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• Post #4171764

  A new “Neuromancer" teaser gives more details of AppleTV's upcoming series based on @GreatDismal@mastodon.social's genre-defining cyberpunk novel. In the trailer, the mysterious Armitage hires ace console jockey Case to help him activate his legally-purchased copy of Microsoft Office 365. Frustrated by Case's failure and an endless series of “Unknown Error 0x0 “ pop-ups, Armitage orders street samurai Molly to kill everyone in Redmond, but she is unable to buy a plane ticket bec...

• Post #3763798

  May his memory be a warning.

• Post #3588801

  Standing by the railing in Battery Park, waiting for the tall ships. 1/

• Post #3515518

  I hope that there IS a schism in the Catholic church, so we can finally resolve the longstanding scientific question about what happens when a pope and an antipope collide. My money is on mutual annihilation, accompanied by the emission of some high-energy cardinals, but I'm open to other suggestions. #SSPX #religion #Catholicism #schism2026

• Post #3469925

  The dystopian headline I did not expect to see today: “Remote-controlled cockroach swarm can now breathe underwater" Someone is 3D-printing tiny diving suits for cockroaches, because of course they are. SCUBA apparently now means Somewhat Creepy Underwater Bug Apparatus. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-026-74235-1

• Post #3332754

  The UK government's plan to teach 10 million British children how to use VPNs may be one of the most ambitious IT education projects ever launched. Experts have praised the scheme, saying that a deft combination of incentives and peer education make it more likely to succeed than other, comparable initiatives. "With the rise of autocratic governments worldwide, VPN-literacy is more essential than ever.” said one expert, “This bold project definitely comes at the right time.” #UKSocial...

• Post #2305930

  All these headlines about how AI makes people lazy and dumb make me feel very smug, because I was lazy and dumb long before AI came along.

• Post #1836619

  They promised me a #cyberpunk future full of sentient computer networks and bad-ass lady assassins in skintight fetishwear, and instead I got the one where ... (checks notes) ... people are sending me #phishing emails trying to compromise my electric toothbrush.

• Post #1590445

  Knock, knock Who’s there? Kuh-thool Kuh-thool who? Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn. https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.aea6285

• Post #1480512

  With Peter Thiel's company Palantir increasingly in the news, a lot of people are still uncertain what the company stands for and what its core values are. Basically, what you need to know is that in "The Lord of the Rings” only three people owned palantíri: - the Dark Lord Sauron, the epitome of everything evil, - his almost equally evil lackey Saruman, and - Denethor, a depressive autocrat who finally ended himself in a failed murder-suicide. That pretty much tells you what to exp...

• Post #1223148

  RE: https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/116414078285695998 This line from one of @pluralistic 's typically excellent and thought-provoking articles set me thinking. And while I agree with his first statement, I'm less certain about the second. To explain why requires me to tell an anecdote … 1/

• Post #1073310

  The reason why the Artemis mission has everyone so fascinated is because it is a showcase for the efforts of people who are very, very good at their jobs, at a time when the news cycle is dominated by people who are not merely terrible at their jobs, but awful human beings as well.

• Post #1002513

  First they came for the pronouns, and I said nothing because I was not a pronoun. Then came for the conjunctions, and said nothing because was not a conjunction. came for the prepositions, said nothing was not a preposition. came the determiners, said nothing was not a determiner. came adverbs, said nothing was not adverb. came nouns, said nothing was noun. came, said "FUCK!!! are screwed”

• Post #831055

  This detailed look at the US #RouterBan is worth a read. TL;DR: the security risks are real, but the ban – and the associated conditional approval process – may be set up to give a commercial advantage to one company in the space. https://www.reddit.com/r/pwnhub/comments/1s2thgj/the_fcc_router_ban_following_up_on_a_post_here/

• Post #831054

  To judge by the weight of the new MacBook I’ve just been issued by my employer, Apple have switched from titanium to using depleted uranium for their laptop bodies.

• Post #831053

  For #caturday, here's a comfortable kitty taking a nap in the gardens of the Kasbah of the Udayas, in Rabat, Morocco. #cats #CatsOfMastodon #Morocco

• Post #831052

  Signs from today’s “No Kings” protest in Manhattan. #NoKings #NYC #protests (1/4)

• Post #784847

  A fresh problem with #AI is what might be called Artificial Gullibility. According to a BlueSky poster, an academic who was ruled guilty of plagiarism has waged an extensive astroturfing campaign to rewrite the record. The goal was probably to game conventional search engines, but the texts have now been ingested by Google's AI. Google's "AI Overview” presents her (apparently false) version of events, backing it with the supposed authority of Google and “AI”. 1/ https://bsky.app/...

• Post #753078

  @jackwilliambell You say that, but someone out there is probably working on an anti-anti-anti-missile-missile-missile right now. And there's no reason why the arms race should stop there …

• Post #719596

  New HTTP status code just dropped. **506 - Service Unavailable Due To Hostilities** The web server responds with this code when it is unable to handle the request due to equipment or infrastructure damage caused by hostile action, or for political reasons such as a state of war existing between the server's home nation and that of the agent. The agent should delay resubmitting the request until a peace treaty has been signed.

• Post #719595

  It's #caturday. This very pristine little feline lives in Algeria's M’Zab Valley, on the outskirts of a place called Beni Isguen. #cats #CatsOfMastodon

• Post #719594

  Kudos to the guy running the #NYC half-marathon in a unicorn onesie. And making pretty good time too.

• Post #719593

  We got two kinds of mushrooms with our CSA share today and now I want to write the adventures of the hard-hitting crime-fighting duo, King Trumpet and Shiitake.

• Post #719592

  I know why they say it, but I still find the term "one-way attack drone” mildly amusing. No one talks about "one-way bombs" or “one-way missiles”. That’s probably for the best, actually. It would be upsetting to live in a world where a ballistic missile sauntered casually home after blowing stuff up and showed you photos of all the places it visited on vacation.

• Post #719591

  Square Law Of Software Dependencies: the number of bugs introduced by an upgrade is proportional to the square of the number of supporting modules upgraded. If you upgrade 1 module, you will have to resolve 1 new bug. If you upgrade 3 modules, 9 new bugs. If you upgrade more than 10 modules, you should consider trashing the entire project and rewriting everything from scratch.

• Post #719590

  I wasn't really a fan of Chuck Norris, but at least he gave us Chuck Norris jokes, and I'm not really a fan of Chuck Norris jokes, but at least they gave us Bruce Schneier jokes, which I do enjoy. https://www.schneierfacts.com/

• Post #719589

  Maybe, if I'm very good in this life, I'll come back as a bookstore cat, like this fine specimen from the Book Barn in Niantic, CT. #caturday #CatsOfMastodon #cats

• Post #719588

  TSA in airports: Security Theater ICE in airports: Security Theater of Cruelty

• Post #675709

  “Hi! Your OS here! See that red badge demanding your attention?” "What is it?” "It's sports news! Isn't that great?” "I don't give a shit about sports. How do I turn it off?” "If you're not interested in sports, you can customize the alerts to show something you ARE interested in.” "I'm interested in an OS that does what I tell it. One that works for me. That doesn't track me or try to ‘maximize eng...

• Post #640156

  The fact that the British defense attaché to the United Arab Emirates is called Group Captain Sandy Sandilands is proof that this season's writers are just getting lazier and lazier. Humanity is fast closing in on our "Game of Thrones, Season 8” moment, and the chaotic season finale of “A Planet Called Earth” is just going to leave our audience in the rest of the galaxy furious and disappointed. https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2026/03/10/raf-chief-sandy-sandilands-leads...