Wired - Out-of-office messages of US Department of Education employees, after the government shutdown began, were altered to contain partisan language without their consent […]

This is Aetna’s ‘civil rights laws compliance’ postcard. Notice anything missing? #lgbt

OMG… this took me a moment. https://www.tumblr.com/planet-motherfucker/796300714412556288

RSD November titles were partially announced, including a new 2LP of Son Volt’s ‘Trace’. Must get!! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZNTQ2DuJKtU

Who goes Nazi? White people. You don’t have to wear an arm band and goose step to be a Nazi. You have to not care and put your head down while your employer through YOU and your actions facilitate fascist policies. “I’m just doing my job. I’m just doing what I’m told. I’m just following orders […]

Tim Cook is a fascist collaborator. Guess what this makes him?

I don’t normally highlight news like this, but this megachurch pastor who today pled guilty to sexually abusing a 12 year old served on Trump’s “evangelical advisory board.” https://apnews.com/article/texas-megachurch-pastor-sexual-abuse-oklahoma-0ca16aa31d9d8e5a810d1e1e3483dce4

Stipulating in advance that I probably agree with everyone’s critiques of Newson: This is the way. Make it clear in advance that compliance has a price too.

Thanks John Scalzi (@scalzi) for the information on how to file a claim of copyright infringement against Anthropic. I was able to file for five books. "AI" is just theft-based-slop designed to make information workers obsolete. https://whatever.scalzi.com/2025/10/02/authors-time-to-get-that-bag/

Little girl Wendy’s parade

Wow, the end of the Decoder interview with Ford CEO Jim Farley by Joanna Stern makes me want absolutely nothing to do with vehicles if ‘We wanna put ChatGPT in your car as a companion’ is the future. Hard fucking pass.

2 Oct 2025 -- Trump admin sends letter to 9 top schools (Dartmouth, Brown, MIT, USC, Vanderbilt & Universities of AZ VA PA & TX) threatening tax status and funding unless they officially recognize 2 genders and limit int'l students, DEI & pro-Palestinian activism. @rikiwilchins.bsky.social

This instance only gives me 500 characters, so this is gonna be split… Let's briefly talk IEMs (in-ear monitors, like Airpods Pro… stuff you shove in your ears and provides a level of passive external noise cancellation atop of any active NC they may provide. Measuring IEMs is *hard*. Everyone […]

This is standing ovation stuff by @sundress. Not a single word wasted, and so many quotable bits. A threat model for #accessibility on the web: https://alice.boxhall.au/articles/a-threat-model-for-accessibility-on-the-web/

In other more hopeful news, overheard some random folk walking down the street mention to their friend that they got vaxxed last week after coming across the Greenwich Health Dept street sign for their flu clinic at the Town Hall.

Who goes Nazi? White people. You don’t have to wear an arm band and goose step to be a Nazi. You have to not care and put your head down while your employer through YOU and your actions facilitate fascist policies. “I’m just doing my job. I’m just doing what I’m told. I’m just following orders […]

Every few months now I re-read this "Who Goes Nazi?" piece from 1941 and am blown away by how it captures the people we are dealing with 80 years later. harpers.org/archive/1941...

New Old Record Day! Featuring a bunch of #prince maxi-singles, An OG pressing of Controversy and of #ThePolice‘s Zenyatta Mondatta, #Sade’s Never as Good as the First Time, and the radically under-rated #klymaxx Meeting in the Ladies Room. I’ll be back real soon…

RIP Jane Goodall

Today, Satan.

AMURIKA! FUCK YEAH!! https://www.404media.co/a-bullet-crashed-the-internet-in-texas/

Sure, but it IS killing folks’ desire to be in the job they have. https://mastodon.cloud/@slashdot/115299300061355538

With my lack of real sleep, I was considering purposefully undercaffeinating this morning, but I was so zonked, I thought I may be a danger to the public (re driving, etc), so full-on ultra caffeination it is! So now I have unexamined addict behavioural patterns I should take a look at. Wheeeeeee.

WABC TV A gas explosion in an apartment building in the Bronx has caused a partial collapse of the structure. https://abc7ny.com/post/bronx-apartment-building-partially-collapses/17916688/

Learn from my fail: go to sleep before 4AM.

Mucky Pup!

I ❤️ NY https://mastodon.social/@ryanmiglavs/115295345940942109

How is macos getting *worse* with multiple monitors?? ::sigh::

It’s Final Fantasy Tactics Ivalice Chronicles o’clock! Get yer Maths on!

In 2011, Aaron Swartz was arrested after he downloaded millions of academic journal articles from JSTOR via the MIT network. He was charged under federal laws (including wire fraud and violations of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act) with up to 13 felony counts, carrying the possibility of […]

Less computer touching. More butt touching.

Could they not? https://mastodon.cloud/@slashdot/115293402431525831

Yeah, this one's pretty good. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U9_zfJ153q8

There are a lot of great flags in the world but the flag of British Tanganyika was truly exquisite.

Wild Style out on 4k video soon!!!! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iq96MJpFrsA #hiphop #documentary

Here’s the thing with Project Runway: It was one of the first reality contests where the work was highlighted, and it didn’t focus on bullshit drama. Sure, some folks got petty, but the show was good about keeping it about the process and results. Tim, being an instructor, really was able to […]

I bet you need some cute goats (I definitely do)

Oh for the love of god “The highlight of this release is the new ‘Ask AI’ tab in the e-book viewer. Users can highlight any text and ask AI models questions about it, receiving explanations, context, or summaries on the spot.” https://news.itsfoss.com/ai-comes-to-calibre/ #linux #foss #floss […]

But you don’t have to take my word for it… https://mastodon.social/@kottke/115289539342542556

You can no longer trust by default an image or video shared on the Internet by an unverified source. *Especially* if it confirms your existing beliefs.

There was a window of time starting about 2005 and ending about 2025 when it was easy for an average person to create and distribute a genuine image or video, but difficult for an average person to create a fake image or video that stood up to scrutiny. That was the window of time that citizen […]

OMG it smells so good in here. I’ve got the rice cooker going, and I’m making brown rice with chicken stock, some herbs, and a bit of butter. The house smells like thanksgiving.

No, putting your hazard lights on doesn’t let you park in a handicapped parking space, you non-disposable douche.

It’s becoming sport coat weather.

Omg he’s still fucking talking?!

Maybe we should bring back legwarmers. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QMMHut0t-HU

Everyone needs more otters in their life… https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fzgM87vw-9Y

If you're not white, you can be arrested. That was clearly stated. This is what America is, a racist fascist state. 😡🤬 Feds march into downtown Chicago; top border agent says people are arrested based on ‘how they look’ - Chicago Sun-Times […]

I am sure this will be fine. https://mastodon.social/@verge/115287864223305429

Dear developers; ask yourself if the thing you’re building pushes the burden of something that should be taken care of in another way onto the end user. And if it is, stop. You are part of the problem. You should be uncomfortable with that.