cetan

@cetan@toot.community
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northern Illinois, United States
1. "nothing is true"
2. "mistakes were made"
3. former distributed computing cow
4. #boardgames
5. #photography
6. #eaglescout
7. aka phule
https://flickr.com/photos/phule
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@funhouseradio not sure if this is either but it's cute. :)
Thinking I’ll have to lower my rates….

Renaissance knives with musical notation. The knives come from the first half of the 16th century, from Italy. They have musical scores and lyrics engraved on both sides. On one side is a blessing, which was perhaps sung before the meal, and on the other side is a grace, which was sung after eating.

@BiancoDavinci #globalmuseum #knives #music #renaissance

Spending the holidays processing just how betrayed I feel by the software and web industry

Basically my career has been fifteen years of hope and promise—some fulfilled, some not—followed by a decade where the industry dropped all pretence and switched to just overtly looting, manipulating, and gouging.

Being a bit angry about it is probably quite reasonable

@dansinker more like unwrapped and eaten! (I'll show myself out)

@MsMerope @ai6yr @Bonus @zl2tod @chrisnelder Ditto particleboard, of course. I once had the spontaneous thought pop into my head that "particleboard is so evil, it probably was invented by a Nazi!" so I did an Internet search and people?

People?

Particleboard was invented by a literal Nazi. Max Himmelheber - Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Himmelheber

Max Himmelheber - Wikipedia

How your electric bill may be paying for big data centers’ energy use https://theconversation.com/how-your-electric-bill-may-be-paying-for-big-data-centers-energy-use-257794
lovely
#corruption
How your electric bill may be paying for big data centers’ energy use

If state regulators allow utilities to follow the standard approach of splitting the costs of new infrastructure among all consumers, the public will end up paying for data centers’ power.

The Conversation
No one loves President Trump more than FCC Chairman Brendan Carr
Carr used to insist on FCC independence. Now he uses FCC to fight Trump's battles.
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/12/no-one-loves-president-trump-more-than-fcc-chairman-brendan-carr/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social
El Nopal Bakery And Its Famous Cookies Find A Home Again At Chicago History Museum

The long-gone bakery, a hub in Pilsen and Little Village, is featured in the museum's “Aqui en Chicago” exhibit — and its signature hojarasca cookies have been recreated for Chicagoans to once again enjoy.

Block Club Chicago
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@parismarx It's going to come down to Elon vs Altman isn't it
@kevinr @parismarx I'm guessing Musk v Thiel
@BogWitch @parismarx all I want is for whoever gets it to have a massive online crashout about it
@BogWitch @parismarx ...which argues in favor of Elon, fortunately I was leaning that way anyway
@kevinr @BogWitch @parismarx I think he'd be more upset if he didn't make it to the finals.
@kevinr @parismarx It's gonna be the idiot from Pretoria vs. the antichrist-obsessed blood ghoul. Just like back at PayPal!
@kevinr @parismarx that would be too easy, only one of them is a bona fide mass-murderer.
@parismarx can we just vote that they all will be part of a human centipede und who wins here comes last?
@parismarx this was a tricky decision indeed
@davidgerard @parismarx Just wait until you're expected to somehow choose between Thiel and Musk in the finals.
@bodil @davidgerard @parismarx people will look back on this in a years time and wish they had hated Thiel more than they did.