@aeva AI slop is just spam we don't have a detection algorithm for, and so it's revealing when people make the decision to use it.

"You don't know WNYC?"

"No. I'm 23. I don't listen to the radio."

Hearing that made my lower back hurt.

Palantir Technologies is suing Republik Magazine over an investigation into Palantir’s activities in Switzerland, published in December 2025. The lawsuit demands a counterstatement and is currently being heard by the Zurich Commercial Court.
Read the story that made Palantir sue us — now available in English. #palantir #freemedia

https://www.republik.ch/2026/02/18/how-tenaciously-palantir-courted-switzerland?utm_medium=social&utm_source=mastodon&utm_campaign=cm&utm_content=palantir-en

If Jeffrey Epstein had been raising money for the Russian military, you would know all about it.

https://fair.org/home/doj-released-much-more-on-epsteins-israel-ties-but-media-still-arent-much-interested/

A white British grandmother with valid visa on vacation in the US was detained for six weeks by ICE. “Individual ICE agents get money per head that they detain – the guards told me that,” Karen says.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/feb/21/karen-newton-valid-visa-detained-ice

for your meme stash in case you don’t have it already

RE: https://phpc.social/@ramsey/116104919958954997

This here; when the tools are fit for purpose and make engineers’ jobs easier, you have to pry them from our fingers. All you have to do is look at the dedication to vim/emacs adaptations you’ll see in older coders to see the lengths to which we go to use the tools we feel work best.

It is a massive quality red flag if you have to force your staff to use a tool.

Someone on reddit had commented "Elon is a little bitch." and it was at 3999 upvotes AND MAN IT WAS SATISFYING TO UPVOTE IT.

"We were doing a story about authoritarianism and fascism, and the Empire is very clearly a great example of that. It’s a great place to deal with those issues, and we had this wide open canvas to deal with it.

So you get out your Fascism for Dummies book for the 15 things you do, and we tried to include as many of them as we could in the most artful way possible. How were we supposed to know that this clown car in Washington was going to use the same book that we used? So I don’t think it’s prescience so much as the sad familiarity of fascism and the karaoke menu of things that you go through to do it."

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-features/andor-creator-tony-gilroy-gives-the-interview-1236510166/

Hey, whether you work in tech or not, if you use Python, please do take a couple minutes to fill out the 2026 Python Developers Survey: https://surveys.jetbrains.com/s3/python-developers-survey-2026

@mpark They have close proximity to chef knives and I'm worried about things getting a little too out of hand, but I will take it into consideration.

I've uploaded a new scrolling ASCII art piece, "Bund FC" inspired by the architecture of the Bund Finance Center in Shanghai. https://scrollart.org/bund-fc/

I'm running for US Senate and my main policy is QUALIFIED IMMUNITY FOR CASHIERS AND RETAIL WORKERS.

South Korea, showing America how it's done.

"Former President Yoon Suk Yeol was found guilty of masterminding an insurrection when he imposed martial law in 2024, was sentenced to life in prison."

https://www.nytimes.com/live/2026/02/19/world/yoon-korea-martial-law-president?unlocked_article_code=1.NVA.0n1T.9Fg0jV3rvJ_h&smid=url-share

I've uploaded a new scrolling ASCII art piece, "Candlelight"

https://scrollart.org/candlelight/

(Click VIEW FULLSCREEN for best effect.)

@chrisjrn @ubernostrum @piersb @amfernee Oh man "ephemeral work" is so much better than the "throwaway scripts" term I've been using.

@amfernee @ubernostrum Only in the sense that a credit card allows you to own luxuries without having to first amass wealth.

@bitartbot Whoa. This one is nice. Standard sierpinski pattern but with interesting irregular vertical streaks. Nice.

This xkcd 2501 Generator has been making the rounds. I've added it to the r/sillylittlewebsites subreddit I'm trying to get going:

https://www.reddit.com/r/sillylittlewebsites/comments/1r893xk/xkcd_2501_generator/