2025-10-11 16:19:37
10 years on, believe it or not, the Paris Agreement was signed.
This was our very short reaction at the time. Prescient, you might think.
The Good, The Bad, The Ugly.
Paris Climate Change Agreement, 2015: the good, the bad and the ugly. | Steady State Manchester https://…
MAGA's outrage over Bad Bunny could be good for Democrats if they can learn the right lesson - LGBTQ Nation
https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2025/10/magas-outrage-over-bad-bunny-could-be-good-for-democrats-if-they-can-learn-the-right-lesson/
AOC's campaign pours massive cash into luxury Puerto Rico hotels, pricey catering and Bad Bunny venue rental (Fox News)
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/aocs-campaign-pours-massive-cash-luxury-puerto-rico-hotels-pricey-catering-bad-bunny-venue-rental
http://www.memeorandum.com/251211/p86#a251211p86
Where should we recommend events & community host long videos that isn't YouTube?
* Vimeo - paid, embeds work, recently acquired is a bad sign
* @archive.org - free, no embeds
* Bunny - paid, lots of options including APIs, no embeds
* Peertube - self-hosted, no embeds
Full write up in the forum https://
Doors close, doors open. Companies are needing to hire folks to fix their vibed code. If you thought debugging your own code was a drag, just wait. https://boingboing.net/2025/09/11/humans-fixing-bad-vibe-code-for-good-money.html
If you know me, you know I've always thought that leaving twitter was 1) an absolutely fine personal individual choice but also 2) NOT something you should *insist* others do because it was *possible* that the good of speaking with others etc might outweigh the bad
Saying this because in the past few days, the feed got REAL bad. Anyone else noticing this?
#fediverse
Had this lock company just let it go, I would've never learned that:
▫️They bullied a YouTuber
▫️Their CEO is a 3x felon
▫️Their lock is shimmed in seconds
#streisandeffect
▶️ 10M people watched a YouTuber shim a lock; the lock company sued him. Bad idea. - Ars Technica
Another thing I've learned debugging WiFi issues: having router sitting on the floor is a bad idea. How bad can it be? 10dBm bad.
Raising the router off the floor by just 30cm significantly improved network coverage, including on the floor below it!
Good examples in that article for why a prompt-based system for system administration seems odd: You type a hundred-word question and are told by the AI to use apt when the Fedora system doesn’t use that package manager at all. https://mstdn.social/@osnews/115702679695335298
I often here about social media being bad for your mental health, but I find the way I use it (Fedi only) is good for mine.
It's fun as heck here! :3
When "self-driving" cars were first getting some hype back in ~2015 or so, I told people who asked me that I didn't think they'd be safe, and that I wished the same money were being invested in driver-assistance systems instead.
At the time, advocates were claiming that self-driving cars would be safer than human drivers.
We now have both self-driving cars and some nifty new driver assistance things, and it turns out that the self-driving cars are in fact being developed by corporations whose attention to the bottom line results in danger to others on the road pretty regularly. I don't actually have stats here for whether they're "safer than human drivers" or not, but the opportunity for one bad software update to make *all* self-driving cars dangerous at once kinda makes me doubt that.
Here's an example of Waymo cars getting "more aggressive" as they try to balance between being too timid and obstructing traffic (including emergency vehicles) and being too dangerous:
https://archive.ph/JJuGv
Here's another example of passing stopped schoolbusses leading to a software recall:
https://abcnews.go.com/GMA/News/waymo-issue-voluntary-software-recall-after-close-calls/story?id=128207776
In the first article, Waymo claims 91% fewer serious accidents per mile. Obviously an independent audit would be actually trustworthy, but even if we take that claim at face value, it's meaningless if an update tomorrow causes 100,000 accidents.
Note that they could be using better engineering practices, and the fact that they aren't shows that they don't care enough about the risks. They could be deploying new software versions incrementally and slowly, letting new versions rack up lots of miles only on a few vehicles before pushing them to a fleet. The should also have the equivalent of a simulation unit test for "schoolbus is stopped, what do?" and if a software version fails that test, it doesn't make it to the fleet. Clearly they don't have that.
I feel pretty vindicated in my earlier prediction that this tech is a bad idea in the hands of the current advocates.
I know Star Wars is often kinda dumb. The movies are plot-holey and often kinda bad.
But seeing the first one with my almost 6 year old and playing Lego Star Wars with him is something special. Like the joy he feels seeing those characters do their weird shit, the way he really gets into thinking about the stories and why people do what and who they might have also talked to is just ... the best. I'm actually looking forward to watching even the prequels with him.
Back when I was little, kids used to freak each other out about bad guys they saw or said they saw or heard somebody say they saw: Gang members. Kidnappers. Drug dealers.
Sometimes it was just attention-seeking or scaring each other for fun. Sometimes it was genuinely scary. Sometimes it was even based in reality. Regardless, these are the boogeymen of my childhood.
I’ve had the chance to talk to some little kids this week. You know who’s the playground boogeyman now? ICE.
1/2
Google adds a Chrome feature that automatically disables browser notifications from websites users haven't interacted with recently, on Android and desktop (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/10/10/google-chrome-silences-those-pesky-no…
Invited to the mafia don's home to kiss the ring. Is it considered bad manners to bring a sanitizing wipe
Huh. Interesting assertion: https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/business/575077/opinion-nicola-willis-is-right-the-economy-isn-t-as-bad-as-the-merchants-of-misery-claim
Then, at the end, I see who wrote it:…
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MorningShow
Hayden:
🎵 Bad as They Seem
#Hayden
https://hayden4.bandcamp.com/track/bad-as-they-seem
https://open.spotify.com/track/13pcMVbQ5jOVJK7QN4ADSy
I'm not sure I enjoy the Camera Control on the iPhone 16... it gives me bad MBP touchbar vibes.
#iPhone
Es heißt ja oft: Deutsch ist eine schwer zu lernende Sprache, Englisch ist leicht.
Gerade hat mir jemand erklärt, warum "It's not too bad" sowohl heißen kann: "es ist nicht gut" als auch "es ist ziemlich toll".
Da halte ich es doch mit der konkreten Ruhrpott-Sprache: Woandert isset auch Schei*e.
WBD merging with either Netflix or Paramount should be challenged by US antitrust authorities and would be bad for US streaming market competition (Tim Wu/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/09/opinion/netflix-paramount-warner-bros.html
This is a bad title.
The fediverse already had quote posts for quite a long while. Mastodon didn't have them, but Mastodon is not the Fediverse. It's just part of it. So Mastodon is bringing quote posts to Mastodon, not the Fediverse.
https://mastodon.social/@verge/1151915263…
49ers' Jennings says trash talk didn't cross line https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/47249786/49ers-jauan-jennings-trash-talk-browns-bad
Dear Webapp Developers: if you are going to display elided text that doesn't reveal the full string on hover, please don't fucking bother, just print "STRING TOO BIG. FU." to manage our expectations.
Thank you for your attention.
After reading a term paper that demonstrated nothing more than the "author's" brainless use of a brainless statistical model to brainlessly vomit brainless prose, I'm deeply grateful for the flawed result of human thinking that turned up second in the grading pile. It's not amazing but it's really not bad and, more importantly, it shows the student learned something. If nothing else, LLMs have given me a new appreciation for the imperfect but honest work we produce …
🇺🇦 Auf #radioeins läuft...
Bad Bunny:
🎵 NUEVAYoL
#NowPlaying #BadBunny
https://fefotheghost.bandcamp.com/track/bad-bunny-nuevayol-fefo-edit
https://open.spotify.com/track/5TFD2bmFKGhoCRbX61nXY5
Eine künstlerische Rekonstruktion des Kopfschmucks der Schamanin von Bad Dürrenberg.
I felt such a deep surge of hope reading this story. Toronto the bad, of all places.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/oct/09/toronto-waterfront-soil-plants-worms
Bad turnover from Ecuador. I thought Tillman was off on Tessmann’s pass, but he looked level on the replay. It was certainly close! Nice find of Balogun, who deserved a goal for his dynamism tonight. 1-1.
#USMNT
How is this still happening?
We all knew that hard-coded credentials were BAD and WRONG 35ya.
#InfoSec https://infosec.exchange/@offseq/115528481041007501
Ah yes, thank you mr. Game, very cool options you give me here
#Expedition33
it occurs to me now that I have a laptop from this decade I could prolly start making let's plays again
I am bad at every video game so they're usually pretty funny I'm ngl
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLMfOTogVYs…
We had some of these people who try to sell you water purification by showing how bad your water is with some electrodes.
It was amusing in a way.
from my link log —
Should CSS be a constraint system instead?
https://pavpanchekha.com/blog/why-css-bad.html
saved 2025-12-06 https://
Bringing this gem over from the bad place:
Went to get a bagel this morning and it was so cold out!
Crowd: HOW COLD WAS IT?
It was so cold, the bagel is a Lender’s frozen bagel now.
Degrowth, fears and euphemisms
Reflections beyond growth: Degrowth, fears and euphemisms Álex López translated by Mark Burton In the series Prospects for Degrowth Republished from revista 15/15\15 Reflecting on the Beyond Growth Conference. Madrid, 2025 The Beyond Growth Conference document offers us a promising future: less production, less consumption... but, curiously, more public services, more rights, more democracy, more of everything good and none of the bad.
... stupid thing I'm stuck on: in order to make the type of personal website I want, I think I need to do server-side line breaking. I know this is carving against the grain of html, but I'm failing to see any good alternative. all the options are bad
Reading this article as I listen to Joan Baez (coincidentally): https://archive.is/pky5Q And I think: is it a bad thing that it's almost impossible for AI companies to license music for training their models…? I don't think it is, actually. Perhaps they should look for business models that don’t in…
Kristi Noem Says ICE Will Be
‘All Over’ Bad Bunny
Super Bowl Halftime Show:
The NFL ‘Sucks and We’ll Win
and God Will Bless Us’
https://variety.com/2025/music/news/kristi-noem-ice-bad-bunny-super-bowl-halftime-show-1…
🐛 Using nanotechnology to target crop-munching pests and spare beneficial bugs
https://phys.org/news/2025-09-nanotechnology-crop-munching-pests-beneficial.html
DOJ Withheld Proof They Knew Their Assault of LaMonica McIver Was "Bad" before They Charged Her - emptywheel
https://www.emptywheel.net/2025/12/09/doj-withheld-proof-they-knew-their-assault-of-lamonica-mciver-was-bad-before-they-charged-her/
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #AfternoonShow
Bad Brains:
🎵 Big Takeover
#BadBrains
https://schlitz1.bandcamp.com/track/big-takeover-bad-brains
https://open.spotify.com/track/2z83t0gfxu3Dnb0XUDBR3B
Look, all I'm saying is maybe Etsy witches aren't such a bad investment. 👀
The Raiders Continue Making A Bad Situation Worse https://raiderramble.com/2025/10/08/the-raiders-continue-making-a-bad-situation-worse/
Nothing like marketing a product 'free' from the OPM #breach years ago. That kind of breach is going to haunt me for a lifetime, but the same people who lost my data decided 10 years of open-sourced commercialized OSINT should cover it 🥴 It took multiple FOIA requests before they even sent me a 70% redacted version of the data they lost 🤦♂️
I feel bad for the folks who don't…
My controversial take on "AI" ray tracing helpers are that it's a really good idea.
First some background: keep in mind that machine learning tecnologies excell at tasks that have a high reward for success and a small cost for failure. In this case getting most of the rays right improve performance, at the cost of some few rays being shot in nothing.
Secondly, light rays are way too many in real life to be simulated in their entirety, so using some statistics to approximate the lighting model makes a lot of sense here. Plus at the lower quantum scale even phisicists use statistic to explain this stuff, so it's not that irrealistic either.
Finally the source data for this stuff is entirely other games, so ethically sourcing the training data set should not be a concern here.
Here, technology can be good or bad. It's not the tech, it's the use of the tech by the people (but that I mean oligarchic corporations) that makes them good or bad.
It's funny how "AI" tools are simulteanously marketed as "agents" that can run fully in the background and do stuff but whenever they do something bad it's the user at fault for not supervising the software that doesn't work.
Even when it’s directly used and the user has the chance to review everything—it’s extremely dangerous, especially at tasks it is doing fine like 95% of the time and/or when the bad things are only subtly wrong.
Imagine other tools being like this, like a steering wheel that turns the car 95 out of a 100 times. 2% of the time it steers into the other direction. 3% of the time it steers 5x as much as normally.
Adding on to the thread to say this:
If you want to argue that political violence is bad, please don’t go driveling out some “here’s why we should respect Charlie Kirk” fartfest (looking at you, Ezra Klein). That •completely undermines• your argument.
A/1
Yes, I'm late but I just installed Debian 13 Trixie 😅
I'm trying tuba app bcuz is new on Trixie. Surfing through his config and not bad really.
ATM I'm staying in here.
https://apps.gnome.org/Tuba/
Breathless headline: "97% of buildings on Earth now 3D-mapped!"
Well, 0% of my or my three nearest neighbors' 14 houses/sheds are there in any way, and the "buildings" that *are* present near us don't actually exist, so either we're the 3%, or that number is utter bullshit.
...which is a good thing, tbh, because this is a massive invasion of privacy. Bad enough to have Google taking pictures of me from the sky; now I have to let the council do dr…
'New record of Russian meanness' — Russia waited for bad weather, Middle East developments to launch large-scale attack on energy infrastructure, Zelensky says: https://benborges.xyz/2025/10/10/new-record-of-russian-meanness.html
The #KeepassXC discussion about GenAI coding tool use seems a bit too simplistic at the moment.
There is room for nuance:
1. Yes, LLM based code generators consume insane amounts of electricity and generate collateral environment damage. That's bad, and we should talk much more about energy efficiency and reasonable use of resources.
2. Yes, LLMs generate a lot of bad o…
Week 10 was the epitome of "Any Given Sunday" https://insidethestar.com/week-10-was-the-epitome-of-any-given-sunday
Not sure if it'll be useful, but looks good 🤔
Too bad I can't add a Share/Download (image) button due to CORS issue (avatar image and header image). Possibly can fallback to just pure solid-color version but doesn't look as pretty 😆
For context, Mastodon Android app has this https://bl…
I really wish Ghost didn't force you to have bad heading nesting.
"Nine years of ballet, asshole."
-- Shelly Long, to the bad guy after making a jump over a gorge that he
couldn't quite, in "Outrageous Fortune"
List Recoverable Codes: The Good, the Bad, and the Unknown (hopefully not Ugly)
Nicolas Resch, S. Venkitesh
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.07597 https://arxiv.…
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #SonicReducer
Bad Religion:
🎵 1000 More Fools
#BadReligion
https://punkgoes8-bit.bandcamp.com/track/bad-religion-1000-more-fools-8-bit
https://open.spotify.com/track/1pSGzkQRKnZLzfEYvOgNTB
No Bad Seats
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: #GreatAusPods
A US appeals court panel orders the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette to restore striking journalists' benefits from 2017, ruling the paper bargained in bad faith (Megan Swift/TribLIVE.com)
https://triblive.com/local/regional/appellate-court-…
Mastodon, my friend, are you having a bad day?
When Fallout-for-life MrMattyPlays breaks his silence & goes straight after Bethesda & Fallout 4: Anniversary, that's... really bad. 😥
▶️ Fallout 4: Anniversary Edition Is Legit Insulting... | Review - MrMattyPlays
https://youtube.com/watch?v=jF5XYg0ECu0&…
Meaningless Raiders field goal leads to brutal bad beat for Broncos' backers https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6871610/2025/12/07/nfl-bad-beat-raiders-broncos-spread-betting/
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Frank Ocean:
🎵 Bad Religion
#FrankOcean
https://illwink.bandcamp.com/track/frank-ocean-bad-religion-illhouse-edit
https://open.spotify.com/track/2pMPWE7PJH1PizfgGRMnR9
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #SonicReducer
Motörhead:
🎵 Bad Religion
#Motörhead
https://cromagnonband.bandcamp.com/track/bad-religion-motorhead-cover
https://open.spotify.com/track/2Tq6OvLUewkjp0eisjYVeL
If you want to make the case against political violence, start by saying clearly that Charlie Kirk was a miserable sack of shit who promoted bigotry and religious hatred and helped organized a violent coup attempt whose goal was to end democracy in the US in order to establish a white supremacist ethnostate. Say that the world is better without him in it.
•Then• make your argument that even in his case — even a person whose death improves the world — even •then• political violence is a bad strategy.
A/2
Meaningless Raiders field goal leads to brutal bad beat for Broncos' backers https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6871610/2025/12/07/nfl-bad-beat-raiders-broncos-spread-betting/
Apple replacing Alan Dye with Stephen Lemay may fix Jony Ive's mistake by restoring the Jobsian "design is how it works" ethos in Apple's UI design (John Gruber/Daring Fireball)
https://daringfireball.net/2025/12/bad_dye_job
"Tariffs are the principal reason inflation is higher now than it was when Trump began his second term in January."
Trump loves his tariffs. Too bad he’s wrong about them.
https://thehill.com/opinion/white-house/5549528-tariffs-hurt-us-economy/
Most meetings are bad, and most attempts to fix it merely reduce the *amount* of meetings, rather than do anything to improve their usefulness.
This is an opportunity for #UX designers aspiring to "do strategy." But hi-fi artifacts won't help you here; their purpose is to document decisions that have already been made.
Lo-fi artifacts only appear skippable when seen alone; i…
Jake Ferguson injury update leaves Cowboys TE's Week 15 status in serious doubt https://www.sportingnews.com/us/nfl/dallas-cowboys/news/jake-ferguson-injury-update-cowboys-week-15-status-serious-d…
💥 Pro-cycling crashes can be bad, but evidence suggests slower bikes aren't the answer
#sports
Good advice is something a man gives when he is too old to set a bad
example.
-- La Rochefoucauld
"AI is the world's most expensive and energy-intensive plagiarism machine....""
'Breaking Bad' Creator Hates AI, Promises New Show 'Pluribus' Was 'Made By Humans' - Slashdot
https://entertainment.slashdot.org/story/25/11/09/047221/breaking-bad-creator-hates-ai-promises-new-show-pluribus-was-made-by-humans
Did Raiders’ field goal cause worst bad beat of year? Barstool Sports founder thinks so https://www.reviewjournal.com/sports/betting/did-raiders-field-goal-cause-worst-bad-beat-of-year-barstool-sports-found…
OpenAI is testing training LLMs to produce "confessions", or self-report how they carried out a task and own up to bad behavior, like appearing to lie or cheat (Will Douglas Heaven/MIT Technology Review)
https://www.technologyreview.com/2025/12/0<…
Jerry Jones and Dallas Cowboys lose Dak Prescott's key teammate to injury for rest of the season https://bolavip.com/en/nfl/jerry-jones-and-cowboys-lose-dak-prescotts-key-teammate-for-rest-of-the-season
The Packers may be an early Super Bowl contender, plus more Pulse bets https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6620642/2025/09/12/packers-commanders-tnf-the-pulse/
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MorningShow
Led Zeppelin:
🎵 Good Times Bad Times
#LedZeppelin
https://klimperei.bandcamp.com/track/led-zeppelin-good-times-bad-times
https://open.spotify.com/track/0QwZfbw26QeUoIy82Z2jYp
MAGA Land as graceful and dignified as usual after a bad night - National Zero
https://nationalzero.com/2025/11/07/maga-land-as-graceful-and-dignified-as-usual-after-a-bad-night/
Chuba Hubbard injury update for Friday: Panthers RB looks set to miss Week 6 https://www.sportingnews.com/us/nfl/carolina-panthers/news/chuba-hubbard-injury-update-friday-panthers-looks-set-miss-w…
Why Raiders' Geno Smith is Plummeting in QB Rankings https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/las-vegas-jaxson-dart-geno-smith-dillion-gabriel
Spagnola: Bad just grew worse Monday night https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/spagnola-bad-just-grew-worse-monday-night
Bad Bunny isn't touring U.S. due to ICE, but agents will be at Super Bowl where he's performing https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6684352/2025/10/02/ice-super-bowl-bad-bunny-corey-lewandowski/
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #Early
Bad Colours:
🎵 Underwater
#BadColours
https://badcolours.bandcamp.com/track/underwater
https://open.spotify.com/track/5bGi40kxoLmwPA2wgZR0fK
Spagnola: Bad just grew worse Monday night https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/spagnola-bad-just-grew-worse-monday-night
English is her only language, so:
Marjorie Taylor Greene demands ‘English-official’ law be passed before Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl performance | The Independent
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/marjorie-taylor-greene-bad-bunny-super-bowl-halftime-show-b2840577.html
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Tricky:
🎵 Bad Dreams
#Tricky
https://open.spotify.com/track/3zH00XpiWg81z2Dqsnni3W
The good, the bad, and the ugly from a Cowboys' loss in Detroit https://insidethestar.com/the-good-the-bad-and-the-ugly-from-a-cowboys-loss-in-detroit
Dolphins Mike McDaniel Provides Clarity on Player-Led Meetings https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/dallas-cowboys/mike-mcdaniel-coaches-player-led-meetings/?adt_ei=[email]