fun fact, back when I worked elections in suburban illinois, I once had a voter actually do this

got a couple new torque drivers and I'm making them fight

hot take: the first agentic worm is O(months) away, but it's not gonna be an earth-shattering deal when it happens. probably a weird few days though

Poll: do you routinely pick objects up off the floor using your toes?

I don't want to keep having to come up with names for more varieties of sets of args a function might take, and also I like generics that work across multiple types and arg counts

overloading good https://blog.rust-lang.org/inside-rust/2026/08/19/overloading-experiment/

I keep seeing anti-waymo activist posts but unfortunately it's the best taxi service I've ever used and not by a small margin

need people to understand that "I wrote and distributed a file that tries to destroy data by exploiting a software vulnerability, but it's okay because the vulnerability is very stupid and I don't like the people who use the software" is not actually a slam-dunk legal argument

please do not do federal crimes as a bit

made a thing https://youtu.be/G1xckBVkMes

just heard someone say "tops are a type of switch", what

humanity's top scientists have not yet determined what a notification badge on the photos app means

how *does* an attorney manage to rack up 5 air-to-air kills, anyway?

wait wait wait wait wait, if you own a houseboat on the ocean and you rent it out, does that make you a sealord

watching the latests tom scott nebula video and going "wait how the hell are ladder cages safe"

and then I look it up and find out that OSHA's answer is "they're not, you're not allowed to install new ones anymore"

@deviantollam here's a photo of an elevator door with a quirk I've seen a lot in japan: the hall-side floor juts out slightly into the cab space. No idea why! There are loads of two-doored elevators there (both on opposite and adjacent sides); this shot is from a fairly normal two-door-on-opposite-sides cab.

(name typo aside) It Begins

sometimes I hear people talk about all the prep involved in getting bottom surgery and I just go "dang, that seems like a lot of work. glad I'm a top"

TIL that lactose is dramatically less sweet than glucose, so milk with lactase enzyme added can be sweeter for the same actual sugar content (or have a lot of sugar removed while retaining the same sweetness)

just once, I wanna see a product advertise itself as containing "no high-fructose corn syrup", check the ingredients list, and see regular corn syrup

the American Dental Association should fund escalators on mount everest

gonna be verifying a pannenkoek2012 TAS for the next 10.9 days https://twitch.tv/rcombs