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Pentest Trick: Out of sight, out of mind with Windows Long File Names

La Croix new flavors! - transported in a truck near bananas - hint of hint of lime - single skittle dissoved in water - shy watermelon - imagine like, a strawberry but with a low battery

I am a LaCroix enjoyer but this is facts

Had no idea.

5 panel comic Panel 1: Purple Guy excitedly sits down at their laptop, saying: Boy o’ boy, I wonder what my favourite Author’s up to! Panel 2: Close up of a J K Rowling tweet where she says “If you are born with egg producing equipment, even if faulty, it’s proof you are a woman.” Panels 3 to 5: Purple Guy slowly closes their laptop, wondering how the billionaire author they loved has become so obsessed with the lives of people who have absolutely no effect on her existence.

Harry Potter fan who fell into a coma shortly after reading The Deathly Hallows wakes up in 2025

once again "ai" is just many underpaid overseas contractors in a trenchcoat and every once in a while sam altman pretends to be scared of its awesome power in order to drum up more funding

Disappointed.

game dev joys: discovering you can use the new customizer feature to make the entire cat lime green, turn them into a green screen and overlay a king gizzard video on there

Now let's talk about an *actual* evil empire in gaming ...

Directive from Melissa ISD administrators demanding that teachers remove their classroom libraries by the first day of school in response to SB13.

CLASSROOMS WITHOUT BOOKS.

This is the fruit of SB13. Melissa ISD is forbidding class libraries, book bins, & reading corners after book banners forced the law over objections of Texas parents.

The law doesn’t require it. But we @TXFreedomRead told legislators it would happen.

Four CDC buildings shot up. Employees under lockdown and in fear for hours. Public health is physically under attack, and the silence from the administration is deafening.

Well, fuck.

get equipped with thick happiness

we should print this headline out and put it in a time capsule for future generations to understand this time period

it's pretty funny that a bunch of people are going to LLMs to ask "why is everything so fucking bad and what can I do not to feel so bad about it" since it is nigh-taboo to acknowledge the state of affairs in many public, professional channels at the same time that social spaces are cratering

Lord of the Rings: 3 books, 3 movies, masterpiece.
Hobbit: 1 book, 3 movies, utterly embarrassing
Gollum: 1 paragraph in Lord of the Rings, 2 movies

Tapping the sign

the scary thing about AI right now is not so much that it is capable of replacing your job but that your boss might think it is capable of replacing your job

either way the end result is you don’t have a job

It really is.

I wish I had something helpful to say here, but I don't.

A shitty map created by ChatGPT5. it purports to be US States with an R in their name, but it's wrong and dumb and worthless just like LLMs.

My goto is to ask LLMs how many states have R in their name. They always fail. GPT 5 included Indiana, Illinois, and Texas in its list. It then asked me if I wanted an alphabetical highlighted map. Sure, why not.

South Park is good again, Sony is suing Napster, Internet vchip is back, porn panic, warez trading...

So he left the Post for Substack. I wonder if he doesn't understand, or if he does?

I can’t say it enough: U.S. culture is scam culture. It pervades everything we do. We don’t notice it because it’s the water we swim in. A party would do well to remind everybody how awful this is and propose to fix it.

Nice to know bluesky does grift promo now

Somewhere around a decade ago, a conservative activist told me that it was his mission to end abusive FOIAs of activists fishing through the emails of professors at public universities.

I think about that often.

#BringBackLowerDecks

Happy Anniversary Lower Decks! Five Years ago today and many of us miss you so much. #BringBackLowerDecks
Thank You @mikemcmahan.bsky.social for your imagination 💚🖖

Washington Post: “Is fascism bad? The answer may surprise you”

Teen Vogue: “Here are three fun tips you can use this summer to disable an armored personnel carrier”

Wind Of Change exists, so that seems unlikely

It is hard to overstate just how badly Brown betrayed its students and faculty with that “settlement” (i.e. caving to illegal impoundment). They normalized law breaking by oppressing their own people. Absolutely shameful, institution-destroying cowardice by the university.

Billy once told Letterman that his favorite song was Scenes From An Italian Restaurant, which is pretty damn hard to argue with.

Also worth noting:

They’re killing the media industry *first*.

Techbros have been very clear that their goal is to put as many people out of work as possible.

This is nothing more or less than an attack by the 1% upon the rest of us that, if left unchecked, will crash the global economy.