Oh fuck allllll the way off with this “electric vehicle owners aren’t paying their fair share” shit on road taxes. You know who isn’t paying their share? Billionaires and multimillionaires. Those fucking guys. Those guys spend absurd amounts of money to buy politicians just so they can pay less in taxes.

My state says I made an error on my taxes and owed some silly amount back. I just paid it. Right then. Why not? It goes to services we all use. The ultra-rich would fight that. Parasites…

Measles-linked deaths since RFK Jr became HHS Secretary now surpass those recorded in the previous 20 years combined.

Milo "ICE checkpoints at supermarket entrances, gas stations, strip malls, intersections, and government buildings with on-the-spot deportation of anyone unable to prove they were legally in the United States." Yiannopoulos has been busted by ICE. The really odd sound you hear is me cackling like a manic.

https://abcnews.com/US/milo-yiannopolous-british-commentator-detained-ice/story?id=136038107

Journalists report on the first AI-guided brain surgery.

Responsive journalists would figure out if it is an LLM or some other system, branded “ai.” This is important, as the general public shouldn't see this as a win for “ai” and trust is more because “ai” did an impressive and important thing.

@spraoi remind her that test results aren't a fixed evaluation of her intrinsic worth. There's a lot of random variation -- the question order, the temperature in the room, what she ate that morning. And there's always an opportunity to improve those scores by studying at university!

Opened the Wikipedia page for Trademark and found this under the Usage section.

#Wikipedia #Bisexual

is there any running list of open-source, non-AI-using projects that could use someone to work on documentation? (or procedures to go about looking for such?) my guess is what i'm looking for would be on codeberg. but i've never worked on anything like that before, despite having some technical-ish writing experience, and it'd be fun to contribute if that would be helpful

I keep seeing the same lifecycle over and over again.

Phase one: We’re revolutionaries. We’re different. We have principles. We have an idea.

Phase two: We just need to change a couple of tiny things... you understand, we do need to make some money.

Phase three: Psst... let’s quietly change this too. No need to announce it. They trust us.

Phase four: Let’s add a little of whatever the current trend is. Just enough to get more attention. Everyone else is doing it anyway.

Phase five: Hey, this monetisation thing actually works. And now that we’re here, we could monetise a little more. It would be silly not to.

Phase six: Listen, my dear little insignificant user. I know what’s best for you. Give me your money, your data, your freedom, and please stop looking around.

You don’t need alternatives.

You have me.

You’re mine.

#IT #BusinessModels #TechWorld

Let them regret making enemies of the many hackers who until now thought of themselves as non-political.

@christianschwaegerl Alle meine Katzen die ich in meinem Leben so hatte waren schon da. Keine einzige war von gezüchtet. Und ja sie verbrauchen Ressourcen.

@TheBreadmonkey 😹 actual lol 😆

Okay so, in all sincerity - I know a number of organizations have basically depended on stuff like Nitter/XCancel as an excuse to continue posting important information on X. Now that people without accounts are really locked out I hope we can actually put serious pressure on organizations to post information publicly.

Stopping the smart TV from being used against you

https://www.s-config.com/stopping-a-smart-tv-from-being-used-against-you/

Comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49483816

#HackerNews #smartTV #privacy #security #onlineSafety #dataProtection #techAwareness

I tried something new in the last few days: I built a #treesitter grammar for the FASTA file format!

https://jrhawley.ca/2026/04/19/tree-sitter-fasta

This was a fun learning experience and I'm quite happy with the result. I intentionally ignored "prior art" and built something for myself, so that I could see what kinds of questions and trade-offs I would need to grapple with.

If parsers, domain-specific languages, or bioinformatics are your interest, feel free to give this a try!

Anit vaig arribar al lloc triat per fotografiar l'eclipsi massa d'hora i em vaig dedicar a traure algunes imatges de paisatge nocturn i, com no podia ser d'una altra manera, amb la lluna d'actriu meritoria.

Sí, és una antiga casa de camp, però va arribar a ser més que això. Es tracta, històricament, de "La casica Roger" per pertànyer a aquesta família, però també, reconvertida, va ser taller i caserna com a part de les instal·lacions per a les tropes que servien a l'Aeròdrom de Villar de la Llibertat de les Forces Aèries de la República (FAR), anomenada popularment com La Gloriosa. Un apel·latiu ben guanyat, aquest de La Gloriosa, sembla que suggerit per Rafael Alberti, perquè enfrontar-se amb 4 mosquits (Xatos, Mosques, Katiuskas) a tota la nazi Legió Còndor i l'Aviazione Legionaria feixista és tindre un bon parell de collons que només s'explica perquè sabien perquè lluitaven i li´n posaren tot el cor.

Hi ha més instal·lacions, com un refugi antiaeri en soterrani ple de corredors per a salvaguardar comunicacions, municions i les pròpies vides dels bombardejos feixistes. Es van restaurar no fa gaire i són visitables. Als comentaris us pose dues fotografies que en fan menció i explicació. Jo coneixia aquest tipus de búnquer sota terra perquè vaig servir a la "pàtria" a Manises, on també n'hi ha.

Sobre La Gloriosa, per fer la mili en Aviació, tinc una anècdota personal que algun dia vos contaré.

Aeròdrom de Villar de la Llibertat

El Villar - Els Serrans - País Valencià

www.fermibruna-fotografia.com

Bessie fashioned herself an eye mask during our group nap this afternoon (her sis is not in the picture) #CatsOfMastodon

protocol violation

Die Bundesregierung legt nicht offen, wo bundesweit neue Rechenzentren gebaut werden sollen, obwohl diese schwerwiegende Folgen für Umwelt und Gesellschaft haben. Das Projekt Heiße Luft hat nun eine Übersichtskarte der Standorte veröffentlicht. Sie zeigt auch, wo sich Protest regt.
@algorithmwatch @fragdenstaat https://netzpolitik.org/2026/interaktive-karte-an-diesen-orten-sollen-bundesweit-neue-rechenzentren-entstehen/

since there’s ongoing discourse about #DNS, here’s my contribution: deez nuts system