Whoever decided IDEs needed tabs had to know they were bringing a lot of pain into the world. Since most of my current tasks are in review, I counted my tabs before closing them, and there were 285 open. Yikes!

OTD: The Star Trek TOS episode "The Trouble with Tribbles" premiered, directed by Joseph Pevney and written by David Gerrold. It was Gerrold's first professional sale ever, and he created a classic.##StarTrek

High schools in older buildings discover, after banning cell phones, that about half the kids can't read a traditional round clock face. Imagine having to instruct 16 year olds about "the big hand and the little hand." gothamist.com/news/nyc-pho...

The Republican Administration seeks to prosecute corporations that sold to the federal government while having DEI policies on the grounds that having such a policy contradicts the corporation's claim to be providing service from the best employees, and that's fraud. www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

In 2005 Benedict became Pope and the Seahawks won 13 games and went to the Super Bowl In 2013 Francis became Pope and the Seahawks won 13 games and went to the Super Bowl In 2025 Leo became Pope and the Seahawks have won 13 games...

Benedict owed Seattle, he was the Inquisition guy who exiled Seattle's archbishop Hunthausen to decades in a Montana monastery for the crime of refusing to hate Gay people.

This is absolutely and self-evidently true at the moment (tbf, a decade or two ago, it might well have not been obvious like it is now) If only we had capitalism to fully unleash on it right now, as opposed to oligarchic kleptocracy

I've seen people reference the claim that RFK Jr. believes the 1918 influenza came from lab research, but since no one provided a link, I was skeptical that even he could be that stupid. Boy, was I wrong. www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

Of all my favorite anachronisms in the Commonweal series, the one where Graydon sneaks in a Gordon Lightfoot lyric is one of my favorites.

Look, I'm not a television marketing expert, but when you literally own both the KING and KONG callsigns, branding yourself K5/Kong is a weak decision.

Grief, the Bears played that last fourteen seconds like they were the Seahawks. So sad.

Yes. Boil it down, and the paper argues that the folks dreaming of technologically malleable morphologies and cognitive diversities have consistently shown a disdain and loathing for actually existing diversities of bodies and minds, regardless of what those diverse peoples could teach them.

So much FF/yuri lewds drawn by straight men comes across as "Our love could be so passionate and pure if only our gigantic breasts would let us get close enough to kiss."

The largest generation in U.S. history is in their 70s now. And Stephen Miller’s podcaster wife thinks it’s suspicious that there’s a huge surge in home health aides.

My bookie tells me all the oddsmakers are saying the president won't remove the Emma Lazarus poem from the Statute of Liberty until after the mid-terms.

Grief, this is Camp of the Saints levels of wankery. Miller dreams of an alternate America where Americans have never eaten a burrito, never watched anime, never read Heavy Metal, missed Bruce Lee and Jacky Chan, never heard K-pop, and never developed antibiotics.

This is a *huge* issue in university computer science programs right now. The curricula are still very much oriented toward people who have the same facility with the underlying concepts that you or I did, but current undergrads have used Chromebooks all their lives and don't own any of their data.

Things like this remind me that when my school cohort hit college in 1988, it had been four years since the marketing of home computers had shifted from "fun for the family" to "your BOY needs to know this to survive in the new business world."

After Coppelia, the 1886 novel Tomorrow's Eve was an RPF featuring Thomas Edison (!) inventing the perfect sex robot. "Edison" says that sex robots are acceptable substitutes because the majority of women are "mentally empty."

The 1870 ballet Coppélia: The Girl With the Enamel Eyes, is a "comedy" about a young and very eligible man falling for a sex robot built by the "mad doctor" who lives on the edge of town, and how his girlfriend rescues him. The levels of commentary in it are many. philpapers.org/archive/ERSP...

Saw an article titled, "Switching to Linux is easy, but there are some things I had to learn," one of which was: "What is a file and what is a directory." We've made front-ends so easy the current generation doesn't understand what's going on one layer down, much less at the kernel level.

Never seen a cheese push Republican values quite so strongly before.

"Image generation platforms such as Stable Diffusion and CivitAI facilitate harmful practices, including the generation of non-consensual deepfakes and the amplification of misogynistic or hypersexualized content." www.researchgate.net/publication/...

So many self-help books of the last decade are about this. No wonder AI is popular. From "The Four Hour Work Week" on, self-help of the last decade has focused on: "If you can *give the impression* that you did the work, you've got it made. Fake it and you'll make it." AI lets you fake it further.

To someone whose goal is to avoid conflict above all, solidarity is polarizing, and polarization is the problem.

This is a perfect example of David Brooks' job to comfort the comfortable, regardless of what he inflicts on the afflicted. Brooks' audience is upset not at the lack of decency, but at the lack of silence from those America never treated decently before: the impoverished, the queer, the brown.

"Conservatives have better mental health" is a frequent claim on 𝕏itter, but it's probably not true. The outcome is the consequence of the way the surveys are worded to meet the expectations of a conservative-coded white middle-class. sites.tufts.edu/cooperativee...

I have a comic book collection that, I confess, I haven't looked at in ages. I have a huge art box filled with Furry commissions that I haven't put up and, also, haven't looked at since 2022, which was the last time I commissioned anything. I know, when I die, it's all going to the landfill.

I'm surprised someone hasn't done one of the "The alignments" thing with "Lawful Good: Disney's Robin Hood is furry; Lawful Neutral: Tony the Tiger is Furry. Chaotic Neutral: Veggie Tales is Furry; Lawful evil: Paw Patrol is furry; Chaotic evil: Talkie the Toaster is furry" sort of grids.

Another reason why fascism sucks. Once you've eliminated all of the "undesirable" people (who you were paying cheaply), you're left with those who, according to the fascists' own understanding, are empowered to demand more from the system. Fascism is expensive. finance.yahoo.com/news/elon-mu...

I dislike greatly reading a tutorial that mistakes convention for requirement. It is a convention in Rust that if your struct has a single construction semantic, you name it `::new()`. But that's not the same thing as a requirement. The word `::new()` is not special.

There’s a reason the political right wants to keep people dumb.

I think way too much of Rust programming focuses on the "learning to deal with the borrow checker" and far too little on understandnig the ins and outs of the Rust Standard Library.

GOOD NEWS! Researchers have shown Alzheimer’s disease can be REVERSED- not just prevented. Using a potent neuroprotective compound called P7C3-A20, they found RESTORING balance to a central cellular energy molecule (NAD+) not only PREVENTED disease features but REVERSED them, EVEN at late stages.

Trump's DOJ was monitoring all the movements of the Miami Herald reporter who was covering the Epstein case.

It sucks when it's handwritten. Found a note that SEEMS to say "WA [character name]: What if shaman frankness, but with coffee?" (WA is my shorthand for "write about")

"We've got seeding all over the place." Football analysis or bareback gay orgy review?

The Las Vegas Police Department spent a lot of money on "refitted" Cybertrucks "because they're bulletproof." Turns out, they are not in any way bulletproof. fuelarc.com/cars/las-veg...

Corvocat in the darkness #dishonored #art #taur

A long time ago I got this awesome picture from @kaceyfish.bsky.social. #furry #taur

I have two contradictory stances on the traditional "five whys" of root cause analysis. The first: there is never just one reason, never a single root cause. The second: the fifth "why" is ALWAYS "management didn't give us the time or guidance to do it right." AI turns this up to 11.

Sun-Maid Announces Girl In Logo Has Always Been Sentient Raisin Disguising Self In Human Flesh https://theonion.com/sun-maid-announces-girl-in-logo-has-always-been-sentient-raisin-disguising-self-in-human-flesh/

It not hard to believe this Republican Administration committed one moral, ethical, legal or mortal outrage every day, and this list is just the start. www.meidasplus.com/p/500-worst-...

Children learn to read faster and better when they learn to write longhand rather than type. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Tyler Durden's got nothing on these guys. Scientists liposuction fat cells, edit the cells' genes to make them resource hogs, then inject them around cancer tumors to deprive the cancer of resources, killing the tumor. www.ucsf.edu/news/2025/01...

Zelensky lands in Miami. Not a single US official is on hand to greet him. In the language of diplomacy this send an unequivocal message of coldness and hostility. Compare it with the lavish pomp and red carpet shown to Putin when he landed in Alaska a few weeks ago.

The commentors say #Seahawks' Kenneth Walker "dances." He does have a talent for quick changes and springing moves, but given what he's facing his biography should be named "Dances With Beef."

Omaha has an older MacBook with its famously effective heat management, and some of the newest software updates use the GPU heavily enough that this month I've been hearing something from it I've almost never heard before: the fans spinning high.

And here we see evidence of the moment the rabbit sprouts wings and flies away.

We didn't survive and thrive as a species because we had warriors or hunters - pretty much every omnivore can manage that. We did so because we developed Grandmothers, and domesticated Dogs. Community is what defines us as a species, and every "self-reliant" libertarian shitweasel be damned.