Ariel Millennium Thornton @arielmt@computerfairi.es

Just had lunch with @yarkot and at one point mentioned the difficulties I was having trying to write an interesting blog post about my holiday Rust+ed(1) adventure. He then said "maybe that's because you're not writing it with ed(1)."

(stunned silence).

🤔

So, not only did I recently code a whole-ass programming language using nothing more than Rust and ed(1), I just submitted a proposal (unrelated) to RustConf 2026 a full month before the deadline using no AI.

queer friend groups are like

It's so fascinating to see the changes in one company's logo over the years.

AI boom could falter without wider adoption, Microsoft chief Satya Nadella warns
https://www.irishtimes.com/business/2026/01/20/ai-boom-could-falter-without-wider-adoption-microsoft-chief-satya-nadella-warns/

Oh dear me are people not "adopting" lying autocomplete widely enough to keep the line going up? Oh noes. Nobody could have foreseen this! 🤯

I cannot wait for the official announcement of a new #Microslop programme, Adopt-an-AI. 🤣

What an absolute tool. "The bubble might burst if you all don't help pump it!" 🤡

#AI #Hype #SatyaNadella #Microsoft

The Australian cybersecurity agency has warned local businesses against uploading customer data and files to AI chatbots or genAI platforms

https://www.cyber.gov.au/business-government/secure-design/artificial-intelligence/artificial-intelligence-for-small-business

When we say that All Cops Are Bastards, we don't just mean #ICE, even if those murdering bastard coward nazis are particularly deserving of scorn.

We mean _all_ cops. Even the National Guard. Even the nice cops that stop and help you change a tire. Even John McClane.

The cop in your head is a bastard, too. The one that tells you not to do what makes you happy. The one that ruins your free time, and spits on your best effort when you're at your worst.

ALL Cops Are Bastards.

I remember the times when I was into Dilbert. Even liked that cartoon adaptation they did.

With Scott Adams' fall from grace and his death today, Dilbert will get cast off into the land of comic strip obscurity, to be something people remember existing and that's it

It's never gonna be remembered fondly like a Calvin & Hobbes, it's never gonna get reran like a Peanuts, it's not even gonna get a modern reboot like Nancy.

It'll be a Jeopardy clue nobody gets right in 5 years.

In Australia, SEGA is pronounced SEE-GAH but in some other countries I'm led to believe it's pronounced SAY-GAR.

After intensive research I have found that SEGA is a shortened version of "SErvice GAmes of Japan", which sold slot machines to US military bases after WW2.

So SEGA is most fairly pronounced SER-GAY.

There you go, now nobody is happy

#sega #retrogaming

ah, the two genders

you can make a website about anything

I hope 2026 treats you the way you treat trans women

An Act of Resistance

#webcomic #krita #miniFantasyTheater

https://woodrush.github.io/blog/posts/2022-01-12-lisp-in-life.html

https://xkcd.com/224/

Ostensibly, yes. Honestly, we hacked most of it together with CONWAY'S GAME OF LIFE.
#lisp

Sigh. I just saw two posts here pushing the "real authors don't use em dashes, that's an AI thing" myth and I am tired. 😣

Hi. Hello. "Real author" here. I have never used AI in any part of my writing or process, ever. I use em dashes all the time. So do other real authors. In fact, there'd be a fight to the death if you tried to take our em dashes away from us. Sometimes, a semicolon just won't do, and you *need* that em dash. Other times, you *must* use an em dash (when a character gets interrupted mid-sentence or mid-word, for example).

The *reason* you see em dashes in AI slop is because those LLMs were literally built on the stolen works of real authors. Who use em dashes. All the time.

#author #writing #writingCommunity #amwriting

If you want an indieweb to thrive, and for communications to be private:

Corporations are your adversary.

The US Government is your adversary. (Cloud Act, etc.)

The EU Government is your adversary. (Chat Control, etc.)

The coalitions you want to form are among queer / nerd subcultures.

You want kinksters. You want furries. You want bronies. You want Warhammer 40K players. You want otaku. You want therians. You want juggalos. You want Sonic the Hedgehog fans. You want the cringe TikTokers. You want D&D players and LARPers. You want people who attend Renaissance Festivals. You want people that attend Cowboy Fast Draw events.

You can have all those without the Nazis.

You can have all those without any government's permission.

Without corporate gentrification and rent-seeking.

Both corporations and authoritarianism benefit from centralization.