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After a flashback scene with her drugged-out dad uncle, stoned teenage Alpha gets a tattoo at a drug party, then it won’t stop bleeding. She inevitably will catch the medusa virus going around that’s turning people to stone, but first...
SF Gazetteer, Cydney Hayes: Why do these Castro gay bars have TSA-style face scanners? The machine Owen encountered is called a Patronscan Guard+, a biometric and personal data collection device made by Servall Data Systems, a...
Puzzles of the Parish is the latest collection of short stories edited by Martin Edwards for the British Library Crime Classics series, and as usual it’s an interesting survey of short […]
A curious Easter egg found in the mass:werk vaults.
Hugo Lowell, Lily Hay Newman, and Maxwell Zeff, reporting for Wired (Apple News+): Trump administration officials concluded talks with Anthropic on Monday without lifting export controls that were imposed last week on the company’s most...
A system software release for the ages.
My favorite tree was cut down, but I commiserated on reddit and someone hooked me up with a beautiful print.
Update: Some engagement with the emacs community, a published photo, and new site architecture.
In-flight refuelling A hoverfly extracting nectar from an obliging flower. I was reminded of aircraft in-flight refuelling methods. Quote of the Day ”Male domination is so rooted in our collective unconscious that we no longer even see...
Cory Doctorow in The Reverse Centaur’s Guide to Life After AI, commenting on Vocational Awe, a term coined by librarian-theorist Fobazi Etthart: Vocational Awe. The process by which employees exploit their workers’ sense of duty to the...
# Mobile Browsers I have documented my search for the 'perfect' email client on many occasions. Spoiler alert: I've largely given up. Now, I've returned to mobile browsers. I've tried my fair share over the years. When I used an iPhone...
Welp, I’ve agreed to be a panelist in a Shark Tank-style event where CISOs judge startup ideas. This is incredibly far out of my daily routine and comfort zone, so I felt obligated to say yes and commit to it before I had a chance to let...