Lex Joy

Especially those bullshit "fly through a narrow tunnel" missions!

I've been dreading this turn for months — the war over AI scraping data is undercutting a load-bearing part of the internet, and it will probably only get worse.

the intensity of my anger at those who would criminalize the homeless — a population literally created by the greed and callousness of the ruling class — is very hard to contain. it was you who dismantled the safety net. if you don’t like the results, put it back

When We Are All Enemies of the State - Boston Review A recently discovered 1974 speech by Stuart Hall on Walter Rodney—and why fascists fear ideas.

"Structures are more powerful than men. Men with good or bad intentions enter into structures they have not revolutionized—and are tamed by them."

www.bostonreview.net/articles/whe...

Frame from Rambo with text "This film is dedicated to the brave farmer's market stands of Martha's Vineyard"

Revisiting Mole Mania now that I'm no longer a stupid 6-year-old incapable of solving logic puzzles. It's a gem!

I'll say it again, as this is ramping up: if you gave access to the archives of goverment data and information, it is your moral responsibility to make sure that untouched versions get preserved, now. There are people worh archival expertise who can help you, if you don't have it yourself. Start now

A Chrome browser error page displays the familiar “Aw, Snap!” message, indicating that something went wrong while loading a webpage. A pixelated frowning file icon with Xs for eyes appears at the top left. Below, the error code reads “Out of Memory,” suggesting the browser ran out of system resources. The page includes a “Reload” button in blue on the bottom right

behold the "HTML bomb"

It's a counterattack for AI companies that persistently scrape and rescrape your web site, even when you tell them not to

when a scraper grabs it, it becomes a 10-gig HTML page and 💣 goes the scraper

Item #6 in my latest "Linkfest" newsletter: buttondown.com/clivethompso...

Zhang Yimou for me. HERO is easily the best movie whose politics I can't stomach.

My condolences. But yours has to be different somehow, right? Maybe the game plan is to retool around that difference, rather than rebuild wholesale.

Lovecraft as a carrot, illustration by 広浜裕二.

A score bug showing the New England Patriots vs. the Washington Commanders. New England leads 27-3 at the half, scoring 14 in the 1st and 10 in the 2nd.

I know it's only the preseason, but I am ready to overreact!

I actually like the Brady statue. A little generic, but the presence alone conveys why he's being celebrated.

To echo others: that MasterCard is proactively reaching out to its advertising partners to try and blunt the impact of the pressure campaign is one of the surest signs the pressure campaign is having an effect (and after just two weeks, too!) Don't let up! Call/mail their asses!! #SaveSpeech

Draknek New Voices Puzzle Grant The Draknek New Voices Puzzle Grant is a grant opportunity for game developers from traditionally underrepresented groups and backgrounds who are interested in designing and developing puzzle games.

signal-boosting the incredible Draknek New Voices Puzzle Grant for videogame devs, offering:

- 15k no strings
- optional year of mentorship
- enviable community of puzzle designers

grants.draknek.org

...even if you don't qualify or need this kind of support, the page is a great and uplifting read

A male Labrador retriever mix, asleep with half a plastic fishbone protruding from under his chest.

He hugged his solid plastic toy to his chest, then fell asleep on top of it.

Part of a panel from Atomic Robo. A humanoid robot is saying, "I just used my violence on them."

I recently learned that all of Atomic Robo is free online now (atomic-robo.com), and I'm reading it for the first time. I'm really enjoying its gems of phrasing:

[every single member of the government is trying to kill you] hey why aren't you doing your little posts

Every day it's something like this

Also, we're all older than we were in Twitter's heyday. Plenty of users have offline lives now! Or so I hope.

My lukewarm take is that Bluesky isn't shrinking. People are simply more willing to block and mute than they were on Twitter.

People often ask me if there's a good reason why I'm sitting in their birdbath, but there almost never is

Google their FAQs - start the call off with one of them and take it to the end of that long road - then when they ask if you need anything else - bring up the censorship.

That's a rancid term, lol.

Zoo calls for small pet donations to feed its carnivores Denmark’s Aalborg Zoo says it is trying to mimic the natural food chain.

The gulf between the headline implied by this URL and the actual headline is magnificent.

www.yahoo.com/news/article...

Is it really *that* Rebecca Black?! (That was one of only three names I recognized.)

Torrential rains swept through our part of town all morning, washing away the road outside our neighborhood's entrance. Tomorrow the nearby construction sites will resume felling every tree in reach and introducing impermeable surfaces where grass once grew.

It's so weird that AI always orients screens away from their viewers. It's like that recent Xbox job ad.

Picture of traffic cone being reflected onto car surface. Latin cone is labeled “Latin poetry in translation.” The reflection, warped to look suspiciously similar to an anal plug, is labeled “Latin poetry in Latin.”