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@glyph Is it sticky tape that can bind anything together if you use enough?

a grand staircase inside an old chateau

🔥Why do so many gorgeous abandoned buildings get burned down?

This gorgeous derelict chateau in France was destroyed by a fire some years ago.

Every year so much history is lost to the flames, erased forever. All that workmanship and the stories, gone […]

[Original post on mstdn.social]

More to the point though in this metaphor where you're getting a potentially-infected scrape at work, we are living in the pre-germ-theory age of AI. We are aware that it might be dangerous sometimes, but we don't know to whom or why. We are attempting to combat miasma with bloodletting right […]

Welcome to election deception season California voters will be inundated with calls, texts and mailers from political campaigns that aren't always straightforward about their intent. Golden State Report is here to help.

Fellow Californians, don't sign the sneaky billionaire petition!

https://goldenstatereport.substack.com/p/welcome-to-election-deception-season

#USPol

@strange_new_words "Then I found a line, deep in the language of this ostensibly good-government measure, that could nullify another, better-known initiative gathering signatures at the moment: the so-called billionaire’s tax, a one-time 5% wealth tax on the richest of the rich in the state." […]

A quotation from **Orwell**

> _Nationalism is not to be confused with patriotism_. Both words are normally used in so vague a way that any definition is liable to be challenged, but one must draw a distinction between them, since two different and even opposing ideas are involved.
> By […]

oh right, also:

mumble mumble Therac-25

**Your Browser Becomes Your WordPress**
Announcment of My.WordPress.net, a persistent in-browser WordPress that you can use for drafts, experiments, subscribe to feeds, etc. without setting up or signing into an actual server.

#WordPress #WebApps

https://wordpress.org/news/2026/03/wordpress-6-9-4-release/

> WordPress 6.9.2 and WordPress 6.9.3 were released yesterday, addressing 10 security issues and a bug that affected template file loading on a limited number of sites.
>
> The WordPress Security Team has discovered that not all of the […]

Seems painfully obvious that, whatever you think about #genai code, anyone using it is heading for a code-review logjam. Assuming that the org requires code review; if yours doesn’t, nothing I can say will help you. Anyhow, Rishi Baldawa writes smart stuff about the problem and possible ways […]

Balcony solar is taking US state legislatures by storm. In more than half of states, Republican and Democratic lawmakers have introduced legislation that would boost adoption of small plug-in solar panels that sit on apartment balconies and plug directly into household outlets. The simple […]

A smiling woman with vibrant blue hair emerges from a concrete hatch, her left arm raised, in a grassy outdoor setting.

A girl emerges from an underground ROC bunker at sunset, backlit by the bright setting sun. She stands in a grassy field wearing a backpack.

🫣 Peek-a-boo! Snaps from a little evening adventure, exploring an underground ROC outpost. This photo of me emerging from the hatch is priceless (I was also having some sort of fluffy hair day)!

#Underground #Bunker #BehindTheScenes #Photographer #UrbanExplorer #Sunset #ROC #Outpost #ColdWar

@wistquotes Hmm, was Ungle Ben paraphrasing Adlai Stevenson, i wonder?

@RonSupportsYou For a guy who claims to be morally superior due to his religion, Johnson really likes breaking that commandment against bearing false witness, doesn't he?

A question I feel like some folks¹ need to be asking themselves right about now: if you're in OSS development, *why*? If it's a moral stance, what are those morals? Does your choice of license, code of conduct, contribution policy, etc. reflect those morals?

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¹A lot of folks already have […]

Americans trust Fauci over RFK Jr. and career scientists over Trump officials - ArsTechnica

Good.

cute seal in cage profile view

seal pushing nose into cage

📣 Breaking news! Seals have super smooshable faces.

I did not know this, but Oriole (aka Princess Lardass) decided to demonstrate.

Photos taken as I unloaded her at the rehab center, after a 4 hour delay to get her to her new home.

And of course I took photos […]

[Original post on mstdn.social]

Like, it's not enough for them to say, OK, here are our roots/influences, let's keep what's good and try to grow past what's bad. Somehow our history - or more specifically their narrow view of it - has to be better than everyone else's, including our own present.

I also vaguely recall one where the lead is trying to sabotage a pre-Columbian Chinese expedition to the west coast of North America. The stories about preserving the Rome/Europe dominated timeline hit a bit differently now that I've read more widely, and seen who today is _really_ invested in […]

I think I read this one. It's probably in the Time Patrol collection I read way back when. The bit I remember most was from (probably) a different story, in which the lead character travels back to watch the massive waterfall of Gibraltar as the Atlantic pours into the Mediterranean basin.

Screenshot of a summary about the Poul Anderson short story "Delenda Est" (as in "Carthago delenda est") describing it as an "1855 short story by Poul Anderson" though at least it got his name right and correctly identifies it as part of his "Time Patrol" series. The 1955 publication date is correct in the longer part of the summary.

I searched for a Latin phrase to check its spelling (as one does) and found the DDG summary of a Wikipedia article was...a bit confused.

Though I suppose if any short story is going to have been written before its author was born, it should be a […]

[Original post on notes.kvibber.com]

Someone needs to name some streets "Liminal Pl."

New-to-me phishing/scam vector: The scammer shares a Google Doc with you containing the bogus invoice.

It's not an email attachment, so spam filters can only work on the notice...and you also get a notice through the Google Docs app if you still have it on your phone.

#phishing #spam

[weird coincidence, hiking, cliffs]

Sunday morning, as I headed out for a hike, I remarked about how I was planning to avoid standing too close to the cliffs.

Sunday night, a hiker was rescued from local cliffs that, judging by the pictures of the rocky shoreline, were either the same cliffs I […]

[Pixar, Hoppers, spoiler for Heaven's Vault]

OK, that's weird...I've been seeing billboards for Pixar's "Hoppers," featuring a close-up on a cartoon gopher. But since I've been playing _Heaven's Vault_, the name always conjures up the teleportation device from the game.

It turns out the movie […]

https://dair-community.social/@timnitGebru/116167843525658340

Yeah, they really took a bare-minimum stance in this one case. (Not the one in the article, the one they're getting praised/excoriated for this week.)

It would be nice to see more orgs at least stepping over that really low bar […]

[Libertarian climate denial]

Heh. Apparently the Cato Institute finally admitted a while back that global warming is both real and substantially caused by human action...but they still oppose public policy that would mitigate it on the grounds that nothing currently proposed will solve it, and […]

I've written up the process of getting those missing half-star symbols onto a web page by embedding a font that supports them.

It's definitely overkill for this use case, but I wanted to see what it would take, and I figured it was worth saving the information. If at some point I decide I need […]

Scientists in California have created a new way to see inside the body by combining ultrasound with a light-based technique called photoacoustic imaging. The result produces fast 3D images that show both the shape of soft tissues and how blood is flowing. It has already been tested on human […]

Hex Fiend ★★★★★ I’m impressed: Hex Fiend _instantly_ opened an 8.5 _gigabyte_ file I needed to extract some data from. No trouble searching for the starting bytes, no slowdown selecting or deleting multi-gigabyte section, no problem saving the multi-gigabyte result. Yes, this is on a machine with lots of RAM, but even here I’m used to apps choking on files this size. Even BBEdit gets slow when you hand it something that big. *[★★★★★]: 5 stars out of 5

New software review on my website!

Hex Fiend
★★★★★

Handled opening, searching, editing and saving an 8GB file without breaking a sweat.

https://hyperborea.org/reviews/software/hex-fiend/
#hexEditor #macos #developmentTools #tools #floss #software #review