2026-01-16 17:18:54
(Yes, a Cybertruck.)
(Yes, a Cybertruck.)
@… thank you, yes
Dropped in the new 9800X3D today, as well as the Thermalright Peerless Assassin 120 SE. Booted up, and it posted, phew. Set the RAM Expo profile again and rebooted, logged in to desktop and started checking stuff. Launched The Last Caretaker and opened up MangoHud. 90C??! "Yo wtf is up with these temps.. OH SHIT" *shutdown*
Yes, yes I had done the thing everyone does at least once. As I was getting everything set up and pulling out the old parts and such, I looked at the new …
Why yes, I *did* hop out of bed when my wife’s usual 5:00am alarm went off… even though it is a day off for me (public holiday) but not for her.
Why did I do this when I could have stayed in bed??
Two words… ** 🥌 Olympic CURLING! 🥌 **
🎉🎉🤣🤣🎉🎉
One of my pet peeves of recent years has been the mainstream press:
(1) adopting “populism” as a euphemism for fascism (e.g. “Trump’s populist rhetoric”), which is at best a blurring of the word’s actual meaning (yes, fascists can use populist language, but populism is not their defining feature), and then
(2) applying the word in its original meaning (i.e. mass appeal to ordinary people) to leftists in direct comparison to fascists as if this constitutes a useful insight (e.g. “politicians with a populist message, such as Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders”).
This👇
https://hachyderm.io/@skinnylatte/116076016524108627
skinnylatte@hachyderm.io - So many people here are like, oh I wish I could move to (another country, that is also having a hard far right turn, and anti-immigrant horrors, just in a language they don’t speak)
It’s totally fine to feel you need to get away for safety and yes white cis Americans will likely face less of a threat in many places
However
I’m so irritated by the pretense that all of the current problems in the world are limited to US borders. We are going through a rough time of it.. but a lot of these problems are structurally global. ‘America is the worst’ is also a form of American exceptionalism.
Climbing onto a bar stool, a piece of string asked for a beer.
"Wait a minute. Aren't you a string?"
"Well, yes, I am."
"Sorry. We don't serve strings here."
The determined string left the bar and stopped a passer-by. "Excuse,
me," it said, "would you shred my ends and tie me up like a pretzel?" The
passer-by obliged, and the string re-entered the bar. "May I have a beer,
please?" …
“When there’s a supply disruption in the Middle East, that raises prices for every barrel of oil in the world,”
said Christopher Knittel, associate dean for climate and sustainability at M.I.T.
“Those price increases then trickle down to products that use oil, gasoline being the most relevant one.”
⚠️But isn’t the United States the world’s largest oil producer?
Yes, but not all American-produced oil can be easily used by American refiners.
The United States is a n…
https://furry.engineer/@notthatdelta/115906156652610253
More than 10 times the vote count and the trend continues.
96% no, 4% yes, 5,229 votes.
ht…
#PeerReview question:
If you, as the author of a research paper that has been peer-reviewed, could know who were the peer-reviewers, would you want to know?
If yes: why would you want to know? Would the name change how you interpret the review or how you behave towards the reviewer in future?
Archaeologists in Sicily Discover an Ancient Stylus With an Erection. Yes, That Kind of Erection
https://gizmodo.com/archaeologists-in-sicily-discover-an-ancient-stylus-with-an-erection-yes-that-kind-of-erection-2000709647
I am currently sitting in the Helsinki Library Oodi, and the plane that should take me from Helsinki to Copenhagen and Zurich (yes, the same plane) hasn't left Munich yet, it's delayed 1.5 hours. And it still needs to fly to Copenhagen and then Helsinki!
...
I think I'll get another book... #airtravel
Inquiring minds want to know: if you order two rainbow stag beetles and they arrive as larvae that you have to take care of (they live in a deli container, and you change the soil every 10 weeks) so they become the beetles - are they counted as "pets"?
In a few days the #PlanetNine hypothesis - first published on 20 Jan 2016 in the paper https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/0004-6256/151/2/22 ("EVIDENCE FOR A DISTANT GIANT PLANET IN THE SOLAR SYSTEM", yes, they shouted it in all caps) - will turn 10 years old. The proposed big outer solar system inhabitant has never been found: https://www.skyatnightmagazine.com/space-science/planet-9-x-y-edge-of-solar-system reviews the situation.
Alle Bundespolitiker_innen so:
"Wir werfen KI auf alles und streichen dafür gaaaanz viele Stellen."
IBM so:
"We are tripling our entry-level hiring, and yes, that is for software developers and all these jobs we’re being told AI can do.”
https://
If historians object that Trump is not a copy of Mussolini or Hitler or Franco, the reply is yes—but so what? Trump is building something new on old principles. He is showing us in real time what 21st-century American fascism looks like.
...
Americans who support liberal democracy need to recognize what we’re dealing with in order to cope with it, and to recognize something, one must name it. Trump has revealed himself, and we must name what we see.
Series A, Episode 07 - Mission To Destiny
VILA: Mock if you like, but I can always sense danger.
GAN: Yes, even when there isn't any.
AVON: Scan doesn't show any modifications. I think it's just what it seems to be.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/107/26 B7B4
Doctor’s office called to say the appointment I made online would take longer than 15 minutes. I am to understand that the scheduling portal doesn’t show it, but my primary care physician only has two longer slots available each day and those are booked all the way through to the end of April. Would I like to see the PA instead or reschedule?
Me: Can we break it up? Most topics are not urgent.
Them: yes but you’re only to talk about this one thing.
😐
"Marsupials in the news again? Yes! And this time it’s good news"
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/picture/2026/mar/06/marsupials-in-the-news-again-yes-and-this-time-its-good-news
this combination pot store & "prison style bootcamp" on delancey street never fails to make my brain grind. all i can imagine is allen ginsberg overseeing workouts & screaming POT IS FUN!!!! at you while you're on the elliptical or some shit. (and yes, i get that weed & exercise go together just fine. it's more the bootcamp part.) #nyc
Oh yes... we are in the cinema to see #Labyrinth with the immortal #DavidBowie 😎
@… It is not beating us. I am a Vivaldi employee. Here is a video from my cycle in to work today. Yes I am unicycling. We fear not winter! 😜
@…
"Yes, this is about AI. The AI industry can only succeed if it separates people from their joy and their confidence. An industry run by people who were not raised with love, attempting to steal it from others."
(Original title: How to raise children)
https://buttondown.com/monteiro/archiv
A: "I don't understand how you're so relaxed when you don't hear from the kids. Everyone in my family is like, 'msg me right when you get home!'"
me: "Ah, [13yo] is fine. He went home and is 100% watching videos when he's not supposed to be, hoping we forgot about him so that he can get away w/ as much screen time as he can. If he were stuck on the subway or something, he'd have messaged. Actually, I'd be more worried if he DID message.&qu…
@… Yes, I heard that helicopter and pulled an app to see what it was. Very odd. (As an aside, helicopters now fill me with dread.)
@… Yes, but it’s an ongoing exercise in trying to be a person who prioritizes having fun, over being a person who grins their teeth at the MM/DD date format.
The Hobbit trilogy? Yes, I'll allow it. And now unto the main course.
#TheLordOfTheRings
My daughter sent me the local forecast for her neighbourhood of High Park in Toronto. Wear a tuque if you are out walking the dog after dinner.
(Yes, it was corrected a few minutes later)
#AIweather #PolarVortex #Tauntaun
And "free" also implies that the worker is supposedly completely free. He is free in the sense that he can sell for as high a price as he can manage.
Himself?
Yes, for as much money as possible. - Now, in this market, the computer replaces the best thing the worker has to offer: knowledge and skill. The machine takes over both, and he himself is degraded to a mere machine operator. His actual abilities have been coaxed out of him and incorporated into the device. Consequently, he has less to sell than before, and what he can still sell is worth less.
He himself loses value?
Yes, because he is not only robbed of the ability to provide bread for his family, but also of one of the signs that prove to him that he is human. Now he is simplified and transformed into an operator. (Almost like in Kafka, where a man is transformed into a beetle; Kafka is a prophet in that regard.)"
Joseph Weizenbaum, Kurs auf den Eisberg, Serie Piper, Munich, 1987
Yes please, all of Trump's minions belong in jail https://mas.to/@su_liam/115891035196490046
@peterk@masto.es Yes, the bin kernel is very much up to date.
Edit: but i just checked, Slackware has it also available. That update is much more straightforward; I'll do Gentoo later on
What Fabio said…
(If you see the antisemitic Zionist meme accounts Fabio is talking about – yes, they’re about as antisemitic as you can get as they conflate being Jewish with supporting Israel and the genocide of the Palestinian people – please report them for antisemitism. Good rule of thumb to remember: Zionism is – and always has been – antisemitic. Let’s make sure we implement a zero tolerance policy on the fediverse for genocide deniers and antisemitic Zionists.)
I feel like coding with an AI agent is like using a microwave oven to make dinner. You’ll get some hot food and you can eat it, but is it going to be amazing? Probably not. Does it offer convenience and will it save you time? Yes.
But putting together an actual meal with real, fresh ingredients and making it yourself… It’s just going to be better.
Of course, some people just hate cooking… maybe those same people hate coding? (1/2)
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #90TEEN
Memory Tapes:
🎵 Yes I Know
#MemoryTapes
https://memorytapes.bandcamp.com/track/yes-i-know
https://open.spotify.com/track/0vscSYXHVifuXctQGMuw79
Please 🔁 BOOST to share what you like
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Oregon Voters Overwhelmingly Said Yes to Limiting Money in Politics. Then Politicians Had Their Say. (Rob Davis/ProPublica)
https://www.propublica.org/article/oregon-campaign-finance-reform-legislature-loopholes
http://www.memeorandum.com/260313/p67#a260313p67
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
Yes.
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*me staring at this having no idea where to categorize myself* 😂 https://lgbtqia.space/@alice/115998255721026083
In case you ever wondered what it costs to sell an item on Ebay Australia but with a German Ebay account. Yes, that's entirely possible and the system handles it all beautifully. Kudos to the programmers who had to work this out.
As you can probably see, I'm not doing this for profit, but for fun and to prevent waste.
Are you into old Pokémon stuff? Everything is $5 now: …
Doin' US taxes again. Super blah without a donut!!
Last year my personal filing was about 200 pages long. (We also do a separate corporate filing.)
And once again my taxes will far, far, far exceed the actual disposable income I have received.
Yes, this is an upper-middle-class, first world problem.. But I do hate paying what amounts to big wads of $$ to pay for El Cheato's destruction of the US.
2026 NFL Draft: Is the Cowboys 12th Overall Pick Losing Value? https://insidethestar.com/2026-nfl-draft-is-the-cowboys-12th-overall-pick-losing-value
Yes, Minister S1/E1 'The Grand Design' Paul Eddington • Nigel Hawthorne - Video Dailymotion
#YesMinister
RE: https://climatejustice.social/@GeofCox/116062316104136628
Yes, and...
The _first_ reporting duty, the _first_ level of responsibility has to be ecological. Not "environmental", with its implicit human exceptionalism. We must recog…
@… yes, not really possible! Although I was expecting it to say "instruction manuals" which would've been less useful :)
For a project to be truly #OpenSource (not to mention #FreeSoftware), it really needs to:
1. Have a *public* issue tracker that enables you to browse and search through issue reports *without* having to create an account.
2. Accept issue reports, with no strings attached. Yes, expecting registration is fine. Yes, expecting some effort to file a good bug report is fine. No, expecting people to ask permission, donate or otherwise put a lot of extra work to report a problem is not.
3. Do not close issue reports as "stale". Yes, it's fine to close a report if you really believe it was fixed, or if you asked for something and the user didn't reply for a long time. It's not fine to run a bot expecting users to jump every month so that the issue report that *you are ignoring* doesn't get closed.
If a project doesn't meet these, it's just a glorified throwaway code.
Today, a stranger complimented my custom (4 specimen total) #GNUTerryPratchett pin.
Does it compensate having to buy a new dishwasher after mine broke at precisely 5years 3months (with extended guarantee for 5years)?
No, not completely. But definitely 90% of the way, yes.
Yes, that way we might get a more serious drive to replace gas boilers with heat pumps.
Green Party's Hannah Spencer says 'more plumbers should become MPs' in maiden Parliament speech - Manchester Evening News
https://www.manchestereveningnews…
The director of Hamnet is stunned and Spielberg is like "yes this happens, please walk this way"
#goldenglobes
I love a stickler for precision and a discussion about the true nature of things. But I can separate that from observed phenomena. I wonder if during the early days of flight, people said, "Well akshually Mr Wright, you didn't really *fly*". (Yes, this is a GenAI post.)
At tonight's candidate forum, Scott Wiener refused to say yes or no to the question, "Is Israel committing genocide in Gaza?" Both his opponents for Congress, Connie Chan and Saikat Chakrabarti, said yes.
https://www.youtube.com/live/Reo0e38zb3I?t=6120
This is true. Just—AI enables the production of slop in far greater quantities and much faster and with frightening consistency.
When ChatGPT first came out, many of us saw that one could produce perfectly mediocre, standardised, and shallow screenplays with it. Problem is: long before ChatGPT was a gleam in Altman’s eye, there were Movies of the Week. Based on mediocre, standardised, and shallow screenplays—albeit written by humans.
And yes, I do think that last bit makes a diff…
Lily Cheng in #Willowdale is again advocating against new housing next to a subway station
According to her, adding 2000 new residents to the neighborhood would be a risk to lose the Costco (???). As if adding new people to the neighborhood would make Costco leave.
Yes some "essential local retail shops" (aka Starbucks) would leave... But there's no shortage i…
Yes, forest trees die of old age. But the warming climate is killing them faster #environment
@… For the curious, this includes security fixes for CVE-2026-3909 & CVE-2026-3910 from Chromium 146.0.7680.80.
And yes, we somehow beat the Chrome team getting this out even though they did the fix. 😂
Series B, Episode 08 - Hostage
VILA: Oh, marvelous. Kill Blake's old uncle.
AVON: Keep under cover.
VILA: Yes, yes.
AVON: Stay alert. Talk to the Liberator every ten minutes.
VILA: Yes, yes. I'm freezing.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/208/421 B7B3
Journalist Eoin Higgins says Matt Taibbi is suing him for defamation over Owned, his book about tech billionaires and the left, and "I stand by my work" (Eoin Higgins/The Flashpoint)
https://eoinhiggins.substack.com/p/yes-im-being-sued-by-matt-taibbi<…
@… @… Yes. Jonathan himself being one of them.
What’s your idea of serious action? Pushing our government representatives by repeatedly calling them, emailing them, and protesting in front of them, sure sounds like serious actio…
@… yes sir because of the P1 USB adapter both have plugged in. Those two nodes have a specific label for that so it will only run on either of those two nodes. Have the same with my ADS-B listener, two nodes had a RTL-SDR connected, but only one pod is actually using one.
Today, the EC came up with a €200 million (yes, with an m!) guarantee fund for innovative nuclear technologies and now we will have operational SMRs by the early 2030s. Call me sceptical :)
A mini-fund for mini-reactors.
https://www.euronews.com/my-eu…
#WordWeavers Day 10: Have you ever dedicated your work to someone?
Yes. I dedicated my master's thesis to my grandparents. They were working class with no higher education but always curious about my studies and incredibly supportive.
The way all "AI" CEOs and evangelists keep talking about how we all need to be more positive and believe more and talk less about the material issues ... that is how an actual innovation, a paradigm shift even, looks like, yes?
@… yes! there has been plenty of very good (not always positive) but constructive feedback too! I appreciate that!
Hold on to this:
Operation Metro Surge was a catastrophic failure for the Trump regime. Yes, as a terrorist operation, it succeeded: they meant to hurt and terrorize black and Brown people and the whole opposition, and they succeeded at that. But in doing so they lost their credibility, they lost the support of mushy institutions and politicians, they lost much of the popular support a would-be authoritarian needs to consolidate power.
And they lost it because we stood up to them.
3/
Series B, Episode 08 - Hostage
VILA: Oh, marvelous. Kill Blake's old uncle.
AVON: Keep under cover.
VILA: Yes, yes.
AVON: Stay alert. Talk to the Liberator every ten minutes.
VILA: Yes, yes. I'm freezing.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/208/421 B7B3
"Mind if I smoke?"
"Yes, I'd like to see that, does it come out of your ears or what?"
Yes, that way we might get a more serious drive to replace gas boilers with heat pumps.
Green Party's Hannah Spencer says 'more plumbers should become MPs' in maiden Parliament speech - Manchester Evening News
https://www.manchestereveningnews…
What’s that?
Why yes, I am the person who went out and washed his car in the driveway in the middle of January to get all the salt off, including the undercarriage (under car sprayer for Xmas)
What’s that?
Why yes, I did just get a notification rain is starting in 15 minutes, why do you ask?
😂
@peterk@masto.es Yes, obviously they are not installed ootb, but with ujust you could install them easily.
EFF is proud to support the
“ICE Out of Our Faces Act.”
This new federal bill would ban ICE and CBP agents, and some local police working with them,
from acquiring or using biometric surveillance systems,
including face recognition technology, or information derived from such systems by another entity.
This bill would be enforceable, among other ways, by a strong private right of action.
The bill’s lead author is Senator Ed Markey.
We thank him for…
Yes, you should delete your food delivery apps - Salon.com
https://www.salon.com/2026/03/03/yes-you-should-delete-your-food-delivery-apps/
@… Yes, I agree about the website.
Your regular reminder to not use "techbro" when you mean "billionaire". Yes, the latest #billionaires are typically techbros, but that's just because that's where the new money is. But only bringing out the #guillotines for billionaire techbros misses so …
When you watch too much critical role.
#critcalrole
I’m not going to dunk on the author, but I just saw this take:
If you’re still […] “these tools are unethical so I won’t use them”: you’ve not understood how things have already changed.
Yes pal, I have understood how things have changed, thank you.
Standing strong in my convictions about intellectual property rights, doesn’t mean I don’t understand. It means I have principles.
💾💽💿📀 Important PSA 💾💽💿📀
"Floppy disk" (with a "k")
A single thin and flexible plastic disk coated with a magnetic medium, inside a plastic shell. Yes, all variants are floppy disks, including 3.5", 5.25", 8" and some rarer variants. Removable.
"Hard disk" (with a "k")
One or more hard platters [usually made from metal or glass], coated with a magnetic medium, inside a rigid, air-tight shell. Usually not removable.
"Optical disc" (with a "c")
A single rigid plastic multi-layered disc with one or more metal layers that contain data. Most don't have a shell, though some variants do. Removable.
The disk/disc distinction is by convention.
Series D, Episode 05 - Animals
DAYNA: Yes, he is. Quite impregnable. You'll never get to him.
SERVALAN: I need him, Dayna. I need him alive. The animals are no use to me without him. I have to have him, Dayna. You do see that.
DAYNA: I can't help you.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/405/321
Yes, That’s Charlie Kirk – Digby's Hullabaloo
https://digbysblog.net/2026/03/01/yes-thats-charlie-kirk/
It is extremely disappointing to see folks you’ve previously had respect for, partake in what is, in my estimation, the largest theft in human history.
No, I will not argue about whether intellectual property is real, and whether using it against the will of the creator amounts to theft. My stance on both is clear: Yes.
You know how to get people to leave platforms run by evil people?
Yes, that's right, by offering better alternatives and being super friendly and welcoming and actively working on recruiting people and evangelizing for the better platforms and most importantly by not being chastizing and gatekeeping misers.
#Blakes7 Series B, Episode 08 - Hostage
BLAKE: I see, yes of course.
TRAVIS: It is the fastest, the most powerful ship in existence.
BLAKE: Not a chance, Travis.
TRAVIS: We'll see.
[Exbar. Avon running, like a sleek silver colussus]
Series C, Episode 08 - Rumours of Death
CHESKU: You keep talking like that, you'll get us both killed. [Two troopers show up.] Yes? What do you men want?
SULA: I'm afraid they want your security pass and your clothes. The rabble aren't quite as crushed as your speech suggests. [She point a gun at him]
https://blake…
Series C, Episode 08 - Rumours of Death
CHESKU: You keep talking like that, you'll get us both killed. [Two troopers show up.] Yes? What do you men want?
SULA: I'm afraid they want your security pass and your clothes. The rabble aren't quite as crushed as your speech suggests. [She point a gun at him]
https://blake…