have just seen my favorite meme of the year so far, hands down.

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The meme is a matrix of 4 frames with Jurassic Park characters and the options "Doesn't use AI", "Uses AI" on the vertical axis, and "Doesn't know how AI works" and "Knows how AI works" on the horizontal access. Thusly: Alan grant doesn't know how AI works and doesn't use it. The scummy lawyer doesn't know how AI works but DOES use it. Ian Malcolm knows how AI works and does not use it. Dennis Nedry knows how AI works and DOES use it.

Reminder: All it would take to end the murder of American citizens by an untrained government goon squad is 16 Republicans in Congress voting with Dems to defund ICE (or 23 to impeach and remove Trump — 3 in House & 20 in Senate). That’s it. 23 Americans can vote for the public and end all of this.

I have guns. I have a concealed weapons permit. It is absolutely entirely legal for me to be filming ICE with a firearm on my person. It is not a reason to shoot me. If ICE is tackling me and my firearm becomes visible, that is also not a reason to shoot me. If it were, we’d be shooting all these unmarked goons running around with openly displayed sidearms.

Tesla convicted 18 times and ordered to pay thousands for failing to help UK police with investigations

In each case, when British police officers tried to track down the details of speeding Tesla drivers, their letters went unanswered and the forces ended up prosecuting the company itself

https://www.lbc.co.uk/article/tesla-elon-musk-car-convicted-5HjdR8N_2/

Since we here in the USA don’t know the #metric system, we need to learn more units for this weekend

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Picture of six objects progressively increasing in height, captioned "Easily envision snow depths" with a quarter, 9 volt battery, credit card, candy bar, sugary drink can, and a dollar bill.

(Of course, every time I hear GWAR, I am transported to Empire Records, and Eddie's brownies.)

nom de guerre: an assumed name one uses during war

pomme de terre: French for "potato" (literally "earth apple")

pomme de guerre: an apple of war? An assumed apple? a grenade?

nom de terre: your earth name?

This gave me a laugh.

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Unclear social media source: kaity--did Jun 1, 2025 Jesus Christ I have JUST realized that women use FTM to mean full time mom on the app I use to find recipes. I was like WHY ARE SO MANY TRANS PEOPLE MAKING MEDIOCRE PASTA DISHES!?

Nicely played Channel 4 👍

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Threads post from Channel 4: @channel4 Because we did not win the BAFTA for best TV channel ever we have decided to try and claim ITV as ours.

The Open-Source Blender Big Brands Don’t Want

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wgcqzUazXdw
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#iFixit #RightoRepair #FixTheWorld

I like this:

The GPS never says "Are you sure you're going the right way?"
It just says, "Recalculating route."

Remember that when your kid tells you they're trans.

And now, something that made me smile...

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Meme: If you put a finger on Paul Simon's face on the Bridge Over Troubled Water album, it looks like Art Garfunkel has a giant Cossack moustache.

If you put the Apple icons in reverse it looks like the portfolio of someone getting really really good at icon design

In nearly 15 years of living here, I have only ever had ONE single individual have such a license. (Because he did, I listened to his spiel and considered his wares. Asking for their solicitor's license is my first question: if they don't have it, I tell them goodbye and inform them of their illegal actions.)

Storing net worth as a 32-bit signed integer would solve a lot of our problems tbh.

(Also, for those on a Mac – even with a single button – ⌃Click is a right–click, and ⌘Click is a middle–click.)

Good luck to anyone starting the year with a new health regime. Here’s how mine always goes.

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My Year in Diets    Veganuary  Fibreuary   Starch  Cakepril  MaycaroniCheese  June&tonic  Julicecream  Augustickytoffeepudding  Septembeer  Octoblerone  Doughvember  Decemburger  Brian Bilston

https://www.michaelconnelly.com/killer-in-the-code/

#Satire #Trump #KingCharles #Colonies #alt
Borowitz Report 1/9/25

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King Restores British Rule over U.S. Hugo Burnand [Photo of King Charles in full regalia] LONDON (The Borowitz Report)—In a move that was widely hailed across the free world, on Friday King Charles Ill of the United Kingdom reasserted British rule over the colonies formerly known as the United States of America. “In recent days, Donald Trump, Marco Rubio and Stephen Miller have been advocating a muscular return to colonialism,” the monarch said. “I couldn't agree more with those chaps.” “We lost the colonies because our King went insane,” Charles added. “But now the shoe's on the other bloody foot, isn't it?” As for what this change in status would mean for Trump, the King said, “Perhaps he could room with his old chum, my idiot brother.”

For the bus enthusiasts 🚌

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A diagram of a motherboard in the style of railway network maps

manpageblog is written in Python and available for many systems, including #FreeBSD, #OpenBSD, #NetBSD or #Solaris based ones like #Illumos but also on #Linux like #Debian or #Ubuntu.

Changelog v1.6:

• Pagination support added
• Sitemap support added
• SEO optimized
• LD+JSON support added

The project source is available on GitHub at:
https://github.com/gyptazy/manpageblog
You can find a real-life demo on my website at https://gyptazy.com

#opensource #devops #minimalism #purism #web #blog #blogengine #blogging #coding #python #website #manpageblog

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manpageblog - a UNIX man page themed static blog engine

@mwl Sir, please allow me the pleasure of introducing you to the existence of "USB-PD trigger cables" which will negotiate for a specific voltage from a USB-PD power supply and pass the result downstream through a barrel plug, within the range of voltages supported by USB-PD/USB-PPS.

E.g. here is a 1.2m USB-C PD to 9V 5.5mm cable that can handle up to 5A, assuming source and target can too: https://www.adafruit.com/product/5449

And: https://www.adafruit.com/product/5501 (with a programmable voltage request target)

I loved the idea of atomic builds, but reality got in the way. So, I'm a Fedora man now to simplify servers and clients across 4 different households.

The truth is: enshittification has reached from Windows, the "cloud", desktop Linux, and macOS ... nowhere is safe!

(I used KDE in the late 90s, Gnome before Mate, WM when it was practical, and CDE on Sun thin clients ... looking at the current state of technology—and seeing as she is otherwise deeply entrenched into the Apple ecosystem—there really isn't another better choice.)

Video of the DIY coffee roaster.

#OTD in 1797, the Top Hat 🎩 was invented by John Hetherington. It took him over a week to pluck up the courage to wear it and when he did he was arrested 👇

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THE TOP-HAT IN 1797. The Hatter's Gazette reprints from an old journal, dated January 16th, 1797, the following amusing account of the wearing of the first silk hat in London:- " John Hetherington, haberdasher, of the Strand, was arraigned before the Lord Mayor yesterday on a charge of breach of the peace, and inciting to riot, and was required to give bonds in the sum of £500. It was in evidence that Mr. Hetherington, who is well connected, appeared on the public highway wearing upon his head what he called a silk hat (which was offered in evidence), tall structure having a shiny lustre, and calculated to frighten timid people. As a matter of fact, the officers of the Crown stated several women fainted at the unusual sight, while children screamed, dogs yelped, and a younger son of Cordwainer Thomas, who was returning from a chandler's shop, was thrown down by the crowd which had collected, and had his right arm broken. For these reasons the defendant was seized by the guards, and taken before the Lord Mayor. In extenuation of his crime the defendant claimed that he had not violated any law of the kingdom, but was merely exercising a right to appear in a head-dress of his own design-a right not denied to any Englishman."