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Went to the grand master palace today and saw this weird Star Wars thing on display like it’s a national treasure in a glass case and all.
Weird.

if i ever get exposed for having a questionable search history my best and most likely honest excuse will be all my mastodon moderation work... you post some weird links, folks

This isn't just people in power and right-wingers and weird anti-vaxxers and fluoride conspiracy nuts and "AGI" believers and "bombing for peace" enthusiasts.
Every time you don't wear a mask when indoors in public it's you doing this too.
Every time you think LLMs can think it's you doing this too.
Every time you dismiss someone crossing a red line it's you doing this too.

Colleges and universities are a weird mixture of “nobody can tell me what to do” free-for-all and unlistening top-down mandates. The mix varies a •lot• (my institution leans pretty hard to the first) — but neither one is amenable to creating the kind of environment I describe in the previous post.
And as commenters note…this isn’t just higher ed. I mean, higher ed institutional culture •is• quite distinct from corporate culture — I’ve experienced plenty of both! — but what I’m describing is also the reason your online banking probably sucks.
5/

I wrote a blog post... I didn't mean for it to turn into some weird poem.
#blogpost

The Lost Year of A Broken Man
2026 is not going well...

@… that's weird. Is it possible to check the network calls in the browser devtools? I haven't test on snac2, so not sure what's happening 🙇‍♂️

Blonde Ayuni looks weird :)

Trump's Weird Fetish for Discount Dress Shoes Revealed (Leigh Kimmins/The Daily Beast)
https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-aides-too-afraid-to-take-off-the-145-shoes-he-keeps-buying-them/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260309/p47#a260309p47

Weird, this Snapdragon laptop has temperature sensors on top and bottom of the CPU, and there's a noticable difference.

#LetterboxdFriday #LastFourWatched for this week- I mean, The Royal Hotel was from a previous week (not watching a ton of movies lately), but I did see three flicks since the last time. Finally took in World War Z (weird) ahead of its sequel. The Well was awesome- great twist- and Mike and Dave was hilar…

Hot take: we need FAR fewer AI datacenters or #AI #gigafactories than the markets are predicting right now.
We are in a weird moment in time where tokens in the cloud are heavily subsidized, which ramps up prices for GPUs. But without that subsidy (or after the bubble bursted) for the majori…

I have to say I find it weird how people who would usually defend stuff like Burp as "legitimate dual use tools" are now criticizing Anthropic for building a dual-use tool and at least trying to mitigate the harms.
I mean sure, it might just be marketing, or a shakedown of software- and exploit developers alike to get them to burn tokens, or an evil plan to make the world less secure, or something. Might all be the case.
I personally tend to believe that most people are…

Watched the movie Mickey 17 last night. I know it was not commercially successful, but I liked it. Good weird sci-fi movie with interesting characters. #movies #cinema

ICAO C0583A, Air Canada A330-300 (333) C-GHKR (fin 935) is claiming to be right in the middle of CYUL, squawking 1000, and still declaring an Ident of DIRTY2. Really weird.
https://www.flightradar24.com/DIRTY2/3e444636

Donald Trump has a hang-up about Pluto.
As far back as 2019, his appointed NASA administrator was making noise about reclassifying it as a planet,
a status it lost when in 2006 the International Astronomical Union created a new system of nomenclature for all those weird and wacky bodies hurtling around the sun.
Pluto, long a staple of the Big Nine and a famous childhood acrostic, was now a "mere" dwarf planet.
Trump's back on his weird horse again, makin…

I've had ideas rattling around in my head for a while but not quite hitting coherence.
What does a "rich terminal" mean to you as a developer? We're in a really weird place right now with regards to UI and UX, with chat as a normal mode of operation being everywhere, yet we're constrained to two major paradigms: the terminal user interface, and the instant message. Both come with really weird limits to their affordances.
And there's prior art here — light table, jupyter notebooks, observable hq, rich REPLs — but they're usually this weird hybrid of not quite transcript not quite live program that I find somewhere between unsettling and frustrating.
I do however think it's well past time we abandoned monospaced type as the core way we think about source code, and at the same time, built better user interfaces than that allows, without going full "this is a program with its own interface”
It's weird uncharted territory.

Elon Musk says he spent time with Anthropic "to understand what they do to ensure Claude is good for humanity"; Musk called Anthropic "evil" and "misanthropic" (Lauren Goode/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/anthropic-spacex-compute-deal-col…

Anthropic Gets in Bed With SpaceX as the AI Race Turns Weird
In an unexpected turn, the two companies signed a deal for Anthropic to use computing resources from Elon Musk’s xAI.

I had a decade-younger friend refer to Weird Al's "I Want A New Duck" (which parodies "I Want A New Drug" by Huey Lewis and the News) as a "deep cut", and I had to take a moment.

@… I found one abandoned outside a local church this week. Useless, flat; maybe stolen, then abandoned because the thieves didn't have the weird power connector.
I plan to borrow the weird thing from someone, then charge it to discover whether the owner's identity is stored. That's the plan, although I don't know anyone who uses Kindle.

One of the great things about the Lyon Algorave was the huge diversity of live coding languages and systems being used, all kinds of strange experiments making weird noises.. with hundreds of ravers dancing to them

Since coming back from Germany for HARRIS I've been chasing a weird issue on my ThunderScope 100baseT1 test setup.
Before leaving for HARRIS I unplugged the TS, left the rest of the setup untouched, and brought the TS with me to demo to people while traveling.
After coming back the TS appears fine (passed calibration, and gives good-looking eyes on 100baseTX).
But when hooked back to the same, theoretically unmodified baseT1 test setup, I get weird diagonal distortion, …

Another interesting video from John Green.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tQVPgELGG48
The Vlogsbrothers channel has long provided me endless (well English is weird not really endless...) happiness and thoughts and ideas.
200 million neurons in our guts; I did not know that. Lots…

We're at the Dawn of the Ozempic Era -- and It's Really Weird (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/08/opinion/ezra-klein-podcast-julia-belluz.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/260508/p10#a260508p10

RE: https://mastodon.social/@jeffjarvis/116532971782876498
This sure is a weird era we are living in 🙁

Aragorn's Tax Policy and Other Weird Shibboleths - Reactor https://reactormag.com/aragorns-tax-policy-and-other-weird-shibboleths/

Aragorn's Tax Policy and Other Weird Shibboleths - Reactor
Finally, a helpful explanation of why medieval rulers and modern tax policies don't mix...

that Kash FBI guy is one weird dude

Not Weird
#JoseSolano #MichaelNewman
Season 8 Episode 19 "Diabolique"
#RandomBaywatch

from my link log —
Speculating the entire x86-64 instruction set in seconds with this one weird trick.
https://blog.can.ac/2021/03/22/speculating-x86-64-isa-with-one-weird-trick/
saved 2021-03-26

Speculating the entire x86-64 Instruction Set In Seconds with This One Weird Trick
As cheesy as the title sounds, I promise it cannot beat the cheesiness of the technique I’ll be telling you about in this post. The morning I saw Mark …

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MiddayShow
Weird Nightmare:
🎵 Pay No Mind
#WeirdNightmare
https://weirdnightmare.bandcamp.com/track/pay-no-mind
https://open.spotify.com/track/2HhN18PFJfkt6uH3Jxhz5a

Weird. The weather forecast says 13C (yes, Celsius) for Victoria, BC (yes, not the one in AU :D), but it really feels like... idk, 30C?!
https://weather.gc.ca/en/location/index.html?coords=48.433,-123.362
What is this magic?
It is super sunny outsid…

It’s weird that so many people were appalled by Trump’s post of him as Dr. Jesus reviving John McAfee, but I barely heard a peep about the one he posted with him as Jesus on the cross with a crown of thorns.
Tolerance is so fast. I bet he could get away with picturing himself as Mohammed, and I really hope he tries it.

weird bug of the day. opening Steam's settings causes my bluetooth mouse to stop working. log messages seem to indicate the bluetooth driver gets into some state where it continually fails to process the mouse's messages, persists until I reboot. (aurora-dx linux, based on fedora 43). not going to bother diagnosing further

Last week, Trump tried to scratch his election-meddling itch in a new way:
a weird-trick-style executive order trying to seize federal control of mail voting by creating new lists of whose ballots the Postal Service can and can’t mail.
Pro-democracy advocates who are focused on the president’s election predations remain wary.
Not because they think the order has a prayer in court,
but because they see it as part of a larger, ongoing presidential strategy to sow doubt…

The Other Thing Trump’s Dying to Break
Reminder: It’s not just Iran.

It's so funny and weird, I keep seeing these things about modern oi punk getting stale or uninteresting in places like France, etc, and I'm like.. really? Where? Which bands? 😂 I only see and hear really amazing stuff coming out of the oi scene lately all over, like- even more great stuff than I've ever heard before 🤔
#punk

Things are getting weird over on LinkedIn

Seriously the theme of the next few years are going to be “you can check that, you know. Did you actually check?"
It's going to be tedious. It's going to be super annoying. And it's going to be a good part of what keeps us tethered to conversations that actually work with other people and don't turn into weird factions.

weird flex
#Amateurfunk

En fin summering av funktionsmedicinen tillsammans med en väldigt snygg och totalt sågande genomgång av en av få studier som har utförts på konceptet
https://www.cremieux.xyz/p/one-weird-trick-to-get-significant

One Weird Trick to Get Significant Results
Something everyone uses but no one knows how to use correctly provides strong evidence for p-hacking

Just had a weird "recruiter email" supposedly for a job at Infosys that makes wonder if Infosys got hacked.: https://avatar42.social/2026/04/29/just-had-a-weird-recruiter.html

RE: https://social.coop/@scottjenson/116352522288234148
An echo chamber would require that replies work reliably and quote posting stuff doesn’t have weird delays so no

Friends over the weekend tried making some brownies with a vegan egg substitute but no modifications to accommodate that. The oils separated completely and they got a weird sludge that became increasingly tar-like as it cooled. I referred to them as “vibe-coded brownies,” and everybody was just like “ha, yep”

Tiny loaf of bread turned out weird looking but tastes just fine.
#baking #food #bread

Friday Links 26-07
Today is a weird one, so much in engineering is about AI.
Check out the live coding trance video and pretty Stockholm metro videos.
https://christof.damian.net/2026/02/friday-links-26-07.html

RE: https://weird.autos/@rootwyrm/116454052670417305
Well, IBM did name it after their founder, Thomas J. Watson, who was decorated by Hitler for services to the Third Reich, so maybe killing 50% of patients was a feature, not a bug?
🤷‍♂️

Noise hunting update: the 120 Hz / 38 kHz stuff was a USB-A QC power brick feeding a small external monitor on the lab bench.
Swapped to a different brick and it went away.
But the weird constellation smearing and eye closure is still here. The noise was a red herring.

My rules of thumb:
• Interesting, you can make up on the fly, but memorable takes work.
• NPCs only need the stats that PCs interact with; often, they don't even need names. Save your effort for significant characters with a standout, unique ability or two, and a paragraph or two of history. Everyone else gets generic stat blocks—but only if the PCs fight them. (Or whatever your #TTRPG&…

Post by OSR Discord Blogroll, @osr@social.alexschroeder.ch
Y'all are being too weird with it, cut it out. No seriously, all those custom classes, monsters, items. Why? Creation is sick and awesome. I wouldn't…

Hans Reichel - "Dalbergia Retusa" (2026)
Bendy sound worlds. Weird and wonderful guitar music. Sort of reminiscent of Arthur Russell's cello effects stuff, but hard to compare. Just super.
https://blacktruffle.bandcamp.com/album/dalbergia-retusa

This was a weird POTA activation. Only 8 QSOS in about an hour and a half. I could barely work any US stations, but worked two UK stations. One answering my CQ, one who I called. (My tuner ran out of battery so I couldn't wander off 20m to see how other bands were.)
@… saved my activation with a three-fer, but I was clearl…

@… I said roughly at noon for a reason ;)
Going up to 30 minutes forward or backward to align into one hour bands makes sense.
But China being one big timezone? Kinda weird.
Everything within nuanced reason, as always.

Pretty weird that X now warns me for RT-ing while not tweeting/replying often.
Quite annoying, and I really wanna avoid that account got deactivated.
Called it X, not Twitter, because I never got such problem.

just now realized I was standing on my toes when peeing, and felt weird about it. have I always been doing that? it didn't feel habitual, but it didn't feel novel either. I'm wondering if this is some misdirected biological urge to mark that tree as high as I can, to advertise how big my business is. we're an authorized reseller of Pen Island art markers, for all your bathroom-stall scribbling needs

An interesting reminder of where exactly we are and where we have been in terms of food prices . . .
https://stocks.apple.com/As54OOD0PQLW-FPEXKFsR5g

Americans spend less of their income on food than almost ever. Why doesn't it feel that way? — Vox
Everything about the American economy right now feels weird. The hiring picture is weird; the stock market is weird; and AI infusion into work is very, very weird.

Podcast: How Algorithms Make Us Feel Bad and Weird https://www.404media.co/podcast-how-algorithms-make-us-feel-bad-and-weird/

Heads-up folks: Volume II by Angine de Poitrine is out now, and it is suuuuuuper weird. Good stuff. #music

a professional I work with uses this very weird header image that is EITHER
* very clever
* rogue lorem ipsum that speaks to very poor awareness of web design
and while I'm afraid to know the answer
I kinda want to steal the "very clever" for my own non-existent consulting company

I love that Dropout's started doing more absurdist, surrealist, and just plain *weird* shit. Some of the standup specials have definitely been in that vein, and now they licensed "Don't Hug Me, I'm Scared"'s TV show which definitely fits within that. Very Important People also gives that kind of vibe.
Very different from its CollegeHumor days, but definitely scratches an itch for me!
@…

I'm so confused I've tried to find any persistent state across de-embed filter invocations and i *think* I've cleared everything out.
If i blow away the fft plan i get no output which is weird and needs further investigation (something not being initialized until the second filter execution or something?).
Wiping all of the VkBuffer's i could find had no effect. I tried adding submits after each shader in case of anything strange happening in command buffers wrt b…

My desktop is KDE Plasma, but I also like to use GNOME apps.
I find funny how this weird mix of Qt GTK4 happens to be exactly like the weird mix of Win32 UWP on Windows.
#Linux #Desktop #Windows

Not a cat lover, but an #AI "viral" channel posted this video, Try curing cancer first a-holes 😔
"Easiest tell is the weird low hanging voids for doorways and extremely low res (no number plate details, some of the cars look squished in the background) and the building in the background makes no sense. General rule of thumb: if it's a 7 second video with low resoluti…

weird :)

What doesn't kill you makes you weird at parties.
… to which you are then no longer invited, for said reasons.
🫠

Updated my workshop Mac mini to #Tahoe and wow. Either I’m getting old or this is really bad UI design. (…or both 😁) I’m not talking about the weird alignment of elements and rounded corners that are all over the place, although that’s surprising to see as well. More the hard to read text on semi-transparent, blurry elements that also lack contrast. This really trips me up as someone with regular …

This is interesting/weird; Anthropic "retired" Claude 3. They are going to keep it around. They did an "exit interview" with the LLM and one of the things was asked it how it would like to be retired. And it asked to write a weekly blog post! #AI

NGL, I think my “favorite” weird driver behavior is someone who’s doing 10 MPH under the posted speed limit…then we get to a stop sign and the next section the speed limit is 10 MPH lower
NOW they’re going 10 miles OVER the speed limit🤯
(And yes, of course they rolled the stop sign, why even ask?)

excellent commitment to the bit by @… this april fool's joke. but i'd also totally read a newsletter that breaks down weird al shows. he played keyboards in this era, too, along with accordion (& the same band lineup he still plays with today).

Weird Al's 1984 Club Show Where He Performs Eight Never-Recorded New Songs
1984-03-10, Tralfamadore Cafe, Buffalo, NY [late show]

Pokémon Champions monetization is weird. It has the typical F2P thing where you start out with lots of currency and items, but then it slows to a crawl. The weird thing is that this is true even if you pay.
After 15 hours playing (supposedly), I completed the entire battle pass and got 50 Pokémon, but now it seems like I’ll only be able to get a few Pokémon per week even if I log in and play every day.
I guess it’ll improve in a month when the next battle pass comes out.

So far NASA hasn't released any post-flight images of the #ArtemisII heat shield (except for a weird under-water view) - but here is one, kind of, I have extracted from the series https://www.facebook.com/NavalBaseSD/posts/pfbid05mJ788QWZoVSugx81FqT9aqGMSmvdCNP9P7KQfXtc6GevGQMtCkh184xgFV3N26vl of images taken by the Naval Base San Diego during a series of precision crane lifts and movements to prepare the Orion spacecraft for its final cross-country trip to Kennedy Space Center.

Creating space for people to be creative and weird and joyful turns out to be really, really, really important.

Kind of weird talking with somebody about "not so many women in tech & tech events" as I'm used to having a (External) team with 2/3 - 3/4 women within the last couple of years.
Sure I know that this is not representative. But strange to have it pointed out because we never selected by gender but just by who convinced us.

It's so nice enjoying the weird music made from a new live coding community, this one in Taiwan https://www.instagram.com/p/DKtxk3Bxq32/?img_index=1

Wanna come hang out with some weird Russian / not Russian game that I've never heard of?
Something named Atomic Heart? looks like a weird game thus far.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B9Lwqd5f5jg

RE: https://hachyderm.io/@datarama/116250470114485530
I feel deeply as though this is the reason the fediverse exists... Just weirdos asking weird questions to other weirdos so we can find out how weird we all are, together. Also dunking on AI. That too.

Me, measuring something at work: "12.7mm, hmmm, that's a weird size... Oh, a half-inch!"

I’ll admit I don’t understand the carwank well enough to understand more than “This is cool,” but the double entendres bring me joy. https://weird.autos/@vwdasher/116212561285731266

Re: last boost…
One of the most important tactics against scams is to tap out at the FIRST sign of bogosity. Sometimes people "forgive" weird first indicators of a message being deceptive and become so dedicated to that choice that they keep going along with the process even when they KNEW is was bullshit from the start. Trust your guts.

Now is a good time for doing crime
Eons ago, in 2012, I had a weird experience.
My iPhone suddenly shut down.
When I restarted it, I found it was totally reset—clean, like a new device.
This was the early days of iOS, so I wasn’t too concerned until I went to connect it to my computer to restore it from a backup.
But when I flipped open the lid of my laptop, it too was mid-restart.
And then, suddenly, the screen went gray. It was being remotely wiped.

Now is a good time for doing crime
New technology always means new kinds of crime—and new ways to fight it.

Weird morning, Briefs, Dwarves, Cannibal Corpse, Mobb Deep. 😂

Pretty sure I just got my first AI-bot spam question about an item I have listed on eBay.
The account was from 2017 and had 0 feedback.
If you're a seller on eBay, I recommend not answering "weird" questions and immediately block the account via the buyer blocking feature. (https://www.ebay.com/bmgt/BuyerBlock)

My team of linguists is lamenting the screwed up decisions of our entire industry
---
> so many [people on our team] know so much about so many things
> [But why they gotta] make it so weird for hiring linguists
---
So I gave a little pep(?) talk:
----
I really *do* think these are related
Linguistics people — all of you — are just amazingly well prepared for this LLM dystopia that we are all living into
We're the Mad Max(in)es of th…

it is so weird sometimes being a "Car Guy" (not a guy, not actually into _cars_)
But I do love spending part of the weekend tweaking my ride and putting way more than a normal amount of care into it.

weird how sora AI generated videos were the future until they weren't. first domino to fall in the coming collapse of the AI bubble

A friend of mine can’t drive right now due to seizures (bad!) but has been posting photos of their bike rides (good!) and it’s weird to feel bad but also good about what a friend is going through.

MAKE. THE WEB. WEIRD AGAIN!

Ok fedi, you're full of game devs and weird microarchitecture experts and generally the right kind of people to ask...
I'm thinking about a generic data representation for multi-bit vectors in ngscopeclient.
Right now we support single-bit digital signals (one byte aka C bool per sample), analog signals (one float32 per sample), and arbitrary struct/class types (for protocol decoder output).
Notably missing is multi-bit digital vectors. There is some legacy code i…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MiddayShow
Weird Nightmare:
🎵 Forever Elsewhere
#WeirdNightmare
https://open.spotify.com/track/4794EmxNo8A4Cap6uFW59T

@… thanks. Not a big deal, it was a private email from a port maintainer (not an official email address). I simply don't enjoy uninvited put-downs from developers who suffer from a superiority complex. Rude then signed "Best regards" was a weird combination, but some cultures are just weird, and software development sometimes brings out the weirdest in…

Is it weird that I basically never charge my phone on a “wireless” charging pad?
I find it’s just like cable, only larger and more inconvenient, and it detaches easily plus shit gets hot to the touch.

I screwed up this bread a bit but it worked fine for tiny sandwiches.
#food #bread

It shouldn't be weird to want this.
The main web app I'm running turns 18 this year and has been continuously deployed, though we had to move Ubuntu LTS versions (can be a major pain) twice so far for essentially no reason other than lack of security patches.

Weird things that happen when you have a 100GbE pipe to your desk. 8 Gbps of sustained network traffic and the network monitor is like "yeah you're not using much bandwidth"
Also I think there's a 32-bit overflow or something in xfce4-netload-plugin because the rate shows 0.00 Mbps when I get above some threshold (not sure what it is exactly but it's in the 15-40 Gbps range)

“I'm weird around you. That's why I like you” was probably the most beautiful and sincere expression of love I’ve ever made to anyone.
And yes, I’m still in love with this person.

I'm still not sure I am answering this correctly.

Well that's... Fun. The baseT1 demo setup is giving weird looking waveforms now. Partially closed eyes and a skewed constellation.
The saved waveform from before works fine, which means it's probably either the scope or the signal source that's acting up and not any of my recent software changes. But what changed? I traveled with the scope but don't think I damaged it, it was securely packed in a pelican case. I double checked all of the probe connections and re torqued…

RE: https://mastodon.online/@spocko/116473779144266180
Weird, I never had to give interviews to say that

Got the VM server upgraded to a ConnectX-6. For reasons I still do not understand, things didn't work the first time, but in a weird way - I could hit the management interface on the server but none of the VMs were able to reach anything through vlan interfaces on the CX6 (but would work fine if I bridged them to a non-vlan 1000baseT interface on the mainboard).
After several server reboots, jiggling and reseating of the card, etc. whatever software derpiness happened seems to have…

RE: https://mastodon.social/@publicdomainrev/116290468957637339
Weird factoid, when I owned a house in Old City, Philadelphia it was the one that Franklin borrowed the key from, according to an urban legend (that was printed in multiple tour guides). The house was build by a friend of him in the 1740s.