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Freedom of movement is the most fundamental human right; everything else is built on top of it. The 20th century was a campaign to smother that freedom and we should not let it win

The biggest threat to Canada at this moment may be Alberta voters who believe media messaging that the referendum vote to separate will be easily won, leading no-voters to stay home. It’s true that separatism is very unpopular in Alberta, even with Conservatives. BUT TURNOUT WINS ELECTIONS. Vote.

the guys who only learned C, insisted on C for everything, refused or failed to learn any other language, and put down anyone who tried to use anything else, are now fully in on LLMs because they think programming is too unpleasant and hard

New Blog: Programming Isn't Special Artists understand that AI is bad for art. Why don’t programmers understand that we are artists? https://blog.glyph.im/2026/10/programming-isnt-special.html

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Code is art but it is art in the same way that the written word is art, or GUI design is art, which is that to most people it is part of the wallpaper of the universe, not conscious of the fact that someone still has to design their wallpapers

We're hiring! We're looking for a Writer and Narrative Designer to join the Fallen London team at a senior or mid level. This position is permanent, remote, and full time, which for us means 35 hours a week. #GamesJobs

seeing the internal system prompt and "control" shit you start to get why if you know anything about computers it's utterly farcical but if you don't it makes you think they're summoning kel'thuzad waterboarding a mechanical librarian to retrieve and remix the exact reddit posts you're looking for

Today's winning Biology All email--in fact this is a contender for best this year

The current CEO of Identity Digital (_formerly Donuts Inc_) named Akram Atallah, used to be the president of ICANN, the folx that “own” and “run” the internet. Under his leadership, ICANN introduced the new generic Top Level Domain program, or new gTLD, giving the creation of a new domain […]

They have an entire team that’s doing very good work making Linux viable and they are confident enough in their market position to encourage open platforms. They know that in a fair fight on an open device they’d win against basically any other marketplace. Doesn’t change Gabe owning megayachts.

I don’t ever presume that Valve is benevolent or a friend, they’re a private company and they’re here to make money and their curation policy is fraught, but to to their credit they make products people actually wanna use when basically every other American company has forgotten that.

And if you are going to say it's "impossible" to prevent or unroll the deployment of harmful technology: asbestos, cfcs, leaded gasoline, unencrypted http connections. Some cities are unrolling the deployment of *cars.* If it weren't for AI, we'd be unrolling the deployment of gas turbines.

I picked up a copy of the collected letters of JRR Tolkien for reasons, and this is the most bullshit table of contents I've ever seen. I'm actively angry that it exists

the whole "a bunch of people get excited at an excuse to bully a trans woman off social media" phenomenon is a very real one, and - based on who keeps getting the short end of that stick when there's some AI-adjacent controversy on here - a real problem with the hardline anti-AI crowd on Bluesky

the social contract that allows the web to exist at all is literally collapsing in real time https://people.kernel.org/monsieuricon/creepy-crawlies

Was walking past this building and through the window saw this backrooms-ass room, so I accidentally took the coolest picture ever due to the window's reflection

🍄 There's a mushroom that makes people see tiny people. The same tiny people, every time. Lanmaoa asiatica is a bolete sold as a delicacy in Yunnan, China and the northern Philippines. Cooked thoroughly, it's a savory umami-rich food. Eaten raw or undercooked, it reliably triggers Lilliputian […]

Remember: the term "AAA game" or "Triple-A game" came from investors, as A, Double-A, Triple-A etc is used to describe how 'safe' an investment is It doesn't say anything about the quality of the game at all, and was coined by people which don't care about that, just about money.

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If you use this font to protect your text from AI, it also blocks *me, a human* because I use a screen reader. I did try the demo. If you want me to remove your RSS feed, this is the best font to prevent blind people from reading your blog/words. That timer is an inaccessible solution […]

[Microdosing LLMs, self inflicted vibe coding, slopgazing. Long-ish] I had never top to bottom vibe coded something before - like full on "do not look at the code, just keep rolling the dice" - and I was sort of confused about how people in forums would say they were "working for months" on […]

a lot of literature about autistic people has something like "autistic people will say words that form sentences that mean the thing they're trying to say" and "autistic people try to do the right thing even if nobody is policing them" as if those are negative qualities

I wonder how often someone sees windows's "16-bit programs are no longer supported" message. this post brought to you by me seeing windows's "16-bit programs are no longer supported" message.

a summary of my response to the OpenAI/Hugging Face incident: If you run os.system(random.choice(["say --voice=hacker 'I’m in'", "rm -fr /"]) it deletes your filesystem, and then you breathlessly claim that this is a dangerous alien consciousness, that is not a demonstration of an offensive […]

Don't be bitter Be critter

They think they own the concept of fuckin yellow wallpaper

[my posting levels exceed maximum safe tolerances] this happens because america is saturated with the christian notion of "sin" wherein stuff you merely think about is on the same level as actions, so art of dubious sex is equivalent to the sex. but art of violence is fine because violence is fine

I’m not sure what’s sadder, the Homestuck team insisting that Hauntswitch is still going to happen despite no update on Hiveswap besides discord posts, or the official Hiveswap bluesky account arguing with a journalist they made up that they portray as obsessively trying to ruin Hiveswap development

oh its the thing everyone said was going to happen when this got brought in and it immediately happened

From 😏 to 😳 #furry

furries got it absolutely correct when they spearheaded the culture of referring to people by their screen/fursona names instead of their government ones

These are all people who wanted to kill their enemies before Charlie Kirk was shot, are more vocal about it now, and will keep lusting for it long after Charlie Kirk has been buried. Today’s biggest event could have been a dog farting and they would have reacted by wanting you dead.

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anti vs proship is irrelevant because it's all fake. if you don't like it, don't read it. if you think someone's like dubcon age gap incest fic is "causing harm" in real life, that's a sign that you're just harming yourself thru obsession and a probably unhealthy attachment to fiction you don't own.

Look at this fuckin supermodel dog

I wrote about the idea that Democrats need to excise "activist" language from their vocabulary, and what it says about the corporate interests looking to divide and conquer the party.