Notices by jwz (jwz@mastodon.social)

@aparrish There are two kinds of articles you can write about AI, just like there are two kinds of obituaries you can write about Henry Kissinger.

And every morning tech "journalists" wake up and choose the one that is not this: https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/henry-kissinger-war-criminal-dead-1234804748/

@jeffowski @alexadeswift Screening tonight at @dnalounge ! https://sfba.social/@dnalounge/116534926718218939

This fountain is not going down without a fight!

Flames erupt as crews dismantle Vaillancourt Fountain:
https://jwz.org/b/yk69

Happy time_t 1777777777 to all who celebrate.

# date +'%F %r %Z = %s' 2026-05-02 08:09:37 PM PDT = 1777777777
https://jwz.org/b/yk62

I have been informed that "dad rock" refers to music released prior to to 2010.

@inthehands "I WANT TO BELIEVE" but given that this report / survey was *from a company trying to sell you AI* it will be impossible to tell whether there's even a single particle of non-bullshit in it.

@mjg59 @glyph If half your code isn't prose -- which is to say comments -- then your code is, what's the word, bad.

@mjg59 @glyph Anyway I've only been tangentially following this argument, but "code and prose are just different" has never held much water for me. They're not different and also you need both. Nor does the idea that LLMs are worse at one than the other, they're terrible at both.

It strikes me as the same old fallacy: "The most enthusiastic bitcoin and blockchain proponents are the ones who understand neither databases nor economics."

Some asshat out here calling themselves an "ethical AI vegan" because they only use corporate AI tools in "uwu smol" ways, and, I dunno, I guess they do a land acknowledgment before they boil a lake or whatever.

If anyone is an "AI vegan" it's me -- I don't use these tools at all, ever, because they are unethical. Telling me that they are delicious is not going to make them ethical.

Also, I will endlessly berate you about your use.

That's veganism, you're welcome.
https://jwz.org/b/yk6V

Operation Dildo Blitz.

Anti-ICE Protest in Minneapolis Ends With 50+ Arrests: Demonstrators shouted "Eat a dick!" and "Fuck ICE!" as they pelted the vehicles with dildos. Activist Russell Ellis, who posted video of the demonstration on Instagram, said...
https://jwz.org/b/yk6G

Still seeking Basecamp alternative.

I asked this 6 months ago and got no good answers so let's try again. Against my better judgment, I let my staff start using Basecamp about 8 years ago, and now I want to ditch it for something open source and...
https://jwz.org/b/yk6E

@xgranade Welp, EFF just answered the question with uncharacteristic clarity: "Abso-fucking-lutely". https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/04/eff-leaving-x

Once there is:

• A luxury hotel atop Everest, or
• A settlement 500m below the surface of any ocean; or
• Any city getting 30% of its veggies/grains from subway hydroponics; or
• Vegas making all of its own water;

...then I will concede that we have solved the first 1% of the problems needed to be a spacefaring species.

Absent any of that, putting monkeys in a can is just a premature stunt.

This timeline sucks.

I miss the olden days when I could manage to give even one fractional shit about human spaceflight.

When every news article didn't require navigating whether it was propaganda, or a grift, or both (because it's *never* science).

When I thought that humanity surviving beyond Earth was even *remotely* possible.

This timeline sucks.

https://jwz.org/b/yk51

Why are there no photos of the bombed out AWS data centers? Asking for an everybody.

New Numbers Station just dropped.

Each message starts with the Farsi word for "attention" followed by what is assumed to be some header information as two 5-digit groups. Then there is a set of 181 five-digit groups. Each message is padded out to take...
https://jwz.org/b/yk5r

Happy "techbros and incels try to monetize comedy without understanding it" day to all who celebrate

XScreenSaver 6.15 is out now. A whopping thirteen new savers this time:
New hack by me, worldpieces.
New Shadertoy hacks brought into the fold: bestill, bubblecolors, darktransit, downfall, driftclouds, goldenapollian, noxfire, prococean, rigrekt, trainmandala, trizm and universeball.

I fixed a bunch of Android bullshit, too (some of which meant needing to reimplement glRotatef etc. from first principles). Android's implementation of GLES is a buggy mess...
https://jwz.org/b/yk5c

Ban adults from the Internet instead of kids. Logan's Run Now. I await the sweet embrace of Carousel.

Favorite mobile mastodon feature: I hit reply, type a lot, scroll back to read something in what I am replying to, and OOPS you scrolled too far, reload page! Fuck your reply!