Joe Lanman

Also a key skill for accessibility: alt text, headings, labels, links, and so on

Some people think the earth is flat, some people think the earth is round, as a centrist I

Idea for an occult podcast: Stuff You Shouldn't Know

Gonna try responding to humans with http codes. 200 ok, 303 go away, 400 what?

Investors expect AI use to soar. That’s not happening Recent surveys point to flatlining business adoption

“A survey […] finds that while 87% of executives use AI on the job, just 57% of managers and 27% of employees do.”
&
“A paper […] refers to “genAI’s mediocrity trap”. With the assistance of the tech, people can produce something “good enough”.”

Perhaps it is the execs who can be replaced?

I know this isn't new but Mac OS 26 is so extremely ugly. Glowing icons, horrible glass effect (even when turned down) random drop shadows everywhere for no reason, poor spacing and alignment

Seed catalogue from 1896. Color illustration of watermellons, corn, onions, radishes, and lettuce.

Seed catalogue cover, 1909. Color illustrations of onions.

The Internet Archive just released tens of thousands of seed catalogs, spanning over two centuries!

They are both lovely and interesting. Check them out!

archive.org/details/usda...

🗃️ #c18th #c19th #c20th #illustration

Roblox logo with multiple game screens behind it

Roblox boss says problem of predators is an "opportunity" for the platform, in disastrous interview following latest child safety measures

www.eurogamer.net/roblox-boss-...

Meta halted internal research suggesting social media harm, court filing alleges Meta is alleged to have halted internal research suggesting social media harm, according to court documents.

Meta halted internal research that purportedly showed (young) people who stopped using Facebook became less depressed and anxious, according to an unredacted legal filing released on Friday. www.cnbc.com/2025/11/23/m...

Are any of those little LED projectors that cost around €100 actually any good?

Ideally ones available in Europe, on not-Amazon (for me that probably means at MediaMarkt or Saturn).

Or are they all rubbish? I am no audioviz enthusiast so I mean, passable quality is OK with me!

Iran president says capital move now a necessity as water crisis deepens Iran’s capital must be moved because the country “no longer has a choice,” President Masoud Pezeshkian said on Thursday in remarks carried by state media, warning that severe ecological strain has mad...

'Iran’s capital must be moved because the country “no longer has a choice,” President Masoud Pezeshkian said on Thursday in remarks carried by state media, warning that severe ecological strain has made Tehran impossible to sustain'

#Iran 🇮🇷

One thing per page

A great article on 'one thing per page'

grillopress.github.io/2019/01/31/o...

Quit instagram, WhatsApp
Meta’s owenternal study:
“The Nielsen study does show causal impact on social comparison,”… staffer worried that keeping quiet about negative findings would be akin to the tobacco industry “doing research and knowing cigs were bad and then keeping that info to themselves.”

Meta (Facebook, WhatsApp, Instagram) are the worst

www.reuters.com/sustainabili...

DWARF support for macOS and Linux by joelreymont · Pull Request #14369 · ocaml/ocaml DWARF v5 Debugging Support for OCaml Native Compiler This PR adds DWARF v5 debug information to the OCaml native compiler, allowing proper source-level debugging in GDB and LLDB. What's Impleme...

This PR and the author’s comments are incredible. https://github.com/ocaml/ocaml/pull/14369

Just a complete lack of critical thinking about the tool. Even if LLMs are generally valuable this is clearly not a helpful approach on multiple levels.

"At least one Meta employee was uncomfortable with the implications of this decision: “If the results are bad and we don’t publish and they leak,” this employee wrote, according to the brief, “is it going to look like tobacco companies doing research and knowing cigs were bad and then keeping that info to themselves?”"

yes, the answer is yes

The Secret Lives of Games: All Systems Brough - Introduction We're joined by Frank Lantz (Q-UP) and Mare Sheppard + Raigan Burns of Metanet (N++) for the first episode of All Systems Brough, a year-long exploration of the work of Michael Brough. We share our th...

BIG NEWS:

We are no longer Eggplant. We are, simply:

The Secret Lives of Games

AND ALSO:

We've launched the first episode of All Systems Brough, a year-long, one-a-month series exploring the work of @smestorp.bsky.social. Join us and play along!

secretlives.games/all-systems-...

‘Not second screen enough’: is Netflix deliberately dumbing down TV so people can watch while scrolling? Streaming insiders have claimed they’re being made to rewrite scripts for viewers who use their phones while watching. Is this the end of prestige TV? Or pure fiction?

www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...

Plus suspicion of public bodies using AI to process consultation responses.

If AI becomes a byword for laziness, exploitation, and lack of care, how will that affect where it's adopted, attitudes towards those who use it? And will that matter, or will we just be resigned to it?

Teletext mockup/art inspired by yesterday's Cloudflare outage. P100 Teletext 100 Nov18 14:00:13 Internal server error Visit Cloudflare on p799 for more info. 2025-11-18 14:00:13 UTC Pixel art of a TV with bunny-ear aerial with a green tick, a TV transmitter with a red tick, and a PC with a green tick. You, TV: Working London, Cloudflare: Error Teletext, Host: Working What happened? There is an internal error on Cloudflare's network. What can I do? Please try again in a few minutes. Cloudflare Index

A (horrible) alternate reality, inspired by yesterday.
#Cloudflare #Teletext #TeletextArt #Art

The scale of the damage at the British Library is difficult to fathom from the outside. Working in the wreckage of the hack has made me even less sanguine about the digital age into which we have leapt feet first.

The difference between M&S, the Co-op, Jaguar Land Rover and the British Library is that only the latter was created by an act of parliament.

A cyberattack preventing part of the UK state from functioning in the way required by law deserves a different form of attention and scrutiny.

Twenty-two years ago today Section 28 was repealed.

But we're seeing history repeat itself as some in the media and in politics spread bigotry and misinformation about trans people.

1/8🧵

Open data friends,

If you could recommend only one resource (book, website, organisation, social media account, video, tool, other) what would you recommend to someone starting on their #opendata journey?

Something that will help them learn and explore.

These are tortillas

Tonight's film: The Menu

Powerful new antibiotic that can kill superbugs discovered in soil bacteria Surprise discovery could pave the way for new treatments against drug-resistant infections.

This is good news
www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Alice Wong was one of the most effective people challenging the Whiteness of disability communities and its many flaws, but who believed fiercely in us as a community, in disabled people as oracles.

Alice brought so much to so many of us, it’s hard to measure the kind of gratitude I have for that.

This is Alice's friend Sandy Ho, posting. Per Alice's wishes, this message is being shared at the time of her passing. Hi everyone, it looks like I ran out of time. I have so many dreams that wanted to fulfill and plans to create new stories for you. There are a few in progress that might come to fruition in a few years if things work out. I did not ever imagine I would live to this age and end up a writer, editor, activist, and more. As a kid riddled with insecurity and internalized ableism, I could not see a path forward. It was thanks to friendships and some great teachers who believed in me that I was able to fight my way out of miserable situations into a place where I finally felt comfortable in my skin. We need more stories about us and our culture. You all, we all, deserve the everything and more in such a hostile, ableist environment. Our wisdom is incisive and unflinching. I'm honored to be your ancestor and believe disabled oracles like us will light the way to the future. Don't let the bastards grind you down. I love you all.

You were incredible, Alice Wong, and it was a blessing to have collaborated with you on projects, to have read your words and to have heard your voice, as full of life and passion and joy and rage as it was.

You made a difference—so much of a difference.

Rest always in peace, and always in power.

the sticky headers are smart