That time at Wimbledon Women's Doubles in 2017 when a spectator ran his mouth a little too much from the stands... then this happened:
#tennis #wimbledon #humor
@thomasfuchs @pikesley yes, but the social media companies would rather not pay people to do moderation, and the magical thinking machines aren’t very good at it, so really we’re all better off banning children from having interests other than football and drinking on park benches, and everyone else just being exposed to constant hate speech.
People: “The big social media networks could simply properly moderate their content and remove hate speech, disinformation and trolls.”
Politicians: “We heard you, we will require ID checks to use computers.”
The @emf lineup has been published and everytime I look at it I favourite a bunch more stuff. I love that the range is so wide theres almost nothing beyond “that sounds interesting” that would be a common thread through them all https://www.emfcamp.org/schedule/2026
I’ve just discovered Dockerfiles support copying/mounting a file from an entirely different image, sourced at build time. I now want to build a cursed frankenimage where every file in the final image has been taken from the `latest` revision of a different image and see how long it takes to break.
I love how neatly sorted this selection of variously sized googly eyes is, I thought as I opened it upside down.
We appear to have reached the point in an EMF cycle where everytime I sit down to knock some items off my todo list I come away with more on it than I started with.
Jump scared by a giant train station ad for a device I worked on years ago and thought had been quietly shelved since.
nice try mao. but you’re not gonna get me with that line again
the cyberpunk present is weird as fuck: the latest Shai Hulud malware wave contains an LLM prompt to create biological weapons and nuclear weapons, with the purpose to trip LLM safety refusals so that LLM-based code scanning wont see the malware
Big day. EMF admin in the morning. Climbed in the afternoon and topped another V2 which is still an achievement for me. Completed a run of Sektori in the evening after almost 40 hours of trying. I’m now going to celebrate these achievements with Chinese takeaway.
I’ve started season 3 of The Handmaid’s Tale, a show I still find utterly gripping and borderline traumatic at the same time. The thing I find more traumatic is a single sentence that’s stuck with me from an interview with Margaret Attwood.
“We never put anything in the show that hasn’t happened somewhere in the world already.”
Why is so much of YouTube obnoxious pricks screaming at video games like they’ve just managed to find a cure for cancer or something. Just chill out a bit, I’m glad you’re enjoying your game of Pokemon but man, can you not do so quietly?
This post brought to you by having a 12 year old and a headache.
Today in ridiculous things I’ve done: emailed the developer of my current favourite game to ask if there’s any chance of exposing game state so I can feed it into stage lighting.
Every now and again I remember why I do this whole festival nonsense and a massive smile appears on my face.
People who are disabled, poor or on fixed incomes should be allowed nice things.
Society acts as though anyone receiving assistance should be forced to make do with the bare minimum ALL the time.
It’s suffering as a policy choice.
It’s cruel and unnecessary.
OH: “It’s always fun to launch anvils at people with a railgun”
One of the EMF team leads just dialled into a meeting from a hospital bed after falling off a five story building trying to install a mesh network antenna. Unbelievable dedication to the cause.
EMF people, do you consider lightning talks to be too slow and not focused enough on playing a game? Well, I’ve got good news for you because the arcade is hosting a speed running evening, sign up to show off your ability to play games quickly at https://grist.orga.emfcamp.org/forms/icprbr1ZJmhzqXC49u3rhR/57.
If you’re freakishly good at either Sektori or Tetris Effect I’d also like to hear from you because we’ve got something special lined up there as well.
@mhoye @pikesley this has to be at least partially a question of proper regulation. You don’t see harnesses sold under those terms because it’s straight up illegal to. A harness is either sold on the basis of “this has been engineered so that if it fails during a fall your spine will have failed before that” or it has to be very clearly labelled “this is for cosplay only, it will kill you if used in anger”.
If you told 18 year old Jon that his idea of a good Friday night would be sweating to death flinging himself up walls you’d have got a very strange look indeed, and yet here I am, having just returned from said activity.