; or, like a physician, who has found […]

"Those in power recognized that oppression is best maintained by keeping the masses illiterate, and those oppressed recognized that literacy is liberation. To my students and to anyone who might listen, I say: Don’t surrender to AI your ability to read, write and think when others once risked […]

So my suggestion is that we recognize what is "dated" but not take it as a negative. There is something about something the way that dated design can catch your eye, make you cringe a little and say "wow we don't do that anymore" that's really exciting. Why not lean into it if the space is […]

PSA to anyone who uses Gmail! "Reportedly, Google has recently started automatically opting users in to allow Gmail to access all private messages and attachments for training its AI models. This means your emails could be analyzed to improve Google’s AI assistants, like Smart Compose or […]

Things you never want to hear a judge say about your defense: "But the task they have given themselves in pleading the truth defence in defamation proceedings is to establish or prove, on the balance of probabilities, that that is objectively true. And they have made that exceptionally […]

Cloudflare just put up a blog post on today's incident. https://blog.cloudflare.com/18-november-2025-outage/

"We're all trying to find the guy that did this" https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cwy7vrd8k4eo

New Blog: the "Dependency Cutout" workflow pattern: https://blog.glyph.im/2025/11/dependency-cutout-workflow-pattern.html

50 year mortgages seem insanely bad. Who doesn't want to pay a huge amount of additional interest and accumulate equity ridiculously slowly in exchange for a marginally lower monthly payment? Caveat: I can see people doing this in high-growth markets like the SFBA - to flip houses. House prices: 📈

Quote posts yet? I want me quote posts. https://hachyderm.io/@thomasfuchs/115505208788579359

Sandwich man vindicated!

Did you watch the unfuckingbelievable interview that 60 Minutes aired last night on Trump? The travesty is that the edited version should never have been edited, as we can see from viewing the transcript of the entire batshit crazy interview. Wherein Trump contradicts himself many times and […]

Thinking that I might start adding something like this to more of the software I write.

We literally do disagree about this, though. Some politicians want to take food from children and some politicians don't. Pretending this "isn't political" just allows the child-starving ghouls to get away with it. Tell people who supports the *political program* to feed children and who doesn't!

Fuck Zuck... If it's not a person... Then consuming what it produces is not even remotely "social". What kind of dehumanization mindset is this asshole on. Lord.

What's your favorite book cooker 9000 prompt?

This is a figure from disgraced physician Peter McCullough’s report claiming that vaccines cause autism. The red line, added by me, depicts maternal consumption of pumpkin spice products. His group still does not understand correlation vs causation.

If you are in Pennsylvania & eligible to vote PLEASE do. Vote to retain all on the supreme court retention election. MAGA is planning to rig the elections in this key swing state and the first step is to get their judges on the court. This is really serious. #uspol #Pennsylvania #authoritarianism

Ice cold https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/hi-its-me-wikipedia-and-i-am-ready-for-your-apology

"Some argue that C-12 is a repackaging effort designed to skip past the 'overwhelming opposition' to C-2. Bill C-2 had previously faced criticism over the expanded powers it gave to law enforcement agencies." Bill C-12: Border bill completely arbitrary, lawyer says […]

Was searching my Signal contacts for something something "N" and found a contact I'd not noticed before: Note to Self. One of these days I will just RTFM. "Who is Note to Self? This contact entry is a chat to send messages to yourself. Use this feature to […] [Original post on infosec.exchange]

...and here it is, the clearest evidence yet of a fascist tech bro deciding the current corpus of human knowledge needs "correcting", and openly stating his intention to use his LLM to manipulate public understanding. When I called current iterations of AI […] [Original post on mastodon.world]

these charlatans will not convince me that ecological devastation is cute https://www.theverge.com/news/804106/microsoft-mico-copilot-ai-assistant-clippy

My latest on the Nokia blog: why we (collectively) need to do more on outbound DDoS suppression, and build more resilient networks (and, yes, avoid further centralization of internet traffic). The attack peak values we’ve been seeing these past couple of months (particularly from #aisuru) now […]

YouTube app on Android just started throwing an un-asked-for AI summary to sometimes show up at the top of the comments on YouTube. The comments under good YouTube videos have often been a set of human perspectives. How offensive to try to interdict that. Gross.

remember the kind of tech industry bubble where it was easy to get a high-paying job? I miss those bubbles

Are we doing "The ACA Sucks" Discourse again? I'm going to guess most people hating on it from the left have never received a hospital bill the size of book; I put the apple there for scale. That's the $1.3 million bill my kid incurred in his first ~94 days. Why does that make me respect the ACA?

There's so much pseudo-profound bullshit AI slop out there. I hate this.

Every time I see someone attribute homelessness to mental illness, I contemplate how few sleepless nights it would take to reduce me to a shuddering, screaming ball of anxiety. And that's without the loss of all my stuff at random intervals and the threat of both state and individual violence.

This week's theme is ugly doors. Specifically, ugly doors on ugly walls. #Iceland #photography #streetphotography #decay #door #window #concrete #rust

it's not FOR us

if you are writing a UI that loads data "the data is not loaded yet" must be OBVIOUSLY VISUALLY DISTINCT from "the data is loaded, and it is empty" that is all

This is IRAS 20324+4057 -- a protostar trying to level up to full star mode 🤩 This protostar is located in the #constellation Cygnus -- you can find our episodes on the #astronomy and #mythology of the constellation #Cygnus here […] [Original post on universeodon.com]

I think about this a lot

Microsoft steals content for their AI training data but doesn't want others to do the same thing. Odd. https://therecord.media/linkedin-sues-data-scraping-company

I can't believe they haven't figured out that 5G causes autism

#Perovskite Borg-like crystals can have complex faces. In fact, perovskite has a wide range of morphologies. Lots of twinning, too! Resistance is Futile. #VoteTheFuture #MinCup25 Vote here: www.mineralcup.org/2025/vote/r3... #MinCup25 ⚒️ sci-fi 🧪 🖖🏼 scifi Geosciences #WomenInSTEM geology 🔭🪐

libxml2's sole maintainer Nick Wellnhofer steps down, meaning libxml2 is now no longer maintained. https://discourse.gnome.org/t/stepping-down-as-libxml2-maintainer/31398 It's hard to estimate just how many companies depend on this software and critical security updates to the library, so I'm […]

touch the planet with your bare hands

Titanite forms in high pressure & temperature environments associated with metamorphism, & is an indicator mineral used to infer the geological history of its formation. Its beautiful crystals have a wide range of colors due to the variety of REE it can store in its crystal lattice. More 👇🏼 #MinCup25

M33, 15 minutes #seestar S50 auto stack, no denoise, light polluted area. #astrophotography

First auto stacked #seestar S50 test, the red giant Mirach, β Andromedae. 9.5 minutes of data, light polluted area

here’s a little secret that may alleviate some anxiety of everyday life: the login token that says it expires every thirty seconds doesn’t actually expire every thirty seconds on the dot. There’s some overlap between the old and new token validity periods to account for the fact you’re not a […]

When your code works but no idea how

Intrusive thought: the federal reserveiverse

1. What my daughter posted on Instagram. 2. What Instagram put over her post.