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I'd never run in my hometown before, and haven't even set foot here in years. So while the kids played at the park I did a few miles. Ran down to my old middle school. It was weird. And listening to Less Than Jake felt appropriate.

Vacation grid. I haven't listened to much!

We went back and had another dozen and a half today 🦪

I do so love the Red Inn 🦪

Christian Woman by Type O Negative on Apple Music Song · 1993 · Duration 8:58

good afternoon music.apple.com/us/album/chr...

Worse, by Perpetual Stu track by Perpetual Stu

Hey everyone. Got some unexpected medical bills coming up soon so if anyone can help out I’d appreciate it. It’s BandCamp Friday which means I would get 100% of whatever I’ve been given. Please consider getting some tunes!

perpetualstu.bandcamp.com/track/worse-2

Love & Grief, by PEARL 11 track album

Here's some new hardcore from Baltimore, courtesy of PEARL

pearl-music.bandcamp.com/album/love-g...

Poster for a Punks for Palestine benefit show, featuring pg.99, Majority Rule, Portrayal of Guilt, Uniform, HIRS Collective, Division of Mind, Prisoner, No Man, Rid of Me, Goetia, and more. Taking place Oct 3-5 in Washington DC.

Yoooooo

YouTube video by Ghostface Killah Ghostface Killah - "Rap Kingpin" (Visualizer + Lyric Video)

I'll always give new Ghostface a listen

Vile Chat EP, by Beware The Dangers Of A Ghost Scorpion! 3 track album

It's @bandcamp.com Friday, what are we getting today?

Just snagged the new EP from Beware the Dangers of a Ghost Scorpion

Palantir Is Extending Its Reach Even Further Into Government Palantir has become one of the few winners in the Trump administration’s cost-cutting efforts, offering other contractors a lifeline while consolidating its own reach and power.

NEW: After massive contract terminations for consulting giants like Accenture, Booz Allen, and Deloitte, Palantir has emerged ahead. Now the data analytics firm is partnering with those companies—offering them a lifeline while consolidating its own power.

www.wired.com/story/palant...

How to Avoid US-Based Digital Services—and Why You Might Want To Amid growing concerns over Big Tech firms aligning with Trump administration policies, people are starting to move their digital lives to services based overseas. Here's what you need to know.

Amid growing concerns over Big Tech firms aligning with Trump administration policies, people are starting to move their digital lives to services based overseas. Here's what you need to know.
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The week in jams -> the month in jams.

Ms. Rachel grew up on Mister Rogers. Now she’s carrying on his legacy. The YouTube star wants her audiences — adults and children alike — to see the humanity of all people.

I would follow Ms. Rachel into hell.

What's funny is you can tell exactly why it output this string.

When it stole literally all of Stack Overflow, it stole tons and tons of people's explanations of how to make a program that produces random character strings.

One of the easiest ways to do so, contains *this* ASCII string.

YouTube video by Flatspot Records End It - Optical Delusions (Official Music Video)

END IT

Stack Overflow Data Reveals the Hidden Productivity Tax of 'Almost Right' AI Code Developers are growing increasingly frustrated with AI coding tools that produce deceptively flawed solutions, according to Stack Overflow's latest survey of over 49,000 programmers worldwide. The 2025 survey exposes a widening gap between AI adoption and satisfaction: while 84% of developers now us...

Stack Overflow Data Reveals the Hidden Productivity Tax of 'Almost Right' AI Code

https://developers.slashdot.org/story/25/07/31/1314207/stack-overflow-data-reveals-the-hidden-productivity-tax-of-almost-right-ai-code?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed

Oooof, I can only imagine. One reason I'm glad I rarely have to engage with end users anymore. Strength to you in these times.

i don’t know if rowlf singing “what a wonderful world” to a sleeping puppy is soothing or lie-on-the-floor-and-sob heartbreaking. maybe it’s both. i think I needed both.

I'm outrageously stressed about vacation, so of course it was a great idea to add an even more stressful trip to see the family onto it.

Spotify Is Forcing Users to Undergo Face Scanning to Access Explicit Content Submit to biometric face scanning or risk your account being deleted, Spotify says, following the enactment of the UK's Online Safety Act.

Spotify is now instituting face scans and ID checks ... to listen to music.

Porn was only ever the excuse. The only thing that surprises me is how quickly the government surveillance mandate has spread to absolutely every service we use.

www.404media.co/spotify-uk-a...

Hell yeah.

Almost certainly. I associate them with Buckcherry, etc.

I am jealous that you can read the name Hinder and not immediately hear their god-awful "Lips of an Angel" in your head.

Marriage, by Attack in Black 12 track album

If you've never heard 'Marriage,' do yourself a favor
attackinblack.bandcamp.com/album/marriage

Album sleeve for Attack in Black's 'Marriage'

Exposing the boy to the classics this morning.

Interesting, what's the case against expressvpn? I've been using them for a minute but have no issues with switching.

Now that's an idea I can get behind!

A twitter post explaining how you can “save PNGs to birds” by converting a drawing of a bird into a spectrogram then playing it to a starling who sung it back, reproducing the PNG.

Can’t wait to introduce bird-based storage into my backup system