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For anyone not from Australia: Vegemite is just like Nutella, eat it accordingly, in front of an Aussie

KOREAN STEAMPUNK

猫の日らしいので、無理矢理猫要素を突っ込む​​

I was really glad to join @cwarzelCharlie Warzel for this discussion, because I knew we’d focus on the impacts on labor, and some of the deeper nuance that often gets buried under the noise around AI. I hope you’ll give it a listen. (Here’s a gift link: https://www.theatlantic.com/podcasts/2026/02/the-ai-panic-cycle-and-whats-actually-different-now/686077/?gift=7zEcH-WHLiKW0UlH_D6a4ZkRS50mRYPqR6G0AIVHnpA )

RE: https://www.threads.com/@theatlantic/post/DVAEtlqjj0S

new spec writing motto: MUST or bust

How poisonous mercury can get from coal-fired power plants into fish you eat – EPA just weakened rules meant to lower the risk
https://theconversation.com/how-poisonous-mercury-can-get-from-coal-fired-power-plants-into-fish-you-eat-epa-just-weakened-rules-meant-to-lower-the-risk-176434

No, opposing LLMs isn't "purity culture." I've seen this now from quite a few different people, and I disagree vehemently. It is good, actually, to have moral principles and hold to them, even when people with more money than you find said principles annoying.

50 followers to go until I hit 7777 and earn my "biblically accurate" achievement 😋

Age assurance is generally a really bad idea, and this version of it turbocharges the stupidity and the harm.

https://www.pcmag.com/news/colorado-lawmakers-push-for-age-verification-at-the-operating-system-level

JS-heavy approaches are not compatible with long-term performance goals https://sgom.es/posts/2026-02-13-js-heavy-approaches-are-not-compatible-with-long-term-performance-goals/

You might not realize how much your relatives regularly watching Fox News or reading certain newspapers are being continually told to fear trans people. Jessica Kant did an analysis of news outlets from 2023 onward, and found that Fox News not only had way more stories mentioning trans folks than "liberal" media, but even more than the LGBT media sources she analyzed: https://jessk.org/blog/architecture-of-an-outrage-factory

How poisonous mercury can get from coal-fired power plants into fish you eat – EPA just weakened rules meant to lower the risk
https://theconversation.com/how-poisonous-mercury-can-get-from-coal-fired-power-plants-into-fish-you-eat-epa-just-weakened-rules-meant-to-lower-the-risk-176434

How the kitties sleep. #CatsOfMastodon

Handling breaking changes in a design system without causing chaos - zeroheight https://zeroheight.com/blog/handling-breaking-changes-in-a-design-system-without-causing-chaos/

A reminder that while there's no ethical consumption under capitalism, you don't have to lean into it.

Using Maturity Models to Build Accessibility That Lasts – ::Last-Child – Ted Drake https://www.last-child.com/using-maturity-models.html

The EU moves to kill infinite scrolling https://www.politico.eu/article/tiktok-meta-facebook-instagram-brussels-kill-infinite-scrolling/

The design system paradox: How abstraction can hollow out quality - zeroheight https://zeroheight.com/blog/the-design-system-paradox-how-abstraction-can-hollow-out-quality/

The open source design stack https://piccalil.li/blog/the-open-source-design-stack/

“It’s in that place where I put that thing that time.”

Everything you never wanted to know about visually-hidden https://dbushell.com/2026/02/20/visually-hidden/

It’s Saturday night, and it’s been a few weeks, so that means…

#NewProfilePic !

ブータブルドライブ焼けた ​​

가방 새로 삼

Age verification is not en never was about protecting children. It's about mass surveillance.

"Once a user verifies their identity with Persona, the software performs 269 distinct verification checks and scours the internet and government sources for potential matches, such as by matching your face to politically exposed persons (PEPs), and generating risk and similarity scores for each individual. IP addresses, browser fingerprints, device fingerprints, government ID numbers, phone numbers, names, faces, and even selfie backgrounds are analyzed and retained for up to three years."

https://www.therage.co/persona-age-verification/

#AgeVerification #MassSurveillance #Persona #Thiel #ChatControl #Discord

えいにゃ​​えいにゃ
まちだは​​神奈川

実は30分まで8000円に値下げしている告知は​​でしかしていないよ​​

연근 잘라라길래 했는데 엄마한테 등짝스매싱 당한이유 - YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/Wy4I0d4sl34

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zhe coolest zhing youll see all day

Cookie banner problem: Consent is annoying, 99% click "Accept All"

Snugg solution: No consent banner needed

Why? Because there's NO TRACKING to consent to.

No cookies. No fingerprinting. No surveillance.
Just the app working.

#Privacy #GDPR #NoTracking

回老家替烏龜換大箱

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KOREAN STEAMPUNK

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#申請したいカスタム絵文字

天気がよろしいようで山も綺麗（スマホ撮影）

仕組み的に難しいとは思うけどmisskeyにも僕がRNしたノートがどれだけ他の人に反応されたかって見れるやつ欲しい
僕は僕が広めたやつが反応どれだけあったか見るのが好きなので

the arseholes over at #Meta / #Facebook aren’t clueless & naive techies, they’re actively pursuing harmful & unpopular tech in pursuit of money & power like cartoon villains… 🧐

Meta Plans to Add #FacialRecognition Technology to Its Smart Glasses

“Five years ago, Facebook shut down the facial recognition system for tagging people in photos on its social network, saying it wanted to find “the right balance” for a technology that raises #privacy and legal concerns.

Now it wants to bring facial recognition back.
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Meta’s internal memo said the political tumult in the United States was good timing for the feature’s release.

“We will launch during a dynamic political environment where many #CivilSociety groups that we would expect to attack us would have their resources focused on other concerns,” according to the document from Meta’s Reality Labs, which works on hardware including smart glasses.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/technology/meta-facial-recognition-smart-glasses.html

#biometrics
#USpol  

I really don't know why it is I've lost motivation this badly to nerd on my own projects due to AI.

All the things I like coding on for my own purposes are things nobody would want to pay me for. Economically, all of it has been quite worthless. Likewise, I never even *wanted* to become a professional artist or musician, I just enjoyed creating things.

So it seems completely bizarre to me that I still strongly feel like AI has made it all pointless.

뭔가 다들 에바에 대해 너무 진지한데, 이미 에바는 98년도에 마작게임도 내고 강철의 걸프렌드라는 외전도 있고 이카리 신지 육성계획같은 뻘스러운 물건도 냈고 뭐 다들 아시다시피 빠찡코도 있는데 안노가 뭘 하건 뭘 심각하게 받아들일 것이 있는가 싶으다.

once again looking bahn employee enough to be skipped in ticket checks

Just leave me behind and get it over with, goddammit.

The business with the rib (which I thought I had gone on about at length, but now cannot find). From Kramer p 149

Someone verified their identity with LinkedIn - similar to other verification processes.
#Discord fans, read this. This is your homework.

https://thelocalstack.eu/posts/linkedin-identity-verification-privacy/

Not stated in this report:
YOU must be aware that you are dragging your friends into the pit. Because your "network" is part of their data.

Just like your contacts are shared with Whatsapp and %friend happened to be in your contacts. It's now somewhere else. This is your responsibility.

#Discord #Persona #privacy #enshittification

I love how Sumer seems to have just built an entire religion around puns.