Today is “There Will Come Soft Rains” day. A short story by Ray Bradbury, first published in 1950.

It takes place on August 4th 2026.
A lone automated house still functions after its owners and presumably the rest of humanity were wiped out by a nuclear blast.

Be a minimalist. It’s the least you can do.

Honestly, these would all be awful, with the rate of disasters that each of these stations get hit by.

https://mastodon.social/@galacticstone/117022196695614500

Wok Without Rhythm

Excellent thread on JK Rowling censoring report which discussed the activities of JK Rowling

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:k5nm22rqlweaq6b3zlsywhev/post/3mry6buaaik2r

Every day we move further from the light; as though we climbed to the foothills of the mountain, declared that we'd summited, and then bravely leapt off the nearest cliff. @assignedmale.bsky.social https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:vcmpg73bt2wudku3nqgx33yx/post/3mrxojcx3zs2n

A dark day for human rights.

@xgranade i'm used to not having meds in bottles, which is really the better take here

everything comes in a box with a real dense leaflet specifying pk/pd, interactions, and so on

bottles are infantilizing

Hot take: all medications should have their elimination half-lives listed on the bottle.

It's not nearly surprising in 2026, but that's part of what gives it a surreal quality, at least for me? It's like reading mainstream journalists writing about how many billions of dollars Trump has made from one or another crypto scam, without ever stopping to note that this is not OK.

JKR going off against Amnesty International *and winning* is kinda surreal in the sense that it's a headline that would have been nearly incomprehensible a decade ago.

I did not, to my credit, get kicked out of the pharmacy for yelling "that's just watts you weird motherfucker" at the top of my lungs.

New offender in uncanceled units spotted in the wild today: "7 kWh / 1000h"

"residential proxy network" is what you call a botnet when it's run by a corporation that will never be prosecuted for doing something that would land a 13 year old in jail for the rest of their life

PSA: uBlock Origin's EasyList has an AI Widgets option that doesn't get turned on by default, including if you had other EasyList items selected already before it was added.

Enabling it removes a number of various AI buttons, nags, prompts, etc. across various sites.

#AI #LLM #Firefox

@lindsey @regehr Fun example (that both of you might have seen before): '\n' in rustc. https://rodarmor.com/blog/whence-newline/

This being my first Splatoon game, I did not foresee it turning into Gurren Lagen at the end.

@xgranade see also https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/inclusive-insight/201809/what-precisely-do-transgender-people-threaten
& the associated studies and such.

Something I don't get about transphobes on the nominal (not actual) left... why tf do they care so much? Like even if everything every transphobe said about us was true, something that is very much so *not* the case, so fucking what? Why does hurting us take priority over everything else?

every day we stray further from god’s light