as much as i love the creativity of deti-404's name and branding, i also applaud the qazaq community response being to literally create lgbtpropaganda.kz after getting hit with their own nonsense law banning the mythical lgbtq propaganda

i feel like i should try and start operating my own smtp server--or at least a proxy--for one of my email domains just to try and get a handle on how many contemporary "we've sent a code to your email to verify!" things just arent trying _at all_ for domains that aren't major consumer mail providers

people who think they understand computer networks: "it's always DNS" people who have worked on networks at the internet level: "it's always something to do with indian cricket fans"

BUT THIS IS EXACTLY WHAT WE NEED!!!! Dead serious. Believe me, the right-wing is doing this to young people with Ayn Rand and Hayek.

hiro + groundcherry

Марҷан Сатрапӣ дар синни 56-солагӣ даргузашт

look gemini, i know it's pride month and all, but i _suspect_ this guy may not be as much of a young grandmother as you think

There has been a huge lack of the usual creepy robot content from SPIEF so far this year, which is why I was personally relieved to see this video featuring the Buranovskiye Babushki

Google keeps bragging about how most of its code is AI generated. Internally, employees meme about how its AI sucks www.404media.co/google-emplo...

This is outstanding work by @jeremymorris.bsky.social and @seva.bsky.social www.foreignaffairs.com/russia/inert...

“The central technology of autocratic rule is not repression but administration. …Purges, coups, and dramatic confrontations are the exceptions and often symptoms of failure.” I look at some new work on comparative autocracy.

Very funny from /r/balatro

"Everyone knows what is expected of them and is accountable to the goals of the organization." is one way of putting it, yes press.princeton.edu/books/paperb...

Well-executed evisceration of zombie Howard Jarvis antitax sentiment in Oakland via hyperlocal-journalism-on-hyperlocal-journalism vitriol. Multipaper cities used to have this metropolitan perk all the time. www.oaklandreviewofbooks.org/tax-revolt-m...

Now you can keep track of how many billions the AI companies are losing on AI. (Red is spending, green is revenue.) isaiprofitable.com

alternative titles for Bar Association 🤷

hurray, i have successfully extracted a digital version of the one decent qazaq-english dictionary (and have _not_ committed copyright infringement in the process, nope, definitely not)

Patrick Fragman, the former CEO of U.S. nuclear energy firm Westinghouse Electric Company, resigned from his position at Energoatom, which operates Ukraine’s three working nuclear power plants, less than five months after being appointed to the board, the company announced on May 15.

when can we get Jonathan Campion, UK brand ambassador for Shoro Beverages look having finally been to the UK i now know that the quick bev sitch there is DIRE. they NEED Chalap Shoro and Maksym Shoro. ideally sold from the authentic big street stall coolers

The final "Mononoke" movie opens in Japan in two weeks. >> www.youtube.com/watch?v=W9KL...

discovered that apparently nobody's ever done a shittyflute of время, вперёд! and trying reaaaaaaaal hard not to click BUY IT NOW on the finest $7 recorder amazon has to offer

still true

Twenty people

something something we have jd vance at home

someday, perhaps, i will discover what on earth has made google flag one specific firefox profile (but only when in private browing) as an AI scraper, which gets these bizarre obfuscation results. the third image is what private browsing gets from another profile on the same machine

i WILL get through my kindle backlog of academic books. someday. really but for a nominal fee i can take your book to a private back room now, and hey, who knows what might happen there

i expect that there's basically nobody on here i know that'd be amused that the end of night(ish) song in this soho bar is like a prayer other than @andyfreeland.net, but alas, i don't think it's midnight in any timezone maybe some island in the Atlantic or some shit

took my first ever trip to the UK, had the facial recognition system at the bar fail to match my face to my passport, after leaving a boring conversation about AI revolutionizing software development. spent my time in the bar failing to find a fucking basic ass dictionary

visiting bsky from the UK and they censor the @jav.scd.lol account avatar, because it contains cleavage maybe just a general setting applied to nsfw accounts but still lol

i can't fault the spokespersons for leaving out the part where they both complain how much they hate their jobs but like, surely, that exchange must have happened at SOME point

google maps claims theres a cosmetics store near this (presumably abandonded) sulphur factory somewhere out in the karakum desert i aint buyin it

emet-selch voice "in the days of paradise we used to mimic the badger mushroom song to one another and we all loved it. it was the opposite of brainrot. in hydaelyn's world now they all shout 67 at one another and ergo i do not truly view them as alive"

also for the bits of bizarre reality of modern warfare: soldiers from opposing sides stuck in a position where contact with the rest of the unit takes place via drone-delivered radios, or on the reverse side, via a mobile phone that can only order tiny quantities of water and grechka, or log bomb

Fairywren of the Day: Purple-crowned Fairywren 📷 Marc Gardner

spoilers: "a lot of [russian migrants] were not aware of the fact that kazakhstan and kyrgyzstan were a part of the soviet union" the lenin statues simply sprouted from the earth. actually mushrooms. metal mushrooms. metro-2 is actually a mycelium network, far vaster and deeper than thought

apparently there's an english dub of Agony somewhere out there in the world that unintentionally transforms it into a farce

"i wanna say one word to you just one word" "what is it" "generative ai" "that's two words" "my apologies Ben, you are correct, that is indeed two words" "though one of those isn't a word, it's an acronym, so arguably you've said one word and one acronym" "my gosh! so sorry! very correct Ben!"

A scientific study shows that watching experimental animation is good for your brain. www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/dig... Animation: Jonathan Djob Nkondo.

Happy Tax Day folks. As I pointed out here, the technical arguments about having free tax filing is over. Direct File proved it. What we are seeing now is just rent-seekers bribing policymakers to be allowed to keep extracting money from you. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/what-the-d...

the correct answer is pterodactyl and insistence otherwise is why we can no longer trust sociological polling in this country

well i didn't find exactly the meduza article i was searching for, but i _did_ find the most horrible thing i have ever seen, so now you all need to see it to the lavrov, peskov, and nabiullina labubus _are_ real and they _can_ hurt you. not like, physically, but there _are_ worse types of injury

pointless cyrillic thought of the day: im not sure there's _any_ way you could represent the less common english "wh" sound, the one where the wine-whine merger isn't actually merged that sound's just _vanishingly_ uncommon so none of the less common cyrillic alphabets needed a letter for it

qazaq learning moment of the day, mundane version: жату as a present continuous helper trips me up because it's (maybe?) less common than отыру, жүру, and тұру AND because it doesn't simply drop the -у in 3p like the others for... some reason

this is honestly THE best write up of how CSAM detection and perceptual handing works. the visual aids are very helpful in understanding how content is transformed and how detection methods work mahmoud-salem.net/the-invisibl...

ed note: "the spirit of Chinggis Khan" is both the name of the prius in question and and adequate description of the experience described

I've translated a Yiddish short story about the Moon becoming sad because they poets don't understand her anymore. I think that's what's going on here (poor moon)

mods are asleep post camera falling out of plane and landing in a pig pen to be licked by a pig