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@patrickquin@furry.engineer
2026-11-01 04:56:30
Content warning: VRChat call to action pessimism, gen AI

Wish I could trace down that thread by Casey Explosion about how app driven gig economy parasites start out as loss leaders to engage in predatory pricing. How they are able to burn through cash for so long because such apps are still seen as “the future” and a cargo cult of venture capital forms around them.
There are other examples of this happening, even if predatory pricing is not part of the formula, rather “the future” of tech being seen as sci-fi being made real leading to the v…

@peterhoneyman@a2mi.social
2026-10-30 18:07:39

I guess I won’t hit send on this reply to a right-wing Princeton alum organization.
“You can’t be serious, you fascist racist MAGAt pigs. Take my address off your mailing list and burn in hell.”
But I enjoyed composing it.

@Schrank@phpc.social
2026-09-28 05:34:18

Shopware 6: "Google says our sitemap is three months old" — no errors, the scheduled task looks healthy, regenerating even seems to work. It doesn't. One killed run can strand a lock with no expiry, silently blocking every regeneration after it. The one flag that breaks the spell.
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@david@boles.xyz
2026-10-24 13:03:12

The Price List Nobody Could Open
The most famous memo in American industrial history says a company counted the dead. In the fall of 1977, Mother Jones published "Pinto Madness," and the country learned the shape of the story it would keep: a car with a dangerous fuel tank, a fix that cost eleven dollars a vehicle, and a memo that priced the burn deaths against the repair and found the deaths cheaper....

@aardrian@toot.cafe
2026-10-18 14:53:22

While baking yesterday I managed to burn the fingertips on my dominant hand. But it’s fine because I’m ambidextrous.
Also, I totally meant to put this toothbrush up my nose.

@jensilber@mastodon.social
2026-09-24 15:28:00

I am getting so tired of the word "quietly" and the phrasing "that matters" (or "that [NOUN] matters"].
I'm sure that LLMs are partly to blame, but there's always been a tendency for language to follow fads, and I'll be relieved when these fads burn out.
#amediting

@shriramk@mastodon.social
2026-10-18 16:31:45

When I was growing up in BLR, we would periodically have riots, during which people would burn city (KSRTC) buses. This was odd because the people rioting were the ones who typically rode buses. Didn't imagine I'd see a roughly equivalent scene in Paris (image (c) NYT).

@saraislet@infosec.exchange
2026-08-07 20:41:23

RE: infosec.exchange/@saraislet/11
I was reminded of this list last night because I had an encounter with a prickly pear cactus pad, in which my shoulder just BARELY brushed what I thought were only long sturdy spikes
I spent an hour with tweezers pulling dozens of tiny tiny spikes out of my shoulder and shirt
burn every opuntia to the ground, every last one