2026-05-10 22:55:52
A look at Janitor AI, a romantic fantasy roleplay chatbot site run by three men that claims 2.5M DAUs and 15M total users, with 70% to 80% identifying as women (Anna Tong/Forbes)
https://www.forbes.com/sites/annatong/2026/05/07…
A look at Janitor AI, a romantic fantasy roleplay chatbot site run by three men that claims 2.5M DAUs and 15M total users, with 70% to 80% identifying as women (Anna Tong/Forbes)
https://www.forbes.com/sites/annatong/2026/05/07…
I've been messing around with Apple Shortcuts lately, and I guess you can call them from the command line, which is neat.
https://support.apple.com/guide/shortcuts-mac/run-shortcuts-from-the-command-line-apd455c82f02/mac
„Du bist wie so ein Nacktmull, das man aus der Höhle gezogen hat.“
AI and work: an expert assesses how far this revolution still has to run https://theconversation.com/ai-and-work-an-expert-assesses-how-far-this-revolution-still-has-to-run-277650
God... we are so very, very, bad.
#Canucks
A 16 save shutout.
16.
This might just be the worst team in Canucks history. I've been a fan since 1982's cup run as a kid… there have been some very bad teams.
This is a very, very bad team.
#NHL #HNOM
https://albernivalleynews.com/2026/03/09/reimer-posts-16-save-shutout-as-ottawa-senators-blank-canucks-2-0/
AfterQuery, which sells coding and finance training data to AI labs, says it raised a $30M Series A at a $300M valuation, and has hit a $100M annual run rate (Anna Tong/Forbes)
https://www.forbes.com/sites/annatong/2026
#Lisette, a little language inspired by #Rust that compiles to #Go
https://lisett…
Gestern haben Wilhelmine und ok.danke.tschüss ‚mansplaining survivor‘ veröffentlicht: https://youtu.be/DEzhB0BxMAc
„Aber eins bekommst du nie
Dieses kleine Paradies
Tief in meiner Brust, nimm mit, du kannst alles zerstör'n
Aber das hier wird dir niemals gehör'n“
Graney: Raiders GM hits home run by landing top option on wish list https://www.reviewjournal.com/sports/sports-columns/ed-graney/graney-raiders-gm-hits-home-run-by-landing-top-option-on-wish-list-3717241/
When you run across a post denying that we’re going to the Moon again and that NASA is “fake”, reply that you almost fell for their funny joke and when they then say “but I mean it” congratulate them on how funny it is that they keep the joke going with a straight face
Q&A with New Yorker staff writer Jason Zengerle, on why Tucker Carlson may run for president and how that reflects the crumbling of the journalism industry (Pete Croatto/Poynter)
https://www.poynter.org/business-work/2026/jason-zenge…
RE: https://mastodon.social/@MohammedHussein/116205232695402798
Anyone know anyone at GoFundMe that can help.
Mohammad is not the only one to have run into this issue.
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Run-D.M.C.:
🎵 It's Tricky (K-Rec Remix)
#RunDMC
https://brettmillersound.bandcamp.com/track/run-d-m-c-its-tricky-dzrt-frst-flip-remix-clean-129-track-47
🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
Soulwax:
🎵 Run Free (Radio Edit)
#NowPlaying #Soulwax
https://soulwax.bandcamp.com/album/all-systems-are-lying-run-free-nite-versions
https://open.spotify.com/track/6FpGarU82UbiZXyI7Dyh6M
The 'pv' #Linux utility is quite nice as you can track any process read process with the -d option. But what if it is not installed?
p=long_run_prog_name; while pgrep $p >/dev/null; do echo $(date -Isec) $(awk -v s=$(stat -c %s infile) '/pos/{printf "%.3f %%\n", 100*$2/s}' $(eval echo /proc/{$(pgrep -d, $p)}/fdinfo/3) ); sleep 30;done
'infile' is …
Dear @… and @… , can the EC please take tough measures against this member state for seizing money from and blackmailing a European partner country under attack by Russia?
[and, all others, reposting would be great]…
1. This post is an incisive critique.
2. I’ve said before and I’ll say again that the only alternative to widespread popular violence is widespread empowerment through nonviolent mechanisms — not robbing people of power, that’s not an alternative, that’s a cause! — and if the oligarchs persist in their aggressive capture of power, Luigi Mangione is going to be not a curious aberration but a harbinger, and I don’t want that, I don’t actually want to live in a world where assassinations are a regular part of how things work, that’s miserable, that’s no way to live, and that’s exactly where we’re heading right now, and it’s grim and driving me to write egregious run-on sentences, please make it stop, thank you. https://wandering.shop/@aesthr/116381847228695045
People tell me that #AI code is fine, because you can run automatic tests. But tests can only tell you if code is doing the thing you want it to do.
To know what it SHOULD do, we used to have requirements. But now requirements are themselves vibe-coded slopotypes.
People were hoping that this would get them higher velocity, but testing the requirements in production only produces waste an…
Trump wants regime change in Iran.
You know what would be a useful tool?
A US-run Farsi-language news outlet broadcasting into Iran.
We had one of those, but last year Trump sent Kari Lake to burn it to the ground.
https://www.lawandchaospod.com/p/judge-rul
Is it time to abandon postal voting? Yes. Yes it is. Have the Electoral Commission run local and national Elections. https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/587967/is-it-time-to-abandon-postal-voting-for-local-elections
Inside Jon Gruden’s disastrous second run with the Raiders https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7152485/2026/04/09/raiders-jon-gruden-coaching-history/
What could possibly go wrong?
CIA employees will get AI 'coworkers'—and eventually run teams of AI agents, deputy says - Defense One
https://www.defenseone.com/technology/2026/04/cia-ai-coworkers-agents/412746/
Morgen erscheint das neu Album von Remote Bondage: Good Girl https://linktr.ee/remotebondage
Which Hip Hop group is #DeLorean owners' most favourite band?
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RUN DMC
#FlatJokeFriday
I am still waiting to see a major news outlet run a headline or lead story that begins with:
US Loses War To Iran
Ich habe gestern zum ersten Mal ein Sauerteigbrot gebacken.
Puh. Es ist schon frustrierend, wenn Du Dich drei Tage um so ein Brot kümmerst und dann kommt ein harter kleiner Fladen dabei raus. 😂
Ich hatte es ahnen können. Schon mit Hefe bin ich ja überfordert.
Kamala Harris says she might run for president in 2028: "I'm thinking about it" (Anne Bryson/CBS News)
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/kamala-harris-2028-president-national-action-network/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260410/p73#a260410p73
If you're in favour of ditching digital services/platforms run by US billionaires, there is a Westminster debate this afternoon on #DigitalSovereignty. It is broadcast live online, and that debate is third of three debates starting at 14:30. Hard to say exactly when it will start, so check back a few times over the next hour or so:
Another FFS moment - give me strength!
Palmer will run for the Queensland seat of Fadden at the 2028 federal election, pledging his United Australia Party will have candidates in every electorate across the nation.
#AusPol #ItsBloodyPalmerAgain
In the run-up to Commencement on May 18, YDS is sharing profiles of some of our graduating students. We continue today with Margaret Witkofsky '26 M.A.R.! https://divinity.yale.edu/news/2026-04-06-meet-these-grads-2026
I'm glad I've got another year left on my fixed energy tariff; assuming that is I don't run another provider into bankruptcy. Still this gulf war has got to be good for solar/wind installers somewhere!
Yesterday I was commiting some changes and today I've run the application again.
To my horror it logged this line:
"2026-04-09 14:37:48.678 [main ] ERROR : <onSessionClosed> fucking OOP! id = 3"
Which I've thought I've deleted from commit...😬
I just forget to recompile it. So I'm good and no one will know what I think about our implementation of OOP.😂
100gCO2/kWh National Grid CO2 intensity so-so wrt last 24h so don't run big appliances now if you can wait. #CO2
Not mine, but I truly believe this.
#linux
The new server is online and so far the testing looks good. All the endpoints seem to be working and all of the workers and frontend are showing the correct information. I still need to do a complete test run to include encoding just to verify everything, but I'll do that after work today.
#golang #gin
I spend a lot of time being worried or angry or annoyed at the way that generative ai fervor is undermining our ecosystems (environmental, cultural, epistemic, digital, etc).
But right now I'm just feeling mournful. Seeing project after project, institution after institution run enthusiastically into a future where we boil our oceans to better insulate ourselves from one another is ... tragic. We're losing a lot right now, and we're going to have to come to terms with that.…
All the characters in #StarTrek have a past, which sometimes include pivotal moments seen in other series. As in the case of today’s #TrekTriviaTuesday question.
As always no googling and no spoiling the answer for others. Please boost after voting! :BoostOK:
Vote will run for 24h, …
The Edge Computing Cloud is opening to early adopters at #SXSW. Turn idle home internet and hardware - Mac Minis, old PCs, even NAS boxes - into a decentralized edge cloud. Install our open-source agent, leave it running, and earn cash for helping deliver content and run AI inference 2x faster than centralized clouds. We handle security, routing, and node trust. Join before March 31st for 2x payou…
I joined the debate hosted by the Gaeltacht housing activists in BÁNÚ this evening. Great questions and discussions.
The reality in Connemara like many in Galway is that landlords' profits and the commodification of our housing have been prioritised over our communities and people. Short-term lets have been let run rampant and people are being priced out of their communities and can't afford to live where they grew up.
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I know mastodon is filling up with linux tinkerers , but I'm joining the 'I love Linux quire'. Bought a macbook air from 2015 just to play with. Put Pop_OS! on it and tinkered a bit to get wifi working. Now it starts faster than my new work computer (filled up with #microslop). So the old Apple guy run laps around the HP from 2025. Cosmic is great on a low specs laptop.
🎶 „I watch the news and wanna start a fight. I'm mad. I've been in therapy for many years. I'm mad.“ I Am Mad by Aphty Khéa.
https://distrokid.com/hyperfollow/aphtykha/i-am-mad
Since Öoo is now coming to consoles there's no reason not to play it. Absolutely brilliant game that explores a single mechanic to its limits.
You could speed run at the first try but you won't know how until you progress. Step by step learning what's possible. Took me roughly 2 hours and was riddled with AHA moments all around.
https://
Funny to see some devs go from “I’ll rather run a cluster for backing up an entirety of Anna’s Archive than pay $5/mo subscription” to “Bro if you don’t pay $1000/mo for Anthropic Dev Turbocharge Pro Max Ultra are you even developing”
RE: https://infosec.exchange/@masek/116544804984700760
reCaptcha (which is owned and operated by Google) exists solely to data-mine people. The latest iteration forces people to install an app from Google on their mobile device.
If you run a web app or site, do not use it, for any reason. You're selling out your audience or your customers (and don't even get paid for it).
As Martin says, it's yet another attempt from Google to destroy the Internet (by controlling it).
ICE selects untested firms to oversee new warehouse detention centers
For decades, two companies have been the government’s go-to partners for immigrant detention:
Geo Group and CoreCivic
run the facilities where the majority of people detained by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement are held.
But as the Trump administration embarks on a $38 billion plan to convert industrial warehouses into a new breed of large-scale holding centers,
it is turning to a cr…
RE: https://mastodon.social/@appleinsider/116374958137331363
Omg. I need to see if my Wii can run Cheetah! 🐆
49ers, Mike Evans agree to deal, ending 12-year run with Buccaneers https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7087020/2026/03/09/mike-evans-49ers-nfl-free-agency-2026/
Ahhhhh! Es ist so schwer einen neuen Rucksack zu finden.
Für gute Qualität, am besten mit Reparaturgarantie, bin ich bereit auch etwas mehr auszugeben. Aber jedes Mal, wenn ich einen Rucksack finde, der meinen Kritetien entspricht kostet der 250€ und aufwärts... Das ist dann doch ein bisschen viel... Ich behalte erstmal den, den ich habe und hoffe, dass er noch ein bisschen durchhält...
Run Apple Shortcuts from the command line
#bookmarks
The Times of London says cutting the number of stories it publishes by 25% as part of a "fewer, better stories" strategy led to three months of audience growth (Charlotte Tobitt/Press Gazette)
https://pressgazette.co.uk/publishers/
Dynamic #Languages Faster and Cheaper in 13-Language #ClaudeCode Benchmark
https://www.infoq.com/news/2026/04/…
Dify, which offers an open-source platform to build and run AI applications and agentic workflows, raised a $30M pre-Series A led by HSG at a $180M valuation (FinSMEs)
https://www.finsmes.com/2026/03/dify-raises-30m-in-series-pre-a-funding.html
165gCO2/kWh National Grid CO2 intensity so-so wrt last 24h so don't run big appliances now if you can wait. #CO2
Inside Jon Gruden’s disastrous second run with the Raiders https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7152485/2026/04/09/raiders-jon-gruden-coaching-history/
Replace "tax" with "revolution insurance" whenever you're reading about taxes in the US, and it clarifies the stakes much better.
For example:
1) "'...the wealthiest folks...they're paying more for revolution insurance than the poorest folks. But are they paying as much in revolution insurance as they could pay to help run the country the way that we run it? And the answer to that is probably not,' said Anthony Infanti, a law professor a…
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Beyoncé:
🎵 Run the World (Girls)
#Beyoncé
https://sunnyburns.bandcamp.com/track/beyonc-run-the-world-sunnyburns-remix
https://open.spotify.com/track/1uXbwHHfgsXcUKfSZw5ZJ0
xAI aims to build a natural gas power plant in Southaven, MS, to run its data centers; a key meeting with regulators is set on an election day ~200 miles away (Lora Kolodny/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/03/09/mississippi-regulators-to-…
Heute erste Schicht im Laden nach der Pause. Ich freue mich sehr!! ❤️
Alerta Alerta Queerfeminista!
(In #Paderborn ist die Demo zum feministischen Kampftag schon heute. Dank an https://www.instagram.com/feministischeskollektiv.pb für die Organisa…
Cardinals QB Carson Beck on six-year college career: 'Everybody has to run their own race' https://www.nfl.com/news/cardinals-qb-carson-beck-on-six-year-college-career-everybody-has-to-run-their-own-race
177gCO2/kWh National Grid CO2 intensity is HIGH wrt last 24h so don't run anything that can wait! #CO2
Annual letter: Andy Jassy says AWS's AI revenue has reached a $15B annual run rate as of Q1, and Amazon plans to spend ~$200B in capital expenditures in 2026 (Todd Bishop/GeekWire)
https://www.geekwire.com/2026/not-on-a-hunch-andy-jassy-defend…
In Bonn kann man jetzt ein Praktikum bei den Taliban machen. Keine Pointe.
https://web.archive.org/web/20260506113007/https://afghanmissionbonn.de/praktikum.php?lang=de
ICE Agents Shoot Into a Car, Injuring a Suspect in Northern California
A federal official said the agents were pursuing a wanted gang member who tried to run one of them over.
Dash cam video complicates that account
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/07/us/shoo
Google seems to require Google Play Services for passing next-gen reCAPTCHA on Android, denying de-Googled Android phones and creating surveillance issues (Rick Findlay/Reclaim The Net)
https://reclaimthenet.org/google-broke-recaptcha-for-de-googled-android-user…
54gCO2/kWh National Grid CO2 intensity so-so wrt last 24h so don't run big appliances now if you can wait. #CO2
Dolphins to release QB Tua Tagovailoa, eat record $99.2M in dead money: Source https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7057582/2026/03/09/tua-tagovailoa-released-contract-miami-dolphins-cap-space/
At work @…, we are testing a new format where everyone from the support team has a one on one with everyone else. I created a python script to create the combinations and dates. At home, I thought it would be nice to make it easier to use and get back into learning Vue. I re-created the script as a tiny web app: MatchICS.
You enter a list of entities (people, t…
85gCO2/kWh National Grid CO2 intensity so-so wrt last 24h so don't run big appliances now if you can wait. #CO2
131gCO2/kWh National Grid CO2 intensity so-so wrt last 24h so don't run big appliances now if you can wait. #CO2
129gCO2/kWh National Grid CO2 intensity so-so wrt last 24h so don't run big appliances now if you can wait. #CO2
140gCO2/kWh National Grid CO2 intensity so-so wrt last 24h so don't run big appliances now if you can wait. #CO2
Tonight's mild nightmare: I was at an event. Introduction session. Most people already knew each other. Me and my companion were there for the first time. People kept going off topic. I carefully prepared my sentences and adjusted them several times. Shortly before it would have been my turn, the time was up and everyone walked away. I woke up.
The combination of how much energy it took me to find the right words, the tension while waiting and then realizing that it was all for not…
95gCO2/kWh National Grid CO2 intensity is HIGH wrt last 24h so don't run anything that can wait! #CO2
149gCO2/kWh National Grid CO2 intensity is HIGH wrt last 24h so don't run anything that can wait! #CO2
133gCO2/kWh National Grid CO2 intensity is HIGH wrt last 24h so don't run anything that can wait! #CO2
231gCO2/kWh National Grid CO2 intensity so-so wrt last 24h so don't run big appliances now if you can wait. #CO2
234gCO2/kWh National Grid CO2 intensity so-so wrt last 24h so don't run big appliances now if you can wait. #CO2
239gCO2/kWh National Grid CO2 intensity so-so wrt last 24h so don't run big appliances now if you can wait. #CO2
158gCO2/kWh National Grid CO2 intensity so-so wrt last 24h so don't run big appliances now if you can wait. #CO2
128gCO2/kWh National Grid CO2 intensity so-so wrt last 24h so don't run big appliances now if you can wait. #CO2
147gCO2/kWh National Grid CO2 intensity so-so wrt last 24h so don't run big appliances now if you can wait. #CO2
150gCO2/kWh National Grid CO2 intensity so-so wrt last 24h so don't run big appliances now if you can wait. #CO2
236gCO2/kWh National Grid CO2 intensity is HIGH wrt last 24h so don't run anything that can wait! #CO2
240gCO2/kWh National Grid CO2 intensity is HIGH wrt last 24h so don't run anything that can wait! #CO2
212gCO2/kWh National Grid CO2 intensity is HIGH wrt last 24h so don't run anything that can wait! #CO2