2026-07-25 04:00:02
➡️ Do I belong in tech anymore?
#bookmarks
➡️ Do I belong in tech anymore?
#bookmarks
Are AI labs pelicanmaxxing?
https://dylancastillo.co/posts/pelicanmaxxing.html
Made some changes to my sites templates which prompted some other changes and now I have secondary content links that are topical, they were just the latest previously, and it looks like it works well for some people who want to binge on a topic!
https://www.simoncox.com/short-arti…
Suspected WHCD Shooter Boosted Bluesky Posts Saying Trump Should Be 'Tried For High Crimes' (Collin Anderson/The Washington Free Beacon)
https://freebeacon.com/issues/suspected-whcd-shooter-boosted-bluesky-posts-saying-trump-should-be-tried-for-high-crimes/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260426/p27#a260426p27
After a quiet month of April, here is *finally* a short blog for May ;) Let's add tabs to your Hugo posts!
#blog
Herbert Diess, the former CEO of Volkswagen, who may have been unsuccessful in the short term in his attempt to electrify the staunchly traditional German automotive industry, is now setting his sights on electrifying farms and municipal services
https://www.
RE: https://posts.rat.pictures/@hannah/116980813915402003
OK, this is brilliant! 😂
Prompt engineering is a moving target. Here's my rundown on how GPT-5.5 and Claude 4.7 reward clarified output over magical incantations, and what it means for AI literacy https://www.linkedin.com/posts/jonippolito_the-lates…
from my link log —
Are emoji allowed in XMPP addresses?
https://op-co.de/blog/posts/emoji_xmpp_address/
saved 2026-07-23 https://
The fact Instagram and all other social networks now have some AI slop feature that allows you to generate captions or whole posts with AI, but NO FEATURE TO GENERATE IMAGE DESCRIPTION / ALT TEXT should tell you all you need to know next time one of these ghouls pretends their new technology will really help disabled or marginalized people (this time for sure)
X: Unverifizierte Nutzer dürfen nur noch 50 Posts pro Tag absetzen
Bis zu 2400 Posts pro Tag durften X-Nutzer bislang absetzen. Wer nicht für Premium zahlt, wird nun aber auf nur 50 beschränkt.
https://ww…
Check out my latest #patreon post https://www.patreon.com/RaysOfRed/posts/billie-rupees-161818634
Health Secretary Robert F Kennedy Jr, on Tuesday added to his lengthening catalog of bizarre wild animal encounters by
posting to social media a video of himself in Florida wrestling with two snakes.
Kennedy, who has previously admitted dumping the carcass of a bear cub in New York’s Central Park,
and is also alleged to have cut the penis off a road-kill raccoon,
is seen grabbing the pair of serpents with his bare hands.
Sources: DeepSeek told investors it is suspending its second funding round after remarks attributed to Liang Wenfeng on US-China AI competition went viral (Pei Li/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-07-25…
"I really struggle to see how this could be a marketing stunt. Huggingface released the blog on the 16th of July, 5 days before OpenAI released their announcement. Furthermore, Huggingface didn't name OpenAI then. It seems like a genuine security incident report."
https://martinalderson.com/posts…
Incredible: https://bsky.app/profile/theladyred.bsky.social/post/3mmmitj3omc2u
If you're looking for the original study: 'Sycophantic AI decreases prosocial intentions and promotes dependence', Cheng et. al., 2026
Stop believing #reddit posts from peeps who act like they have information, but are just speculating trolls. Infact, never believe reddit posts for anything!
Stop believing "news" posts from peeps who act like they have information, but are just speculating trolls.
Read why Joshua stepped down from
i'd say the heat is getting to me but i started putting this together these posts about bob dylan & the grateful dead's 1986 co-headlining tour a few months ago. part 1 of 4, including some updated research about when bob dylan & jerry garcia first met (details are very blurry, but probably 1966-1967). https://www.…
@…
Your latest blog post is up now, here:
https://www.journeyman.cc/layan/posts-output/2026-07-23-Two-empty-chairs/…
Haley Cavinder posts epic wedding photos with Cowboys star Jake Ferguson https://www.sportingnews.com/us/culture/dallas-cowboys/news/haley-cavinder-posts-epic-wedding-photos-cowboys-star-jake-f…
@… wenn ihr #fediKirche zu euren Posts hinzugefügt lesen das übrigens mehr Leute. Schön dass ihr hier seid!
RE: https://mastodon.social/@YesterdaysWiki/116640069089974390
Odd… usually when I see these posts they make sense as they relate to current events. But … the .xxx top-level domain (TLD)? What would bring that to people’s attention?
facebook_wall: Facebook wall posts (2009)
Friendship relationships and interactions (wall posts) for a subset of the Facebook social network in 2009, recorded over a 2 year period. Edge directed edge represents a post by one user on another user's FB wall.
This network has 46952 nodes and 876993 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Temporal, Multigraph
Craig Abbott believes “Our CSS isn’t opinionated enough”:
https://www.craigabbott.co.uk/blog/2026/our-css-isnt-opinionated-enough/
Which of course I agree with and link from on of my posts:
One of the biggest qualities of an actual friend is that they will tell you when you’re wrong/being an asshole.
That seems to be a huge reason to me to never use this shit (GenAI chat)
Admittedly, I never have used any of these things, so do they ever say no?
https://bsky.app/profile/thelady…
An important read, and something I haven't seen elsewhere. It speaks to the abuse of power by #47 and his administration - and to the importance of the judiciary.
https://www.alquds.com/en/posts/240857
An important read, and something I haven't seen elsewhere. It speaks to the abuse of power by #47 and his administration - and to the importance of the judiciary.
https://www.alquds.com/en/posts/240857
How to make public EV charging cheaper: summertime edition
pdf carousel:
https://www.linkedin.com/posts/jaapburger_make-public-ev-charging-cheaper-summertime-activity-7475866025553702912-FhK1
A new, searchable map of ICE detention facilities charting their detention levels since 2010.
This page incorporates official ICE data and data released under FOIA to the Deportation Data Project.
https://carwilb.github.io/posts/ice-detention-map-expanded/
Democrats Have an Age Problem. Some Republicans Admit They Do, Too. (NOTUS)
https://www.notus.org/congress/republicans-age-problem-democrats-committee-posts-term-limits-congress
http://www.memeorandum.com/260526/p21#a260526p21
Liebe Bürgerinnen und Bürger,
Klimaanpassungsmaßnahmen schaden dem Wirtschaftsstandort Deutschland, wir können uns das leider nicht mehr leisten.
Quelle:
https://www.instagram.com/p/DZ74oiOMqNz/
I promise I won’t annoy you with any more posts about the album/collection after this, but I just had to thank Mastodon people who came to the ‘Otherscapes’ listening party yesterday. It made all the work put into it feel better. That anyone would come is encouraging, but especially that some stayed for 5, 6, 7 hours into the 11 hour release. (And to see comments come in when I woke up again a few hours later was a fun indicator of my suboptimal hours of sleep in generall. 😆)
There’s …
@… also (Indonesian, with reference to one of your posts):
FreeBSD migrasi ke pkgbase vol.2: JAIL
https://kusaeni.com/jurnal/freebsd-jail-migrasi-ke-pkgba…
Making Rust supply chain attacks harder with Cackle
Alex is a software engineer who has built a tool which she licences to her customers. She only has a small number of clients, but they like her tool. She built her tool using Rust, with about 20 direct dependencies from crates.io. When you count indirect dependencies, her tool has about 250 dependencies.
— by @…
(LinkedIn) Blind recipient of retinal implant from Chinese company Nanochap Electronics identifies letters on second day of testing, 2 weeks after surgery, after 15 years of blindness from RP (retinitis pigmentosa) https://www.linkedin.com/posts/retinitispi
from my link log —
Highest random weight rendezvous hashing in Elixir.
https://jola.dev/posts/highest-random-weight-in-elixir
saved 2026-05-23 …
X quietly limits users who didn't pay for verification to "50 original posts and 200 replies per day", down from 2,400 posts per day (Jackson Chen/Engadget)
https://www.engadget.com/2175771/x-free-accounts-limited-to-50-posts-and-200-…
Here's a reminder that you can block hashtags on Mastodon. I'm pretty consistent about tagging politics, typically with USpol or ScottPolitics or both, but also topical tags such as IranWar2026 and POTUS47. If you don't want to see those types of toots, then I encourage you to block them.
I don't CW all generic politics posts. This topic too much to fully explain in 500 chars, but short version: I use CW for spoilers and topics that are commonly trauma-triggering.
U.S. states paying to compensate people fired, jailed for negative Charlie Kirk posts https://ground.news/article/us-states-paying-to-compensate-people-fired-jailed-for-negative-charlie-kirk-posts_febb9c
Noch ein paar der zuletzt hier besonders häufig geteilten #News:
X: Unverifizierte Nutzer dürfen nur noch 50 Posts pro Tag absetzen
@dawid@social.craftknight.comOstatnio wystawiłem swój blog przez protokół gemini prosto z "domu" z sieci P2P, teraz przeniosłem na Raspberry Pi Zero 2W, żeby działał 24/7.
Sam guide też działa na serwerach za 1$ - spokojnie 256MB ramu wystarczyło.
Chciałem polecić też popularny polski serwis do mini VMek, ale ma w regulaminie ma dokładnie napisane, że zabrania używania sieci P2P i specyficznie wystawiania serwisów w Tor, tak więc polecam Privex.
Are you saying the solution to nationwide gun violence isn’t one building?
https://bsky.app/profile/hellishchildren.bsky.social/post/3mkgbxdsyxc2j
Könnt ich direkt so unterschreiben:
„Wir vermissen nicht die Zeitung. Wir vermissen, was sie mal war.“
Mama, Papa, warum habt ihr die Zeitung abbestellt? - Blaupause
https://blaupause.community/posts/833a6c24-f2ed-46d0-9999-7d9cd4c87c45
if only #mastodon would support *any* kind of shitty search for posts scrolling by... but even when i know to query "from:@… <term>" i get 0 posts, but 3 completely irrelevant profiles, for any term, even terms that i see in my feed which are in the toots by this …
RE: https://infosec.exchange/@dannyjpalmer/116975079605921576
I would imagine most people reading my posts already know to use VPNs when on a network they don't have good reason to trust. But you might take the time to remind your less
#Meta will analyze all your posts (and images, videos) in detail to find clues about your age.
"This includes using AI technology to analyze entire profiles for contextual clues — such as birthday celebrations or mentions of school grades — to determine if an account likely belongs to someone underage."
Instead of removing known scam which is harmful to all ages.
X quietly limits users who didn't pay for verification to "50 original posts and 200 replies per day", down from 2,400 posts per day (Jackson Chen/Engadget)
https://www.engadget.com/2175771/x-free-accounts-limited-to-50-posts-and-200-…
And more #NoctilucentClouds over Bochum Germany tonight: see https://www.facebook.com/groups/leuchtendenachtwolken/posts/4356493544573922 for more views! This time I placed the camera on a railing and exposed for 4 seconds at ISO 400.
It’s kinda funny because Apple, in general, doesn’t “pester” you about stuff you turn off.
Skip setting up AppleID and make a local account? Machine never bugs you about it again, but Apple Intelligence needs all these steps?
https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:nle5d
"Die SP hat bei der Zürcher Agentur Digital/Organizing eine Analyse in Auftrag gegeben. Für die Zeit von Mitte März bis Anfang Mai wurden Posts zur Initiative auf X ausgewertet. Rund 30 Prozent der Konten entpuppten sich als auffällig. Sie verschickten im Sekundentakt identische Inhalte, zeigten kein normales Diskussionsverhalten oder leiteten nur Beiträge von Kampagnenkonten weiter, um deren Wirkung zu verstärken. Das sind alles Indizien, dass es sich um Bots und Fake-Konten handelt.&q…
WR Hill: 'No power' in leg 10 months post-surgery https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/49431301/tyreek-hill-posts-workout-video-says-no-power-leg
LinkedIn’s API is absolutely wild — how many hoops do I gotta jump through to get an API key that posts to my LinkedIn page?
Russian opposition leader jailed over anti-war social media posts | Censorship News | Al Jazeera
https://www.aljazeera.com/video/newsfeed/2026/6/25/russian-opposition-leader-jailed-over-anti-war-social-media-posts?traffic_source=rss
This article by @moultano.bsky.social is one the best articles/posts I have read in a while.
It made me look at traffic lights (and colours in general) in a completely new way.
https://moultano.wordpress.com/2026/06/19/where-to-find-the-colo…
Periodic reminder for people interested in #HomeLab and #SelfHosting
There is a @… bot that replaces the old gup.pe homelab bot.
Mention it in your homelab or self hosting posts and it will boost them. Follow it to see all the homelab posts it boosts that may not normally get federated to your instance.
For those who don’t know, these bots exist because when you look for a a hashtag, your server only checks the posts that have been federated to it.
In order for a message to be federated to your server, the author (or one of the people boosting it) have to be followed by someone on your server. If no one touching the message is being followed, it’ll never get federated to your server and you won’t see it.
Hashtags are great for finding messages, but only messages that were federated to your server. They don’t help message propagation.
An ultimatum for the Dutch meat industry. https://www.linkedin.com/posts/joanne-p-van-der-leun-0307b77_an-ultimatum-for-the-meat-industry-activity-7472335913424044032-oaej
By Joanne van der Leun
Looking at the glasglow.social trending page and there are FOUR different catsalad posts 😹
I need to go to bed...
If you follow enough accounts then quote posts can be a real problem as they scroll off the page of the advanced view before the quote gets approved.
Laura Loomer,
the online Maga provocateur,
has never worked in the White House or anywhere else in the government,
but her sudden conversion to the Ukrainian causethis week is significant
because her social media posts often have real policy implications in the second Trump administration.
The rightwing commentator has spent the last few days in Kyiv,
where she announced a newfound sympathy for Ukraine in its long war with Russia,
and admitted that …
New York City Council candidate is accused of forgery over AI-generated posts (Gene Johnson/Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/rinaldi-ai-gemini-facebook-meta-new-york-995585d736361c976611f8846db171a2
http://www.memeorandum.com/260624/p143#a260624p143
John C. Dvorak, an early technology journalist best known for his column in PC Magazine and his groundbreaking work on the No Agenda podcast, has died (Aric Mackey/Facebook)
https://www.facebook.com/aric.mackey/posts/pfbid02…
Very interesting to see the results of Swiss dynamic network tariffs: performing as they should, with savings for both the user and the grid.
Prosumers effectively shift heavy loads out of the evening grid peak and absorb the solar peak at midday.
https://www.
I missed that Georgetown not only purged posts from its former provost, it also took down the entire blog. So this banger exists only in the Wayback:
“Eating our Seed Corn” (about ‘AI’)
https://web.archive.org/web/20240703032246/https…
@… thanks.
Choosing pkgbase positively transformed my use of CURRENT as a daily driver in February 2024 (<https://forums.freebsd.org/posts/673576>).
is it just me or are bots getting more sophisticated on the fediverse #fediadmin?
I've been having a super hard time differentiating who is real and who is fake anymore from sign up texts alone. It started with these "markov chain" texts that almost sounded like something someone could say, now they seem to have taken all "NeuHier" (new here) hashtags posts and put them into a list to use a…
Enphase is preparing to launch its DC bidirectional charger (initially in the US, but works elsewhere too) for #V2G and V2H. It’s interesting to see how they’re focusing on interoperability: any car, any home, any grid
Accenture is acquiring a majority stake in Dragos at a $3.25 billion valuation, and all of runZero and NetRise, bringing the combined enterprise value of $4.175B.
https://www.linkedin.com/posts/robmichaell
Twitter, bought by a billionaire a few years ago to enable Free Speech (you remember, don't you?) was first turned into an echo chamber for this billionaire (at first, because of his ego) and his friends.
Then, verification (the blue checkmark :verified:) was turned into a thing any bot farm could obtain, as long as they paid this billionaire.
And now, everyone else – those few that might still be real humans – are limited to just 50 opinions a day.
h/t
"I still remember my two friends from school, Yaqeen and Qamar. They were not just classmates; they were a beautiful part of my childhood. We spent our days together — playing in the schoolyard, laughing over the smallest things, and sharing secrets that we believed would stay with us forever... I carry the memory of them in my heart. I carry their voices, their smiles, and the dreams they never had the chance to fulfill." -- @…
facebook_wall: Facebook wall posts (2009)
Friendship relationships and interactions (wall posts) for a subset of the Facebook social network in 2009, recorded over a 2 year period. Edge directed edge represents a post by one user on another user's FB wall.
This network has 46952 nodes and 876993 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Temporal, Multigraph
Periodic reminder for people interested in #HomeAssistant
There is a @… bot that replaces the old gup.pe home assistant bot.
Mention it in your homeassisitant posts and it will boost them. Follow it to see all the #homeasistant posts it boosts that may not normally get federated to your instance.
There’s also @… - follow that and it will automatically boost everything you post with #homeassistant without you having to remember to mention the bot.
For those who don’t know, these bots exist because when you look for a a hashtag, your server only checks the posts that have been federated to it.
In order for a message to be federated to your server, the author (or one of the people boosting it) have to be followed by someone on your server. If no one touching the message is being followed, it’ll never get federated to your server and you won’t see it.
Hashtags are great for finding messages, but only messages that were federated to your server. They don’t help message propagation, but these bots will.
Florida sues TikTok for allegedly violating its social media regulations for minors and state consumer protection laws by showing "X-Rated" content to minors (Alex Ebert/Bloomberg Law)
https://news.bloomberglaw.com/tech-and…
from my link log —
Configuring Emacs for Rust development.
https://robert.kra.hn/posts/2021-02-07_rust-with-emacs/
saved 2021-02-09 https://…
This one has been on my watchlist as well, it should be on yours, too. I need to get off my ass and finally watch it. (Sinners too)
https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:tne4x6uotoief6t5cildh75l/post/3mmfheivyu22o
@… agreed, however it might be not easily achievable with Buffer, which is used for multiplatform posts such as this.
<https://buffer.com/>
Cc @…
First time I've tried to update my blog from a moving train. It doesn't work well, but what's astonishing is that it works at all.
If you don't get a 404 at this address, then I've succeeded.
https://www.journeyman.cc/blog/posts-output/2026-07-2…
Venmo is implementing a major privacy update to set new users' posts to "friends only" by default during onboarding; in 2021, a reporter found Joe Biden's Venmo (Jay Peters/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/tech/927503/venmo-app-redesign-privacy-post…
When we later asked them about their stances on hybrid and remote work, manager's answers didn't correlate with how much they trusted their employees or how much they loved being around people.
The only trait that consistently predicted objections to remote work was narcissism
https://bs…
Unearthed posts show Dem Senate hopeful praising vulgar graffiti, making crude porta potty admission (Fox News)
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/unearthed-posts-show-dem-senate-hopeful-praising-vulgar-graffiti-making-crude-porta-potty-admissions
http://www.memeorandum.com/260519/p39#a260519p39
With a name like that, how could you possibly not manage variable, renewable and dynamic electricity prices wisely?
Brasserie du Slalom 🇫🇷 keeps its carbon footprint and energy bills low by cleverly shifting its use of electric heating and cooling
https://www.
from my link log —
In Python 2, node.example.com is an IPv6 address.
https://tuckersiemens.com/posts/node-example-com-is-an-ip-address/
saved 2020-12-30
Tesla reports a negative Q2 free cash flow of $1.1B, its first in over two years, partly due to increased AI and robotic investments, amid diminishing profits (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/media-telecom/el…
from my link log —
Data isn't the new oil, it's the new CO₂.
https://luminategroup.com/posts/blog/data-isnt-the-new-oil-its-the-new-co2
saved 2019-07-26
Texas Instruments reports Q2 revenue up 23% YoY to $5.46B, above $5.26B est., net income up 53% to $1.98B, and forecasts $5.65B-$6.15B in Q3 revenue, above est. (Grace Yoon/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.
An analysis of 1M social media posts from April 24 to June 30: ~25% of longform posts with 250 words were fully AI-generated; on LinkedIn, the figure was 41% (Max Spero/Pangram Labs)
https://www.pangram.com/blog/ai-in-your-feed