My cartoon for this weekend’s @theguardian.com books.

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Title: Doubts cast on another beloved inspirational tale Panel 1 Our investigations team has learned that the names "Jack" and "Jill" were invented to conceal a less than salubrious past. (image of smiling Jack and Jill with a bucket) Panel 2 The pair claim to have climbed a hill to "fetch a pail of water" but we found a number of water sources much closer to their cottage. (image of a water pump, atwo fountains and a drinking trough) Panel 3 (image of a book with the title "WELL: a memoir" by Jill) Jill now concedes that her account of Jack's fall and her own "Tumbling After" was intended to convey feelings, not "Cold facts". Panel 4 Multiple medical experts expressed Surprise that a broken crown was successfully treated with "Vinegar and brown paper. (Image of Jack with is head wrapped in brown paper beside an xray of his damaged skull).

The new NIST SP 800-63-4 is here! 🤩

If you have ANY interest in passwords and digital authentication, this is mandatory reading!

#PasswordsCon

https://www.nist.gov/blogs/cybersecurity-insights/lets-get-digital-updated-digital-identity-guidelines-are-here

Leisure Suit Larry solved the age verification problem years ago, the UK should just use that.

https://ledger-cli.org

I feel this

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monkeyuser.com cartoon about codebases and neglected dependencies.

Always

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IF IT CAN BE DESTROVED BY THE TRUTH, IT DESERVES TO BE DESTROVED BY THE TRUTH. SCHULZ wastes.

@paul_ipv6 @ai6yr I grew up similarly. There's not much I can't do (aside: I despise plumbing). Taught myself BASIC at 6 on a TI 99/A (interesting but longish story). Started roofing at 7 (Uncle owned the company, journeyman by 10, also hate roofing). Also at ten found myself at NASA/Navy Base where I learned to electronics/RF and solder small things instead of gutter seams (thanks US Navy!)

Done construction off and on when our industry crashes occasionally.

I like other polymaths. You rock.

In Finland, charging fees for tuition is illegal, which means rich kids have to mix with normal kids, which means rich families had to make sure the schools the kid went to were good, which meant the rich were prompted to invest in public schools. Finland, take a bow.

#schools #finland #public #education #sticker

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In Finland, charging fees for tuition is illegal, which means rich kids have to mix with normal kids, which means rich families had to make sure the schools the kid went to were good, which meant the rich were prompted to invest in public schools. Finland, take a bow. @helloitsmaciej

@gsuberland

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Welsch or C stdlib function?

(Of course, I was using my phone for NFC versus the card itself ... perhaps that was the difference. And if so, why can't I use my iPhone or Apple Watch as my card at Citi's ATM like I can at Chase?

First World Problems, I know)

(And if you find otherwise, I would love to hear why.)

Friend: "I wanna do drugs this weekend but I also planned to move from Bazzite to Fedora proper on my desktop."

Me: "I love that you think doing a fresh Linux install and doing drugs are mutually exclusive and not the norm."

ICE is now the largest law enforcement agency in the history of our country.

Democratic governors, mayors, and lawmakers have the power to stop secret police tactics like abductions by masked ICE agents: https://www.bluestatedefiance.org/no-secret-police

Women-founded companies generate 78¢ of revenue for every $1 raised vs 31¢ for male-founded startups. They burn 15% less capital--in 2024 $270K/month vs US startups $320K/month. Yet female founded startups received only 2.1% of venture capital in 2024. https://www.inc.com/annabel-burba/female-founders-outperform-their-male-counterparts-but-receive-much-less-funding-study-finds/91212886

Sustainable Kaiju. #grickledoodle #godzilla #kaiju #sustainable #climatechange #cartoon #art #drawing #funny

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A cartoon illustration of Godzilla planting trees after destroying a city. Caption reads "His favorite thing about flattening a city was planting the garden after."

I have been feeding fake data about myself into every system I encounter since I was a teenager.

A data broker's portrait of me as a sixty-something businesswoman who drinks bud light proves that my history is a useless, contradictory mess as a result.

It's shitposting elevated to performance art.

Twice in the past week, I’ve received an edit notification about a post I’d previously boosted where the edit corrected bad or incomplete information. In both cases, I boosted the correction.

I’ve long wished for social media misinformation policy to be “If you saw the bad info, you see the correction.” Mastodon comes closer to that than anything I’ve previously encountered.

There’s been a lot of theoretical hand-wringing about allowing edits on social media. In practice, this aspect at least seems like a huge success.

The world is being held hostage by Scooby Doo villains.

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Shaggy sits forlorn under a streetlight. Every mystery we solve brings me closer to the realization that the only monsters in this world are pathetic old men trying to steal as much money as they can.

#3119 - Flettner Rotor

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"And in maritime news, the Coast Guard is on the scene today after an apparent collision between two lighthouses."

A shitpost that's been brewing in my head for a while now

Found this old video of a traditional coder going up against a vibe coder

Tired of being a bird?

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A pigeon approaches a poster low down on a pole. The poster shows a picture of a pigeon and says "tired of being a bird?" There are tear-odd strips at the bottom that might have phone numbers on them. The pigeon tears off one of the strips and holds it in her beak.

Happy Spoonerism Day to all those who belly crate.

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The Bad Salad of William Archibald Spooner   Why do I always watch my birds? I know that statement sounds absurd but today I reached an all-lime toe when I received a blushing crow.   It’s wetting gorse – and here’s the crunch: my conversation packs a lunch. I’m not sure when all this began but I think I need a plaster man   to help me when my stouth gets muck. I should sit, perhaps, and bead a rook, fight a liar, or flick some powers. No, I think I’ll go and shake a tower. Brian Bilston

#sciencebitches #ShitIFind #mightbeuseful

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"Can I Lick It?" [Scientific Periodic Table of Elements color coded with "Sure, go for it," "Maybe not the best idea," "Please don't do that," and "See you on the other side."]

#Shark #Sharks #Lego.

#Animal #Animals #CuteAnimal #CuteAnimals #FunnyAnimal #FunnyAnimals #Meme #Memes

...my safeword? hang on, I've got it saved in my password manager.

wait, I need my Yubikey to unlock it, lemme get my trousers back real quick...

th-that's awkward, it seems that the database didn't sync haha, can I have your WiFi password?

oh my, it looks like your network is blocking my VPN, I'm so sorry, it's never happened before, I swear

Take a long hard look at this graphic, the longest continuous direct measurement of atmospheric carbon dioxide. This is the famous Keeling Curve from the station atop Mauna Loa, Hawaii.
Trump and the GOP are closing the observatory.

https://scripps.ucsd.edu/bluemoon/co2_400/mlo_full_record.png

More to the point, I find DNA ancestry to be too fickle and inaccurate. Also, why the hell would you send your genetic data to a private company who is likely re-selling it to companies and governments without your knowledge?!‽ (I would like to think the recent "threat" of the sell-off of 23 and Me's data would have been a wake up call!)

Also, maybe those looking for the purity of the Aryan race should remember that the Aryans were Persian/Iranian and Indian, not Germanic/Teutonic.

They’re putting blue food coloring in everything

"Why is my burger blue?" I asked, innocently.

"Oh! We're making all of our food blue, all the best restaurants are doing it now." the waiter explained.

But I didn't want my burger to be blue.
↫ Luna Winters

"Blue" food isn't food.

https://www.osnews.com/story/142847/theyre-putting-blue-food-coloring-in-everything/

#ClownCar

ICE is offering a $132K to $185K per year for supervisory roles & $306K per year to concentration camp managers. Both jobs have ZERO education requirement.

Meanwhile the average starting salary is $46,526 for teachers and $68,485 for nurses. Both jobs require a Bachelors degree & often a graduate degree.

It's a lie that we can't pay teachers & nurses. An uneducated and sick populace is easier to control, creates higher crime rates, and feeds the prison industrial complex. This is by design.

You have been warned yet again, the US cannot be trusted...

Microsoft, under oath, admits the possibility that EU‑hosted data can be accessed by US agencies without any notifications

In sworn French‑Senate testimony, Microsoft’s legal chief for France(M. Anton Carniaux) conceded he cannot guarantee that data on French citizens stored wholly in EU Microsoft datacenters is safe from U.S. silent access and acknowledged that French or any EU authorities might not even be notified if access occurs.

Delivered under oath, this statement is an official legal recognition of the silent‑access risk inherent in relying on Microsoft’s infrastructure.

Recent comic: It's time to update the old binaries.

#cartoon #comic #uspol #science #humanrights

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TERMS for our TIMES LET'S FACE IT: THESE OLD BINARIES HAVE BECOME TIRED AND VAGUE. EVIDENCE-BASED vs. PSEUDO-SCIENTIFIC CONSTITUTIONAL VS. UNCONSTITUTIONAL CORRUPT VS. FAIR IMAGINE IF THESE TERMS WERE INSERTED INTO TYPICAL HORSE RACE NEWS COVERAGE. Anchorman: THE CONSTITUTION IS DOWN IN THE POLLS. CAN IT APPEAL TO SWING VOTERS? TV reporter with Ice agent hauling away older woman in background: AND ANOTHER SETBACK FOR HUMAN RIGHTS TODAY. Pundit: PSEUDOSCIENCE IS VERY POPULAR AND WILL BE KEY TO WINNING THE MIDTERMS. Reporter: SOME SAY BARBARISM HAS BEEN WRONGLY EXCLUDED FROM OUR INSTITUTIONS.CONSERVATIVES VS. LIBERALS RIGHT VS. LEFT DEMOCRATS VS. REPUBLICANS MAYBE WE SHOULD TRY THESE INSTEAD: AUTHORITARIANISM VS. DEMOCRACY HUMAN RIGHTS VS. BARBARISM

(And a current web search shows no immediate results for midwestbroadcast in this context, but I know I have some references in old linguistic textbooks to this. Language is a living thing and constantly in flux.)

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