Look at the state of this. Approaching being a trillionaire and gets fined less than nothing.
Tom dB
@deadlyhifi.com
Why am I here? I’d rather be riding my bike. Web stuff - I like CSS the best. Propagandhi salesman. Punk, ska, reggae, music.
we finally reached the end of this calendar event i accidentally made 12 years ago
An EU based social network called W, built on ATProto (and initially a fork of Bluesky?)… cybernews.com/tech/europe-...
Bye, X: Europeans are launching their own social media platform, W
European organizations may soon launch their own social media platform, W, requiring user identification and photo verification to prevent bots.
cybernews.com
A great article about the EU digital fairness act on addictive design and the big tech industry’s 900 Brussels-based lobbyists fighting against it. corporateeurope.org/en/2026/02/a...
Addicted to the algorithm: how Big Tech lobbies to keep us hooked on social media | Corporate Europe Observatory
As the EU prepares the Digital Fairness Act to tackle the addictive nature of social media design, big tech aggressively protects its business models. With Trumpists and far-right allies likely to joi...
corporateeurope.org
"I am my own original sin. One someone is always willing to forgive. Until enough of you demand that I be better."
I’m Still Your America
Hey, patriot. It’s been a week. As ICE spreads terror through the streets, and Teacup Eichmann presided over the murder of yet another innocent civ...
buff.ly
The real world of being a software engineer and working as part of a team. These are some valuable lessons. 21 Lessons From 14 Years at Google - addyosmani.com/blog/21-less...
21 Lessons From 14 Years at Google
Lessons learned from 14 years of engineering at Google, focusing on what truly matters beyond just writing great code.
addyosmani.com
call me crazy but it really feels like “World’s Richest Man Creates AI Chatbot That Generates Child Porn” would’ve been a huge international outrage requiring a governmental crackdown not even 24 months ago
please let “bugs bunnying” become the slang for manipulating an LLM into ignoring its guardrails, i have never seen a more succinct and evocative term for it
Janelle Shane@janelleshane.com · 8mo agoHighly amused by the stories of companies using agentic AI chatbots to run their internal company stores, only for their employees to immediately Bugs Bunny the chatbot into giving them free stuff www.aiweirdness.com/when-a-chatb...
CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1965: 20-1 CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1990: 75-1 CEO-to-worker pay ratio today: 280-to-1 Trickle-down economics was always a sham. Nothing has ever trickled down.
Anyone wanna buy Jello Biafra's '89 Toyota Celica? 212k miles, runs fine.
Punk Legend Jello Biafra's 1989 Toyota Celica GT Convertible
Owned and driven by music legend Jello Biafra since 1995, this 1989 Toyota Celica GT Convertible has impeccable punk rock credentials. As Jello’s daily driver for decades, this T160-generation...
hemmings.com
Behavioural sink, quite fascinating. www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/t...
This Old Experiment With Mice Led to Bleak Predictions for Humanity’s Future
From the 1950s to the 1970s, researcher John Calhoun gave rodents unlimited food and studied their behavior in overcrowded conditions
smithsonianmag.com
Endless Spite 2 fest. Onlooker (from Teeside) “Don’t be a flag fucker” — Onlooker “I think he’s the greatest frontman I’ve ever seen” — Carl Glover.
Well this blows my tiny mind. How? How‽ youtu.be/qlrpeYdm9Ec?... Now heading down a beatbox 🐰🕳️
WING - Dopamine (Official Video) (BEATBOX)
YouTube video by BEATPELLA HOUSE
youtu.be
Or is it. I’m going to Endless Spite festival later - yorkshire-gig-guide.com/news/endless... I can post a few shots. Check out Onlooker, from teeside, they’re awesome live.
Endless Spite 2 Comes to Shipley this December - Yorkshire Gig Guide
Endless Spite returns to Shipley on 6 December with cult punk and hardcore acts including And None of Them Knew They Were Robots.
yorkshire-gig-guide.com
I’m also really interested in Authentication Transfer Protocol (ATP) and have been working on understanding it in my free time. I’ve got authentication working and I can post to both Bluesky and other schemas. I’m now thinking about designing the schema I need for the app I am working on.
Maybe I’ll write more things here. Maybe. I’m getting better at chess.
Was this the best use of my time today? No. Is it the most amusing way I could have spent the last 90 minutes? Absolutely. Pattern is free here: bit.ly/4nGGCGc
