Decided to run down the hill to join a local protest for an hour.
Seven dedicated citizens were exercising their right to free speech.
I brought peanut butter chip cookies because protesting is hungry sort of work and I will bake for anyone who likes sweets.
Nice people.
They ate my cookies.
Made me happy.

Revising a conference proceedings paper (from over a year ago...) and when I submitted it there were fewer than 8,500 Starlink satellites in orbit, out of about 12,500 total satellites.

Today there are 11,102 Starlinks out of 16,978 total active satellites. Fuck.

ICE has been forced to withdraw many subpoenas seeking social media user data. We're keeping track. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/08/list-ice-subpoenas-tech-companies

@cstanhope Thanks, I re-listened and it was worth it. Might have to check in with this regularly for a while.

@randahl
This has nothing to with the EU. This has everything to do with Google Maps and Apple Maps. They have a shown you who they are.

Looks like so far we won’t have to ship age declaration crap in OS 9 🎉 https://www.tomshardware.com/software/linux/california-lawmakers-unanimously-pass-linux-exemption-from-age-verification-law-software-distributed-under-the-gpl-mit-bsd-and-apache-licenses-are-exempt

Oh yeah shouldn't be too hard to use tech without supporting bad actors. Just gotta replace my phone, my phone OS, my phone keyboard, my desktop OS, my work OS, my email, my code editor, my cloud backup, my office software, my maps app, my source hosting, my image editor, my

@emmadavidson @phocks yes. My wardrobe is half the size as previously. My previous one was double the size for the depressingly obvious reasons

Take your time. Get bored.
Gautami Reddy. Via The Hindu fb page.

#wellbeing #slowdown #BeReal #chill #politicalart #comic #illustration #antiai

@evacide ..... Aerialist is a discipline of a theatrical art. They are theatre kids.

@jp es indiscutible que es un proyecto liderado por racistas bien financiados

DHH en particular es una persona que históricamente ha hecho difícil participar en otros proyectos con él, como Ruby on Rails

Respecto al aspecto técnico de Omarchy no puedo decir nada en detalle porque no lo he usado, pero sí sé que ya tienen problemas nuevos de seguridad informática

Para cerrar: ¿vendehumos? sí, como todo lo que asume que generar código a toda mecha con IA te garantiza buena ingeniería de software

@TheBreadmonkey there’s SO much house cleaning when you’re a maid man

With Google Maps moving to "Lake America" for Lake Ontario, it should bring serious doubt to the already dubious information coming out of Google Gemini. Since Apple is powering Apple Intelligence with Google Gemini, that leads me to further question accuracy from Apple Intelligence.

If you haven't educated yourself around Linux, you should start looking in that direction.

Also, dump LLMs.

@bencourtice Nothing wrong with Leiber!

@misty

"Stephen Crawford, minister of public and business service delivery and procurement, said

*on X*

that some of the websites pull map data directly from Google Maps."

I wonder if there's some sort of philosophy about how governments use technology that made this outcome possible 🤔

@thomasfuchs ah, so it's geofenced

"AI helps with my disability"

AI *causes* disability. But that's in poor black kids, and fuck them, right?

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/05/06/elon-musk-xai-memphis-gas-turbines-air-pollution-permits-00317582

this is not new information, you knew this already. don't pretend to ethical values.