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I love how my corporate-issue Jabra headset starts up and says the battery is high. At least the battery is having some fun.

“If the person is a U.S. citizen or otherwise lawfully in the United States, that individual will be free to go after the brief encounter.” Justice Brett Kavanaugh www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...

Tip Toe review – David Morrissey is magnificent in Russell T Davies’s brutal new drama | Russell T Davies | The Guardian www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...

Guardian: This brutal new drama about the resurfacing of homophobia which is scary, and transphobia, which we agree with 😉

Leaked Docs Suggest Trump Admin Is Running Covert Influence Campaigns On Americans weaponizedspaces.substack.com/p/leaked-doc...

Explained: How to protect European democracy youtu.be/q-dwDdrCyqs?... via @YouTube

When a species is facing extinction, it takes an enormous human effort to stave it off. Case in point: the painstaking campaign to save the frosted flatwoods salamander.

Pete Hegseth Shaking With Rage After Imagining Plus-Sized Astronaut

NeXTWORLD Interviewed Steve Jobs (1992) computeradsfromthepast.substack.com/p/nextworld-...

Dissolving Fillers Leave Face Completely Concave

Grifters, cynics, and true believers: The family tree of vaccine opponents - Ars Technica arstechnica.com/science/2026...

I do not think it is possible to do this. The world today is so different from the one I grew up in. If you add cell phones into a story that doesn't have them, there are so many "why didn't they--" questions that arise.

Some more awesome panels at the @dublintechsummit.bsky.social #dubtechsummit

Today I had a little toy in my hands, but they didn’t let me keep the sample.

An Apple (II) for Teacher – Creatures of Thought technicshistory.com/2026/05/19/a...

This is why we need Star Trek more than ever. Anthropic blames dystopian sci-fi for training AI models to act “evil” - Ars Technica arstechnica.com/ai/2026/05/a...

I would have used EMacs, but that’s a matter of taste. It's time to talk about my writerdeck veronicaexplains.net/my-first-wri...

Recipients of the Obama-era DACA program are aging, even as the Trump administration moves to weaken the program's protections and benefits.

I think the officials at this facility need to spend a little time in that box and see how much they like it! Then they need to be fired and spend some time in jail!

State officials in New York say the Salmon River district's special education program confined young children with disabilities in wooden boxes. Parents weren't notified.

New kind of dark tourism emerging in online 'Backrooms,' study shows phys.org/news/2026-05...

I can't believe how many politicians are saying "let's ban trans people from public life, but in a way that is respectful". Are you fucking thick? Who is this for?

Today's Low Quality Ad is for this very motivational Fish Sticker. Words to live by. collabs.shop/4w8drx

Asking my Zope/Plone friends: is the platform still undefeated in terms of remotely exploits?

This is what happens when you overspend in AI infrastructure and services - you need to bleed staff to pay the bills. Meta to lay off 350 staff from its Irish offices – The Irish Times www.irishtimes.com/business/202...

Incidentally, that's 62 of my books I've posted since joining BlueSky, at one book a week. 62 weeks. That's a lot of books. 🫢 Uh oh... at this rate I'll run out of books to post for you in... *checks notes* ...5 years 4 months. 😅 #TillysCursedLibrary #TillysCabinetOfCuriosities

INIT HELLO: A New Apple II Conference (Scope Creep Done Right) - Byte Cellar bytecellar.com/2026/05/10/i...

210PB on a single rack. Kioxia and Dell cram 10 PB into slim 2RU server www.blocksandfiles.com/flash/2026/0...

Virtual Memory: Page Tables, TLBs, and Linux Internals blog.codingconfessions.com/p/virtual-me...

What If the Universe Had No Beginning? Part 1: A Wave Function for the Universe - Universe Today www.universetoday.com/articles/wha...

INIT HELLO - Celebrate the Apple II - June 19-21, 2026 in Hunt Valley, MD init-hello.org

Gaining control of every projector and camera on campus | Edna's blogs www.edna.land/blogs/posts/...

To comply with a Trump executive order, Microsoft recently helped suspend the email account of an International Criminal Court prosecutor in the Netherlands who was investigating Israel for war crimes (a 10 month old story but I've only now seen it).

America is rotting from the inside.

Fired hacker twins forget to end Teams recording, capture own crimes - Ars Technica arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...

An impressively well designed personal computer Inside the Atari 800 - by Paul Lefebvre www.goto10retro.com/p/inside-the...

Intel Inside the Micro Revolution: 8008 Origins thechipletter.substack.com/p/intel-insi...

Newton’s law of gravity passes its biggest test ever | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...

Quelle surprise

Higher memory corruption rates means you need to run with more spares in your cluster. [2503.11901] Story of Two GPUs: Characterizing the Resilience of Hopper H100 and Ampere A100 GPUs arxiv.org/abs/2503.11901

Saiu na Folha @folha.com

Keep on talking about Jeffrey Epstein every day.

So, the cat figured out how to remove the tag from her collar. I wonder how long it’ll take for her to develop opposable thumbs.

Who needs ghost train scares when Windows is such a fright? • The Register www.theregister.com/2026/05/01/g...

[2509.00462] AI Self-preferencing in Algorithmic Hiring: Empirical Evidence and Insights arxiv.org/abs/2509.00462

New creative coding sketch 2026-05-02: "STXP" #desenhandocomcodigo #arte #processing #Sketch #py5 #CreativeCoding https://ericof.com/en/sketches/2026-05-02?mtm_campaign=SN&mtm_kwd=bluesky

Made something for my mainframer friends: Add EBCDIC support to inspector by rbanffy · Pull Request #598 · microsoft/vscode-hexeditor github.com/microsoft/vs...