Huh. At some point, I put "<meta name="geo.*"" tags into the HTML on my blog.
That some point was apparently over 20 years ago.
Anyway, don't know if I should update it, or remove it.
Huh At some point I put meta Dan Lyke / comment 0
Huh. At some point, I put "<meta name="geo.*"" tags into the HTML on my blog.
That some point was apparently over 20 years ago.
Anyway, don't know if I should update it, or remove it.
There's a dog barking outside the Dan Lyke / comment 0
There's a dog barking outside the office in the exact rhythm of the stabs in the opening of Survivor's "Eye of the Tiger"...
The scale of AI Dan Lyke / comment 0
conputer dipshit @davidcrespo.bsky.social
found a cute point of comparison: Anthropic and OpenAI together have a little more revenue than Target
https://epoch.ai/data/ai-companies?view=graph&tab=revenue
https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/TGT/financials/
(Anthropic at roughly $65B, OpenAI at $40B, os $105B+noise from the others, vs Target at about the same...)
RIP Tim Curry Dan Lyke / comment 0
Well damn. 'Rocky Horror' Star Tim Curry dead at 80.
Rocky Horror, and, of course.... Tim Curry is escaping to the one place that hasn't been corrupted by capitalism. (YouTube video)
An Oral History of Tim Curry’s Escape to the One Place Uncorrupted by Capitalism:
ANTHONY OLIVEIRA (author and critic): I think the pleasure of it is that Tim Curry is the master of camp and the master of menace and in the clip we finally witness something that is finally too ridiculous, finally too outre, finally too much even for him. Tim Curry has played the devil with 18 inch horns, but this at last is the bridge even he almost cannot cross. But then he brings it home! The accent, the costume, the arc of the “character” himself finally exhausted by whatever indignities he has suffered at the player’s hands. It is perfect storytelling.
Reserve public utilities for commodities with demonstrated value Dan Lyke / comment 0
Lili Saintcrow @lilithsaintcrow@raggedfeathers.com
Calls for “the public” to “own ‘AI’” are just a transparent attempt to make the general populace hold the trillion-dollar bag for a con game.
There is no reason ordinary people need to pick up the tab for this particular Ponzi scheme.
The decline of the DIY web Dan Lyke / comment 0
People are noticing the decline of Google: Xenotime, Librarian of Æther :trans_fedi: @xeno@hexokina.se
In 1970, Scientific American's legendary publication The Amateur Scientist ran an article on homemade transistors.
Not MOSFETs, but thin-film transistors made by Roger Baker with a DIY spray pyrolysis system. With handmade drawings like this.
In 2026, Google could not find this. I only found this from a StackExchange post which linked to a 2009 blog post that mentioned it. Then to see the actual article I had to go to JSTOR, sign in with my institution, re-sign-in to EZProxy, wait for the 2FA prompt, wait like a minute for their stupid website to load, click download, agree to not share it amongst the other terms and conditions, then download it.
I have no desire to go back to the world of 1970s, but I somehow feel the way that tech megacorps and licensing bs runs the world of 2026 is a scourge on human creativity and experimentation.
In another message, they link to FET Transistor Homemade From Cadmium Sulfide Photocell by Nyle Steiner K7NSM and https://sliceofpie.eu, but it's very clear that Google's search results are coalescing around selling YouTube ads and AI summaries, and not actually linking to real information.
UwU Dan Lyke / comment 0
Furbland's Very Backwards Account™ @GroupNebula563@mastodon.social
FUN FACT: the Greek god of knowledge was named Thoth, spelled in the Greek alphabet as θωθ. This means that it is entirely plausible that one, or perhaps several ancient Greeks have asked "θωθ, what's this?"
This is real. Look it up.
(According to Wikipedia, it's Θώθ, but close enough...)
protect us from drag queens reading books Dan Lyke / comment 0
I initially wasn't going to link to Conservatives Want To Ban Pornography. Without It, I'd Probably Be Dead, Ariel Anderssen's commentary on the resurgence of the death cult's attempts at anti-pornography legislation.
Nor to news that Reagan appointee Judge David Hittner has struck down Texas's drag show ban NBC News, Texas Tribune.
But The Devil's Panties this morning reminds me that promoting pornography and drag shows is life affirming, and we need to be pushing back on the death cult in every single way.
Brain activity inhibition during Short Video Viewing Dan Lyke / comment 0
Brain activity inhibition during Short Video Viewing: neurochemical insights
By integrating fMRI with 1H-MRS, our study provides novel evidence that immersive viewing of preferred short videos deactivates the cognitive control network and that individual differences in this deactivation are linked to glutamate metabolism. These findings enhance our understanding of how digital media consumption interacts with neurochemical processes to influence self-regulation. Our study offers new insights into the neural mechanisms underlying short-video engagement and has implications for understanding excessive digital media use.
Via.
AI, from maps to law Dan Lyke / comment 0
Always worth a read, but ResearchBuzz for August 22nd has a whole lot of "AI" related stupidity.
Stalking the Wily Hacker Dan Lyke / comment 0
This is making the rounds, and it's well worth watching, or at least (as I did) listening: DefCon 34 - Stalking the Wily Hacker: 40 years later - Cliff Stoll (YouTube video). His chaos energy is completely infectious.
Among other sources, Via.
Merrelyn Emery Dan Lyke / comment 0
Ruth — of systems & design @RuthMalan@mastodon.social:
Given her recent death, with its reminder the Merrelyn Emery was in her 80’s, comes the realization that she did this study of Agile in her 80’s:
After over 20 years of agile, this study shows that agile has failed to produce a coherent industry or sustainable organizations as the critical factors of high intrinsic motivation and organizational performance are in short supply. Highly desirable personal and organizational outcomes are few and far between. In a comparison with other organizations with DP1 structures and in danger of failing, the software industry came off second best.
I'm going to have to learn more about her!
In honor of Dolly's passing may I Dan Lyke / comment 0
In honor of Dolly's passing, may I again strongly recommend the "Dolly Parton's America" podcast? https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/dolly-partons-america
RIP Dolly Parton Dan Lyke / comment 0
Well shit. Dolly Parton, dead at 80.
WTF? Dan Lyke / comment 0
I have a whole bunch of Blüskî and Fediverse links saved up, from Target's extremely racist halloween costume (via) to Richard Berger: The False Affiant behind ICE in Minnesota’s fabricated cases, to Business Insider proposing that you raise your kids in an AI augmented throuple (1, 2, and in linking to her short story Wire Mother, Isabel J. Kim notes "IM RIGHT IM LITERALLY ALWAYS RIGHT" and Hypervisible notes "A consistent pitch by the makers of ai wearables is that they solve the problem of getting to know your child."), but...
...I just can't even this morning.