Out of context work quote: "we should find these machines, take their CPUs, and mount them on a stick as a warning to the others"

Dog

Pollution levels in London after 10 years of advancing sustainable transport.

@quentin_ld thanks!

"Ceremonial safety gesture" from Dr. Stephan Bollinger, winner of the 2009 IgNobel Peace Prize for determining whether it is worse to be smashed over the head with a full beer bottle or an empty one: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jflm.2008.07.013

(He smashes a prop bottle over his head)

#IgNobel

@pkw

Makes sense to me, as without thinking and empathizing doubt is unlikely to creep in. Similar to how actual frauds never experience impostor syndrome because they know they are full of *redacted*.

If you happen to have a copy of those quotes, I'd enjoy reading them.

US senator calls on the NSA to give guidance for use of VPNs

Open source, commercial, single-hop, multi-hop, mixnet? The array of options is dizzying.
https://arstechnica.com/security/2026/09/us-senator-calls-on-the-nsa-to-give-guidance-for-use-of-vpns/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

So. News.

Am selling my narrowboat and moving to New Zealand.

Anyone want to buy a 50 foot liveaboard?

More details to follow

#UKCanals

@eevee the reason complex numbers make sense at all is because the number 1 actually forms the origin point where two bases meet, and that's where the function f(x) = 1/x (not a polynomial) comes in

Another brilliant idea!

THIS is what the great John Lewis would call “GOOD TROUBLE” — Protesters in Minneapolis have reportedly been dressing up in jeans, body armor, and masks, and then walking into groups of ICE agents and accusing one or two of them of being imposters until they all start fighting each other, and then the protesters sneak away.
And now, it’s happening nationwide!

@david_chisnall @sophieschmieg fun fact still vulnerable to side channel attacks when mounted on sticks

@cstross @pleia2 When PCs kicked minicomputers up into the server space, turns out there's only one server space, so they fought to the death with mainframes and IBM took DEC's head and queen played and there was all this lightning, but the result was timeshared instead of punched card batch jobs.

When smartphones kicked the PC up into the server space there was a marketing budget to call it "the cloud". Amazon EC2 won. Queen is still playing. Phones are not yet self-hosting, and I am sad.

I want the internet to be:

Cat content

📚 RSS feeds written by humans

Mastodon and Fediverse connections

Educational videos running on PeerTube

Free, open-source, privacy-by-default, and AI-free software made with love

📖 And unionized Wikipedia

#Internet #Fediverse

What's this? Oh just Snickers using ClickFix and indirect prompt injection as part of a marketing campaign.

https://www.snickers[.]com/hungr-ai

https://www.snickers[.]com/digitalsnickers

The second URL contains prompt injections to change model behavior.

And this is the best-case scenario

I Don’t Have a Smartphone… - Ploum:
https://ploum.net/2026-09-02-i_dont_have_a_smartphone.html

@davew Now *that* is an incentive!

@thunderbird thanks! I wasn't sure if this was a local Thunderbird thing or IMAP. Thanks for clearing this up.

Heavy cream is chemically identical to regular cream, however it has a much smaller neutron cross-section making it suitable for use on unenriched dessert.

@eevee er, sorry, i meant the polynomials are the really highly rigid and restricted class. integers are fine we get along