The reason AI is so sketchy is because some of you incorrectly identified motorcycles.

Rewatching _Discovery Season 4_ and I keep thinking, wow, the Direct Marketing Association gets _really_ vicious by the 31st century!

Has anyone here moved a blog that uses the #WordPressActivityPub plugin to a new domain?

I'm familiar with the Migrating WordPress steps, HTTP redirects, and ActivityPub migration (which it looks like is only supported on the incoming side ATM). What I want to know is:

Is there anything […]

Part of a concrete staircase, yellow visibility stripes painted near the edge of each step. Only two steps are visible in frame. On the lower one, someone has scrawled the word COVID inside the stripe.

Watch that first step...

It occurs to me that this is just another example of the "you said this label was bad!" "i meant the thing the label refers to is bad!" pattern that wastes so much space in political discourse.

Microsoft finally begins removing Copilot from Notepad on Windows 11 — but the AI still persists A new Notepad update for Windows Insiders begins Microsoft's push to reduce Copilot on Windows 11, replacing it with AI-powered "writing tools" instead.

Windows users: We don't need Copilot in Notepad!
Microsoft: OK, we'll remove the branding.
Windows users: That's not what we meant!

www.windowscentral.com/microsoft/windows-11/mic...

Has anyone here moved a blog that uses the #WordPressActivityPub plugin to a new domain?

I'm familiar with the Migrating WordPress steps, HTTP redirects, and ActivityPub migration (which it looks like is only supported on the incoming side ATM). What I want to know is:

Is there anything […]

A century of (don’t get creeped out) hair samples shows how sharply lead exposure fell after modern environmental rules took hold in the United States. A PNAS study found that current lead concentrations in hair from Utah’s Wasatch Front are almost 100 times lower than before the Environmental […]

So, both human.json and Human JSON exist, and they're completely unrelated to each other (aside from involving JSON).

_sigh_

Rainbow staircase painted by Manuel Maratto in Arzachena, Sardinia, Italy, featuring a vivid gradient of colors flowing up a steep village street toward a small church, with warm evening lights, pastel houses, and Mediterranean details framing the scene.

🌈 Rainbow Staircase — By Manuel Maratto in Arzachena, Sardinia, Italy 🇮🇹 Made You Dream (12 Photos): streetartutopia.com/2026/04/09/street-art-th...

Arzachena’s Santa Lucia staircase is part of a recurring public-art […]

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So what's the best, most open, e-reader to get?

I'm being pushed out of one increasingly locked-down corporate ebook racket and I don't want to sign up to another one.

So:

- Who's making the best e-readers that'll allow me to buy ebooks from different providers?
- Who's selling eBooks that […]

See also: "seriously, but not literally."

It's been said that "patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel," but there's at least one more: "I was only kidding! Can't you take a joke?"

The 10-Year-Old Nikon D5 DSLR Really Is the Best Camera for Artemis II While much of the discussion surrounding the Artemis II crew's beautiful photos from their Orion spacecraft has focused on the images themselves, and they are fantastic shots, some of the discussion has surrounded the cameras used to capture the photos. Photographers love chatting gear, after all. While the Nikon D5 DSLR may seem like a puzzling choice as the primary camera on a prestigious space mission in 2026, it's the best tool for the job. [Read More]

Why those gorgeous shots from Artemis are courtesy of a 10-year-old Nikon camera, rather than anything shipped since then: petapixel.com/2026/04/06/the-10-year-o...

#Photography #nikon

Probably my proudest moment on Twitter was when someone was talking about climate change, and a sealion said "oh yeah? prove it" and somebody said "well have you seen the report from BOFA?" and the sealion said "what's BOFA?", and I jumped in with a link to Bank of America's report on climate change

Continuing my survey of current web browsers, I'll note that the Tor Browser is really good at its job of keeping your private web browsing _actually private_ , and there are mitigations available for edge cases like someone being able to tell that you're using Tor (even if they can't tell what […]

I first got online in 1992. This gives me quite the view of internet history.

When I wonder why there are hardly any successful, popular, creative internet projects anymore, I always circle back around to how much less money there is at the lower tiers of the economy (anything below $1b).

It's […]

I will say this again: Science isn’t just something that nerds do, it’s the foundation of the modern world.

It’s why this app exists. It’s why child mortality rate isn’t 50% anymore. It’s how we’re able to launch people to the moon. It’s how we’re able to grow food that feeds half the world’s […]

yellow metal school sign, leaning on a wall in an abandoned building ivy grows on the wall

School's out, forever

📷 Olympus Chrome Six
🎞️ #kodakgold #120film

Ireland; September 2023

#kodakgold120 #mediumformat #photography #kodak #ireland #abandoned #filmphotography

@futurebird Strange that God would teleport him to a restaurant rather than, say, teleport emergency supplies to people who need them.

@matt Anyway, I'll vouch for both GoToSocial and Snac for self-hosting, depending on your priorities. Snac is _really_ minimalist in terms of resources and appearance, but unlike GTS it _does_ have a web interface for reading and posting. GTS is a lot more polished, and has been doing a lot of […]

@matt There's a tool called slurp that can import your old posts from an exported archive. I used it to import my photo posts from Mastodon and Pixelfed to GoToSocial.

https://codeberg.org/vyr/slurp

It uses the Mastodon API to do the importing, so in theory it should be able to import to snac […]

Large trompe-l’œil mural titled “The Drunken Ship” by Claire Daliers on the corner of a multi-story building in Brussels, Belgium, depicting a tall sailing ship crashing through painted ocean waves that wrap around the facade, with white sails billowing across windows and the illusion of the vessel breaking out of the wall, blending sky, sea, and architecture into a realistic maritime scene on a rainy urban street.

The Drunken Ship — Claire Daliers in Brussels, Belgium <3 14 Murals That Change the Mood of a City: streetartutopia.com/2026/04/03/murals-that-c...

Demonstrators Arrested After Sit-In In Idaho Protesting Extreme Felony Trans Bathroom Ban 9 Idaho demonstrators were arrested after refusing to leave the Governor's office.

1. A day after Gov. Little signed Idaho's extreme bathroom ban with 5 years in prison, demonstrators were arrested in Idaho for staging a sit-in.

This comes at the same time that a transgender woman deliberately violated Kansas ban.

Resistance is spreading.

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A quotation from George Orwell

> All nationalists have the power of not seeing resemblances between similar sets of facts. A British Tory will defend self-determination in Europe and oppose it in India with no feeling of inconsistency. Actions are held to be good or bad, not on their own merits […]

Report: Decision Not To Call Film ‘The Baby Yoda Movie’ To Cost Disney $900 Million BURBANK, CA—Citing nearly a billion dollars of pent-up consumer demand for entertainment featuring an infant version of an already beloved character, a new report released Wednesday by Gower Street Analytics concluded that Disney’s decision not to call its upcoming Star Wars film The Baby Yoda Movie would cost the studio roughly $900 million. “By naming the film The Mandalorian And […] The post Report: Decision Not To Call Film ‘The Baby Yoda Movie’ To Cost Disney $900 Million appeared first on The Onion.

The Onion's got a point:

Report: Decision Not To Call Film ‘The Baby Yoda Movie’ To Cost Disney $900 Million

#StarWars #silly #branding

OK, I can return to my inconveniently-timed afternoon errands.

Weird to think that it took _this long_ for me to be able to watch a crewed moon mission launch live, and that I watched it from the side of the road, on a pocket computer with more computing power than the systems that ran the last […]

[Imagine if... (alternate press conference)]

@AdrianRiskin @futurebird Pete has been making me think of the "blood and guts and veins in my teeth" speech lately...

At this point I'm fully expecting a Supreme Court ruling that requiring food service employees to wash their hands violates their "sincerely held religious belief" rejecting the existence of germs.

Mitch McConnell has a lot to answer for.

New game review on my website!

Proverbs
★★★★★

Like a calming, but weirdly addictive giant board of Minesweeper, only instead of marking explosives, you're slowly uncovering a giant pixellated painting.

https://hyperborea.org/reviews/games/proverbs/
#puzzle #minesweeper #painting #art #games […]