Gmail account tied to unwanted Google Workspace account
A user found their existing, long-held Gmail account (e.g., example@gmail.com) inexplicably and seemingly inextricably linked to an unwanted Google Workspace account (e.g., user@example.com), the MX…
The coming AI jobs-pocalypse
The story we tell ourselves about technology and jobs has almost always been wrong, at least in the short term.
The Market Ticker - Cancelled - To Black People: You Owe WHITES Reparations
I'm tired of this bullshit out of so-called "repressed" blacks.The facts are:For thousands of years your forefathers and mine looked out over the precise same…
not reading the room
The thing is: having more people trained by a corporation in using that corporation's product is not actually a thing to brag about .
Office Should Be For Radical Innovation
The real reason people hate returning to the office? Because we turned offices into places where work happens. And work, it turns out, is the worst place for breakthroughs.
And a cheer for Shawnee Mission School District in Kansas
...which has not only refused to sign an agreement with the U.S. Department of Education regarding their "investigation" into the district's inclusion of trans students, they also extensively…
euclidean cities
I am currently reading Mapmatics: How We Navigate the World Through Numbers by Paulina Rowińska.[1] Chapter 4 — Distanced — starts by discussing homeomorphic representations that distort distances…
Cupertino v1.1.0: my Apple docs index was 30% lies and I didn't know
A 3 a.m. SQL query found one row of HTTP poison in the search index. Pulling on that thread unraveled 13 ways Apple's CDN lies to crawlers, plus a release bug where the binary cheerfully downgraded…
"The danger to 'the West comes not from a handful of terrorists crossing borders, but from the millions of university graduates crossing from academia into adulthood."
" G lobalisation is here and cannot be stopped. With cheap and easy transportation around the globe (unless a country walls itself off--like North Korea--with similar meaning and consequences), the…
Philz Coffee United joins UFCW 5
The workers are now aligned with union members from Verve and Highwire in the largest private-sector union in Northern California
GenAI is Normal Edtech
In GenAI is Normal Edtech, Leon Furze draws on Arvind Narayanan and Sayash Kapoor's framework of "AI as normal technology" to argue that GenAI is following predictable patterns seen in previous…
Skinner’s AI: Assistance Reduces Persistence and Hurts Independent Performance
As I read a new paper about the effects of AI, I couldn’t help but notice the authors stumbled onto a clean withdrawal demonstration and could not see it because the field rewards…
The People’s AI
There is a moment coming that most people haven’t thought about yet. Not the AI that writes your emails. Not the AI that answers your search queries. Not the AI that sits inside a…
SEO auditing and the business of making you anxious
More than one page for same language in hreflang: 614 URLs Ever got a similar message from one of the "SEO audit" tools? I have and I do constantly. Both from major players like Google: "Hey look,…
Impact before implementation: What Iowa’s habitual offender debate revealed
Wayne Ford is the executive director of Wayne Ford Equity Impact Institute and co-Director of the Brown and Black Forums of America. He is a former member of the Iowa legislature…
The Ominous Texas Ten Commandments Case
Suppose a state mandated that signs be posted in every public school classroom declaring “Jesus is Lord.” Wouldn’t that violate the First Amendment’s ban on establishments of religion? Until this…
Livestreaming Autonomous Robots, the Implications
Figure has been livestreaming an eight-hour "shift" of autonomous robots sorting packages in a factory, and it is soothing, unsettling, and impressive. It is almost algorithmic ASMR, as one…
CTF Ghost track completed!
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Back to May Day
Photos by Bette Lee Story by Pete Shaw As I made my way to the bus stop, I could feel my rhythm returning. However, there was still a way to go. Most pressingly, I was not sure how I would pay my…
We Are Crashing Into the Future (Or It Is Crashing Into Us)
The Autumn of the Patriarchs One common and inaccurate picture of change assumes this thing so obvious, so potent in the present, will just continue to expand and the future will be like the…
CIA Whistleblower Testifies on Alleged Federal COVID-19 Coverup
The suggestion that Covid was some sort of accident is a limited hangout. Nobody is going to go to prison, least of all Fauci. Coincidentally, the CIA “whistleblower,” James Erdman III,…
Best method for buying home for permanently disabled daughter (SSI and ABLE account)
My husband and I are embarking on an effort to identify a small home to purchase nearby so his adopted Latvian daughter (my stepdaughter) may begin living independently at 33 years old. She has…
Software delivery will continue to be non-linear
What I think is going on with AI is that what software managers really want is to be able to turn a dial marked "Quality" down and see a gauge marked "Speed" go up. AI agents seem like they could…
Trump is Calling Everyone Pro-Transgender a Terrorist. This Should Alarm You
Everyone is affected. We need to stand up for what is right.
New agents.txt file found on DreamHost
DreamHost now adds a default agents.txt (similar to robots.txt) to hosted websites that discourages LLM training and agent actions and allows on-the-fly access. On the downside, they added it to…
Master Patch listing for May 2026
I’ve updated the master patch list here. Please note I am not recommending installing updates at this time, we are just testing and reporting. As I wrote on that page: Too early to tell if…
Rupture isn’t Burnout: Career Grief in a Collapsing Academy – Guest Post
By Tamara Yakaboski, PhD Bio: Tamara Yakaboski, PhD, spent almost 20 years as a professor and administrator before confronting the reality that academia, for many, is no longer sustainable. Whether…
Parents protect kids from 'real life' but let them roam freely online
American childhood is free-range online, supervised in real life.
How do we write about this?: Reflections on scholarship about immigrants, data literacy, surveillance, and academic freedom in 2025
In brief How do you write about immigrants, surveillance, and data literacy at a time when the political landscape around you is constantly shifting, immigrants are being targeted, and higher…
Kickstarter to Ban any Adult-Styled Comics and Content in General After Making Millions From Them for Years
Kickstarter has been a popular spot for years to fund a project/idea. Comic creators love it because Kickstarter can help take an idea that could be too niche for a mainstream publisher and allow…
The FBI Director Proved He Will Lie about Criminal Defendants
Kash Patel yesterday proved he is willing to lie, in his official capacity, about criminal defendants. And that puts everything he touches at risk. The post The FBI Director Proved He Will Lie about…
Tax attack
The neighbour’s 23-year-old kid just returned after three months in Australia. Too expensive. Too few jobs. Despite having relatives there and a work permit, it was a desert of opportunity. No…
The Factorization of UXR: The K-shaped Divide Underneath Modern Research Work
Late-night thoughts. The kind you write because the picture has been forming in the background for a while and tonight it finally sat still long enough to look at.UXR is not one field anymore. It has…
ALL AGAINST ALL: In the summer of 82...
WEDNESDAY, MAY 13, 2026 ...the fuzzy language appeared: We don't think of The View as a place to go for outstanding political commentary. That said: On the Fox News Channel's Gutfeld! show, the five…
Long Wave service of BBC R4 to close 27th of June 2026
The BBC in the UK recently announced that their Radio 4 service on 198 kHz will finally shut down on Saturday 27th of June 2026 at 00:00 UTC. It will join a list of other radio stations in Europe…
PEAKS No 44: Exploit Season: Dirty Frags, Dreaming Agents & Robot Dogs on a Budget
Hi there!🛡️ Security & PrivacyDouble Linux LPE week — Copy Fail (CVE-2026-31431) and Dirty Frag (CVE-2026-43284 / CVE-2026-43500) — Back-to-back kernel privilege…
Behind the Scenes: Building AI-Generated Opportunity Solution Trees
Audio Version ($)I just finished an all-out engineering sprint. That sounds weird to me.I've been writing code on and off for several years. But I wouldn't call myself an engineer. I'm…
The trauma of AI Humanizers
It's not just a "tool" that can be used for good or bad. Its inferred essence is to replace a practice that helps you think and grow. To make you less you and more "humanized".
We’re safe right now
You should find this image of the location of rich people’s planes soothing and reassuring. It’s part of an Apocalypse Early Warning Tracker. The idea is that if trouble is coming, you…
Reframing the Purpose & Value of an Education
When we were young students, we often remarked to our teachers: "This subject is useless to me. When am I ever going to use this knowledge in the real world?" Teachers everywhere cringe at this…
What Didn’t Happen
In a 2025 study out of MIT's Media Lab, 54 students wrote a series of 20-minute essays across four months. One group used ChatGPT. One used Google. One wrote with nothing. At the end of each session,…
You Can't Bootstrap Trust
End to end, or not at all.
Arrêt de mon autosurveillance
Pas mal de gens autorisent Google – consciemment ou pas — à les suivre à la trace partout où ils vont, pour des raisons énoncées comme pratiques, ce qui permet de construire des profils extrêmement…
I no longer believe in progress...
Hear me out. I think you'll agree.
Thanassis Stavrakis, A man carrying a sheep on a motorcycle during a wildfire in Patras, western…
bobbole:Thanassis Stavrakis, A man carrying a sheep on a motorcycle during a wildfire in Patras, western Greece, August 2025
An open letter to my MP and Marc Miller re: youth social media bans
Dear Marie-Gabrielle Ménard and Marc Miller, I am writing as a constituent regarding the federal government's consideration of youth social media restrictions, currently under review by Minister…
Winding down my own panopticon
Some people allow Google to track them everywhere they go, which allows for some very specific advertising profiles, under the guise of convenience. Allowing google to have full access to my GPS is…
Breaking Down GreenPlasma and YellowKey: Windows Trust Boundaries Doing Windows Things
A beginner-friendly technical breakdown of GreenPlasma and YellowKey, two Nightmare-Eclipse Windows disclosures involving CTFMON, Object Manager abuse, WinRE, BitLocker, and the eternal comedy of…
OpenAI Sued Over ChatGPT Medical Advice That Allegedly Killed College Student
Chi dà consigli medici (mix di farmaci), senza esserlo, e questo porta alla morte di persone, dovrebbe esseer incriminato come chiunque altro. Ma ce li immaginiamo i narcotrafficanti se facessero un…
Why Continue? (2/3)
Why Continue? For decades, modern Western society operated on a powerful assumption: human beings are unhappy because they are constrained. Too many rules. Too much repression. Too much tradition.…