Notices by jwz (jwz@mastodon.social)

I had a great idea for December Cyberdelia, which was to do a screening of the Star Wars Holiday Special, the whole thing, commercials and all, because even people who have "seen" it probably haven't made it to the end, and definitely not while drunk in a nightclub. But then someone wisely pointed out:
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@Infoseepage I have extremely specific lids

Needed to use this extremely specific tool today.
https://jwz.org/b/ykw7

Great news everybody, you can't block that new OpenAI Atlas browser because it uses an identical user agent to Chrome.

@VE3RWJ @davidgerard This is the first time I have seen a goatseized corporate logo that was not of my own making. It is finally spreading! I'm a goatsefluencer!

Exterminate all rational AI scrapers, redux redux.

Nine months ago I added an infinite-nonsense honeypot to poison LLM scrapers.

Today, it comprises 69% of URLs served.

Normally it feeds junk after a few seconds delay, but in "high-load mode" it bans IPs. That mode starts when the free-worker count is low, and ends when it has been calm for 15 min.

This month it has been in high-load mode 50% of the time.
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Democrats' New Abundance Platform Isn't Playing Out Well in San Francisco.

Dean Preston with a catalog of how Danny Bluejeans and his techbro chums really fucking suck at governing: With a new majority on the Board of Supervisors, along with control...
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@mwichary I have one! It's glorious.

@mwichary Compared to a rotary dial, it feels completely intuitive. And the same speed.

Perennial "Fuck the Blue Angels" post.

(NOTE: If you are about to "Well Actually" at me about this in some way, please be advised that I do not give the slightest shit.)

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Protest costumes.

Brian McFadden:
https://jwz.org/b/ykwX

@whitequark https://jwz.org/b/yj-E

"Stop, or I'll say 'Stop' again."

Haven't seen this before. Credits of film from major Hollywood studio beg AI companies to pretty please not train on it: Eponysterically, the movie was "Caught Stealing (2025)".
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@inthehands @timbray It's important to stay bug-compatible with the WebP exploit du jour! https://jwz.org/b/ykEL

Goebbels Ends Careers of Five 'Aryan' Actors Who Made Witticisms About the Nazi Regime.

Wireless to THE NEW YORK TIMES, February 4, 1939: Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels today ended the professional careers of five "Aryan" actors and cabaret...
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Netscape Navigator 2.0 was released 30 years ago today.

This version introduced a number of new features:

• Plugins! This was the first time a web page could make sound, via RealAudio.
• Incremental display of progressive JPEGs on slow dialup connections.
• Animated GIFs that were actually useful.
• HTML frames.
• JavaScript! That wasn't my fault, but you still have my apologies.
• And of course my baby, the first release of Netscape Mail and News:

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Worst Kirk.

The Nation goes hard: "It's a choice to write an obituary that begins 'Joseph Goebbels was a gifted marketer and loving father to six children.'"

Charlie Kirk's Legacy Deserves No Mourning:
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The Bone Farmer.

Evergreen: Pay Your Respects, Mattie Lubchansky:
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Qualifying Conditions.

Pro tip for Californians: If you try to get a COVID-19 vaccine at Walgreens, they will ask you if you have a condition that puts you at high risk, and what it is. The correct answer is "smoking". Who said cigarettes are bad for...
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It was hard to pick pull quotes from this because every paragraph is perfect:

Anthony Moser: I am a hater, and I will not be polite. The machine is disgusting and we should break it. The people who build it are vapid shit-eating cannibals glorifying ignorance. I strongly feel that this is an insult to life itself.

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