Your future doctor is using ChatGPT to pass medical school, so you better start riding a bike and eating healthy now.

How to use a UK power plug properly.

True definition of critical infrastructure

Same.

Alt...

Sign: AT THE END OF THE DAY, I'D RATHER BE EXCLUDED FOR WHO I INCLUDE THAN BE INCLUDED FOR WHO I EXCLUDE.

I haven't done a post on the weirder side of life in Glasgow for a while, so here's a great, if rather surreal, bit of street art I came across today on Park Drive in the West End of Glasgow.

#glasgow #streetart #kelvingrovepark #banana #glasgowstreetart #keepglasgowweird #glasgowtoday #scotland #humour #scottishhumour #glasgowhumour

Alt...

A Victorian railing with fleur-de-lis decorations on the top, one of which has been painted to look like a half-peeled banana.

Where I get my ideas from

Alt...

An artist is at his desk. Another man says where do you get all your ideas from? What’s your secret? The artist replies there really is no magic secret. It’s just hard work patience and dedication. The artist then says “it’s a disappointing answer I know but it’s the truth“ the other man leaves and says “OK I’ll see you later” the artist replies “bye!” A moment passes then the artist looks around and says “did he leave” a hatch opens from the floor, and a large pig pop its head out the artist yells at the pig “idea pig! Give me an idea!” The pig replies “you should make a viral comic about raisins!”

The Canadian and Mexican governments could set up COVID booster clinics just past the drive-in border crossings, and right near the exits at airports. Require a US passport, charge a service fee of $25, and have a kiosk to let the recipient send a personalized email to RFK Jr.

You know what? As a society, I don't think we have a data privacy problem, actually.

What we truly have is a
consent-respecting problem.

If, as a society and as individuals, we truly respected people's informed and freely given consent, we would not have problems with data privacy at all.

If we culturally improve our consent-respecting practices, we will inevitably understand better how to improve our privacy-respecting practices.

Ask first.
Give options.
Respect people's choices.
Never share without prior permission.

#Privacy #Consent #HumanRights #DigitalRights

Handy bilingual mnemonic for tool use. 🪛🔩

#English #Spanish #screw #unscrew #tools #mnemonic

Alt...

"Rightie tightie, leftie loosie" in Spanish is "la derecha oprime, la izquierda libera." [image of a screw with a curved arrow pointing to the left, another identical screw image with an arrow pointing to the right] Meaning: "the right oppresses, the left liberates."

This week's comic: A dangerous invasion of warblers, orioles, and hummingbirds

#immigration #birds #cartoon #uspol #comic

Alt...

FEDS CRACK DOWN ON SPRING MIGRATION DEPT. OF HOMELAND SECURITY OFFICIAL: A BILLION BIRDS SNEAK ACROSS THE BORDER EVERY NIGHT UNDER COVER OF DARKNESS! "LEGIONS OF WINGED MIGRANTS ARE INVADING FROM THE SOUTH TO BREED IN OUR COUNTRY, STEALING INSECTS AND NECTAR FROM AMERICAN BACKYARDS." MAP OF NORTH AMERICA SHOWING AVIAN CARAVAN BORDER PATROL AGENT: WE CAUGHT THIS YELLOW-RUMPED WARBLER TRYING TO SLIP ACROSS THE MEXICAN BORDER. IT'S STRAIGHT TO GUANTANAMO FOR YOU, LITTLE JAILBIRD! A SOLUTION IS PROPOSED. OFFICIAL ON TV: WE NEED A $2.7 TRILLION NET TO ENCLOSE ALL OF AMERICAN AIRSPACE. WOMAN: WHY DON'T THESE BIRDS JUST STAY WHERE THEY CAME FROM? BUILD THE NET!

Every US institution should keep a copy of this letter around, for use as a template when the Trump Administration sends a letter full of ridiculous and illegal demands

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/cleveland-browns-letters/

#USPol

Alt...

Cleveland Stadium Corp. Cleveland Stadium, Cleveland, Ohio 44114 Phone: 781-5600 November 21, 1974 Dale O. Cox, Esquire Roetzel and Andress 20th Floor One Cascade Plaza Akron, Ohio 44308 Dear Mr. Cox: Attached is a letter that we received on November 19, 1974. I feel that you should be aware that some asshole is signing your name to stupid letters. Very truly yours, Cleveland Stadium Corp. James N. Bailey, General Counsel cc: Arthur B. Modell

More soy toots: when you buy soy sauce look at the ingredient list and label.

If it has ‘hydrolyzed soy protein’, it’ll be roughly the same quality as ‘cheap Chinese restaurant takeout soy sauce packets’. Soy sauce made from chemical processes. It doesn’t taste good to me and is usually amped up with sugar.

If it just says ‘soy beans’, and the label says ‘naturally brewed’ or ‘naturally fermented’ or ‘first draw soy sauce’ it will be pretty good.

#Food

Trump has now mentioned getting himself elected Pope several times in the last week, which means that the Vatican is in for years of frivilous lawsuits, death threats against Cardinals, and even weirder-than-usual papal conspiracy theories when the white smoke goes up and it's someone else on the balcony.

Apple Updates U.S. App Review Guidelines Following Injunction
https://daringfireball.net/linked/2025/05/02/updated-app-review-guidelines-us

almost done with our food tour of the world. got to Y last night, Yemen. did salta, basically a stew with whatever meat/veggies you have, some tomato, spices. it also uses hulba, a sauce made from fenugreek, cilantro, garlic, jalapeno.

we did it with shrimp and veggies. kind of like curry, but not quite indian curry. very tasty.

one letter (Z) to go. :)

Boost if you want less generative AI in your tech in 2025.

I know people like to make fun of niche operating systems, but for the five years I was at Microsoft I used Windows (10 then 11) as my daily driver. It’s much less stable than a professional OS, but it does kind-of work. I wouldn’t say it’s ready for the desktop. The UI is inconsistent and changes randomly between releases, a load of common software is basically useable only in a VM, it lags and freezes periodically (unlike an OS designed for interactive use, random drivers run a load of things directly in interrupt handlers, so you get latency spikes that you wouldn’t see in a more mainstream desktop OS) and the update process can hose the system, so it’s mostly of interest to people who like tinkering with their machines than people who actually want to get work done. Oh and a load of random bits of the OS have ads, but that’s what you get from a free ad-supported system instead of one developed by an active open-source community.

I don’t think I’d recommend anyone use it as their daily driver or in a work setting, but it’s not totally unusable. It’s not at the level of maturity than you’d expect from, say, Linux or FreeBSD, especially not for client workloads. If you do have to use it, I recommend that you install FreeBSD in a Hyper-V VM for real work. That’s what I did and it works quite well.

What a clusterfk

Via Brad Moss:

So to sum up the Wisconsin arrest issue:

ICE didn't have a juridical warrant. They only had an administrative warrant.

The DOJ has not convened a grand jury to indict the judge. They only got a criminal complaint before a magistrate judge.

This is ridiculous.

Opus DEI.
That's it—that’s the post.

Without fail, whenever there's an article about a transgender person, the comments have at least one person who boldly declares: “There are only two genders! XX and XY!” The reality, of course, is not that simplistic, far from it. https://thinkbigpicture.substack.com/p/human-sex-gender-nonbinary

Thanks @grunfink@comam.es for the #snac server, @stefano@bsd.cafe for the blog posts that pointed me to it, @voron@snac.nya.pub for the theme and @manton@manton.org for motivating me with your book

What's the best Canadian TV show? I don't mean shows like The Expanse, which was filmed in Canada but clearly an American production. I mean Lost Girl, Lexx, Relic Hunter, Grand Star. Are any of them not painful to watch?

Instead of using his Make-A-Wish for something for himself, 13-Year-old Abraham Olagbegi used his wish to feed the homeless in his neighborhood for a year.

Did not know he had a middle name

I got a #COVID booster yesterday. I was curious about how many that makes—I lost count—so I downloaded my vaccination records from https://www.myvaxrecords.mass.gov/.
It turns out yesterday's was my 10th: 4/21 Moderna dose 1, 5/21 Moderna dose 2, 12/21 Pfizer, 4/22 Pfizer, 9/22 Moderna, 2/23 Moderna, 9/23 Moderna, 3/24 Moderna, 10/24 Novavax, 4/25 Pfizer.
For some reason I'm still alive and kicking despite all the crazy people's claims about how dangerous these vaccines are.

Americans: do you know the 3 things you're supposed to write on the back of a check before you deposit it into your own bank account? (no spoilers in the replies)
If the answer is yes and you remember where you learned this information, reply and say where!

@sentientdolphin

Has anyone voted YMCA yet?

(On a side-note: having a reserve of Cantonese salt & pepper seasoning to aid the chips to greatness may help, especially since my "pepper" is a blend of Tellicherry, white, and Sichuan.)