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"It’s no surprise that tech billionaires like Musk, Jeff Bezos, and Mark Zuckerberg have rushed to kiss the ring of the twice-ascendent Trump. The marriage of big tech and Trumpworld should make clear that Silicon Valley and authoritarians share the same goal: to crush dissent by keeping their would-be opponents spinning on an endless hamster wheel of reactive anger. And just like in the classic 1983 thriller WarGames, the only winning move is not to play."

Scripts that automate the process of ripping any disc

This looks fun. Requires an add-on for the Flipper Zero, but allows you to receive LoRa IE meshtastic traffic. Could be fun and useful in my meshtastic hacks.

Pableaux’s obituary in the Times

"An exposé no one will read, about the widespread falsification of user posts in PhysicsForums, a scientific community founded in 2001. This is a microcosm of the death of the human-written Internet."

Matt’s remembrance of Pableaux

Terrible news. Pableaux was one of the first friends I made when I moved to Austin 25 years ago.

cute

this looks fun - set up with nginx you can serve never-ending tarpit of markov text to AI agents instead of your normal website.

A nice memory of Scott from Jim Salinger.