Tindra

The fact that his juvies were very much targeted towards boys doesn’t help.

Employment jelly, repost for a job you'll love and deserve

Offer received and accepted, funemployment ends homies.

I release my employment jelly to the wild now, thank you friend.

I regularly get mistaken for a decade younger than I am.

SUNSCREEN, PEOPLE!

Social media researchers: you can't test the effects of UX tweaks on user behavior by populating a synthetic platform with virtual agents instantiated by LLMs *that have been trained on social media platforms without these tweaks*

American critical infrastructure is ten thousand small businesses in a trenchcoat.

I’m playing a CTF with my bestie, as one does, and she pointed out that challenges that use generative AI violate the cardinal rule of CTFs, which is that everything that is in there is there because someone put it there on purpose

As a longtime player and author, that is genuinely really upsetting

Goddamn. What a sobering and poignant piece of conceptual art. What an amazing artist.

Fascinating - thanks!

Understanding they are just theories, would you be willing to share them? I have a friend who has (probably) POTS suddenly kicking their butt (post-concussion) who also has some sleep schedule weirdness, who would be interested in hearing theories.

If you send me a 3000 word essay based on a 20 word prompt you are transferring information in an incredibly inefficient way. I'm going to have no idea what you actually wanted to convey. Just send me the prompt. I promise the outcome will be better.

If you're going to send me something written by an LLM then save us all time and resources and just send me your prompt instead. I'll value a text that says "Heartfelt condolence message with reference to a list of events" more, because this way I at least actually know what you were thinking

A traditional sampler-style cross stitch of the TCP Header.

Had a blast making this TCP Header cross stitch (pattern available at stitch.website

Someone on here compared AI produced material as "digital asbestos " which in a few decades' time we will have to work out how to eradicate from the fabric of research.

And here I was hoping the library card would be sufficient proof of residency.

I do not need more hobbies I do not need more hobbies I do not need

I hate that we got the machines that badly attempt to simulate human cognition in ways that ghouls are using to justify marginalizing human intellect and talent, well *before* we got the ones that can genuinely do a good job of cleaning your house

Heard from a colleague spending a few months in the Netherlands.

"Went on a 35-mile bike ride today, entirely on bike paths, through all kinds of landscapes. Turns out I love biking, I'm just scared of biking with cars."

😢

Hey Chicago-area peeps, I’m coming to Blue Team Con!

Trying not to let work and personal bleed too much into eachother, but want to make sure this gets out and has good reach.

If you've got on-prem SharePoint, please go do the things, because this is *nasty*: msrc.microsoft.com/blog/2025/07...

It is a contradiction in terms to suggest that you can politely tell someone that you do not care about their feelings, because the definition of polite is showing consideration for and deference to those feelings.

I don't know how you can fail to understand this.

You know what emergent tech of the last decade actually works well, and was adopted by millions?

3D printing. It’s great! So many applications.

But also nobody is sneering at you for not having or utilizing 3D printing. Nobody is trying to sneak a 3D printer into your garage without your consent

Hey #MilSky a cyber journo needs help!

Yay audiobook (eventually)!!

I’ve been doing this for a long time and I have concluded that you cannot get anyone who isn’t into science to consider a career in science. You *can* better identify those who are into science and help them not lose interest by the time they choose GCSEs, but that’s less PR friendly.

OoOooohhh may I ask what sort of needlework??

I used to have time for defeatism on this subject and then after 2 weeks of lockdown the canals of venice were clear enough to see fish and the dolphins were back in the Ganga so yeah, the climate doomerism also now feels like an op

Thread.

Absolutely excellent writing on Nazis, Space Nazis, Drive Thru RPG and Rebel Scum. It's a long thread, but very much worth your time.

( as a complete side comment, social media is a curse, but blesses us with such easy access to professional writing/thinking )

I work as an elder and hospice caregiver, which I am oddly passionate about. I can love on them shamelessly and no one complains about my codependence. It's a win-win situation. Many of my caregiving colleagues complain about the repetitive questions and, sometimes reactions, of the elderly, especially when those patients happen to read the newspaper, especially with the current downward spiral of our country — as if these people haven't lived through enough horror... I love my dementia peeps, but sometimes wonder if there's a Guinness Book World Record for how many times an hour a dementia patient can repeat the same question — it's got to be in the hundreds. At least with small children, they ask different questions. Dementia patients will get stuck on one short question and ask it until you can interrupt their train(carousel) of thought and successfully redirect their attention. That carousel is pretty manic sometimes. A couple days ago, I picked up my mail from the post office and drove over to the nursing home to take (let's call her "Miss Daisy") Miss Daisy out for a drive. Before we took off on our road trip, to the end of The Road and back, in our landlocked little town (Juneau, Alaska), I set my copy of The Onion down in front of her. Over our two-hour excursion, tiny Miss Daisy read that front page at least a dozen times and each time she would snicker, giggle, and guffaw, then put it down on the dash board and, a minute later, discover it anew. I think it was the best afternoon of my life. We don't often hear them laugh and when they do, it's the sweetest thing you've ever heard. ... Thank you, thank you, thank you, for the really important work all of you do. You make the world a better place.

I got permission to share this, and I'm extremely grateful for that.

The Onion got this letter from one of our subscribers in Alaska. She works with dementia patients and decided to leave a copy in the car for each one.

This email made my year. Read it and you'll see what I mean. People are good.

The whole “self-appointed HOA leadership” thing is why so many people bounced off of Mastodon and came here. Super-cool to see that happening again.