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Katy J Pearson:
🎵 Maybe
#NowPlaying #KatyJPearson
https://katyjpearson.bandcamp.com/track/maybe
https://open.spotify.com/track/1B5wd9qzqY0XQmAAe3ZxNC

Maybe the real treasure was the pre-genAI videos and photos we collected along the way.

As fascism descends, you are going to need easy to access and use alternatives to Big Tech (aka Fascist Tech).
So maybe bookmark the Chatons collective site initiated by our friends at Framasoft with hosted versions of free-software services for collaborative writing, video conferencing, scheduling appointments, collaborative spreadsheets, file sharing, picture sharing, etc.

Adam Mosseri says "maybe we'll need" premium longform video for Instagram, and that TikTok's US sale turmoil has given Meta time to retune algorithms (Max Tani/Semafor)
https://www.semafor.com/article/12/21/2025

Exclusive: Instagram’s Adam Mosseri on how to beat TikTok — on your phone and in your living room
Mosseri laid out Instagram’s vision for its role on television and the path for its next several years of growth.

Love that my tax dollars are set on fire to fuel defense contractor projects that will go absolutely nowhere.
Maybe it’s time to learn Chinese.

@… Thought this might be of interest to you- the Videogame History Foundation did a dump of a VHS tape using the still-experimental vhs-decode https://github.com/oyvindln/vhs-decode/

GitHub - oyvindln/vhs-decode: Software defined VHS decoder - Fork (maybe temporary) of the ld-decode Laserdisc rf decoder
Software defined VHS decoder - Fork (maybe temporary) of the ld-decode Laserdisc rf decoder - oyvindln/vhs-decode

The number of Computer Misuse Act 1990 prosecutions hasn't really risen in the last five years, despite the perception of a rise in "cyber crime". Maybe this indicates a ceiling on the resources allocated to investigate and prosecute, or maybe not.
https://questions-state…

Maybe The Issue Isn’t Two Rookies—It’s The Raiders’ Habit Of Lighting Them On Fire https://raiderramble.com/2025/11/19/maybe-the-issue-isnt-two-rookies-its-the-raiders-habit-of-lighting-them-on-fire/

Random thought: maybe custom emojis should've be called "Stickers" 🤷‍♂️

Maybe the core point behind Kubernetes is "how can we get young men to yell at clouds too?"

Signal down due to AWS issues. Maybe centralization really isn’t such a great idea. Who would have thought.

I think I need to get more involved in OpenSCAD, or maybe just try to learn more about how to best us it, and improve my own workflow. I read a few things today that will really help me out. I will probably write up a blog post about it as well. (I already donate monthly because I use it so much!)
#OpenSCAD

Puget Sound marine layer with an extremely well defined edge. Maybe a hundred feet high, and in about the same horizontal distance you go from pea soup to a bright sunny day with clear blue skies

Now what I •really• want is…oh, say, the ability to set a volume level for my daily alarm that’s independent of the other volume settings so that I don’t fail to wake up because I turned down my ringer.
But…I guess that sort of thing doesn’t move sales numbers. Or maybe it’s just beyond the limits of current technology.

I still probably prefer the 1978 or maybe even the 1956 Body Snatchers, and the 1993 one may have some questionable acting here and there, but there's really some different twists and plot points in it, and the gross partially formed doppelgangers were a nice touch

"If any other group arrived into a neighborhood carrying long guns, deploying chemical weapons, violently engaging and then taking people away with no warrants nor apparent legal reason, we would dispatch SWAT, as SWAT has the training to defuse and deescalate such situations."
https://

Local Law Enforcement's Challenge: Uphold the Law, Even Against the Feds
in the absence of action, civilians will fill the void I do want to write something not so serious, maybe even funny, here soon. But today, I think the police have to do a very hard and necessary thing: defend Americans against their federal government. If any other group arrived

Well that's it for this programme. I'll see you next week (and maybe MJ's video will have finished by then)
#TOTP

Yay #PWHL season! One day, maybe more than two teams will have decent logos.

“They’re behind schedule, and so the President wants to make sure we beat the Chinese,”
acting NASA coordinator Sean Duffy said of SpaceX.
"[Trump] wants to get there in his term. So I’m in the process of opening that contract up.
I think we’ll see companies like Blue [Origin] get involved, and maybe others.
We’re going to have a space race in regard to American companies competing to see who can actually lead us back to the Moon first.”
There are a coupl…

Why did NASA’s chief just shake up the agency’s plans to land on the Moon?
“The president wants to make sure we beat the Chinese.”…

while you are at Dublin mayors, maybe you could ask car drivers to turn on their lights as required by law in Ireland :-) ?!?! During my super brief time in Dublin in 2024 I saw a lot of cars with their lights off during a dark rainy afternoon.
https://mastodon.ie/@irishcycle/115583918846…

Maybe this sort of experience will mean the Gardaí will become a little less tolerant of the far right.
https://www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2025/10/21/citywest-hotel-protest-public-order-gardai-at-scene/

Citywest Hotel protest: Garda van set alight and fireworks launched at gardaí
Hundreds of people have gathered near the driveway of the hotel

This reads like a warning. So is cURL like nuts? Are people allergic to cURL!?
@… my watch might contain your software, maybe. They aren't 100% sure though. 🤷 🤣
[Note to reader, it almost certainly does contain cURL. I would be shocked if it did not!]
#WristCheck

A modern coreutils fork that replaces the obsolete "no" answer with "maybe later". And loops until you give up.

First day with #freshRss :
I love the feature to mark items as read based on keywords. This could be exactly what I was looking for.
(this was THE thing that I was missing in Feedly - maybe it's possible there on a paid plan, but that's what I didn't want. I'd rather donate to opensource

I, too, think some of the efforts of the CSSWG have gotten ahead of the use cases and I, too, think catching our breath would be good.
“Chris’ Corner: Stage 2”
https://blog.codepen.io/2025/10/20/chris-corner-stage-2/

Are you looking forward to any streaming shows?
Eh - maybe just one.
#Fallout4 #FalloutSeason2 #NexusMods

This might win the the most unusual #BGP image in a paper award.

The treadmill desk is up and running with provisional hardware. Powered by the mini-pc that was lying around mostly unused.
The monitor can be pushed back out of the way to place a laptop on the shelf instead if needing to work on the dayjob's PC, say.
A bit cramped and unsafe feeling. Maybe needs a handle to hold on to screwed onto the door or something.
#treadmillDesk

I see chicago finally got the memo that it's October
could you have maybe waited until I got home to do that instead of while I'm waiting for a delayed bus :behehe: WHERE'S MY GABAGOOL HAT

Ekitike! Climbs a ladder (and maybe a push) and confuses the keeper with the near post tap.
#LFC

Maybe Taylor Swift is always MAGA. She was just good hiding it.//
Trump “see some of himself in Swift, a staunch businesswoman who releases multiple editions of her albums to generate extra revenue and secure high chart positions ……It’s telling that Swift’s attention right now… on blocking Spanish star Rosalía from scoring a No 1 album with Lux, by releasing a new streaming-exclusive variant”

@… On the *soft* side: Go out with your friends.
Have a last meal at that spot that you just can’t get enough of.
Maybe go for a hike, or swim, or whatever outdoors activity you enjoy now that will likely be very different in your new home.
Practical: Make sure your bank/credit card company knows you’re traveling. Make sure you have a card with no fo…

I'm kind of fascinated by how quickly the tech world shifted to using "allowlist/denylist" instead of "whitelist/blacklist". I guess part of it is that "allowlist" is more clearly descriptive of its purpose. maybe I should start specifying my sexual orientation as "suck my cock and I'll step on yours, or the other way around is ok if I like you" (which is "3" in the ISO standard enum). after writing that out I'm not sure I should …

I managed to merge five PRs from other picolibc contributors today. I really like getting contributions from other other people; it makes me think that maybe my little project is starting to be useful in the world.

I could have written "maybe we rely a bit too much on these giant server farms owned by a single entity?" but I like the more silly and less serious approach to the discussion.
Beside, writing it here I'm just preaching the quire. So we might have some fun meanwhile!

#Blakes7 Series C, Episode 10 - Ultraworld
AVON: They've presented no threat so far.
TARRANT: Maybe they're biding their time.
AVON: What for? They could take us out quite easily with their technology.
https://blak…

Maybe all of those people that were laid off were doing some work?
https://www.theregister.com/2025/10/20/aws_outage_amazon_brain_drain_corey_quinn/

Today is when the Amazon brain drain finally sent AWS down the spout
column: When your best engineers log off for good, don’t be surprised when the cloud forgets how DNS works

"The poverty threshold in the Bay Area is $28,081 annual income for one adult and $52,715 for a family of four, according to Tipping Point Community. The near poverty benchmark is $42,122 for one adult and $79,073 for a family of four."
As reference, San Francisco's minimum wage is $18.57, or $37,140/year (50x40hr weeks) At present the average rent for a studio is about $2300, low rent about maybe $1500 (Zumper website data). At the low rent studio, the rent burden is …

I do like #NextCloud but sometimes it can drive me crazy. For example, fresh update, hundreds of errors with astoundingly unhelpful messages. Consider:
chmod(): Operation not permitted at /var/www/nextcloud/apps/recognize/lib/Migration/InstallDeps.php#169
ok, so what do we find at line 169? a call to chmod() on presumably a filename, wrapped in an exception Catch.
I realize this is very much non-trivial software with oodles of hours of difficult work by so many kind people, but, really, how much effort would it have been to include the errant target FILENAME in the exception message?
Similarly, a deprecation warning is, by definition, a Warning, not an error.
None of this affects my using Nextcloud, but it does really clutter the log and who knows, maybe some of these Errors are actually important?

You peepee everywhere? Maybe you should see a doctor for that.

I drove down town for the No Kings Rally to see how it was going, and maybe attend. It was going great, but because of that no parking in sight. So I drove by the rally and honked, clapped, and waved ... and cried.
I realized that being a recent widower, my emotions aren't settled enough to experience such inspiration -- it's overwhelming to see.
If I can collect my feelings, which are complex, I've decided I could use Uber to get to the rally and back for maybe $50.…

SNF (Switzerland) restrictions proposed: only 1 concurrent research grant per PI (plus maybe one coop), only 1 proposal per year.
🔥 Hot take (since I'm not at all operating like this currently): I actually think this might be a good idea? It would curb some of the biggest "research mills", where one PI has a huge pyramid scheme underneath them, and might encourage more careful grant proposals, slower science. And might even put more emphasis back into the basic research funding (instead of the grant lotteries)?
(Maybe naive, I know, and I have no idea how this would be implemented)
#academicChatter #researchGrants
https://www.snf.ch/de/7qymWfJMG1z9XR2S/news/einschraenkungen-in-der-projektfoerderung

It's not unusual to run into people who live in Berlin but speak no German. Even when they work in bars, restaurants, at reception desks.
Just came across a person running an event including welcoming participants who replied "Not my preferred language though" when asked whether she speaks German.
Maybe not the best place to be then?

Before you leave for the weekend (or maybe even a long holiday break), make sure you check out today's Metacurity for the most critical infosec developments you should know, including
--The UK Foreign Office was hacked in October
--Delay in keystroke led Amazon to imposter discovery,
--A second suspect was arrested in an attempted Italian ferry malware attack,
--Denmark blames Russia for destructive cyberattacks,
--LongNosedGoblin is targeting SE Asian and Ja…

The UK Foreign Office was hacked in October
Delay in keystroke led Amazon to imposter discovery, A second suspect was arrested in an attempted Italian ferry malware attack, Denmark blames Russia for destructive cyberattacks, LongNosedGoblin is targeting SE Asian and Japanese governments, NHS tech company hit with cyber incident, much more

@… @… maybe upvote https://github.com/11ty/eleventy/discu

A few years ago I cleaned out my house. I gave away/disposed of about a dozen VoIP phones, Cisco, Polycom, etc. What did I just order on ebay? A SIP phone for Asterisk. Argh. I should stop getting rid of things that work. Maybe I need a bigger house.

Social media ‘trust’/’distrust’ buttons could reduce spread of misinformation | UCL News - UCL – University College London
@… & @… I am tagging you, although maybe you already knew hehe

Jaydon Blue concern for Cowboys all of a sudden looks spot on https://www.sportingnews.com/us/nfl/dallas-cowboys/news/jaydon-blue-concern-cowboys-all-sudden-looks-spot/2aefe2f5cc246f266697fe31

When you say you need hope about climate change, what do you really need?
Maybe it's proof your actions matter.
Maybe it's permission to want a better future.
Maybe it's feeling less alone.
Your brain treats hope like a prediction. When reality doesn't match, hope breaks.
But agency doesn't break.
Community doesn't break.
Imagination doesn't break.
What if we stopped chasing hope and built something stronger?
Read …

How to Stay Hopeful About Climate Change: A Scientific Look at the Brain’s Hope Circuit
A science-backed exploration of why hope collapses during the climate crisis. Learn the neuroscience behind fragile hope, the psychology of despair, and the durable alternatives—like agency, imagination, and possibility—that truly sustain long-term climate engagement.

Recipes are full of directions like “when the top starts to brown” or “when it is firm to the touch but not hard.”
Very often, the thing the directions are taking about is not the actual important trait, but a •proxy• for something important you can’t see directly. Maybe the inside of the bread is fully baked when the top starts to brown. Maybe dangerous bacteria are killed when the quiche is firm to the touch. (I am making this up; don’t @ me about quiche.)
Proxy indicators, heuristics, rules of thumb, call them what you like: they’re essential in cooking.
2/

Thought I'd briefly do a list of my favorite EPs of 2025, maybe 10 or 20. How tough could that be to narrow down? (Famous last words). During the year, I keep a list of all the EPs, demos and singles I listen to and like. Over 300 total of those this year, wow. Okay, I cut out the demos and singles. That left around 200 EPs. So I was like, okay, I'll focus on JUST the ones I mentioned here on Mastodon. 90 of those. FUCK! 🤣

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MiddayShow
Okkervil River:
🎵 Our Life Is Not a Movie or Maybe
#OkkervilRiver
https://okkervilriver.bandcamp.com/track/our-life-is-not-a-movie-or-maybe
https://open.spotify.com/track/3rALYUt0XTSEwFaKcW4O8r

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #TheBBCIntroducingMixtape
Lime Garden:
🎵 Maybe Not Tonight
#LimeGarden
https://limegarden.bandcamp.com/track/maybe-not-tonight
https://open.spotify.com/track/1NeYdwfqPVmmItoaBNq7KJ

Maybe this is it: we just need to rebrand Solar as Fusion (alpha testing) 😂 @… https://mastodon.world/@davidho/115400254100213642

David Ho (@davidho@mastodon.world)
Attached: 1 image At #NewScientistLive, we’re bombarded by ads that say: the climate crisis is terrible; fusion is the answer. Yes, fusion is the answer, but it’s not happening here on Earth but 8.33 minutes away.

There's some rich scientific literature on volunteering and how volunteer motivations change and shift from initial engagement to sustained contributing, including some work we've done in that space around motivations for engaging with self-research communities.
Maybe it's time for a another blog post to look at that in more detail 😅

@… Maybe try Mint?

Originally, I argued to skip the «book of abstract» for SIG Writing 26. And maybe, creating one will acually be the best part in organizing it as I hopefully can do it with a fellow document engineer with a proper XML–XSLT–XSLT-FO–HTML–ePub pipeline! Maybe even LaTeX, who knows
Or the second best thing after printing stickers :)
#WritingResearch

Evilginx’s creator reckons with the dark side of red-team tools https://therecord.media/evilginx-kuba-gretzky-interview-click-here-podcast

I has a bed.
No mattress until Monday, but a bed fully stained and varnished and constructed.
Had to wait a couple of days for varnish which never came. Went out to an actual DIY shop in the end. Gonna have a lot of spare varnish soon.
Varnished the whole room with two more coats as well as the bed twice.
A few more things to buy after Xmas and the full media setup can't happen until the new Steam Machine at its heart is released. Maybe cobble together something to plug a laptop into in the meantime? All for next year though once the mattress arrives and I can actually sleep in the bedroom.

Watched the first 5 episodes of PLUR1BUS … very well done. Good acting, especially on all the side cast. But boy do I dislike the main character Carol. She’s such an entitled US american character that act like the world is revolving solely around her… and maybe that’s just authentic 🙈

Oh, look - at the intersection of Bush & Fillmore, it looks like a car hit the corner of the building.
Oh, wait, maybe the driver drove the car into the building? The car wasn't an independent actor?

Maybe giving the US full control of our electronic payment methods wasn't the best idea...

Mystery, huh? Maybe it’s aliens… 🤔 https://journa.host/@fulelo/115400168085406132

RIP to this #SolyTech power supply in one of my old #TigerDirect #Systemax clunkers. It just failed spectacularly with a tick-tick-tick, a large burst of yellow sparks, a loud buzz, and acrid ozoney smoke.…

Only Fortnite got a problem, a demo seems to work fine.
I think I got it! Nvidia is maintaining their cloud service in a few locations.
Maybe I'm just unlucky to be in one of these locations...
Does the GeForce NOW service have any downtime now?
Glad I have the status link:
https://status.geforcenow.com/

I have a slightly older and lower spec Toshiba laptop... maybe I should do that for Windows 95 and reinstall Windows 98 on the ThinkPad 760XL.
The ThinkPad is from mid-1997 and originally came with Windows 95, and has a 166 MHz Pentium; the Toshiba is from mid-1996 and has a 100 MHz Pentium.
Decisions, decisions.

Why We're Boycotting Xbox (and Maybe You Should Too) by People Make Games
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ybj10537yi4

Linus: I guess it's wrong always to be worrying about tomorrow. Maybe
we should think only about today.
Charlie Brown:
No, that's giving up. I'm still hoping that yesterday will get
better.

wow, all the headlines seem to be burying the lede that the newly added recordings are the infamous joe bussard collection (though maybe that's only headline news to record collectors) https://c.im/@didgebaba/115566845008488758

Damn Eugen's stepping down, maybe things woulda gone different if he'd heeded my advice 🙏
https://social.linux.pizza/@detondev/114739828314215389

So in another dream I just woke up from, I was talking to someone about "the idea problem" (that it's becoming harder to monitize ideas, from a vox article written by an AI cooked reporter).
https://www.iheart.com/podcast/105-it-could-happen-here-30717896/episode/executive-disorder-white-house-weekly-46-313675864/
Basically, I was arguing that the majority of inventions target men because patriarchy puts economic control in men's hands. As men have started to help more with childcare, there have been more inventions related to childcare. (I don't have any idea if this is true. Seems legit, but I'm just relating my dream. I think I was also oversimplifying a bit to "men" and "women" because of my audience, but anyway it was a dream.) There's actually more low-hanging fruit, I pointed out, related to making care work easier.
So I argued that the real problem was a failure to invest in research into solving that problem. Today there are all these boondoggles built around killing people. What if, instead of all this government research into killing people, we dumped a ton of money into making it easier to support a household? That would be great for the economy. (Being asleep, I seem to have forgotten that working people need money.)
In the blur of being just awake I started thinking about how you could kickstart the US economy by taking the money from the AI boondoggle and other autonomous murder bots and create something like a program to build robots for housekeepers. You'd still be funding tech with government money, so the same horrible people get paid, but you're now actually solving real problems. It wouldn't even matter if it was a boondoggle, honestly. Just dumping money into something other than murdering people is good enough.
I imagined first if there was a program to fund a robot housecleaner, like robot dog with AI some laundry pickup, that would be provided, free of charge, to help people with children. It would work the same as the military boondoggle where a private company makes the government buy a piece of hardware from them and then also pay them to service it for some number of years. But instead of that hardware sitting around waiting to kill someone, it would be getting brought to people's houses to help them.
Then I thought, hey, you could even boost the economy more if you just had government funding for doulas and housecleaners and paid them a living wage. Hey, you could really kickstart the economy by nationalizing healthcare and including doula support as part of all births. Oh, and you could also just include the optional household help for families with children until the kids turn 18.
None of this is perfect (I don't actually think most of this is possible from any state), but the point is that it's actually wildly easy to figure out all kinds of ways to invest in the economy and monitize ideas as long as you aren't entirely focused on the same old "make money from spying on people and killing them." Funny that. Like they said in the podcast, maybe "finding ideas" isn't the problem.
Hope you enjoyed the weird semi-awake brain dump/rant.

Some folks in the replies seem a bit confused about what that 3.5% counts, conflating it with polling or election results: “What if 3.5% support the authoritarian too? Who wins then??”
That study was specifically looking at (1) ongoing political engagement (2) in opposition to an authoritarian slide. It’s •not• a poll. It’s •not• an election. It’s •not• a popularity contest. It’s about how much active counter-engagement an authoritarian takeover can withstand.
If 3.5% of the population is actually •actively• engaged in opposition work on an •ongoing• basis, then that likely indicates a much broader base of less active and more intermittently engaged opposition — like maybe an order of magnitude larger! Who knows! The golden brown on top of the bread is a decent indicator of what’s happening inside.

While I maybe a Linux Penguin, It's worth pointing out there are plenty of other free OSs which share many of the user space parts (e.g. the desktop) - and some very different; So, give FreeBSD a go once in a while, Then there are things like FreeDOS, embedded OSs, and ReactOS which can run Windows software, or lots of other things to play with. Give some a go:

The FreeBSD Project
FreeBSD is an operating system used to power modern servers, desktops, and embedded platforms.

Couldn’t make it to a No Kings protest today because I was flying home from Atlanta. So now I’m just perusing pictures from various cities and dear god this one is savage 💀

Maxx Crosby to the Dallas Cowboys? Six reasons it's not as crazy as it sounds https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/columnist/nate-davis/2025/10/21/maxx-crosby-cowboys-trade-rumors-jerry-jones/86822754007/

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #DriveTime
The Holidays:
🎵 Maybe So Maybe No
#TheHolidays
https://aotns.bandcamp.com/album/maybe-so-maybe-no-my-baby-aint-no-plaything

As part of my #unplugTrump, I made a new #alttext generator using #mistral with customizable system prompt. (ah yeah, you need to bring your own api key).
🤔 Maybe not much better than just usi…

Why don’t they capture these vessels and display what they were carrying?
Wouldn’t that be better PR?
Unless maybe it’s all a big scam.
-- @ambientheat.bsky.social
https://bsky.app/profile/ambientheat.bsky.social/post/3lyvo6edkrk27

MJ (@ambientheat.bsky.social)
Why don’t they capture these vessels and display what they were carrying? Wouldn’t that be better PR? Unless maybe it’s all a big scam. 🧐

... I keep circling around the idea that the most ethical way to make money these days is sex work. this would unfortunately require me to interact with people instead of computers. well, maybe I can find a niche that lets me treat people like computers. *reboots you with a cattle prod*

Oh, look - at the intersection of Bush & Fillmore, it looks like a car hit the corner of the building.
Oh, wait, maybe the driver drove the car into the building? The car wasn't an independent actor?

These end of year "wrapped" things are all the rage, so we made you one!
#wrapped

Your RasterWeb! Wrapped!
Welcome back! I mean, maybe...

A local cancer institute has a giant inflatable colon, maybe 3m in diameter and 6m long, set up at a community event.
Where does one even go to make such a thing? I feel like there's a single digit number of companies globally that specialize in making custom printed/sculpted inflatable props like this. It's certainly not something you'd buy COTS.
Like anybody who makes bouncy castles *could* but I suspect most such companies just do standard designs

wow, all the headlines seem to be burying the lede that the newly added recordings are the infamous joe bussard collection (though maybe that's only headline news to record collectors) https://c.im/@didgebaba/115566845008488758

“We lead by love. This is community. We send no orders, there’s no orders out here, just people defending each other. And we don’t need a f*cking gun to do it. We don’t need body armor to do it. We don’t need to beat up protestors, we don’t need to beat up fake news to do it. We show up, put our f*cking bodies on the line because we don’t f*ck with n*zis. Maybe one day, maybe one day, you can say the same. Community will welcome you back…”
🧵 1/2

Sounds like this game got rid of many of the Persona stuff I didn't like and maybe has a battle system similar to Ikenfel which was simple but fun?
Demonschool Isn’t Persona (And That’s Why It Works)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wAK6T7vm6ss

Anthropic's Skills for Claude, which are conceptually very simple, may become a bigger deal than MCP, whose high token usage is its most significant limitation (Simon Willison/Simon Willison's Weblog)
https://simonwillison.net/2025/Oct/16/claude-skills/

Claude Skills are awesome, maybe a bigger deal than MCP
Anthropic this morning introduced Claude Skills, a new pattern for making new abilities available to their models: Claude can now use Skills to improve how it performs specific tasks. Skills …

settlement check isn't a tonnnn of money but it's enough to pay off some debts that have been plaguing me and also do a couple fun things like maybe finally get a third tattoo. maybe even a third AND a fourth. waow

#NowPlaying the new LP 'Slumber Behind Rotten Walls' by Toulouse, France's NOHZ. This is some intense, raucous, feedbacky hardcore punk, and there are hooks in there- along with some black metal maybe. But this is firmly punk, with some depraved, raw vocals. A great listen.

IDK if you can’t make games without making unethical shortcuts (labor exploitation, never-ending crunch, AI plagiarism, etc.) because otherwise you’d need “300 people and 7 years”, maybe work on making games that are better?
A lot of the really big games of the last decades were initially made by just a few people with really great basic game loops.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MorningShow
Lime Garden:
🎵 Maybe Not Tonight
#LimeGarden
https://limegarden.bandcamp.com/track/maybe-not-tonight
https://open.spotify.com/track/1NeYdwfqPVmmItoaBNq7KJ

So my car has been complaining I should put some exhaust emissions neutralizing fluid in it. A thing they call AdBlue I believe.
Bought a big 10l drum of the stuff ready to fill up.
But when I look at where I expect to find the hole for filling it, I just find a capped off tube and a warning sticker "See the GM Citreon Berlingo Blaze manual" for the adblue refilling hole.
Only user manual I have is the one telling me to expect it there.
The car was converted for wheelchair access at some point in its life. I think they are referring to the wheelchair-adaption manual, which the seller did not give me.
🤔
Have been looking around the car as much as I can for a couple of hours this morning to no avail. Where have they hidden this hole to fill up adblue?
Maybe it's under the engine or something now and you have to put the thing on stilts to find it?
🤷
Asked my mechanic about it and he says to bring it in on Monday. Gonna be a pain if I have to rip up the floorboards or something every year to refill that.
#mechanic #car #diesel

#NowPlaying another great punk LP, this one is from 2018, the self-titled debut record 'Color TV' by Minnesota's COLOR TV. There's great hooky guitar lines all over this one. Kind of a Dickies feel sometimes, mixed maybe with the snottiness of The Briefs? Hadn't heard these guys-- a band to watch, for sure.

Seriously, though, USians, before you tell someone from the Middle East to “check your privilege”, why don’t you open up your US passport, have a good look at it, and then check your own goddamn privilege before putting your whole foot in your mouth publicly? Maybe also look up intersectionality while you’re at it and realise that it’s not a fucking pissing contest. I’ll take lessons in privilege from you when every last one of you conscientiously objects to bombing the shit out of our side …