James Sanders

We turned away from the light when we invented a way to go online without the computer screaming in warning.

Proton Mail Helped FBI Unmask Anonymous ‘Stop Cop City’ Protester A court record reviewed by 404 Media shows privacy-focused email provider Proton Mail handed over payment data related to a Stop Cop City email account to the Swiss government, which handed it to the ...

SCOOP: Proton Mail provided Swiss authorities with payment data that the FBI then used to determine who was allegedly behind an anonymous account affiliated with the Stop Cop City movement in Atlanta, according to a court record reviewed by 404 Media.

@quantuminthings.bsky.social

I’ve had no such issues after a year.

Seriously, this feels like a low-budget Twin Peaks bit.

The lights in my house keep blinking like this. Lesson learned: don’t buy cheap bulbs.

さよならVGA端子　パナソニックも「レッツノート」で廃止 - 日本経済新聞 パナソニックホールディングス（HD）傘下のパナソニックコネクトは27日、6月から順次発売するノートパソコン「レッツノート」の新モデルを発表した。映像出力用の「VGA」端子を初めて廃止する。音声も転送できる規格「HDMI」に押されて利用者が減っていた。他のパソコン大手はすでに廃止に動いており、約40年の歴史に事実上幕が下りることになりそうだ。レッツノートの新モデルは急速充電のしやすさなどのほか、

Panasonic is removing the VGA port from new models of the "Let's Note" series of business notebook PCs in favor of HDMI, putting an end to the approximately 40-year-old video connector.

(The Let's Note series is only sold in Japan.)

www.nikkei.com/article/DGXZ...

Leave the em-dash alone.

Are you editing em-dashes out of your prose? Leaving “artisanal” typos in your articles as proof of humanity?

No one wants their writing mistaken for “AI slop.”

But in avoiding that charge, we risk surrendering some of the best tools in the literary tradition.

Full story out tomorrow.

I'm not about to make a @neilcic.com -style mashup, but I'm realizing this morning that the vocals and medley Billy Preston's "Nothing from Nothing" and Maroon 5's "This Love" can be relatively straightforwardly swapped with each other, and this information is probably dangerous(ly stupid).

I think that’s the first time I met @markhachman.bsky.social in person, actually.

Other than a specific set of tech journalists, Microsoft appears to believe there’s no overlap in these audiences.

They don’t particularly want analysts there at all, I had twisted arms to do it three years ago in Seattle and it was me, two paid promoters, and maybe a handful of Gartner people?

Fun with English:
There's a really important difference between "In Operation" and "Inoperation".

I voted today but it was the strangest experience… went to my normal place to vote and was told I now have to vote at another location. Cool. Went to that location and they “couldn’t find me”. I pulled up my voter registration online and then they asked for my drivers license….then further proof

See, this is why you shouldn’t have gotten rid of the USB-powered pet rock.

It’s 7 PM and this could have benefited from the edit button but I’m not going to bother deleting and fixing it.

I’m on [famous brand]’s naughty list because of my moderate and non-specific criticism, and that hasn’t stopped me from further moderate, data- and research-supported moderate criticism.

SCOTUS has denied cert. in Thaler v. Perlmutter. That means that outputs generated by AI will continue to be ineligible for copyright protection under US law.

This is welcome news for musicians!

People who like building things, but not storing things.

In 2019, I lost like $5 on PredictIt because they wouldn’t pay out a contract on the result of a government shutdown on a technicality, which is how I clocked this entire industry as suspect (to put it mildly).

Can’t say I’m surprised by this one, but I’m glad to have learned this lesson early.

Be extremely wary of sharing videos without verifying their sourcing. Plenty of AI videos, old videos & videos of things unrelated being posted. If someone isn't posting the source of the video, that doesn't help.

A Fire Emblem screenshot: Ike That's... I can't understand a country where that passes for normal, I just can't.

I’m playing video games today.

The truth is not the average of a fact and a lie.

I’ve never really been a stickers-on-laptop person, but I’m seriously considering putting stickers on my laptop.

It’s been intensely weird, the past year, to see across different issues and how typical political alignments and orthodoxies are barely relevant anymore.

I’ve been trying to come up with a term for it, but I haven’t gotten further than “cursed / sparkling intersectionality”.

Shanahan’s “both sides”-ing this isn’t constructive, but aside from that quibble, this is still remarkable.

so… the whole thing was a play by Altman to shiv Amodei and destroy his company? that’s sort of what I’m getting here

I can't top that, lol, that is great.

A former classmate named Nathan started going by "Nate" in Japan because of the +th sound it 姉さん (older sister).

Homonyms are fun, it makes me wish I took more linguistics classes in university.