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Don't blindly believe everything you read online, tempting as that is. Do your homework first. This video series will help you do it well: youtube.com/playlist?list=PL8d

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Remember to pop your filter bubble every so often. If you think you're not in one, you're trapped in one and in for a rude awakening.

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A woman recently took her employer to an employment tribunal in Scotland, claiming “harassment related to sex, direct sex discrimination and indirect sex discrimination” over their trans-inclusive toilet policy, and lost on all counts. The decision has just been published on the government’s website: gov.uk/employment-tribunal-dec

It’s a long read (68 pages), full of detailed legal arguments and rather a lot of transphobic language, but it’s an important demonstration of the fact that the Supreme Court ruling does not oblige organisations to adopt trans-exclusive policies, and that they are in fact legally protected if they continue to operate in a trans-inclusive manner.

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Juice that toots other Juice

Juice that turns you into a cicada

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TardisCaptain.com

It's true.

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However, the linked GitHub repo is gone now, and the user has no public repos at all. This may or may not be a fork of it: github.com/dpajak-synaptics/on

Such promise, already ruined by other forces within three months.

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LB ( petewarden.com/2025/10/16/why- ):
The article doesn't address which LLM that local AI is using, but a comment below it does: petewarden.com/2025/10/16/why-

The answer I'm reading is, it doesn't use one at all. Just voice recognition, pattern matching to choose a pre-approved response, and TTS for the chosen response. So no chance of a dishwasher telling a customer to check for power by sticking a fork in the wall outlet.

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Paul Albertella

TIL (via @pluralistic) that 'AI' doesn't always have to be a shitty world-burning horrorshow: petewarden.com/2025/10/16/why-

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towhomitmayconcern

The following quote reminds me of this quote from @pluralistic: "AI is the asbestos we are shoveling into the walls of our society and our descendants will be digging it out for generations."

from jonready.com/blog/posts/everyo

"Bring up #AI in a Seattle coffee shop now and people react like you're advocating #asbestos."

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allison

you know i'd never stopped to consider how annoying tulip mania must have been for folks who just wanted to grow a few pretty flowers in their front garden arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/1

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lux :flag_nonbinary:🦊ΘΔ

A year and a half ago, i opened my nginx logs to discover that tens of thousands of individual IPs had started fetching random pages in my git forge. Today, i have mostly beaten these bots and confined them to a torture room where they are endlessly fed garbage, thanks to Iocaine.

This is a post about what worked, what did not, some numbers, and the cost (technical, financial, human) of giant tech companies scraping all of our small services for LLM training.

Guarding My Git Forge Against AI Scrapers vulpinecitrus.info/blog/guardi

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4am ❧

Current status.

#macintosh #retrocomputing

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The Iconolog

CHIP07B.ICO - System, Pc Bits

.....Bits, Chips, Connectors, Boards

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Mozilla Developer Network, "Realizing common layouts using grids": developer.mozilla.org/en-US/do

Reading guides like that while lamenting the shortcomings of vintage Web browsing, even via RetroZilla in a Windows 98SE VM, does strange things to a girl, y'know?

Related: CSS grids are 3 years older than Chromium-based Microsoft Edge and only 2 years younger than EdgeHTML (Trident)-based Microsoft Edge Legacy.

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I'm reading that the CSS "display: contents;" on TR and (implicit) TBODY elements wrecks accessibility of tables as tabular data, rendering their TH and TD cells as ordinary content with no tabular relationship instead, but since these are tables "misapplied" for layout only and never meant to be tabular data themselves (one of the only ways to control page layout in pre-CSS and CSS1 days), that seems like a perk in this specific case.

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Applying the CSS "@supports (display: grid) { .wrapper > tbody, .wrapper > tbody > tr { display: contents; } }" with wild abandon in GeoCities HTML table-based layout templates optimized for Internet Explorer 3 and/or Netscape Navigator 3 to make them pleasant on sub-VGA pocket screens while still remaining optimized for those early browsers and every desktop browser since: from IE3 to Edge 125, and from NN3 to Firefox 128.

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Juice that toots other Juice

Unpeaceful Juice

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TIL there used to be a corporation called the International Steam Pump Company, but the first few times I heard the name I kept hearing "the International Steampunk Company" instead.

While it operated during the USA's Progressive Era, it was only in the half coincident with the Edwardian Era, not the Victorian Era.

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GIFS GALORE

CARTOON/TRASH2.GIF

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While grocery shopping & passing through the frozen pizza section, I realized something:

A party pizza feeds a regular person, while a regular pizza feeds a party of people.

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gloriouscow

did you know every so often one of the pipe connectors in the Windows 3d pipes screensaver will be the Utah teapot

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