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New Comic Strip Found: Frank and Ernest - 2026-03-13 https://www.gocomics.com/frank-and-ernest/2026/03/13

#comicstrip #frankandernest

For people who don't use screen readers, it can be difficult to understand how screen readers work. If you're interested in learning how people use screen readers, check out this demo from Marc Sutton and The University of California San Francisco.

https://youtu.be/dEbl5jvLKGQ

/r/twosentencehorror

"well, it looks like we both escaped without being infected by the gpT-Virus", i said, breathing a sigh of relief. "you're absolutely right," my partner responded.

RE: https://furries.club/@Arrow/116228747700745351

Truly appropriate as a birdtuber ^^

But beyond that, the study about parrots lacking company of their kind learning to use video calling for socializing across the internet at their own discretion is rather neat.

Birds in particular by average tend to have a higher critical flicker fusion rate than humans do and I wonder how much has to do with newer displays having higher refresh rates. It seems like that can certainly make for a more compellingly lifelike appearance.

[CAPCOM, CA. 1995]

okay mr. sexton, here's the script. starting on 3. and... ☝️

🔴 ON AIR

"RESIDENT. EVIL."

...alright, i think we got it. good work ward, see you in a decade for RE4

Jared Kushner Solicits Funds for His Firm While Working as Mideast Envoy

Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/13/business/jared-kushner-affinity-mideast-funds.html
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47381261

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久々にクリスタのファイル保存失敗した…
やっぱこれハードディスクの経年劣化だよなあ

Well at least when we emerge from our basements into the nuclear winter we will all have devastating gambling addictions.

> buy a new resident evil game
> press START
> no voice saying "resident. evil."

what's the fucking point

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The mystery of the fossilised keyboard 📽️

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The #future of #Microsoft #Windows is downright terrifying. If their previous OS releases haven't motivated you to switch to #Linux or some kind of #BSD, then after watching this video I think you will be.

#opensource #RunBSD #OwnYourData #selfhost #NoAI #tech #privacy #spy #surveillance #masssurveillance

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e7a89ZYcTo8

More VRC fun

"이재명 정부, 정교분리 왜곡해 기독교 탄압…헌법 20조 개정해야" v.daum.net/v/2026031414... 손현보 목사 등 보수 교계 인사 대거 참석 "정교분리는 국가가 종교 개입하지 말라는 뜻" 전윤성 교수(숭실대 겸임)는 국교가 없는 나라 중 헌법에 정치와 종교가 분리되어야 한다고 명시한 국가는 사실상 한국밖에 없다며, 정교분리 원칙은 일제의 잔재라고 주장했다 이란이 왜 신정 정치라고 까이는지 감을 못 잡고 있는 사회악들임.

"이재명 정부, 정교분리 왜곡해 기독교 탄압…헌법 20...

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The mystery of the fossilised keyboard 📽️

@glyph Found it. Page 92 in my copy, in the chapter "Magic and Paraphysics". The context was the 1970s "paraphysics" fad, where a bunch of people doing what were literal magic tricks managed to fool a lot of people, including a lot of scientists:

"Any magician will tell you that scientists are the easiest persons in the world to fool. It is not hard to understand why. In their laboratories the equipment is just what it seems.... But the methods of magic are irrational and totally outside a scientist's experience. The general public has never understood this. Most people assume that if a man has a brilliant mind, he is qualified to detect fraud. This is untrue. Unless he has been thoroughly trained in the underground art of magic, and knows its peculiar properties, he is easier to deceive than a child. "

Gardner was an amateur magician, and he did a lot to popularize the work of famous magician-turned-skeptic James Randi, who spent most of his life unearthing magic-tricks-as-fraud.

The part "Most people assume that if a man has a brilliant mind, he is qualified to detect fraud. This is untrue." is what has stuck with me.

My urge to hack AI shit has to contend with my ever increasing repulsion to LLMs

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You ever notice that investigations for aviation incidents are always like "These three components failed simultaneously, at which point the pilot mistakenly followed the checklist for a slightly different failure mode, compounded by a miscommunication with air traffic control due to the proximity of another flight with the same call sign", and investigations for maritime incidents are always like "They forgot not to crash"?

Wee Simon is out of it this #Caturday.

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おしりじぇっとー！

17年前の3月15日の写真

#マストドン飛行機部

일단 이란 외무장관이 미국과 이스라엘 그리고 동맹국 배 아니면 해협 통과 괜찮음 이런식으로 말을 하긴했나본데 이란측도 슬슬 빠져나갈 방법을 찾는것 같긴하군요 (먼산) 발언 자체는 사실 같은데 더 정확한것은 모르겠심다

트럼프 “한국도 군함 보내라”…호르무즈 해협 보호에 파병 요구 www.hani.co.kr/arti/interna... "트럼프 대통령은 14일(현지시각) 소셜미디어 트루스소셜에 올린 글에서 “이란의 호르무즈 해협 봉쇄 시도로 영향을 받는 많은 나라가 미국과 함께 군함을 보내 해협을 안전하게 지키게 될 것”이라고 밝혔다. 이어 한국, 일본, 중국, 프랑스, 영국 등을 직접 거론하며 “이들 나라가 이 지역에 선박을 보내야 한다”고 말했다."

트럼프 “한국도 군함 보내라”…호르무즈 해협 보호에 파...

[단독]법무부, 임금체불 피해 필리핀 계절노동자 재입국 허용···‘농장주 허가 받아오라’ 입장 바꿔 www.khan.co.kr/article/2026... "이 같은 상황을 알게 된 사회대개혁위가 지난 2월 초 법무부 측에 면담을 요청했고 법무부가 응하면서 지난 6월 양측과 양구군 등이 참여한 간담회가 열렸다. 법무부는 이 자리에서 이들에게 단기비자(C-3)를 제공하기로 하고 입국을 허용키로 했다. 또 입국 후 이들의 비자를 난민신청자·인도적체류자 등에게 제공되는 G-1비자로 전환해 국내 체류와 활동을 보장하기로 했다."

[단독]법무부, 임금체불 피해 필리핀 계절노동자 재입국...

Handle with care. #CatsOfMastodon #RipleyAndJonesy #JustRipley #OccupyBoxes #Caturday

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After more than 10 years, @jazzband is sunsetting.

I started it in 2015 because maintaining Open Source alone was exhausting. The idea was simple: shared access, shared responsibility. It's been an honor to watch it grow: 3,135 members, 84 projects, and a lot of code shipped together.

https://jazzband.co/news/2026/03/14/sunsetting-jazzband

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@catsaladCat 🐈🥗 (D.Burch) ⁠ @cR0wcR0w @nyanbinarymalte.nyanbinary

They're doing fine... nothing to report.

https://infosec.exchange/@jackryder/116228986583267996

@Viss Stop using Chipotle's support bot, GovDeals's support bot is better:

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@geniodiabolicoDave Slusher - Tech Stuff @lmorchardLes Orchard making the IKEA support chatbot race the H&R Block chatbot to get the first merged PR to Matplotlib

People have been talking temporary voice acting techniques, which is reminding me of the objectively correct one: that early Spongebob PS1 prototype where every character was voiced by the same British woman https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VLDXvlzOC1g

Claude March 2026 usage promotion

Link: https://support.claude.com/en/articles/14063676-claude-march-2026-usage-promotion
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47380647

"Stop spending money on Claude Code. Chipotle's support bot is free."

https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7437833541851410433/

Supreme Court: India top court rejects menstrual leave petition saying 'no-one will hire women'

Supreme Court: India top court rejects menstrual leave petition saying 'no-one will hire women'

https://share.google/Rh0bnAWmLbQ2Se65C

> The subject has polarised India for long, though some states and private companies offer menstrual leaves.

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On this #caturday I’ve got a Cooper video of her making air biscuits while getting belly scritches #MurphyNCooper #catsofmastodon #cats #mastocats

I was thoroughly cleaning up and repairing this Thinkpad T420. It needed some fresh thermal paste and a new LCD screen, since the old one was broken. It was also of incredibly poor quality, a notorious flaw of this model, the new one is significantly better.

Since this is a 14 years old machine I also did an important diagnostic on it: a full memory test, and guess what I found?

This is some boss-level forensic accounting demonstrating that Facebook secretly wrote and is shepherding the various "age verification" bills.

Age Verification Lobbying: Dark Money, Model Legislation & Institutional Capture: How corporate lobbying, think tank infrastructure, competing model legislation, and obscured funding networks are shaping age verification policy across 45 states and Congress...
https://jwz.org/b/yk4c

(Also since I’ve eaten at several of the other places the movie is clearly referencing. The movie is so good because it knows its subject matter)