I am Jack's complete lack of surprise.

one way or another, your brain and your body will take breaks. you can do this intentionally, through planning for it, sharing skills, and passing things off… … or unintentionally, in ways that are more disruptive to you and others. you can take regular, shorter breaks, or burn out entirely.

Apple & Google removed ICE tracking apps in their app stores. TikTok reportedly suppressed videos criticizing ICE & the shooting of Alex Pretti. Meta blocked Facebook groups tracking ICE & links to a database of agents that the government wants to keep secret. Big Tech is enabling Trump's regime.

Sound advice for ethical ai use

A lengthy but very interesting read.

children shouldn’t need to be this brave, and i’m deeply ashamed that we’ve failed them so badly. may we all let our collective shame inspire us to action, instead of centering our feelings of inadequacy.

PSA

I think we should just shut down the entire concept of generating images using AI. Outlaw it, or as close as you can come to doing so. I know it's not possible to eliminate it completely, but we definitely can stop companies from scaling it up to "industrial-scale abuse".

Wrote 215 lines to ../../../../../.claude/plans/kind-hugging-cocke.md .. you what?

How to Keep a Girl Forever

I am old enough to remember when Apple and Google told the social media giants that they'd remove their apps from their app stores if they broke their terms of service. Weird!

HNY my peeps. May your 2026 be exactly what you need

We should bring this Christmas routine back en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roland_... Each year, he was obliged to perform "saltum, siffletum, pettum" (a jump, a whistle, [and] a fart that were all done at once)

lotr is really just an epic journey about a single hobbit’s quest to learn how to set a single fucking boundary with his best friend

It's important to know the right folks

I am sad to inform you that Calibri is now officially woke

‘The whole thing disgusts me’: Australians ditch US travel as new rules require social media to be declared | Australia news | The Guardian share.google/zHwuiLZyWWg3...

regret to inform you the youth are recording entire concerts on their Nintendo DS

There is no reason why two married people should both know what HMAC keys are At most one person can know, and the other person can live in peace

Joint Statement of the Acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery by Netflix.

Fuck yeah. mitchellh.com/writing/ghos...

When did people first arrive in Australasia? New archaeogenetics study dates it to 60,000 years ago theconversation.com/when-did-peo...

I'm either listening to 2020s modern rap, or 90s stuff.. no inbetween

Random family dinner conversation to online merch store with ~3 hours off-and-on effort, what a wonderful world. (If skulls and dropbars are your jam, check out dropbargoods.co.)

ASD's social media team launch an attempt to get another category added to the #hacklore "this is not a realistic threat, please stop worrying about this" list 😔 I find this advice inexplicable and hard to align with any real-world threats

The purpose of a system of is what it does.

Hung out with a @fre.bsky.social. Would recommend. ❤️

i’m sorry what the fuck are you tryna sell me?

Mid-west Emo? Sure! This is such a tune

What is it about the Line of Duty tv series.. the interview scenes, often taking up to 25-50% of the episodes, are so dry, yet, I really do hang on every word.

Please support the charity that looks after music industry workers SUPPORT ACT Donate here for Aus Music T-shirt Day ausmusictshirtday.org.au/t/oztix this is Oztix fundraising campaign but many different music orgs will have their own campaigns Show me your tees!!

Hey, so, it's been a real tough few weeks. Send your pet pics

Spent this weekend processing and uploading the @bsidescbr.bsky.social 2025 talks. Amazing content, what an awesome conference 😍

I love everything about this letter - a list of things the general public should and shouldn't worry about when it comes to security www.hacklore.org/letter

Academic cryptography: "we need post-quantum cipher suites, which will solve everything" Real world crypto: "key management is hard lol" www.nytimes.com/2025/11/21/w...

Because they're freakin cute! www.iflscience.com/why-do-croco...

Nice work @kawaiicon.bsky.social www.wired.com/story/this-h...

I’m starting to think AI is just depicting what is happening to us metaphorically in a visual format

When did coding up frontends become about a million times more complicated than backends?

cloudflare's on-duty IT staff bangs on the doors which I have padlocked from the inside as I calmly break open lava lamp after lava lamp and drink the contents

Hot take - even as a joke, I don't really like the idea of ppl blaming interns for taking down production Even on the chance it happened to be true (and there are definitely cases where it wasn't an intern), if an intern was able to do that, that's a problem with the processes and systems in place

If you see this post a bird.

Redid my entire nvim config the other day using Paq. Surprisingly quick to get things going well.

Good news #kawaiicon! · I've uploaded a little analysis of the "Bullshit Job" survey results garden.errbufferoverfl.me/notebook/202... · Annnd, made the short-form results available for download! garden.errbufferoverfl.me/soapbox/bull... All the content is licensed CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 🌸 xoxo 🌸

Interview with the Vampire was released 31 years ago today 🧛

I didn't take nearly enough photos at #kawaiicon. I'm not a confident shooter, and it is important to me to respect people's needs, privacy, or other requirements. But, here's a few random pics I took. Thanks Wellington!! glass.photo/xntrik/serie...

Also I definitely wouldn’t go there and check the Store navigation and click the Black Friday sale link idk

Back home. Forecast: 31°c.