what the fuck

13 years later and the story of Aaron Swartz still fills me with anger and sadness

Sam Altman got played and spun it like a win - @haydenfield.bsky.social has the scoop from a weekend’s worth of reporting from inside the Pentagon AI negotiations. www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...

I think it's often overlooked that AVIF is also really good at flat colour & sharp edges. Don't go straight for a lossless format just because it's the kind of image that would look bad as a JPEG. Here's an 11kb image as an AVIF, vs JPEG XL.

It doesn’t matter why they say there are layoffs. Unless a CEO is taking a 99% pay cut, the reason is greed.

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New alternatives to innerHTML (setHTML) by @ollie-williams.bsky.social

I checked one more thing off my bucket list. Did it way later than I should, but I gave every CFP proposal author at least two sentences of individual feedback. I've organized a bunch of conferences and always wanted to do it, but didn't find time to go individual. summit.meetjs.pl

Do the stars really better reflect the usage of a package?

Were there reasons to trust it before?

To recap: Anthropic refused to do killbots or mass surveillance. DOD trying to destroy company. Altman: we are now working with DOD, who totally respect safety and oppose mass surveillance! Why would anyone trust a word Altman says after this?

Radiohead is demanding that the Trump administration take down a pro-ICE promotional video featuring a version of its song “Let Down” without permission. Full statement from the band:

putting this out there now: if the OpenJS Foundation and React Foundation ever merge (they will), they *need* to keep the Foundation structure that the Node.js Foundation started with. In my opinion, the Linux Foundation will likely try to ensure that doesn't happen.

This is Trump's former AI adviser

This is amazing. www.getyourfuckingmoneyback.com

He didn't just order the cutting of ties between the Dept of Defense and Anthropic. He designated them a national security risk for refusing to submit to Hegseth's absolute authority and barred any other contracter from doing business with the company. This is fascism!

Wrote about how the incredibly thin-skinned leadership of Palantir sued a small Swiss publication for publishing a deeply researched article that was only mildly embarrassing for the company (about why the Swiss gov't keeps ghosting them).

vite is so fast, time paradoxes were bound to happen

That friend really needs your advice I think

load-bearing @xkcd.com

Firefox is joining the shape() game 🤩 It's a good time for some blobs: css-generators.com/blob/ Or maybe a nice wavy divider: css-generators.com/wavy-divider/ And stay tuned for another generator and more shapes next week! 🤫

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Doctors say that vaccines are the best way to protect children against measles. A guy who eats dogs and snorts cocaine off toilet seats says they should just swim in untreated sewage water instead. For busy parents, it can be hard to know who to trust.

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phones do not spy on you with their microphone. do not worry. instead, what happens is that a vast and uninterpretable ensemble of artificial neural networks examines and integrates your subconscious until it can predict what you are going to say

Woe, wall of astigmatism be upon ye

i wrote this up on my blog, with evals on both AgentDyn and AgentDojo. dystopiabreaker.xyz/fsm-prompt-i...

"script kiddies with jailbroken LLMs writing bespoke casualty-maxxing attack code for every industrial control device they can find via shodan": specific, clearly delineated threat model, focuses on the danger of the tech-empowered motivated idiot over the hypothetical hard takeoff

Looks like we're this 🤏 close to getting built-in Node.js logger 👀

The AI critics have, once again, been right about everything www.cnn.com/2026/02/25/t...

I have ultimately broken YouTube recommendations algorithm. A glimpse m.youtube.com/watch?v=FmOt...

Link 2: www.newscientist.com/article/2516...

LLMs getting much better at pushing back against bullshit prompts. “Green means the model clearly called out the nonsense. Amber means partial challenge. Red means the model let nonsense pass” github.com/petergpt/bul...

Any technologist who cares about how much control users should expect from platforms like the web and social media should watch these presentations: @dustyweb.bsky.social on Re-decentralizing Social Nets www.youtube.com/watch?v=T8uq... MarkM on Geeks Bearing Gifts youtube.com/watch?v=KoM_aCuFk1w

New research: Popular packages containing the trick to cheat cjs lexer into noticing exports github.com/naugtur/rese... The issue with the trick is, while unreachable at runtime, it parses as uninitialized globals in static analysis

heyyyy i can almost take the disclaimer off this post!! keith.is/post/html-sa...

excuse me

Node.js release day! @ruyadorno.com and I just released Node.js 24.14.0 and 25.7.0, full changelog and download links at nodejs.org/en/blog/rele... and nodejs.org/en/blog/rele...

Hypothetically, if someone made a tool to extract audio from YT videos that is more resistant to changes than existing YT downloaders and could be an npm package, what would be the course of action to put it out there without too much risk of legal trouble? askingforafriend.gif

I think about this tweet every time I feel something online start to curl its annoying little grip into my head

Reposting in disbelief