I sincerely hope Blizzard WONTFIXes this D2R bug, it's waaaaay too funny.
we need Gallop% as a speedrun category.
Why the hell is Trump threatening war with Iran again? https://robertreich.substack.com/p/why-the-hell-is-trump-threatening?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon
@rbreich Epstein, Epstein, Epstein.
Back home, and I'm so happy with my stationary haul from my trip to Taiwan.
I now have a dual setup for stationary, with a base set that I take everywhere and a pencil case for when I really want to sit down and do more.
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@yosh what are you typically writing or drawing with this?
@MegaMichelle I agree! It's annoying as hell! I like leaky paywalls for this reason - although personally as a reader, I prefer no paywall. Hooray for the 19th / ProPublica / etc model.
Yes, non-profit open articles is the best!
@JessTheUnstill To be fair, we were going to be blamed for them anyway.
@SymTrkl sure, but that's just within the right wing sphere. It wouldn't be shit reported in even center news.
One problem with paywalls is that, like, I often encounter a paywalled article from a publication I have no relationship with. Do I want to subscribe to get more articles from this place I've never heard of? I don't know, I haven't yet read one single example of their journalism!
@MegaMichelle I agree! It's annoying as hell! I like leaky paywalls for this reason - although personally as a reader, I prefer no paywall. Hooray for the 19th / ProPublica / etc model.
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In a world where traffic is decreasing, publishers are moving more heavily into subscriptions - with very good results. #Media https://werd.io/in-graphic-detail-subscriptions-are-rising-at-big-news-publishers-even-as-traffic-shrinks/
One problem with paywalls is that, like, I often encounter a paywalled article from a publication I have no relationship with. Do I want to subscribe to get more articles from this place I've never heard of? I don't know, I haven't yet read one single example of their journalism!
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*I wonder if there's a "post-history" that is the dark twin of "the prehistoric"
*Events long after the extinction of mankind, with no one intelligent to bear any witness to them
The post-futurity, just as real as Earth before the rise-of-mammals
*How could you study it, what does it mean
@bruces Chernobyl is often mentioned as a good way to study what near-term posthistory is, as it is a good example of how quickly some things are reclaimed, others remain frustratingly long.
Long term posthistory tends to focus on inevitable things like the death of the solar system, since too many variables are in play to truly predict what Earth will be like in millennia, let alone after a million years.
RE: https://mastodon.social/@SteveFaulkner/116091145441116888
I used to have a decent sideline as a Subject Matter Expert (SME) for technical writing. All that work disappeared because LLMs took over and I refuse to use fabrication tools, esp. not for work where accuracy matters
So, now, when I see the people running tech writing teams complain that all their SMEs use LLMs to plagiarise and fabricate, I’m not particularly sympathetic.
This is specifically a mess you were warned about but decided to make and sit in anyway. FAFO.
@baldur I was a technical writer for an internet software company in the early 2000s. And I recall a developer bragging that their annotated code could quickly produce its own user documentation. I countered that their annotations could be useful to generate a glossary, but it would not help users without additional documentation and training. They scoffed. Convinced the team lead they were right. But immediately after release, I was asked to produce actual user guides as I said would happen.
Critter Stack Roadmap Update for 1st Quarter 2026 https://jeremydmiller.com/2026/02/18/critter-stack-roadmap-update-for-1st-quarter-2026/
RE: https://hachyderm.io/@jeremydmiller/116092365989071260
Kind of snuck this in, but it looks like we're well on our way to a viable SQL Server backed Event Store too:
https://github.com/JasperFx/polecat
When @khalidabuhakmeh sees this he's going to groan because he knows I'm about to bug him about making a new project icon for that.
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I am totally not shocked...
404 Media: Leaked Email Suggests Ring Plans to Expand 'Search Party' Surveillance Beyond Dogs
One of the things that is amazing about AI derangement syndrome is that when you call someone out for buying into that shit -- someone you've previously been on quite good terms with for decades -- their response to you saying, "hey, you should stop doing that, there is no ethical use of this tech" is a level of offense as if you have just fucked their cat.
Some of you probably know who I'm talking about. If not, you probably have examples yourselves.
One of the things that is amazing about AI derangement syndrome is that when you call someone out for buying into that shit -- someone you've previously been on quite good terms with for decades -- their response to you saying, "hey, you should stop doing that, there is no ethical use of this tech" is a level of offense as if you have just fucked their cat.
Some of you probably know who I'm talking about. If not, you probably have examples yourselves.
RE: https://mastodon.social/@jwz/116091612435973402
"were you abused", they asked, when I said "no I don't wish you be a drug dealer"
Critter Stack Roadmap Update for 1st Quarter 2026 https://jeremydmiller.com/2026/02/18/critter-stack-roadmap-update-for-1st-quarter-2026/
Cheers! Washy just caught the first mouse in our new home 
@stux
Washy gets a big star!
RE: https://flipboard.com/@thenewsdesk/politics-9rga37brz/-/a-izNFtcTgShKj3w6Mfy47Ww%3Aa%3A43591897-%2F0
Florida gets a lot of shade. Deservedly. But Texas should not be overlooked as one of the more regressive places on the planet.
@shoq The flag of the USA may as well be replaced by the Hakenkreuz.
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i asked them if they had speaker cables for "post apocalyptic sludgecore" and they just looked at me funny. #audiophile
@jonathanhogg A quarter-century ago, we were developing a new version of JProbe, and as we got close to the day we had to send the golden master to the factory to manufacture CDs, we were short a settings configuration tool.
The team were told to skip the GUI editor and work on mission-critical features. Meanwhile, the program manager spent a weekend writing the editor in HyperCard, packaged with Metacard, a tool now known as LiveCode: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LiveCode_(company)
We shipped it.
@jonathanhogg Afterward:
The program manager eventually left the company, and the team immediately rewrote the editor in Java/Swing. It took a summer, but now the company could brag that it used Java exclusively to write tools for Java.
I certainly never met a customer who cared whether the editor was written in Java. For that matter, nobody cared that the core analysis engine was written in C++.
Programming is a pop culture.
@davidgerard @simonzerafa @jwz Cognitive bias reinforced by Christian doctrine centering around "souls" and mind/body dualism. I want to see a survey of chatbot believers enquiring into whether they believe in soul/afterlife/etc: I suspect there will be a broad tendency towards "yes" (so crediting chatbots as being a soul embodied in a machine).
@cstross @davidgerard @simonzerafa @jwz I was (sneer-)reading that rathbun post earlier and the twit literally has a `SOUL.md` for the prompt seed. as I remarked in the gc “that soul.md reads like shitty reddit advice to someone on the edge of a PUA community join-up”
the link, if you long to have a reason to bleach your eyes: https://crabby-rathbun.github.io/mjrathbun-website/blog/posts/rathbuns-operator.html