: Make your Pimoroni pHAT HD LED matrix into a service on a local web server so you can control it …
: Much old-school internet love to the person filing bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug…. requesting …
: I give you a topical Good Place fic. Warnings for the daily business of the Bad Place and the fate …
: Learned that you now can change your avatar’s name on Second Life. The good: no judges or …
: The camera I’m using to photograph tonight’s full Moon, a Canon PowerShot G9, is old …
: I’m looking at the Hugo Awards finalist list and it’s going to be another year of …
: Margaret Burbidge, the astronomer who’s work demonstrated how we are all made of …
: QotD: “I decided not to include cladding because cladding is for losers.”
: Friday night: Venus in the Pleiades. It’ll be cool.
: Cynthia and I learned about one-duvet-per-person on our trips to Germany and Scandinavia and …
: Tonight’s waxing gibbous moon. You can see the fall walls of some craters on the terminator …
: Ty Segall covers Nilsson Schmilsson. The buzzed-out-and-echoey version of “Jump Into the …
: Lying about capablities in order to boost some executive’s quarterly bonus, and it’s …
: Clarke's Charcoal Broiler in Mountain View closed today after 75 years Clarke’s Charcoal Broiler in Mountain View closed today after 75 years. It was one of the last …
: It’s trans day of visibility. So hi, fellow trans people, we are still here. I’m tired but …
: Because importing and transforming the data and doing the analysis should result in a lovely chart. …
: This is a ridiculously cool STEM-at-home/unschooling activity, making tiny gliders you walk around …
: Rest in power, Lorena Borjas ⚧️✊ Borjas worked in Queens, NY organizing and helping protect trans …
: The story of how Santa Clara County’s public health officer got the Bay Area to agree on the …
: Another reason consumer goods need to be labled for contents: people are making facemasks out of …
: I’m helping @WisConSF3 implement a virtual convention in May. Please, if you’re willing, …
: Valley Medical Foundation (San Jose, CA) instructions on sewing surgical masks.
: A cartoon furry just popped up in my Trello board to warn me about an outage.
: OoCQotD “Canadians are being reminded that 2m separation is about the length of a hockey …
: Laura Flanders: The American Dream is a project of individuals will kill all of us collectively.
: Out of Context Quote of the Day: “I’m having a lot of trouble with Work/Nook balance …
: “Hyperlocal groups” as a form of mutual-aid.
: The in-person WisCon 44 is not happening this year. There will be an online event. If you want to …
: “I’m (not a wage) Slave 4 U” “Hit Me Baby One More Time (and I’ll …
: In a few years we’ll find the corpse of some fool in a bunker with all the guns, ammo, and TP, …
: Is spam the ID of our culture? I ask because the stuff in my spam filter is pivoting from erection …
: Love to everyone practicing physical distancing, washing their hands, and not hoarding TP. Have a …
: Jekyl engines to speed! Eric Meyer: “If you are in charge of a web site that provides even …
: Reminder to my fellow White people that our choices and actions have consequences for marginalized …
: My high school graduating class’ song was “Through the Years.” I don’t think …
: Kenji from Serious Eats with a good explainer on food safety for the emergency.
: What I just wrote and sent to Senator Feinstein's office I call on you to resign immediately. First, for not sharing, the moment you knew, about the severity …
: Using models and a game to educate people about why social distancing matters.
: What three albums, that were released in your youth, but you came to later in life, would you send a …
: Eva Walker, of the Blacktones, leading the radio and streaming audiences in community hand-washing …
: Today’s Astronomy Photo of the Day (a long-running web institution) is a spectacular …
: Silicon Valley’s two-tier system of FTEs and contractors risks public health.
: San Jose passed an temporary ban on evictions, but it still puts a burden on underpaid, hourly …
: Current mood, angry as hell at cis-white people claiming to be liberal who think healthcare, …
: Woke: Handwashing meme lyric generator Bespoke: Handwashing lyric video
: San Jose people: the city council is meeting to vote on Liccardo’s weak sauce anti-eviction …
: JWZ won at this one. www.jwz.org/blog/2020…
: Following up on an earlier post on music to wash one’s hands to, I give you this poster (via …
: The reason Millennials were hoping for spontaneous vaccum decay is that current astrophysics …
: In a further disappointment to Millennials, it appears unlikely that the Universe will be …
: In a further disappointment to Millennials, it appears unlikely that the Universe will be …
: I keep thinking of those kids under quarantine in Wuhan who got the homework app banned through …
: Support your local magical lady.
: Share with your communities of under-represented groups (genders, ethnicities) in tech. My team has …
: Grab some binoculars, there’s a lovely pheneomena along the Lunar terminator tonight.
: Sean of the Bad Place to Jack Welch: “Jack, as you suggested for evaluating employee …
: Extreme hacker voice: “Tango Down ESR.”
: It’s suggested that you wash your hands with soapy water for as long as it takes to sing …
: USA-ians, March 2nd is the end of the comment period for the FAA’s remote ID proposal for …
: Popular resistance works: “Burning down parliament, where the president’s allies may be at …
: Does this make me a ‘prepper’?
: “No highly esteemed deed commemorated: next five exits.” #HighwaySignsOfTheLongNow
: Rest easy, Dr. Johnson. Thank you for the hell you raised.
: New on the recipe blog: how I make frites (fries.)
: Image description: The ISS passes in front of the waning crescent Moon from upper left to lower …
: Image description: Billboard reading “What about the kids in cages? What temperature your …
: Music of the day: It’s Mardi Gras on Titan, a krew devoted to Fela Kuti and his works lumber …
: Want to run a Flask or even a Perl app on Gltich? The secrets of the configuration files are getting …
: Firefox has more localizations, but releasing 27 language specific versions of your big movie is …
: I got to show Cynthia the Great Nebula in Orion which I think is a pretty nice Valentines Day.
: Also, Hockey is extremely gay and I’m really happy about that.
: Happy Valentines, I send you all this wholesome, queer roller skating vid from the punk band …
: Things I learn: going up a “Dutch Mountain” is cycling into a headwind, and conversely, …
: Instead of saying “democracy may be bad for growth” how about: “Neo-classical …
: There’s been a thing about “albums to get to know me by,” so here goes: Sleater Kinney: Dig Me Out …
: From a discussion in the Fediverse: I found a FORTRAN static site generator!
: “The criminal justice system has given up all pretense that the crimes of the wealthy are …
: Less Bloomberg Terminals, more Minitels.
: Gendered languages and gate-keeping are harming non-binary people in Quebec.
: Before you show any sympathy for Jordan Peterson, remember there are plenty of people addicted to …
: Last month a group of Mozillians got together and sourced a Black History Month media list for White …
: Frequent reminder that nobody’s entitled to have a startup or a business especially: If the …
: The cruelty is the point. www.npr.org/2020/02/0…
: Taking your business cashless tells me that only privileged white people are tollerated there, and …
: That little kid is Elon, aren’t they?
: If you were thinking the National Pray Breakfast was a legitimate institution, and not a mechanism …
: If you sell a pesticide that damages crops which haven’t been engineered to withstand the …
: Today was a good day to spend on a ten and half hour flight without WiFi.
: “[Y]ou might as well have asked the caucus workers to whip up their own JavaScript. Kevin Roose on …
: It is a lovely day in 19th century rural France and you are a horrible flock of geese.
: On the way to Paris for the first time and Gershwin’s ear wormed me from beyond the grave.
: Passing the Fulda Gap, where the United States was prepared to unilaterally commit genocide by …
: The problem with “your skills are only valuable to a company if they move a needle …
: California’s Attorney General is moving to block the sale of the .org registry to the private …
: It’s been a bit of a week. #brrlin
: Tonight I got dönair kebab from a u-bahn station. I’ve achieved my #brrrlin food goals.
: Got some currywurst Thursday night. #brrrlin
: After a long walk in the cold and rain, a hot chocolate with cognac is a nice treat. #brrlin
: How did I miss this? Amy Rigby, whose 1996 album Diary of a Mod Housewife helped me through some …
: If you, your relatives, your friends, or ancestors had to wear this get-up: my profound apologies …
: Northern Europe, where they build telecom relay towers out of concrete and it’s no big deal.
: Forgive me but I must say, “Breaking Bad Bentheim.”
: Chonky boi of Houthavens again this morning in the hotel lobby as I left for my pre-dawn walk (mind …
: More cats of Amsterdam: this chonky boi was resting on Cyn’s mobility scooter this morning. The …
: Tony, a cafe cat in Amsterdam
: This newly released version of Bowie’s Stay is wicked as anything, by which I mean it is pure …
: On MLK Day 2020 What I want you, as someone posessing a quantum of privilege in this hellscape we live in now, to …
: Grateful I’m about to the leave the country for the duration of the Gaze of the Superb Owl.
: If I’m reading this right, the reason MSG got a bad reputation in the US is that some guy got …
: Tomorrow is the last day to propose panel programming for WisCon 45. Get your suggestions in! I want …
: It’s been a rough week so here’s the actual Japanese Navy band performing the best …
: It’s a beautiful day in the dungeon, and you are a horrible goose; a roguelike mini-game.
: This music is good and pure and I’m filling as drive with Saharan Blues for my trip in a …
: Updated blog entry: Second thoughts on the attack helicopter short story. We have a community, we …
: New on the blog: A harrowing short story in the new Clarkesworld about how the imperial state could …
: Your Kanban board needs a fourth column: Don’t. Via Roland Tanglao
: While a couple of child men backed by the rich, and cheer-lead by fools threaten one another …
: If we can’t edit tweets, can we at least version them? Distributed versioning is a well …
: Everyone who sees “Soleimani,” on the screen, hears “Solomani” in their …
: I’m giving a talk at FOSDEM in Brussels on Feburary 2nd. I’ll describe how and why …
: /me reads documentation on how to flash this ESP32 dev board with the latest Ono-Sendai firmware.
: Here we go, new decade, all of human history riding on the next few years, and I’m researching …
: The real Y2K story was getting people to share information with others about affected systems.
: We stand on guard for Pikachu: how the Canadian Armed Forces responded to Pokémon trainers coming on …
: On top of unit tests, functional tests, integration tests, and static analysis, you need a linter. …
: Note to @bodegacats: learning how to live in community from cats.
: The US DHS plans to increase the fee for archival immigration records from $65 to over $600 per …
: 17776 but it’s convincing people to stop playing football long enough to convert the Sun into …
: Thinking of getting a good Android phone unlocked, installing Lineage on it and making that my main …
: Yoda in analytical chem with his HP calculator: Polish Reverse is notation I use, hummm.
: David Graber’s talk on Managerial Feudalism at this year’s CCC fits in with Mar …
: I have a couple of dresses from Eileen Fisher, they have a label begging me to return them used …
: One of the first British all-women rock bands toured with the Kinks, the Stones, and opened for Jimi …
: I’ve been looking forward to seeing the Great Nebula in Orion through my own telescope. Tonight I’m …
: Betelgeuse, be your best self and leave us human astronomers guessing what you are up to.
: HRH Lizzie Bennet Tribble is most annoyed this morning.
: Kicking the fools who respond to reports of payments handling issues caused by systemic racism by …
: Happy, merry holidays. ETA: There may be some image rotation issues when posting from Android.
: To try out the new Firefox Android browser, I bought an inexpensive phone. And now I find myself …
: Thanks to @tabatkins for catching a Jekyll template bug that broke the UU Name Generator, which has …
: New Year’s resolution: play more Patriarchy Chicken on men who expect me to yield the sidewalk …
: Development of antibiotics needs public funding for development, manufacture, and distribution. …
: Does this mean that “Basic Income” Yang is really “Based” Yang? Remember …
: The war between adtech and privacy has reached the passive agressive stage. I filed an enhancement …
: Following up on Mallory’s thread on abuse of tags: the attached post from a BJP member …
: 2019 is the Year of Linux on a Business Card.
: Happy holidays! Here’s Houston’s own Khruangbin covering Christmastime is Here.
: In case you missed it, the Romance Writers of America decided to suspend a member who called out …
: Cynthia just brought home malassadas and it is now the holidays.
: CW: food The demiglace begins.
: Mozilla has some Festivus venting of its own.
: It’s time to stand up the bare aluminum pole and vent! #festivus It annoys me when social …
: Bayes Theorem, as a friend put it, is a trade secret of poker players. 3 Blue, 1 Brown just put out …
: From the “dream a little bigger, darling” department: why build a starship when you have a perfectly …
: More Rot13 Rise of Skywalker natter: “Guvaxvat nobhg nyy gubfr crbcyr va gur guebar ebbz ng …
: Rot13 Rise of Skywalker musings: V’q ybir gb frr svp jurer Svaa naq Wnaanu gnyx genfu nobhg …
: Marco Zehe, who’s been writing about the accessiblity problems with Wordpress’ new …
: If Mark Zuckerberg won’t agree to an interview, and he touts the “miracle” of …
: T.S. Eliot’s estate: We don’t think Mr. Eliot would had been bothered by CATS NASA …
: This short video about five coffee making ways: Mexico City, Ethiopia, the Sami people in Lapland, …
: The Western Holidays can be rough for marginalized people. In the US, you can text CONNECT to 741741 …
: #hugops for Boeing’s Commercial Crew org.
: From "shock treatments" to enclosing the Open Source commons In the early 1990’s when I was still studying economics, at Wisconsin, there were many …
: It would be nice if the the Raspbian image started up in AP mode and then let you connect your …
: You can have rich parents and still be homeless if you're queer; why free college for all matters One of the several good points in this essay on why college should be free for everyone, including …
: The WSFS Mark Protection Committee issues a statement well after the voting and announcement of the …
: If you’re interested in the ruling that caused J. K. Rowling to show her TERF ass to the …
: An acquaintance ended up with a bunch of TERFs dogpiling a Twitter thread. There’s an …
: Canada sees your FIB arts and crafts and says, “hold my curling stone.”.
: White supremacy means nobody can have nice things: Web edition.
: Here’s Brian Eno with a kitten, we all need this today.
: Mozilla will switch to Riot/Matrix to replace IRC. It provides for community safety (missing from …
: What bothers me is that the House may not have been able to gather 230 votes to impeach on the …
: The reality distortion field the GOP’s going to create for Trump’s trial in the Senate …
: If there’s a reboot of The Americans it can be based on Representative Tusli Gabbard.
: The lying, cheating, genocidal, transphobic, homophobic, racist, misogynistic wannabe-autocrat in …
: Grateful for coworkers who have no patience for people talking trash about developers working on …
: Learning that people are throwing guerilla punk rock shows at Denny’s is giving me hope.
: One could use these coping strategies, or spend the holidays with one’s chosen family because …
: California's eucalypitic problem “Ultimately, the eucalyptus may well be the most salient arboreal symbol of the state: A …
: The little person in the Red Room from Twin Peaks comes up to me and says, “those scrunchies …
: If you see any of this sort of ‘art’ in when you walk into the family home for the …
: In spite of the horrors of the world, there are wonders still. Image: NASA, ESA, and D. Jewitt …
: Json’s four months old this weekend.
: Shorter Jack Dorsey, “I’m funding a team of 30 to 50 feral cryptocurrency …
: The best way to secure your Ring camera is to remove it from the network and smash it. What on Earth …
: Ford’s futuristic truck concept from 1966 is cooler than Tesla’s.
: Charlie Stross: “And that’s the real threat of AI – not killer robots, but …
: If one’s response, as a PhD student in machine learning, to calls to hold people accountable …
: When some clown on the TV says you’re gods’ chosen because you’re white, …
: One can say that Mark Zuckerberg and Rupert Murdoch are responsible for spoon feeding white voters a …
: I’m going to put on Glorious Din’s Leading Stolen Horses, and queue up some other punk. …
: And for gods’ sake, stop talking about people voting for the Tories, the GOP, the BJP, or …
: Given the average cis-white American is even stupider than a cis-white Brit, this is not good.
: The good news in those books is a witch did something to vanish all the oil in the ground before the …
: Gwyneth Jones had this series of books set in a Britain where Wales and Scotland had left, and the …
: The CEO of Twitter posted a thread this morning where he only cites the work of men, ignores the the …
: To no-one’s surprise, Keybase will stop distributing the Lumen cryptocurrency to their users …
: Someone please write a twitter bot, which instead of “unrolling” threads, compiles them …
: Anil Dash on rationing links Last week there was a twitter thread where an artist pointed out that telling an artist to …
: Facebook has focused engineering efforts on ad-blocker countermeasures. Meanwhile, Facebook does …
: Do you engage in rent-seeking behavior by trademarking a term in common usage Yes (go to p. 53) No …
: Note to the person who came up with the euphemism “digital ad transparency platform,” …
: I’m turning to Punk to get through this horrible time in our history, and this new track from …
: The SFWA names Lois McMaster Bujold as the 36th Damon Knight Grand Master. Forward momentum!
: Rather than continuing to procrastinate on this conference talk proposal, I put a bunch of covers of …
: Car Seat Headrest + Naked Giants’ version of This Must be the Place (Naive Melody) is another …
: Nobody told me about this version of Naive Melody!
: I’m trying to process this orchestral doom version of Blue Monday in this Wonder Woman …
: Big soup beats big data in one kids’ study of maleria treatment. Photo: nbtrama CC 2.0 By
: Devochka playing “Love My Way” with a theremin is definitely a highlight of the year.
: In other countries, public higher education is paid for. In the USA, people are reduced to capering …
: Great, someone contaminated this teddy bear with proto-molecule.
: Vonda McIntyre, one of the founders of the Clarion West writers’ workshop, left her literary …
: IBM’s always been a pioneer: assisting autocrats with genocide, and conspiring against …
: I’m travelling and will miss this, but this panel on feminist science fiction this weekend at …
: We need leadership in the US who will go to Monticello and Mt. Vernon and say the same.
: For some reason I end up going to Seattle to see Calexico play. Tonight they were at the annual KEXP …
: Countdown to Bernie Bros bragging about Great Leader’s encyclopedic knowledge of Van Halen in …
: Remember the awful bots that generated “Keep calm and X” tshirt slogans, which we be …
: Nice. New, concise documentation on contributing to Firefox from Sylvestre Ledru.
: New earrings, from Elise Matthesen’s workshop
: LISP implemented in bash is pure and good.
: Agreed, Brent. It’s not a competition to listen to more podcasts than other people, it’s …
: The Mozilla Foundation has some questions about the sale of the .org registry.
: Sonos kills Snips voice assistant Ah the glories of Late Capitalism. Sonos bought the Snips project, a non-creepy, open source, voice …
: XKCD making the case for why a static web site will handle most of your use cases.
: Judd Legum’s piece on why the emotional premise of Da Mayor’s attacks on proposals by …
: Thanksgiving Cynthia and I did a lot of cooking the last few days and now have had a chance to sit back and feast …
: Chrisjen Avasarala on The Expanse is a far-from-perfect character, portrayed as a real person in a …
: An assessment of the “George Clooney pays for orbitial surveilance of a conflict zone” …
: That you, your dad, and the plane meme Flight attendant: Is there anyone on this flight who can review a pull request? Dad: That’s …
: HOWTO: Pi wont reboot after a power failure We had a power outage this morning, thanks, PG&E, and the Raspberry Pi that runs my IoT hub …
: As a recovering economist, I can tell you that you can end up thinking like the one of the people in …
: Alexandra Erin is pure, good, and we should all protect her. twitter.com/Alexandra…
: While we’re talking about Elon Musk’s ridiculous scheme to put over 10,000 spacecraft in …
: Rural telephony needs decentralized mesh, not an incipient ablation cascade.
: Welcome to the working week, as they say. Here’s Patti Smith and 250+ people singing People …
: Managed to nick and burn myself while making dinner tonight. I hope any kami inhabiting my new, …
: You can follow me from @emma@blog.magicalgirl.party in Mastodon and other Fediverse clients.
: When I asked for white people to be passionate about Black people and water I was talking about …
: Massively parallel cat array
: This week in Fragility The fragility of cisgender heterosexuals continues to astonish me. The week’s not even over …
: Roland Tanglao Maybe all those people who would’ve learned scripting languages on OS X are …
: Duck typing progeny Two C++ programmers run into each other for the first time in many years at an event. After …
: While being mindful that the term decolonization originated with indigenous people’s …
: Forgotten Stories of Unknown Pleasures Reminder that the cover of Joy Division’s #UnknownPleasures (which turns 40 today) is based on …
: I haven’t done any sewing in ages, so I went in my scraps and made a cover for my iPad’s keyboard.
: My considered take on the concerns raised in Mark Nottingham’s comments on DNS over HTTPS …
: Welcome to my very gay iPad setup.
: Now have an iPad I can carry in my little purse.
: Essays I’d like to write: how the American Cancer Society exploits respectabllity politics in …
: I have Perl running on glitch.com 🎉 with some help from @potch@twitter.com. …
: @gargron@mastodon.social reports that Gab, the Nazi twitter, is scrapping their own codebase and …
: Ethical Web Principles The web should also support human rights, dignity and personal agency. We need to put …
: Seen on a warning label: This AI not to be used for fabricating paper clips. Context is fighting a …
: Charlie Jane Anders' WisCon 43 GoH Speech Charlie Jane Anders posted her Guest of Honor speech from WisCon 43 and it’s beautiful (and I …
: Building on an idea proposed by Mike Hoye, I think making Tom Waits the default voice for …
: QotD At the outset, I’d be remiss if I didn’t point out that whether or not Planned Parenthood had its …
: Hopepunk at WisCon 43 Hopepunk Discussed at the Hopepunk panel at WisCon 43, Madison, WI, US May 25th 2019 If you …
: Note from WisCon inspired by G. Willow Wilson: DevOps HugOps MagicOps
: Adding the Omnibear web extension for posting. But what I really want is post by mail. Has @help …
: Good advice. Do blog posts count?
: Small epiphanies loosely joined Watching the video of @t’s talk at beyond tellerand reminded me I had an account on Micro.blog …