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(It's cool, I'm sure that meant something completely different in 1937.)
(NOTE: If you are about to "Well Actually" at me about this in some way, please be advised that I do not give the slightest shit.)
Brian McFadden:
Mick:
You ever think to yourself "but I am just one person, what can I do to make a difference?"
It turns out that "wear an inflatable frog costume and go downtown" is actually a really reasonable answer.
The meandering gospel of Peter:
Peter Thiel is worried about the antichrist. It could be the US. It could be Greta Thunberg. [...]
On the day of Thiel's final lecture in San Francisco, as the mostly young and mostly male crowd lined up to get in, a group of about 20 ...
Against my better judgment, I let my staff start using Basecamp about 7 years ago, and now, for reasons, I would prefer to just be self-hosting everything like we should have done from the start. Do you have experience making the transition from Basecamp to something open ...
Please enjoy jwz mixtape 255.
Or you can call it 0xFF if you're nerdy.
Last night we did a screening of The Lost Boys, and it was epic. Amongst all of our Cyberdeliae, this was the one with the rowdiest audience: lots of screaming and singing along. Excellent costume ...
Azhdarchid:
So, if you're online poisoned like me, you may have noticed that Bluesky CEO Jay Graber has been having sort of a slow motion, low-key public meltdown for the past several weeks. [...]
For the record: I think Jay Graber is a transphobe; I think there's just too
Today I dropped DNA Lounge Membership Card Nine Nine Nine in the mail! Who will be our lucky one thousand? We're gonna need another digit.
We currently have 472 active members, but new sign-ups have slowed to a trickle. It's a pretty good deal, you know. And it also helps ...
Haven't seen this before. Credits of film from major Hollywood studio beg AI companies to pretty please not train on it:
Eponysterically, the movie was "Caught Stealing (2025)".
The SIM Farm Hardware Seized by the Secret Service Is Also Popular With Ticket Scalpers:
The technology used, which can be seen clearly in photos released by the Secret Service, are regularly used by SMS scammers, spammers, and marketers, yes, but the tech is also extremely
My latest big dumb art project is hand-crafted, bespoke QR codes.
"Hey Kate, tell him about the QR."
"There's an Olympic sized QR code on the roof. Take the stairs over there."
"Yeah. Sure."
So yeah, I painted a 25' QR code on the roof. And like the Nazca lines of Peru, it
Anthropic destroyed millions of print books to build its AI models:
Ultimately, Judge William Alsup ruled that this destructive scanning operation qualified as fair use -- but only because Anthropic had legally purchased the books first, destroyed each print copy after ...
Libs of TikTok called GWAR's performance an act of "incitement."
A representative for GWAR told The New York Post, "Normalizing violence? [...] GWAR is to violence what the New York Post is to journalism. Ridiculous."
Drew Sheneman:
The structure built over the remains of Chernobyl's destroyed unit 4 suffered such extensive damage in a drone strike in February that it may not be possible to restore it:
The New Safe Confinement - the largest moveable land-based structure ever built - was constructed to ...
Wireless to THE NEW YORK TIMES, February 4, 1939:
Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels today ended the professional careers of five "Aryan" actors and cabaret announcers by expelling them from the Reich's Chamber of Culture on the grounds that "in their public appearances ...
It's on its back, baking in the hot sun, but you're not helping, Leon. Why is that?
This version introduced a number of new features:
Plugins! This was the first time a web page could make sound, via RealAudio.
Incremental display of progressive JPEGs on slow dialup connections (which I demoed a few years back.)
Animated GIFs that were actually useful. ...
Billionaire ketamine enthusiast unavailable for comment.
Pilot dies after plane carrying nearly 200kg of SpaceX-branded cocaine crashes in remote Brazil:
Authorities said the pilot was found dead outside the aircraft after it crashed in Coruripe, an area on Brazil's ...