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Replacing a billion lines of COBOL is probably a good idea in the long run... if the first steps are some 3-6 years of sober, experienced professionals doing analysis, specification, and test-writing.

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I've been converting a Creative Commons-licensed TTRPG PDF to markdown, engaging in some copy-editing as I go. Hell is other people's usage.

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The government’s statement is a flex, not a confession of error. The important elements of the flex are these: 1. We send enemies to brutal foreign labor camps. 2. We decide who enemies are. 3. We may decide you are an enemy based on a secret informant, or our view of your tattoos. /1

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Arguably on the nose, but I'll allow it: Hellgate High is putting on a production of Hadestown. https://www.mcpsmt.org/site/Default.aspx?PageID=10&DomainID=8#calendar7/20250416/event/119430

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In London...

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Hill I'm willing to die on: getting from the home page to a login prompt should not take more effort than getting to the form for creating a new account.

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Dickens novels ranked according to their... Dickensian-ness. https://onehundredpages.wordpress.com/2012/04/19/which-novel-is-the-most-dickensian/

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Goodness, what a violent, warlike people. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_wars_involving_the_United_States c.f. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_wars_involving_the_United_Kingdom "During its history, the United Kingdom's forces (or forces with a British mandate) have invaded, had […]

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If we actually had an #ArtificialIntelligence , imagine how offensive it would find being lumped in with all the other crap we're calling AI.

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Vanishingly close to everything available for #DeltaGreen (games and fiction) for $25. Too much value for the money. Even if you're not a #ttrpg person, the game books are fun reading for the detailed alternate history of a century of #Lovecraft mythos espionage […]

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If Germans own #Hitler - and we obviously do - then Americans definitely own #Trump . Saying: "I didn't vote for him!" Is no longer enough. Now the question is: "Do you comply, or do you resist?" The Germans who grew up after WWII also asked these questions to the generations of their parents […]

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Y'know what'd be really nice to have about now? An opposition party.

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Dear Canada, Please avoid the Library of Congress this time. kthxbye

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The logical continuation of firmware breaking a piece of hardware's ability to work with other components... https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/03/firmware-update-bricks-hp-printers-makes-them-unable-to-use-hp-cartridges/

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Wishing you all a safe and healthy #GaryRetrograde, this March. Gary Oldman was born 21 March 1958, making him nearly two weeks YOUNGER than Gary Numan, born 8 March 1958. Thus, the period between their birthdays is a time of chaos and reflection, for EV-RY-ONNNNNE to work out the DLs and […]

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Such a disappointment that cats' temporal glands have nothing to do with time travel.

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This is from the executive director of the !8F, the digital services agency within the General Services Administration (GSA) that develops open-source tools to improve digital services across the federal government. "I am the Executive Director of 18F and 18F’s longest running employee- I have […]

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https://www.thepost.co.nz/nz-news/360599836/weird-lengths-keep-covid-bay-are-worth-it-doctor

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https://misfitmentalhealth.substack.com/p/why-are-people-wearing-masks-in-2025

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Mom: “No videogames, go play outside” Me: “Ok”

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London bus stop ad by the PeopleVsElon. Great work. #BoycottTesla

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Been watching SNL 50th Anniversary videos. On Weekend Update: 🭽 Health Experts are facing increased pressure this winter in the face of increased outbreaks of COVID, the flu, RSV, and norovirus, which they're calling a quad-demic. So we did the smart thing and packed every beloved […]

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In my head, Ted Lasso is a muppet movie where Hannah Waddingham is the only human.

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If we want Musk gone, we should start spreading the message that Trump is ineffective and weak and Musk holds the real power.

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So how’s it going so far? - 32 Photos Of Real Talk Graffiti: https://streetartutopia.com/real-talk-graffiti/

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New instance, new #Introduction ! My name is Jürgen, and I translate old German folk tales into English - not just tales from the Brothers Grimm, but from the hundreds of other 19th century German folklorists out there. To date, I have translated more than 600 tales. You can learn more about […]

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I wonder how many American TERFs with androgen insensitivity syndrome are in for a surprise. (I really wonder. No anticipated schadenfreude here. I don't want anyone misgendered, not even TERFs.)

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We've put the inmate fox in charge of the henhouse asylum and may modernity have mercy on us all.

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Ummm... is there any safeguard in place preventing China just buying from Facebook all the same info on US citizens that Tiktok gave them access to? 'cause I haven't heard of one...

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xz3rz6gKV6I

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I imagine Warren Ellis has sent Neil Gaiman a muffin basket.

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Late in life, Alice Hargreaves née Liddell sold Alice's Adventures Underground as handwritten and illustrated by the Reverend Dodgson. An American bought it at auction and sold it to Eldridge Johnson, founder of the Victor Talking Machine Company. After his death, a collective of American […]

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Thing I can't stop thinking while watching the Squid Games: how in the hell do they manage the logistics of showers and bathroom trips?

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Human-level artificial intelligence has been right around the corner for about 70 years. But there's an undeniable difference between all those decades and now: Today, we have a bunch of people with enormous financial incentive to actively and consciously lie about how AI is right around […]

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https://donate.wikimedia.org

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Any sufficiently advanced corporate software is indistinguishable from malware. https://www.windowslatest.com/2024/12/22/asus-bombards-windows-11-with-christmas-exe-malware-like-christmas-wreath-banner/

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ahPhaetoshi9loothac4! "Invalid password. Password must contain at least one number, one lowercase letter, one uppercase letter, one symbol (* + @ # $ % & !) and a minimum of eight characters." Sigh. (Secret maximum length.)

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I really, really hate #Javascript 's d = new Date() syntax. Just find it ugly. It obviously should be d = Date.new() so... Object.getOwnPropertyNames(globalThis).map(el => globalThis[el]).filter(el => ((!!el) && (typeof(el) === 'function') && el.prototype)).forEach(el => { el.new = […]

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If you are a person who needs to know this, then this is a thing you really need to know: John Kessel wrote an excellent mashup of Frankenstein and Pride and Prejudice called Pride and Prometheus, first as a novella in 2008: https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?835170 then expanded into […]

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I just read someone describing having consulted with an LLM for advice on how to use LLMs to implement a coding project and wow.

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Almost everyone has decided that they would rather suffer permanent brain damage than the social stigma of being the only one around who doesn’t want brain damage. I don’t get it. Please be that one masked weirdo who still cares. It will give the second, third and fourth weirdos permission to […]

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I'd love for there to be evidence of intelligent life in the universe, but... they're just drones, people. You can get one for $50.

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emacs users horrified to discover that "meta-x" now means two awful social media companies

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Well this explains everything

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Breaking news:switched my terminal font from Monaspace Krypton to Julia Mono. https://juliamono.netlify.app/

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