the pendejo is mightier than the sword 🍉

Audrey Tang, Cory Doctorow, David Weinberger, Carl Malamud & Peter Suber have sent reflections for our Aaron Swartz screening. I wish we could hear from Aaron himself. On his 40th birthday, we’ll gather to remember him and the work still ahead. Join us Nov 8. Free. RSVP below. luma.com/xv5vrxzk

Lula winning is great for the planet, great for Brazil, and great for people who aren't revanchist assholes everywhere in the world, but let's not forget that it's also going to make some of the worst people on Earth extremely sad and mad. We should enjoy that, as a little treat.

boy it sure seems like the main threat to democracy everywhere across the globe is right wing media and certain social media companies

my Portuguese isn't great but I think I can work this out

Here we go. The corrected Gay Pride Flag of Brazil, shown on VGAPride 0.7 for MS-DOS, running on my Gateway laptop.

the USMC does legitimately believe in meritocracy, or anyway they would after you explained it to them and maybe drew some pictures

i wonder what percentage of the electorate now understands that this man and maybe 75 other people like him are actively trying to destroy our lives. that he is the biggest national security threat we have faced, even moreso than bin laden or whoever. its got to be dawning on more and more people

Amazing! I have the same combination on my luggage!

Decades of film scholarship about the Halloween films culturally supplanted by “on god Michael myers be sprinting when nobody lookin”

Forget the sandbags, duct tape applied properly to an outside door does a better job of protecting against flooding! theconversation.com/duct-tape-ke...

found an NYC Teamster whose tiktoks are just skate tricks he dedicates to other unions.

You're laughing. Princess Beatrice's friend Alice Naylor-Leyland has been attacked by a rogue owl during a chaotic photoshoot and you're laughing.

dudes rock

This site lets you scan barcodes to see if they’re part of Taylor Farms: www.taylordetector.com

If you’re a Gondorian soldier your experience with hobbits is a tiny guy shows up with a wizard and is immediately taken in the Steward’s counsel. He saves Faramir when the Steward goes mad. A second tiny guy arrives with the Rohirrim and kills the Witch King. The first one then goes on campaign …

This summer, we kept the lights on all night, every night, at five soccer fields across New York City.

This was the scene at Calvert Vaux Park in Gravesend, Brooklyn Tuesday night.

Haley Stevens voted to:

I INSTALLED “LINUX”. BECAUSE WINDOWS IS FOR MEN WHO ASK PERMISSION TO EXIST. I CRUSHED THE INSTALLER WITH MY BARE HANDS AND NOW THE TERMINAL CALLS ME “SIR” BUT MY KERNEL KEEPS PANICKING. WHAT COMMAND MAKES THE COMPUTER SUBMIT COMPLETELY? I REFUSE TO GOOGLE

Imagine dedicating your life to incel looksmaxxing so much that you've smashed yourself in the face with a hammer only to have a regular reporter from 60 Minutes Australia completely outmog you. (Clavicular eventually walked off the interview)

wouldn't it be funny if EVERYONE blocked this Attie AI account @ bsky.app/profile/atti... before they could do anything with it

“I asked ChatGPT”- ok well I asked the mycelium and it said to plant more trees and to tell you to return to the forest

Rest now, brother. I’ll see you in Smallhalla

The fact that this is a surprise to Bradley, presumably Fenton, and a whole bunch of large adult son SOF officers is a justifiable reason alone to fire everyone at SOCOM, just for being fucking stupid

‼️ 𝐄𝐥𝐢’𝐬 𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐮𝐩 𝐬𝐩𝐞𝐜𝐢𝐚𝐥 ‘𝐇𝐮𝐦𝐛𝐥𝐞 𝐎𝐟𝐟𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐠’ 𝐢𝐬 𝐎𝐔𝐓 𝐍𝐎𝐖 ‼️ www.youtube.com/watch?v=g9NT...

If you're heading out to a protest, there are a number of concepts to keep in mind to keep yourself—and your data—safe.

Want an introduction to digital surveillance, and how to protect your communications with others? Check out our Surveillance Self-Defense write-up.

THIS is my Sentiment

My deep learning course at the University of Geneva is available on-line. 1000+ slides, ~20h of screen-casts. Full of examples in PyTorch. fleuret.org/dlc/ And my "Little Book of Deep Learning" is available as a phone-formatted pdf (nearing 700k downloads!) fleuret.org/lbdl/