Been horrifying teammates by referring to undocumented information that's held only in people's heads as "locked in meat storage".

Please use this with your teams/projects and report back on how they like it?

On this day in 1978, the rainbow flag first flew as a symbol of pride. It was raised at San Francisco Gay Freedom Day.

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A person stands supporting the bottom of a huge flag being hoisted. The flag is a rainbow with eight stripes of pink, red, orange, yellow, green, turquoise, indigo and violet.

News out of New York has convinced me of the need to primary established leaders. I am therefore challenging my five-year-old for the governorship of our house.

@da_667 @catsalad

Really great work from @rgadellaa compiling a (non-exhaustive!) history of business-critical bugs in Safari.

These bugs heavily impact websites and web apps that are trying to build more sophisticated experiences on the web. They affect a wide variety of platform features which Apple itself claims to be stable and fully-supported. Safari is the *only* major browser that consistently ships bugs this nasty, and especially the only one that leaves them there for years.

https://webventures.rejh.nl/blog/2024/history-of-safari-show-stoppers/#anchor--showstoppers-by-year

I am begging solarpunk artists to do some back-of-the-envelope math regarding solar irradiance and the heating/cooling/transport/industrial energy requirements of their hypothetical structures before drawing one more lush cityscape filled with greenery instead of 500 square kilometers of solar panels

have The Talk with your friends:

• no, artificial intelligence isn't real now, nor is it just around the corner
• we need laws to prevent capitalists using LLMs to try to circumvent labor laws; we don't need laws to stop "rogue AI" because that's sci-fi bullshit with absolutely no bearing on reality
• no, "ai" is not "inevitable" -- the bullshit word extruders that are being positioned as the next big thing right now are snake oil garbage, and not even profitable snake oil garbage, and there's no path to develop them into anything else because that's just how they work
• if you hear someone talking about how "ai" is going to change everything, treat them the same way you'd treat a scientologist talking about whatever the fuck scientologists believe in: it is bullshit cult nonsense for marks and rubes
• remind them to ponder the question of "cui bono" -- who benefits from the narrative that "ai" is the "next big thing"? the answer: mostly filthy rich american fascists, filthy rich chip manufacturers, filthy rich data center operators, and filthy rich silicon valley entrepreneurs

do your part to counter bullshit fucking propaganda from capitalist scumbags 👍

Edit: this seems to have resonated with a lot of people and I've rejected a lot of nonsense replies or people being contrarian and annoying I don't care if you disagree! Write your own post about it! :')

Since Dovecot 2.4 is dropping replication, I'll definitely need to rework my mail servers and those for BSDMail. I think I'll be going back to Cyrus, which I last used over 20 years ago. The problem is my memories have long faded, so it'll be like studying it again from scratch. And that makes me happy, because it'll be like learning something totally new!

Special thanks to @h3artbl33d for the heads up!

#BSDMail #OwnYourData #MailServer #Dovecot

calling me a slur would've been easier

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a customer today looked at me, said “y’know? i think you’ll appreciate this,” and pulled his shirt down to show me his supernatural tattoo. calling me a slur would’ve been easier

via @mikael

cute terminal font that doesn't look Like That

https://qwerasd205.github.io/AnnotationMono/

407 years ago, the first slaves arrived in Virginia. They were from Angola.

162 years ago, Lincoln declared that all enslsved people in Confederate territories were free.

160 years ago (to the day!), on #Juneteenth, the last enslaved people in the USA were freed.

61 years ago, racial discrimination and segregation were outlawed by the Civil Rights Act.

60 years ago, black Americans finally secured comprehensive electoral protections through the Voting Rights Act.

But:

- 12 years ago, the Supreme Court ruled that states no longer require federal approval for new voting policies. Since then, more than 100 voter suppression laws have been passed across states with histories of discriminatory practices.

- For every dollar earned by a white person in the USA, a black person earns 87 cents.

- White Americans hold 84% of the country’s wealth, while black people hold just 3%.

- Institutional racism remains a serious problem, with black people facing disparities in education, housing, employment, healthcare, and in the criminal justice system.

- Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, three good things that help *everyone*, are under constant attack.

Today is Juneteenth, and it’s a day to celebrate. But I hope all of my white friends can take a moment to consider that however far we think we’ve come with civil rights in this country, it hasn’t been far enough. Every day we see more examples of people in power actively working to undermine fairness and decency while driving increasingly larger wedges between ethnic groups. We have to be better than this. We must refuse to accept this. There is so much work to be done, by all of us.

Gilead has announced that lenacapavir, the game-changing HIV prevention drug just approved by the FDA will cost $28,218 USD per person per year.

Researchers say a generic version could be made for just $25 per person a year.

Capitalism kills.

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https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/18/health/hiv-fda-lenacapavir.html?unlocked_article_code=1.P08.-77c.zGN5AEXC4wVS&smid=url-share

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Aids and HIV ‘HIV-ending’ drug could be made for just $25 per patient a year, say researchers As regulator prepares to approve lenacapavir in the US, campaigners are urging the manufacturer, Gilead, to make it ‘available and affordable for all who need it’

The cruel medical experiment on a black pregnant woman in Georgia will finally come to an end.

Adriana Smith was declared brain dead at 9 weeks pregnant after an ER sent her home with blood clots in her brain.

The hospital kept her body alive due to Georgia’s abortion ban

Adriana was a nurse who went to the ER due to severe headaches. She was dismissed despite blood clots in her brain and declared brain dead the next day.

Her body was placed on organ & tissue support due to the State’s strict abortion ban.

The family were not asked to consent. They had no say in the matter.

It’s generally not medically indicated to try and keep a body alive for a fetus of that age.

Only a handful of cases exist in the medical literature.

In the 35 cases studied, the median gestational age at time of brain death was 20 weeks, not 9.

27 neonates were born alive, only 8 were described as “healthy”

There was no medical precedent for what happened to Adriana.

In total she spent nearly 4 months on life support, all without her consent or the consent of next of kin.

The baby, Chance, has been born at 1lb 13oz and is in the NICU. Details about his prognosis are not yet known

The costs associated with both Adriana’s ICU stay and Chance’s NICU stay will be astronomical, and it remains to be seen if her family will be forced to pay them.

What we do know is the state forced this birth. The hospital forced this birth.

They won’t be the ones to care for the child, but they stripped Adriana and her family of their autonomy and dignity due to an abortion ban that seeks to control women.

They experimented on her to see if women can be treated as nothing more than vessels for fetuses.

Misogynoir killed Adriana, and then the State opted to experiment on her body.

That’s what happened here.

I’m glad that the baby has been born alive, and we should all hope for a good outcome, but we should be enraged this was allowed to happen in the first place.

My original article about Adriana Smith and medical misogyny looks at the policies of forced birth and what responsibility (if any) the government should have to provide to those it demands be brought into the world.

https://www.disabledginger.com/p/adriana-smith-misogyny-and-the-cruelty

#uspol #fascism #georgia #abortion #abortionishealthcare #roevwade #misogyny #misogynoir #adrianasmith

#librarhumour
#books

Why everyone should read books.

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Frank McCourt’s reason for reading

Phone forensics

Usually law enforcement is very secretive about them analyzing the phones of suspects.

But a forensic lab in #montana is extremely transparent about it. They put the dump of every phone on a public share. Everyone with Internet access can access those dumps.

While I am usually a proponent of government transparency, this takes it a bit too far even for my taste.

Every phone dump is one directory and some case names can be easily connected to crime & death headline news in the U.S.

So for one case I am pretty sure, that I can even say which Sheriff is responsible for that one of the investigations.

I sent that Sheriff an email, i sent him a text message and I even spoke on his voicebox. I even sent him the extraction report from Graykey.

It is really frustrating that I get no response at all. The leak is still open.

The security researcher that found the leak also tried some contacts but had as little success as I do.

I personally believe that this leaks even constitutes a federal crime. Some cases have names ending on CSAM. The security researcher stayed away from any of those and I did not access the files on that server at all.

So does anybody know someone within the #fbi that would give a shit about that. I am getting very tired.

#graykey #cellebrite #forensics

Found online years ago...

The entire Dune cycle is based on a terrible pun.
1. The spice is called melange.
2. The spice confers power and longevity.
3. Melange is a French word for variety.

In other words, variety is the spice of life.

Why does no one ever talk about this?

❝But why does Trump want chaos? Many pundits and, I’m sorry to say, all too many Democrats assume that performative cruelty, both in the form of those ICE arrests and in roughing up demonstrators, will work to Trump’s political advantage.

For what it’s worth, that’s not what the available polling says.❞

https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/this-is-not-a-drill
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Anyone have any suggestions for books my 11 year old might appreciate to scratch the Harry Potter itch? They read the first book in school and enjoyed it, wants to read the rest but I've soft blocked them from my home and I don't want to use library resources on them (thus encouraging library to buy more copies...). I know of some good fantasy series but they're a few years out from being able to appreciate them yet...

Consumer networking devices come in two varieties: Altar to a Dark God and Aromatherapy Machine.

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A set of white cylindrical TP-link mesh wireless devices

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A TP-link router that looks like a black slab bristling with sharp angular towers on three sides.

People who rely on a higher authority to tell them what's right and wrong don't actually have a sense of morality. They only understand subservience.

Talking Heads release the first official video for 'Psycho Killer'

https://www.openculture.com/2025/06/talking-heads-release-the-first-official-video-for-psycho-killer-watch-it-online.html

#music #TalkingHeads

What makes OpenBSD so nice is that when you look up how to do a thing, the reaction upon finding out how to do the thing is almost always "oh right, that makes sense".

A spectacular sight 1225m (4019 ft) beneath the waves off Baja California as E/V Nautilus encounters the amazing Halitrephes maasi jelly.

Full video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9D0eyl7-XQA

#ocean #nature #science

This is about increasing crop yields and preserving soil quality, you hare-brained Luddites.

Is this new? Does Apple allow non-AppleArcade games to change this button to “Play” instead of “Open”, or is this special treatment for their own games? @atpfm @gruber

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iOS App Store updates screen. Showing some updated apps. But where updated apps normally have an “Open” button next to them, the Apple Arcade game (Mini Motorways) has a “Play” button.

watching "castle" and it still bugs me that they say GSW (which is 5 syllables) as supposedly faster than gun shot wound (3 syllables). lord knows tech has way too many acronyms but really?

whoami 🤣

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A funny but older tweet (X) screenshot from Bruno Borges that uses a series of Linux commands to describe nested computing environment, ending with 'No. Fucking. Clue.' when asked how it got there. This explains with the complexity of modern cloud infrastructure we all see and deal with every single day.

This should be on TV every day, possibly multiple times per day…. #AI

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.

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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

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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

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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!”

Top dual- language effort spotted yesterday
#dogsofmastodon

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Blue canal and river trust sign. Text reads: Attention dog owners. Pick up after your dogs. Thank you. Attention dogs. Grrrr, bark, woof. Background is grass and daisies with trees and a bench in the distance and blue sky with white fluffy clouds overhead.

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

I know this looks like climate nerd stuff but the stakes are actually massive for all of us: accountability on fossil fuel elimination is being wrecked by dodgy math that allows the pretence that trees are re-absorbing the carbon we dig up from underground and move to the atmosphere

Governments shouldn't rely for...

Das ist sooooo süsss!! ​​

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Terapacks mit interessanten Ansichten einer blauen Katze auf den Flächen, die je nach Orientierung der Tetrapacks unterschiedliche Ansichten der blaune katze zeigen können.

Handy bilingual mnemonic for tool use. 🪛🔩

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

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"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."

The word 'god' underwent a gender change.

It comes from the Proto-Germanic noun *gudan, which is reconstructed as neuter, based on Old English, Old Norse and Gothic - encompassing West, North and East Germanic - where its descendants still had a grammatically neuter form.

The masculine gender of the descendants of *gudan was introduced by Christianity.

Click my graphic to learn more.

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

#immigration #birds #cartoon #uspol #comic

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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!

Holy shit, they picked an American pope? Do they not know what we get up to over here? Fuuuccckk.

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

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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

No more work. Time to play.

#dog #meme #gif

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.