capybara at the psychologist

Other people's computers meets other people's ignorance

Now is really not the time to sow distrust and punch down on independent media. It’s particularly galling to do in light of how we’ve actually gotten news and information about the latest global conflicts and federal corruption in the U.S.

Does anyone know if Kent puts signposts on its bridle paths? I'm interested in the ones south of Herne Bay near Maypole and Hoath.

Kibble? Slurry? Digi-mass? How about “ecocidal twaddle Microsoft has bet on heavily“?

New year, new utterly fucked up email preferences (that I noticed right now, I assume it's been around for ages).

“If you didn’t want your photo digitally altered and turned into sexual content you shouldn’t have posted it online” is just the social media version of “if you didn’t want to be raped you shouldn’t have worn a short skirt.” If you’re participating in this “trend” you’re a predator.

“You don’t say….” she mutters under her breath, knowing a significant number of highly intelligent privacy and technology ethics professionals have been sounding alarms over this *exact* thing for years now.

Prize for best reuse of this map

I've been tracking the spread of nonconsensual deepfakes on X for more than two years. Here's a timeline of how Musk's leadership allowed the practice to flourish from a once-underground market to a viral trend, with little recourse for victims or legal enforcement. spitfirenews.com/p/grok-csam-...

So Marriott sometimes doesn't take payment on its website, then maybe can't take payment on its website and sends an email that you can't easily verify pointing to a third party payment processor I've never heard of. The way to verify this is to call the hotel. In another country.

TIL that Tom Baker’s reading of the Gremlins novelisation has an extra line not present in the book or the film, basically “frozen water doesn’t affect mogwai”. I like to think that Tom read the rules, saw the subsequent pages of snow scenes, and withdrew labour until there was an explanation.

Hi, I am studying library science, the thing everyone claims LLMs are good for. Spoiler: they aren’t. I’ll start with a hypothetical based on a thing I have dealt with a thousand times. Person comes in and says, “I don’t remember the title or the author but I know it’s about vampires.”

This was murderously good. From now on, whenever someone plays the civility card we can just play this back. Damn, so compact too.

Alternate headline: Elon Musk-own AI produces CSAM on demand for X users Grok cannot comment on the matter. Grok is not a person.

I choose to take this as a positive omen. (As named and drawn by Paul Kidby, illustrator of Discworld.)

There must be a word for a company that has chosen to be bad at the things that brought people joy and papered over the rough bits. It's like if a hotel started putting cow pats on your pillow during turn down service.

A computer can never be held accountable Therefore a human must go to jail

Conservative outlets love this pocket-watching hypocrisy trope, especially as some sort of gotcha for WOC, by willfully conflating left politics with forced universal aceticism. To them, socialists are not supposed to be stylish or attractive. Rama's both, and on her own terms, not maga aesthetic.

Make 2026 the year most of y’all start using alt text.

Heads-up to folks who might still have old dormant LJs that you may want to preserve somehow. Looks like access may end up restricted and then full site collapse in the near future (best to archive now).

if you, as a donut place, are closed on new year's day, why would you put on your website that you are open on new year's day, essentially promising and then cruelly denying me donuts. i should be able to sue for breach of contract

I can't be normal about anything so here is my lucky lemon lotl for 2026

They're adding more magnets to the LHC and I feel like I should've been notified of this sooner. I don't oppose it, it's just nice to be kept in the loop—the knowledge loop, not the physical loop in which they collide particles. Being kept in the physical loop is how you become a science ghost.

A soft, small, hopeful thing.

Wait until shrinkflation sets in

Celebrate the Old Ways

Today is March 7309th, 2020

so many fireworks going on right now. people must be really happy about bulgarian eurozone accession

Hang on, registering Slopagram (I assume Instaslop is already in use)

The Slopocalypse

Welcome, 2026. You probably aren't ready for all the hopes people have. But you don't have a choice. Year up. We're all counting on you.

Submitted in support of the campaign to get a snow plow named "Abolish ICE" in Chicago - last good deed of the year If we all submit the same name, it's gotta make the cut, right? www.chicago.gov/city/en/dept...

Sitting a stewing in frustration isn't nearly as cathartic as just designing a poster. Let's see how often I remember that in 2026.

Look, one tech bro needs to take one for the team and actually read Lord Of The Rings so he can turn it into a podcast form that the others can understand. This can’t just keep happening.

In contrast, here's a photo that was exceedingly easy. This female golden stag beetle just sat there, posing. But it's such a cool-looking animal that it makes the cut for merely existing (Australia, December 2025).

RIP 2025 2025-2025

i'm stupid. put me in the ny times.

Wow, really don't want to spend any more time on LinkedIn for the rest of my life.

“Prominent artists have started to complain. Kaytranada, a Grammy-winning DJ, has called out stationary crowds. Tyler, the Creator, the rapper who has released four straight No. 1 albums, lamented in July that the threat of constant surveillance was killing dance for his generation.”

Every time this post comes around I have to watch it because he's a MASTER of language and delivery

WTAF, Windows? (You can minimise the inner window, too.)

Please quote this with stories of your minor interactions with non-celebrities, e.g. “I once accidentally bumped into a man in the Wellingborough branch of Holland & Barrett”

My son and I were returning down a street where earlier in the day there had been scaffolding outside a house, and now there wasn’t. We joked maybe we’d slipped through a time portal and should ask someone what year it was. A women walking the other way called out, “1981”, and started laughing.

I’ll do it. Pay me just a tiny million, promise to do what I say, and I will mitigate all risks by closing the company down and setting fire to all its code.

Omfg yo holy shit look at this shot. Taken 34 minutes ago. I got some decent video I'll edit once I get to a hotel after catching the milky way...so..3 hours? 🪶

TIL that the idea of a mental health crisis (what used to be called a "nervous breakdown") was well-known to the Mesopotamians, who used the phrase "hīp libbi," or "heartbreak." “But he was in and out: he could not sit, could not crouch, For his heart was broken and he was vomiting gall.”

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LeMonde said, not on our watch