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If we do all of •that• to the point where more and more people are engaged, showing up, doing every kind of work you can imagine and many more kinds you can’t imagine, well…
…then yeah, check on the size of the rallies. That’s the top of the baking bread, and it tells you something. Bakers who’ve studied it say golden brown is usually around 3.5%, give or take.
Check on that for a minute, and then get back to work.
/end

Imagine an entire football (US football or soccer) stadium crowd yelling out, as El Cheato makes his presence known, "Quiet Piggy!!" or better yet "Shut up and sit down Mr. Piggy!"
Can you imagine on New Years day if the crowds at all of the Bowls were to chant "Shut up and Sit down Mr. Piggy!!"
I'd like it if the Whitehouse press corps yelled out their questions prefixed with "Mr, Piggy" rather than the highly undeserved honorific &quo…

On RNZ right now, they're talking about how the software used by pharmacists is not even remotely fit for purpose. Imagine that. Why isn't that sort of thing being sorted by a publicly funded, openly licensed (available to all) system developed by a consortium of companies - that can be scrutinised by anyone - because it's too important to be entrusted to the proprietary gain of any one company. This stuff is a no-brainer. Some things are far too important to be dependent on a pr…

Pterosaur with unusual bristle-like teeth discovered in fossilized dinosaur vomit https://www.sciencealert.com/bizarre-new-species-of-flying-reptile-discovered-in-fossilized-dinosaur-vomit

Bizarre New Species of Flying Reptile Discovered in Fossilized Dinosaur Vomit
Imagine throwing up after a bad burrito – only for that heave to reveal the existence of onions to scientists 110 million years in the future.

Series B, Episode 10 - Voice from the Past
GLYND: Be careful.
SHIVAN: The eminence grise. You imagine I haven't smelt you out?
GLYND: Sharp of you.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/210/449 B7B4

Can you even imagine, if #Carlin was still alive, under #Trump ?: https://blog.rmendes.net/2025/10/14/ca

Good Morning #Canada
The month of December will typical put a dent in your paycheck, or January if you're using your credit cards, so it's tough to save any money. Canadians rank 21st worldwide with regards to how much of our salary we put into a savings account. According to World Population Review, we put away approximately 7% of our paycheck for a #RainyDay, far behind South Korea at 35%. I'm retired and therefore not a saver at this point, but even during my most successful earnings period I can't imagine I would have been able to put away a third of my salary.
I suspect the savings percentage is driven by a small group of high wage earners as individual Canadian debt has increased. According to Equifax, total consumer debt in Canada reached $2.56 trillion at the end of 2024, a 4.6 per cent increase over 2023.
#CanadaIsAwesome
https://www.equifax.ca/business/blog/all-news/-/story/stable-versus-struggling-canada-s-financial-divide-widens/

Imagine being an H-1B holder, rushing to get back to the US before Monday, but the flight has been cancelled due to a cyber attack on Raytheon taking out the airport.

Given some of the names I've hear from my wife's classroom rosters, I can only imagine how many more stories like this were going to see in 20 years.
https://vt.co/lifestyle/relationships/bride-reveals-hilariously-x-rated-…

Bride has TikTok users in stitches with why getting married would give her an X-rated name
A bride-to-be has explained why she isn't thrilled about taking her partner's last name, as the result has TikTok users in stitches.

Imagine using a dating app, I rather die alone
https://www.404media.co/viral-cheater-buster-sites-use-facial-recognition-to-let-anyone-reveal-peoples-tinder-profiles/

the last numbered page of the new Carton and Malm book is 629, but the last page excluding the notes, index and acknowledgements is 425. I can't imagine it's good for sales to make your book seem like 50% more of an unapproachable doorstop than it is. wonder why they don't put the notes online at that point

C has a very low threshold for coping with noise and chaos. Imagine for a moment, 5 kids, C and I in a small 3 bedroom house. The four older kids are boisterous, loud and hyperactive. And then there’s the baby. It’s a lot for me to cope with… and then imagine on top of that, C regularly spiralling into #autistic meltdowns. Fuck. My. Life. I wonder what the divorce rate is for those on the…

#NowPlaying this incredible new record 'All About McGuffin' by Mei Ehara (thanks to @… for help tracking this one down!) It's not on Bandcamp, just Qobuz. But it's also here on YouTube. Imagine like, Nick Drake, but a female singing, all in Japanese, and occasional…

Imagine a world that we all control together, not controlled by oligarch or dictators, even indirectly. Imagine something truly collaborative. That world would be very different from our own. In some ways many of us could have a lot more opportunity. But in others, we would be restricted.
In such a world, we couldn't really have elite luxuries. Having such luxuries is only valuable so long as others do not.
> Unlike the vacuum cleaner, the radio, or the bicycle, which retain their use value when everyone has one, the car, like a villa by the sea, is only desirable and useful insofar as the masses don’t have one.
- The Social Ideology of the Motorcar
Imagine a world in which we think about luxury in a radically different way, not as something that only has value via exclusivity but something that enriches the lives of the owners more as more people have them.
What would living in such a world be like? Can you describe a day in your life?
#SolarPunkPrompts #Writing #Prompts

🍄 Mushrooms may have been part of early human diets: Primate study explores who eats what, and when
https://phys.org/news/2025-09-mushrooms-early-human-diets-primate.html

Mushrooms may have been part of early human diets: Primate study explores who eats what, and when
Mushrooms may not be the first food that comes to mind when we imagine the diets of wild primates—or our early human ancestors. We tend to think of fruits and green leaves as the preferred foods for monkeys and apes.

@… @… also, if 78 minutes is funny (I do think that it is):
― imagine waiting 1,677,600 minutes for removal of a comment from GitHub (I do think that this is the "almost" in my previous comment).
😉

Game I'd like to see rebooted with modern hardware and VR support: Descent.
Imagine that on a PS5 with VR2 headset.
#Gaming

Can You Hear Us?: Five Voices from Gaza – Hot Press Magazine, Ireland
https://www.hotpress.com/opinion/can-you-hear-us-five-voices-from-gaza-23113207
The five voices are those of my partner at Gaza Verified, @…

Can You Hear Us?: Five Voices from Gaza
It is hard for us, here in the relative comfort and security of Ireland, to even begin to imagine what is has been – and what it is – like in Gaza, where...

It's funny because when I captioned NPR's audio I realised the transcript on their website is wrong.

David Simon does not say:

"You mentioned that."

He said:

"You imagine that?"

As NPR likely use "AI" for their transcripts, this adds an extra layer of irony.

A recurring issue:
Source of Truth vs Point of Truth with many-system setups.
Imagine having separate
- issue tracking (e.g. JIRA)
- time tracking (e.g. Toggl)
- development tracking (e.g. GitLab)
- daily team sync (e.g. Confluence)
- weekly sync with stakeholders (...)
Without diligent manual labor or a lot of handcrafted automation, those keep getting out of sync.

Imagine if you will... a series of shell scripts.

imagine being a billionaire and getting off on tweeting stuff like this about other programmers to impress your incel basement dweller sycophants
I wonder if Shopify’s stock holders know that the CEO is lurking in alt-right X threads to occasionally insult people

One thing I enjoy doing in public transport is riding standing without holding on to anything. It's what I imagine surfing must feel like.
This is absolutely no fun in Singapore, where the trains are so broad and so steady that all you need to do is just…stand.

This is somehow how I imagine @… :')
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/7oGoa-zYllU

Imagine supporting Republicans because of their supposed position on Israel & then reading about the Young Republican's group chat... and this:
Yeah, we see who you elected as your representative, Ohio.
#swastika #nazis

I keep saying the same thing over and over with my kids: you don't make decisions with your voice, you make them with your body.
"I want to go to the park."
"Ok, put your shoes on."
"I want to go on my play date."
"Put on a jacket and get in the bike."
"I don't want to be late to school."
"I don't control time, if you don't want to be late you have to brush your teeth."
There's a fundamental truth underlying this concept though, one that I hadn't really thought about. On some level, I feel as though, any choice you can't make with your body isn't a real choice. If you're begging someone to do something for you, it's ultimately not something you control.
As I'm compelled, by threat of violence against my family, to pay for war against my comrades and to kill people I don't even know, I think about that. How far is our concept of freedom from the police state we are taught to imagine as the global beacon of liberty. My participation in the violence had always been compulsory.
Perhaps we could do better than just #NoKings.
#USPol

@… Oh, I imagine you understand. Canada and the US are not so deeply culturally divergent in many ways.
You witness the fuckery we're doing and suffering.

I mean…just imagine. Just imagine that happening.
Just imagine •doing• that. How do you live with yourself?!
In the meantime, “it snowed again” gets top billing on the Star Tribune site.

Perfect 8°C for my morning shorts walk. Even a bit of wind. If I closed my eyes, I could almost imagine being in Reykjavík. (If I closed my eyes, I’d definitely have gotten run over)

@… Imagine thinking it’s some sort of burn to say “Well we’re all just re-writing the exact same software over and over again”.
In that sense, LLMs might just the the world’s most inefficient, but finally popular, way of adopting code reusability.

Just started to read a #VOX article about the glorious AI future but I had to quit right away at this nugget: „we could all be so much more wealthier than we can even imagine today…AI and robots will be able to produce a lot more goods and services than when we have in today’s economy.“
Yeah. Because the lack of stuff that is churned out of factories and the artificial scarcity of digital goods…

Imagine thinking now is the time to remove a protection on freedom of speech on the internet.
https://bsky.app/profile/judiciarydems.senate.gov/post/3m7sjbvhbms2z

Senate Judiciary Democrats 🇺🇸 (@judiciarydems.senate.gov)
Sen. WHITEHOUSE: We finally are moving to file a bipartisan Section 230 repeal bill. Waiting any longer serves no useful purpose.

Want to try an imagine how difficult things could get for us in the EU? (Or elsewhere?) You dont even have to try hard.
If you are responsible for planning, running, maintaining or procuring IT infrastructure of any kind for any organisation, this is essential reading.
https://ecfr.eu/publication/get-over-your-x-a-european-plan-to-escape-american-technology/

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
John Lennon & Plastic Ono Band:
🎵 Imagine
#JohnLennon #PlasticOnoBand

If you "cannot imagine how to figure out how to raise a newborn without ChatGPT" maybe you shouldn't be the caretaker of one TBH.

Open science hymn.
Imagine no more journals
It's easy if you try.
No more rejections
No "publish or you'll die".
Imagine everybody
Having access to your work.
You may say I'm a dreamer
But I'm not the only one
I hope someday you'll join me And the world'll be a better one

Years ago, I started saying "have a great day" and "I love you" every morning to my kids when sending them off to preschool or school. I did it because I had a realization there's a possibility, however remote, this morning could be the last time I say something to them, and I wanted it to be something good.
I can't imagine the heartache the parents feel who sent their kids off to school, preschool, or even college, to never see them again.

«As Disney enters the picture, I imagine the platform will become even more anodyne. Persistent people will slip through and generate videos of Goofy and Iron Man sucking and fucking, sure, but the vast majority of what’s coming will be safe corporate gruel that resembles a Marvel movie.»
I thought any Marvel movie is nothing more than safe corporate gruel. 😅
Disney Invests $1 Billion in the AI Slopification of Its Brand
https://www.404media.co/disney-invests-1-billion-in-the-ai-slopification-of-its-brand/

Imagine working in your country’s cybersecurity center or CERT, and suddenly being reassigned to border control and deportation duties. Something is clearly broken and dangerously so.
What will you do as a cybersecurity professional?
#us #cybersecurity

Homeland Security reassigns 'hundreds' of CISA cyber staffers to support Trump's deportation crackdown | TechCrunch
News of the reassignments comes at a time when the U.S. is facing a wave of hacks targeting private industry and the federal government.

It is easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of… the filibuster.

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).

Light switch changed, lamp reattached to the ceiling. Woodwork and radiator painted. Carpenter has drawn pencil lines over the walls where all the wardrobes have to be built. Think he's been spending the day mostly correcting all my measurements which are apparently even more approximate than I thought. Figuring out how to compensate for the wonky walls that aren't all at proper right angles.
Can't really see the pencil lines in the photos here but makes it easier to imagine how it'll all come together.

Imagine that, in a moment of madness, you spend $3,500 (about €3.000 at the current exchange rate) on a smart refrigerator. Now imagine that every time you approach it, you see an advertisement but they are not personalized because "trust me bro", says Samsung. Well, you don't need to imagine.

lazygit is perfection and that sadly means i will never learn jj
https://www.bwplotka.dev/2025/lazygit/

The (lazy) Git UI You Didn't Know You Need
When my son was born last April, I had ambitious learning plans for the upcoming 5w paternity leave. As you can imagine, with two kids, life quickly verified this plan 🙃. I did eventually start some projects. One of the goals (sounding rebellious in the current AI hype cycle) was to learn and use neovim for coding. As a Goland aficionado, I (and my wrist) have always been tempted by no-mouse, OSS, gopls based, highly configurable dev setups.

The Application of Imagination: Where Thought Becomes Matter
Imagination without application remains a private theater, brilliant perhaps, but ultimately sterile. The history of human achievement suggests that genius resides not in the capacity to imagine alone, but in the peculiar ability to transform mental constructs into material reality. This transformation requires something more demanding than pure creativity: it requires the discipline to translate vision into…

The Application of Imagination: Where Thought Becomes Matter | David Boles, Blogs
Imagination without application remains a private theater, brilliant perhaps, but ultimately sterile. The history of human achievement suggests that genius resides not in the capacity to imagine al…

A teardown of the $800 Meta Ray-Ban Display reveals a system of mirrors enabling its "geometric" waveguide tech, setting it apart from other AR glasses (Elizabeth Chamberlain/iFixit News)
https://www.ifixit.com/News/113543/theres-

There’s Groundbreaking Waveguide Tech Inside Meta’s $800 AR Glasses But Don’t Count on Fixing Them
Imagine an AR repair guide that follows along with your repair. We’re excited by the possibility, but you won’t be able to fix these glasses just yet.

Hey @…... wonder if this is in Valencia's future. (likely not until there is a change in regional government I imagine)
It has sure worked well here!

Imagine thinking it was in any way appropriate to hold a fucking vote on whether to support a marginalised group or not. Imagine. 🤦‍♀️
#ukpolitics https://flipboard.co…

Your Party overwhelmingly votes to make trans rights party policy
Your Party has officially made trans liberation a party line after members overwhemlingly voted to include trans rights in its founding …

we mapped 38ha in the local residential area, in total we found 410 cameras, with about 80-90% of those being ring or similar doorbell cameras. all of these pointing at the public sidewalks, all completely illegal. there is no way in this 'hood to move around without being tracked. people don't deserve the GDPR.
I imagine Bezos sitting at home and doing real-time tracking of individuals just based on facial recognition running on AWS.
fucking worst of all cyberpunk futur…

when im older i hope im just sitting around all day roasting bitches like this

Imagine, you and three changeling companions, driving a sensible sedan during a race against two other teams: one driving a hot rod, the third one driving mum's lame minivan.
Your task is to collect one food item each from 10 diners all over New Jersey.
Easy?
Well, your driver refuses to speed even one mph over the speed limit and almost kidnaps 'accidentally' a very annoying changeling that was needlessly getting into your team's way.
1/3

INVITATION: Join us for the 4th MIT Global Humanities Initiative Conference on “STEMAH = The University of the Future” on November 20/21 (KST)
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H-Diplo|RJISSF Roundtable Review 15-42 on Selverstone, _The Kennedy Withdrawal_ H-Diplo |…
via Input 4 RELCFP

RE: https://mastodon.social/@br00t4c/115705131669115328
Wow! They stole sooo much less ($2.2 million) than Home Depot stole from its own employees in wage theft in just one state ($72.5 million).
Imagine if we went after the biggest thieves instead. …

I feel as though I should illustrate the difference that this one single constraint can make by two examples.
The rules of Simon Says are maximally authoritarian. You must perform any action ordered, with the only restriction that the authority must say "Simon says" first. Were you forced to stay in this system, it would be the most despotic autocracy possible. But it's not. It's a silly game because you can leave at any time.
Let's flip this and imagine a room. During a specific period of time you will have absolute control over everything in this room. In this room you have total freedom. This is not even the limited freedom, the coordinated freedom, the compromising freedom of civil society. You could, without consequence, perform any action you wish in this room. You could say anything, destroy or steal any object, order any individual to perform any action, kill any person in the room with you and take anything they own. This is the sovereign freedom, the absolute freedom, of dictators and kings. The only restriction is that you are not allowed to leave the room while you have this freedom. In fact, you really only have this level of freedom because the room is actually empty other than for you. I am, of course, talking about a form of torture still common in the US: solitary confinement.

I've heard that some people are treating soup as a first dish, and then eat dinner proper.
I can't imagine how people can fit another meal after, say, a solid serving of pea soup.

you have to wonder if this house is still doing this. I imagine they would have reused it for at least a couple years afterwards
https://youtu.be/1RfgGXfJRGU

you have to wonder if this house is still doing this. I imagine they would have reused it for at least a couple years afterwards
https://youtu.be/1RfgGXfJRGU

$0.50 per mile for electricity for a semi truck? wow, lower than I would imagine. (and it can be as low as $0.12 where rates are lower.).
"During testing, the truck averaged 1.72 kWh per mile while hauling a gross combined weight of 75,000 pounds (34 metric tons) over a 390-mile (625 km) long-haul route."
a tesla model 3 is ~0.3 kWh per mile.

@… yup. It is ugly where we are, and odd how clearly we have seen what where we are has looked like in other real and imagine contexts.
And yet for many, today is somehow, astoundingly, just another Friday.
There is still not full consensus on that what is happening is in fact happening.

Imagine ChatGPT but instead of predicting text it just linked you to the to 3 documents most-influential on the probabilities that would have been used to predict that text.
Could even generate some info about which parts of each would have been combined how.
There would still be issues with how training data is sourced and filtered, but these could be solved by crawling normally respecting robots.txt and by paying filterers a fair wage with a more relaxed work schedule and mental health support.
The energy issues are mainly about wild future investment and wasteful query spam, not optimized present-day per-query usage.
Is this "just search?"
Yes, but it would have some advantages for a lot of use cases, mainly in synthesizing results across multiple documents and in leveraging a language model more fully to find relevant stuff.
When we talk about the harms of current corporate LLMs, the opportunity cost of NOT building things like this is part of that.
The equivalent for art would have been so amazing too! "Here are some artists that can do what you want, with examples pulled from their portfolios."
It would be a really cool coding assistant that I'd actually encourage my students to use (with some guidelines).
#AI #GenAI #LLMs

Watched #Apollo13 with @… last night. I can't imagine what it must've been like to be so close to the moon and yet unable to land on it. Such a great movie.

13yo: "Can you imagine if I'd thrown this grape at you, and it landed in your mouth but you choked to death on it? Your last words before you died would've been, 'Sounds grape!'. That would be on your tombstone."

The [Brown Daily] Herald sent out 22 photographers for 24 hours to capture the first day of spring on College Hill, from noon on March 19 to noon on March 20 [2025]. A rather nicer way to imagine the Brown campus.
https://projects.browndailyherald.com/2025/03/21/today-at-brow…

imagine spinning a little jet engine capable of supersonic flight next time you prompt your favorite LLM / genAI...
naturally, there are companies producing gas turbines for data centers, but like with RAM memory and SSD, the unexpected growth of data centers caused shortages, hence repurposing of jet engines for energy production...

⭐ The Simple Habit That Saves My Evenings | alikhil | software engineering, kubernetes & self-hosting
https://alikhil.dev/posts/the-simple-habit-that-saves-my-evenings/
Spoiler alert:
Here are the two main ideas of it:
* Don’t overwork
*…

I think it is a nice idea to highlight why we like working with #Nix and #NixOS to remind us, why we all are doing this in the end.
For me it is still the best experience in #freesoftware I…

Sometimes I forget I even use Debian, it's so deeply ingrained in my workflow that I can't imagine using anything else. Same goes for Fedora.
:debian: :fedora:
#DebianTrixie #DebianSid

⛳ Novel textile can adjust its aerodynamic properties on demand
#fabric

Novel textile can adjust its aerodynamic properties on demand
Imagine a road cyclist or downhill skier whose clothing adapts to their wind speed, allowing them to shave time just by pulling or stretching the fabric.

@… I didn't imagine an issue on that side. I'm glad that you'll work towards a solution.
Thank you!
@… noted:

A funny thing about teaching in southern Ontario: the Habs fans among my students (there are more than you might imagine) come by my office, which they spontaneously understand to be a safe space, to commiserate or celebrate as needed.

#Shitpost #Shitposting
At this point - I have to imagine that there is enough of a grassroots movement to get support behind the industrialization of a process of just constantly chucking weasels into the large hadron collider to try to get back to the original timeline that we could h…

Native language aside, I cannot imagine myself speaking like Rich Roll.
“ The opposite of anger. Gratitude. I mean, if anger is driven by a sense of righteousness at having been wronged in some level of victimhood that is kind of underscored with fear, gratitude is a sense of the universe being abundant and that life is made of good things and possibility.”

I feel as though I should illustrate the difference that this one single constraint can make by two examples.
The rules of Simon Says are maximally authoritarian. You must perform any action ordered, with the only restriction that the authority must say "Simon says" first. Were you forced to stay in this system, it would be the most despotic autocracy possible. But it's not. It's a silly game because you can leave at any time.
Let's flip this and imagine a room. During a specific period of time you will have absolute control over everything in this room. In this room you have total freedom. This is not even the limited freedom, the coordinated freedom, the compromising freedom of civil society. You could, without consequence, perform any action you wish in this room. You could say anything, destroy or steal any object, order any individual to perform any action, kill any person in the room with you and take anything they own. This is the sovereign freedom, the absolute freedom, of dictators and kings. The only restriction is that you are not allowed to leave the room while you have this freedom. In fact, you really only have this level of freedom because the room is actually empty other than for you. I am, of course, talking about a form of torture still common in the US: solitary confinement.

Imagine being so evil, a Catholic priest shouts "THE POWER OF CHRIST COMPELS YOU" at you at the top of his lungs. That's where we are with Kristi Noem. We're executing exorcisms at the Trump administration. Thank you Padre. ✝️
#exorcism #KristiNoem

There are two kinds of people in this world:
Scammers, and imagine friends.
https://beige.party/@maxleibman/115708337805043995

I can imagine a future where personal passenger vehicles are banned from city streets and autonomous vehicles of different sizes move us to our destinations. They, of course, should be integrated with walking, cycling, and mass transit. There's gotta be a cost benefit to eliminating tired, aggressive, or inattentive drivers from the road, and cities should fund all larger vehicles (6 passengers? ) to keep corporations from owning the streets.
#Technology #AutonomousVehicles
https://youtube.com/shorts/EqNU2jUQNcI?si=FlN0PdkJj6XcZaNb

Claude is triggered to review all the pull requests that I do to the codebase at work.
While it's working, it's little icon animates like this.
Every time I see it, I imagine it straining to push out it's shit from the chocolate starfish.
Its hard to unsee.
2/3
#ai #claude #graphicDesignIsMyPassion

Imagine having principles that you adhere to and that don't change just because of who's in political power

Imagine if my phone carrier cut their useless 'rewards' program bullshit and simply made my cell service fucking cheaper and more reliable. Can you even imagine such a world

If you were concerned about the manosphere dragging our sons to the right, you should be terrified now.
Forget Joe Rogan influencing the opinions of his army of listeners.
Imagine a generation mindlessly scrolling on TikTok and being inundated with MAGA propaganda.
Some of it will be subtle, some of it will be blatant. But, I fear, it may soon be all they’re seeing.
 
With Ellison and Murdoch as the puppeteers behind TikTok,
our young people will wake up …

"So imagine the Brownstone startup puts 50 pods in one big room. Once they rent pod #1, that person appears to have the right to the entire room. Renting pods #2 through #50 could violate Section 1950. If they do, they are double letting, and 'every tenant in the building, under the same landlord' could withhold rent for as long as the 'double letting' continues." 👀

Sleeping Pods in San Francisco: Are They Even Legal? — Dean Preston
The rise of sleeping pods as a housing solution in San Francisco raises questions about legality. California Civil Code Section 1950 prohibits double letting, but is the startup Brownstone breaking the law?

A freely available masterclass! 👇

I used to work in an industry that was very interesting to me, and involved a lot of creativity, but as time went on and the company I was at changed I felt I no longer fit there, doing the sort of work they were pursuing with the people who ran things, so I found a way out.
That "way out" caused me a lot of pain and heartache, and set me back financially for a decade, but I'm still glad I got out because I cannot imagine what life would have been for me if I just stayed.…

@…
I know! Why would they do that? Did they imagine that abusing an online space would never have consequences? Did they also imagine that―in addition to taking pleasure by causing offence―they might dictate where, or when, the consequences arise? Every action has a reaction.
I'm so glad that you see my point.

I love that everyone has different unique tastes. And many people will probably find some of the things on my favorite albums list this year to be bizarre and unpleasant. But some of the things on some of these other (mainstream AND indie) 'best albums of 2025' lists.. whew. I can't even imagine listening to these ONCE, much less multiple times 😂

Maybe I should mention how well it does.
It's caught some bugs before they're published, some fairly serious. But mostly its hallucinated many problems which aren't really there.
With all the code we write being reviewed by robots now, the code is written slightly differently to avoid it going on about issues that aren't really there.
People imagine that code is written for the computer to run, but really it's always been written for the programmers to understand. Now it's also written keeping in mind it'll be reviewed by an AI that has no context or understanding tasked with nit-picking to review.
Arguably this is ending up with better code. More unnecessary re-validation of everything mostly, but its also taking longer rather than being quicker.
Is that more efficient? 🤷 Sort of maybe?
3/3

🔪 A scalpel that can diagnose? Scientists unveil a 'Lab-on-a-Scalpel' for real-time surgical insights
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2025-10-scalpel-scientists-unveil-lab-real.html

A scalpel that can diagnose? Scientists unveil a 'Lab-on-a-Scalpel' for real-time surgical insights
Imagine a surgeon in the middle of a complex operation, able to get instant biochemical feedback not from a lab down the hall, but from the very tool in their hand. This vision is now one step closer to reality thanks to researchers at the University of Chemistry and Technology, Prague (UCT Prague).

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.

It is hard to imagine a worse decision than the Supreme Court’s ruling on Thursday
allowing Texas to use its new congressional maps designed to elect five more Republicans to the House of Representatives.
In a 6-3 decision, the six conservative justices have opened the door to states being able to adopt unconstitutional laws on voting
— with immunity from judicial review for at least one election.
At the urging of President Trump, Texas’ Republican-controlled state L…

Time for a social experiment. I have 5 questions:
- What should we work towards as a society?
- What's one thing that doesn't exist now in your community but should?
- What's one action you could take in the coming year to align your life with that goal?
- What's one thing you could achieve in the coming year to get closer to making that thing exist?
- Imagine that we changed everything and you're living in the world you want to see exist. What does the world look like?
I've asked variations of these already (and am still getting great responses), but this time there's a catch. Get together some of your friends (3-5 people) and ask these questions of the group. Come up with *one* answer that everyone in the group agrees on and post it here, then write a bit about your experience.
If you don't know people locally (or otherwise can't do this in person), tag some folks in here or wherever your people are at digitally. Just add some info on if it's online or in person.
For anyone bold enough to actually do this, let me know if you'd be OK with me putting this in an upcoming entry (https://anarchoccultism.org/building-zion/).

This image was in one of the magazines I had as a kid when I was like 9 or 10 probably. I used to look at it a lot, and I'd imagine these huge mutant turtles hanging out in dark alleys, on old, dirty discarded mattresses under bridges

Most software should calm the fuck down, there’s no reason to have an update every week.
Imagine buying a chair and every week someone shows up to change something with the chair.
In some weeks you end up not being able to use it because it collapses every time. You have to wait until the week after for a repair.
And every two years or so they switch the chair out with something completely different.
You now have a toaster.
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In what Arizona’s attorney general slammed as an
“unacceptable and outrageous” act of “unchecked aggression,”
a federal immigration officer fired pepper spray toward recently sworn-in Congresswoman Adelita Grijalva
during a Friday raid on a Tucson restaurant.
Grijalva (D-Ariz.) wrote on social media that US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers
“just conducted a raid by Taco Giro in Tucson
— a small mom-and-pop restaurant that has served our c…

ICE Goons Pepper Spray Congresswoman Adelita Grijalva During Tucson Raid | Common Dreams
"If federal agents are brazen enough to fire pellets directly at a member of Congress, imagine how they behave when encountering defenseless members of our community," Grijalva said.

To understand what’s going on with Bluesky, imagine if @… would only post “have you heard of Arch Linux?” posts

What are you going to do when the regime falls? After calling all your friends, after the great memes, after the parties, what are you going to do to make sure it never happens again? What world should we create?
Taxing billionaires is great and all, but we could build systems where billionaires are impossible. Is hoarding wealth and using it to control people even something we should consider part of a functional and humane system? Any system where one group of people doesn't have rights means that anyone can be stripped of their rights, like has happened with all the US citizens who've been illegally detained and deported by ICE. Does the concept of "rights" that must be defended with violence, that can be stripped away by people who can exercise more violence, even make sense? Or should the bedrock of a functional system be the obligations that we have to each other and to society, that cannot be severed or taken from us, that tell us we *must* defend regardless of whether systemic oppression will impact us or not?
Americans have been so restricted by the limitations of the two party system, only able to choose between options acceptable to different sections of the capitalist class. Would we even be able to imagine what we could do if those restrictions went away?
The fall of the Berlin wall was a surprise. The fall of Assad was faster than anyone expected. One day the government of Nepal was an unrepentant oligarchy, the next it was on fire. Everything can change in an instant, faster than anyone expects. No one can predict revolutionary change. Will you be ready if the opportunity presents itself?
The US cannot be fixed. The economic system is a ponzi scheme that has been patched again and again, but has finally run out of options. Racism, sexism, and Christian nationalism are baked into the system at every level. Trump gutted the system of soft power that held the US economy together, now there is only a slow decline. Even after he's gone, the damage is done. Once we let go of how to fix something that cannot be fixed, we can start to imagine something that cannot be achieved within the current system.
This is a time of opportunity. Do not burrow so deep in terror that you miss your chance to dream.
#USPol