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@Teryl_Pacieco
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The computer whiz married his router and modem, pronouncing them husbandwidth and WiFi.

Wren, midway through her five hour car journey to visit our friend.

She couldn't have been better behaved. She looked out the window or settled down to sleep. We had one break for food, drink, and a little walk around on her harness. She was great for that, too.

She's some kind of super cat.

#CatsOfMastodon

TDOV reminder:

Trans men and nonbinary people exist.

it's insulting to the intelligence of frogs really
the "boiling frog" metaphor sucks, people have tested it and the frog tries to get out of the hot water way before it's boiling. We already had "death by a thousand cuts" and "alarm fatigue" those actually communicate what you mean
Today you learned about Bichelangelo. You're welcome.

I remember cynically joking last year that all the "advanced" AIs like Claude were just the same kind of black-box LLMs but with a bunch of regexes glued onto them

now that the source has leaked: HAHAHA

@freya they fucked up an NPM package and leaked all the source (well, the code, the models aren't there)

https://www.theregister.com/2026/03/31/anthropic_claude_code_source_code/

Anthropic goes nude, exposes Claude Code source by accident

: Oopsy-doodle: Did someone forget to check their build pipeline?

The Register

I say this as a tech person, as someone who has spent a lot of time thinking about dating apps, and as someone who has used OkCupid numerous times over the last two decades:

Don't use OkCupid.

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/03/okcupid-match-pay-no-fine-for-sharing-user-photos-with-facial-recognition-firm/

OkCupid gave 3 million dating-app photos to facial recognition firm, FTC says

OkCupid and Match settle with Trump FTC, don't have to pay any financial penalty.

Ars Technica

PSA:

1. If you are not silly, it is vital you become silly

2. If you are silly, you must stay silly

2. If you used to be silly but have stopped, you must make all efforts to return to silliness