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Automatically replacing <3 with a heart emoji is a hate crime against millennials
December 6, 2025 at 9:59 PM
Automatically replacing <3 with a heart emoji is a hate crime against millennials
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This hit me straight in the feels
December 6, 2025 at 2:32 AM
This hit me straight in the feels
Rupert has fresh tissue paper!
December 6, 2025 at 4:40 AM
Rupert has fresh tissue paper!
Advent, day 1, 2025. I have no intention of keeping up the documentation, but we absolutely get a first-day tour! #tinydoors #adventcalendar
December 1, 2025 at 11:38 PM
Advent, day 1, 2025. I have no intention of keeping up the documentation, but we absolutely get a first-day tour! #tinydoors #adventcalendar
Introduce yourself with five concerts you've seen:
New Kids on the Block
Ani DiFranco
BNL
Girlyman
Live
New Kids on the Block
Ani DiFranco
BNL
Girlyman
Live
Introduce yourself with five concerts you've seen —
Ani Difranco
Lyle Lovett
Pixies
Elvis Costello
The Who
This was before I became a free-jazz weirdo.
Ani Difranco
Lyle Lovett
Pixies
Elvis Costello
The Who
This was before I became a free-jazz weirdo.
Introduce yourself with five concerts you've seen —
NIN
Yeah Yeah Yeahs
Soul Coughing
Poe
Tom Morello
NIN
Yeah Yeah Yeahs
Soul Coughing
Poe
Tom Morello
November 28, 2025 at 1:09 AM
Introduce yourself with five concerts you've seen:
New Kids on the Block
Ani DiFranco
BNL
Girlyman
Live
New Kids on the Block
Ani DiFranco
BNL
Girlyman
Live
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This is why OpenAI is selling so aggressively to education at all levels—they want to create entire generations of users incapable of reading, writing and thinking without ChatGPT to hold their hands
And teachers and professors should call this out for what it actually is
And teachers and professors should call this out for what it actually is
To bear out this rosy projection, HSBC assumes that OpenAI will become "as ubiquitous [...] as Microsoft 365" (345mm users worldwide) while bringing in 10x the number of users (3bn).
November 25, 2025 at 11:11 PM
This is why OpenAI is selling so aggressively to education at all levels—they want to create entire generations of users incapable of reading, writing and thinking without ChatGPT to hold their hands
And teachers and professors should call this out for what it actually is
And teachers and professors should call this out for what it actually is
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I feel you, ancient Mongolian ceramic hedgehog. I feel you.
November 26, 2025 at 10:17 AM
I feel you, ancient Mongolian ceramic hedgehog. I feel you.
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"Reminder to rate your recent purchase" no thanks I'd rather die
November 25, 2025 at 6:30 PM
"Reminder to rate your recent purchase" no thanks I'd rather die
Solved a file formatting problem that seems to be years old? Way more satisfying than actually updating the final exam review problems.
November 24, 2025 at 11:04 PM
Solved a file formatting problem that seems to be years old? Way more satisfying than actually updating the final exam review problems.
Guy who doesn't really seem to like boxes when I don't unpack the catnip toy.
November 22, 2025 at 6:43 PM
Guy who doesn't really seem to like boxes when I don't unpack the catnip toy.
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***
11th ANNUAL
BULL CITY FOODRAISER
FUNDRAISING THREAD
***
It's that time again! 🦃 For the 11th year in a row, we need your help providing groceries to 5,100+ schoolkids!
➡️ GoFundMe: www.gofundme.com/f/11th-annua...
➡️ PPGF: www.paypal.com/US/fundraise...
(Plus other donation options in thread!)
11th ANNUAL
BULL CITY FOODRAISER
FUNDRAISING THREAD
***
It's that time again! 🦃 For the 11th year in a row, we need your help providing groceries to 5,100+ schoolkids!
➡️ GoFundMe: www.gofundme.com/f/11th-annua...
➡️ PPGF: www.paypal.com/US/fundraise...
(Plus other donation options in thread!)
November 10, 2025 at 11:24 PM
***
11th ANNUAL
BULL CITY FOODRAISER
FUNDRAISING THREAD
***
It's that time again! 🦃 For the 11th year in a row, we need your help providing groceries to 5,100+ schoolkids!
➡️ GoFundMe: www.gofundme.com/f/11th-annua...
➡️ PPGF: www.paypal.com/US/fundraise...
(Plus other donation options in thread!)
11th ANNUAL
BULL CITY FOODRAISER
FUNDRAISING THREAD
***
It's that time again! 🦃 For the 11th year in a row, we need your help providing groceries to 5,100+ schoolkids!
➡️ GoFundMe: www.gofundme.com/f/11th-annua...
➡️ PPGF: www.paypal.com/US/fundraise...
(Plus other donation options in thread!)
... and while I can't learn that fact multiple times, I *can* watch this video on repeat.
The performance from the documentary, in which Rockapella perform their version of Harry Belafonte’s Zombie Jamboroee, is choices on choices on choices.
Rockapella: Zombie Jamboree (1990, VHS) HQ 480p
YouTube video by Nostalmania
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October 30, 2025 at 1:23 AM
... and while I can't learn that fact multiple times, I *can* watch this video on repeat.
This is absolutely delightful!
Very few facts about the media landscape of my youth blow my mind, but the Rockapella Carmen Sandiego x Spike Lee connection really did a number on me.
October 30, 2025 at 12:27 AM
This is absolutely delightful!
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I never read it! I heard about it though, with Papa being a central criticism lol I feel like there are probably more things to criticize
October 27, 2025 at 7:03 PM
I never read it! I heard about it though, with Papa being a central criticism lol I feel like there are probably more things to criticize
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My favorite part of this is where he figures out how to block the telemetry and a few days later the vacuum gets "updated" with a command to stop working.
October 26, 2025 at 4:11 PM
My favorite part of this is where he figures out how to block the telemetry and a few days later the vacuum gets "updated" with a command to stop working.
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Here’s where it gets personal for me. When I was 9, I started experiencing suicidal ideation … disinterested in living, and at least some of the time contemplating death and how it might happen … It’s easy to imagine how I would have used programs like these chatbots.
Perry: How can AI be used ethically when it’s been linked to suicide?
"It’s not on us, on you and me, to use AI ethically or responsibly. It’s on the companies to build safe, reliable, ethical products," David M. Perry writes.
www.startribune.com
October 26, 2025 at 6:58 AM
Here’s where it gets personal for me. When I was 9, I started experiencing suicidal ideation … disinterested in living, and at least some of the time contemplating death and how it might happen … It’s easy to imagine how I would have used programs like these chatbots.
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the Muppets have been real quiet since the Louvre heist
October 19, 2025 at 10:19 PM
the Muppets have been real quiet since the Louvre heist
How today's going: Last week the Costco I usually go to finally showed the novavax covid booster in stock, so I made an appointment for this morning, figuring I’d have tomorrow for any lingering ick. 1/?
October 13, 2025 at 10:58 PM
How today's going: Last week the Costco I usually go to finally showed the novavax covid booster in stock, so I made an appointment for this morning, figuring I’d have tomorrow for any lingering ick. 1/?
@margaret.bsky.social reading Sofia Samatar's Selkie Stories are for Losers was exactly what today needed. www.iheart.com/podcast/1119...
CZM Book Club: Selkie Stories Are For Losers, by Sofia Samatar - Cool People Who Did Cool Stuff | iHeart
<p>Margaret reads you a story about yearning and magic and folklore and teenage gays.</p><p>See <a href='https://omnystudio.com/listener'>omnystudio.com/listener</a> for privacy information.</p>
www.iheart.com
September 29, 2025 at 1:41 AM
@margaret.bsky.social reading Sofia Samatar's Selkie Stories are for Losers was exactly what today needed. www.iheart.com/podcast/1119...
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With alt text because this made me cry 😭
September 29, 2025 at 12:01 AM
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We're all dunking on this post, but we really need to ask ourselves if we would do any better in his position.
Would any of us do better? Would we? Yes. Yes, we would. We would *all* do better than this.
My GOD
Would any of us do better? Would we? Yes. Yes, we would. We would *all* do better than this.
My GOD
The Trump administration’s threat to deploy troops in Portland is unlawful.
Here’s a thought.
Focus on protecting the healthcare of the American people.
Here’s a thought.
Focus on protecting the healthcare of the American people.
September 28, 2025 at 1:37 AM
We're all dunking on this post, but we really need to ask ourselves if we would do any better in his position.
Would any of us do better? Would we? Yes. Yes, we would. We would *all* do better than this.
My GOD
Would any of us do better? Would we? Yes. Yes, we would. We would *all* do better than this.
My GOD
My foccacia is filled with garlic butter and cheese, and @mostlybree.kitrocha.com is partly to blame. 😸
September 27, 2025 at 8:05 PM
My foccacia is filled with garlic butter and cheese, and @mostlybree.kitrocha.com is partly to blame. 😸
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History students are often disappointed when they learn why the AI take-over failed. They were defeated by human resistance, which was kept alive by libraries and old paper books, and a surprising machine ally.
Books had not been replaced, because even the mightiest AI could not make printers work.
Books had not been replaced, because even the mightiest AI could not make printers work.
September 12, 2025 at 2:24 PM
History students are often disappointed when they learn why the AI take-over failed. They were defeated by human resistance, which was kept alive by libraries and old paper books, and a surprising machine ally.
Books had not been replaced, because even the mightiest AI could not make printers work.
Books had not been replaced, because even the mightiest AI could not make printers work.
Unauthorized Bread from Cory Doctorow's Radicalized almost made me cry several times... but it is exactly the hope-read that I needed.
arstechnica.com/gaming/2020/...
arstechnica.com/gaming/2020/...
Unauthorized Bread: Real rebellions involve jailbreaking IoT toasters
Cory Doctorow’s book, Radicalized, is up for a CBC award. To celebrate, here’s an excerpt.
arstechnica.com
September 11, 2025 at 2:06 AM
Unauthorized Bread from Cory Doctorow's Radicalized almost made me cry several times... but it is exactly the hope-read that I needed.
arstechnica.com/gaming/2020/...
arstechnica.com/gaming/2020/...
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Wonderful admission from the cops that non violent action is effective and really really makes them sad.
This gets progressively funnier with every use of the term "floppy".
![One of Britain’s most senior police officers has launched an angry tirade against Extinction Rebellion protesters going “all floppy” when they get arrested.
Sir Stephen House, the deputy commissioner of the Metropolitan police, said the tactic of going limp was a “flipping nuisance” as it required extra officers to drag protesters away.
House told a London assembly police and crime committee hearing: “We have asked them to stop being floppy. And that might seem like a silly thing to say, but when we arrest them and pick them up, they go all floppy, which is why you see four or five officers carrying them away. It’s a complete waste of officers’ time, and a complete pain in the neck.”
Extinction Rebellion: how successful were the latest protests?
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House also expressed annoyance at how the tactic made the police look heavy-handed. He said: “The problem with them going floppy and four offices carrying them away [is that it] looks to the general public like police are overreacting here. We’re not making them go floppy. They’re just sort of being a nuisance.”](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:7uvcqt45oqlutlrtgx7bpodq/bafkreie7yqxb4cj2t4gxftiqsno5wgk2kczb5vbtj7wh2b2u5sjtqtdrku@jpeg)
September 6, 2025 at 1:11 AM
Wonderful admission from the cops that non violent action is effective and really really makes them sad.