[SC 2.4.4] Dogs: extremely good!
It was Chicken's one year adoption anniversary yesterday! It's wild, in that it feels simultaneously like she just got here and that we've had her for a lot longer. This is to say dogs: extremely good!
The origin of the cargo cult metaphor
"Melanesians deserve to be more than the punch line in a cargo cult story."
Pride Versioning
I feel attacked.
DoomPDF: A Doom source port that runs inside a PDF file.
Or, if you'd prefer: Play Tetris in a PDF instead.
Can you complete the Oregon Trail if you wait at a river for 14272 years: A study
"…Oregon Trail works much better than I could have expected after running the simulation for 14272 years."
Kyra Rinio: The Guardian Angel of Kinaros
Here's a lady who lives on an island.
U.S. TikTokers flock to Xiaohongshu, baffling and bonding with Chinese users
This is absolutely the most amazingly funny outcome of a situation that was otherwise pretty bad.
Ketamine Prevents Zebrafish from Giving Up by Acting on Non-neuronal Astrocytes
Dope.
Reversible Computing Escapes the Lab in 2025
I didn't even know this was a thing, but knowing it is a thing and that it could replace another thing I didn't know about that is bad is, in fact, good!
Another day of stochastic harassment for old time’s sake
"Because let’s face it folks, if I wanted to spend my Saturdays having frothing-at-the-mouth paranoia thrown at me by an semi-incontinent substance addict with mutually obsessive mother issues, I’d have stayed married."
The fastest gun in UX: Why your team is telling the wrong story
New Pavel post just dropped.
‘The internet hasn’t made us bad, we were already like that’: The mistake of yearning for the ‘friendly’ online world of 20 years ago
I'm old and online enough to be in this, and appreciated this take on it.
Lead and other heavy metals found in popular protein powders, new report says
Oh hey, we have our generation's lead in the gasoline.
A Rare Alignment of 7 Planets Is About to Take Place in The Sky
Prophetic!
World must act on unacceptable failures to protect persons with disabilities from disasters
Having done disaster response, I now find myself wondering how much it didn't consider this.
Knowing Things is Hard
Well shoot.
Nepenthes
"It works by generating an endless sequences of pages, each of which with dozens of links, that simply go back into a the tarpit. Pages are randomly generated, but in a deterministic way, causing them to appear to be flat files that never change. Intentional delay is added to prevent crawlers from bogging down your server, in addition to wasting their time. Lastly, optional Markov-babble can be added to the pages, to give the crawlers something to scrape up and train their LLMs on, hopefully accelerating model collapse."
Tiny anime girl cyberprison shown at CES
"Can a machine, through cold arithmetic, learn to hate its teacher? Probably not. But hey, I bet I could put Goku in there."