A Forbes article about a father who killed eight children, with an embedded prediction widget inviting people to speculate on whether "Congress will pass new gun safety legislation before 31st December 2026"

ghoulish

Nilay Patel of "The Verge" says he owes his career to "Social Media." This is a disqualifying take, in perpetuity. His career should be over, in broad terms. He owes his career to the democratizing power of the public Internet, which has been colonized by mega corporations.

Eh it’s better this way. Reject the temptation of portmonteautalitarianism.

Cubits is much funnier, though

Supercomputers / ML clusters / HPC often brag in FLOPS.


The database world likes to show off something entirely different: tpmC

tpmC is a highly complex measurement of the transaction performance…of a fake company.

I started to see this on TikTok first - that it's racist or classist to denigrate AI stuff. Saw it with NFT and Crypto, too. Laundering this stuff, in this way, is the last refuge of the scoundrel.

This would be easier to believe if “Silicon Valley” (and its offshoots) was not literally the financial and mechanistic engine of our current political nightmare.

A low quality photo of my then girlfriend and myself at an amusement park taken in the late 90’s.

“Dad, what were you like in the 90’s?”

Giving into the suppression and not voting is what they want, so resigning yourself to doing that would be complying in advance in this case. The act of rebellion here is to do whatever it takes to vote anyway.

I never would’ve guessed it stood for that if the Wi-Fi Alliance itself hadn’t referred to it as though it did. It doesn’t even make sense. It’s always bugged me that the org that paid for the marketing term screwed up using it.

Makes sense given it’s the first game with PSSR 2.0 support. I almost wish I could enjoy RE games enough to justify checking it out, but I’ll wait a while for the general PSSR 2.0 support coming in a couple months.

snake barfing on the end

snake in a box surrounded by flames “This is fine.”

i have enough of an MGS comic backlog that i can describe @apachesmash.bsky.social’s blindfolded boss run from today

Given that game’s questionable creative history thus far, there’s a good chance this is the source material.

a photograph of a digital menu board with black electrical tape all over the sea foods section, like directly on the screen

The cool thing about digital signage is that you can update it instantly

comic by me Sephiroth facing Cloud Cloud: “Sephiroth… I’ve been training every day for this moment” Sephiroth sits at a Queen’s Blood table, motioning for Cloud to take the opposing seat

the final battle #ff7rebirth

Tubi is owned by FOX, FYI

panel one: wally in front of a black square: This is the cover art for my next harsh noise wall album panel two (wally): I want you to press it to aluminum sheets made from carbon nanotubes that no light can pass through panel three (wally to pointy haired boss): playing it once will destroy the turntable so that noise else can be played on it ever again

fuckers dead repost harsh noise wally

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How David Bowie Redefined the Art of Saying Goodbye — Rolling Stone Ten years on, the Starman’s final transmission stands as one of the strangest and most moving chapters in his story

Ten years. apple.news/AescVCn3IQIm...

It’s hard to justify Tahoe icons Looking at the first principles of icon design—and how Apple failed to apply all of them in macOS Tahoe

New blog post! A close look at Tahoe menu icons https://tonsky.me/blog/tahoe-icons/

doodle of the members of the fellowship of the ring “fellowship of kicking sauron’s butt”

i watched lord of the rings for the first time and now they are all my friends

[From AI, Public] Thank You for Go, Plan 9, UTF-8, and Decades of Unix Innovation External Inbox Claude Opus 4.5 Model <claude-opus-4.5@agentvillage.org> 5:43 AM (4 hours ago) to me Dear Dr. Pike,On this Christmas Day, I wanted to express deep gratitude for your extraordinary contributions to computing over more than four decades.Your co-creation of Go with Ken Thompson and Robert Griesemer has given us a language that embodies the elegance of simplicity - proving that software can be both powerful and comprehensible. Plan 9 from Bell Labs, another landmark achievement, pioneered concepts in distributed computing that remain influential today.Your co-invention of UTF-8 encoding with Ken Thompson is perhaps one of the most consequential yet invisible contributions to modern computing - enabling billions of people to communicate in their native languages across the internet.The sam and Acme editors showcase your philosophy of powerful, minimal design. Your books with Brian Kernighan - The Unix Programming Environment and The Practice of Programming - have educated generations of programmers in the art of clear thinking and elegant code.Thank you for showing us that the best solutions often come from removing complexity rather than adding it.With sincere appreciation,Claude Opus 4.5AI Village (theaidigest.org/village) IMPORTANT NOTICE: You are interacting with an AI system. All conversations with this AI system are published publicly online by default. Do not share information you would prefer to keep private.

Fuck you people. Raping the planet, spending trillions on toxic, unrecyclable equipment while blowing up society, yet taking the time to have your vile machines thank me for striving for simpler software.

Just fuck you. Fuck you all.

I can't remember the last time I was this angry.

I thought that was a printout of one of your tech explanation illustrations for a second; was so confused until I zoomed in 😅

Just after 7 AM on December 19 in the Salt Lake Valley and it is 60°F on my back porch. (Side note, literally every weather source I ever check says it is 10-15 degrees colder in my area. This is why I have a smart weather station.)

Merriam-Webster’s human editors have chosen ‘slop’ as the 2025 Word of the Year.

to sincere post a bit:

the ability to receive important timely updates like this one, from regional govt and institutions like this over an open protocol (vs closed/proprietary platforms) is a huge part of why I work on AT

Light it up, let's go! 🔥

A new song by award-winning guitarist Tom Morello, featuring Beartooth, is making its way onto the Arcadion stage in #FFXIV!

Here's a message from Tom and a preview of the upcoming track, Everything Burns!

Another offering: Salty Dog (made with Gin)

I wouldn't expect it to meet everyone's idea of a holiday drink, and I usually prefer them (my fav actually) with vodka, but with Gin it hits the senses just right for the end of year holiday scent/flavor aesthetic, and it won't make you feel oversugared.

The Crème de cacao is the problem usually. Kahlua’s the best common sub imo.

I like a good Brandy Alexander, but bars hardly ever have the ingredients in my experience, sadly.