2026-01-06 23:47:20
#Tumblr is down. Quite suddenly too.
https://automatticstatus.com/
Memos: Will Lewis has stepped down as WaPo publisher and CEO; former Tumblr CEO Jeff D'Onofrio, who joined WaPo last June as CFO, is acting publisher and CEO (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/07/technology/washington-post-will-lewis.html
10 years ago today I exited my own company to go all-in on digital accessibility as a solo consultant.
I spent my afternoon in the office getting dizzy. I was also the only one there.
https://aardrian.tumblr.com/post/136349046831/last-day-to-…
Never forget that the liberals that cherry-pick his words now would have hated him back then:
#MartinLutherKing
This thread on devious US Army recruitment practices is likely similar elsewhere and already cause for parental/peer concern, but what struck me most is how that first post on policy reads EXACTLY like the complaints of LLMs seditiously feeding 'engagement'.
https://www.tumblr.com/trickbop/804838598726877184?source=share
Imagine being so depraved that you will spread FUD about and defame a young woman in Gaza who is volunteering to help others who are also being forced to endure genocide and famine in Gaza.
That’s exactly what these two accounts are doing:
• @… (CC mastodon.de admin, @…
10 years ago today was my first day as a solo digital accessibility consultant.
Yes, that’s me on a balance ball on bubble wrap. I hadn’t quite filled my sales pipeline yet.
https://aardrian.tumblr.com/post/136608190926/day-1-of-my-new-freelanc…
"Act surprised when it DOES work, and hand the developer a lolly-pop."
#survivalstrategies #aislop #ChatGPT
https://www.tumblr.com/teledyn/804847534496514048/they-arent-making-things-up-they-arent-that?source=share
from my link log —
An entomologist rates emoji ants.
https://curlicuecal.tumblr.com/post/175362924100/an-entomologist-rates-ant-emojis
saved 2020-01-03
Open vs. Closed: The Fight for a New Internet
The Story Behind — A federated internet is forming. It's built on open protocols like ActivityPub & connects services like Mastodon, Threads, Pixelfed, Tumblr, Wordpress and more into a connected network known as the fediverse. And everyone from tech enthusiasts to Mark Zuckerberg and Jack Dorsey seem to want in.
📺
This post is why I love #Tumblr:
https://www.tumblr.com/sadabeuk/806497850104168448?source=share
"Writing your idea down is not starting the damn game. Writing a design document is not starting the damn game. Assembling a team is not starting the damn game. Even doing graphics or music is not starting the damn game. It’s easy to confuse “preparing to start the damn game” with “starting the damn game”. Just remember: a damn game can be played, and if you have not created something that can be played, it’s not a damn game!"
https://www.tumblr.com/fatmagic/807286701661863936?source=share
Me scooching next to you for some much-needed head pats:
https://va.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_t9adwuq9O51ykp17t.mp4
[Link forwards to a video of a very rotund froad doing a lil jump. He is in need of pats.]
Happy First Tuesday in February #MisconceptionsDay tomorrow for all those who celebrate!
https://www.tumblr.com/teledyn/807477408461701120/happy-misconceptions-day-to-those-who-celebrate?source=share
(IIRC, the origin of that quote as far as anyone can tell is a now-deleted Tumblr blog, and I can find neither the name nor the link on the fly here right now)
"Release dates didn’t really have the same heft in 1959 that they do today — distribution, unsurprisingly, was far less efficient. But Art Blakey’s seminal album Moanin’ — which was originally self-titled — was released on Blue Note at some point in mid-January 1959; at least, it was reviewed in the January 19, 1959 edition of Billboard."
#Toronto #TTC should try this, would be cheap, could employ actors, no chance of violent escalation, and best of all would be witnessing that moment when a great flurry of Batmans leave the shop to begin their shift!
C-mon @… even just a trial run?
https://www.tumblr.com/teledyn/801844027262730240/toronto-ttc-should-try-this?source=share
Odio estas plantas, es que es IMPOSIBLE q no mueran
https://social.neonpaws.digital/@FoxesInLove/115944771098497738
Heritage News of the Week
https://www.tumblr.com/teledyn/807397050778042368/today-in-ancient-history?source=share
Tom Lehrer (1928–2025): A (Mostly) Mathematical Appreciation
https://www.tumblr.com/teledyn/807373175827677184/this-rank-discrimination-is-not-for-us-we-must?source=share
Learned today, via YouTube comments, Canada lost a songwriting treasure last November
https://www.tumblr.com/teledyn/804561780957462528/slong-tag-a-long-paul?source=share
"We are not here to fit in, be well balanced, or provide exempla for others. We are here to be eccentric, different, perhaps strange, perhaps merely to add our small piece, our little clunky, chunky selves, to the great mosaic of being. As the gods intended, we are here to become more and more ourselves."
https://www.tumblr.com/teledyn/804558448435068928?source=share
Don't click this link if you're feeling hornely:
https://va.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_t8mmbxsOq61ykp17t.mp4
Springsteen responds…
https://www.tumblr.com/cheeseandentrails/807008674579185664?source=share
At a time when Mexicans and Mexican Americans are treated like a problem, remember this: They helped build the culture you treasure.
#peanuts #billmelendez #charliebrownchristmas
https://www.tumblr.com/teledyn/804375628815253504?source=share
It's only an hour. You can do it! But I wonder, given keiko is in her fifties today, and given I am more than thrice 22, is her story still relevant in 2025? Sion Sono has a knack for nailing his target.
https://www.tumblr.com/teledyn/807053292677021696/i-am-keiko-1997?source=share
One of my fave scenes from #StargateSG1 and horribly apposite:
https://www.tumblr.com/checkerdandy/805319183428616192?source=share
It is probably just me, or just my relative newcoming to Fediverse having not yet found my true centre, but I'd spend more time here if there were more totally-off-the-rails posts like this one:
https://www.tumblr.com/teledyn/804124363834146816/vbartilucci-lemonsharks-girlactionfigure?source=share
Vittorio Camardese, Italy, 1965
https://www.tumblr.com/teledyn/805306102731423744?source=share
Mark Rothko on the "recipe of a work of art," lecture at the Pratt Institute, 1958:
https://www.tumblr.com/teledyn/801036007022690304?source=share
Here it is "nine plus four?" and the answer is "three." #shelsilverstein
https://www.tumblr.com/teledyn/806566590995988481/homework-machine-the-homework-machine-oh-the?source=share
This Crimbo, I will mostly be hanging out on Tumblr, Mastodon, Bluesky and Reddit, in that order, while non-stop Stargate SG-1 plays on my telly.
Mood: I am the round red twat in this -> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Red_Balloon
Anyone know the song they're singing? I hope it is about event horizons …
https://www.tumblr.com/teledyn/806560629144043520/stephen-hawking-impersonators?source=share
TikTok = Oracle = DHS = ICE
I'm no longer on the platform so can't confirm these changes to the EUA are true, but I do know I will be more carefully examining any and all future "our rules have changed" emails from every US based service.
https://www.tumblr.com/cheeseandentrails/806562007689183232?source=share
RE: https://indieweb.social/@tam/115946983408704660
You see - THIS is Mastodon. You'd never get that on Tumblr.
Bravo, Tam, bravo!
Happy Solstice to you!¹
#solstice
Gil Gerard (1943-2025)
https://www.tumblr.com/teledyn/803210309013733376?source=share
when you discover it is your circus and those are your monkeys
https://www.tumblr.com/teledyn/802957899844435968/brazenbastard-it-sucks-when-you-discover-it-is?source=share
First documented case of violent populous movements being fomented by partisan rhetoric from agitator deep fakes?
https://www.tumblr.com/teledyn/800228380077424640/first-documented-case-of-violent-populous?source=share
"Microsoft was an early investor in many of the latest AI companies. It ended up with a serious stake in OpenAI and benefited from early access to its models, creating Bing Chat and Copilot when Google, Meta, and Anthropic were just getting started. But now its momentum has stalled, and like everyone else, it's not making much money from its AI products. That's because no one is buying them, and that is because very few people actually find them useful, The Information reports."
https://www.tumblr.com/teledyn/803134194609979392?source=share
Would be such a shame if this got shared …
https://www.tumblr.com/cousinbat/805644298121019392?source=share
Is it significant that, to date, I have not heard a single politician cite #ThomasPiketty?
https://www.tumblr.com/teledyn/799951466541498368/thomas-piketty-recent?source=share
If cows didn't like mustard, there would be no movies.
#cinema
https://www.tumblr.com/teledyn/805480293661278208?source=share
The green light just isn't required on this blockbuster filmscript pitch 😅
https://www.tumblr.com/teledyn/802403929545670656/i-notice-no-mention-of-the-palantir-meta-deal?source=share
You don't need a Weatherman to know which way the wind blows
#mybackpages
https://www.tumblr.com/teledyn/805377334274392064/teledyn-postpunkindustrial-when-you-cut-into?source=share
This extract in particular is an excellent summary of why people turn to AI, and (as well as what follows, namely the "raising the standards and lowering the stakes" bit) an excellent guide to recentering education as a process & practice rather than a series of benchmarks students are required to chase.
https://www.tumblr.com/inside-a-cold-cave/805462716508717056?source=share