Somebody at my last job showed me how to do this to speed up searching within internal tools at work. It’s only saving a few seconds and a few clicks, but it blows people away every time.

I’ve got a ton of them now.

Or, as Cory Doctorow put it, “five giant websites, each filled with screenshots of the other four.”

( ( stares at the Fibonacci sequence… ) )

This has to do something…

Yeah. The bar down the street will have the game on the TVs and they’ll bring me all the beer and tots I ask for. I’m good.

Or perhaps other reasons…

Your lucky numbers are #ff0000

This is one of the sickest synthesizers of the 1990s g-funk era. It produced the high-pitched portamento sound that provided iconic hooks for many of the tracks on Dr Dre’s 1993 album The Chronic.

Erowid is a remnant of the old web where people would post trip reports. What you’re looking for is methaqualone.

This is a giant waste of time.

A) Restricting AIPAC just means capital and influence will flow from other, more obscure sources. It’s squeezing a closed tube of toothpaste.

B) PACs should be illegal, full stop. So long as PACs exist, capital will continue to flow into our politics. And as the cost burden of jumping through regulatory hoops and sidestepping ridiculous half-measures like this one is trivial for large donors, PACs disproportionally benefit highly-funded causes as opposed to those powered by small donations.

No half measures. Make PACs illegal.

Beginning to feel a peculiar compulsion to confound tourists with ice cream.

Geeking out over the origins of HTTP 418 kinda got me a job once. But that was back when that kind of stuff, connecting interpersonally with the humans that you work with, mattered during hiring.

It’s still making the festival circuit, but there’s a short film OP should watch:

Hungry Hollow (2026, dir Sarah Ruyle, trailer) - A girl left for dead gets devoured by forest spirits.

The best comment on this I’ve seen…

It turns out, to the horror of techbros like Zuck, that the actual core demographics for VR worlds are not edgy cyberpunk antiheroes whose coolness could rub off on them, but femboy otaku who want to go drinking with friends while dressed as fabulous anime girls without even having leave their home and trans furries who want to party at visually spectacular virtual raves then pirate movies and have virtual cuddle piles.

Which… isn’t very monetizable for normies.

…yet. 😈

I wouldn’t call the crowd shocked so much as left wanting. Conan was doing his regular humor, but holy cow did those jokes of his just thud in that crowd, which was a pretty big loss since (imo) the intro bit with him in Aunt Gladys drag was hilarious.

But between the humor not working and TERRIBLE mic work, the technicals on this show were not there.

I loved the expanded in memorium section tho.

Found the Oglaf reader.

🤯

Here’s the news story about it: https://www.wtsp.com/article/news/local/pascocounty/man-kills-eats-pet-peacock-pasco-county/67-d216ccbf-d32a-462c-be3d-65c41907095e

1. There’s nothing wrong with eating peafowl. People have been eating them for centuries and still do.

2. While some species of peafowl are endangered, the species that people keep as pets are not.

3. This guy was reportedly arrested for his slaughtering methods. I’m no butcher, but I believe the commonly accepted method of slaughter is to swiftly break the bird’s neck to ensure the death is quick. According to the news article, he cut the bird’s necks and let them bleed out which counts as animal cruelty. A person would theoretically get arrested for doing this to their pet/feeder chickens as well.

Amtrak’s Coast Starlight line on the west coast has wifi, but it’s unusably glitchy. The trips I’ve taken haven’t been crowded, so I doubt it was an overuse issue. My guess is either the upstream connection is junk or the trains aren’t kitted out with hardware capable of meaningful QoS (either from misconfiguration or inability).

Tweets and skeets are a megaphone based on spur-of-the-moment thoughts.

Large scale media campaigns have time and manpower to strategize angles, uptake and decide next steps.

The more we learn about bureaucrats with paper crowns, the more they’re revealed as deeply insecure children who, like the rest of us, are only pretending to know how to be grownups and really just doing random shit most of the time.

I don’t think any more thought went into this than that cat with a newspaper deciding to buy a boat.

Not buying it.

The product leadership, directors and executives who dreamed this nightmare up and believed in it enough to make it a reality are still there.

Never trust them again.