DURIAN BEAST

Blocking the Wayback Machine won’t stop AI scraping, writes Internet Archive founder Brewster Kahle in The Atlantic. But it can undermine a vital resource for journalists and researchers. Learn more 👇 www.theatlantic.com/technology/2... #NotAllBots #ProtectTheWayback

The Netherlands will not participate in the 2027 Eurovision Song Contest.

It’s wild that we have a society like this. Like we’re just not doing anything about it. We’re just kind of watching it collapse.

Hands down my favourite location in the game, and one of my favourite overall FF tunes. 🥲

RIP

www.theguardian.com/world/2026/o... The mass murder of Palestinians, that still goes on and on, should be the biggest question facing the Israeli state & those within it supporting such killing. Will it be stopped and will atonement follow? The treatment of Palestinians has utterly corrupted Israel.

Waking up to 40 texts, concerned pings in the group chat, all linking to the same day-old GitHub. Cold sweat at the repo title: You've been decompiled. Some vibe-coder reverse-engineered your ass, dude. They've got you running Linux-native on a $300 Chinese Gameboy

Ghost Ant

The point of John Cage's 4'33" was not that the music is silence but that the experienced sound of the piece will naturally be filled in by random sounds in the natural environment, pages turning on the piano, people shifting in their seats; the first public performance of 4'33" was held in a forest

Why did he do that? Is he stupid?

261026_194920_C.clj tweegeemee.com/i/261026_194920_C #ProceduralArt #generative

went to a wedding yesterday and we kept laughing at this meme

Blinking in the Sun, by Ralph Hedley, 1881 in the Laing, Newcastle. I'd been wondering who the bloke behind the cat was, and what was his significance, but then I realised it was my reflection...

Fisherman Horizon Final Fantasy VIII Square February 11, 1999

The giant swing is the moment when real information starts hitting the system and overwhelming the signal of degenerate gambler chuds. But it shows the uselessness of betting markets; by the time they're giving Lula 75% odds, pollsters were publishing 95% certainty projections of the final result.

I really fucking need people to go to their local college and audit a documentary filmmaking class before saying shit like "I don't think this movie accurately portrays the facts therefore it's not a documentary" that's not what the word "documentary" *means*

#Plompy is not terribly happy it's Monday, but does their best anyways.

as heinous as jeffrey epstein's crimes were, i don't think he should have been abused by the president. an eye for an eye makes the whole world blind

gentle reminder

Congrats to Lula on overcoming Mark Zuckerberg and Donald Trump to defeat Hospital Pervert Jr., even as his opposition literally blocked off roads and turned off bus service during election day. Fascists are scary but they are always, 100% of the time, ultimately gigantic fucking losers.

Lula won in part by banning online gambling

In his acceptance speech, Lula says he will work to regulate digital platforms in Brazil. “Digital crimes must be dealt with like real-life crimes.” This comes after Meta directly interfered with the Brazilian elections, favouring Flávio Bolsonaro.

Lula: "We had to overcome foreign interference through digital platforms, which we will have to regulate. A crime in the digital world must be treated the same as a crime in the real world. We cannot have monstrous companies earning millions... not paying taxes... wanting to steer elections."

Sometimes it just dawns on me how deeply weird and wild this situation is. A company making a crappy, unchecked and badly designed product, but thanks to pre-existing science fiction narratives they can aggressively tout their own failures and inadequacies as reasons for self-regulation

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

People abroad don't understand the level of interference Meta & bots had in these elections. 5 days before the election a far-right politician posted a fake news video that got 157 MILLION views on Instagram in 24hs. For reference, GTA 6's reveal trailer got 90 million views on YouTube in 24hs.

it’s monday

“i’m so clueless about my own kid i need to get an machine to output generic words to describe her”

The infamous "WET YOURSELF..." Super Mario Sunshine print ad is often posted online without context, leading many to believe it is fake or fan-made. However, it is very much real, appearing on page 130 of issue 119 of the British Nintendo Official Magazine.

Rare's N64 Classic Blast Corps Just Got an '100% Gen-AI Free' Recomp, with a Ton of Explosive New Features

Daisy Gilardini captured this footage for NatGeo of a Weddell seal (Leptonychotes weddellii) napping & demonstrating the impressive range of vocalizations. But I want to talk about the sounds you CAN'T hear these enormous sea-puppies make! (📷: Daisy Gilardini for Nat Geo)

(Werner Herzog voice) when we go back and watch the episode, we are shocked that Mr bean only has the turkey stuck on his head for 2 minutes. We remember it as an eternity, because we know that the darkness Mr bean experiences inside that turkey is in some sense cosmic, infinite