@bobmueller@mastodon.world2025-09-21 07:00:07
Thirty-one years ago now. The autumn equinox always makes me think of Dad.
https://www.bobmuellerwriter.com/thirty-years-ago/
@bobmueller@mastodon.world2025-09-21 07:00:07
@katrinakatrinka@infosec.exchange2025-12-21 00:09:24
RE: https://newsie.social/@servelan/115754554344964223
I can attest it took me about 2 years of financial stability for that ambient constant anxiety level to finally settle down. I was only financially unstable for 2 years in my mid 20s. So that's 4 ye…
@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io2025-10-20 21:09:51
So NASA wants to land on the moon and realized that SpaceX is full of shit and now they want some other company just build a moonship within like 2 years?
Uh-huh
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2025/oct/20/nasa-moon-program-elon-musk-spacex
@doktrock@toad.social2025-12-21 01:22:20
For you #Minneapolis, #Dinkytown, University of #Minnesota folks: five years ago, we lost the iconic McDonald's
@hex@kolektiva.social2025-11-21 14:40:06
Content warning: Loss and grief
I keep thinking that I should text a friend of mine, tell him how much I've been writing, tell him I mentioned him in something I wrote. Then I remember he died like 4 years ago.
Edit:
It must have been more like 6 or something now that I'm thinking about it. It was part of the way through the first Trump administration. He would have really appreciated the way Trump is unraveling now. One of the last times we talked he was like... "You know man, You used to play 'Baby, I'm an anarchist' and I'd think... ' don't want to throw a brick through a Starbucks window. I kinda like their coffee sometimes.' But the way things have been going lately, I'm kind of looking around and thinking you might be right. Fuck Starbucks. Where's that brick?"
At least I won the SRV vs the Hendrix version of Voodoo Chile debate. Hendrix is just better.
We used to talk about music, especially punk (and rockabilly, and ska, and 2 tone), and poetry, and beer. He liked hop stupid, but I always thought it didn't have the body to match the hops and I always preferred Racer 5. Of course, this time of year we'd be shifting in to red and stout season, and I'd be excited for Lagunitas Russian Imperial and this year's Bourbon County Stout batch.
He was really big in to Star Wars. He missed all of Andor, which is probably the best thing to have come out since the original 3. But I guess he also missed the new trilogy, so maybe it balances out.
He would have really liked all the good music I've run across in the last few years. He had a music blog for a bit.
Yeah... I don't know why it's hitting me so hard now, other than maybe I never had time to really process it before.
@cellfourteen@social.petertoushkov.eu2025-09-21 20:27:35
I am taking my time with Ted Season 1 for almost two years, and it's so worth it. I just watched episode 5 out of 7. Such a satisfying show. The teddy bear is pixel-perfect and the jokes are outrageous. It's like ALF but if everyone was stoned and honest of their expectations from life in general 😀
Ted season 2 : r/peacock
@bourgwick@heads.social2025-12-19 22:01:08
50 years ago tonight, the jerry garcia band open a 2-night superbill at winterland, their only time playing there, along with the keith & donna band & weir’s kingfish. all dead members present minus lesh & hart, though the only sit-ins happen on the 20th.
soundboard: https://archive.org/de…
@cdarwin@c.im2025-11-19 03:19:47
J.D. Vance
-- Not That One!
-- Gets 2 Years in Prison for Threatening the Vice President
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/18/us/jd-vance-threats-michigan.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=artic…
@vosje62@mastodon.nl2025-10-20 07:12:04
/2
Dear Europeans,
What do we do if Scotland wants to join the EU after a new referendum?
They really showed over the years more commitment.
#Brexit
@NFL@darktundra.xyz2025-12-20 23:16:52
Packers vs. Bears prediction: Is this the biggest rivalry game in years with the NFC North at stake?
https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/packers-vs-bears-where-to-watch-odds-pick-…
@threeofus@mstdn.social2025-10-21 11:38:35
1/ C has a wealthy grandmother who has offered us a large sum of money towards a house. She’s even agreed to make up the difference from her estate if she dies within 7 years, to cover off inheritance tax. She has however insisted that that sum be ringfenced so that it ‘stays within the family’ - meaning C and her 2 biological kids. I don’t really know how to feel about this. I that since I earn more than double what C does, we call the sum ‘ours’ if we’re together 10 or more years.
@danyork@mastodon.social2025-09-21 20:28:40
Status of #TypePad migration, 21 Sept.
With TypePad shutting down on 30 Sept, I've been looking at how to move 5 blogs that I've had there for **20 years** with over 2,500 posts.
The reality is that I write on them so rarely that I could really just make them static sites and all would be fine.
However, an *easy* path right now seems to be to bring them into
@jonippolito@digipres.club2025-10-20 11:49:37
🗳️🇺🇸 Hey, Maine! 2 weeks from tomorrow (Nov 4) you’ve got a referendum that could shape elections for years. It may be an off-year but the outcome will sway every election from now on.
Bipartisan info at https://ballotpedia.org/wiki/index.php?title=Sample_Ballot…
@Mediagazer@mstdn.social2025-11-19 21:25:56
MLB finalizes deals with NBC/Peacock, Netflix, and ESPN; sources: NBC/Peacock pays ~$200M/year, Netflix pays $50M/season, ESPN maintains $1.65B over three years (Andrew Marchand/The Athletic)
https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6820362/2025/11/19/mlb-t…
@whitequark@mastodon.social2025-11-18 18:18:41
you can bring down 20% of the internet with a single-character typo in a regex, but you can also destroy a nearly 50 year old bridge with a single incorrectly placed piece of heatshrink
isn't technology beautiful
https://blog.cloudflare.com/details-of-t…
@jerome@jasette.facil.services2025-12-21 05:01:23
I've been lucky to run an ecommerce store for 10 years and only got 2 chargebacks.
One of them was a fraudulent one, where customer received the item but claimed it was defective without contacting us, sending us a photo or giving us a chance to make it right. For all we know, it was not defective.
Just won the chargeback dispute, which is actually not too frequent.
#ecommerce
@Dragofix@veganism.social2025-12-20 02:50:51
The Alps set to lose a record number of glaciers in the next decade, study warns #Alps
@UP8@mastodon.social2025-10-17 19:01:43
@frankel@mastodon.top2025-10-16 16:27:03
Rating 26 years of #Java changes
https://neilmadden.blog/2025/09/12/rating-26-years-of-java-changes/
@cdarwin@c.im2025-10-20 06:01:36
The First Peoples have survived in Australia for at least 65,000 years.
That’s 2,300 generations.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/deeptime/time/
The stories you are about to read come directly from First Nations peoples who are knowledge holders of kinship, community, Country and ongoi…
@Techmeme@techhub.social2025-11-18 15:50:55
Edtech startup Physics Wallah closed up 44% in its Indian IPO, giving it a ~$5B market cap; it was last valued at $2.8B in 2024 when it raised a $210M Series B (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/11/18/phys
@timbray@cosocial.ca2025-10-07 20:38:26
@ripienaar@devco.social2025-12-14 19:01:08
Beefy release of my Choria Configuration Management system, includes some things I've wanted for years like deeper resource monitoring.
Also a nice new docs site
Change log and release here https://github.com/choria-io/ccm/releases/tag/v0.0.2
@NFL@darktundra.xyz2025-11-19 03:31:46
Emotional win for Dallas, plus finding this year's second-half breakout WR https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6818926/2025/11/18/emotional-win-for-dallas-plus-finding-this-years-second-half-breakout-fantasy-wr/…
@floheinstein@chaos.social2025-11-13 07:34:30
Currently setting up my new laptop (HP EliteBook X Flip G1i), and so far:
1. The device was delivered with a bundled warranty that already started 50 days ago
2. The supplier delivered a Battery Replacement Care Pack for 3 years instead of 5 years as ordered
Called HP for the warranty precox, had to send the invoice. Agent: "Yeah, it's gonna be about 2 weeks till we correct that."
(OK, Laptop won't leave the house until then)
Wrote the supplier for…
@mariyadelano@hachyderm.io2025-11-14 21:05:53
So I grew up next to #Chernobyl and this is, well, TERRIFYING.
A story for y’all: I’m from a city called Zhytomyr, 2 hours west of Kyiv in the North of #Ukraine. We were downwind of the Chernobyl #nuclear power plant when the 1986 disaster happened.
I wasn’t born for another 12 years, but my childhood was filled with stories and the aftermath of it all. Things like:
- My grandmother worked as a head doctor in a hospital and rehabilitation facility exclusively for children of Chernobyl victims to treat the extremely high prevalence of Tuberculosis and other severe health complications. (To specify: these were SECOND GENERATION of exposure).
- A lot of the kids in that facility were orphans, because their parents died young from health problems.
- My uncle’s wife was born in Pripyat. She was 1 year old when the disaster happened. Her parents were told to evacuate while given no information about what happened. They had to pack up their things and rush out to an unfamiliar city with their baby, never to see the rest of their belongings, apartment, or hometown again.
- When I was a kid, it became so common to see weirdly mutated animals and insects that even 2-3 year olds would make jokes about “Chernobyl mosquitos” and I wouldn’t even flinch seeing occasional giant bugs, dark frogs, weird-looking dogs.
- We’d frequently hear of nearby farms having issues with their animals being born too mutated to survive or random outbreaks from contaminated water / food. Crops would randomly fail. People would get poisoned on a regular basis. This all got less common as I grew up.
- My mother still remembers being a little girl, 10 years old, and looking outside from their balcony at the clouds blowing over from Chernobyl that day. People were told to not go outside and to shut all the windows, but not given an explanation as to why. My mother swears that the rain looked different. They weren’t able to go and buy more food for the kitchen for multiple days.
Anyway - nuclear safety isn’t a joke. I don’t understand how this level of carelessness can happen after Chernobyl and Fukushima.
https://www.404media.co/power-companies-are-using-ai-to-build-nuclear-power-plants/
@threeofus@mstdn.social2025-12-19 10:44:52
Fuck me … have you ever sat on a call with a Lloyds mortgage advisor? This woman states the obvious multiple times and also says really stupid shit like ‘you’re on a fixed rate of 2.2% for the next 5 years, would you like to take this opportunity to switch to our current fixed rate of 5%’? I have no words.
#finance
@newsie@darktundra.xyz2025-10-15 16:33:33
PowerSchool hacker sentenced to 4 years in prison https://therecord.media/powerschool-hacker-sentenced-4-years
@geant@mstdn.social2025-11-17 13:46:29
🌐 eduGAIN piloting use of OpenID Federation
eduGAIN has relied on SAML for years, but modern protocols like OpenID Connect 1.0 & OAuth 2.0 are now industry standards.
The eduGAIN service is running a 12-month pilot to test how OpenID Federation could be used as the future trust technology for eduGAIN, alongside SAML.
🔗 Read more in the latest #CONNECT50 article by Lars Fugl…
@ruth_mottram@fediscience.org2025-11-16 16:26:33
Beautiful and important piece on #rewilding, what we stand to lose, what we've gained and the hidden costs. (From 2 years ago, worth revisiting).
https://www.codastory.com/climate-crisis/rewilding-beavers-conservation/
@iam_jfnklstrm@social.linux.pizza2025-10-17 17:04:51
Ok, so there's another shooting in my hoods, the third in 1,5 years. 2 lethal, but this one seems to make it. I'm not scared but mad - do it somewhere else, not where people live. What's wrong with the woods?
@wraithe@mastodon.social2025-11-26 19:12:47
TIL about:
“I remember seeing a story years ago where a prison cook was caught having stolen $1.2 million of fajitas over 9 years.
One week he took off sick, someone else answered the order call and was like "what are you talking about? We don't serve fajitas."”
https://www.<…
@NFL@darktundra.xyz2025-12-19 17:11:23
Packers vs. Bears prediction: Is this the biggest rivalry game in years with the NFC North at stake?
https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/packers-vs-bears-where-to-watch-odds-pick-…
@penguin42@mastodon.org.uk2025-10-12 20:53:17
..$ locate vgcore
well, just saved 2.6G from cores over 2 years old.
@cosmos4u@scicomm.xyz2025-11-12 20:24:32
A warm ultraluminous infrared #galaxy just 600 million years after the big bang: https://academic.oup.com/mnras/article/544/2/1502/8318242?login=false -> Superheated star factory is discovered in early universe: https://ras.ac.uk/news-and-press/research-highlights/superheated-star-factory-discovered-early-universe
@Sustainable2050@mastodon.energy2025-11-13 19:14:16
Tesla's share of China's EV market shrank to just 3.2% in October, down sharply from 8.7% the previous month and its lowest in more than three years.
https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation…
@privacity@social.linux.pizza2025-12-02 16:21:20
What’s New in COPPA 2.0? A Summary of the Proposed Changes
https://fpf.org/blog/whats-new-in-coppa-2-0-a-summary-of-the-proposed-changes/
@…
@bourgwick@heads.social2025-11-17 01:20:11
40 years ago today, the #GratefulDead in long beach, opening 2 nights. fall ’85, show #14.
soundboard: https://archive.org/details/gd85-11-16.sbd.18374.sbeok.shnf
b…
@dawid@social.craftknight.com2025-10-14 15:06:16
@BugWarp@wikis.world2025-12-07 00:01:10
This week the Argentine Navy finally retired the S-2 Turbo Tracker after 63 years of service. I was able to see one of it's final flights last month. A beautiful aircraft made for another era, it was time to finally get some rest.
https://commons.gallery/@bugwarp/jornada-bapi
@kurtsh@mastodon.social2025-12-07 04:30:19
#2 Indiana is about to upset #1 Ohio State in the BIG-10 Championship on FOX. With 13 sec left in the 4thQ, it looks over.
Indiana Coach Curt Cignetti, formerly coach of James Madison U, has brought the Hoosiers to this point in just 2 years.
(1/2)
@Techmeme@techhub.social2025-12-15 23:30:46
Ford plans to repurpose its US battery manufacturing capacity to launch a battery energy storage business for data centers, amid a shift away from large EVs (TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/12/15/ford-is-starting-a-bat…
@qurlyjoe@mstdn.social2025-11-12 03:40:51
I am these cost 25¢ per song years old.
I wonder how much the artists got paid being played on these compared to Spotify or any of the other streaming services? Assuming they did in fact get paid.
Think how annoying it is when some AH plays their phone on speaker. Now imagine a diner full of tables all playing their own tunes on speaker (the only way you could).
@thomastraynor@social.linux.pizza2025-10-15 18:16:57
Another panic call. How do we lock access to the online and then restore? Pointed out that we did that around 2 years ago for a release and for a retro pay increase. Boss is now digging through my documents for the jobs, control files, and SPUFIs.
@roland@devdilettante.com2025-12-12 06:14:10
over 2 years late to the raining in manila party :-) #Typical https://youtu.be/HtheP382nHg
@izzychambers@vivaldi.net2025-10-13 15:46:35
Our wonderful dog, Izzy (the brown and white dog) was taken to a shelter in March 2020 with four very young puppies. One, Star (the black and white dog), lives nearby and he and his human often stop by on their walks. Even after 5 1/2 years, Izzy gets more excited to see Star than any other dog or person, except maybe me. #MonDog
@gedankenstuecke@scholar.social2025-12-12 11:42:00
I know, it's an ingrained part of German culture to complain about its bureaucracy, how it's slow, based on sending Fax, etc. But the folks at the register office in my last place of residency in 🇩🇪 are just great.
It took in total 3 weeks to get our marriage from 🇬🇧 registered with them, which included some wait time for translations and the timezone difference. And all back & forth was handled via email.
In comparison, the 🇦🇷 equivalent has been ongoing for 1 1/2 years, at >10x the cost. 😂
@bobmueller@mastodon.world2025-10-12 00:50:04
This data is five years old. We need current data.
@arXiv_astrophHE_bot@mastoxiv.page2025-10-14 11:46:38
Probing spectral variability in NGC 4490 ULX-8 over 24 years of XMM-Newton, Chandra and Swift-XRT observations
Tarang Vashisht, Aru Beri, Tanuman Ghosh, Aman Upadhyay, Vikram Rana
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.11415
@me@mastodon.peterjanes.ca2025-12-15 17:24:05
Somehow Bill Watterson published this Calvin and Hobbes comic strip about generative AI 40 years ago.
#genAI #CalvinAndHobbes
@arXiv_csRO_bot@mastoxiv.page2025-10-08 10:19:39
A Preview of HoloOcean 2.0
Blake Romrell, Abigail Austin, Braden Meyers, Ryan Anderson, Carter Noh, Joshua G. Mangelson
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.06160 https://
@bourgwick@heads.social2025-11-17 01:20:11
40 years ago today, the #GratefulDead in long beach, opening 2 nights. fall ’85, show #14.
soundboard: https://archive.org/details/gd85-11-16.sbd.18374.sbeok.shnf
b…
@toxi@mastodon.thi.ng2025-12-09 13:59:02
@… has a very good short summary video about the wider impact of RAM price hikes (likely to last at least 2 years)...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rWNSPL6BRuY
@primonatura@mstdn.social2025-12-11 20:00:23
"How the 15-Minute Sustainable City Model Cuts Carbon by 98% While Growing Local Food"
#Sustainability
https://happyeconews.com/15-minute-sustainable-city/
@ripienaar@devco.social2025-11-16 15:16:12
Been redoing my Raspberry PI based heating management around pi5 machines after a few 3s died this month.
Previously designed some 3D Printed cases but I was new to the hobby - and new to 3D design - so they didn't work out great, here's the new attempt, happy with 2 years of experience gains.
@benthos@mastodon.sdf.org2025-11-11 17:34:36
Windy & Carl - "Antarctica: The Bliss Out, Vol. 2" (1997)
Newly reissued. I got a copy of this when it came out in 1997, but the cover got destroyed by a water leak when my records were in storage years ago. It's nice to have a cover again.
#NowPlaying #WindyAndCarl
@spamless@mastodon.social2025-11-08 16:42:47
I was featured in the local paper, the "Wiesbadener Kurier," on Wednesday.
I put an English translation of the article in the Alt-Text area of the first screen capture.
@cdarwin@c.im2025-12-12 18:33:02
Republican Indiana State Senator:
We don't want to be redistricting every 2 years at the whim of the president.
It makes the legislative process just too transactional.
https://bsky.app/profile/factpostnews.bsky.social/post/3m7sobkh65e2v
@paulbusch@mstdn.ca2025-11-07 17:57:29
Oh no! The Farmer's Almanac is going out of business. I'll be forced to rely on The Old Farmer's Almanac for all my weather forecasts from now on. I actually didn't know that there were 2 Farmer's Almanacs until one of them announced it was closing down operations.
#WeatherForecast
https://www.ctvnews.ca/lifestyle/article/farmers-almanac-says-it-will-cease-publication-after-208-years-citing-financial-challenges/
@newsie@darktundra.xyz2025-12-08 21:18:20
More than $2 billion in payments from 4,000 ransomware incidents reported to Treasury in recent years https://therecord.media/fincen-treasury-2-billion-ransomware-payments-report
@grumpybozo@toad.social2025-10-08 20:49:53
LOL.
Until last week, the scraperbots were poisoning models with the arcane performance details and masscheck logs of the ASF #SpamAssassin project. 2 decades of data that requires a deep knowledge of SA to make any sense of. It's freely available as a matter of principle. Between thousands of days & hundreds of rules with about a dozen distinct corpora, we poisoned the models wi…
@PaulWermer@sfba.social2025-11-05 19:05:47
For the past 15 years, I've observed San Francisco leaders talk about how important climate action is - but not actually do a lot. There now a petition asking the Mayor to take meaningful action at
https://sign.moveon.org/petitions/mayor-lurie-implement-…
@paulwermer@sfba.social2025-11-05 19:05:47
For the past 15 years, I've observed San Francisco leaders talk about how important climate action is - but not actually do a lot. There now a petition asking the Mayor to take meaningful action at
https://sign.moveon.org/petitions/mayor-lurie-implement-…
@smashtie@mas.to2025-11-08 21:25:51
A statue from Egypt, 1069-664 BCE (about 3,090-2,690 years ago), in bronze and gold.
Currently on display at the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge, as part of their new "Made in Egypt" exhibition. #art #archaeology #ancienthistory
@cosmos4u@scicomm.xyz2025-12-01 19:19:33
Ionization Sources of the Local #Interstellar Clouds - Two B Stars, Three White Dwarfs, and the Local Hot Bubble: https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/ae10a6 -> Close brush with 2 hot stars millions of years ago left a mark just beyond our solar system: https://www.colorado.edu/today/2025/12/01/close-brush-2-hot-stars-millions-years-ago-left-mark-just-beyond-our-solar-system
@NFL@darktundra.xyz2025-11-18 19:01:42
2026 NFL Draft quarterback primer: Age, eligibility and projections for Fernando Mendoza, Ty Simpson and more
https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/draft/news/2
@bobmueller@mastodon.world2025-11-11 16:45:01
A piece I put together several years ago for #VeteransDay. Peace to my brothers- and sisters-in-arms.
https://www.bobmuellerwriter.com/veterans-day/
@Sustainable2050@mastodon.energy2025-12-06 21:07:19
Confirmed: Another big jump in atmospheric CO2, (still) measured at Mauna Loa: the November average was ~426.5 ppm, that's 2.6 ppm higher than last year!
@NFL@darktundra.xyz2025-12-15 21:41:44
With return, Philip Rivers extends NFL health insurance plan for 5 more years https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6892020/2025/12/15/philip-rivers-return-health-insurance-plan-extension/
@arXiv_astrophHE_bot@mastoxiv.page2025-10-10 09:50:49
AT 2018cow at ~5 years: additional evidence for a tidal disruption origin
Anne Inkenhaag, Andrew J. Levan, Andrew Mummery, Peter G. Jonker
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.08505 https…
@primonatura@mstdn.social2025-12-09 17:00:14
"Study Shows Ban on Bee Killing Pesticides Helps Bird Populations Rebound"
#Birds #Pesticides #Animals
@paulbusch@mstdn.ca2025-12-17 12:44:15
Good Morning #Canada
I finished my breakfast this morning only to discover that it's National Maple Syrup Day. A missed opportunity but at least I can share some important facts about Canada's sweet and sticky sauce.
- Indigenous People taught early Canadians how to harvest maple sap and boil it down into a sugary liquid.
- A maple tree can yield sap for up to 100 years, but the trees must be roughly 45 years old before it’s first tapped for syrup making.
- It takes roughly 40 gallons (150 litres) of tree sap to produce 1 gallon (3.8 litres) of syrup.
- Quebec produces 72% of the world’s maple syrup. In 2021, that equaled 133M lbs from Quebec.
- The big bottle of Costco Maple Syrup is from Quebec.
- Maple Syrup only has 1 ingredient. Sap.
- Maple Syrup has an indefinite shelf life but should be frozen if storing for more than 2 years.
And regarding the great Maple Syrup heist, this is still the best report on that famous crime.
#CanadaIsAwesome #MmmmSyrup #MapleSyrup
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2016/12/maple-syrup-heist?srsltid=AfmBOoq7fMx3GguT20T9cNrpZgrtVue4leiYZpZibZT_7S9WHWDfI0Ln
@vosje62@mastodon.nl2025-10-06 20:14:48
@cdarwin@c.im2025-12-13 01:08:36
A rarely seen seven-arm octopus was captured on camera 2,300 feet below the surface in remarkable deep-sea footage.
The species
— formally known as the seven-arm octopus (Haliphron atlanticus)
— was recorded by the remotely operated vehicle Ventana, operated by the team at the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI).
According to MBARI, the encounter occurred during a recent expedition in Monterey Bay and marks only the fourth time the organisation has observed…
@bourgwick@heads.social2025-10-12 21:08:18
50 years ago tonight, the jerry garcia band in #berkeley, the 2nd of 2 shows with muscle shoals session player tim henson on 2nd keys alongside nicky hopkins, though less in the mix tonight (on soundboard & audience tapes) than previous show.
soundboard (of 1st set only):
@NFL@darktundra.xyz2025-10-15 21:41:27
Aaron Rodgers vs. Joe Flacco in 'Icy Hot Bowl': A rare duel of QBs over 40 years old https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6720675/2025/10/15/aaron-rodgers-joe-flacco-icy-hot-bowl-quarterback/
@mariyadelano@hachyderm.io2025-10-07 20:39:25
This is bizarre - I made a typo and accidentally ran a #Google search for a comma. Not the word, the punctuation mark.
And yet, somehow, Google thinks that is:
1. A valid enough search to be showing a bazillion results
2. A search that needs short-form vertical videos at the top from a bunch of white women (who are they? Why them? What in the world is relevant to a singular punctuation mark that makes them pull up these videos?)
3. A search with enough inferred intent to show me a whole Q&A interface?
I know we complain about the state of #search online a lot these days and I've been part of the #SEO industry for years but something like this is so blatantly ridiculous it's hard not to stop and wonder.... what the actual fuck?
@grumpybozo@toad.social2025-10-08 15:48:59
This is part of why I feel confident that I am in my last real job.
In 40 years of working, I've *never* gotten a job in IT/#InfoSec by applying for a publicly visible opening. I have had some interviews from *trying* to do it that way, but never made it to hiring. I think I may not mask or hype myself well enough. I suspect that this would be made worse by today's "AI" desolation.
I also stopped even trying to hide my professional cynicism some time ago...
@bobmueller@mastodon.world2025-10-10 20:00:15
I've been in favor of safe haven baby boxes since I heard about them years ago. But this article made me think more about the concept along with how it could be improved.
https://time.com/7299476/baby-box-infant-abandonment/
@NFL@darktundra.xyz2025-10-16 10:06:09
Steelers at Bengals on TNF: Aaron Rodgers vs. Joe Flacco, rivalry history and TV predictions https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6718121/2025/10/16/steelers-bengals-tnf-aaron-rodgers-joe-flacco-amazon-prime-how-to-watch/
@Techmeme@techhub.social2025-09-28 19:50:36
A profile of digital microlender Tala, which has an annualized revenue of $340M but remains unprofitable 11 years in, as it plans to double its lending in 2027 (Jeff Kauflin/Forbes)
http://www.forbes.com/sites/jeffkauflin/2
@bourgwick@heads.social2025-11-12 02:56:54
40 years ago tonight, the #GratefulDead close their east coast touring for the year in #NewJersey, the 2nd of 2 nights at the meadowlands. fall ’85, show #13.
soundboard:
@bobmueller@mastodon.world2025-11-09 15:30:01
Sixty years. A lifetime of choices, memories, and what-ifs.
Lately I’ve been thinking about life’s great do-over—what I’d change, what I’d keep, and what I’d risk losing.
🔁 Read the full reflection: https://www.bobmuellerwriter.com/birthday-reflec…
@arXiv_astrophHE_bot@mastoxiv.page2025-10-15 09:50:21
Tycho supernova exploded inside a planetary nebula (SNIP)
Noam Soker (Technion, Israel)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.12674 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.12674…
@cdarwin@c.im2025-11-05 03:30:10
Three liberal justices won another 10-year term on the Pennsylvania supreme court,
giving Democrats a key victory and allowing them to maintain their 5-2 advantage on a vital body that could issue important rulings on abortion and voting rights in an important battleground state in the coming years.
@bourgwick@heads.social2025-10-11 17:31:11
50 years ago tonight, the jerry garcia band in #berkeley, the 1st of 2 fun shows featuring muscle shoals session player tim henson on 2nd keyboards, perhaps in town to contribute to garcia’s in-progress “reflections” sessions. also the 1st full soundboard of the new garcia band:
@bobmueller@mastodon.world2025-10-05 06:06:26
Did You Know I’m A Writer?
Reflecting on the writing I've done over the years and the people who know about it.
https://www.bobmuellerwriter.com/did-you-know-im-a-writer/
@cdarwin@c.im2025-12-03 01:52:34
After years of following orders with clear rules of engagement and with congressional authority, targeting jihadists in rural and urban settings,
Admiral Frank Mitchell Bradley was put in command of a legally murky attack on Sept. 2
targeting a boat in the Caribbean that the Trump administration says was smuggling drugs.
And in ordering a second strike that killed two survivors who were clinging to the burning wreckage of the boat
— something his superiors say they di…
@bourgwick@heads.social2025-10-11 01:03:00
50 years ago tonight, the jerry garcia band in cupertino, the hometown of apple computers, about 6 months before apple formed. wonder if jobs & woz were there. with the 1st circulating version of a garcia/hunter classic. audience tape: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bonpoh12P5w [1/2]
@NFL@darktundra.xyz2025-12-15 19:11:38
Packers' Micah Parsons tore ACL vs. Broncos, MRI confirms: Sources https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6891657/2025/12/15/micah-parsons-acl-tear-injury-packers/
@bobmueller@mastodon.world2025-11-11 15:30:04
Has it really been 17 years since I first heard this song? It's a beautiful and thoughtful piece for #VeteransDay.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2kX_3y3u5Uo
@cdarwin@c.im2025-12-02 17:09:53
New York Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani and Vermont independent Senator Bernie Sanders
joined striking Starbucks workers
on the picket line Monday to demand the coffee giant reach a fair contract with its unionized workforce after years of delay tactics.
Speaking outside a store in Brooklyn,
Mamdani said New York is a
“union town,”
and vowed to continue joining pickets even after he is sworn in as mayor on January 1.
Responding to a question from Democra…
@bobmueller@mastodon.world2025-10-05 14:30:04
Engaging in a bit of navel gazing. Or maybe wool-gathering. I'm not sure which. #NewBlogPost
https://www.bobmuellerwriter.com/did-you-know-im-a-writer/
@NFL@darktundra.xyz2025-12-13 17:21:40
Colts will start 44-year-old Philip Rivers against Seahawks: Source https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6882055/2025/12/13/philip-rivers-starting-colts-news-seahawks/
@NFL@darktundra.xyz2025-10-27 12:11:15
Aaron Rodgers, Packers are both right where they belong 3 years after separation https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6753286/2025/10/27/aaron-rodgers-packers-are-both-right-where-they-belong-3-years-after-separation/…
@NFL@darktundra.xyz2025-12-03 11:06:45
The Chicago Bears and 'The Super Bowl Shuffle': 40 years later, still a talking point https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6853041/2025/12/03/chicago-bears-1985-season-super-bowl-shuffle-grammy/
@NFL@darktundra.xyz2025-12-12 16:56:31
Jets undrafted rookie QB Brady Cook to make first NFL start Sunday vs. Jaguars https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6884951/2025/12/12/brady-cook-jets-start-qb-jaguars/