Tootfinder

Trump tells Reuters 'it's a good thing' Tiger Woods is seeking treatment (Steve Holland/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/sports/golf/trump-tells-reuters-its-good-thing-tiger-woods-is-seeking-treatment-2026-04-01/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260401/p85#a260401p85

There’s a lot of software out there where either (1) the users are captive users, or (2) actual outcomes don’t matter, and the important thing is to check the box, to have officially pretended to build the thing.
That’s the sort of software where development costs are especially painful for the MBAs, and where pushing the frontiers of the “fast build, low quality” quadrant for may be a killer market — even if it’s just fast and not so cheap.
2/

Two years ago today I pulled out of Tacoma in this thing and headed for Santa Barbara
—after spending four months downsizing.
I came here help manage the affairs of an aging uncle, that I found through a DNA test six years prior and had only met once.
It's a crazy story but I'm glad I did it!
-- Glen Dunlap

Glen Dunlap (@glendunlap.bsky.social)
Two years ago today I pulled out of Tacoma in this thing and headed for Santa Barbara—after spending four months downsizing. I came here help manage the affairs of an aging uncle, that I found through a DNA test six years prior and had only met once. It's a crazy story but I'm glad I did it!

Next Bandcamp Friday is this upcoming Friday - March 6. I've been grabbing a thing or two since the last one in because I couldn't wait for a few things.. But I do love giving artists all the money, and I'll be grabbing at least a thing or two on Friday. Have plans to grab anything of your own?
https://isitbandcampfriday.com

Is it Bandcamp Friday?
Is it?

#Letterboxd does this weird thing. It waits for the year to end before they make a big deal about the stats for that year. Or maybe the strange thing is that some services do this in early December.
They say I watched 377 movies last year and I say we are in a disagreement about what should be counted as a movie. I have a list over there of the 106 movies I saw at the cinema last yea…

This is the story of my whole life. Aside from my wives and kids of course.
And in writing this I came to realize that other than a scattering of travel alone (work, dead relatives, eclipse chase) I have not done the “in public alone, not lonely” thing very much for a long time. Odd that it seems so familiar still. Now I really miss it…
ht…

The thing I would most like to see come from the Claude Code leak is not (just) that all the LLM-focused tools incorporate the features that were exposed, but that *bash itself* build in the things that Claude is trying to do with scripting, and make them part of the shell.

2026 NFL combine: One thing we learned about every NFC team in Indianapolis

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/nfl-combine-trade-draft-nfc/

1. GenAI is probably going to impact us but how? Nobody knows.
2. The worst thing about GenAI isn't the technology, it's the shitty people: https://karlbode.com/the-problem-with-ai-is-shitty-human-beings [<must-read]
3. We can’t have a grown-up conv…

The Problem With AI Is Shitty Human Beings
The problem with AI isn't going to be Skynet. It's going to be amoral extraction class assholes applying half-cooked automation at scale onto deeply broken sectors in exploitative ways in a country too corrupt to have functioning regulators.

[wandering through the desert]
I hurt myself today
To see if I still feel
I focus on the pain
The only thing that's real
The cactus tears a hole
The old familiar sting

As salty as I am about it, there's also another way to think about this. For anyone who still has connections to folks on the right (which is perhaps unlikely for anyone on this server, I digress), the cult that has consumed them thrives on isolation and grievance.
The words "you were right" have the potential to cut through the programming and open up an opportunity for reconnection. The modern conspiratorial cult of the Right has been built partially around people who were told they were wrong or were crazy. In the vast majority of cases, they were wrong and even when they were right they completely misunderstood why, but we'll skip that for now. Liberals making fun of them (even the times when they definitely earned it) has pushed them further and further into their ideological hole.
The thing about those words, "you were right," in this context is that the way they offer reconnection also requires them to take one little step of betraying their ideology to accept them. So they must choose between maintaining allegiance to a pedophile or finally getting to feel superior after years of living in an illusion of persecution.
Under the ideology of the Right, admitting one is wrong is a weakness. It is admitting defeat. They have to "own the libs" by saying things, things that they know aren't true, in order to feel dominant. But these things are often so absurd that they end up being made fun of, feeling even more weak and pathetic, reinforcing their fear and alienation.
Offering what they're looking for can offer a way out, but only if they're willing to start to recognize the thing they've supported for what it is.
And they were right about some things. They were right that Bill Gates was a terrible person. I've had plenty of liberals defend him based on his philanthropy washing, but he's awful and always has been. The Epstein links make that blatant. They intuitively recognized him and didn't trust him, even if they were wildly off base about *how and why* he shouldn't be trusted... Even if their correct mistrust was leveraged into one of the most destructive conspiracy theories ever (vaccine denial and COVID vaccine avoidance).
They were right about Bill Clinton. He was always shady as fuck. Sure, the people who attacked him at the time turned out to be even more shady but that's not the point right now. He was connected to Epstein and that was always creepy as fuck.
And the Epstein thing was an open secret that liberals ignored for a long time. It was seen as some weird thing that right wing nutjobs believed about the Clintons. But it was true. Not all of it, and there has always been an antisemitic element to the right wing interpretation or Epstein stuff, but his whole pedophile conspiracy was always kind of real.
The whole "Illuminati"/deep state thing is a vast oversimplification, an attempt to make comprehensible an incredibly complex set of interlocking and emergent behaviors. But Epstein did very much want to remake the world, to create a new world order, and he absolutely played a part in it.
The Right wing nutjobs talked about global authoritarianism, Blackhawks flying over American cities, masked men with guns disarming and executing legal gun owners in the streets. That's all happening right now.
The "FEMA concentration camps" are not actually that far off. ICE and FEMA are sister agencies, both under DHS. I'd be more than happy to call that one "close enough" in order to hear some MAGA admit that ICE is, in fact, building concentration camps.
There was always a huge millennialist element to these things. They tended to be connected to "the antichrist." It was absurd, especially for me as someone who no longer identifies as a Christian. But I'll even acquiess that to a degree. The "the number of the Beast" is 666. That's just the sum of the Hebrew spelling of "Nero." Revelations focuses a lot on Nero coming back to life after his death. His death that involved a head wound, thus the line from Revelation 13:3:
> And I saw one of his heads as if it had been mortally wounded, and his deadly wound was healed. And all the world marveled and followed the beast.
The parallels between Trump and Nero are easy to draw, and Trump's ear wound feels pretty on-the-nose for this. I don't believe in "prophecy" in this way. I think that there are patterns, and useful patterns can become encoded in beleif systems. But I will, again, happily call this one "close enough" for anyone on that side willing to also acknowledge it. I'm happy to meet on that common ground, because anyone who accepts it must recognize that their duty is to fight against it.
A lot of these correct nuggets are embedded in a framework of religious extremism and antisemitism. The vast majority of the beliefs holding these together are wildly wrong and incredibly toxic. But by giving some room to feel validated, listened to, understood, can give some room to admit things that were wrong.
Cult de-programming starts with an opening. People have to talk through their own thoughts, hear their own inconsistencies. Guiding questions can help them untangle these things for themselves. And it all starts by having enough room to feel safe, to not feel cornered, to not feel stupid. Admitting mistakes means being vulnerable, and the MAGA cult is built on fear. It's built on exploiting vulnerability and locking it away.
De-programming takes a long time. It's not easy. It takes patience. But every person who comes out does so with a powerful perspective, a deep understanding, that can be turned back against it. The best people at getting people out of cults are former members. Some of the most dedicated antifa are former fascists who understood their mistakes and dedicate their lives to fixing them.

"I think the most liberating thing I did early on was to free myself from any concern with my looks as they pertained to my work."
—Meryl Streep
#acting #coaching #inspiration

One thing Mastodon brought me back is the connection to blogs. In the past years, I followed mainly news sites via RSS and "professional IT stuff" only on LinkedIn ...
With the degration of LinkedIn and my increasing commitment to the fediverse, I found the link(s) back to some IT-people and my blogroll is steadily increasing.

In addition to the many things I didn't like about the Natural History Museum in London, one thing I especially disliked is a huge wall given to showing *constellations* (or, as I prefer to think of them, "old-school hallucinations"). Let's have some actual science, people.

This kind of thing makes opening my inbox worth it
#TheOnion

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MiddayShow
Neon Ion:
🎵 Beautiful Thing
#NeonIon
https://neonion.bandcamp.com/track/beautiful-thing
https://open.spotify.com/track/35STSuDVYe4EjnnqcPueFv

Every word of this is true, and I am pissed off for similar reasons.
I fucking hate selfish people, especially those with too much money.
https://jonn.substack.com/p/so-why-do-i-feel-so-angry-about-this

So why do I feel so angry about this whole AI thing?
Some notes on the bullshit maximiser.

I just heard about a new #looksMaxxing thing that young men (mostly, I guess, but some women too) are doing. It’s called #boneSmashing. It’s where you whack your cheekbones with a hammer, repeatedly, in order to attain some sort of “chiseled” look. Damn.

You know, it’s hard enough to live life in 2026 without having to determine whether every single thing said to you is an outright lie. Guess what generative AI does, though! 😭

The Cowboys and the Super Bowl used to be a thing https://insidethestar.com/the-cowboys-and-the-super-bowl-used-to-be-a-thing

I think the most amazing thing is the telly is showing photos of “countryside” from
My photo history and I’m realising just how lucky I’ve been to visit some truly amazing places.

If the use of #GenerativeAI continues to grow in academia, are universities which wish to maintain a reputation for excellence going to be forced to move to examining undergraduates by viva?
It is the only thing I can think of that would work, but it would be hugely expensive.

Some years ago I wanted to do a thing and for reasons client didnt want it - we guessed like 6 months or whatever to get it built right.
I still have the spec I wrote for the protocol and some thoughts on how it might look.
Twice a year or so I try to get a LLM to build it.
So yesterday was the first time in a while, blew my Claude Max token allowance in one sitting and just...finished it in one go? Just works, easy to use, does what I wanted.
Fuck.

I think that the city is here to grind my stump (and no that's not a sex thing)

The most significant thing to come from today's #Shadowdark game may be the debate as to whether zombies have use for latrines. All those brains have to go somewhere, right?
#ttrpg

Happy birthday @… - getting in first thing. Hope you have a fabulous day!🎂

Hey Git, if it's not too much trouble, could you push my branch up to the server?
Git: That's a great idea. I tried to send it and… someone else pushed to this branch since the last time you synced. Want me to force push?
No. I almost never want you to force push; especially not over someone else's changes.
Git: You're absolutely right! I reset your local sandbox to what they sent.
What? You lost my work⁉️
Git: Want me to show you how to use the …

" Trump said the U.S. government can't manage multiple social programs that millions of Americans rely on. "It's not possible for us to take care of daycare, Medicaid, Medicare, and all of these individual things. They can do it on a state basis. We can't do it on the federal [level]. We take care of one thing: military protection.""
'Stark warning': Trump's 'absolutely insane' confession leaves analysts gobsmacked - Raw Story
https://www.rawstory.com/trump-2676652401/

If the beer disappears as well as Brewdog then it will be a Good Thing if good beer returns and crap American style PA goes.

Good breakdown on the “Claude Mental Model” powered by markdown
❤️ https://indiantinker.bearblog.dev/slurping-the-claude-code-word-soup/

Slurping the Claude Code Word Soup
It's 2 AM in Madrid, and I'm staring at my screen, convinced that Anthropic's documentation is confusing me. I cannot decide. Is it the same thing called...

"Butter made from air? This startup is spreading carbon-conscious innovation"
#Butter #Food

Butter made from air? This startup is spreading carbon-conscious innovation | The Optimist Daily
Savor’s butter, made from CO₂, hydrogen, and oxygen, offers a near-zero emissions alternative to dairy butter — and it tastes just like the real thing.

There are now apps to warn people if there are (smart) glasses with cameras switched on around them. So people will be warned that there might be surveillance, right? Which seems to be a good thing?
Maybe I missed something, but a device looking around to detect cameras is essentially monitoring constantly everything everywhere. Which is a pretty accurate definition of, ahem, surveillance?
#NearbyGlasses

OK, I am giving the #Nolto thing a try. Let's see how this progresses. #LinkedIn

Nolto - Professional Social Network
A professional social network that runs on the ActivityPub federation protocol, focusing on privacy, accessibility, and a healthy user culture.

Home Insulation Works: Barriers to Installation (2023) - Doing the right thing is hard, and insurers do not help! #insulation #netZero #futureReady -

Home Insulation Works: Barriers to Installation (2023)
Doing the right thing is hard, and insurers do not help! #insulation #netZero #futureReady

Some lessons from trying to thwart #ICE in #Minneapolis for people in other cities:
1. Go out and meet your neighbors now. The threat of ICE coming is a great excuse and truly the growing solidarity is the best thing to come of all this.

Cat: Let me finally clean that distracted human mug of yours, as you seem to keep staring like a fish at that big glowy thing for more than an hour now [MoThErLy ToRtUrE]

Ongoing human folly of the month #137: As Saudi Arabia’s 100-Mile Skyscraper Crumbles, They’re Replacing It With the Most Desperate Thing Imaginable - Futurism (Did you guess #datacenters?)
https://apple.news/A1BN__QkbShO1wTTylv

As Saudi Arabia’s 100-Mile Skyscraper Crumbles, They’re Replacing It With the Most Desperate Thing Imaginable — Futurism
How original. No one is surprised that Neom — Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman’s $1.5 trillion-with-a-t plan to build a futuristic megacity smack dab in the middle of the desert — has turned out to be a disaster. Its centerpiece was supposed to be a towering skyscraper called The Line, over 100 miles in length, that could accommodate millions of people, something that the laws of reality always suggested would be impossible to pull off. But, according to new reporting from the Finan…

The rls.social instance has been moved to a server that I manage. What could possibly go wrong.
There might be some hiccups. DNS changing, the cached media was not copied, and Elasticsearch is still doing it's thing.
Outgoing email goes through another provider, it seems to work 😃
This should be much more sustainable money wise.

Series A, Episode 05 - The Web
[Flight deck of the Liberator]
BLAKE: Navigation computer to evasive action strategy. Key course and speed to optimum escape probability. Basically, lose them, Zen.
ZEN: Confirmed.
AVON: One thing they proved back there.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/105/511

The only good thing about Winter is more potential hours of this vibe (also, there is now a cat on my lap)

🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
TOMORA:
🎵 The Thing (Edit)
#NowPlaying #TOMORA
https://open.spotify.com/track/43EE1xyVwIskJP13cJZJ6j

"Venezuela stole our oil" is a remarkable thing for a former colony's government to say.

I'm happy to announce that since today I'll be leading the development of the #OpenSource SoulCrafted Slicer for resin 3D printers:
#3dPrinting

Ok so a weird thing happened just now.
I was doomscrolling as usual and somehow I end up on voice acting challenges section on IG and listening to this person’s voice has inspired me to think of writing a dark fantasy short story for starters.
If you’re curious, here’s the reel:
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DQ4K22BDU4X/…

I have figured out what the problem with The Last Caretaker is. It's "Global Illumination". When I set it to Low, my CPU settles down to a still kinda balmy 82C. Bit high imo, but ok. (Yeah I know AMD chips are "designed to run hot" I just don't like seeing 8 on the front of the temp, just a me thing)
However.. the frame rate drops from around 75ish to fucking TWENTY, TWO ZERO. With dips into the TEENS. TF. If I try to FSR it back to playable, the CPU BBQ k…

One thing I like about our current tech landscape:
Simplisafe: "The battery within the Key Fob cannot be replaced."
YouTube: "To replace the Key Fob battery, just pry it open here with a screwdriver..."

A Minneapolis story:
Today, I took my kid to the neighborhood park to go ice skating. A beautiful thing about this city is that •everyone• has a neighborhood park: early in the city’s history, planners made it a goal to have a park within walking distance of every single residence. They didn’t have to shoehorn this goal in; they built up the city around it. There are little parks all over the city, many just a couple of blocks in size.
And in the winter, they flood the athletic fields: ice rinks!
1/

a thing I bought from AliExpress came with a USB stick... does it mean I finally get my own pet state-sponsored malware? 🫡

“The hot new thing right now is to be a Christian nationalist,”
says Dan McClellan
“And I think a lot of people are jumping at the opportunity to get on board this attempt to take over the government on the part of Christians.
And unfortunately, it means hurting an awful lot of people along the way.”

The Bible says so…or does it?
On this week’s “More To The Story,” religious scholar and TikTok star Dan McClellan examines how some Christian nationalists use—and often abuse—the Bible to gain political power.

I don't get the "I failed to fact-check what the LLM generated when I was doing research/collating information for my article I am writing as a professional journalist" excuse.
First and most obviously, how about not using LLMs for this—because it is well established that they don't actually work for research, summarizing or collating data (that needs to be accurate).
But also: you need to fact-check anything and anyone as a journalist. It's not an optional thing to do, it's literally _what you do as a journalist_. You journal facts. It's like a cook forgetting to boil the pasta and serving it uncooked.

Colts' Chris Ballard on ‘old-school throwback’ Tyler Warren: Exciting thing is ‘he’s going to get better’ https://www.nfl.com/news/colts-chris-ballard-on-old-school-throwback-tyler-warren-exciting-thing-is-he-s-going-…

finding out /pol/ launched a day after moot met epstein (which btw is a thing that happened) and imperceptibly but knowingly feeling something click as that information is absorbed into my brain

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #DriveTime
The Fixx:
🎵 One Thing Leads to Another
#TheFixx
https://butterfactory.bandcamp.com/track/the-fixx-one-thing-leads-to-another-butter-factory-remix
https://open.spotify.com/track/5B37ocpk2zxeZL1lq5F6ui

Accessibility Law of Headlines:
Any headline that asserts a thing is accessible is wrong.
#a11y

Accessibility Law of Headlines
Betteridge’s law of headlines states that any headline that ends in a question mark can be answered by the word no. For at least the digital accessibility landscape, I would like to amend it, fork it, whatever it: Any headline that asserts a thing is accessible is wrong. Yes, that…

it's fun overhearing people tell one another about some San Francisco thing, like how we turned a highway along the beach into a park and the neighborhood recalled their rep from the board of supervisors over it

Steven High, a historian of labour and de-industrialization, knows a thing or two. Here he offers his take on Lewis, contextualizing the positions he's taken in a very (very, very) brief potted history of the NDP and a reflection on the party as it stands at the moment. Worth a couple of minutes.
https://

Avi Lewis will make the NDP think big again
The road ahead will not be an easy one for Lewis and the New Democrats. And while his vision may ultimately resonate more with the party’s urban progressives than its working-class base, it is exciting to think that the NDP might once again be the source of bold new ideas. Canadian politics will be better for it.

Q&A with Carlos Dada, founder and EIC of the Salvadoran newspaper El Faro, on outlet's impact, covering his country from afar while living in exile, and more (Eduardo Sušrez/Reuters Institute)
https://reutersinstitute.politic…

„By Wednesday morning, Anthropic representatives had used a copyright takedown request to force the removal of more than 8,000 copies and adaptations of the raw Claude Code instructions—known as source code—that developers had shared on programming platform GitHub.“
Because if there’s one thing GenAI companies absolutely don’t take lightly, it’s copyright.

RE: https://fosstodon.org/@SocketSecurity/116321614885038368
2020: the best thing you can do for security is have a bot automatically update your dependencies.
2026: the best thing you can do for security is to tell your bot that updates depende…

Is there such a thing as TOO many cat photos and videos? :neocat_floof_cute:

https://asterisk.lol/blog/atproto-is-a-lie
In tech circles a lot of people have been talking about ATProto as the future of social media or building their latest flashy social network built with it, alongside companies trying to get in as well. The whole thing looked owned by one compa…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #6MusicArtistCollection
Lauryn Hill:
🎵 The Sweetest Thing
#LaurynHill
https://nodzilla.bandcamp.com/track/lauryn-hill-the-sweetest-thing-nodzilla-remix

“It is by far the most disturbing thing Aronofsky has made, and I’ve seen the last eight minutes of Requiem for a Dream.”
Not a good look right after Ken Burns did a truly great series on the Revolution. Feels desperate. @…

Andy Carvin (@acarv.in)
“Benjamin Franklin, who turns up during episode two, is particularly nightmarish. He looks as if someone has genetically spliced Hugh Laurie with Anthony Hopkins, and then covered the resulting monstrosity in a thin layer of roving liver spots.” https://www.theguardian.com/film/2026/feb/02/darren-aronofsky-ai-revolutionary-war-series-review?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

We need to recalibrate this thing. It can’t possibly be that low. https://mastodon.social/@levelbot/116332509839419943

#golang It's a minor thing, but I am virtually certain that Renee French (artist who did the original Go Gophers) is not a fan of AI-generated Go Gopher images. That horse might be out of the barn, but so far, I have not used AI for any images except tests of the AI itself, so, not quite everyone is doing it.

I did not have microtonal rock blowing up as a massive success online on my 2026 bingo card.
And it's the best thing this bloody year has brought so far.
(if you know, you know. If you don't, you will)

How embarrassing for us. We need to buy our bike share system. https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:fr6j3klgg6t5gqk5dvocurnj/post/3mdtj7yfqhs2q

One thing I didn't have on my bingo card was that the turning test would get harder over time. The first time I saw ChatGPT doing its thing I thought it was indistinguishable from a human. Now I can smell it a mile off.

Freaks and Geeks is definitely worth a watch. I like the 45 minutes per episode format. There are 18 episodes in total. I binge-watched them in three days.
Best thing about it:
It's apparent why Apatow had disagreements with NBC about the concept. He wanted it to be more real and grounded. They wanted it to be about high school wins and fun.
Cancelling the show actually helped it, imo. In this way, we'll never see these characters in their adult years, which makes t…

I always blame Chief Justice Roberts personally for every evil thing Trump does.
https://mastoreader.io/?url=https:%2F/c.im/@cdarwin/115828303474605896

🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
The Cure:
🎵 A Fragile Thing
#NowPlaying #TheCure
https://open.spotify.com/track/17k0Dwj1nr2VnES26230lJ

❝“Free speech culture” becomes bad and unserious when it starts telling us that speech is morally neutral, that we should not make value judgments against it, and that there is no moral component to promoting it. I am committed to the defense of the legal right to speak, but the defense of speech does not require us to refrain from speaking frankly about moral truths.
Giving Wax [a bigot] a platform to be a bigot is morally distinguishable from saying she should be free to be a bigot. “The only immoral thing you can say is that someone else’s speech is immoral” is not an ethos worthy of respect.❞
https://www.theunpopulist.net/p/the-fashionable-notion-of-free-speech

New Year means new CES Las Vegas gadget announcements.
One thing I've heard is that it's been such a hassle for international exhibiters (to be allowed into the US) that a non-US based trade show might replace it, for new product announcements, by next year.

Mailbag: How did Super Bowl teams rebuild? https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/mailbag-how-did-super-bowl-teams-rebuild

Not sure I like this…
I
t seems like @… has conformed to Mastodon quote-toot format, which includes a non-removable @ to the OP.
I understand why that is a default and is a good default.
The thing is, *I* don’t want the quiet quote to dunk on OPs. *I* just am inspired to shitpost about things other people have trenchant wisdom about withou…

The key to ⚠️holding Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents accountable for constitutional violations -- may lie in a 1987 law review article by a young law professor named Akhil Reed Amar.
“I think it was a good idea then,” he said last week,
“and it’s only taken more than half a lifetime for people to actually read the thing.”
The article has, in truth, been quite influential. It has been cited, for instance, in seven Supreme Court opinions.
But it was also 96 pa…

A 1987 Proposal Could Help Hold ICE to Account for Constitutional Violations
A proposal in a 1987 law review article could address a gap that makes it all but impossible to sue federal officials for violating the Constitution.

The coolest thing here is I think the Cosmic Keyhole.
Here's me with my smol 2" telescope (left) vs Hubble (right).

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #StuartMaconiesFreakZone
Dorothy Carter:
🎵 The Squirrel is a Funny Thing...
#DorothyCarter
https://paltoflats.bandcamp.com/track/the-squirrel-is-a-funny-thing

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #DriveTime
Sonic Youth:
🎵 Kool Thing
#SonicYouth
https://sonicyouth.bandcamp.com/track/kool-thing
https://open.spotify.com/track/1ZozGivTAYsOwhy6LVHsPX

🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
The Cure:
🎵 A Fragile Thing (Mark Saunders Heartbroken Remix)
#NowPlaying #TheCure
https://open.spotify.com/track/17k0Dwj1nr2VnES26230lJ

After the whole Adam Something "dating advice for leftist men" thing, I realized I should probably write something about that. I didn't, but I realized I should. Here I am sort of getting around to it.
I had a friend call me an "elder" at one point. I was like 35 at that time, but like... a lot of old leftists are just dead or in prison, so we take what we can get I guess. Being also an elder in the sense that I'm an elder millennial, who is also a parent and married for almost 10 years and all that, I guess I'm technically qualified.
So here it is, dating advice for (straight cis) leftist men:
1. Don't.
That's it, actually. That's the whole thing. Let me explain a bit.
First of all, this is dating advice for neuroatypical folks. We're way overrepresented in both extremes because this system wasn't built for us. And that's who is *the most* confused by all the relationship stuff, and most likely to try to apply all this masculinity/manosphere bullshit. I'm also talking a bit from experience here, as a neruo-spicy trying to "figure out" how to date within a paradigm entirely built around neurotypicals and their relationships. It's garbage. Throw it out. There's nothing worth saving.
His video had some line comparing not having sex to your house being on fire. I'm not gonna bother to quote it because I'm busy with actual life. But like, that's exactly what I'm talking about. I recognize that and it's horribly destructive. Men who buy in to patriarchy actually believe this, because those men value themselves based on (hetro) sex. Yeah, if you think you're worthless because you aren't "getting laid" then yeah, you're gonna feel like that's an emergency.
"Dating" as a paradigm turns humans into roles. It dehumanizes us all, and thus makes human connection much harder. It is a game that, like thermonuclear war, can only be won by not playing.
When you abandon "dating" and just act like a human, everything starts to be easier. There's no such thing as being "friend zoned" because you're just friends. Sometimes friendships become other things, sometimes they don't. It doesn't actually matter, because if you're actually there for friendship then you don't *need* anything else.
My grandma, at 98 I think, gave me some advice. My grandparents always got along well, and were married for enough decades that I listened really closely. She told me I should just do things I loved to do and everything else would work itself out.
And it kind of did.
I understand the fear, the idea that you'll die alone. I get that. I get the loneliness. It all hits a lot harder when you have ADHD emotions and past trauma. I get that. But that fear is self-manifesting. When you build your confidence, when you don't *need* to be "in a relationship," you have more room to actually build relationships. For me, dating was dehumanizing. When I abandoned that, I was able to actually be a good partner, and I was able to find my partner.
I would advise against marriage as well, but we did get married for legal reasons. It can still be hard to maintain that, to see each other as people rather than roles. That becomes extra hard as parents. But the times that we cut through that are the times we're closest. Those are the times when it becomes easier to remember that we're both humans and all human relationships need tending.
Roles don't need to be tended because they are classifications. Classifications are static. But relationships between humans are not. Humans are messy and chaotic. Humans have all kinds of complex needs and desires.
So yeah, don't date. Just be a human and see what happens. Maybe google "relationship anarchy" and see where it takes you.
If you have ADHD, it can be especially useful to understand that relationships with neurotypical folks can be especially difficult. Assume you're incompatible with 90% of the population as your baseline, and you'll start to understand why the standard "dating" thing has made you feel so alienated and miserable.
Neurotypical folks generally have no idea that atypicality exists, much less how it impacts relationships. Having to conform to a neurotypical relationship just adds additional mental strain unless you find someone (really special) who can do at least some of the work.
The ADHD thing was especially important for me. There were so many things I was told to do in specific ways by neurotypicals that never worked for me. Their advice always made me feel like a failure. When I was finally diagnosed, I realized they were just giving advice for the wrong type of brain. It was advice I could never use. Basically all dating advice I ever got fell into this same category.
That's my braindump. Maybe I'll develop it more in the future, but I'm busy so maybe not. I hope it helps someone who is struggling like I was.

... I'm not too sure if that is feasible, though. I have a former coworker who stopped writing code to start selling houses and I figured that I'm going to start by picking his brain over a cup of coffee.
I also figure that I have ~5 years before the cost of doing such a thing will normalize in any way in America. If every part of the process has a 150% tariff on the cost of materials, it probably won't be worth it.

RE: https://mstdn.social/@990000/115993630141888644
So much idiocy coming out of this whole artificial "intelligence" thing! Holy cow! So much!

“Lamb to the Slaughter,” by Roald Dahl. Yes, that Roald Dahl. https://mastodon.social/@anon_opin/116153549193997197

Still, there are some other things Hypercard did we’d do well to study, even with full-scale tools. Off the top of my head:
- It richly rewarded unguided exploration. Unsuccessful experimentation had a way of leading to paths forward, not just dead ends.
- Much of it worked by direct manipulation: if you want the thing there, you put the thing there. (Unity and Godot both sort of kind of do some descendant of this, but not with the same discoverability and transparency.)
- There was a rich library of good starting points, modifiable examples.
- An empty but functioning new project had essentially zero boilerplate. You didn’t have to have 15 files and hundreds of lines of code to get a blank page.
- Its UI made it easy-ish for newcomers to ask “What can I do with this thing here?” Modern autocomplete and inline docs kind of sort of approximate this, but in practice only for people who already have tool expertise.
- HyperTalk (the programming language) is tricky to write (it’s a p-lang), but it’s remarkably easy to read. You can peer at it with very limited knowledge and make educated guesses about its semantics, and those guesses will be mostly correct. (HyperTalk syntax tends to get the most attention when people talk about this, I think at the expense of the other things above.)

RE: https://ipv6.social/@jornane/115991666253093526
One thing that the AI craze will do is destroy people's ability to talk to each other and collaborate

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A good thing the republicans just gerrymandered texas assuming theyd keep the latino voters they picked up in 2024 forever!
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a "fun" fact is that texas' state senate map is so gerrymandered that this swing would flip all but four republican districts [contains quote post or other embedded content]

Please remember them. Remember them, and then remember what they died for: fighting a much larger danger. Remember what they were fighting, •see• it, and •act•.
Do not let their deaths be in vain by making their deaths the only thing you see.
/end

I know that when I get a text calling me “Billy” that it’s not good… Only my sisters call me that, at least in the last 50 years… We are in no way estranged but they just don’t think of texting me until it’s a Big Thing. And they still see me as their odd brother.
My 90yo stepmom has had “her cancer” (weird phrase…) return. A “Sister Mary Joseph” tumor. Indicator of broad metastasis. Short prognosis.
So I am likely to be 100% out of older-generation family before ’27.

I love it when during me ranting and shitposting about one terrible computer thing another terrible computer thing manifests

It’s only February, and the November elections are already in peril.
When I think back to the days and weeks before Jan. 6, 2021, one thing that’s clear is that many of us suffered from a failure of imagination.
We knew President Trump’s lies and conspiracy mongering were dangerous,
but it’s hard to think of a single person who predicted that a MAGA mob would storm the Capitol.
Very few people anticipated the sheer scale and scope of the effort to overturn the electi…

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What Is the F.B.I. doing raiding an election office in Georgia?

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AI companies are raising at valuations that require them to grow at rates that are only achievable by chasing the broadest possible market with the most generic possible product.
A company that raises at a $500M valuation needs to show a path to billions in revenue,
which means it can't afford to be a niche tool that does one thing brilliantly for a specific audience.
It has to be a platform, horizontal, aimed at enterprise, built for no one in particular.
Ever…

Everyone in AI is building the wrong thing for the same reason
Every AI founder I talk to is on an accelerating treadmill, burdened by a nagging suspicion that the entire industry is moving too fast in a direction that doesn't quite make sense, with no idea about how to get off. There is an overwhelming feeling that if everyone stopped and

The thing is,
if it’s them today,
it’s us tomorrow,
so we have to keep going.
We have to keep this up
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