A screenshot of a white-on-black terminal depicting a 19x19 go board in ascii graphics, with empty grid intersections as periods, and black and white as Os and #s

It’s absolutely incredible that one of the largest Japanese-run Go servers, which has been running since 1992, is still accessed entirely via Telnet. And while most players use GUI clients that use Telnet under the hood, you can still connect manually and get ASCII graphics streamed to you

The best movie scene from the bible

@mayor.nyc.gov: "If you are a Mario Kart fan, government is Yoshi and philanthropy is the Golden Mushroom, that edge we need to beat Bowser on the Rainbow Road. To belabor this metaphor even further, Bowser is corporate greed in this scenario."

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Poster which shows color photo scene of moving, a room with boxes and clothes sitting on the floor, a chair, and the end of a bed (white rails forming a headrest and a mattress with a red cover). The text of the poster is: "Impact (small logo top left)," "According to a new survey by the Movement Advancement Project, approximately 401,000 transgender people have relocated from one U.S. state to another since the 2024 presidential election." "The mass relocations in 2025 due to safety concerns, political conditions, and anti-trans laws nd policies have largely impacted conservative states across the country."

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This is worth 3 minutes of your time. No one wants to eat at a restaurant that only serves bland chicken. (It’s not about chicken, or restaurants, tho)

He shot her in the head, then called her a “fucking bitch.”

That isn’t self defense, it’s an angry execution.

…Probably the least vague vagueskeet ever… but just a thought. Rarely has a writer’s famous thesis been proven so true, in so brief a series of images: “Men are afraid women will laugh at them. Women are afraid men will kill them.”

This is true and I was the only one on set excited about it (and playing the song on my phone to blank stares)

Graphic with a blue background and large white text reading “DEAR AMERICAN FRIENDS.” Below is a screenshot of a post explaining that Canada does not have CBS, that a “60 Minutes” episode aired normally in Canada, and stating that Canadian networks are not subject to U.S. government interference. The post ends with “We’re not under a dictatorship. You are.”

This message hits hard.

David Lynch in the filming set speaking in the megaphone. He says “Okay, let's try that again, but this time good.”

Here’s to 2026

[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.

Kristen Stewart on Men and Method Acting YouTube video by The Interview

Oh, it's just incredible and effortless how Kristen Stewart dismantles and diagnoses the pathology and ego of Brando (and... well, all the dudes in Hollywood) here. www.youtube.com/shorts/_h-iK... There's just so many parallels to tech in this. And I'm so glad she's solid in herself to just SAY it.

Trans youth deserve:

🏳️‍⚧️ Access to affirming health care,

🏳️‍⚧️ The ability to make decisions about their own medical care, and

🏳️‍⚧️ To make health care decisions free from government interference.

Hear more trans people speak out about their health care experiences: lambdalegal.org/speak-out/

@karenhao.bsky.social explaining that ai is a political project, not a technical one

i do everything i can to create opportunity for moments like this so people can see there’s support for us out there in a time that support can sometimes seem scarce – this one is pretty special 🏳️‍⚧️

“I [flew and flew all the way to Scotland] for you kids and this is the [concert] I get.” Absolutely stunning, all of you! ✨ Looking forward to Irving Plaza NYC ✈️🩷❤️🧡💛💚🩵💙💜🖤✈️

@nadasurf.bsky.social mayhaps… ? 😇🤷‍♀️

After Getting The Ruling It Wanted, New York Times Publishes 6 Anti-Trans Articles The paper has lost all claim to objectivity on transgender people.

1. After the Skrmetti decision, the New York Times has published 6 articles dancing on the graves of trans youth and spreading disinformation on care.

It was cited 7 times in the ruling.

Read my latest on what will be a black stain on the NYT for a generation.

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Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.

We will rise, organize, and mobilize—because trans youth deserve to thrive. We will never stop fighting for them.

More info on navigating this moment: hrc.im/FAQ

A screen capture of the Duolingo mobile app on iOS, caught mid-animation during app launch, that just happens to show Duo the owl with its eyes looking like horizontal lines and its beak dangling open, as though unconscious.

When you wake up early and open Duolingo then remember it’s early and you’re on a Bluetooth speaker so you quickly switch apps so Duolingo doesn’t play that loud intro and wake up your beloved but when you go back later you discover to your shock and horror OH NO YOU’VE JUST KNOCKED DUO UNCONSCIOUS

Support email from me to CARROT dated 23 February 2025: “Any chance the app can dynamically correct the Gulf of America garbage going on? (Also important for folks who are on the actual ocean right now.) Thank you.” Accompanying app screen shot is from the so-called “Gulf of America”, 63°F, “That cloud looks like a snake eating its own tail.”

Response from CARROT support dated 23 February 2025: “ Unfortunately my location data comes straight from Apple’s location database, so I don’t have any control over how it shows up on certain map screens that use Apple Maps. But I *can* overwrite the names returned for your current location, I’ll look into doing that in a future update. Love, CARROT”.

The latest CARROT mission: “Find the Gulf of Mexico.” The map has been given an overlay with “[Gulf of Mexico]” in square brackets and a monospace font on a black background, as if corrected by someone with a DYMO label maker.

Answer: Gulf of Mexico American Mediterranean Sea “The Gulf of Mexico is a partially landlocked body of water on the southeastern periphery of the North American continent. “It recently got a stupid new name, and all the mapping data providers caved and started using the stupid new name, but screw that: it will always be the Gulf of Mexico in my book.”

CARROT is a national treasure #GulfOfMexico #ASCIIAndYeShallReceive

Oh yes, Homer’s famous “Tes Thdpssssps.”

👍🏻

Count me in for both, please and thank you 💜🤞🏻

Happy MLK Day.

R.E.M. - Pop Song 89 (Official Music Video) [Pop Screen Video Version] YouTube video by remhq

“Should we talk about the weather? (hi, hi, hi) / Should we talk about the government? (hi, hi, hi, hi)” #REM #PopSong89 youtu.be/xjMwfDFypa4