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New Blog: the "Dependency Cutout" workflow pattern: https://blog.glyph.im/2025/11/dependency-cutout-workflow-pattern.html

50 year mortgages seem insanely bad. Who doesn't want to pay a huge amount of additional interest and accumulate equity ridiculously slowly in exchange for a marginally lower monthly payment?

Caveat: I can see people doing this in high-growth markets like the SFBA - to flip houses. House prices: 📈

Quote posts yet? I want me quote posts.

https://hachyderm.io/@thomasfuchs/115505208788579359

Sandwich man vindicated!

Did you watch the unfuckingbelievable interview that 60 Minutes aired last night on Trump? The travesty is that the edited version should never have been edited, as we can see from viewing the transcript of the entire batshit crazy interview. Wherein Trump contradicts himself many times and […]

Text that reads: # Provenance This software is proudly and fondly written, maintained, used - and most crucially - understood by real human beings. While we can't personally attest to the provenance of every line of code ever contributed, the vast majority of the codebase has certainly been developed without the aid of large language models and other stochastic 'intelligence'. While the GPLv3 may not guarantee warranty 'of any kind', you can at least use this software in the comforting knowledge that its veracity and coherence is vouched for by sentient intelligence with skin in the game and a reputation to uphold. # Contribution guidelines We expect contributors to adhere to the ethos of the project. Source code is not an artifact, an intermediate representation, nor a bothersome annoyance whose creation is to be offloaded to metal and transistors. Source code is a source of truth - the only source of truth that constitutes this software project - and it deserves to be understood and curated by the accountable and reasoned mind of a human being. Please refrain from contributing changes that you have not personally understood and instigated the authorship of. We do not expect perfection, but we do expect you to personally understand your own motivations and decisions.

Thinking that I might start adding something like this to more of the software I write.

We can disagree about policy. But we should never disagree about whether a child deserves to eat.

We literally do disagree about this, though. Some politicians want to take food from children and some politicians don't. Pretending this "isn't political" just allows the child-starving ghouls to get away with it.

Tell people who supports the *political program* to feed children and who doesn't!

Fuck Zuck... If it's not a person... Then consuming what it produces is not even remotely "social". What kind of dehumanization mindset is this asshole on. Lord.

What's your favorite book cooker 9000 prompt?

Screenshot of figure showing correlation between vaccine doses and reports of ASD.l, to which I added another line showing maternal intake of pumpkin spice products. The legend says Figure 2. Autism Prevalence and Cumulative Vaccine Doses Through the Second Birthday, 1970-2018. The number of vaccine doses recommended for U.S. children by age two (green triangles) is plotted alongside autism prevalence estimates per 10,000 children (blue squares), derived from both early epidemiologic studies (pre-2000) and CDC ADDM Network reports (2000 onward). Polynomial trend lines demonstrate strong parallel increases in cumulative vaccine exposure during early childhood and the reported prevalence of autism across successive birth cohorts. Permission to use this figure was obtained from Children's Health Defense.?9

This is a figure from disgraced physician Peter McCullough’s report claiming that vaccines cause autism.

The red line, added by me, depicts maternal consumption of pumpkin spice products.

His group still does not understand correlation vs causation.

If you are in Pennsylvania & eligible to vote PLEASE do. Vote to retain all on the supreme court retention election. MAGA is planning to rig the elections in this key swing state and the first step is to get their judges on the court. This is really serious. #uspol #Pennsylvania #authoritarianism

Hi, It’s Me, Wikipedia, and I Am Ready for Your Apology “Wikipedia, the constantly changing knowledge base created by a global free-for-all of anonymous users, now stands as the leading force for the dum...

Ice cold https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/hi-its-me-wikipedia-and-i-am-ready-for-your-apology

"Some argue that C-12 is a repackaging effort designed to skip past the 'overwhelming opposition' to C-2. Bill C-2 had previously faced criticism over the expanded powers it gave to law enforcement agencies."

Bill C-12: Border bill completely arbitrary, lawyer says […]

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Was searching my Signal contacts for something something "N" and found a contact I'd not noticed before: Note to Self. One of these days I will just RTFM.

"Who is Note to Self?

This contact entry is a chat to send messages to yourself.
Use this feature to […]

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Musk on X: "We will use Grok 3.5 (maybe we should call it 4), which has advanced reasoning, to rewrite the entire corpus of human knowledge, adding missing information and deleting errors Then retrain on that. Far too much garbage in any foundation model trained on uncorrected data."

...and here it is, the clearest evidence yet of a fascist tech bro deciding the current corpus of human knowledge needs "correcting", and openly stating his intention to use his LLM to manipulate public understanding.

When I called current iterations of AI […]

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these charlatans will not convince me that ecological devastation is cute https://www.theverge.com/news/804106/microsoft-mico-copilot-ai-assistant-clippy

My latest on the Nokia blog: why we (collectively) need to do more on outbound DDoS suppression, and build more resilient networks (and, yes, avoid further centralization of internet traffic).

The attack peak values we’ve been seeing these past couple of months (particularly from #Aisuru) now […]

YouTube app on Android just started throwing an un-asked-for AI summary to sometimes show up at the top of the comments on YouTube. The comments under good YouTube videos have often been a set of human perspectives. How offensive to try to interdict that. Gross.

remember the kind of tech industry bubble where it was easy to get a high-paying job? I miss those bubbles

A giant stack of papers, about 1/2 the size of an apple, on a counter.

Are we doing "The ACA Sucks" Discourse again?

I'm going to guess most people hating on it from the left have never received a hospital bill the size of book; I put the apple there for scale.

That's the $1.3 million bill my kid incurred in his first ~94 days. Why does that make me respect the ACA?

There's so much pseudo-profound bullshit AI slop out there. I hate this.

Every time I see someone attribute homelessness to mental illness, I contemplate how few sleepless nights it would take to reduce me to a shuddering, screaming ball of anxiety. And that's without the loss of all my stuff at random intervals and the threat of both state and individual violence.

know your protest rights today and every day

#noKings

An ugly white door on a run down building.

This week's theme is ugly doors. Specifically, ugly doors on ugly walls.

#Iceland #photography #streetphotography #decay #door #window #concrete #rust

edited comic panel. Batman is breaking a lump-with-handle cow tool over his knee and saying "this is the tool of the cow. we do not understand it. we will not use it."

it's not FOR us

if you are writing a UI

that loads data

"the data is not loaded yet"

must be OBVIOUSLY VISUALLY DISTINCT from

"the data is loaded, and it is empty"

that is all

Hubble Space Telescope image showing IRAS 20324+4057, a bright blue, tadpole-shaped cloud of gas and dust in space surrounded by stars against a dark background.

This is IRAS 20324+4057 -- a protostar trying to level up to full star mode 🤩

This protostar is located in the #constellation Cygnus -- you can find our episodes on the #astronomy and #mythology of the constellation #Cygnus here […]

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Sreekanth Kumbha 3rd+ Consultant- Technology Management, SeMT i... I can suggest an equation that has the potential to impact the future: E = mc² + Al This equation combines Einstein's famous equation E=mc², which relates energy (E) to mass (m) and the speed of light (c), with the addition of Al (Artificial Intelligence). By including Al in the equation, it symbolizes the increasing role of artificial intelligence in shaping and transforming our future. This equation highlights the potential for Al to unlock new forms of energy, enhance scientific discoveries, and revolutionize various fields such as healthcare, transportation, and technology. 3 Reply 3 replies 3rd+ 4d Taosif Ahsan (He/Him) Physics, MIT PhD| Physics/CS, Princeton... What

I think about this a lot

LinkedIn sues software company allegedly scraping data from millions of profiles ProAPIs, a software company, and its CEO Rahmat Alam allegedly run an operation which LinkedIn says charges customers up to $15,000 per month for scraped user data taken from the social media platform.

Microsoft steals content for their AI training data but doesn't want others to do the same thing. Odd.

https://therecord.media/linkedin-sues-data-scraping-company

I can't believe they haven't figured out that 5G causes autism