@slightlyoff @patrickbrosset you have my vote ☺️

> «One effect of the fragmentary view of the world encouraged by industrial economics is that agricultural work is regarded as of little value; since agriculture is seen in this view to be simply another kind of factory, and no "profit" can be extracted from it unless it is practiced on an industrial scale, more farming must be done by fewer and fewer people and the rural population is displaced into the cities to look for work there...»

~ Risa Stephanie Bear

Maybe I should just give up and make the game into #TMBGASong...

hmmmmmmmmmmmmmm.

Attorney General’s Office Investigating Fatal Police-Involved Shooting in Middle Township, N.J. https://www.njoag.gov/attorney-generals-office-investigating-fatal-police-involved-shooting-in-middle-township-n-j/

@jcrabapple Romeo a go go is such a great opener

🎵
Weeee want the funk!
Gotta have that funk!
Weeee want the funk!
But everybody wants the funk
to wind a piece of string around.
🎵

(I need to think of one that doesn't involve They Might Be Giants... >.>)

#hashtagGames #hybridLyrics

"In 2023, a University of Canterbury study found that even non-Māori-speaking New Zealanders could, on average, subconsciously recognise over 1000 words of Te Reo Māori."

#SimonWilson, 2026

https://simonwilsonhopetown.substack.com/p/dirty-work-and-the-disinfecting-sunshine

That sounds super cool! But if this is the study Wilson was thinking of;

https://phys.org/news/2023-08-mori-words-understood-zealand.html

... it also says most of those people only understand the meanings of about 70 of those words, which is not so cool.

#TeReoMāori

New on Built by Ear: the next Our Perspective drops Oct 6. Kolby and I dig into the visual concepts that never translated for us, and I wrote up a quick catch-up guide to the first three episodes.

https://payown.substack.com/p/new-episode-oct-6-and-a-good-time

Curious. Not that I'm developing NVDA addons, but why are some LLM addons getting a pass into the store and some are not?

The Soviet early warning system that day was only 3 weeks old - they hadn't even finished testing it before Petrov's shift.

@VeroniqueB99 @railmeat

@cstross I'd like to replace JPG and PNG with webp. But other than that, agreed.

Gather close young ones, and I will speak the true name of input[type=radio]

#ui

Studying GRUB's other user-space subsystems...

For i386 EFI machines there's a `grub-dumpdevtree` shellscript lightly wrapping the `ioreg` command with some hardcoded arguments & reformatted output.

For IEEE1275 machines there's a `grub-ofpath` command which performs some generic initialization, handles common commandline flags, defers to `grub_util_devname_to_ofpath` outputting results if any, & cleans up.

And there's a shellscript registering numerous autocompletion callbacks.

1/2!

There's a handful of shared utils between all those callbacks, with the callbacks branching over special envvars to determine how to compute their results. Usually by invoking those shared helpers.

I don't think its worth saying more.

1.5/1.5 Fin for today! Next I'll be skimming the rest of the code, remarking where I find something notable. Then I'll study Linux's bootup!

@seachanger Oh uuuugh.

I think there are two key lessons from Linguistics as we deal with LLMs/chatbots being imposed on us everywhere. Grateful for Undark Magazine giving space for me to lay these out:

https://undark.org/2026/09/25/interview-artificial-intelligence/