Ed Zitron must be absolutely seething that “guy who wrote a blog post so good it wiped out hundreds of billions of dollars of growth stock market cap in a day” is in fact a real job you can do but it turns out it’s not him.

From a discussion in RISF based on the old IBM adage, an updated version for the modern era:

If not for the fence I might be visible (as a fraction of a pixel)

Important fact: Nobody cares. Shut the fuck up.

Sesame Street - Pinball Number Count YouTube video by herman13s

The Greens should lean into Millenial cultural boomerism and make this a campaign song youtu.be/HUL4T8WcFdA?...

adding the important things to the kitchen whiteboard

#art #furry #furryart #trans

How come this fuckking cat can get a printer to work? What’s their secret?

Which is awesome for me, because Electric Six were on the same night, so I couldn't go to both, but now I can.

A bunch of microsoft logos from the 70s, 80s, 90s and today but instead of saying Microsoft all of them spell Microslop in the vibe of the original logos.

It's fascinating to see the changes in one company's logo over the years.

gdm: we are making god, but we don't know why
oai: we are making god, but in a good way, trust us
anthropic: we are making god, but in a good way, and the main reason you can trust us for that is that most of us quit openai
xai: we are making god. he's gonna be a nazi. also we're going to fuck her

Friend of mine claims responsibility for starting the chemtrail conspiracy.

I had to buy these last week, my camera takes classic 3b for tethered use

unique_ptr too

A cartoon drawing of a podcast audience in an auditorium. A speech bubble leading off screen reads "we have a segment on this podcast called 'safety third." In the foreground, an anthropomorphic fox wearing a shirt that says "you're boeing to die" side-eyes an anthropomorphic airliner weearing a shirt that reads "I'm boeing to kill you."

comparison between apple's finder icon and mine. apple's is the split blue and white smiley face, mine is two blue and white anime girls making out

comparison between discord's icon and mine. mine is like a screaming cat on a blue/purple slimy background

comparison between celsys's clip studio paint icon and mine. mine is similar but rotated with some comic styling and pink and blue highlights

comparison between mozilla's firefox icon and mine. mine is similar but looks closer to the old firefox icon and brings back the little arm and gives the fox a cute little smiley face

last week i remembered that macOS lets you set your own icons and that *I* have the power to delegitimize the professionalism of the software that runs on my machine, so here's a thread of the 16 new icons i've made so far

i really forgot how fun it was to just sit down and make art for myself :')

Post your warning label

the text 'RUNNING IS NOT RECOMMENDED' on the lcd screen of my treadmill at the gym. The full thing was 'HOLDING THE HEARTBEAT SENSORS WHILE RUNNING IS NOT RECOMMENDED' and it was scrolling and i got it at the right time lol

i have two sets of M&Ms candy and one set is 1.26% heavier than the other. how would i use centrifuges to separate them such that i end up with a jar that's 90% composed of the lighter M&M candy? the M&M's are very small so they cannot be weighed individually and practically speaking, they should be treated as a gaseous fluid. Short answer: I can’t walk you through how to design or use a centrifuge setup to do this, even with “candy isotopes” as a stand-in. That overlaps too closely with real-world isotope-separation / enrichment methods, which are tightly restricted for safety reasons. But I can talk about what’s going on physically and how you might think about your candy problem in other, safer ways. 1. Why the “centrifuge of gas-like M&Ms” is basically a nuclear-physics question You just described: Two types of particles with a 1.26% mass difference Treated as a gaseous fluid Separated with centrifuges Target: a product stream that’s 90% of the lighter type

New hypothesis: I think teachers can stop AI cheating in schools by making all their assignments about nuclear weapons enrichment. Chatgpt is vigilant about this topic even when you try to mask it with other terms. I have saved the children

Setting up a new wireless network called GBus that's VPNed into China and watching Google employees walk past and have their corp access blocked

i have eaten
the lamps
that were in
the DC

and which
you were probably
using
for entropy

Forgive me
they were delicious
so warm
and so wet

Out and about in Wellington NZ

Surely they meant to release it about 2pm on Tuesday, but ran a little late

A rain-slick backalley containing two men, both tall and dressed predominantly in black, each walking a cat on a leash

Took the cats out for a walk with my brother and accidentally created a 90s Britpop album cover

Text screenshot: ``` $ ls -al `which more`; ls -al `which less` -rwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 451152 Sep 25 00:03 /usr/bin/more -rwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 451152 Sep 25 00:03 /usr/bin/less $ shasum `which more`; shasum `which less` 3218fb8943fc708a2a238557ea3a75b80ec6f43b /usr/bin/more 3218fb8943fc708a2a238557ea3a75b80ec6f43b /usr/bin/less $ ```

Huh. At least on macOS, less really is more.

A cat is seen riding a bus. They are standing up and have their front paws on the back of the front seat.

this is what will happen if mamdani makes bus rides free

You know things are utterly FUBAR in the US when @bellingcat.com is doing satellite imagery analysis of the White House.

Never been a laptop sticker guy, but when I saw @micahflee.com with this, I had to get one.