The deadline is 23 November.
I will give @haskell_foundation until 23 November to undo their mistake and apologize for it in public.
The sanction, if they continue radio silence for the next 72 hours, or if they do not fess up and do the right thing, is that I shall cable Steve I'm off.
I'm upset not only by the bad decision. I'm upset by the total silence about the anger about the bad decision.
Please acquire a moral compass!
Poll:
I used to DM back in the late 1970s. I’ve avoided getting back into it because modern D&D gameplay mechanics seem to have grown much more complex than player-driven style I preferred.
If I ran an asynchronous informal adventure here in the fediverse using 1970s old-school minimalist D&D rules and no experience needed, would anyone want to join in? Gameplay would be rather slow given the asynchronous nature, so I would aim for something close to 1:1 time passage, UTC.
I might try to recruit some fun people to drop by as NPCs.
Boosts welcomed
Google cuts off search if schools block AI
[Full text: https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/11/03/google-cuts-off-search-if-schools-block-ai/]
Google works hard to sell to schools. The schools love what Google offers. But not when Google gets pushy. Google wants the kids to use as much Gemini as they can force down their gullets. In August, Google turned on Gemini by default in Google Classroom. [NYT, archive] Schools were displeased. In September, New York […]
What a woman may be and yet not have the vote, Suffrage Atelier, Woodcut coloured by hand, 1912
youtube comment:
> I just cought my little son trying to bypass Gemini. With a firm and angry voice, I yelled, "WHAT ARE YOU DOING!?" His little body shook and he said, "Dad, I was just trying to do some independent research to make sure that the AI was correct." This made me even more furious. "Independent research in the age of AI!? Are you serious!? You will be the end of our social standing with the tech bros! Mom and I work hard to depend on technology! And you are out there trying to be independent. Let me guess, you also tried to reason through your math homework!?" "Yes, dad. I like thinking and reasoning."
> For a second, I pictured him as an independent thinker who might contribute an idea or two to the society. This send a cold shiver down my spine. I prayed that no one heard his little words. I said to him. "Son, collect all your RAM. We are going to drive to Scam Altman's house and make an offering. And let's pray that Mr.Altman feels generous today and let's us back into his AI bosom."
> Unfortunately, the RAM was soldered on the PCB; faaaaaking Apple. Even in death Steve Jobs haunts my family.
Wait the Binance developer whose laptop was the entry point interviewed with another company (that turned out to be fake) *with their work laptop*?
Report: Yanis Varoufakis's DiEM25 movement has lost access to its bank account.
DiEM25's "account was closed suddenly & without warning on 8 October, & the group has lost access to tens of thousands of euros.
The group said it had heard that "progressive political organisations appear to have been disproportionately affected by debanking.”
#EUPol #USPol #news #DiEM25 #Democracy #USImperialism #gaza #palestine #debanking .
While you're waiting for election results, add our solarpunk bookclub to your "things I'm gonna do after the election to help make the world better" list:
November Solarpunk Bookclub
Sat Nov 7, 4pm ET
https://meet.jit.si/November2026SolarpunkBookclub
Recaps, reminders, links: https://www.subscribepage.com/solarpunk_bookclub
This is fucking ridiculous. My https://openbenches.org/ website is serving over two TERABYTES of bandwidth per month!
That's up from 1.5TB the previous month.
While I'd love to believe that's all people fascinated by benches, I think it's more likely to be endless crawlers.
I'm lucky to have a very generous host with no hard bandwidth limits, but I'd want to find a way to block bots without having human-facing interstitials. Looks like robots.txt isn't cutting it.
Since the US is (nominally) a democracy, many people not that into civics often think that voting is one kind of thing in the US whereas it's actually fifty weird fiefdoms of rules and regs.
In Vermont it's actually HARD to get off the voting rolls, even if you want to. We don't require ID, we don't make you vote all the items on the ballot, we mail you a ballot for the general, we don't make you declare a party, we have tabulators. not touchscreen machines. It's no wonder it's confusing.
@mattblaze @tonyangelo A Mister Chad, Hanging is on Line 1 for you.
the CTO of Palantir mentioned, in front of a journalist and on the record, that his AI researchers are taking up smoking to put their bodies on the line to bet that AI will cure cancer for the same reason that Peter Thiel mentioned, in front of a journalist and on the record, that his goal is to enable a return to fascism.
this is how you normalize weird immoral shit, and this is how you recruit other people who want to normalize weird immoral shit.
all cults do this shit.
Buddy, Can You Spare a GPU?
I wanted to write this blog post earlier in October but got hung up with work last month. For some reason, work has been crazy lately. So Ed Zitron, Paul from Paul's Hardware, Steve Burke...
https://mitchelltribe.com/2026/11/01/buddy-can-you-spare-a/
My not-so-hot take is that OpenAI is as responsible for this, and should be as legally liable for it, as if they sold human advice as a service and one of their employees had done this.
My somewhat hotter take is that they are •more• responsible and should be •more• liable because this is a software system that, unlike a human employee, this company completely designed and built.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/nov/01/chatgpt-woman-seizure-lawsuit-openai
PRESS RELEASE: Activists aboard the Greenpeace ship Arctic Sunrise have placed giant boulders to block bottom trawling across 116 km² of the Southern North Sea Marine Protected Area.
The UK government must ban destructive fishing in ALL protected waters.
#ProtectTheOceans #trawling #overfishing #oceans #marinelife
tzag, fellow humans.
found this, made me both giggle and angry at the same time, deemed it repostable.
(credit: Jim Elliott @jimelliotcomedy )
In Hungary, Serbia and Brazil, ordinary people refused to give up on democracy, and they won. This Tuesday, we get our chance to do the same. https://thinkbigpicture.substack.com/p/democracy-is-on-the-march
Erinnerung: #30DayMapChallenge 2026 startet am Sonntag / Reminder: The #30DayMapChallenge 2026 starts on Sunday https://geoobserver.de/2026/10/30/erinnerung-30daymapchallenge-2026-startet-am-sonntag/ via @tjukanov #gistribe #gischat #fossgis #foss4g #OSGeo #spatial #geospatial #mapping #DataViz #gis #geo #geoObserver pls RT