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“We and our 226 partners”… damn, these polycules are getting out of hand.

@thomasfuchs @pikesley yes, but the social media companies would rather not pay people to do moderation, and the magical thinking machines aren’t very good at it, so really we’re all better off banning children from having interests other than football and drinking on park benches, and everyone else just being exposed to constant hate speech.

The @emf lineup has been published and everytime I look at it I favourite a bunch more stuff. I love that the range is so wide theres almost nothing beyond “that sounds interesting” that would be a common thread through them all https://www.emfcamp.org/schedule/2026

I’ve just discovered Dockerfiles support copying/mounting a file from an entirely different image, sourced at build time. I now want to build a cursed frankenimage where every file in the final image has been taken from the `latest` revision of a different image and see how long it takes to break.

I love how neatly sorted this selection of variously sized googly eyes is, I thought as I opened it upside down.

ALT

We appear to have reached the point in an EMF cycle where everytime I sit down to knock some items off my todo list I come away with more on it than I started with.

Jump scared by a giant train station ad for a device I worked on years ago and thought had been quietly shelved since.

Big day. EMF admin in the morning. Climbed in the afternoon and topped another V2 which is still an achievement for me. Completed a run of Sektori in the evening after almost 40 hours of trying. I’m now going to celebrate these achievements with Chinese takeaway.

I’ve started season 3 of The Handmaid’s Tale, a show I still find utterly gripping and borderline traumatic at the same time. The thing I find more traumatic is a single sentence that’s stuck with me from an interview with Margaret Attwood.

“We never put anything in the show that hasn’t happened somewhere in the world already.”