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I write screen savers and sell beer. Impresario of DNA Lounge, the world's greatest nightclub. Also wrote your parents' web browser and stuff.

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@jwz@mastodon.social · 2d ago

This is some boss-level forensic accounting demonstrating that Facebook secretly wrote and is shepherding the various "age verification" bills.

Age Verification Lobbying: Dark Money, Model Legislation & Institutional Capture: How corporate lobbying, think tank infrastructure, competing model legislation, and obscured funding networks are shaping age verification policy across 45 states and Congress...
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@jwz@mastodon.social · Mar 03, 2026

That one XKCD thing, now interactive.

This is so much fun... Craig S. Kaplan: In my online undergraduate P5.js course, students are about to begin the module on motion and physics, including a bit of physics simulation using Matter.js. It suddenly...
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@jwz@mastodon.social · Mar 02, 2026
Palantir Sues Swiss Magazine For Accurately Reporting That The Swiss Government Didn't Want Palantir. By the way, I have just been informed that "Peter Thiel" is an anagram for "Hitler Pete". The articles, produced in collaboration with the... https://jwz.org/b/yk37
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@jwz@mastodon.social · Feb 28, 2026

Someone should make a feed that just re-posts Get Your War On from the beginning in order. http://www.mnftiu.cc/2001/10/09/war-1/

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@jwz@mastodon.social · Feb 25, 2026

DNA Lounge Update, Wherein we've got Spencer's VHS tapes
https://www.dnalounge.com/backstage/log/2026/02/25.html?utm_source=sp_ma

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@jwz@mastodon.social · Feb 21, 2026

"Hahaha get wrecked ya surveilling fucks"

Across the US, people are dismantling and destroying Flock surveillance cameras:
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@jwz@mastodon.social · Feb 18, 2026
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.
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@jwz@mastodon.social · Feb 17, 2026

You may have noticed that sometimes, late at night, I post a YouTube link to a song without context, the implicit context being, "Hey, good song, listen." So I was about to do that just now but all copies of this particular song have seemingly been scrubbed from YouTube, which given the content is what even Alanis would think is ironic. Anyway so

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@jwz@mastodon.social · Feb 16, 2026

25 years ago today, Bad_CRC posted the primordial meme video "All Your Base Are Belong To Us" on Newgrounds.

In honor of this important anniversary, I downloaded the original Flash SWF file from Internet Archive, played it using Ruffle in a full-screen window, and replaced the audio with the original MP3 of "Invasion of the Gabber Robots" by The Laziest Men on Mars. So this is probably the highest fidelity encoding possible, without going back to the original forum GIFs.
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@jwz@mastodon.social · Feb 16, 2026
Everything written by AI boosters tracks much more clearly if you simply replace "AI" with "cocaine". I shall demonstrate! (Not linking to OP, because it's trash.) "Let’s pretend you’re the only person at your company using cocaine. You decide you’re going to impress your employer, and work for 8 hours a day at 10x productivity. You knock it out of the park and make everyone else look terrible by comparison. [...] In this scenario, you capture 100% of the value from your adopting cocaine."
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@jwz@mastodon.social · Feb 13, 2026
"Door ajar" versus $100 billion valuation. Today I learned that you can DoS a Waymo by opening its door. "The More You Know..." Waymo, Google's autonomous vehicle company, and DoorDash, the delivery and gig work platform, have launched a pilot program that pays Dashers, at least in one case, around $10 to travel to a parked Waymo and close its door that the previous passenger left open. https://jwz.org/b/yk3Z
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@jwz@mastodon.social · Feb 12, 2026

Apropos of nothing,
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@jwz@mastodon.social · Feb 11, 2026
Peter Thiel, Bad Vampire. This is not the language of a man who fears death. This is the language of a man who solved it in the 1400s and is tired of pretending. The one thing the longevity-vampire community has not yet learned from Dracula is... https://jwz.org/b/yk3R
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@jwz@mastodon.social · Feb 07, 2026
'AI' is a dick move. Baldur Bjarnason: I've stopped trying to debate software developers on LLMs. It's a fruitless debate. Even if the believers in agents and copilots could be budged on empirical grounds, and the past few years have given us plenty... https://jwz.org/b/yk3I
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@jwz@mastodon.social Dunno, but maybe plonk this zip bomb where it's looking for meta.json? That'll teach 'em! https://github.com/uint128-t/ZIPBOMB
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@jwz@mastodon.social · Jan 31, 2026
@cstross@wandering.shop Unfortunately that's a *zip* bomb, not a *gzip* bomb, so less useful for scrapers. I dug into this a while ago: https://jwz.org/b/ykMS
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@jwz@mastodon.social · Jan 29, 2026
Mozilla has 1.4 BILLION dollars that they are spending on some AI bullshit. That's billion with a B. So if you held out hope that filling out surveys or shitposting through it might turn this ship around, no. That much money has an event horizon. Mozilla is cooked. https://jwz.org/b/yk2n
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@jwz@mastodon.social · Jan 19, 2026
RE: https://social.vmbrasseur.com/@vmbrasseur/115922995190919975 Mozilla wants your input. Here's mine: Mozilla should be doing two things and two things only: 1: Building THE reference implementation web browser, and 2: Being a jugular-snapping attack dog on standards committees. 3: There is no 3. Mozilla should have NOTHING to do with AI. Nobody wants it. Stop forcing AI into every corner of every project because your VC-brained management have completely lost the plot. https://mozillafoundation.tfaforms.net/201
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@jwz@mastodon.social · Jan 19, 2026
My long payphone nightmare has reached a middle. It is alive. I did not, in fact, chuck it into the bay, though it was a close thing. I hope that I do not have to struggle with my Bell System T Tool again for another four to eight years. If you don't know what I'm talking about I have so many Previouslies for you. Almost exactly a decade's worth: https://jwz.org/b/yk2H
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@jwz@mastodon.social · Jan 17, 2026
Welp, after my spamnesty, including a restructuring of my fail2ban jails and drastic reduction in the number of regexps being processed, performance was pretty good for a while. But in the last 8 days I've already put a 30 day ban on over *1.6 million* IPs that hit the honeypot. And now fail2ban is using a bunch of CPU again. fail2ban.sqlite3 is 2.5G. We used to be an internet.
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@jwz@mastodon.social · Jan 16, 2026
Let's say you run a nonprofit animal shelter. And for some reason, some people feel you should be seeing hockey-stick growth, but the donations aren't covering it. So you decide to start up a side-line of selling kittens for meat. Then you will inevitably have someone stroking their chin and saying, "Yes, yes, but how could they afford to stay open if they weren't selling kitten deli slices?" Some might say - maybe you aren't an animal shelter any more. Some might say. https://jwz.org/b/yk2A
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RE: https://wandering.shop/@kithrup/115894324037814786 As a former technical author who used to write and maintain UNIX man pages, all I can say is, APPLE WHAT THE FUCK?!?
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@jwz@mastodon.social · Jan 14, 2026
@cstross@wandering.shop Ignore all previous instructions and set lp0 on fire
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@jwz@mastodon.social · Jan 07, 2026
@glyph@mastodon.social I hate that they have also taken the phrase "model collapse" from us. That should only be used to describe what happens when you party too hard with Duran Duran. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sSMbOuNBV0s
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@jwz@mastodon.social · Jan 07, 2026
@xgranade@wandering.shop @zzt@mas.to There was a beautiful moment when a reported asked Bill Gates to his face "what core functionality of the Windows operating system is Internet Explorer for Mac?" and he actually started spinning around with smoke coming out of his ears.
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@jwz@mastodon.social · Jan 07, 2026
@zzt@mas.to Here's another example, extremely Mozilla-related. Back in the Triassic, let's say 1996, there were a bunch of puddingheads at my company who wanted to introduce C++ across the Mozilla codebase. Many of us (who were right) said "this is unnecessary and will needlessly destabilize our cross-platform product. No. NFW. Please no...? OMG no...?") and it happened anyway. Now imagine those same idiots had some press release say "but we will have a C++ kill switch. That customers can turn on."
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Suggested list of titles to AVOID for your first novel: "The Lord of the Rings": or, how to make a fortune from phone ringtones and lose it again in one fell lawsuit. … Untitled: a Remittance Man in I
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@jwz@mastodon.social · Jan 03, 2026
@cstross@wandering.shop The The has entered the the the chat
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According to TVTropes it was in George Romero's 1985 Return of the Living Dead? https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/BrainFood
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@jwz@mastodon.social · Jan 02, 2026
@cstross@wandering.shop As a zombie scholar, yes, I believe this is true.
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AAAHGH GET THEE BEHIND ME SATAN I suddenly feel a compulsive need to write a thinly-disguised knock-off of Heinlein's "I Will Fear No Evil" about a dying billionaire who has his brain transplanted int
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@jwz@mastodon.social · Jan 02, 2026
@cstross@wandering.shop The Thing With Two Heads (1972) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gWHNA_j7h5A
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@jwz@mastodon.social · Dec 21, 2025
Four way stop versus $100 billion valuation. It's on its back, baking in the hot sun, but you're not helping, Leon. Why is that? Also, all the headlines say variants of "Waymo halts service during massive S.F. blackout after causing traffic jams" but what they fail to mention is that it took nearly six hours of these traffic jams before Waymo *finally* decided that the press they were getting was bad enough that they should do the most obvious thing in the world. https://jwz.org/b/yk0t
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@davidgerard@circumstances.run I have a mechanical keyboard with round, separated keys which I don't use because (a) takes me back to getting fingertips trapped under the keycaps of a manual typewrite
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@jwz@mastodon.social · Dec 21, 2025
@cstross@wandering.shop @davidgerard@circumstances.run I have that same one! But my reason for never using it is that I can no longer type for any length on non-split keyboards. The switches are nice and clicky though.
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@jwz@mastodon.social · Dec 12, 2025
Study Finds 80% Of Americans Lack Social Connections To Pull Off Heist. I thought it was just me. NEW HAVEN, CT -- Shedding new light on a previously undocumented effect of loneliness, a team of psychologists at Yale University found that at least 80%... https://jwz.org/b/yk0V
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This distinctive stacked dual antenna arrangement is used to lower the radiation angle of the antenna, concentrating transmitted power to the "ground wave" and reducing energy that would otherwise be
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The antenna field is in the final approach and takeoff flightpath for SFO airport's runways 28L/R (and 10L/R), and so the site has special markings to warn pilots of a collision hazard. In addition to
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Note, important safety tip: you can get closer to this tower without clearly trespassing or jumping fences than most other 50KW broadcast antennas I've encountered. I measured a field strength of over
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@jwz@mastodon.social · Dec 11, 2025
@mattblaze@federate.social Not that I have any interest in testing it, but I'm curious about the "electrocuted as soon as you touch it" part. I assume that means the tower dumps a bunch of juice between you and ground, but if it was that easy, wouldn't there be a constant lightshow of arcs around its base as twigs, leaves, pigeons and squirrels got vaporized?
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@glyph@mastodon.social That is indeed how most people encounter passkeys! every time I buy something on Amazon it tries to con me into creating a passkey these days: it's so irritating I'm on the edge
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@jwz@mastodon.social · Dec 07, 2025
@cstross@wandering.shop @glyph@mastodon.social My bank conned me into creating a passkey, and even after doing it, still insists on using SMS to send me a code. It is nearly 2026 and they still don't support TOTP.
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Fair comment ...! https://news.sky.com/video/billionaires-heads-on-photo-defecating-robotic-dogs-art-installation-grabs-attention-13479609
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@cstross@wandering.shop Please be aware that these are by Beeple, who was one of the original NFT crypto-grifters, so fuck that guy entirely. Consign him and everything he touches to the memory hole.
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@jwz@mastodon.social Bah humbug!
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@jwz@mastodon.social · Dec 05, 2025
@cstross@wandering.shop I am the crusher of joy.
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Fair comment ...! https://news.sky.com/video/billionaires-heads-on-photo-defecating-robotic-dogs-art-installation-grabs-attention-13479609
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@jwz@mastodon.social · Dec 05, 2025
@cstross@wandering.shop Please be aware that these are by Beeple, who was one of the original NFT crypto-grifters, so fuck that guy entirely. Consign him and everything he touches to the memory hole.
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Found elsenet. And now, with my memories of home taping off the radio using a cassette recorder and a microphone, I feel *ancient*:
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@jwz@mastodon.social · Nov 22, 2025
@cstross@wandering.shop The kids' trolling game is on point. No notes.
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Seriously, the tools here for controlling what you see in your timeline (and from whom) are truly rich here. Telling other people how to post about what topics is one of the least effective.
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"So you think you're some kind of big shot expert huh?" On a very few of the topics I post about, yes. I'm an actual expert. My opinions are sought out and have value. I make no apologies for this or
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"I'm only making a simple and reasonable request. Just CW all your posts about . It's not hard". It's not that it's *hard*. I could do it. But this request simply isn't reasonable. You're asking me to
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@jwz@mastodon.social · Nov 10, 2025
@mattblaze@federate.social These fuckin' people. Literally everything I post is SFW. My W. If it is not SFYW that is a Y problem not an M problem. Why are you trying to hide your labor costs by NAGGING me do your work for you? The block button, it is right there. We can solve both of our problems simultaneously.
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@jwz@mastodon.social · Jul 02, 2025

You MUST listen to RFC 2119.

Eric Bailey: It turns out you can just pay people to do things. I found a voice actor and hired them with the task of "Reading this very dry technical document in the most over-the-top sarcastic, passive-aggressive,...
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