this happened to me once! my oui oui got stuck in a m&ms tube while trying to get a taste of the butter and microwaved mashed banana i left inside :(
λ / lambda
@lambda-was-taken.bsky.social
they/it reskeet extraordinaire cs student, interest in compilers & hci sometimes inappropriate, but i don’t repost nsfw imagery all my skeets are released to the public domain pfp: @locofur.bsky.social 🔞
You cannot make mass surveillance "safe" or "good" by adding more guardrails. The only way to make Flock safe is to get rid of Flock. www.gpb.org/news/2026/08...
Analysis: More 'guardrails' needed to prevent police misuse of Flock cameras
Inappropriate use of Flock cameras by law enforcement officials have raised questions about how much surveillance is too much.
gpb.org
going to the zoo as a furry means just collecting as many pictures as possible of certain animals to send to friends who have them as their sonas
My LocalFirst talk is up! How the Desktop UX needs to evolve This is a "part 2" of my #ubuntu talk last year. This time with more demos! www.youtube.com/watch?v=-IOL...
Scott Jenson — How the Desktop UX needs to evolve to keep up with Local-first
YouTube video by Local-First Conf
youtube.com
There will always be people who appreciate what YOU make, it just might take them a while to find you.
Holy fuck. The divergent reactions to this cartoon are some sort of cheat code into understanding why the liberal/progressive coalition is such a dysfunctional shitshow.
holy moly @hausofdecline.bsky.social in @inthesetimes.com ???
New post: Going beyond plug-in solar. https://waldo.jaquith.org/blog/2026/07/beyond-plug-in-solar/
every day i have to convince myself all over again that this is the single worst moment to buy computer hardware since the first transistor crawled its way out of bell labs
on this day in 1995, scientists discovered bisexuality. happy 31st birthday to all my fellow bs
they should try and do this again inside the jeff bezos dick rocket
"sex in space"
i want to write an ag*nt for shits and giggles so i make a loading animation for the frontend but then i actually have to write the frontend so i do some of it in elm but i want to actually engineer the harness so i start planning that
Look, I’m an open source maintainer, and if you want people to use that FOSS software as an alternative to that proprietary software it’s good to understand why people wanted to use that proprietary software in the first place and why they might be hesitant to switch It’s not because users are dumb
Hey guys meta announced a new policy where they send a killer to get you so be sure to go to settings>my account > killer> disable killer to turn that off
What To Know About The Live-Action ‘Moana’ https://theonion.com/what-to-know-about-the-live-action-moana/
Academics “examined the behaviour of mainstream large language models provided by Elon Musk’s xAI, Meta, Google, China’s Alibaba and France’s Mistral and found the introduction of bias happens even when the AI tool is instructed to preserve the original sense.”
AI altering meaning of users’ drafts on issues from abortion to climate, study finds
Researchers say small changes in drafting could spread rapidly and create long-term shifts in public opinion
theguardian.com
GO! MY LABUBU MISSILE! KILL!
what purveyors of the "permanent underclass" meme don't understand is that there was ALWAYS a permanent underclass (lumpenproletariat) and the bourgeoisie has simply identified a convenient mechanization technology to put SWEs there
I'll summarize this: Mamdani asked NYers to keep air conditioning at 78 degrees. A wave criticism hit online. A MSNBC broadcast pointed out the US Department of Energy recommends that 78 degree figure. Immediately after, the US Department of Energy deleted 6,000 web pages related to energy saving.
Grindr has been caught sharing users' HIV status and precise location with advertisers without obtaining valid consent. They must immediately stop prioritizing profits over users’ safety, and make privacy the default across its platform. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...
EFF to Grindr: This Pride Month, Put Safety and Privacy Over Profits
This Pride month, we’re calling on the dating app Grindr to prioritize LGBTQ+ user safety by making privacy the default across its platform. That means no more sharing personal data with advertisers
eff.org
Every day is like “this company is trying to build a gateway to hell” yet we are all supposed to pretend like everything is fine.
This startup wants to turn the world into a searchable video feed, starting in San Francisco
Orchestra has installed more than 100 cameras in San Francisco. Next up: 900 more, then the rest of the world.
businessinsider.com
some amazing things happening over on threads — ever since they “shut down CERN”
Split 6-3, the majority agreed yesterday that the government needs a warrant and must show reasonable cause to turn a phone’s location-tracking services into a government surveillance tool.
Supreme Court ruling guts government’s use of geofence warrants
SCOTUS falls short of deeming geofence warrants unconstitutional, though.
arstechnica.com