All too often today, we treat "boycott" as though it means withholding consumption, rather than withholding labor and open displays of hostility.

Bring back the meaning of "get the fuck out of here, you are not wanted"

The Trilogy concludes

No! There’s at least 2 more movies you have to do. 1 super long one if necessary. No it can’t be over now!

#dune #worms

Every specification document, as we commonly know them at least, still contain ambiguity gaps that need to be crossed. It doesn't matter whether you're manufacturing a bridge, a kitchen appliance, or a program.

And check out the date on that comic! 2016!

https://haskellforall.com/2026/03/a-sufficiently-detailed-spec-is-code

#programming #llm

Mastodon has a built-in system to prevent you seeing the same post boosted again and again. However, this system allows a boost to reappear after 40 other posts have scrolled through your timeline.

This worked fine in the old days when Mastodon was much quieter, but nowadays Mastodon is much busier and 40 posts can scroll quite quickly.

Here's a guide on workarounds for dealing with repeated boosts:

➡️ https://fedi.tips/how-do-i-stop-seeing-the-same-boosted-post-again-and-again-in-mastodon

#FediTips #Mastodon

Mastodon has a built-in system to prevent you seeing the same post boosted again and again. However, this system allows a boost to reappear after 40 other posts have scrolled through your timeline.

This worked fine in the old days when Mastodon was much quieter, but nowadays Mastodon is much busier and 40 posts can scroll quite quickly.

Here's a guide on workarounds for dealing with repeated boosts:

➡️ https://fedi.tips/how-do-i-stop-seeing-the-same-boosted-post-again-and-again-in-mastodon

#FediTips #Mastodon

A slopfondler walks into a bar.

They: Hey. I found a good use of AI!
Me: No you didn't.
They: Wait let me tell you about it.
Me: Please don't. I'm begging you. Stop talking.
They: No, you'll like this.
Me: I assure you, I will not...
https://jwz.org/b/yk4i

A Decade of Slug https://lobste.rs/s/3ixbzr #graphics
https://terathon.com/blog/decade-slug.html

Some seated cats i have seen on recent walks

A jury in Texas has convicted eight people in the first federal anti-terror case since the Trump administration declared “antifa” a terror group.

Nine defendants alleged to be members of an “antifa terror cell” stood trial on federal and state charges including rioting, using explosives and attempted murder.

Eight protesters now face at least 15 years in jail. -- Their legal teams plan to appeal.

The charges stemmed from their attendance at an anti-ICE protest outside the Prairieland ICE jail on July 4, 2025
during which fireworks were set off and a police officer was shot and wounded.

“The antifa of it all, from my perspective, was purely political,”
says one of the defendants’ attorneys, Xavier de Janon, who joins Democracy Now! to break down the case.

https://www.democracynow.org/2026/3/17/antifa

from my link log —

Inside the Am2901: AMD's 1970s bit-slice processor.

http://www.righto.com/2020/04/inside-am2901-amds-1970s-bit-slice.html

saved 2020-04-18 https://dotat.at/:/LFZ6C.html

@3dogcouchT&P no one WANTS divorce, but at least we have a great couples counselor! https://infosec.exchange/@codinghorror/116032137073666414

Preparing to Fire Up a 90-Year-Old Boiler After Half a Century

https://hackaday.com/2026/03/17/preparing-to-fire-up-a-90-year-old-boiler-after-half-a-century/

I would really like a week to pass when I don't hear that yet another friend has been laid off.

The tech industry is in freefall.

작곡가 겸 가수 이재가 아카데미 시상식에서 영화 ‘케이팝 데몬 헌터스’ 주제곡 ‘골든’으로 주제가상을 수상한 가운데, 그가 시상식 무대에서 입은 드레스가 대한제국 대례복을 참고해 제작된 것으로 전해져 화제입니다.

이재의 오스카 드레스는 “대한제국 황실 의상”…금빛 무...

what are some good EU-based SMTP relay providers (I guess kids these days call them transactional email services)?

don't need fancy features (campaigns, blah). Definitely not Mailjet.

scaleway looks tempting for no flat fee, just pricing per 1k emails, with really cheap prices compared to everybody else. Is their shared IP pool decent, reputation-wise?

I also saw Lettermint, who seem cool …

なるほどこういうのもあるんだねぇ

ガーミン、「Pokémon Sleep」ウォッチフェイス　48種類のポケモンを選べる - Impress Watch
https://www.watch.impress.co.jp/docs/news/2093638.html

@glyph I had thought you didn’t want to talk about AI? 😀

https://blog.glyph.im/2026/01/how-to-argue-with-me-about-ai.html

여러 미국 대통령들에게 정치인으로서의 공과가 있으나, 트럼프 1기 때는 과연 이게 대통령이기는 하냐 싶었었다. 2기에 들어서자 과연 이게 사람이기나 한지 의문이다.

being alive could be life changing

css specifications

Permalink: https://wizardzines.com/comics/css-specifications

Coincidence? No!! The Deuxfleurs association is actually a secret satanic cult using their software Garage to invoke the Devil on earth !!! People have to know!!! #garage #deuxfleurs #conspiracy

Illinois Introducing Operating System Account Age Bill

Link: https://www.ilga.gov/Legislation/BillStatus?DocTypeID=HB&DocNum=5511
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47416131

마리 안 잔다.

유럽연합이 호르무즈해협에 해군을 보내지 않기로 했습니다. 도널드 트럼프 미국 대통령이 이란과의 전쟁을 도우라고 압박하지만, 유럽은 “우리 전쟁이 아니”라는 반응입니다.

“아무도 안끼고 싶은 전쟁” “우리 전쟁 아냐”…트럼프...

WIPあみちゃん​​

그러게 이과 문과 예체능 이거 정말 의미없습니다 요새같은 시대는 글쓰기도 잘해야하고 경제 사회 문학 수학 공학 과학 의학 ... 구분없이 다 알아야합니다 (눈물) 그동안 수십년간 해왔던 이런 구분은 19-20세기의 산업화 시대 기준으로 만들어진 과정이고요 제한을 두지 않고 배우면 다 이득이 됩니다;;

본인이 만든 회사인데… 창업자 11명 중 2명 남은 xAI…머스크 “처음부터 잘못 만들어져” 스페이스X의 ‘궤도 데이터센터’ 구상을 위해선 xAI이 필요하다. 수요자 없는 인프라는 무의미하다.

창업자 11명 중 2명 남은 xAI…머스크 “처음부터 ...

Has anyone in the US successfully used @e_mydata/e/OS - deGoogled mobile OS and @murenaMurena - choose freedom! as a daily driver?

Because politics aside, I immediately fell in love with Omarchy.

Don't boost things like this in my timeline please :/.

really, really NOT good .. "even when [state] voters win, the [state] governing coalition often comes back to undo it."

Sometimes I finish a tiled words puzzle and look about all pleased and there's nobody else around.

https://tiledwords.com/

#tiledwords

#PawFed is a project close to my heart. It's a collaborative map for animal welfare that bridges the #Fediverse and #OpenStreetMap.

The idea: mention @PawFed from your Mastodon account with hashtags and a location, and your report appears on the map. No signup, no app, just your existing Fediverse account.
It's not perfect yet, but the foundation is there. I will publish the source code soon under AGPL.

More: https://pawfed.org/how-it-works

Powering a Raspberry Pi 1 web server using the USB port on my DIY NAS build. Yeah, I'm scared too :) Hope to reveal more over the next week.

New blog post: A Decade of Slug
This talks about the evolution of the Slug font rendering algorithm, and it includes an exciting announcement: The patent has been dedicated to the public domain.
https://terathon.com/blog/decade-slug.html

You do not, under any circumstances, "gotta hand it to" Joe Kent

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Kent

#USPol

Encyclopedia Britannica sues OpenAI over AI training https://www.reuters.com/legal/litigation/encyclopedia-britannica-sues-openai-over-ai-training-2026-03-16/

Sustainable. #grickledoodle #godzilla #gardening #environment #cartoon #art #kaiju #drawing #humor #funny

A heavier version of the proton, has been discovered by a team at the nuclear research laboratory CERN

It was found using the newly upgraded Large Hadron Collider (LHC) as part of its latest “beauty” experiment, known as LHCb.

Scientists spotted the particle amid a spray of debris created by colliding particles at the facility near Geneva, Switzerland.

The particle has been called
Xi-cc-plus,
(written as Ξcc⁺),
and is four times as heavy as a normal proton.

Its extra mass comes from the fact that it is made from heavier building blocks, known as quarks.

A regular proton contains two "up" quarks and one "down".

However, the Xi-cc-plus proton contains two “charm” quarks instead of the lighter "up" quarks.

Because of this, it has been dubbed a “doubly charmed baryon”.
(A baryon is a subatomic particle, including protons and neutrons, that is made of three quarks.)

Scientists were able to deduce its existence when they spotted three lighter particles created as by-products when the Xi-cc-plus proton decayed.

It is the first new particle detected by the upgraded LHC, whose first iteration astonished the scientific world with the discovery of the Higgs boson in 2012.

https://www.thetimes.com/uk/science/article/subatomic-particle-discovered-cern-gjhrk57pd#Echobox=1773768448

What is Webb observing?

https://spacetelescopelive.org/webb?obsId=01KKAYRHH5YPGGPH1EB2SR6DXD

#webb #space #astronomy #telescope

William Gibson is one of history's most quotable sf writers: "The future is here, it's not evenly distributed"; "Don't let the little fuckers generation-gap you"; "Cyberspace is everting"; and the immortal: "The street finds its own uses for things":

https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/William_Gibson

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If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this thread to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:

https://pluralistic.net/2026/03/17/technopolitics/#original-sin

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What is Webb observing?

https://spacetelescopelive.org/webb?obsId=01KKAYRHH5YPGGPH1EB2SR6DXD

#webb #space #astronomy #telescope

@cloudskater You bring up another pain point in the AI mess we're in and that's the definition of AI. I don't consider traditional machine learning itself to be harmful. However, generative AI and agentic AI systems are inherently terrible, or at least extremely inefficient, for anything besides some lulz. And wealth extraction, of course.

Summarization of papers I think is something that can be done responsibly. In fact, I like what @nopatienceChristoffer S. has done with summarizing posts for an RSS feed. It's not for you to read the summary instead of the original post, but so you can decide if you want to read the post.

Honestly, it's tough to avoid all AI systems these days, especially if you work in tech. I wouldn't stress about that part. If you focus on the accuracy, consistency, and efficiency of a system, you should naturally weed out most AI garbage. Or at least that's been my experience so far.

A slopfondler walks into a bar.

They: Hey. I found a good use of AI!
Me: No you didn't.
They: Wait let me tell you about it.
Me: Please don't. I'm begging you. Stop talking.
They: No, you'll like this.
Me: I assure you, I will not...
https://jwz.org/b/yk4i

This is how my cat, Molly, sleeps in the sun

During winter, she barely goes out, as she's deeply unimpressed with the cold

But the moment it gets a little bit warm - like it did in London today - she's out, lying on her back in the mud, getting the sun on her belly

1/3

#cats #CatsOfMastodon #animals #pets

IMPORTANT!!!! I got the punk outfit