[SC 2.4.4] Wide horse
My partner is a teacher and one of her students drew something described as a "wide horse." It is exactly what you think it is
Scientists watch supernova shockwave shoot through a dying star for 1st time
🤘
Messing with bots
"Generally I just block these requests with a 403 response. But since they want .php files, why don't I give them what they want?"
I think nobody wants AI in Firefox, Mozilla
Why introduce features your users are asking for when you can just systematically alienate them instead?
2,000,000 Bugs!
And speaking of Firefox!
The World Moved on From the Garfield-Themed Restaurant, but Will the Internet Ever Forget?
"…Mazri retained an extraordinary degree of confidence that GarfieldEats was a serious gastronomical venture, not just a cartoon-focused theme restaurant."
Blippo+
I bought this, it's great.
Ea-nasir_Clay_Tablet.obj
You gotta print this using copper, obviously.
alive internet theory
"alive internet theory offers a counter-narrative: the internet will always be filled with real people: looking for each other, answering calls for help, and sharing laughs even in the midst of arguing."
Americans are heating their homes with bitcoin this winter
b l e a k
The This Page Intentionally Left Blank Project
I gotta add this to my site!
Alice Wong, disability justice advocate and author, dies at 51
Rest in power, Alice.
Trouble in Toyland 2025: A.I. bots and toxics present hidden dangers
If you get one of these know you can always dunk it in some water and still be left with a perfectly serviceable toy.
A Visual History of Lunchboxes
Delivers what it promises.
Open Source Power
A lot to think about here. h/t Jan.
Points of contact – a short history of door handles
A link you can really come to grips with.
Talking to Windows’ Copilot AI makes a computer feel incompetent
Just running out of reasons to use Windows with each passing day.
If you’re not gonna bother writing it yourself, I ain’t gonna bother reading it myself.
Remembering this post as I clean up other people's slop at work.
Can AI write accessibility specs?
And speaking of work, Geri cuts to the heart of a lot of stuff I've been feeling and working through here.
Leyland FV4201 Chieftain Main Battle Tank
Anyone wanna loan me $100k?
Scientists hail breakthrough in decoding whale communication
So! It turns out whales turns out whales use vowels! Also sharing this link for definitely unrelated reasons.
Death rates rose in hospital ERs after private equity firms took over, study finds
Monsters.
Why the placeholder icon is two mountain peaks—and what they might symbolize
"This small icon holds so much, and yet it can also paradoxically mean that there is nothing to see at all."
‘America is more divided than ever — but how is it affecting our love lives? I spent a year dating conservative men to find out’
"A conclusion I came to is that these men feel like most people don’t take the time — or have no interest in taking the time — to understand them or where they come from."