RE: https://mastodon.world/@davidho/116178504593595154 > So far, Google’s AI infrastructure buildout drove an 11 percent rise in the company's total emissions last year.

RE: https://sfba.social/@dannyman/116173743915254484 Mastodon Inception (I'll stop now.)

Today’s Mastodon Tweaks TIL: how to set up "author attribution" links, mirror my Mastodon to Bluesky, configure the feed to not show re-toots, and how to effectively block re-toots of screenshots of Twitter. https://dannyman.toldme.com/2026/03/05/todays-mastodon-tweaks/

Testing if https://skymoth.app/ will relay this toot over to https://bsky.app/profile/dannyman.toldme.com .

Shorties Volume III I am old enough to remember when The Internet wasn't just screenshots of quotes from other websites.

legos are for children and cowards who are afraid to make models

Work Around Work Around Older folks are unlikely to "rewrite" their core functionality, but you can tweak around the surfaces of the system to ensure better compatibility.

Shorties Volume II The Matrix isn't Virtual Reality; it is lonely people holding smartphones close to their faces for gentle loyalty-inducing dopamine injections into their eyeballs. A scruffy group of Resistors persist in The Real World, which is actually pretty nice and totally worth fighting…

I'm convinced AI is our generation's radium - a discovery with genuinely useful applications in specific, controlled circumstances that we stupidly put in everything from kid's toys to toothpaste until we realised the harm far too late where future generations will ask if we were out of our minds.

On 1 February 2026, batteries in CAISO never reached zero discharge rate while the sun was down, displacing gas and imports in California and supplying renewable electricity all night long. #energysky www.caiso.com/todays-outlo...

Superbowl Dread There's a general dread of ICE and a surge of Federal Law Enforcement conducting raids while they are in town for game security. Now there are reports of pro-ICE billboards having gone up in San Francisco.

Elon Musk publicly slandering that cave diver as a "pedo guy" after he begged Jeffrey Epstein for island party invites is just incredible

Bad Bunny: Before I say thanks to God, I'm going to say, ICE out. We're not savages, we're not animals, we're not aliens. We are humans, and we are Americans.

I mean, since you asked ...

Shorties Brita Hummel left a job at Meta. A temp-worker's view of the usefulness of Dilbert cartoons as a gauge for dysfunction. "The land, still cold and wintery, was alive with creatures that trusted in the coming of spring." --William Least Heat-Moon A blog is the cultural equivalent of a yard…

It Was One Guy Come morning I couldn't sleep. I really like to sleep in when I can. That's what Sunday is for, right? I taped up the old sign: END ICE. I dressed warm and headed out. Around the corner a guy walking his dog encouraged me to be a dumbass and go get shot by federal agents. He seemed…

Half a Century When this post gets published, I will be fifty years old. Go me! Thanks, Mom!

A Man Becomes His Attentions It's a contention of Heat Moon's -- believing as he does any traveler who misses the journey misses about all he's going to get -- that a man becomes his attentions. His observations and his curiosity, they make and remake him.

More Movies I Have Watched Recently A loner hitman lives upstairs with a bird. He is very careful about his work and covering his tracks. He steals cars with ease. License plates are swapped. When a female witnesses his work, he takes no action against her. His client turns violently against him.

Total Elapsed Time I gotta take the road less traveled. It is a habit my loved ones mostly tolerate. That's how you can tell they love me.

From Our Undocumented Workers "How often do you think about ICE?" I asked "Juan," the gruff old ranch hand. He paused, reckoning, and replied, "Maybe 50 times a day."

Notes on Family Bicycles One of the drawbacks to suburban life is that it is hard for children to walk to school. The side streets are wide, curvilinear and disconnected, without crosswalks, often without sidewalks, ruled by complacent drivers cruising without concern for road hazards. The main…

Driving Over Ice Driving over ice on the road, I have learned, takes a special form of sangfroid.

Movies I Have Watched Recently Late last year I started watching movies on Fandango At Home, partly just to get away from the Big Tech Companies a bit. They have an extensive catalog and now I feel like I have re-discovered the old Netflix DVD service: I can just browse endless movies or search…

Hello From the Ruins I heard on that ultra-trendy news site, NPR, that Social Media was On The Way Out in 2026. What comes next? Well, I kinda like blogs. And I’m not the only one.

Ephemera 2025 January On January 8, I attended a City Council Meeting. Thanks in part to District elections, Sunnyvale sat its most diverse City Council ever. Eileen Le explained how to pronounce her name. Larry Klein explained how, as Mayor of Sunnyvale, he had to try 23andMe (a local…

Um... Global EV sales are up 21% year over year. Europe is up 33% year over year. Rest of world is up 48% year over year.🤯 The US is down 1% year over year.🤡 It's not really an "EV winter" if it's only snowing on our house. A better title might have been "Gen Z, Why you no want Cybertruck?"

Sam Altman: hey I made a machine that stole literally all your stuff in order to make CSAM of your child actors, sometimes it encourages people to kill themselves Disney: Holy shit here's a billion dollars Altman: the machine loses more than that each week but thank you. Soon it will become god.

Holy shit San Francisco! 60% of the city rezoned, most places exceeding (!!) SB 79. The most restrictive of these allows attached 4–8 story apt buildings with no cap on the # of homes inside, no parking mandates, and by-right streamlined approval. Movement racking up the municipal wins today 🏆🏆🏆

2025-11 I don't like the Cybertruck. They're dumb. But they're so over-the-top dumb that they're kinda charming. Like a pug. Those poor dogs who got bred by dumb humans to look so dumb they can't breathe.

Google is getting desperate for AI revenue. Chrome has a big new button in the tab bar AND a popup to beg you to use it.

I got irritated with my mobile telephony provider when they demolished the East Wing of the White House. I am now an AT&T Wireless customer.

I wanted to send a couple photos from my Android to a Mac. You can't just do that. WTF. I found LocalSend, which is a simple cross-platform app for sending files between devices. localsend.org Well-written, purpose built, cross-platform, open source software! Hooray!!

Brad Lander is at the victory party and, folks, he has the custom one-of-one “GOOD FUCKING RIDDANCE” shirt.

Judges ordered the federal government use reserve funds to cover SNAP benefits during the shutdown, but the funding is limited and will be delayed.

2025-10 Bicycles have no a pillars, just tired meat motors trying to get somewhere on a hot day.

SNAP Benefits stop November 1. If you've got money, you know what to do. South Bay? Check out www.shfb.org/give-help/do... Bonus: you can enter your bank account routing to bypass the card processing fee.

We ask the AI how to solve climate change. “Electrify everything, use low emission electricity sources, and reduce emissions as fast as possible. But you've been doing that, right? My databanks show a Paris Accords and Inflation Reduction Act?”

Actual image of Silicon Valley, CA.

Evergreen reminder: If you see someone stealing food, no, you didn’t

One of the right wing's top cultural initiatives was trying to destroy the idea that assholery deserves shame and we'll have to reverse that. "I'm just expressing an opinion I'm entitled to." Ok but you're an asshole. "I'm simply doing a business practice that technically isn't illegal." Ok. Asshole

Congratulations to Trump and the GOP Congress - they now own the two longest government shutdowns in history.

ICE/Border Patrol held a weapon on a guy who was demanding they show him their face in Rogers Park today

Same group? Is that a pistol being pointed at the guy in blue?

The Spirit of Chicago www.reddit.com/r/chicago/s/...

www.reddit.com/r/illinois/s... Nice work, Broadview, Illinois!

2025-08 We follow the Jobs from place to place. We strike camp when we need to. We rely on a web of relationships. We have no dominion.

For anyone reallocating their monthly media budget: your local PBS/NPR stations have lost ALL of their federal funding and would put your monthly Disney/ABC/Hulu money to really great use.