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The Platner vacancy
…well, that happened. It was interesting to watch the Democratic party faithful and their ttought processes in re: Graham Platner’s […]

On red and blue buttons
Long-time readers (ha) might have caught occasional mention of my news-reading habits, in which I limit my rage-bait media consumption. […]
That Claude/Hermes “bug” is sus AF
TIL, via passing mention in a video about a different bit of AI business-model fuckery, that Claude Code users recently […]

Steam is phasing out physical gift cards…
Via Jez Corden at Windows Central: Today, Valve confirmed (via SteamDB) that it will no longer offer new stocks of […]

Motorola indulges in small-time affiliate code chicanery
Prologue: Lenovo makes laptops. Sometime in late 2014, it started selling laptops with preinstalled Superfish, reverse-image-search software (useful?) which was […]
DC man’s disingenuous blather reminds me about some ridiculous retail security theater
I once went into a pharmacy to buy a cheap pair of earbuds and found them locked to the rack […]

Your periodic reminder to disregard Google Search
For a little while a couple days ago, Google served up a meaningless AI message and a wall of blank […]
The algorithmic matchmaker
I saw this glorified ad read from Bumble… The company has opted to phase out the swipe function in favor […]

The Canvas hack made me feel both old and glad to be old
So I saw this the other day: An ongoing data extortion attack targeting the widely-used education technology platform Canvas disrupted […]