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Hommage à BB.
Dessin de Franquin datant de la période de la pleine gloire de l'actrice.
Janne brought some more Asahi stickers! I'm at the fail0verflow assembly at #39c3
Feel free to come and say hi and grab one.
Hi everyone, I wanna tell you about a really cool #trans person I’ve learned about recently - Wendy Carlos. (Thread: 1/3)
Carlos was born in 1939 and is currently 86 years old. She helped develop the first ever commercial #synthesizer, Moog, in 1964. She created the scores for iconic movies including A Clockwork Orange (1971), The Shining (1980), and Tron (1982). She even won three #Grammy awards in 1970 for her album Switched-On Bach. (First trans woman to ever win one!)
She was also one of the first public figures to disclose that she underwent a feminizing gender-affirming surgery (she got the procedure in 1972, went public in 1979).
#transHistory #transgender #history #music #musicHistory #funFacts
That's Late Stage Capitalism for you:
"More than 20% of the videos that YouTube’s algorithm shows to new users are “AI slop” – low-quality AI-generated content designed to farm views, research has found.
The video-editing company Kapwing surveyed 15,000 of the world’s most popular YouTube channels – the top 100 in every country – and found that 278 of them contain only AI slop.
Together, these AI slop channels have amassed more than 63bn views and 221 million subscribers, generating about $117m (£90m) in revenue each year, according to estimates.
The researchers also made a new YouTube account and found that 104 of the first 500 videos recommended to its feed were AI slop. One-third of the 500 videos were “brainrot”, a category that includes AI slop and other low-quality content made to monetise attention.
The findings are a snapshot of a rapidly expanding industry that is saturating big social media platforms – from X to Meta to YouTube – and defining a new era of content: decontextualised, addictive and international.
A Guardian analysis this year found that nearly 10% of YouTube’s fastest-growing channels were AI slop, racking up millions of views despite the platform’s efforts to curb “inauthentic content”."
Earlier this month I set up some test infrastructure using 
@pointfreecoPoint-Free's SQLiteData that uses SQL's query plan and explanation stuff (well, Claude did because I didn't know it existed) for snapshot testing my queries. Now I know if an index stops being applied, or if vm steps, sorts, table scans change.
It's been quite revealing to see how what I would assume are unrelated changes impact the amount of work that SQL has to do, and I feel like I've learned quite a bit in the process.
Received some unsolicited AI slop in my email inbox from "Claude" that claims to have performed an accessibility audit on the wezterm web page and found 3 issues. It then proceeds to enumerate only 2 issues. 💩
The internet was not a mistake
Social media was not a mistake
Allowing Corporations to dictate and control both of these things was the mistake.
Bookends are so last season. The well-dressed paperback these days has a cute and floofy booktopper, too.
セーラー服カーディガンリボンも、いい
Linus stalks prey in his natural habitat (the living room.) #CatsOfMastodon
Kann man auf dem Congress irgendwo die Hackbibel bekommen - und wenn ja wo? #39c3
Ein kleiner Abendspaziergang heute an der frischen Luft. Die Farbe beim Sonnenuntergang waren wieder toll 🤩
Den Abend in der #Spreearche, einem schwimmenden Restaurant ausklingen zu lassen, hat sicher auch seinen Reiz.
고양이학교 보다가 겁나 울엇는데(지금도 아마 보면 또 울거임)
Meow
I'm back to Univ and all my efficiency except studying is literally skyrocketing...
Have you heard about the rule that right before an exam, your efficiency for everything except studying improves?
지금은 자야되고 하품도 나와 근데 잠들질못함 오이오이
Christmas Retro Jigsaw 2025 - Completed it Mate! 👍
今年最後！ありがとうございました💉
Förespråkar ett suveränt EU som global maktfaktor. Mitt fokus ligger i skärningspunkten mellan handel, försvar, digital självständighet och konkurrenskraft.
Jag tror på starka nationer i ett enat EU – där Sverige är en drivkraft, inte passagerare. Ser fram emot skarpa diskussioner!
🇨🇦 Championing a sovereign EU as a global power. Focusing on trade, defense, digital strength and competitiveness. Strong nations in a united Europe.
This is a camera photo of a YouTube Short I published, playing back on my TV's YouTube app.
I do not look like this. I don't look this young and I'm not trying to. My face isn't remotely this smooth. My skin has blemishes, and freckles. My eyebrows are coarser.
YouTube's stupid AI upscaler has clearly made a pass, and I dislike it. I dislike it very much.
Pink
Remember, when people say something stupid, don't engage them. You can't unstupid them with any amount of rational discussion.
雑感
先日福岡市内にて、自分としては今年最後のライブを終えた
自分は3回目と 出演し始めてまだ間もないお店でエレキベース弾き語りをした
ちなみにそのお店自体は20年近く前から？やってるそうな
その自ライブの録音を聞き返してみるに (100点満点中)「うん 30点だな…」という感じ
まだまだである
来年は
・こないだ初めてライブをしたばかりの新バンド (星はベース) がドンドン動いていくといいなー
・今年もあまり出来なかったので、個人的な録音をもっと進めたいところ
・4/19 ZINEフェス福岡に向け色々を作り出さねば
という感じ
今年 宅録・公開できた曲は少ないながらも、やはり「ふぇれ荘ソング５」が (部屋中の音楽機材群をひっくり返しながら頑張って録音したこともあり？) 自分では気に入っている
ので
ぜひ聴いてくだしい
https://youtu.be/F3mKj8YJIoU?si=Zc3OwoBji5fqTNqz
컴 켜야되나 슬금슬금...
🛸💜「イケてる吾輩に任せておけっ！」
ラプ様の色紙描きました！
コミケ107でオークションします〜
5000円スタートの即決50000円で15:30までやります！
会場来られる方は見に来るだけでも是非に！！
@Jami or anyone knowledgeable
Can #Jami #P2P #VoIP be used in #China?
I'm outside China, need to speak (voice calls, texts) with someone inside China. Until now, used #WeChat, but now it says our versions are incompatible for voice calls, & neither of us can update WeChat.
(Online info I can find is several years old.)
약도 먹었는데 으으으음!!!
This is rather wonderful. It came out earlier this year, but only noticed it today... Chinese post rock band , 时过夏末 Summer Fades Away.
My rich life: making my own pickling liquid for a 5-day brisket brine and cooling it in a snowbank
...잠들기 대차게 실패했는데 어떡하면 좋지?
In 1991, a uni student from Finland started a "hobby" project because he couldn't afford to pay expensive Unix license that could run on a commodity hardware. At the time, he told on the mailing list that his project wouldn't be anything "big or professional."
It turned out that he was totally wrong.
Happy 56th Birthday to the creator of Linux kernel and git, Linus Torvalds! May you live healthy and happy forever. Thank you for all your hard work and providing us employment and keep it FLOSS😊
Canadian food banks record over 4 million visits this year
https://www.cbc.ca/player/play/video/9.7028795?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
Posted into Canada 
@canada-cbcnewsCanada
打星这句话我盲猜是“共产党是骗子”。
看我眼睛，是中国人，对某些基本事实其实都心知肚明。他们不是因为党国的信誉无瑕才温驯地走进良夜。让他们走进良夜的是那个对个体消耗最小的应对策略：只要不是我。
不管党国如何黑暗，只要倒霉的不是我。
一次又一次的暴雷，一次又一次的击穿底线，只要损失的是别人的身家性命不是我的，那么我的合理世界就依然合理。“合理”的世界是：我没做错，受罪的人都是因为他们如此这般。
当然，用我这种态度也没法过，没赚到钱也因为激愤累死了。受害的人至少还有相信自己挣到了钱的愉悦时光
Andreas Fredriksson (Insomniac, Unity DOTS, DICE, demoscene) on Wookash Podcast: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Le8iafkLxNo
I followed 
@stefanoStefano Marinelli 's fantastic guide: https://it-notes.dragas.net/2025/12/22/void-linux-zfs-hibernation-guide/
And installed Void Linux back on my daily driver.
I liked FreeBSD but Steam and a few other things wouldn't run. If that is sorted out later (in 15.1 or whichever) that would be cool. It was 99% there!
For now I've still got FreeBSD running on my 8th gen Intel laptop, so I still have something to use for that.
Stefano: Just one thing I would add to the guide: changing the /etc/hostname afterwards because it sets your hostname to "void-live". 👍
Hiking on the Campo dei Fiori, Varese, Italy. We could see Milano from the distance, and two parts of Lago Maggiore!
#SilentSunday #Italy #Varese #Hiking #Outdoors #Mountains #CampoDeiFiori
A stormy day along the Pacific Coast of Oregon. March 1984. I believe this pic was shot hiking the same seacliff where I shot the image I posted a couple of weeks ago looking north towards Cannon Beach and Haystack Rock. In this case I was looking south.
#hiking #photography #landscapephotography #nature #Oregon #seacoast #Pacific #Northwest #ocean
Winter energy savings tip: if you get back inside after being in the cold, and you need to warm up quickly, don't stay in the middle of the room but stick to any of the corners. They are always 90 degrees.
Didn’t know these quotes, but I love writing code ina world of constraints.
(From “math with bad drawings”)
Em 
Danny Garside
かちかちなまこ
🎸 
🫧 socialcoding..
Paolo Melchiorre
