my job is laptop but I don't fully understand laptop so my daily life is full of small mysteries and this keeps me beautifully naive as like a foal

Age verification is a mess but we’re doing it anyway

In the Seventh Month, when there are fierce winds and heavy showers, it is quite cool and one does not bother to carry a fan. On such days I find it pleasant to take a nap, having covered myself with some clothing that gives off a faint smell of perspiration.

i am not emotionally prepared for this kind of change

The purpose of this website is to help unburden your brain by releasing horrible sentences that live in there like demons

all the pretty horses out there, cantering over the plains, creating ebooks

there's nothing better than being a non car guy whose car is making a funny noise, bravely deciding to look under your car anyway just in case the problem is really obvious, and then the problem is so obvious that maybe you shouldn't have been driving the car

crying for normal reasons (my favorite professor died in 2018 and I'm looking at his CV for books to read and noticed my name is on the it from when he was on my undergraduate writing portfolio committee) www-s3-live.kent.edu/s3fs-root/s3...

Someone has torn up a letter and thrown it away. Picking up the pieces, one finds that many of them can be fitted together.

Very contemporary and wise words from Sören Kierkegaard:

One of my male friends started taking testosterone to “build muscle” and has just ended up extremely horny, and one thing led to another and I’ll just say if you haven’t already, one thing you can do this …uhh November is listen to this episode of Panic World about the No Fap movement and extremism

the password to the louvre surveillance server was "louvre" www.thesocialpost.it/2025/11/02/f...

Language shapes how we think about the systems that govern our lives. Here's your guide to the terminology that's shaping “Age Verification” laws, and why you should care about these distinctions. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

Yorgos, ya did it

Rare Muni Cosmo, who received an entire caprese sandwich for free from a passenger, god bless public transit

you can NOW preorder the Dekoda: surveillance for your shit! It "analyzes gut health" with..."advanced sensors." But don't worry--its got a "validated" algorithm and fingerprint sensor (?) and is end-to-end encrypted.

A man whom one loves gets drunk and keeps repeating himself.

Inquiry to a fancy NY art gallery: “‘Price upon request’ doesn’t phase me, it is the water I swim in! Tell me the HISTORY of the piece; madame! Why, it’s not even a painting, merely one of 54 SILKSCREENs of a 1940s communist propaganda poster.” Deep breath. Sent. Saw I signed it as “Jason Jelley.”

Slept through my 630am alarm and had to reschedule a flight, but got a full refund and will just arrive a few hours later. The kind of thing we will tell our grandkids used to be possible

The writer who created the “cyberpunk” genre was born eight years before the phrase “Artificial Intelligence” was coined, and in his lifetime it’s both been invented and then become analagous with “things that are false”

A friend writes: I saw someone's post somewhere that talked about how their nine-year-old and all his friends have started using "That's AI" instead of "I don't believe you." Mom: "We're having dinosaur meat for dinner tonight." Kid: "That's AI."

If your popular product was referenced in the assassination of a major political figure and you’re thinking, “how long before I can put it on sale to pick up some of that free PR?” 18 days seems about right I think

If you are wondering whether you should have seen One Battle After Another on film in an IMAX theatre tonight I’m sorry to say you probably should have

don't pay taxes, pay lobbyists!

Egypt's President Abdul Fattah al-Sisi has pardoned the prominent British-Egyptian coder, blogger, and activist Alaa Abdel Fattah, who has been imprisoned for six years, state media and his family say. www.bbc.com/news/articl...

I got a question into the final Ask Marc Anything episode of WTF with Marc Maron. You’ll have to pay three bucks to listen to it (and every bonus episode and every episode ever without ads) but you can guess which question was mine for fun wtfpod.supercast.com/subscriber_v...

TIL: Some Long Covid sufferers find sympathy in the “vaccine injured” community and refer to their comrades as having… “Long Vaccine” A kleptocracy broke the information ecosystem and pushed a mistrust of experts and science while failing to help its citizens and you’re laughing? You’re laughing?

So is there just not gonna be a midterm

"I just want to say, go birds, fuck ICE and free Palestine," "Hacks" star Hannah Einbinder at the #Emmys

The wife just got confused and said “Gene Hacks…man?” trying to come up with Jean Smart on Hacks

Literally slipped on a banana peel today while walking the dog. Didn’t fall down, but a lot of things clicked for me

NEW on EFF’s “How to Fix the Internet” - @archive.org founder @brewster.kahle.org joins Cindy Cohn and @thejasonkelley.com to discuss how the free flow of knowledge makes all of us more free.

Found a bottle of fish sauce in the cabinet that expired before his first term started and used it out of spite

Trynna use social media less but Eddington is forcing me to look at literally anything other than this portrait of May 2020 and mask hating conspiracy theorists. It turns out this reminder of the world five years ago makes at least some parts of August 2025 feel slightly less fucked up somehow

The current conservative “they’ve gone woke” complaint is that Cracker Barrel is removing the old man in a rocking chair next to a barrel from their logo. Their stock has lost a hundred million dollars of value I am not kidding

If we set aside all the hype and set the right guardrails around AI’s training and use, it has the potential to be a profoundly empowering and liberating technology, @randomwalker.bsky.social tells EFF’s Cindy Cohn and @thejasonkelley.com on the new “How to Fix the Internet.”

Even superintelligent AI cannot simply replace humans for most of what we do, nor can it perfect or ruin our world unless we let it, AI Snake Oil’s @randomwalker.bsky.social tells EFF’s Cindy Cohn and @thejasonkelley.com on the new “How to Fix the Internet.”

“This is probably the worst thing in my view that has ever happened to our rights online,” EFF’s @thejasonkelley.com tells David Ruiz on @Malwarebytes.com’s Lock and Code podcast, discussing the security and privacy risks of online age verification. www.malwarebytes.com/blog/podcas...

FSC v Paxton got me to join the @fivefourpod.bsky.social Patreon level that gets me slack access so I can find out what other music/podcasts/drugs other impact litigation staff are into to survive

can’t lie the texas democratic party are cooking with this, this is insanely good news

NEW on “How to Fix the Internet” - Many of the internet’s thorniest problems can be attributed to the concentration of power in a few corporate hands, @karaswisher.bsky.social tells EFF’s Cindy Cohn and @thejasonkelley.com.

“San Francisco is a techbro nexus, a hippy dippy hangout, a shit-filled, druggy haven—or a mix of it all.” But what if I told you I just saw a very pregnant (white, if it matters) woman blasting a (tobacco, if it matters) cig while waiting at the bus stop by the Asian farmers market? What then?

whoever coded Sharepoint is a sadist

MAY EVERY DAY BE ANOTHER WONDERFUL SECRET