so hrtcafe.net went down due to a coordinated terf/far-right action.

and so this is as good a time as it gets to make even more mirrors of https://git.gay/hrt/pages/ (or the github repo this is a mirror of already, if you want to touch github).

clone it, set a cronjob to do a pull every week. set up a web view like https://hrt.soap.systems if you have the means to do so and the willingness to deal with potential terf interference.

trying to shut down online resources hosted by annoyed transfems, that’s totally going to work and have the intended effect, right?

edit: people are asking if I know what actually happened, what kind of attack it was and such.

I didn’t see a lot of confirmed info about it (and didn’t really look too hard either), but judging by what I’ve read so far, I’m assuming a combination of doxxing, pestering the hosting and threatening legal harassment.

supposedly the person who hosted it took it down themselves to get the heat off of them - and I can’t blame them, that’s reasonable, no one doing this should ever feel expected to stand up to being personally targeted. that’s what we have a community for. they can back off to ensure their own safety, while we deploy a hundred more mirrors.

/erin

My #Wikipedia request for comment just closed, finally banning #AI content in articles! "The use of LLMs to generate or rewrite article content is prohibited"

Kudos to all who participated in writing the guideline (especially Kowal2701) and the whole WikiProject AI Cleanup team, this was very much a group effort!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Writing_articles_with_large_language_models/RfC

It looks like the ⍼ saga has finally ended!

The unicode character '⍼' was a mystery first noticed in 2022: https://ionathan.ch/2022/04/09/angzarr.html. It's in the Unicode standard as a mathematical symbol. But no one could find any examples of it having been used, and no one knew what it represented. It was like the only record of an extinct species, fossilized in the Unicode standard.

But now someone has found the document it originally came from! It represents the angle 'Azimuth', and the symbol probably comes from the path light takes through a sextant. https://ionathan.ch/2026/02/16/angzarr.html

(@johncarlosbaez might appreciate this symbol!)

More belated introspection from the adtech industry.

https://www.adexchanger.com/data-driven-thinking/the-privacy-zealots-were-right-ad-techs-infrastructure-was-always-a-risk/

COOKIE IS FREE https://gamehistory.org/cookies-bustle/

#CookiesBustle #JusticeForCookie

This infographic about how to pick up a snail is going viral, but it was AI-generated and numerous biologists have chimed in to say it is wrong.

(I previously boosted it, but have un-boosted. The post author has been informed, and *edit: has deleted the post!)

Source: https://g.co/about/jb9fd7
Biologists countering:
- https://functional.cafe/@kupac/116129641965242964
- https://ecoevo.social/@ubi/116129816353041890