Aaron

This is in reference to a blog post I just found in the referrers of zadzmo.org's access_log, that had a post about defending websites from crawlers.

It had a section about proof-of-work, stating "interesting implementations include Anubis, Nepentges, iocaine, "

Then it pontificated for a bit […]

Blog written by AI; Opinions discarded.

Local dive bartender's Halloween costume report:

Three dudes working today, They're Mario, Luigi, and ... the hairiest, burliest one is in a sexy Princess Peach outfit at least two sizes small.

It's a brutal assault on the eyeballs. So much chest hair. And hilarious.

Best I've seen since the […]

Was checking that Opengraph was working correctly on zadzmo.org since I've pushed that redesign; and uh. The first tool I used apparently used Facebook's user agent.

I'm glad I didn't get around to adding goatse into the Facebook-specific image because I would've just goatse'd myself.

"Sufficiently advanced spite is indistinguishable from imagining Sisyphus happy." Incredible opening line.

https://exple.tive.org/blarg/2025/10/24/pattern-recognition-and-repetition/

Lot of solid insights in here.

"This means librarians are going to be way, way more important than anyone […]

Meme photo of a man in a sharp looking business suit, coat, and tie , sitting in a nice office chair - except his his head is a lizard's head. Title: "Overlords apologize, will reset simulation to 2015" Caption: "'We just wanted to see what you would do', explains spokesman."

I will never tire of this meme. It somehow, years later, only keeps getting more real.

I'm beginning to believe the idea that the Large Hadron Collider, when it was restarted after an overhaul in 2015, fucked up and threw us into a weird alternate reality.

Screenshot from The Independant, a British news website. "Cops swarm and handcuff a student after an AI tool mistook his bag of Doritos for a weapon ‘Nobody wants this to happen to their child,’ the boy’s grandfather told local news Rachel Dobkin in New York Saturday 25 October 2025 02:59 BST"

Fantastic. /s

Mid life crisis is supposed to be in your 40's, right?

I feel like I'm just getting started.

Nepenthes 2.2 out in the usual location, implementing several feature requests:

More statistics metrics

A markov_array Template option.

I've also put out a formal release of the Just-In-Time Markdown processor that runs it:

https://zadzmo.org/code/markdowner

I've done a heavy refactor since then, but when Nepenthes hit #2 on HackerNews this January, the version running then didn't even show a noticeable increase in CPU load […]

Finally updated the design on zadzmo.org.

First updates in nearly a decade, woof. It actually looks reasonable on my phone now and not just a desktop.

Has separate light and dark modes, switched purely by CSS.

Still zero Javascript.

By happenstance I discovered this concept myself, doing photography.

https://social.coop/@CedarTea/115424453636810459

If you're photographing buildings in bad repair in industrial areas, people tend to side-eye you a lot. They get suspicious. Think you're surveying for a crime later, or […]

This AI presentation could have been an easily ignored email.

[Uspol re:white house]

So like I'm not super attached to the White House. But I DO work in Cultural Resource management aka archaeology, presevervation and architectural history and the fact that they can just.. demolish an entire wing of the WHITE HOUSE without miles of paperwork/months to […]

Largest study of its kind shows AI assistants misrepresent news content 45% of the time – regardless of language or territory. An intensive international study was coordinated by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) and led by the BBC […]

Tru facts: I love posting pinups/art of men in more stereotypical feminine ways because it's a GREAT way to weed out toxic mindset undesirables lol. (Also it's just really fun to draw!)

Also be warned, if anyone come into my replies with "wtf is this shit?" I'm going to reply with even MORE of […]

Just noticed this site exists:

https://justuse.org/curl/

I recall Bitcoin, later NFTs, following a pattern:

- Huh, that's interesting
- Tech sector people won't stop talking about it ( ThIs ChAnGeS EveRyTHiNg!!1 )
- Investment boons explosively
- Non-tech people won't stop talking about it
- Collapse
- Haha wow that was a strange thing to live […]

[Uspol]

[Peeved Subpost]

Obama himself described the ACA as "Perfect is an enemy of good" It got hobbled in various ways before and after passing, such as:

- Blue dog democrats killing the public option

- Provisions having a time delay purely to keep the headline price tag summed across ten […]

Screenshot of text messaging app. "Are you working tomorrow, Mr. Ima LoadBearingPartOfTheInternet? I know it's [ redacted ] I just want to be prepared mentally for work if you're off."

Again, lol.

And now: your moment of zen.

#crows #cawmunity

Oh no! Carmen Sandiego stole a third of the Internet!

> Wakes up
> Looks inside internet
> AWS down

The previous time I took a long weekend the entire internet got Crowdstruck.

Lol.

[#uspol]

IMHO this thread is hitting something subtle, but, VERY important:

That 3.5% figure isn't a single march. It's the amount of people doing sustained, consistent action that never lets up until the goal is reached: fall of the target regime.

That last march was a great start. But only […]

Overheard at the coffee shop just now:

"I put a hex on my ex-boyfriend and he lost all his hair!"

Excuse me, miss, I believe the correct word is "irradiated."

On one hand, I'm shocked by how sore I am, after spending most of yesterday on the couch/in bed.

But then again, I did spend a couple of hours running up stairwells of parking garages to get my camera into a better vantage.

[Further Uspol]

It was chill. No police; very few agitators. The only one who wasn't just driving by was rapidly chased out without further incident.

And pretty big, too - easily thousands.

How I feel about tomorrow: the first FPS video game, Wolfenstein 3D, played on a now-ancient 386 had a loading screen before every level.

It was a progress bar with the text "Get Psyched"

You ( addressing typical cishet men ) spend a lot of time thinking about the Roman Empire.

I spend a lot of time thinking about Dryopteris Semicristata. We are not the same.

[Uspol Tomorrow]

BuT YoU jUsT wAnT To NoT rIsK YouRsEf AnD maKE OthErS RiSk THeMseLveS fOr YoUr FaMe

.... this human literally risked their life, possibly lost it, and became iconic. This person made a difference in the world. People know about a horrific crackdown in a large way because they […]