@cwebber@social.coop Don't worry, we're generally skipping the whole "AI agent soliciting funds" era and moving straight into the "AI agents run crypto pump'n'dump schemes and automatically exploit *other* AI agents bugs to buy pumped crypto" era. Fraud as a Service has arrived and in its own twisted way is glorious.
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Tesla convicted 18 times and ordered to pay thousands for failing to help UK police with investigations In each case, when British police officers tried to track down the details of speeding Tesla dri
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@cstross@wandering.shop I could absolutely see this as an excellent argument for speeding fines as a percentage-of-assets thing rather than a fixed cost thing. That might possibly get their attention a little sooner.
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Current snow forecast for DC is for up to about 20" over the weekend, which is double the level at which cannibalism becomes temporarily legal under local law.
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@mattblaze@federate.social On the upside, should make for some nice pictures? So there's that?
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RE: https://zirk.us/@ChrisMayLA6/115928844137926514 Parenthetically, I've got to fly somewhere for work in the next few weeks and Ryanair is one of the two airlines who serve that route—the other is A
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@cstross@wandering.shop RyanAir's another one of those subsidy-and-tax-break-supported companies that screw their customers over but scream bloody murder whenever anyone even thinks about dialing back their privileges. So they'd fit right in with Musk, I suppose.
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RE: https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/@mms/115905132948071029 Huh, looks like Framework may have started something.
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@cstross@wandering.shop I was worried for a sec that this was a Fascism Friendly trend in hardware.
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New Tesla feature to automatically create explicit images of pedestrians it passes on the street https://newsthump.com/2026/01/13/new-tesla-feature-to-automatically-provide-explicit-images-of-pedestri
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@cstross@wandering.shop The augmented-reality extended HUD feature auto-nudies all passers-by visible through the front windscreen.
It's part of the autopilot package since they assume your hands won't be on the steering wheel.
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@StefanThinks@beige.party @quixoticgeek@social.v.st SCREAM! For the n 'th time: your tax payments do not fund government spending! The government CREATES money out of thin air. This funds activity as
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@cstross@wandering.shop @StefanThinks@beige.party @quixoticgeek@social.v.st I admit it's sometimes a little fun watching people's brains break when they try to wrap their heads around this basic economic fact. Most people can't manage.
It's also the big reason for the overvalued US stock market at the moment (inflation! Just not what we usually look at) which is another excellent example of why we need higher taxes on the upper income brackets.
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A thought: I think Harry Harrison made ONE critical structural mistake with The Stainless Steel Rat, and he made it early in the first book: Jim should have stayed a crook. Having him drafted into the
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@cstross@wandering.shop Huh, yeah, that would've been an interesting (and arguably better) way of handling things. The books turned to being spy thrillers rather than crime novels. They weren't bad (e
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@wordshaper@weatherishappening.network If he's in the galactic FBI, turning him into a spy restores some of the jeopardy, but really it's better not to go G-man in the first place. (I am thinking hard
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@cstross@wandering.shop There are definitely more interesting ways to have Jim do his thing, and even potentially do it in partnership (or at least adjacent to) Space FBI than actually join. Seems a lot more interesting to have him not, though.
If it ended up that his (originally) handler but now main Space FBI antagonist was essentially Jim-from-the-books... that'd potentially be meta-hilarious. Or indulgent. Possibly both, I guess.
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@cstross@wandering.shop Huh, yeah, that would've been an interesting (and arguably better) way of handling things. The books turned to being spy thrillers rather than crime novels. They weren't bad (even if they are hilariously dated now) but I think you're right.
OTOH they were part of the larger "adventure without much jeopardy" sub-genre of SF from that era so no surprise I guess?
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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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@cstross@wandering.shop honestly I've been saying for years that it's time "I Will Fear No Evil" was written/copied by someone who knows what trans people are
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@foone@digipres.club Heinlein in the 60s was 100% identifying issues which would be hugely important in another few decades (this is where the best SF comes from!) but made a total dog's dinner of tac
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@cstross@wandering.shop @foone@digipres.club I read Heinlein as a kid, and honestly at this point I'd only recommend him to people either wanting a historical perspective on modern SF or who want to understand Elon Musk (Who seems to base most of his fantasies either on understanding Heinlein or wildly mis-understanding Ian M Banks)
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This Quiz was motivated because I'm thinking of using the term "instar" in an SF novel set in a culture that practices serial reincarnation (using technology): is it reasonable to use "instar" to deno
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@cstross@wandering.shop As a bonus, when Horrible Things start happening because insect DNA was used in the process to make this serial reincarnation work you've foreshadowed it nicely!
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Because it's nearly Christmas, BUY THIS SINGLE MAKE IT NUMBER ONE IN THE CHARTS AGAIN THIS YEAR: https://youtu.be/rNkgDJpcuwU?si=lHJM7K9JEFfa-0DU
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@cstross@wandering.shop You're trying to immanentize the eschaton again, I see. You know that never ends well -- we could end up with an incursion of elder gods or, worse, Maggie Thatcher's zombie bei
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@wordshaper@weatherishappening.network @cstross@wandering.shop Mr. Blobby is what _ends_ incursions of elder gods. He is Britain's final, inescapable, remorseless line of defense. May God have mercy o
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@skjeggtroll@mastodon.online @cstross@wandering.shop People think that the thin, monotonous piping of an unseen flute that blind idiot Azathoth dances to is possibly played by Nyarlathotep, while in fact it's just Mr. Blobby and his dance music attenuated to near-inaudibility by time and distance.
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Because it's nearly Christmas, BUY THIS SINGLE MAKE IT NUMBER ONE IN THE CHARTS AGAIN THIS YEAR: https://youtu.be/rNkgDJpcuwU?si=lHJM7K9JEFfa-0DU
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@cstross@wandering.shop You're trying to immanentize the eschaton again, I see. You know that never ends well -- we could end up with an incursion of elder gods or, worse, Maggie Thatcher's zombie being PM again.
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And your reminder, *again*, that data centers in space are eight kinds of stupid, and anyone pitching them is either an idiot or wants something else and this is a smokescreen.
https://mastodon.social/@verge/115697123384465505
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Is it just me, or does the old Evil Overlord List look an awful lot like Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerburg, Peter Thiel et al are systematically looting it for all the worst of their ideas? https://web.mit.e
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@cstross@wandering.shop I have often suspected that their mental, emotional, and future-visional development were set by the books in their high school library (so lots of Heinlein YAs and suchlike things) and has not been examined or interrogated since. Nor compared to reality to see what's actually possible, either.
Bathing in unexamined cliches doesn't end well, unfortunately often for the uninvolved (or un-responsible, at least).
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#WritersCoffeeClub Dec 2: What do you dislike as reader and thus avoid in your own work? TOO MANY CLICHEs! I began work on a space opera in 2015 and as prep I wrote up a taxonomy of clichés in space o
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Guy who bakes, snarks, writes, and codes. Currently at Google (my second search engine employer!), previously at Bloomberg. One time Perl 6 pumpking, lo these many years ago, as well as core perl contributor and part-time VMS perl port maintainer. I have written the occasional article, mostly on perl. (but once upon a time long ago on the Amiga. Those were the days...) Cute little pie avatar commissioned from https:// socel.net/@heyheymomo Currently not in France. Dammit.
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Dec 02, 2025
@cstross@wandering.shop Skimming that list and seeing all of these gathered up in one spot I now realize why so many of these stories seem so goddamn *boring*. (I suspect I gave more thought to what I had for breakfast than many authors gave to their space opera backgrounds, and I don't even remember what I had for breakfast...)
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The ONLY fragment of fiction I've written this week (from an incomplete New Management story): "Narnia is actually Imp's second choice of destination, but Doc persuaded him that Moominpapa might have
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Guy who bakes, snarks, writes, and codes. Currently at Google (my second search engine employer!), previously at Bloomberg. One time Perl 6 pumpking, lo these many years ago, as well as core perl contributor and part-time VMS perl port maintainer. I have written the occasional article, mostly on perl. (but once upon a time long ago on the Amiga. Those were the days...) Cute little pie avatar commissioned from https:// socel.net/@heyheymomo Currently not in France. Dammit.
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Dan Sugalski
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Guy who bakes, snarks, writes, and codes. Currently at Google (my second search engine employer!), previously at Bloomberg. One time Perl 6 pumpking, lo these many years ago, as well as core perl contributor and part-time VMS perl port maintainer. I have written the occasional article, mostly on perl. (but once upon a time long ago on the Amiga. Those were the days...) Cute little pie avatar commissioned from https:// socel.net/@heyheymomo Currently not in France. Dammit.
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@cstross@wandering.shop ...this is your entry in the "identify the anonymous author using just one sentence of one of their written works" contest, isn't it?
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If there's evidence that someone I support politically was involved with - or accepted "hospitality" from - Epstein, you're damn right I want to know about it. Bring it on!
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Guy who bakes, snarks, writes, and codes. Currently at Google (my second search engine employer!), previously at Bloomberg. One time Perl 6 pumpking, lo these many years ago, as well as core perl contributor and part-time VMS perl port maintainer. I have written the occasional article, mostly on perl. (but once upon a time long ago on the Amiga. Those were the days...) Cute little pie avatar commissioned from https:// socel.net/@heyheymomo Currently not in France. Dammit.
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Dan Sugalski
@wordshaper@weatherishappening.network
Guy who bakes, snarks, writes, and codes. Currently at Google (my second search engine employer!), previously at Bloomberg. One time Perl 6 pumpking, lo these many years ago, as well as core perl contributor and part-time VMS perl port maintainer. I have written the occasional article, mostly on perl. (but once upon a time long ago on the Amiga. Those were the days...) Cute little pie avatar commissioned from https:// socel.net/@heyheymomo Currently not in France. Dammit.
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@mattblaze@federate.social Yeah. Honestly my first thought is "if someone was involved with Epstein, shout it loud and hang them out to dry". Regardless of their relationship to me. (Or ex-relationship, I suppose, 'cause I'd cut off immediate family for that kind of thing)
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"Stop being bothered by people harassing you" is not actually the helpful advice you think it is.
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Guy who bakes, snarks, writes, and codes. Currently at Google (my second search engine employer!), previously at Bloomberg. One time Perl 6 pumpking, lo these many years ago, as well as core perl contributor and part-time VMS perl port maintainer. I have written the occasional article, mostly on perl. (but once upon a time long ago on the Amiga. Those were the days...) Cute little pie avatar commissioned from https:// socel.net/@heyheymomo Currently not in France. Dammit.
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Dan Sugalski
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Guy who bakes, snarks, writes, and codes. Currently at Google (my second search engine employer!), previously at Bloomberg. One time Perl 6 pumpking, lo these many years ago, as well as core perl contributor and part-time VMS perl port maintainer. I have written the occasional article, mostly on perl. (but once upon a time long ago on the Amiga. Those were the days...) Cute little pie avatar commissioned from https:// socel.net/@heyheymomo Currently not in France. Dammit.
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@mattblaze@federate.social The victim blaming so many people have internalized is really depressing some days.
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I generally use a Phase One (medium format) digital back on a Cambo "WRS" camera for making my stitched images. This system provides a fair amount of room for movements. But there are less expensive a
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@mattblaze@federate.social I've noticed that most (all?) of your images are monochrome. Do you do anything special with filters or image sensors for this, or are you just capturing raw full-color imag
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@wordshaper@weatherishappening.network I have a monochrome sensor, but I hardly ever use it except for special circumstances. Mostly I use a color sensor and filter in post. A monochrome sensor has so
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Guy who bakes, snarks, writes, and codes. Currently at Google (my second search engine employer!), previously at Bloomberg. One time Perl 6 pumpking, lo these many years ago, as well as core perl contributor and part-time VMS perl port maintainer. I have written the occasional article, mostly on perl. (but once upon a time long ago on the Amiga. Those were the days...) Cute little pie avatar commissioned from https:// socel.net/@heyheymomo Currently not in France. Dammit.
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Dan Sugalski
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Guy who bakes, snarks, writes, and codes. Currently at Google (my second search engine employer!), previously at Bloomberg. One time Perl 6 pumpking, lo these many years ago, as well as core perl contributor and part-time VMS perl port maintainer. I have written the occasional article, mostly on perl. (but once upon a time long ago on the Amiga. Those were the days...) Cute little pie avatar commissioned from https:// socel.net/@heyheymomo Currently not in France. Dammit.
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A technical camera provides internal "shift" movements that move the sensor (or film) with respect to the lens. That is, the lens (which is what determines perspective) stays in one place, but the sen
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Technical cameras are specialized devices, and they need special lenses that can "cover" - project an image onto - an area larger than the sensor (to allow the shifting). All this is makes everything
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I generally use a Phase One (medium format) digital back on a Cambo "WRS" camera for making my stitched images. This system provides a fair amount of room for movements. But there are less expensive a
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Dan Sugalski
@wordshaper@weatherishappening.network
Guy who bakes, snarks, writes, and codes. Currently at Google (my second search engine employer!), previously at Bloomberg. One time Perl 6 pumpking, lo these many years ago, as well as core perl contributor and part-time VMS perl port maintainer. I have written the occasional article, mostly on perl. (but once upon a time long ago on the Amiga. Those were the days...) Cute little pie avatar commissioned from https:// socel.net/@heyheymomo Currently not in France. Dammit.
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Dan Sugalski
@wordshaper@weatherishappening.network
Guy who bakes, snarks, writes, and codes. Currently at Google (my second search engine employer!), previously at Bloomberg. One time Perl 6 pumpking, lo these many years ago, as well as core perl contributor and part-time VMS perl port maintainer. I have written the occasional article, mostly on perl. (but once upon a time long ago on the Amiga. Those were the days...) Cute little pie avatar commissioned from https:// socel.net/@heyheymomo Currently not in France. Dammit.
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@mattblaze@federate.social I've noticed that most (all?) of your images are monochrome. Do you do anything special with filters or image sensors for this, or are you just capturing raw full-color images and flattening to monochrome in post?
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Still getting yelled at for my grievous defamation of the Mastodon DM mechanism and my failure to put a warning on a post commenting on current events.
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Guy who bakes, snarks, writes, and codes. Currently at Google (my second search engine employer!), previously at Bloomberg. One time Perl 6 pumpking, lo these many years ago, as well as core perl contributor and part-time VMS perl port maintainer. I have written the occasional article, mostly on perl. (but once upon a time long ago on the Amiga. Those were the days...) Cute little pie avatar commissioned from https:// socel.net/@heyheymomo Currently not in France. Dammit.
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Dan Sugalski
@wordshaper@weatherishappening.network
Guy who bakes, snarks, writes, and codes. Currently at Google (my second search engine employer!), previously at Bloomberg. One time Perl 6 pumpking, lo these many years ago, as well as core perl contributor and part-time VMS perl port maintainer. I have written the occasional article, mostly on perl. (but once upon a time long ago on the Amiga. Those were the days...) Cute little pie avatar commissioned from https:// socel.net/@heyheymomo Currently not in France. Dammit.
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@mattblaze@federate.social People are grumpy about you commenting on mastodon's Deceptive Messages? That's not cool.
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