Anyone after a new VPN, Windscribe absolutely isn't it. Oh my god this suuuuuuuucks Who's got a VPN rec for something that has a support email and not a fucking chatbot

I think this might be my favourite quote this year: “It's like somebody just illuminated an entire subfield in floodlights of knowledge, and now we just run around like overexcited bunnies and look at all the nooks and crannies that we can suddenly explore. So it’s a super exciting time.” - […]

If your brain is being mean to you today then this message is for you You are worthy of love ​:heart_cyber_pink:​

[uspol, rant] Fuck you Trump for fucking up what used to be easy: sending a letter from Canada to the US. Used to be I could just do it. Now I need two apps(!) and share a bunch of personal information to send a fucking letter. That letter I sent? The one that took so much work to send? Yeah […]

I spent Friday looking at a society's records from 1888 to around 1920. There was a book with bound copies of the Annual Reports. These were typed. There was a bound book of AGM and EGM minutes, and a bound book for Committee meeting minutes. These were handwritten in a very neat and formal […]

I LOVE starting a very stressful day by spilling cheese curds everywhere and then getting an email saying that I have an overdue bill for publication fees for a paper that was published 18 months ago, that was supposed to have a fee waiver, so I never received a first bill. Did they take a page […]

do you like all the stuff I say about criticizing AI? would you like to take a small concrete step towards AI policy? do you know how to use the web site "git hub"? every project on https://github.com/glyph/ and every project on https://github.com/twisted/ needs to link to the AI policy I wrote […]

Reminder: RATs are not always very sensitive. That means: 1) if the test is positive you are positive, unless you did something like drink a Fanta right before swabbing. 2) if the test is negative but you have symptoms you might be positive but the viral load might (still) be low or you've got […]

Copy editing was important in the age before AI, where the difference between a draft and a final version was a practiced and critical eye. This situation *has not changed*.

One anti-pattern I absolutely despise is my kids’ school sending email that says “please find attached [some doc]” when there is absolutely no attachment, but instead a link to a portal, that requires a sign-in but really instead wants you to use their app, so that you can view a PDF they could […]

Well. I had a program that drew hyper and hypo cycloids using the turtle but I seem to have misplaced it. Can't find my code anywhere. But that means I get to write it again, and I could make it better this time. One thing that bothered me about the old code is I didn't use the unique way that […]

The elections are on next Tuesday, and so much is at stake, including the soul of the Democratic Party when it comes to transgender people. I am asking you to leave a very small number of races blank in which a Democrat has embraced extreme anti-trans hate. I make my case here.

Don’t Vote For The Worst Anti-Trans Democrats

The Democratic Party should, and likely will, win big in the midterms. We must not send the worst anti-trans voices to join them.

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thebuckeyeflame.com/2026/10/08/t... Pride Caucus not the Progresive Caucus, but still, yes we did. @ari4ohio.bsky.social and I both resigned and I have lost friends and had my reputation and integrity attacked for weeks after. So has Ari.

Two trans Ohioans resign from the Ohio Democratic Party’s Pride Caucus, including vice-chair

The resignations came within 24 hours of each other and amidst allegations of censorship by their own party

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Shellraiser B Woke - Living Saint of Purity🏳️‍⚧️🖤💜🤍 💛@shelleybwoke.bsky.social · 4d ago

Amy fucking Acton LITERALLY refused to meet with trans Ohioans about her transphobic ads a couple of months ago, and members of the progress caucus resigned because of it. Stop telling me these people are interested in "working with us"

As others have pointed out, there could be an influx of newcomers to the #Fediverse from #Brazil who are tied of #Meta 's latest shenanigans while meddling with politics. If you see them, be friendly and welcoming, and under no circumstances start with "You are using the Fediverse wrong!" I […]

Fedi, talk to me about thin clients and low-power computing. I've got two raspberry pi's in my basement, a 5 running Kodi with an external hard drive and a 4 running Home Assistant, they each draw usually under 10 watts. I'm leaving my upstairs desktop computer turned on while I'm recovering […]

when wait wait don't tell me has cake discourse: "While the polls don't look great for his side, Trump himself is apparently doing well in the midterm erections" - Peter Sagal "I think it's really nice for him to be sexually harassing men for a change." - Peter Grosz "No, it's really great […]

This is an odd assignment from the teacher, but as a teacher I would rather have "I couldn't think of anything, gosh this is hard" in place of AI content. Because these tasks we make as teachers... it's not because we want the output from the tasks. As I tell my 9th grade students all the time […]

Blocked a disabled Tech Bro that unironically said with his full chest in another thread not by me that LLMs are amazing, and that humans deserve to lose their jobs, and then equated his justification by saying no one cried when washing machines were invented to replace people that washed […]

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remember this when people tell you that AI is “good for accessibility”

“It’s a poor worksman who blames his tools” has always been complete nonsense. No-one complains about imperfect tools faster and louder than a master. A master will yank a cheap or damaged tool out of your hand and yell at you for not blaming it yet Cheap, lousy tools come from middle managers […]

My personal preference is for ballot marking devices that produce a human-readable paper ballot that is counted with an optical scanner - the ballot marking device provides accessibility, the paper ballot provides accountability, and the optical scanner is more accurate than hand counting. It […]

What life did you lead? What songs did you help sing? And how did all end here on these rough streets with even your precious illegal ivory teeth plundered? And me standing by contemplating the possible utility and value of your strings, hammers and wooden bones?

> we can't all, say, interrupt a premier's press conference with a tape player handcuffed to our wrist playing a list of their failed environmental promises, but it is entirely achievable to get charged at by a police horse —me yesterday And there are apparently horses here tonight! See what I […]

XKCD now has an official statement about the whole situation: please upgrade to 5 as your private key. https://m.xkcd.com/

xkcd: Vulnerability

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Wow, that was a close call. Today i had a dental hygienist appointment at 7:30, the first available session, always. For which i was super nervous, because it's one of the only settings where i need to take off my mask. This morning at 6 they sent a message that they need to cancel, because of […]

Is there a Mastodon equivalent of Pinterest? #fediversepleasehelp

As a consumer product, muse must be able to browse the web to do all the things it promises that magical "agentic ai" can do. Meta needs Muse to work, badly, because it has 2 trillion dollars on the line and is a laughingstock in the AI race. Problem though, there have been crawlers and bots for […]

jonny (nonvenomous)@jonny.neuromatch.social.ap.brid.gy · 2w ago

Meta's "Wonder" model that they just released today is a this tier computer use model

Imagine sending a cheap analog pocketwatch (you can buy one for $5, and most of that cost is the shipping and labor) to the distant past when technical watches were rare. What would an expert watchmaker make of the mechanism? The cheapness of the parts? The extreme precision, but also the […]