Ellen Ripley is the perfect action hero: brave, strong, forklift certified.

this is perverted and wrong but i have to speak my truth: i legitimately believe that #FollowFriday would be helpful on here

if the earth is flat then the ground should be called the gflat i rest my case

I saw this little guy yesterday and I can't stop thinking about him. So round. So pink. #borbs #borb

#GermanBallet

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2023/02/ai-powered-bing-chat-loses-its-mind-when-fed-ars-technica-article/

@mae @jpm does not the Gulistan tell us “I complained that I had my order sent DHL, until I met a man who used FedEx”

The way I put it on my radio segment earlier this evening, was that a year ago there were five crypto ads on the big game, and the people pushing crypto were called geniuses. This year, there are no crypto ads at all on the big game. What does that tell you?

Internet services owned by billionaires:

1. Twitter
2. Facebook
3. Instagram
4. TikTok
5. Snapchat

Internet services not owned by billionaires:

1. Email
2. IRC
3. BitTorrent
4. RSS
5. HTTP

So don’t tell me that walled gardens are inevitable and we should just accept surveillance capitalism as the price of doing business.

Twitter suspension of the DC transit system account may well have been an unintended goof, or a software issue, but it's one more reason to stress how important it is for public agencies not to rely on the Musk-controlled, highly centralized system. What I said about why journalists should migrate off the birdsite goes for everyone else who wants to control their online destinies: https://www.techdirt.com/2023/01/04/journalists-and-others-should-leave-twitter-heres-how-they-can-get-started/

A black man wrongfully jailed for a week in Louisiana after face recognition error, report says. Lawyer says police didn't check man's height, weight or the mole on his face.

#blackmastodon #facialrecognition

https://peopleofcolorintech.com/articles/facial-recognition-tech-used-to-jail-black-man-for-louisiana-theft-hes-never-been-to-louisiana/

via @fixumdude: WKZG is currently streaming a 24-hour #WeirdAl #radio" station: https://www.kz1043.com/ [listen #live online] #satire #parody

"#OpenSource maintainers are effectively unpaid outsourcing teams for giant corporations. The Alibaba engineer told the log4j team: 'Please hurry up'. Meanwhile, let's remember that Alibaba has a market cap of $348 billion" – Yawar Amin

https://dev.to/yawaramin/the-human-toll-of-log4j-maintenance-35ap

I remember how excited I was in the nineties, thinking that a shaggy, open, unpredictable, democratic internet had triumphed over AOL and the other closed commercial networks. Then came surveillence-driven social media.

Could a phoenix be rising from the ashes of Twitter?

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2022/12/mastodon-highlights-pros-and-cons-of-moving-beyond-big-tech-gatekeepers/

This is a great story of how Barnes & Noble’s new CEO who was hired in 2019 has turned around the company. Sales are up, it opened 16 stores this year and plans to open more next year.

The secret is the CEO really likes books and readers. So he stopped doing deals with publishers to promote their latest books & NYT best sellers and encouraged individual stores to promote books they found most interesting.

So simple yet…

https://tedgioia.substack.com/p/what-can-we-learn-from-barnes-and

Oh, wow, Tom Lehrer has released all of his songs into the public domain. Apparently also his website will shut down "at some date in the not too distant future" so now's a good time to download directly.

"In short, I no longer retain any rights to any of my songs.
So help yourselves, and don’t send me any money."

https://tomlehrersongs.com/