Flutterby™! (short)

A "pride flag" rainbow in which the blue line extends outside the rectangle. The caption reads:

There is no such thing as pride without a thin blue line.

The brave men, women, and non-binary heroes at Stonewall couldn't have thrown bricks at cops if there hadn't been any cops.

🌯 Chipotlai Max

The AI coding agent that steals Chipotle's support bot. Free inference paid for by burritos.

Interesting conversation at square dancing last night, someone had tried to use one of the chatbots, and his take-away was that as long as it didn't have any model for correctness it really wasn't useful for anything but entertainment.

Good to see non-tech people discovering this independently.

Woohoo! Knew that trading my privacy for a browser gamification experience would pay off some day!

The 19th: ‘Intersectionality’ scholar Kimberlé Crenshaw thinks it’s time for everyone to talk back. I think I'm going to have to read this memoire.

Interesting screencap of Codex using Docker to write to root-only files

Elf Sternberg posts a Bluesky thread on nuclear vs wind.

This is a fascinating read: Steven Murdoch ‪@steven.murdoch.is‬

For 19 years, GPS satellites have secretly broadcast a “numbers station” in their signals. We decoded 12M messages: a 2011 flash where 31 satellites flipped in hours, “ghost” substrings repeating years apart, and a “TEXT” prefix spreading now. https://lsc- pagepro.mydigitalpublication.com/publication/?i=865273&p=62&view=issueViewer

https://github.com/sjmurdoch/gps-special-messages

Iris Meredith: The attack on competence

I'll just use the same excerpts as ‪Elf M. Sternberg‬ ‪@elfsternberg.bsky.social‬, although I think Elf isn't quoting accurately, but is capturing the sense:

"The investor class is in a bind. Cunning is not the same as smart. But today's tech world, being seen as smart is essential to their legitimacy... Competence is a threat to the illusion of legitimacy ... if any engineer can tell a CEO he's full of shit."

Pro Publica: In This Church, Child Sexual Abuse Has Gone Unchecked for So Long That It Spans Generations. This is particularly about the Old Apostolic Lutheran Church, and it sounds extra horrific, but I'm guessing if you scratch the surface of pretty much any church there's similar stuff going on:

What’s more, the church teaches that once a perpetrator is forgiven, anyone who speaks about the wrongdoing — including the victim — can be accused of harboring an unforgiving heart. Those who have left the church, as well as some who are still with it, say this means the burden of sin shifts from the person who committed the act to the person who refuses to let the matter rest.

I'm not sure quite how to title this "Notice of Exempt Solicitation Pursuant to Rule 14a-6(g)" filed by Trillium Asset Management, LLC re the Target Corporation, an attempt to shift the board, but there's a lot of good in it:

In our assessment, Target's lagging financial performance stems principally from a series of operational and strategic missteps that have materially impaired the Company's brand. Multiple reports indicate persistent challenges with disorganization, high out-of-stocks, and poor employee morale, leading to a diminished in-store experience. Furthermore, Target appears to have eroded its longstanding reputation for distinctive, fashion-forward merchandise assortments. Compounding these issues, Target has repeatedly entangled itself in social controversy over the past several years, including its decision to pull back its Pride collection, the rollback of its DEI initiatives, and, most recently, its limited public response to Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) activities at certain store locations. These developments have elicited substantial consumer backlash, manifesting in protests, boycotts, and reputational harm. Consequently, Target may have alienated key customer demographics, including Black, Latino, LGBTQ+, and progressive consumer segments.

Uh. Yep. Via.

Inspired by catch @catch56@kolektiva.social, I asked Google "how many days of the week have cans of petroleum in them?, and unlike them it actually gave me a hit about why the answers are so silly:

All 7 days of the week have cans containing petroleum in them. This is a classic riddle about the days of the week and a well-known linguistic quirk: every single day from Monday to Sunday ends with the letter combination "can".

Additionally, petroleum is hidden in a vast array of everyday commercial and food products!

Looks like we've hit another "fox and grain and boat" kind of edge case.

‪Girl_Poss🔞‬ ‪@girlposs.hyper.wang‬

Good morning!!!! creating porn and masturbation is a radical act against american nationalist values. be proud, theres no failure in enjoying eroticism. erotica is a part of us!!!

Say someone wanted to buy a small batch, 50-100, of compression springs. I'm flexible, from ball point pen size to say .25"od by 1" long.

There has to be a cheaper way to do this than buying 100 retractable ball point pens, right?

Thomas Fuchs @thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io

Steve Jobs: “Computers are a bicycle for your mind.”

Satya Nadella: “Computers are heroin for your mind.”

404 Media: Microsoft Wants to 'Make People Addicted' to its New AI Assistant, Internal Documents Reveal

Futurism: In Leaked Document, Microsoft Plots How to Get People “Addicted” to Its AI.

Back from my trip. Playing catch-up.

Which has led to household discussion of what other condiments are playable.