49 years ago - February 1977
Blondie, Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers and the Ramones all appeared at the Whisky a Go Go in West Hollywood
Tom spray painted his initials on Debbie Harry's thrift store wedding dress that she wore and tore off for her performance of Rip Her to Shreds .
Coinbase must be concerned I'm at risk of running out of material
Nothing like going to a tropical beach packed with locals to remind you that white people are some pale ass mutant cave monkeys.
Don't show this to kids in Australia or the UK: https://age-verifier.kibty.town/
@campuscodi why share this at all?
I think our morale and policies would improve with one simple trick: throw one billionaire into a volcano each day on a livestream
49 years ago
"Mongoloid" is the debut single by American new wave band Devo, released February 1977 with "Jocko Homo" as the B-side.
"Mongoloid" was later re-recorded by Devo and appeared on the album Q: Are We Not Men? A: We are Devo!
Now I'm gonna bulk run 10,000 problems and see if they all solve, and what the max and average step count is.
Even a *further* bulletin as events have warranted:
In the first thousand runs, the average run is 290 steps. There's just a single outlier, at 5742 steps, which it does finish.
In the second thousand runs, I don't know the average. Why not? Cuz there were three large-ish runs, and all of them solved at <10,000 steps.
And a *fourth* large run. It is running at 1.4 *million* steps.
Reflect Orbital wants to destroy the night sky to deliver "sunlight as a service". SpaceX wants to destroy Low Earth Orbit to launch one million "AI datacentres"
The only way to formally protest these two ideas is to file a comment with the US FCC, which is horribly complicated, but the American Astronomical Society has detailed instructions posted here: https://aas.org/posts/advocacy/2026/02/how-submit-comments-satellite-applications-fcc
Comments due March 6 for SpaceX and March 9 for Reflect Orbital. Write! Write! Write!
@sundogplanets can we use a template or create an online petition to bring awareness to this?
Finally got around to checking out Revolt Chat. It's basically a Free Code Discord clone. If they were going to federate with other chat servers, matrix is probably the best choice, given it's a room-orientated UX and needs a concept like Spaces. If anyone thinks that Revolt could be federated with XMPP, I'd be interested to hear some details on how that would work.
As you may have heard, Discord alternative Revolt has been renamed Stoat;
https://stoat.chat/updates/long-live-stoat
Stoat is designed as a centralised service. So in theory the operators could sell it to Discord, or Xitter, or anyone, at any time.
To be clear, they show no signs of doing so, and claim they're getting plenty of donations to cover costs. But this was true with Gitea ... until it wasn't. Devs with control over the project accepted VC money, leading to the Forgejo fork.
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Russia, facing a labor crunch worsened by its war against Ukraine, is turning to a new supplier: India. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/02/12/world/russia-labor-war-india-workers/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #india #jobs #russia #russiaukrainewar
If Trump's Gestapo DOJ will spy on the search history of members of Congress, imagine what they're getting from Google, etc. on everybody else!
@lauren Exactly. That's why I think showing it was deliberate
she's somehow gotten more feral since she's been living with me
me: goes into the bathroom and closes door
kira: "MEOWWW! meow! meowwww!!"
me: "fine, jeez, you can come in, you don't have to cry!" opens door
kira: "....."
doesn't come in but doesn't meow anymore either
me: 
.. or any company that, I guess, unethically indexes websites and/or comes up with a way to pretend to be a "real user" with a "real web browser" on a "real device".. which is VASTLY slower, by the way, by the pure definition of the task itself. Humans ain't that fast. If nothing else it's a huge time and energy sink.
@codinghorror playwright driving a real browser in a VM never hurt anybody!
Periodic reminder that #Mastodon doesn't support migrating your posts when you move servers, because (checks notes) old words can hurt people
This “Fish-fluencer” Telling ICE to Fuck Off Is the Best Thing You’ll Watch Today – Mother Jones
Hedge Funds Flip to Bullish on Yen Even After Strong US Payrolls
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-02-12/hedge-funds-flip-to-bullish-on-yen-even-after-strong-us-payrolls?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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I'm so confused, I am a bear of little brain, can someone explain to me, in simply words... HOW THE FUCK DO YOU COOL A DATA CENTER IN SPACE
