Incredible moment where Fox News puts up a graphic with all the reasons it opposes the Democratic Socialists of America and why people should be afraid of them ...

Which looks livelier? @msnow

A Fedi version of Queer Eye:

Five autistic queer Fedifolk (one in a fur suit) travel to help out a regular person each episode.

By the end of the episode, the team have degoogled the recipient, installed a thoughtfully selected Linux distro on their formerly-windows machine, replaced much of their software with open source alternatives, stocked their home library with Murderbot novels and cozy queer SF, and given the recipient a new Special Interest to hyperfocus on.

#FediQueerEye

Technically, the extinction of the dinosaurs is the highest ratio of birds killed with one stone.

Number of work hours needed to buy GTA VI (North & South America)

(by u/maven_mapping)

Dear quilting/library community, please enjoy this bookshelf quilt made as a fundraiser for the new library (in Belleville ONT). The books are all named after local people and organizations.

https://www.flickr.com/photos/cabhc/55366630415/

This is a masterful demonstration of the unsecurable nature of LLMs, and how prompt injection by dedicated humans who know how to write will always win.

https://role-confusion.github.io/

This past week I have seen a dozen or more videos where Russian women film themselves crying in their cars, because they cannot fill up the tank due to Ukraine's "Long range sanctions".

These women have been paying taxes for more than four years to a regime which has been murdering, torturing, raping, and plundering in Ukraine, and abducting Ukrainian children, and now they are losing it due to fuel scarcity?

Honey… What did you think murdering civilians in Ukraine would lead to?

The kids who think it's fun to be cruel to others grow into adults who think it's fun to be cruel to others.

And they don't make friends—they make victims and accomplices.

"Boys will be boys" is what got us incels, school shooters, big tech, and the current state of politics.

I was able to replay much of the previous in my head and repeat animal names. But very annoying.
Don't change the rules AFTER the fact.
Don't judge me for not tracking things you told me I would not need to track.

Warning for non neurotypicals: "cognitive tests" will lie to you.
Insurance application one question set was "tell me which of these is different" we don't care how, just which is different. I mentally decided to respond with the smallest one. Lots of lists of animals, I just track the smallest in each group, ignoring ones that are bigger than previous.
Later they ask me to list ALL the animals. Da FUQ! I wasn't paying attention to that! I suspect nuerotypicals hear the whole list then sort.

The Leonard Cohen estate is objecting to President Trump‘s planned use of the song “Hallelujah” ahead of tonight’s Freedom 250 rally on the National Mall here in Washington.

Open source projects will tell you they have no choice but to allow slop, because doing anything else is a form of gatekeeping that will exclude too many potential contributors.

Nothing could be further than the truth, though. When the review queue is a non-stop machine gun of giant, bogus drive-by patches, the good contributions will inevitably fall through the cracks.

Eventually, the contributors you actually want—those who care about the long-term health of the code base, building institutional knowledge, improving their craft, mentorship—will simply leave, because they will realize their limited time and energy is better spent elsewhere.

A blanket ban on LLM contributions is not impractical, idealistic, or too radical—it's just common sense.

Tim Curry recording the Rocky Horror soundtrack between gulps of port.

As per someone online, the Reflecting Pool is now the Strait of Warm Ooze. Pass it on.

#ReflectingPool
#StraitOfWarmOoze

A woman is on trial for beating her husband to death with his guitar collection. The judge asks her: First offender? She replies: No. First a Gibson, then a Fender.

@inthehands @FeloniousPunk @blogdiva

Oh look! It is "Not About Me Day"!

Today: Juneteenth, World Cup, Pride Month
Me: Straight, White, American
(This is a great thing!)

I love that on the regular internet, you can be like "I need to find out what part this is on my 2025 car" and all the results you get back are for car rentals, people trying to sell you a car, trying to buy your car, or AI slop videos explaining to you what a car is in the least intelligible way possible.

But... in the #Fediverse you can be like "anybody know the correct wiring layout and voltages for a 1974 "Passion-o-Meter" novelty Love Tester from Hanlon Amusements in Fairbanks, Alabama? I found one while doing recreational free diving in a cave system in Peru and I'm trying to put it back together again" and not only does NOBODY question any part of the insane statement made, but three people who happen to specialize in that exact sort of thing immediately emerge from the woodwork like the reverse of Homer Simpson going into the hedge.