Matthew Murray 🦇

Epic pays for licensing fees for the games they give away for free as promotions. Which means even if YOU aren't paying for it, you're giving money to JK Rowling to harm transgender people AND elevating her stature by giving her franchise higher numbers.

NO TERF WIZARD GAME. NO TERF WIZARD SHOW.

ReCalibri They always make us do everything ourselves, anyway

I made a Chrome extension that swaps Times New Roman for Calibri on every site or just .gov. It also had Open Sans and Open Dyslexic, because f**k these people.

I’m waiting for Google’s approval for it to install automatically, but you can download it and install it in 90 seconds. Instructions 👇

"I wish all companies insisting on AI a very bankruptcy"

During a 2017 corruption inquiry into Nawaz Sharif, the prime minister at the time, and his daughter Maryam Nawaz Sharif, who was seen as his political heir, investigators said that she produced a trust deed purported to be dated to 2006 that would have exculpated her. They said they determined the deed had been forged because it had been typed in Calibri, which was not commercially available to the public then.

This is my favorite fact about Calibri lol.

I am actually not supporting accessibility, I am Inspector Poirot laying a trap

tweet reading: GAME TRAILER: “Enter a world beyond belief...” ME: “Yes” GAME TRAILER: “An adventure like never before...” ME: “YES” GAME TRAILER: “Join your friends online” ME: “I’m out”

i stand by this statement every year

- All social media accounts from the last 5 years - All your biometrics: face, fingerprint, DNA, and iris - All your phone numbers from the last 5 years - All your email addresses from the last 10 years - IP addresses and metadata from your submitted photos - Names of your family members (parents, spouse, siblings, children) - All your family members' phone numbers from the last 5 years - Your family members' dates of birth - Your family members' places of birth - Your family members' residencies - All your business phone numbers from the last 5 years - All your business email addresses from the last 10 years

NEW: Five years of social media history is only a fraction of what the US Government will shortly demand of overseas visitors.

The full requirements will end tourism in the United States.

Below is the full, mind-blowing list.

🚨THEY. WANT. YOUR. DNA.🚨

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This is a huge problem for libraries. We have the problem of “bit rot,” both as the decay of the physical carriers of digital media and as the obsolescence of software & hardware to render that media for use.

And then we have DRM and the problem of ownership.

Going digital is very expensive. 📚

Also interesting that “using generative AI” is becoming synonymous with “creating untrustworthy crap.” Anyone writing anything in a professional capacity should take the note: if you use genAI, you’re risking your entire professional reputation. Just do the work already.

You Americans and your corn syrup.

A bus inside a brewery, it's got about 30 taps of different beers on the side.

Here's a 1960s-era Peoria city bus that's now a self-serve tap bar in a brewery. Galesburg: pretty good.

(Getting ready for a new career as an Amtrak-travel-based influencer, please send job offers to violetbfox@gmail.com.)

A plaque outside a hot dog place denoting Coney Island as Galesburg's oldest restaurant, established in 1921.

I have to go at least 200 miles from Chicago to eat a hot dog so nobody hassles me about putting ketchup on it. 🌭

What populations did you get for each?

A lot of it is definitions. "City" vs "Urban area" vs "Metropolitan statistical area"

Chicago
City: 2,721,308
Urban: 8,671,746
Metro: 9,408,576

Let’s talk about Brilliant Healer’s cover/logo starting with the manga.

For the “Brilliant Healer” text I went with the font “Bluee Next Tilting”. It just felt like the perfect match to the large jp font. As a bonus it has diamonds as the dots for the “i’s” and diamonds were used on the jp logo.

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Yes I have!

Yep. I've definitely looked at that one!

It's true, and you should say it

Green on dark grey retro-style logo screen. Ascii art saying "Dr. Final's Final Data" CC BY-NC 4.0 Matthew Murray Center for Research Data & Digital Scholarship University of Colorado Boulder International Love Data Week 2026: Where's the Data?

www.science.org/content/arti...

Doxers Posing as Cops Are Tricking Big Tech Firms Into Sharing People's Private Data A spoofed email address and an easily faked document is all it takes for major tech companies to hand over your most personal information.

NEW: Doxing-for-hire services are using forging emergency data requests from law enforcement to trick major tech companies like Apple and Amazon into handing over people's private information. @davidgilbert.bsky.social w/ the scoop: www.wired.com/story/doxers...

The Beat’s Best Comics of 2025 The Beat staff has come together once again to compile its annual, wide-spanning list of the best comics of 2025.

The Beat’s Best Comics of 2025

The Beat staff has come together once again to compile its annual, wide-spanning list of the best comics of 2025.

Commissioners vote 3-2 to dismiss Library Board of Trustees <p>How the Library Board voted to handle a controversial children's book led to a majority decision by commissioners to dismiss the whole board.</p>

Library board dismissed for refusing to remove a book about a trans kid. Kudos to the board, though, for not caving to censorship. They lost this round, but retain their values.
www.randolphhub.com/article/news... Serve on your local library board! Find it here data.librariesforthepeople.org 📚

Free Comic Book Day will return in 2026 with a new owner - and without Marvel Comics, as things currently stand Marvel Comics is one of a number of notable publishers missing from the current list of participating publishers in next year's Free Comic Book Day, as per the event's new owners.

"Free Comic Book Day will return in 2026 with a new owner - and without Marvel Comics, as things currently stand" by Graeme McMillan, writing for @popversesays.bsky.social (12/9/26): www.thepopverse.com/comics-free-...

Selected passages from the article in how AI may have been used to generate the report

Again? When my wife had a kidney infection and was projectile vomiting we didn't have time to shop around. Before the ACA I was locked into the insurance plan I'd had since age 22 due to pre-existing conditions so I had to go with whoever was in my network.

One reason Disney is OK with allowing OpenAI to torpedo their brands after decades of cracking down on childrens hospitals for painting comforting characters on the walls or a dad who wanted his son's favorite character Spider-Man etched onto his grave is that grieving families don't have $1 billion

LLMs are not thinking machines. that’s an obvious lie. we don’t understand how thinking works well enough to understand how to automate it, and we certainly won’t achieve it with hugely resource-intensive bit-pattern prediction algorithms.

This is the sort of person who will put their baby in a pelican's mouth for a nap.