the same people demanding you get back to the office to better collaborate in person as only humans can are the same people desperate to replace everyone with some code that runs on a server in ohio

An annual contest for traditional Japanese short poetry in Tottori Prefecture came to an end this month after 20 years due to signs some of the participants might have used artificial intelligence for their submissions. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/02/24/japan/japan-ai-senryu-poetry-writing/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #ai #tottori #literature #poetry #shigerumizuki

We've been on X/Twitter for many years, but it's time to reduce our activity there and instead promote Mastodon as our main social media channel now. So we've done just that: https://x.com/LibreOffice/status/2026204949760131158 – Welcome to all our new followers here 😊

At the New York Historical Society today.

The worst thing about online learning is that everything has become a video. Every code tutorial. Every design tutorial. Nobody actually writes out a guide anymore. It's just "hey guys welcome to my tutorial" and watching 10 minutes of content that isn't remotely relevant...

American tax payers will now pay for a hospital ship which will be sent to Greenland, Trump claims on Truth Social.

Let me rephrase that: The US, which does not offer free healthcare to its own people, wants it's own people to offer free healthcare… to Greenland… which already has free healthcare.

Maybe it is time for another brain scan for the US president.

First time playing Tiny Towns. Made innumerable egregious errors throughout, but still managed coming in second. (It was the first play through for everyone.)

#boardgame #game #play

ICE OUT OF MERRIMACK.

📍 Saturday, February 21
🕛 12–2PM
📌 Merrimack Town Hall, 6 Baboosic Lake Rd.

They want to build a human warehouse in our community.
We say no.

Not in Merrimack. Not anywhere.

This is about dignity. This is about refusing to normalize cages. This is about nonviolent, collective resistance.

If you believe our neighbors deserve safety — show up.
Learn more: www.noicenh.com

Anybody who thinks “quickly churns out high performing code!” and “mass-manufactures vulnerabilities and disaster UX designs” are mutually exclusive has clearly never met a programmer in their entire life.

Happy Presidents Day.

Two weeks ago, the CIA shut down the World Factbook - a public
domain reference on every country, used by 6 million people
monthly since 1997.

We built a replacement:
https://openfactbook.org

261 countries · Instant search · Country comparisons

Public data should stay public.

#OpenData #CivicTech #OpenSource #PresidentsDay
#PublicDomain #DataRescue

Today in InfoSec Job Security News:

I was looking into an obvious ../.. vulnerability introduced into a major web framework today, and it was committed by username Claude on GitHub. Vibe coded, basically.

So I started looking through Claude commits on GitHub, there’s over 2m of them and it’s about 5% of all open source code this month.

https://github.com/search?q=author%3Aclaude&type=commits&s=author-date&o=desc

As I looked through the code I saw the same class of vulns being introduced over, and over, again - several a minute.

It is President's Day. A day we try to remember how a president ought to behave (e.g. Washington and Lincoln).

Now open at Houghton, our major spring exhibition, “Thanks for Typing
Women’s Type Labor in Literature and the Arts”
https://library.harvard.edu/exhibits/thanks-typing

Using the web in the age of AI feels like being the last human wandering around a city after the zombie apocalypse.

Irish citizen Seamus Culleton has lived in the U.S. for more than 20 years, is married to a U.S. citizen, has no criminal record, owns a business and holds a valid work permit as part of an application for a green card. Yet he's been in detention in Texas for nearly five months. The Irish Times spoke to him about what's happening.

https://flip.it/fIuK9g

#Ireland #Immigration #UnitedStates #USPolitics

When a piece of type gets damaged, it's like a fingerprint that can be used to tie all the work of a printer together, whether or not their name appears on the title page. The Catalog of Distinctive Type is building a database of these fingerprints for Restoration England. https://cdt.library.cmu.edu/

Some sketches I did during my lunch breaks recently.

#sketch #畫畫 #イラスト

Some examples from among the 2200 pieces of colonial currency held at the American Antiquarian Society. https://pastispresent.org/2026/good-sources/show-me-the-money-online-gallery-features-american-revolution-currency/

Just look at how different https://loops.video looks after 1 year.

Before: The webUI was useless, you needed to use the app for everything

Now: You don't even need an app, you can do everything from our responsive webapp

I delivered on every promise, including the federated For You algorithm.

Now, we're ready to welcome the world to this open, federated and ethical TikTok alternative.

Shoutout to all the supporters and Loops community, you're pioneers in the new social web. ❤️

🚀

#Loops