Look, if you're not an expert you wouldn't know, but this chart is bullshit. They could not possibly measure this as 1. How can you tell for sure? There's no reliable automated way. 2. You're not counting the many sites that are blocking crawlers now. But there's an even more important reason...

You do not, in fact, have to hand it to the NYT for a basic headline. The bar is so low. It seems like people are excited by the possibility that the paper can publish light handed criticism right next to the congratulatory celebration of authoritarian regimes. !!Woohoo we did a little critique!!

Leslie Lamport is also the guy who wrote a paper titled Buridan’s Principle, which is clearly a paper that tries to break some kind of record for published academic works given the number of times the word “ass” occurs in it. He’s got a sense of humor and is certainly trolling us all with LaTeX.

LFG!

Maybe spend money fixing OMNY and not a giant inflatable. 🤦🏼‍♀️

30 years ago this was peak performance and it was better.

me to a friend: "did you see this shit the @roblox.com CEO said?" friend: "Check his hard drive asap" tbh I agree

Love this. Better hold onto that domain.

This is an amazing fact

Wait. Can someone ask Ezra Klein to lean in on this? I'm sure it's all our fault for making the Nazis have to resort to violence since we didn't volunteer for the camps.

my favorite Half Life 1 glitch: Because of how the automatic voice-syncing works, the security guards mouth the beeps and boops you get when they punch in codes. (It happens to the guard at the end of the trolley ride too)

This should scare anyone who understands the scale of this and how easily manipulated these systems become. For some, it might just make us a little dumber or less eager to question what we read. For others it’s an effective capture where everything real becomes secondary to the prompt.

Kinda ironic seeing sovereign.tech getting hit by the Cloudflare outage today. Some low hanging fruit for them to pick.

I can’t deal with US politics anymore. There are so many self serving parties and politicians. Sure, I’m happy about Mamdani and all that made his campaign happen but what a fucking mess of an opposition party. Democrats might as well explicitly join the MAGA circlejerk.

There is space in the tent for MTG but not Mamdani 😭 These are the people I’m supposed to trust with my life? Everyone pls bffr.

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The center has no tent. The emperor has no clothes.

I’m going to be honest with you: The headline is appalling, but the piece, which indeed has an absolutely bizarre tone of nostalgia, is worse.

Surely they just need to double down on unpopular policy because then they can tell the left that they’re taking too much space in the big tent.

My brain has been back on distributed systems engineering and I immediately read this as CAP theorem and had the oddest chuckle.

I feel like I need to boil my brain in vinegar and dish soap after this week

nothing is funnier than rightoids being like “Hehe your favs are also in the epstein files” as if my favs ever included a former Democratic president and known sex pest

I'm trying to decide if I move my posting to Mastodon and then crosspost here or just keep these timelines separate. I am leaning towards crossposting with an automated tool of some sort.

Chat control is still possible. EU residents should make calls and share the post more widely.

Really hate the mod team here. Hyperbole or not, we’re at a point where they just expect us to blink as we watch the moral rot of conservatives spread like it’s normal because we can’t ask for consequences deserved by traitors.

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I mean, the 2D artists had their heads on straight, back in the day. I feel like the shift happened when Zero Suit Samus became playable in Smash Bros, especially the redesign with high heels

Open AI loses copyright case in Germany. Judge Elke Schwager summarized the case saying that if you want to build something and need components, "then you purchase them and do not use the property of others."

Posting this as motivation to get back into training regularly. This was such a good week at a cabin completely off grid with @janine.remix.io. I was so much more fit that year.

The rational basis for government is completely missing in the US. The lies and corruption are so blatant. How is anyone buying the statements from any elected official anymore? Doubly so most media (for example, NYT often loudly spreading pro-trump propaganda, among so many more offenders).

Cannibalistic Oreos?!?

Why is there always that one bro trying to go way to fast at the ice rink?

“What comes after English?” was one of many interesting conversations earlier tonight. Seeing an internet that shakes loose of its origins will be something I think we’ll start to see in more obvious ways, though it seems like walled off apps have slowed this down a bit.

I’m slowly using Mastodon more but now the choice comes down to where I want my identity to live. I do have a small account on mastodon.social but I am not sure it’s really the spot I want to anchor to. How have people been discovering their options?

Ok. I managed to both break and then “repair” my laptop at xhain tonight. 😂 Good thing it happened somewhere I had tools available.

Kyle Kingsbury is not a journalist. He is not an op-ed writer. He is a computer safety researcher. And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine. In under 1600 words. aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...

I was pondering the Stolpersteine around me on my way home last night. How did the world confuse “never again” to mean apply to anything other than all people?

Schumer sucks. We all know this. Even he does. He is driven by the same kind of delusional self importance that Trump is. The only difference is he doesn’t have the P2025 people whispering in his ear.

Ok. This is good merch. 😂 great performance at SO36

here, take this

pre-writing a devastating obituary for your enemy is god-tier hating of a kind you don’t often see anymore. renaissance haterism. beautiful stuff.

US friends should check this out. Potentially a better alternative to dropping GrapheneOS on a Pixel with all the associated caveats. Personal devices need to support privacy out of the box.

I joined the Gleam (programming language) discord which is great but I was entirely unprepared for the immediate discussion on bikes. Such a welcome surprise from the community. 👋

So it turns out... the US air travel system was incredibly, deeply dependent on federal funding to just run day-to-day all this time, to the benefit of private airline shareholders, when everyone thinks that state-run trains are leeching off the government. Weird!

39C3 time .. probably won’t be lucky but I will try. 🤞

am reminded of the old joke: what did James Watson discover? Rosalind Franklin’s notes.

This is like the VC version of the one more lane bro transit meme crossed with south park logic. 1) just invest 10% of the gdp one more time 2) ??? 3) profit

youtu.be/hF0NKvmQmVA #meshtastic

I’m so deflated by something I knew was coming. Honestly this is why I chose to go somewhere where I had friends and community because that is how we get through things. Sometimes things are too hard to do alone. I refuse to give up truth for a despot.

Gender markers shouldn't even be on passports at all in the first place. They are unnecessary and I'm glad Justice Jackson hints at this. They weren't even added until 1972 when women started to be able to travel independently of their husbands and fathers.