Peeking inside the process of how raw camera sensor data gets turned into an image that looks something like what you see: https://maurycyz.com/misc/raw_photo/ h/t @nelson #photography

Very decent year-end reading recommendations, featuring the contradictions of capitalism and whodunnits: https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/newsletters/2025-12-30/capitalism-and-crime-books-that-got-me-through-the-year

Saskatchewan winter study. #photography

OH: “My mind was hashtag blown.”

Best wishes! https://boris.bandcamp.com/track/last-christmas

My Mac is running hot, apparently because “WindowServer” is locked on 47% of one CPU permanently. Known bug? #macos

@FediTree Merry Christmas!

Running pre-Christmas errands, a relative who likes cannabis wanted to stop at the dispo. I strolled in too, and at the checkout counter I noticed a sign about Tuesdays. Couldn’t resist, told the relative to consider this part of their Christmas present and pulled out my credit card. Just so I […]

New verb! “Enslopenize” https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/ready-or-not-here-they-come-notes-from-the-ai-force-feed/sharetoken/59aaed33-5309-4a28-8bfc-7f0ed29543f2

What a charming story. Even Its Author Is Shocked by How Fans Have Embraced “Heated Rivalry,” the Gay Hockey Romance Series https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/19/books/heated-rivalry-rachel-reid-hockey-romance.html

“What happened was, a faucet started dripping. And then I managed to route around the malignant machineries of late-stage capitalism. These days, that’s almost always a story worth telling.” https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2025/12/18/Humanist-Plumbing

I'm old enough to remember the unraveling of the Watergate cover-up, and the Epstein story has a very familiar stench. #uspol

So let me get this straight. The current state of fediverse integration on Threads is that you can write posts that federate, people can read and reply to them, you can like their replies, but you can't reply back, repost, or even share the post from Threads. And that's how they're gonna leave it.

Green light. #photography

We just transitioned CoSocial from an ad-hoc combine of AWS, OVH, and DO to @fedihost, see https://fedihost.co, a Managed Fediverse Hosting outfit. Already feels faster, and should be cheaper too. Self-managed instances are cool but not, I suspect, the general-case future.

I'm looking for work again! #nonprofit administrator and program coordinator with super duper grant writing skills. Can work remotely for orgs across #canada #FediHire Thanks for boosting:)

RE: https://toot.community/@jorijn/115525473674096153 Big swathes of the #fediverse are being remorselessly crawled by mindless brute-force bots. If your instance is slow this morning, that’s why. Probably more AI vandalism.

Brutal. Aristotle on Democracy - Existential Comics https://existentialcomics.com/comic/633

Quoth @gruber in https://daringfireball.net/linked/2025/12/15/note-on-sms-marketing: “But there are an infinite number of things in life that cannot be assigned numeric values” John, watch out, there’s a major math rat-hole waiting for you: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infinity#Set_theory […]

RE: https://mastodon.social/@cheeaun/109515757404630583 3 years ago today.

There’s this place we walk by pretty regularly that’s semi-abandoned. The owner replaces parts when they fall off and there are lights at night, but the front and back have been left to return to nature. This chunk of land is worth ~$2.5M Canadian, so an odd […] [Original post on cosocial.ca]

News flash: Billionaires are unpopular. But, the strength of the sentiment and how fast the needle has moved were both surprises to me. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/14/opinion/billionaires-politics-money.html

I must be weird, am one of the apparently 0.02% for whom #pluribus isn’t doing much, 6 episodes in. I mean Rhea Seehorn is great but she’d be greater if they gave her a chance to be anything but angry-and-rude for even a minute here or there. Will watch the last 3 shows despite massive […]

@cheeaun Feature request: When I'm looking at a profile page, a way to search within that profile - yeah, I could include the "from:" in my search but for your handle, for example, that's 29 keystrokes.

Why, how do you transport yours? #caturday

Anybody know anyone on #vancouver City Council? Because they’re talking about seeking alternatives to Xitter: https://bsky.app/profile/jmcelroy.bsky.social/post/3m7qmxxutss24

Among all the (entirely justified) rhetoric about “affordability” I find a striking lack of discussion of half the problem. It’s not just that the rent is too damn high (it is) it’s that the pay is too damn low.

Render Rails Pages Without a Server. Clever! https://intertwingly.net/blog/2025/12/03/Render-Rails-Pages-Without-Server.html

Hello from the Pacific Northwest during a major rain event, distinguished by a more or less complete absence of any actual freaking light or color. So here’s something I snapped a couple days ago, by way of eye therapy. #photography

After all, why shouldn’t electrical-transition towers take the form of giant ethereal robots? https://choishine.com/Giants.html (h/t @nelson )

the term “airplane” is misleading. “airplane segment” would be more accurate. airplanes do not extend indefinitely in even one dimension, let alone two

Ed Zitron offers 15K words on whether Nvidia is like Enron (or several other famous fraudsters) or not. It's amusing and erudite and most people just won't have time to plow through it. Which is a pity, because 80% of the way through there’s a section called: “Is NVIDIA Shipping Millions Of […]

Just ran across https://openwebsearch.eu/news/ for the first time. A small number of years ago I would have called the idea ridiculous. Now I think that, if you got the right people together, it could have a good outcome.

RE: https://cosocial.ca/@coop/115688210893772046 I think this is absolutely the right approach. I think that there's a nice business opportunity in Mastodon-Instances-as-a-Service (MIaaS?), where by “nice” I mean “you can make a nice living” but totally not “Venture capitalists would invest in […]

RE: https://mastodon.social/@emilylowan/115680142012960012 Continuing to be impressed by the direction Ms Lowan and the BC Greens are taking. Old-school forestry just doesn’t work any more, creative destruction is the only way forward.

Tracy Numbers: “Here’s a story about African rhythms and cancer and combinatorics.” https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2025/12/02/Bell-Combinatorics (Also #caturday)

Neurosurgeon analyses Waymo’s data on 100M miles of driverless travel, concludes that it’s dramatically, qualitatively safer (at least the way that Waymo does it). Says if this were a clinical trial they’d stop it because giving placebos would be unethical […]

Didn’t think it was possible that my contempt for FIFA could increase, but I was wrong.

@cheeaun my mentions are like completely fucked up now 😂

Long interview with Steven Guilbeault about his protest resignation from Carney’s cabinet, Canada’s carbon-emissions story, and #climatechange in general. It’s a Bloomberg podcast but there’s a transcript: https://omny.fm/shows/zero/steven-guilbeault-no-way-canada-meets-climate-goals-now #cdnpoli

RE: https://chaos.social/@slothrop/115665760748320616 Not just road test but load test. Climb aboard!

Resistance is futile. You will be assimilated Fa la la la la.

One of my top guilty Internet pleasures: Wonkette: https://www.wonkette.com/p/jesse-watters-pretty-sure-going-maga #uspol

Haha, sorry MAGA, turns out you can’t power all those aspirational AI data centers without renewables. Wow, if they built a bunch of renewable infra and then the bubble popped, that’d be just (*snicker*) terrible… […]

Having been a (light but regular) Wikipedia editor for many years has made me reflexively disbelieve anything I read or hear that includes a number but doesn’t provide a citation to back it up. I think this is a good habit?

HEY CANADA. MP Elizabeth May is sponsoring a petition to get Electoral Reform back in front of Parliament. Could all of us who were utterly betrayed in 2016 when JT reneged on this please go put our electrons onto this one? yes, yes, the petitions don't mean a thing WILL happen, but there was […]

For those of us shaking our heads over the Carney/Notley deal, this seems relevant and… not terrible? https://www.readtheline.ca/p/ken-boessenkool-carney-and-smith Yes, I know Carbon Capture is not actually useful (unless something changed?) Yes, I know they're still talking about building […]

AWS Lambda Managed Instances: Serverless, only with servers! Would like to see some app scenarios with detailed cost breakdown. https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/introducing-aws-lambda-managed-instances-serverless-simplicity-with-ec2-flexibility/ #aws

Learning #GarageBand. The learning curve is steep but not that tall. Does what I need. Downside: Listening to playback of my playing, all I can hear is everything that’s wrong.

Grumpy at America; If you weren’t so dysfunctional I would go to Miami to see the MLS final, where Vancouver’s #vwfc is hoping to topple Messi and co.