he just like u & me, fr

damn if that isn't the truth

You forgot to put the FUCK YOU button next to "Learn more" and "Continue"

Tom Scocca

@tomscocca.bsky.social

Why don't you stick your dark pattern where the sun don't shine, you fuckheads

@tekniklr.bsky.social Ah, they should have said "quantum-proof"; it sounds much less silly
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post-qu...

Look at this very weird executive order that came out on the peripenultimate business day of the Biden administration! "post-quantum" cryptography! www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-roo...

FACT SHEET: New Executive Order on Strengthening and Promoting Innovation in the Nation’s Cybersecurity | The White House

Malicious countries and criminals continue to target the United States Government, corporations and individual Americans with cyberattacks. They disrupt

https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2025/01/15/fact-sheet-new-executive-order-on-strengthening-and-promoting-innovation-in-the-nations-cybersecurity/

this is what long-time Elon watchers call "The Realization": when Elon stumbles into your area of expertise, and you realize everyone just gives the guy the benefit of the doubt because he talks about complicated things people don't pay attention to

Micah

@rincewind.run

I’ve been thinking about how monumentally stupid the Elon video game cheating thing is and I think it comes back to this post

there aren’t a ton of people who work in cars, or rockets, or even software

but everyone - everyone! - understands cheating at video games

totally unnecessary self-own

my bike was stolen last January. i contacted the police and told them that i had video evidence of the thief and a gps tag that said where it was. they shrugged it off and i just went and took the bike back myself with the help of a friend

mtsw

@mtsw.bsky.social

a very funny eye opening experience many people have had about how the cops actually operate is this "hey i have a tracking beacon on this stolen item that shows exactly where it is can you arrest the guy who stole it?" and the cops go like "lol no that sounds like a lot of work"

You’ll probably see this screenshot floating around a lot but it really was wonderful to see Lynch put a scene in Twin Peaks: The Return where he has his character literally stare at the camera and say that you should either support trans people or die. I needed to hear that in 2017

"Fix your hearts or die" IS absolultely fire but also huge shoutout to David Lynch for writing a trans character into the OG run of Twin Peaks in fucking 1990 who was cool, and confident, and who was treated with the utmost respect and dignity by her former colleague the instant he meets her

This is a beautiful tribute.

"Rapid Unscheduled Disassembly" might, for real, be my favorite euphemism.

@tekniklr.bsky.social Anyway, I guess I still don't really see the point. I'm either too dumb (errors too basic) or too smart (commenting-out skillz too 1337) to use ChatGPT for debugging help, I guess.

@tekniklr.bsky.social The language model pretended to appreciate my correction, anyway, which is nice.

@tekniklr.bsky.social (The problem was actually that I had used `++` to increment a variable, which works in many languages but not ruby, where I needed to use `+=1`. The `++` opened an invisible block.)

Since I am always fashionably late, I just used ChatGPT for the very first time, to try and find a missing `end` statement in a block of ruby code.

And ChatGPT gave me the complete wrong answer, because my problem wasn't actually a missing `end`

this confirms something i have long suspected, which is that certain people are told that their professional and academic failures are because of “affirmative action” or “DEI” as a way to avoid difficult conversations about their mediocrity www.wsj.com/lifestyle/ca...

You Blamed DEI for Hurting Your Career. Now What?

For people who pin their failures on diversity, corporate America’s DEI retreat removes a barrier—or maybe an excuse.

https://www.wsj.com/lifestyle/careers/you-blamed-dei-for-hurting-your-career-now-what-6150c575

A single image from a film that immediately makes you hear a song from the soundtrack

Billy 🥥🌴

@queer.cool

A single image from a film that immediately makes you hear a song from the soundtrack

I know so many people who are looking for VPNs and just trying to find ways to stay a bit safer and more private with the incoming fascist wave. You can't really trust @proton.me in that case if the CEO is a fascist bootlicker, can you?

mav

@mav.wtf

How in the hell is @proton.me being led by a straight up maga chud not the biggest news right now.

A chill penetrates your bones, turning your blood to ice; your sinew now coated in frost. The air is thin and hollow, like your relationship to your father. In the distance, a crow laughs at your misfortune.

If this leads to Pornhub hiring a bunch of essay writers to find a 1st amendment shelter, that feels like a win-win

gwen howerton

@kissphoria.bsky.social

Justice Alito is asking if websites like Pornhub have "essays, modern day Gore Vidal, stuff like that" like the old playboy

nooo I love pressing a button and scheduling my conjugal visit with soap

Phil Lewis

@phillewis.bsky.social

Walgreens CEO says anti-shoplifting strategy backfired: ‘When you lock things up…you don’t sell as many of them’

Walgreens CEO says anti-shoplifting strategy backfired: 'When you lock things up…you don't sell as many of them’

Walgreens' CEO talked about the flip side of investing in increased security on a recent earnings call.

https://fortune.com/2025/01/14/walgreens-ceo-anti-shoplifting-backfired-locks-reduce-sales/

this is so good. this is so so so good. i'm running around my office screaming the lev manovich quote about how software is ideology

Ketan Joshi

@ketanjoshi.co

lol, a clip of a Tesla's vision system trying to understand a train

labyrinth.zone/notice/Aq5V7...

Too much, or just about right? 🤷🏼‍♂️

mistyped `bundle update` as `bungle update` and rarely is a typo such an eloquent self-own

This is actually where I figured this was all likely to go as of a few months ago. Also, we are in Hell.

www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

China Discusses Sale of TikTok US to Musk as One Possible Option

Chinese officials are evaluating a potential option that involves Elon Musk acquiring the US operations of TikTok if the company fails to fend off a controversial ban on the short-video app, according...

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-01-14/china-discusses-sale-of-tiktok-us-to-musk-as-one-possible-option

I'm going to haul this one out again, about why it's not a great idea to idolize creative people, or indeed anyone, and certainly not me, because today really is the day to be reminded about that, isn't it:

whatever.scalzi.com/2024/08/15/p...

Please Don’t Idolize Me (or Anyone, Really)

In the wake of the various recent allegations involving Neil Gaiman, people have been both very sad that someone who they looked up to as an inspiration has, allegedly, turned out to be something l…

https://whatever.scalzi.com/2024/08/15/please-dont-idolize-me-or-anyone-really/

@evacide.bsky.social Tired: needing a VPN to "safely access" public wifi.

Wired: needing a VPN to access PornHub and TikTok.

Sen. Blumenthal is eager to continue the push for KOSA + admitted this week that the point of this bill is (surprise!) censorship. https://www.techdirt.com/2025/01/09/blumenthal-so-eager-to-bring-back-kosa-he-admits-its-purpose-is-censorship/

Blumenthal So Eager To Bring Back KOSA, He Admits Its Purpose Is Censorship | Techdirt

Senator Richard Blumenthal is at it again. The long-time Connecticut Senator, who never met an internet regulation he didn’t like, is eager to reintroduce his Kids Online Safety Act (KOSA) — …

https://www.techdirt.com/2025/01/09/blumenthal-so-eager-to-bring-back-kosa-he-admits-its-purpose-is-censorship/

why are the otaku at war with the weeaboo

The ACA preventative care case now at SCOTUS implicates a broad range of health care but don't miss its origin story: an employer, represented by Stephen Miller's group, claiming the religious right to deny coverage for PreP because it saves queer lives

As PrEP Protections Head to the Supreme Court for Review, What is The Future of the Lifesaving HIV Prevention Medication Under Trump 2.0?

PrEP advocates say that the threat of funding cuts and policy changes by the incoming power players could jeopardize PrEP access and the push toward ending the HIV epidemic.

https://open.substack.com/pub/uncloseted/p/what-is-the-future-of-prep-and-hiv?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=36qgq

“looks good, but will goldeneye still be popular late this year?”

I wonder if I took the technical description of why guns in Mass Effect 1 don't need ammo, and applied it to bars of hyper-concentrated soap, I could get any VC interest on a hand soap dispenser you never need to refill.

They need to add nerds who become billionaires to the DSM-5. There seems to be a special kind of psychological damage that occurs once you obtain all the money in the world and realize you can buy anything you want, except for being cool.

South Africans: too racist for Steve Bannon

Shoutout to when she thought Apple had invented vaccination time travel

Shayan Sardarizadeh

@shayan86.bsky.social

In the space of 24 hours, Naomi Wolf has claimed that the fires in LA are an actual war or foreign invasion, a plot to kill people to destroy evidence of Covid vaccine adverse effects, weather manipulation, a deliberate bombing campaign, and mass spraying of mood stabilisers.

Gamergate never went away. They just got better funding and media coverage.

Kat Tenbarge

@kattenbarge.bsky.social

Hard to overstate just how much of the tech industry’s horrifically dystopian present grew right out of its transparently misogynistic past

after days of grifters and con men at CES we stumbled upon the booth for VLC. they were all dressed as wizards and told us, "we have nothing to sell, we just decided to show up". i told them I'd been using their software to pirate media for 15 years and they said "keep doing that"

@tekniklr.bsky.social You know what, fuck it. Deleted my Instagram.
techcrunch.com/2025/01/10/h...

How to delete Facebook, Instagram, and Threads | TechCrunch

In the wake of Meta’s decision to remove its third-party fact-checking system and loosen content moderation policies, Google searches on how to delete

https://techcrunch.com/2025/01/10/how-to-delete-facebook-instagram-and-threads/

@tekniklr.bsky.social other than those things, Instagram is so painful and useless that I will go months without even opening that cursed app
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