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@timbray@cosocial.ca
2026-01-16 19:23:23

What computer programmers look like; Ada Lovelace in 1843. petapixel.com/2026/01/16/only-

An oval black and white photograph of a woman in a Black-and-floral V-neck dress with an elaborately-decorated hairdo. Her expression is sad.
@boris@cosocial.ca
2026-03-16 03:54:50

Learned about GNOME OS from @… and also the concept of “distroless” os.gnome.org
Anyone have opinions, pointers, blog posts about GNOME OS and/or distroless?

@burningbecks@social.tchncs.de
2026-02-16 08:00:14

Natürlich.
Aber dass sie es offen aussprechen...
twz.com/air/f-35-software-coul

#WhiteTown #Leicesterval

@timbray@cosocial.ca
2026-01-16 19:12:39

Today’s eye candy, remarkable underwater photos: #photography

A grid of dramatically colored underwater photos from DPReview.com

A federal judge in Boston on Monday stalled major parts of health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s campaign to remake vaccine policy in the U.S.,
saying the Trump administration had likely violated the law. 
Judge Brian E. Murphy issued a preliminary ruling finding that Kennedy’s reconstitution of a key vaccine advisory panel,
and changes made to the childhood vaccine schedule in January,
were likely illegal.
Specifically, he ruled, those policy changes violated…

@NFL@darktundra.xyz
2026-01-15 19:10:18

N.F.L. Playoff Predictions: Vibes Only nytimes.com/video/the-athletic

@timbray@cosocial.ca
2026-02-16 18:09:40

Reading Yegge’s rant and the much shorter and more polished siddhantkhare.com/writing/ai-f (“AI fatigue is real and nobody talks about it”), I keep coming back to this, which I published in 2020 and is sort of at the center of my thinking about everything:

@mxp@mastodon.acm.org
2026-02-15 09:54:54
Content warning: CHpol

RE: mstdn.social/@watson_news/1160
«SVP-Nationalrat Thomas Hurter ist der gleichen Meinung: Wenn die USA nicht lieferten, sollte das Geld seiner Meinung nach beim Kauf des F-35 gutgeschrieben werden.»
Und die F-35 werden gelief…

‪@mxp@mastodon.acm.org‬
2026-02-15 09:54:54
Content warning:  

RE: mstdn.social/@watson_news/1160
«SVP-Nationalrat Thomas Hurter ist der gleichen Meinung: Wenn die USA nicht lieferten, sollte das Geld seiner Meinung nach beim Kauf des F-35 gutgeschrieben werden.»
Und die F-35 werden gelief…

@mxp@mastodon.acm.org‬
2026-02-15 09:54:54
Content warning:  

RE: mstdn.social/@watson_news/1160
«SVP-Nationalrat Thomas Hurter ist der gleichen Meinung: Wenn die USA nicht lieferten, sollte das Geld seiner Meinung nach beim Kauf des F-35 gutgeschrieben werden.»
Und die F-35 werden gelief…

@NuclearDisorder@mastodon.social
2026-01-16 07:13:06

Heute vor 65 Jahren: Am 16. Januar 1961 ereignete sich am Luftwaffenstützpunkt Royal Air Force #Lakenheath eine nukleare Beinahe-Katastrophe. Durch menschliches Versagen fing eine F-100 Super Sabre der US-Luftwaffe, beladen mit einer Mark-28-#Wasserstoffbombe, Feuer.

F-100D Seriennummer 56-3238 des 50. Taktischen Jagdgeschwaders (Wing Commander's Aircraft), Luftwaffenstützpunkt Toul Frankreich, 1958
Autor: United States Air Force - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:F_100d_56_3238_50tfw_wc_1958.jpg United States Air Force Historical Research Agency - Maxwell AFB, Alabama
Lizenz: Public domain
@emd@cosocial.ca
2026-01-16 07:28:16

RE: mastodon.social/@VeroniqueB99/
Yaaaaaaaas

@kexpmusicbot@mastodonapp.uk
2026-01-15 07:14:47

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Roberta Flack:
🎵 Compared to What
#RobertaFlack
jperiod.bandcamp.com/track/com
open.spotify.com/track/3ZTEMmF

@timbray@cosocial.ca
2026-02-15 21:41:46

In which Claude Opus invades my open-source hobby project. The experience was… surprising.
Fairly raw anecdata here, analysis and reactions still to come: tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/20

@zachleat@zachleat.com
2026-01-16 20:29:27

@… F. Scott Fitzgerald sounds like I really don’t like a guy named Scott Fitzgerald

@inthehands@hachyderm.io
2026-01-15 16:13:27

I get a steady stream in my replies of meant-to-be-helpful advice of the form “You should use [complex F/OSS tech] to [do complex thing] that [solves a problem you don’t have but renders the process unusable for the people doing it]”
…when the real tech problems we’re facing on the ground here, both with Signal and other tools, are 99% just ground-level UX stuff:
- basic, basic usability glitches
- workflow friction
- problematic default settings
- reliability

@azonenberg@ioc.exchange
2026-01-16 14:44:07

TIL that -f on the Windows ping command sets "don't fragment" bit rather than flood mode

@trochee@dair-community.social
2026-01-15 06:02:39

Haha f**k you evernote, you enshittifying SOBs
You think I'll just happily ride along with $250/year. I *used* to pay $40/year, just cause inertia
No, I don't want your "starter" plan at $9/month either.
Cancel the entire thing.
Oh, *now* I can get 40% off?
No. I already did the work (including reinstalling windows temporarily) to get 15 years' notes exported, I'm done.
Tell ya finbro execs that I don't want AI in my notes a…

@benb@osintua.eu
2026-01-16 20:27:55

The Netherlands in talks to supply new missiles and bombs for Ukraine’s F-16s: benborges.xyz/2026/01/16/the-n

@tinoeberl@mastodon.online
2026-01-14 17:07:37

"F.B.I. Searches Home of #Washington Post #Journalist in a Leak Investigation
It is exceedingly rare, even in investigations of the unauthorized disclosure of #classified information…

@vosje62@mastodon.nl
2026-01-10 05:16:14

Groenland-scenario toont kwetsbaarheid Nederlandse F-35: Amerika zit aan de knoppen | Argos - onderzoeksjournalistiek - HUMAN/VPRO
#VPRO #Argos #F35

@memeorandum@universeodon.com
2026-03-15 11:55:38

F.C.C. Chair Threatens to Revoke Broadcasters' Licenses Over War Coverage (Ashley Ahn/New York Times)
nytimes.com/2026/03/14/world/m
memeorandum.com/260315/p7#a260

@timbray@cosocial.ca
2026-02-15 18:55:59

Wow, I had been running out of patience with Yegge’s uncritical #GenAI boosterism, but this is epic: “The AI Vampire.”
As usual with Yegge, it could have been edited down to half its size, but go read it anyhow. I’m going to adopt that “AI Vampire” phrase and start using it, a lot.

@rer_c@lepoulsdumonde.com
2026-01-14 07:41:40

Le trafic est ralenti de Biblio. F.Mitterrand vers Pontoise, de Biblio. F.Mitterrand vers Versailles Château et de Biblio. F.Mitterrand vers St-Quentin en Yvelines.
Pour plus d'informations sur cette perturbation, consultez le fil X du RER C.
Motif : régulation de trafic.
🤖 14/01 08:41

@boris@cosocial.ca
2026-01-16 16:31:08

@case.bsky.social is Waiting for the Future to Load!
Which also happens to be a mini test of the @leaflet.pub thread viewer.
blog.bmannconsulting.com/3majx

@Kingu@sakurajima.moe
2026-02-14 21:26:42

Melvins & Napalm Death "Tossing Coins Into The Fountain Of F*ck"

@BBC6MusicBot@mastodonapp.uk
2026-03-15 17:48:32

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music
Tropical F Storm:
🎵 Teeth Marché
#TropicalFStorm
open.spotify.com/track/1WiZLsg

@matematico314@social.linux.pizza
2026-01-15 17:03:42

Esse "BB Rende Fšcil" polui um pouco o extrato bancšrio, fica esse item a mais aparecendo em todos os dias em que hš alteração do saldo.

@Mediagazer@mstdn.social
2026-01-16 16:51:10

Condé Nast owner Advance Publications and Vox Media sue Google over its ad market monopolization, following Penske, The Atlantic, and McClatchy (Charlotte Tobitt/Press Gazette)
pressgazette.co.uk/marketing/f

@timbray@cosocial.ca
2026-01-15 21:15:43

What @… said: anildash.com/2026/01/15/wikipe
You know, I am occasionally shocked when someone I think of as smart or admirable or n…

@a_j_millar@fediscience.org
2026-02-14 09:16:40

RE: #TIL A purposefully Scottish, private expedition studied Antarctica in parallel with Scott's Discovery expedition, establishing a manned meteorological Observatory that is still in operation.
And tried the musical taste of a penguin.
#wikipedia #Scotland

@teledyn@mstdn.ca
2026-02-16 21:58:04

RE: social.growyourown.services/@F
Here's a wishlist item for Fediverse clients: it should be a one-click path to view the Local Feed page of an OP's server (where public) and if it is really niche, to subscribe to the feed like a hashtag.

@Dragofix@veganism.social
2026-02-16 21:08:38

More pollution and higher energy costs: critics condemn Trump’s anti-environment agenda theguardian.com/us-news/2026/f
Under Trump, EPA’s enforcement of environmental laws collapses, re…

@cheryanne@aus.social
2026-02-16 20:59:09

The Men's Fertility Nutrition Podcast
Explores what really affects sperm health and male fertility, and what men can actually do about it, hosted by Alex Hardy...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: greataustralianpods.com/mens-f

The Men's Fertility Nutrition Podcast
Screenshot of the podcast listing on the Great Australian Pods website
@grumpybozo@toad.social
2026-01-14 23:13:03

Amazing.
The UAW has this guy’s back. He’s unlikely to actually lose his job. @… flipboard.social/@NewsDesk/115

@emd@cosocial.ca
2026-01-14 21:51:38

Thanks to the wonderful (you all should sign up to his newsletter) @… I learned about Green Beaver (greenbeaver.com), a Canadian personal care company.

@ubuntourist@mastodon.social
2026-02-16 20:33:09

In a move that surprised exactly no one, FBI won’t share Alex Pretti shooting evidence, Minnesota authorities say
theguardian.com/us-news/2026/f

@yachtbar@mstdn.social
2026-03-16 15:43:49

Kiitos hänelle, joka tästä mainitsi
discogs.com/artist/309409-Snif
Sinäkö @…

@BBC3MusicBot@mastodonapp.uk
2026-03-15 07:51:19

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #Breakfast
Camille Saint‐Saëns, Bertrand Chamayou, Orchestre national de France & Emmanuel Krivine:
🎵 Piano Concerto no.5 in F major Op.103 'Egyptian' (3rd mvt)
#CamilleSaintSaëns
open.spotify.com/track/3YRDdUy

@berlinbuzzwords@floss.social
2026-01-15 12:21:04

Only one month remains until our Call for Papers ends!
Seize the opportunity to submit your proposal for this year's Berlin Buzzwords and be part of Europe’s leading conference for modern data infrastructure, search, and machine learning.
Submit now: 2026.berlinbuzzwords.de/call-f

@compfu@mograph.social
2026-01-16 12:42:30

I tried to disable the "Game Bar" that pops up when you press Windows G... what a rabbit hole. I'm rarely on Windows and I know to stay away now. All search results on all those useless Windows sites are wrong. Microsoft removed the option to disable the hotkey from its system settings! On Windows Pro you could use a group policy. After some f-word-riddled Copilot prompting the bot admitted that there's no way to disable the hotkey except for editing the registry.

@45names@mastodon.social
2026-02-15 08:20:03

Felonious Chunk
bot by @…
This is satire, not sedition: don't make me go to gulag.
#satire #potus45

@boris@cosocial.ca
2026-01-15 17:31:21

I saw @…’s share of the No Jobs for Horses article (2016) alphorisms.medium.com/no-jobs-

@dnddeutsch@pnpde.social
2026-01-13 08:53:55

@… PS: Hier auch auf Deutsch: f-shop.de/media/image/e8/13/7b

Trump gave the middle finger to a heckler during a campaign tour at a Ford plant in Michigan Jan. 13,
-- mouthing "F you" in what the White House described as
"an appropriate and unambiguous response."
The ruffian was touring a Ford F-150 assembly facility in Dearborn when a worker on the plant floor shouted what sounded like
“pedophile protector”
as Trump stood on an elevated walkway
Trump turned toward the person and appeared to respond…

@burningbecks@social.tchncs.de
2026-01-14 17:35:53

Na ob das was bringt... 🤔
change.org/p/rote-karte-f%B
"Hiermit wird der DFB aufgefordert, die Teilnahme an dieser Fußball-Weltmeisterschaft abzusagen."

@benb@osintua.eu
2026-01-15 22:27:22

2026: END OF WAR OR ESCALATION? Miltech by Minister FEDOROV. Ukraine through AMERICAN Eyes: benborges.xyz/2026/01/15/end-o

@memeorandum@universeodon.com
2026-01-16 20:41:11

Gov. Tim Walz Urges Minnesotans To Keep Calm, Carry Phones. Trump Freaks The F*ck Out. (Doktor Zoom/Wonkette)
wonkette.com/p/gov-tim-walz-ur
memeorandum.com/260116/p98#a26

@timbray@cosocial.ca
2026-02-14 18:45:57

What is this “sleeping in” of which you speak?
#caturday

The occupants of a bed are getting a steely stare from two cats at the foot of the bed; one black, one calico.
@timbray@cosocial.ca
2026-01-14 23:53:49

In which I build Unicode character tables and fail to serialize large automata, “Losing 1½ Million Lines of Go“:
tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/20
(And in which I find myself sliding into the

Confession: My title is clickbait-y, this is really about building on the Unicode Character Database to support character-property regexp features in Quamina. Just halfway there, I’d already got to 775K lines of generated code so I abandoned that particular approach. Thus, this is about (among other things) avoiding those 1½M lines. And really only of interest to people whose pedantry includes some combination of Unicode, Go programming, and automaton wrangling. Oh, and GenAI, which (*gasp*) I …
@matematico314@social.linux.pizza
2026-02-14 14:56:02

RE: f.cz/@vitex/116064966057935944
Eu ri disso, até porque despertou uma nostalgia da minha adolescência estudando eletrônica rs.

@kexpmusicbot@mastodonapp.uk
2026-03-15 12:17:29

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Sultans of Ping F.C.:
🎵 Where's Me Jumper?
#SultansofPingFC
open.spotify.com/track/4KLRtiO

@BBC3MusicBot@mastodonapp.uk
2026-02-15 18:36:43

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #WordsAndMusic
Antonio Vivaldi, Giuliano Carmignola, Venice Baroque Orchestra & Andrea Marcon:
🎵 Concerto for violin and orchestra in F, RV295: II. Larghetto
#AntonioVivaldi
open.spotify.com/track/4dnMjza

@NFL@darktundra.xyz
2026-02-15 20:40:17

Pat Tillman’s Brother Pleads Guilty to Setting Post Office Fire nytimes.com/2026/02/15/us/rich

@Mediagazer@mstdn.social
2026-03-13 17:01:56

John F. Burns, a two-time Pulitzer Prize winner and New York Times foreign correspondent who reported from South Africa, Iraq, and other bureaus, dies at 81 (Alan Cowell/New York Times)
nytimes.com/2026/03/13/world/j

@45names@mastodon.social
2026-02-15 20:20:03

Cheeto Pedo
bot by @…
This is for tee hee, not treason: don't make me go to gulag.
#satire #potus45

Real estate agent brothers
Tal, Oren and Alon Alexander
– known as ‘closers’
– are on trial in New York for
sex trafficking
theguardian.com/us-news/2026/f

@tinoeberl@mastodon.online
2026-03-13 08:09:01

#vereinfachteSprache
#Klimaleugner nutzen viele Tricks, um die #Wahrheit zu verdrehen.
Hast du schon von F-L-I-C-C gehört? Warum sind falsche Experten und

@timbray@cosocial.ca
2026-03-14 17:48:35

Smart, sharp-edged writing about the scenario where your customers’ and shareholders’ interests are in direct conflict. #genai
petapixel.com/2026/03/14/adobe

@emd@cosocial.ca
2026-01-12 20:46:59

Sex work bad, child porn…good?
icy.wyvern.rip/notes/aheg34oje

@timbray@cosocial.ca
2026-02-15 22:30:35

RE: cosocial.ca/@timbray/116076167
A lot of people are dumping on this piece without having read it. My favorite quote: “dollar-signs appear in their [employers’] eyeballs, like cartoon bosses. I know that look. There’s no reasoning with the d…

@boris@cosocial.ca
2026-02-14 17:03:16

Thanks @… for alerting me to a posting script gone wrong. Cleaned it up and just left the link to the blog post.

@kexpmusicbot@mastodonapp.uk
2026-03-16 07:11:30

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MidnightInAPerfectWorld
Among Savages:
🎵 I Say F It
#AmongSavages
open.spotify.com/track/50joHnK

@BBC3MusicBot@mastodonapp.uk
2026-01-15 10:19:56

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #EssentialClassics
Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, John Fadial, Janet Orenstein, Scott Rawls, Brooks Whitehouse, Andrew Harley, Mary Ashley Barret, Michael Burns, Kelly Burke & Lynn Huntzinger Beck:
🎵 Nonet in F minor, Op.2 (1st mvt)
#JohnFadial

@timbray@cosocial.ca
2026-02-15 06:53:50

Been watching S2 of Wednesday. Darker, nastier, less well-written. S1 was morbid (obviously) but still kind of light-hearted. Every modern production (it seems) has excellent acting and strong visuals. But the demand for good TV writing apparently exceeds the supply.

@45names@mastodon.social
2026-02-15 02:20:03

Nectarine Nero
bot by @…
This is for tee hee, not treason: no investigating me please.
#satire #potus45

@timbray@cosocial.ca
2026-01-14 18:10:46

Unusual GenAI application: Snarky answers to shitty emails.
#genAI

@boris@cosocial.ca
2026-01-14 17:31:16

Just paid for a personal annual account with Photopea, the web based image editor. It's free to use and you don't need to login, but 50EU/year takes off the very large amount of ads.
It's got that Photoshop 3.0 design vibes that means I can still sort of use it. bsky.app/profile/bmann.ca/post

@timbray@cosocial.ca
2026-01-15 21:43:06

Actually kinda like the new styling on the Safari tab & tool bars. *ducks for cover*

@timbray@cosocial.ca
2026-01-15 19:19:56

Based on the evidence from the Ayatollahs and MAGAs, I’m starting to think that when a person is accused of being a “terrorist” that’s probably evidence that they’re an admirable person.

@kexpmusicbot@mastodonapp.uk
2026-02-14 07:29:30

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #StreetSounds
Narcotik:
🎵 All Up in My Mix
#Narcotik
triballegacy.bandcamp.com/trac

An F.B.I. search warrant affidavit unsealed on Tuesday shows that
a criminal investigation into 2020 election results in Fulton County, Ga.,
was set off by a leading election denier in the Trump administration
and relied heavily on claims about ballots that have been widely debunked.
The unsealing of the affidavit in Fulton County is likely to raise more questions
about the Trump administration’s use of the F.B.I. and Justice Department to revive old, largely di…

@timbray@cosocial.ca
2026-03-13 22:57:15

I’ve been worrying that the AI bubble-pop will wreck the world economy, but hey there, quite likely War Oil Chaos and sketchy Private-Credit shenanigans will get there first.
Ha ha fucking ha.
bloomberg.com/news/newsletters

Bloomberg Evening Briefing: 

"The US-Israel war with Iran has triggered a major spike in oil prices. Violent rhetoric from Washington and threats of broader retaliation by Tehran have left no visible off-ramp in site. A diving stock market and worried consumers are facing down grim implications for unemployment and inflation across America— and indeed around the world.

For investors, it’s bad news all over. Throw in a budding private credit crisis, and you might just have an economic disaster…
@kexpmusicbot@mastodonapp.uk
2026-02-16 11:14:23

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
The Bees:
🎵 This Town
#TheBees
paintbomb.bandcamp.com/track/f
open.spotify.com/track/7HpmjoN

@boris@cosocial.ca
2026-01-11 18:30:56

In case you’re wondering, blowing snow / sleet rain highway drive between London and Hamilton ON at 5am SUCKED. bsky.app/profile/bmann.ca/post

@timbray@cosocial.ca
2026-01-13 22:09:01

Will purchase: #music

@timbray@cosocial.ca
2026-02-12 17:39:24

Geometry study (shadows are weird).
Back story: In some parts of Vancouver, if you’re putting up a new building (typically condo/retail) you can get tax breaks or more square feet or some such bonus if you preserve the original facade. This place was torn down quite a while ago but the facade, propped up by the metal framework, remains. A policy misfire in this case because it was a really crappy brick frontage and would not be missed.

The facade of an under-construction building, propped up with a latticework of rusty steel beams, covered with faded plywood, bare trees in front, complicated shadows, blue sky behind.
@boris@cosocial.ca
2026-01-13 17:33:43

Finally taking off. Green de-icing fluid flowing off the Porter Air wing. bsky.app/profile/bmann.ca/post

@boris@cosocial.ca
2026-01-10 17:30:05

Thread viewer as a @leaflet.pub embed. Excellent.
[contains quote post or other embedded content] bsky.app/profile/bmann.ca/post

@timbray@cosocial.ca
2026-02-12 00:03:34

From that well-known hotbed of leftist radicalism, the daily Bloomberg markets newsletter.
That (paywalled) column is at bloomberg.com/opinion/articles

The Trump administration will soon make it the official policy of the US government that greenhouse gases don’t endanger Americans’ well-being and therefore don’t need federal regulation, Mark Gongloff writes in Bloomberg Opinion. Insurance companies, meanwhile, live in a parallel universe where greenhouse gases are heating the atmosphere and intensifying natural disasters, harming human health, destroying property and raising insurance costs. The government’s universe is an increasingly lonely…
@timbray@cosocial.ca
2026-03-14 23:52:49

One of the more intriguing strands of Big Tech litigation: theguardian.com/technology/202

@timbray@cosocial.ca
2026-03-12 02:57:40

Sony is trying something new: petapixel.com/2026/03/10/the-s

@timbray@cosocial.ca
2026-02-12 17:59:52

Seems like an important story: #climate

@timbray@cosocial.ca
2026-03-10 16:17:30

Where we’re at is like learning the right way to operate the controls of a large passenger airliner.
While it’s full of passengers.
“Under “contributing factors” the note included “novel GenAI usage for which best practices and safeguards are not yet fully established.”
“Junior and mid-level engineers will now require more senior engineers to sign off any AI-assisted changes, Treadwell added.”

Screen capture: "Amazon holds engineering meeting following AI-related outages"
@timbray@cosocial.ca
2026-03-10 16:10:52

It’s a “White Ash”, Fraxinus americana.
#Photography #thicktrunktuesday

A large tree trunk fills the frame. The bark is rough and there is plenty of lichen and moss. Also, the shadow of another tree branch.
@timbray@cosocial.ca
2026-02-10 16:52:18

This picture from studio8502.ca/@mos_8502/116047
Caution - it's not as simple as this comic says - I think. Here is the upstream source, which I find really hard to understand:

Comic about a new Canadian Citizen ship policy, claims that if you have any verifiable ancestor who was verifiably Canadian, you are already a citizen.
@timbray@cosocial.ca
2026-01-10 16:53:12

Stre-e-e-tch.
#caturday

A black cat, on its back, writhing and casting shadows.
@timbray@cosocial.ca
2026-03-13 16:35:42

RE: cosocial.ca/@evan/115580076628
This was posted 4 months ago, i.e. forever in LLM time. I would really like to see a fully-worked through analysis of the actual GHG cost of

@timbray@cosocial.ca
2026-01-13 18:27:13

Take the good news where you can find it: theguardian.com/business/2026/

@timbray@cosocial.ca
2026-03-07 18:30:09

“Recently I read Because Internet by Gretchen McCulloch and Algospeak by Adam Aleksic. The language we speak (and text) to each other is at the core of who and what we are, and the Internet is the strongest among the forces that channel and fertilize its growth. So there’s scope for plenty of books on the subject. Both books educated and entertained, one made me angry.”

The covers of "Because Internet" by Gretchen Mcculloch and "Algospeak" by Adam Aleksic.
@timbray@cosocial.ca
2026-03-09 19:36:15

Seems painfully obvious that, whatever you think about #genai code, anyone using it is heading for a code-review logjam. Assuming that the org requires code review; if yours doesn’t, nothing I can say will help you. Anyhow, Rishi Baldawa writes smart stuff about the problem and possible ways forward, in ˚The Reviewer Isn't the Bottleneck”:

@timbray@cosocial.ca
2026-03-09 16:33:57

Trump DOJ trying to get Ticketmaster off the hook, grrrr: bigtechontrial.com/p/a-wild-da

@timbray@cosocial.ca
2026-02-09 23:13:50

The Summoning of Bertrand Russell: existentialcomics.com/comic/641

@timbray@cosocial.ca
2026-02-09 22:08:17

BC Greens will let their deal with the NDP govt lapse next month for what seem to me pretty good reasons: bcgreens.ca/leaders-statement-
Current seats (out of 93): NDP 47, Conservatives 39, Green 2, right-wingnuts 5. So Eby’s gotta manage…

@timbray@cosocial.ca
2026-02-06 19:38:10

Cat was unimpressed by the Opening Ceremony. Me too.
#Olympics

A black cat turns its back to a TV featuring the Olympic opening ceremony.
@timbray@cosocial.ca
2026-03-08 17:38:53

Attensity!
attensity.net/
h/t @…

@timbray@cosocial.ca
2026-02-12 19:10:33

Seen in a nearby chat window: “another reason to de-Google is that everything runs more slowly with their needing to push AI into it. In this case, google meet...”

@timbray@cosocial.ca
2026-01-12 16:55:21

I'm getting reports from people in Britain about MX record issues causing email to our textuality.com addresses (Google Workspace) to fail delivery. Anyone else seeing this kind of thing?

@timbray@cosocial.ca
2026-01-08 16:34:52

Laurie Penny is very near the top of my list of favorite living writers. She has started a how-to-write-well series, entitled (for obvious reasons) “How to Write Like A Person”; intro here: open.substack.com/pub/lauriepe