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My latest cartoon for @newscientist.com@bsky.brid.gy
My latest cartoon for @newscientist.com@bsky.brid.gy
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This is the kind of nerd joke you usually need a course in Algebra 201 or above to get. Also, glad to see enough fellow nerds in Mastodon to get it trending there 😜
Move over, Ramanujan! I think I'm getting good at this stuff!
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Just came across this, a place where people get can and give a warm coat to others for free♥️
They have something like this in Richmond, Virginia too. A local dry cleaning chain does this in their locations: wtvr.com/on-air/virginia-this-morning/gearing-up-for-coats-for-kids-2026-with-puritan-cleaners
Gearing up for Coats for Kids 2026 with Puritan Cleaners
Watch Virginia This Morning each weekday from 9 to 10 a.m. Find the show on Facebook and Instagram at @VirginiaThisMorning.Virginia This Morning (CBS 6 News Richmond WTVR)
Imagine the meme of the woman recognizing multiple colors and a man recognizing just one, but the woman's side is covered specifically by shades of green, blue, and cyan, and the man is a Japanese samurai that just labels them all "Aoi" (青い). imgflip.com/memegenerator/542423289/Men-Women-Colors-Original #JapaneseLearning
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Join the Development Fund and support the Godot Foundation to work on Godot Engine.Godot Development Fund
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this u? Asking for donations using LLMs is a big no no...
A good time to reevaluate your AI policy and actually ban it for its cultural and environmental damage rather than just partially banning it for business reasons. 🙏
I nervously check the size of Shellcheck + Haskell. Then, I nervously check the size of Node + ESLint. eslint.org/blog/2026/11/eslint-shell-plugin-announcement/
ESLint now officially supports linting of shell scripts - ESLint - Pluggable JavaScript Linter
A pluggable and configurable linter tool for identifying and reporting on patterns in JavaScript. Maintain your code quality with ease.eslint.org
The ideal date to take someone on is an escape room experience. In a single date you'll find out how intelligent they are, whether they are proactive or lazy, how well they work as a team/pair, and how easily they fold or snap under pressure.
💯 or go on a walk that requires mild amounts of reading maps/finding your way by following signs etc.
With the upcoming delisting of the Tesla #Cybertruck, need I remind you that the time it was given away for free as a vehicle on #Fortnite, players rejected it en masse because the windshield had a terribly large hitbox and made it easier for players to be shot to death? reddit.com/r/FortniteBR/comments/1eb9t3l/the_cybertruck_isnt_just_an_ugly_car_its_actually/Reddit
the cybertruck isn't just an ugly car - it's actually a straight downgrade to the normal car! let me elaborate a bit. byu/scoutfromtf2isreal inFortniteBRscoutfromtf2isreal (reddit)
New post: How can a volunteer project keep going when your experienced volunteers are exhausted, trust is short in supply & you’re facing tremendous pressure in a situation ripe for catastrophe?
Lessons from the Ukrainian Wikipedia during the Russian invasion.
citizensandtech.org/2026/11/leadership-succession-in-online-communities/
How Can Wikipedians Overcome Leadership Succession Crises? Lessons from the Invasion of Ukraine
Lessons in leadership succession in online communities from the invasion of UkraineJ. Nathan Matias (Citizens and Technology Lab)
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I wrote this post in response to a Wikimedia movement gathering on how to handle the challenge of making Wikipedia a mulit-generational endeavor as key leaders age and retire.
As of Nov 2024, 13 out of 21 large Wikipedias had declining numbers of unique monthly active admins, and the remaining leaders are taking on more and more responsibility.
This has all the hallmarks of what social scientists call a spiral of "key-person concentration" that can be hard to reverse.
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The problem of succession isn't unique to Wikipedia or open source.
Using nonprofit tax registration data, social scientists have computed the "dissolution rate" of orgs that fail to outlive their initial founders.
In an analysis of UK charities, orgs that appointed a higher proportion of new people to leadership roles are multiples less likely to dissolve, holding constant for differences in the economic conditions of a region. To estimate this, researchers compute the "appointment ratio" - the proportion of new leaders in a period of time.
Ukrainian Wikipedia was forced to change how they onboarded new leaders when Russia invaded in 2022.
Many volunteers shifted efforts to support neighbors, help people escape harm's way, and in some cases take up arms.
During the battle of Kharkiv, one editor, a librarian, set up an editing station in a bomb shelter to keep doing his work and maintaining Wikipedia.
Wikimedia's community blog Diff has documented years of extraordinary stories from the Ukrainian community.
diff.wikimedia.org/tag/ukraine/
Editing Wikipedia from a bomb shelter in Kharkiv, Ukraine – Viacheslav Mamon’s story
Wikimedia Ukraine is collecting and publishing stories of Ukrainian Wikimedia community members affected by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. See the full collection of stories on Meta. Viacheslav Mamo…Diff
THEY KILLED CYBERTRUCK WOKE 3.0 IS REAL!
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They clearly should have hedged with meteor damage mitigation technologies.
think you might have pests in your attic? cut away a small square of the ceiling below, and wait until it's dark. if you can see a red light flickering through the gap in the floorboards, then it's almost certainly mice. the light comes from the optical sensor which is on the underside of the mouse
having spent a large part of the day in the loft because a mouse has eaten through a water pipe this still made me smile
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THANATOS (1983)
Acrylic - 24" x 36"
Just before beginning this painting I broke my right hand—my painting hand!—and found myself forced to function with my fingers, wrist, and arm immobilized in a cast. Determined not to let the injury stop me, I employed tricks to circumvent my infirmity. 1/5
#fantasy #illustration #piersanthony #incarnationsofimmortality #delreybooks
Piers Anthony did a title but not the whole book of The Lord of the Rings by JR Tolkein. I had his book stuck in my shelf a long time ago. Now my book shelf are updated and Iam collecting lots of books. The story I think is pressing in, times.
Most #ACE / #RCE demos on PC show they work by opening an innocent application on your computer, like the calculator. Now, imagine if the calculator itself could be used for RCE. With #MSPaint being now pwnable, it's not hard to assume it could happen. cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-83844
A real-life instance of a @thedailytism.com@bsky.brid.gy article: Local ADHD support group ends abruptly after first meeting, organizer forgets to keep running the group www.reddit.com/r/ADHD/comme...Reddit
[confession] My local ADHD support group ended abruptly after our first meeting because I forgot to keep running the group... byu/YoreWelcome inADHDYoreWelcome (reddit)
Does anyone else never ask for any favors, assuming the answer is always going to be an enthusiastic "no" anyway?
The argument about whether we're in Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four or Huxley's Brave New World has been settled: the big AI firms have developed automated prolefeed generators, so we are definitely in Orwell's future
❌ Personal helicopters
❌ Recreational sex as a greeting
❌ Complete collapse of religion
❌ Human babies decanted from womb bottles
✅ TVs watch you back
✅ Government constantly invents newspeak
✅ Forever war
✅ US uses us as Airstrip One
Yep, this is a correct opin.
In the developed world we're closer to Huxley's world, where everyone voluntarily sacrifices their freedom, having been brainwashed since birth.
Orwell's vision is in reserve for any society that breaks out of that.
Orwell's vision is in reserve for any society that breaks out of that.
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