tofu is martial arts using only your feet

A charming little quirk of Leiden is that most of the windows are too old to stay up when you open them, and so every warren of students has their Designated Unimportant Heavy Object to hold up the panes. Old dictionaries, laundry detergent, especially thick and sturdy dildos, a random chunk of wood pried off ikea furniture broken during a drinking contest …

@timwaterman

Supersonic good boy

@catsalad Where do I go for this?

Gruber says Markdown has a UTI in MacOS 27 beta. I thin an antibiotic take care of that. https://developer.apple.com/documentation/uniformtypeidentifiers/uttype-swift.struct/markdown

Now that summer is in full swing, you might need this Comprehensive Guide to Yellow Stripey Things, so you can tell harmless bumblebees (you can pet them!) from "asshole" yellow jackets. https://kottke.org/18/08/a-comprehensive-guide-to-yellow-stripey-things

Today I saw “Meta glasses are the cybertruck for your face” and OMG that’s accurate.

Every hobby starts with curiosity and ends with storage problems.

RE: https://eigenmagic.net/@vampiress/116859241032699772

This is a beautiful reflection on self poisoning via #AI, including such poetic phrases as: "ethically fucked averaging machine"…which I mean, chef’s kiss.

The thread under is worth the time to peruse as well.

#llm #coder #coding #gamedev

Blog post: Inspired by the video I just boosted - some honest thoughts on my AI remorse from my experiments earlier in the year.

It was bad, and I have SERIOUS regrets.

https://goodnameforablog.com/posts/very-average-prototypes/

Silly Poll Time

Taco or pizza?

Please boost... polls work best when more people see them.

#food #pizza #taco #poll

Heh. Trump is worried about the commies. Buddy, you need to be worried about the middle aged, middle of the road folks like me who are becoming socialists by the hour in response to your nazi nonsense. We were raised on a steady diet of Freedom (TM), underdog stories, and DEI armies saving middle earth from an evil bastard hellbent on our destruction.

Trying this again...

I just published a meditation on using plain text tools for writing. It's called "The Hammer," which is a tool, so why not?

https://www.the-recliner.com/the-hammer/

#writing #plaintext #obsidian #markdown

I just published a meditation on using plain text tools for writing. It's called "The Hammer," which is a tool, so why not?

https://the-recliner.ghost.io/ghost/#/editor/post/6a492f9abc274f00019ccfcc

#writing #plaintext #obsidian

Schneier: AI and Liability

Bruce's take on these issues obviously very closely syncs with mine. -L

A key quote from his essay:

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More generally, liability concerns could mean that many current use
cases for agents won't be commercially viable. Companies may not be able to profitably operate AI lawyers, doctors and media influencers if they are held responsible for what they say and do.

We're OK with this outcome. There's nothing in the law that requires
us to accommodate AI systems if they are fundamentally untrustworthy, just as we don't need to accommodate untrustworthy human systems. Any company that won't stand by the statements its agents make-whether human or AI-doesn't deserve users' time or money.

https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2026/06/ai-and-liability.html

#ai

RE: https://beige.party/@RickiTarr/116850829686494006

I’m in the same place as my beautiful pocket friend, Ricki. America’s 250th birthday, under this regime, has finally ripped away the gauze overlay that hid the real rotten machinery underpinning our entire failing empire.

We are a country where 14 MILLION children go hungry every day, and we have billionaires who boast about not paying taxes. And they’re still alive. A million Americans are unhoused, 50,000 of them are people who served in the armed forces. They offered their lives for this country, we used them, and sent them to the gutters.

We have crushing medical debt, our infrastructure is failing, our education system is dead last in “first world” countries.

We have failed our citizens and elevated our failsons to the point of being “too big to fail”. I think maybe we should start over, this time without the baked in racism and capitalism.

Just contributed my first drawing-tablet driver! 🎉 It is for this giant XpPen Artist Pro 27 (gen2) I received (sponsored in exchange of a review on my channel). I adapted the existing specs of the 16" and 19" and it taught me so much, from compiling to submitting a MR. Everything now works perfectly on my GNU/Linux KDE Neon Plasma... Feeling accomplished! Review video coming soon!

MR: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/libevdev/udev-hid-bpf/-/merge_requests/243

The dick pic is named after its inventor, Richard Picture.