I would kill or die for Larry the cat.

The problem with crime prediction algorithms is that they're racist false-positive machines that just make life worse for black people; not "Is it unjust to arrest someone for a crime they didn't commit, but would?"

The problem with AI is stuff like: colonial exploitation, theft, environmental damage; not that robots become so good that they gain personhood or overthrow us

The problem with eugenics is devaluing of humans now; not a hypothetical perfect superhuman

All of 20th century sci-fi has premises like: What happens when we can predict crime with perfect accuracy, or if robots follow the Three Laws perfectly, or if eugenics produces a true perfect superhuman race, WHAT THEN

Now people who skimmed those books are giving us half-baked versions of them held together with duct tape and Python code with failure modes that are all just fascism

But everyone still talks about them like the interesting moral questions are the ones from the perfect sci-fi

The latest Terrible Toybox contractor agreement has a 218 word section about how you can't use AI and it was written by a real life human lawyer, so you know I'm serious. AI is a cancer to the creative process and I do consider programing to be a creative process.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WeCSzEtZcUw

Wow so intense. So close. The rest of the games won’t compare to Cabo Verde playing so hard.

BOOOOOOOOOO. BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO. JUSTICE FOR CAPE VERDE

The ref should simply let them play until Cape Verde wins

HOLY SHIT WE BELIEVE

OMFG Cabo Verde!

(Game is not over)

Hahah Oakland mailed me a ticket. It says they didn’t leave it on the car for one of the following reasons:

1) Officer safety
2) Unsafe conditions
3) Driver refused to accept Citation
4) The vehicle was driven away before [they could finish]

Lols so even the few words they spoke about giving me a warning were wrong.

Sucks they just told me the opposite, but I still get that their job is full of challenges. Maybe they made a tech mistake and meant to void it.

And I went to the local pawn shop to see if it was on a shelf, but they were strict that I couldn’t wear a mask in the store. They didn’t care if they could see me before putting it on outside.

It was daytime too, but I guess they have their strict rule for a reason. :/

I could see the music gear from the airlock jail before entering and didn’t see the pedal.

Had a lot of ups and downs on this missing package. It’s a vintage Mu-Tron Bi-Phase, a sought after effect pedal I was going to restore. I’m mostly sad because I’ve been looking to fix one for years and they’re rare. People pay $2,000 for them(?!)

Apparently the seller and/or their shipping store entered the wrong address. USPS thinks it was delivered down the block—they have the error address in their system—but that resident said they never saw it. It’s most likely stolen or lost at this point.

At least my mail carrier was exemplary in trying to find it.

I see you, Grimace.

Oh whoops laying off your engineers and replacing them with AI didn't work out? You lost all the goodwill of your remaining employees and the skill of the ones who left? Poor baby, who could have done this to you https://eshumarneedi.com/2026/07/03/zuckerberg-admits-metas-layoffs-were.html

All-sky camera results outside of Polaris, Montana

"As it stands, there are 52 Flock cameras in Berkeley alone. San Francisco and Oakland boast a staggering 2,173 cameras. This is how mass surveillance happens. It is not as though you wake up one day with your phone tapped and the Thought Police at every corner. Rather, surveillance creeps up slowly; the more we get used to it, the worse it will become."
https://www.dailycal.org/opinion/the_soapbox/flock-surveillance-cameras-threaten-local-democracies/article_1d5514db-aa83-4676-b50e-6f444ba9b88a.html

That’s a PK

Golden Gate Bridge pro-Palestine protesters convicted on most charges, but felonies fail

The seven who blocked the Golden Gate Bridge in 2024 were found guilty of several misdemeanors Thursday, but a mistrial was declared for felony charges....

https://missionlocal.org/2026/07/golden-gate-bridge-palestine-protest-san-francisco-verdict/

I haven’t been to McDonald’s in 8-10 years but the art on that Grimace cup is tempting me.

The Macintosh PowerBook DuoDock 200 was a portable battery-powered version of the DuoDock, with an inbuilt display, keyboard and pointing device, allowing it to function as a PowerBook in its own right while the PowerBook Duo that docked with it was out on the road.