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“Hyperreality” was a 35 year long sociological experiment conducted by Université Paris Nanterre. The study is now complete, thank you for your time.
ランディングページに自己紹介を追加しますた
https://zunda.ninja/about
그 와중에 트위터의 실버버그들은 실버 차트에 아크를 가져왔습니다. 아크가 무엇이냐? 지난 수년간 실버버그들이 "실버 붐은 온닷!" 하면서 차트에 선그으며 놀던 놀이중 하나로, 초장기간의 가격상승 부진을 벗어나 떡상하길 바라는 구복신앙적 요소를 가지고 있습니다. 아크가 등장했다는건, 이제 슬슬 그들도 쫄린다는 뜻이며 언젠가 다시 올 초장기간 하락에 마음을 다잡는 과정에 들어갔다는걸 의미합니다. #발광
I Wrote a Scheme in 2025
Link: https://maplant.com/2026-02-09-I-Wrote-a-Scheme-in-2025.html
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46948278
NetlifyさんのデプロイプレビューにはNetlifyさんのスクリプトが挿入されるのでデジタル署名の検証が必ず失敗するのわね🥺
Saw someone wearing a t-shirt that said pata lover and I was like "same" then I noticed it was actually pasta lover and I also was like "same"
다빈치귀여워서엉엉움
Typo of the day: from typo import Optional
#TypoOfTheDay
오늘 하락폭은 미국 고용지표에 따른 금리인하 연기 가능성에 무게가 실리면서, 또, 테크주들이 와르르 무너지는 것이 반영된게 아닌가 싶고요. 그런데 테크주는 그 와중에 무너지는게 거품이 아니라 AI가 테크기업 일자리를 차지할지 모른다는 전망으로 포장되고 있던데, 솔직해지죠. 그럴거면 AI주는 계속 상승해야죠? 안그래요? 그것과 별개로 마이클 버리가 팔란티어에 10억달러 수준의 숏포지션을 잡은 뒤에 팔란티어 주가는 주르륵 흐르고 있으며...(속이 다 시원함)
If you're interested in funding or helping us find funding for a Discord replacement that's federated and end-to-end encrypted, we're interested in implementing that at 
@spritelyThe Spritely Institute ... we even had been talking about that being our big focus for 2026.
We have the skills and the underlying tech to pull this off. What we need right now is resources. Funding for open source nonprofits like ours really fell apart in 2025. If you think you know how to help, feel free to reach out.
I do not predict "the future of AI" because while I can confidently say that whatever the "current generation of LLM technology" is, it's nearing its limit, that does NOT mean that I can predict what innovations will move us past that generation. Truly disruptive tech is always a surprise.
The early Web had a quality that has been lost ever since: it was *simple*
Download #httpd , #netscape write some #html by hand and boom, the concept of a networked digital society is born.
It first started going pear shaped with #LAMP . The complexity of a full blown database was not justified for most use cases. As proven decades later by the popularity of #sqlite and #ssg approaches.
The final blow was when #bigtech got into the act. Immense complexity for the simplest things became a moat
it's that time again! get all four of our games as a bundle for the equivalent of one full price copy of kitsune tails https://itch.io/s/180112/kitsune-games-bundle-february-2026
kitsune tails is super mario bros 3 if nintendo had been brave enough to put lesbian fox girls in it, and kitsune zero is the prequel. defeat your enemies and steal their bodies and abilities in midboss, or solve push puzzles in adorable hat based puzzle game ultra hat dimension
Today we had a fire alarm in the office. A colleague wrote to a Slack channel 'Fire alarm in the office building', to start a thread if somebody knows any details. We have AI assistant Glean integrated into the Slack, and it answered privately to her: "today's siren is just a scheduled test and you do not need to leave your workplace". It was not a test or a drill, it was a real fire alarm. Someday, AI will kill us.
I’ve seen a lot of articles and posts about AI that use the term “like it or not” as in “like it or not, AI is here, and we might as well get used to it” and that is such bullshit.
Like it or not, ableism is here… like it or not, racism is here… like it or not, fascism is here.
No, fuck that, I will resist. I will speak out. I will fight back.
You do not have to roll over and accept the shit corporations and the existing power structure try to force upon you.
We can build a better world.
자다 깨서 보았습니다. 딱히 놀라지 않습니다. 평소의 실버 무빙이네요. 지난 한달간 계속 오르기만 해서 불안했는데, 이제 좀 안심이 됩니다. #발광
Watch | Herzog Says Gaza Is “Booby-Trapped,” Justifies Ban on International Journalists
Israeli President Isaac Herzog said that Gaza is “booby-trapped” as he justifies Israel’s continued ban on international journalists entering the besieged Strip, pretending the restriction is meant to “prevent harm to reporters”.
豆を発注できたい人生だった (いや、手間をかけていただくとできるんだけれども) #いろいろな人生だった
Wikipedia’s editors and readers have a dangerous generational gap. Can it become something that serves younger audiences, or will it remain stuck in the past? https://spectrum.ieee.org/wikipedia-at-25?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=fedica-Mastodon-Daily-Pipeline
Scripting on the JVM with Java, Scala, and Kotlin https://lobste.rs/s/ehw8fx #java #kotlin #scala
https://mill-build.org/blog/19-scripting-on-the-jvm.html
This is supposedly what is causing trucking broker stocks to crash today:
"""
Thursday’s rout was sparked by an update from tiny AI logistics firm Algorhythm Holdings Inc., which said its SemiCab platform in live customer deployments was helping its customers’ internal operations to scale freight volumes by 300% to 400% without a corresponding increase in operational headcount. Shares of the company soared 12%.
Algorhythm, which had a market capitalization of less than $5 million before Thursday, previously operated as The Singing Machine Company, Inc. — selling karaoke products — until rebranding in 2024 as an AI logistics firm. The company reported less than $2 million in sales for the quarter ended September 30, with a net loss totaling nearly $3 million for the period.
"""
(https://finance.yahoo.com/news/logistics-stocks-sink-ai-fear-193327489.html)
Great post from Ashley Wolf on the “Eternal September” moment OSS maintainers are facing and how GitHub is trying to help. And we want your continued feedback! https://github.blog/open-source/maintainers/welcome-to-the-eternal-september-of-open-source-heres-what-we-plan-to-do-for-maintainers/
Rust workspace has three crates A, B and C. Then there's a crate COMMON-AB which contains the shared code used by both A and B and a crate COMMON-BC which uses the shared code used by both B and C. Yeesh.
New Blogpost: Lawful access to encrypted data: why is this so hard to do?
https://www.cert.at/en/blog/2026/2/lawful-access-to-encrypted-data-why-is-this-so-hard-to-do
Being exhausted after a work day => reading vintage magazines and posting funny things from them
This is supposedly what is causing trucking broker stocks to crash today:
"""
Thursday’s rout was sparked by an update from tiny AI logistics firm Algorhythm Holdings Inc., which said its SemiCab platform in live customer deployments was helping its customers’ internal operations to scale freight volumes by 300% to 400% without a corresponding increase in operational headcount. Shares of the company soared 12%.
Algorhythm, which had a market capitalization of less than $5 million before Thursday, previously operated as The Singing Machine Company, Inc. — selling karaoke products — until rebranding in 2024 as an AI logistics firm. The company reported less than $2 million in sales for the quarter ended September 30, with a net loss totaling nearly $3 million for the period.
"""
(https://finance.yahoo.com/news/logistics-stocks-sink-ai-fear-193327489.html)
으어 체중 앞 자리가 드뎌 바뀌었다
Trump is ending deportation surge in Minnesota
Okay, here's my followup. What did I mean by "build a replacement for Discord"? That's shorthand, because to be honest, Discord is *a lot of things* because it has a lot of resources behind it. And of course, people have their own preferred directions, especially in XMPP and Matrix, and I think those efforts are worthwhile. But I'm talking about some near-future threats-and-opportunities, so let me explain what we want to, and ought to, build.
So I will detail in this thread, and yes, this will be a Classic Christine Thread (TM), what I mean. The things we would *like* to do, at a high level:
- Get "moderated chatroom with no center" tech in the hands of users
- Which also includes direct file sharing
- Advance Spritely's core tech in the process. There's nothing like a real world use case with real users to push forward your system
- Advancing that tooling also means opening up some things that you can't do anywhere else
What does that mean? Read on! Let's go!
So first, let me focus on the user-facing thing I described before getting to the larger ecosystem. "Moderated chatroom with no center." What does that mean? And why is it politically important right now?
Increasingly, we are seeing regulation and policies being driven by a coalition of two groups with differing goals: people with I will say, bad intentions to crack down on speech and communication between at risk groups, especially non-white and queer people. Who are, weirdly, teaming up with well meaning people who are upset at big tech for allowing terrible things to happen especially as engagement-oriented feeds have lead to radicalization of hate and other such things. And both of them are saying, "let's punish big tech!" Which like, great, I'm all for punishing big tech. Except...
If you use AI-generated code, you currently cannot claim copyright on it in the US. If you fail to disclose/disclaim exactly which parts were not written by a human, you forfeit your copyright claim on *the entire codebase*.
This means copyright notices and even licenses folks are putting on their vibe-coded GitHub repos are unenforceable. The AI-generated code, and possibly the whole project, becomes public domain.
Source: https://www.congress.gov/crs_external_products/LSB/PDF/LSB10922/LSB10922.8.pdf
![Excert from the linked document:
Three copyright registration denials highlighted by the Copyright Office illustrate that, in general, the office will not find human authorship where an AI program generates works in response to user prompts:
1. Zarya of the Dawn: A February 2023 decision that AI-generated illustrations for a graphic novel were not copyrightable, although the human-authored text of the novel and overall selection and arrangement of the images and text in the novel could be copyrighted.
2. Théâtre D’opéra Spatial: A September 2023 decision that an artwork generated by AI and then modified by the applicant could not be copyrighted, since the applicant failed to identify and disclaim the AI-generated portions of the work as required by the AI Guidance.
3. SURYAST: A December 2023 decision that an artwork generated by an AI system combining a “base image” (an original photo taken by the applicant) and a “style image” the applicant selected (Vincent van Gogh’s The Starry Night) could not be copyrighted, since the AI system was “responsible for determining how to interpolate [i.e., combine] the base and style images.”](https://uploads.zomglol.wtf/media_attachments/files/116/059/412/520/242/557/original/7177c68f88a00d30.png)
Good article from the Matrix folks explaining that switching to Matrix doesn't necessarily mean you can avoid age verification laws.
https://matrix.org/blog/2026/02/welcome-discord/
So I will detail in this thread, and yes, this will be a Classic Christine Thread (TM), what I mean. The things we would *like* to do, at a high level:
- Get "moderated chatroom with no center" tech in the hands of users
- Which also includes direct file sharing
- Advance Spritely's core tech in the process. There's nothing like a real world use case with real users to push forward your system
- Advancing that tooling also means opening up some things that you can't do anywhere else
What does that mean? Read on! Let's go!
@cwebberChristine Lemmer-Webber Jumping ahead - quite a bit - based on your recent "How to Level Up the Fediverse" talk, where you had mentioned the idea of, to describe it in brief, "web applications that contain multiple applications", such as online communities that contain games, etc.
I assume this is relevant to where you're going with a Discord alternative, which is actually a large number of interacting features, really?
I can see why this kind of project might be an excellent test bed for popularizing this.
Okay, here's my followup. What did I mean by "build a replacement for Discord"? That's shorthand, because to be honest, Discord is *a lot of things* because it has a lot of resources behind it. And of course, people have their own preferred directions, especially in XMPP and Matrix, and I think those efforts are worthwhile. But I'm talking about some near-future threats-and-opportunities, so let me explain what we want to, and ought to, build.
So I will detail in this thread, and yes, this will be a Classic Christine Thread (TM), what I mean. The things we would *like* to do, at a high level:
- Get "moderated chatroom with no center" tech in the hands of users
- Which also includes direct file sharing
- Advance Spritely's core tech in the process. There's nothing like a real world use case with real users to push forward your system
- Advancing that tooling also means opening up some things that you can't do anywhere else
What does that mean? Read on! Let's go!
Richard "RichiH" Hartmann shared the below article:
404 Media @index@www.404media.co
The companies have launched a pilot program in Atlanta, where “during the rare event a vehicle door is left ajar, preventing the car from departing, nearby Dashers are notified, allowing Waymo to get its vehicles back on the road quickly.”
Read more →"An AI Agent Published A Hit Piece On Me" is a *WILD* read, as is the issues, and the blackmail blogposts (and later "apology") by the AI agent https://theshamblog.com/an-ai-agent-published-a-hit-piece-on-me/
@cwebberChristine Lemmer-Webber Even better, the AI has now walked back the apology
Absolutely thrilled to be enjoying my Amiga 1200 tower for music creation, finally! I'm loving this ❤️ 😍
Not sure if happy or sad.
Will AI kill Indian IT? The $300B billable hour reality check
https://restofworld.org/2026/indian-it-ai-stock-crash-claude-cowork/
Some news: Michael Brough's new cyberpunk nano-roguelike 868-BACK is now being published by Finji and there will be a public demo in Steam Next Fest on Feb. 23rd!
https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:56xcru5bk2bsvsgufem7bah5/post/3meolefzlgk2z
石井さんだいしゅき!!
ニンゲン観察バラエティ モニタリング
石井竜也が外国人観光客に変装してサプライズ歌唱！
https://tver.jp/episodes/epipd17d63
I have a tendency to aggressively refactor when I build new things. It's one of the most valuable skills to have to fight entropy during programming.
What's interesting is the tension between aggressive refactoring and PR reviews. It's difficult to review a bundled set of changes, and it's also difficult to review the whole. That's why I like doing pair and mob programming.
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New Blogpost: Lawful access to encrypted data: why is this so hard to do?
https://www.cert.at/en/blog/2026/2/lawful-access-to-encrypted-data-why-is-this-so-hard-to-do
@retech 
@inthehandsPaul Cantrell
With respect, if "standing in the streets did nothing to hurt them;" they wouldn't be killing people for doing that.
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