Multiple tradies on site for most of the day today. Obviously, nature is going to intervene. But who doesn’t know the basics? You drop a deuce, you run the fan!
That ain’t new, baby!
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RIP Walter Koenig. Here's a beautiful eulogy about him from JMS, creator of Babylon 5.
Walter Koenig's character Bester was amazingly acted and so iconic that "psicop" is still instantly recognizable to most of my friends when used as a "fast but simple Halloween costume".
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umamusume cartoon where a horsegirl is part of a gifted and talented athletics program in her youth but then barely makes it through high school and ends up working at a Blockbuster Video till her 30s
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what does it mean if tiktok, reels, and shorts all independently suggested this to me today
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I continue to be extremely salty about the techbros claiming the word “algorithm” such that it’s come to mean “creepy surveillance-based recommender system” in popular parlance.
That’s partly because this was a programmer’s word long before the post-dot-com techbros were even teething — and partly because Al-Khwarizmi was cool and I will not hear his name besmirched.
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I mostly follow @voxel 's blog for, like, low-bit hacking stuff and pixel art, but turns out it's also a pretty darn good source of music recommendations.
https://zodiacmusicofficial.bandcamp.com/album/book-of-madness is dark drum-and-bass that gives a sort of "Juno Reactor but more evil" vibe.
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#Eleicoes2026 : "No candidate who failed to win the first round had ever prevailed in the second.…Yet there was one key figure in #Lula’s orbit who remained confident in the possibility of a turnaround: Congressman André #Janones. With Lula’s blessing, he immediately set about bringing the campaign into the digital spaces it had so far struggled to penetrate. The Brazilian far right, seemingly convinced they were unbeatable, downplayed Lula’s steady rise in the polls over the last three weeks — until finally, on Sunday, he defied the odds and stormed to victory, winning an astounding 64 million votes.
The outcome was the result of two immediate factors: Lula’s singular leadership, and Janones’s intuitive understanding of today’s online ecosystem. Together, they managed to beat the #Bolsonaro machine."
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This weekend, I got my first documentation volunteer in two years to assist with the #Xfce 4.22 docs refresh.🎉
Today, I presented my introductory info dump to onboard them.
I'm not sure that _I_ like knowing how the sausage is made....😱
Fingers crossed.🤞
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More on Al-Khwarizmi, Mr. Algorithm himself:
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"Everything seems designed not to solve problems, but to prevent them from ever reaching those in charge"
https://shs.hal.science/file/index/docid/635241/filename/machines_hostiles.pdf
(apologies for the google translate quote; i recommend running this piece through your translator of choice)
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RE: https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:htdsafwakqmzvuk2oivijzn6/post/3myt3ada7mk2l
The word “algorithm” is derived from the family name of Muhammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi, a Persian who lived in Baghdad and not only wrote down the instructions for what we now call “long addition” and “long multiplication” etc. — the instructions that European schools used for the subsequent 400+ years — but also…
…invented algebra. You know, nbd, just a Persian-Arab thing.
“Don’t do science?” The Islamic world •gave Europe science•, you dimwit. Not that RFK would know science if it came up and bit him.
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TIL that if you register your site with Google Search Console, you can switch off a “Search generative AI” setting to tell Google not to include your site’s content in its AI overviews.
I have serious doubts about whether this •actually• excludes the site. (Do they untrain their LLM?! Will they even block your site when retraining? I severely doubt it.)
However, I’m quite sure that it sends a signal to some sad, dark business analytics corner of Google. And it’s a signal I want to send.
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Full moon rise
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Important question for you: In Labyrinth, where is Sarah’s mother?
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every settings page contains at least one checkbox whose consequences can only be learned experimentally
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reverse office space maneuver
which of your core responsibilities have you failed to delegate to the low quality machine? what don't you do here
https://www.404media.co/proton-to-re-interview-staff-about-ai-to-see-who-gets-to-keep-their-job/
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i tire
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you really need to sandbox the shit out of these things or stop using them vs no you don't
https://theonion.com/this-war-will-destabilize-the-entire-mideast-region-and-1819594296/
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when people are like "save the game!" i feel even when they know better, they still act like there is some kind of super-entity author that follows the game throughout its entire run that is conveniently referred to by the studio's name and is somehow soul-trapped by the publisher like ghostbusters
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Noooooooo
I feel like I'm coming down with a cold. No. Not this week. No can do. Too much needs to get done.
Gonna be an early bedtime for me I think.
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RE: https://mastodon.social/@404mediaco/117509377339919227
Lmao just fucking take me out back and lay me off man
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Skeleton Sex Orgy "divides" residents of Casper, Wyoming https://boingboing.net/2026/10/26/skeleton-sex-orgy-divides-residents-of-casper-wyoming.html
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Coworking and Office Hours next week!
Theme: Climate Science in R
Tuesday November 3rd 09:00 Australia Western (01:00 UTC)
Join @eliocamp and @steffilazerte
- General coworking
- Explore how R is used to study the climate
- Cowork independently on something related to R
- Chat and discuss our theme!
