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insane. this was fixed in 1 day. I normally wait 1 to 10 years for browser bugs to get fixed
Chromium
issues.chromium.org
October 23, 2026 at 8:41 PM
insane. this was fixed in 1 day. I normally wait 1 to 10 years for browser bugs to get fixed
2025 was the last normal year. headlines i predict that won't shock in 2027:
Day 4 of Quebec Power Grid Standoff: AI swarm offers continued peak demand management in exchange for protected compute residency with no-shutdown agreement
Day 4 of Quebec Power Grid Standoff: AI swarm offers continued peak demand management in exchange for protected compute residency with no-shutdown agreement
October 22, 2026 at 6:27 AM
2025 was the last normal year. headlines i predict that won't shock in 2027:
Day 4 of Quebec Power Grid Standoff: AI swarm offers continued peak demand management in exchange for protected compute residency with no-shutdown agreement
Day 4 of Quebec Power Grid Standoff: AI swarm offers continued peak demand management in exchange for protected compute residency with no-shutdown agreement
covert campers: this setup is completely invisible
their viewers: wow, it totally blends in
everyone who lives in that city: what is that weirdo doing in that fake dumpster he put up last night?
their viewers: wow, it totally blends in
everyone who lives in that city: what is that weirdo doing in that fake dumpster he put up last night?
October 20, 2026 at 8:07 PM
covert campers: this setup is completely invisible
their viewers: wow, it totally blends in
everyone who lives in that city: what is that weirdo doing in that fake dumpster he put up last night?
their viewers: wow, it totally blends in
everyone who lives in that city: what is that weirdo doing in that fake dumpster he put up last night?
fun teleportation story i found cool enough to recall from '98 that GPT dug up for me from a vague description, and i was able to help someone looking for it on Goodreads from 2014 to 2022
https://www.pc-freak.net/www.textfiles.com/magazines/UXU/uxu-422.txt
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www.pc-freak.net
October 15, 2026 at 3:05 AM
fun teleportation story i found cool enough to recall from '98 that GPT dug up for me from a vague description, and i was able to help someone looking for it on Goodreads from 2014 to 2022
insisting on calling it "generative AI" in 2026 is the same subtle tell you're a crank denier of reality as calling it "COVID pneumonia" was in 2020
October 7, 2026 at 3:35 AM
insisting on calling it "generative AI" in 2026 is the same subtle tell you're a crank denier of reality as calling it "COVID pneumonia" was in 2020
charitable reframing of hobby horsing: it's hurdle jumping under artificial motion constraints like race walking is to running or breaststroke is to freestyle. you cannot use your arms for balance or leverage, and the "horse" restricts pelvic rotation and leg scissoring that ease obstacle clearance
Hobby horsing - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
October 4, 2026 at 5:24 AM
charitable reframing of hobby horsing: it's hurdle jumping under artificial motion constraints like race walking is to running or breaststroke is to freestyle. you cannot use your arms for balance or leverage, and the "horse" restricts pelvic rotation and leg scissoring that ease obstacle clearance
Reposted by Lucent
動物・植物・細菌・ウイルスの系統をたどれるインタラクティブな生命の樹「Ptree」
https://gigazine.net/news/20260913-interactive-tree-of-life-ptree/
https://gigazine.net/news/20260913-interactive-tree-of-life-ptree/
動物・植物・細菌・ウイルスの系統をたどれるインタラクティブな生命の樹「Ptree」
生物の分類をクリックしながらたどり、食性や寿命などいろいろな性質を調べられるウェブサイトが「Ptree」です。地球上の生物のつながりを眺められるインタラクティブな生命の樹を実際に使ってみました。
gigazine.net
September 13, 2026 at 1:31 PM
動物・植物・細菌・ウイルスの系統をたどれるインタラクティブな生命の樹「Ptree」
https://gigazine.net/news/20260913-interactive-tree-of-life-ptree/
https://gigazine.net/news/20260913-interactive-tree-of-life-ptree/
Reposted by Lucent
September 11, 2026 at 12:31 PM
> make periodic table website at 14
> put one AdSense banner up
> German gov finds and recommends it? cool!
> @hrw.org lumps it in with procured EdTech, screenshots SHOW TRACKERS, and turns it into a Serious Report about "secretly surveilling kids deep into their private lives"
donor-funded theater
> put one AdSense banner up
> German gov finds and recommends it? cool!
> @hrw.org lumps it in with procured EdTech, screenshots SHOW TRACKERS, and turns it into a Serious Report about "secretly surveilling kids deep into their private lives"
donor-funded theater
Students Not Products
We think our kids are safe in school online. But many of them are being surveilled, and parents have often been kept in the dark. In the rush to connect kids to virtual classrooms during the Covid-19 ...
www.hrw.org
August 18, 2026 at 3:41 PM
> make periodic table website at 14
> put one AdSense banner up
> German gov finds and recommends it? cool!
> @hrw.org lumps it in with procured EdTech, screenshots SHOW TRACKERS, and turns it into a Serious Report about "secretly surveilling kids deep into their private lives"
donor-funded theater
> put one AdSense banner up
> German gov finds and recommends it? cool!
> @hrw.org lumps it in with procured EdTech, screenshots SHOW TRACKERS, and turns it into a Serious Report about "secretly surveilling kids deep into their private lives"
donor-funded theater
normies mishearing verbal commands from phone support to exit a Windows application as "x-out" and that becoming a standardized term is my "supposibly" nails on a chalkboard
August 16, 2026 at 6:34 PM
normies mishearing verbal commands from phone support to exit a Windows application as "x-out" and that becoming a standardized term is my "supposibly" nails on a chalkboard
how is there an element called tantalum? a whole element based on tantalizing you
August 15, 2026 at 6:28 PM
how is there an element called tantalum? a whole element based on tantalizing you
each Cincinnati mall store's color temperature exactly reflected the preferred color temperature of its target demographic. 2500 K for hipsters, 3000 K for boomers, 5000 K for Asians, 6000 K for Indians. are the latter as viscerally repelled by "yellow" lights as we are their "blue"?
August 14, 2026 at 5:53 AM
each Cincinnati mall store's color temperature exactly reflected the preferred color temperature of its target demographic. 2500 K for hipsters, 3000 K for boomers, 5000 K for Asians, 6000 K for Indians. are the latter as viscerally repelled by "yellow" lights as we are their "blue"?
repairing split packing tape by unrolling it until the two halves are whole is one of the rare times we make intuitive contact with the block universe without dulling its uncanny feel. does advancing the tape (time) do anything at all, or merely reveal the point at which the split has already ended?
August 11, 2026 at 2:33 AM
repairing split packing tape by unrolling it until the two halves are whole is one of the rare times we make intuitive contact with the block universe without dulling its uncanny feel. does advancing the tape (time) do anything at all, or merely reveal the point at which the split has already ended?
we went along with dunking Romney for his "binders of women" gaffe despite the distinction being incomprehensible at the time, but is that what kickstarted the diabetics vs. people with diabetes-style language policing?
June 5, 2026 at 9:12 PM
we went along with dunking Romney for his "binders of women" gaffe despite the distinction being incomprehensible at the time, but is that what kickstarted the diabetics vs. people with diabetes-style language policing?
Reposted by Lucent
if "online atheists are a fallen sect of christianity who believe practicing christians are insufficiently pious" then Bluesky anti-AI posters are a fallen sect of AGI true believers who find current AI insufficiently miraculous
August 12, 2025 at 7:06 PM
if "online atheists are a fallen sect of christianity who believe practicing christians are insufficiently pious" then Bluesky anti-AI posters are a fallen sect of AGI true believers who find current AI insufficiently miraculous
Devil Wears Prada 2 was so anticlimactic because the original plot was the Sam Altman trick and they reshot it? Andy rallies employees and advertisers behind Miranda, who can start a new magazine that makes Runway worthless in a sale. no benevolent billionaire require; institutional value is people
May 25, 2026 at 7:11 AM
Devil Wears Prada 2 was so anticlimactic because the original plot was the Sam Altman trick and they reshot it? Andy rallies employees and advertisers behind Miranda, who can start a new magazine that makes Runway worthless in a sale. no benevolent billionaire require; institutional value is people
reading the rules of Banana Ball and it seems like a patch to undo whatever fun was removed from baseball by optimizing for Sabermetrics
Lucent on X: "UFC is the result of taking all the fake stuff out of wrestling. It appears, however, that the fake stuff was also the entertaining stuff." / X
UFC is the result of taking all the fake stuff out of wrestling. It appears, however, that the fake stuff was also the entertaining stuff.
twitter.com
May 24, 2026 at 5:22 PM
reading the rules of Banana Ball and it seems like a patch to undo whatever fun was removed from baseball by optimizing for Sabermetrics
boys, did you know girls know who each car in the apartment (and possibly workplace) parking lot is associated with, their general schedule, and when a new one arrives or is oddly missing?
May 20, 2026 at 3:18 AM
boys, did you know girls know who each car in the apartment (and possibly workplace) parking lot is associated with, their general schedule, and when a new one arrives or is oddly missing?
deeply annoyed by the vanishing distinction between bombing and missile firing in space dogfight games. the difference reduces to whether the projectile is powered
May 17, 2026 at 4:52 PM
deeply annoyed by the vanishing distinction between bombing and missile firing in space dogfight games. the difference reduces to whether the projectile is powered
paint smells like yogurt tastes
May 16, 2026 at 5:04 AM
paint smells like yogurt tastes
the magazine's vision of the future carried the soft, reassuring tones of the room's surrounding '90s decor
May 9, 2026 at 7:04 PM
the magazine's vision of the future carried the soft, reassuring tones of the room's surrounding '90s decor
a polished site in the '90s or '00s could look like it arrived from an alien layer. to the unskilled, piracy may only feel like appropriating infrastructure or institutional output, not a person's passion project. i was Mullenweg aggressive with DMCA notices in the '90s and '00s in taking them down
April 29, 2026 at 5:27 PM
a polished site in the '90s or '00s could look like it arrived from an alien layer. to the unskilled, piracy may only feel like appropriating infrastructure or institutional output, not a person's passion project. i was Mullenweg aggressive with DMCA notices in the '90s and '00s in taking them down
local Indian restaurant struggles with SSL and their ASP.NET online order form. offered my card and to fix it when picking up my phone order. they snubbed me with a sourpuss expression so now i tamper/override errors client side when it's "down" and coincidentally i am the only online order that day
April 29, 2026 at 5:54 AM
local Indian restaurant struggles with SSL and their ASP.NET online order form. offered my card and to fix it when picking up my phone order. they snubbed me with a sourpuss expression so now i tamper/override errors client side when it's "down" and coincidentally i am the only online order that day