Mastodawn

logging off from social media for a while; see you all in about six weeks :) be kind to yourselves, and to each other.

My gut feeling is if he'd been the Democratic nominee in 1988 the things that are terrible now would have turned out okay

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/the-rev-jesse-jackson-leader-of-civil-rights-movement-for-decades-dies-at-84

The Rev. Jesse Jackson, leader of Civil Rights Movement for decades, dies at 84

Jackson, a protege of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and two-time presidential candidate who led the Civil Rights Movement after the revered leader's assassination, died Tuesday.

PBS News

Scott Francis Feb 17

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Dan Sugalski Feb 17

@cwebber Don't worry, we're generally skipping the whole "AI agent soliciting funds" era and moving straight into the "AI agents run crypto pump'n'dump schemes and automatically exploit *other* AI agents bugs to buy pumped crypto" era. Fraud as a Service has arrived and in its own twisted way is glorious.

Scott Francis Feb 17

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Conchoid Feb 17

Fractal pentagon "tiling" (?)

#TilingTuesday

Scott Francis Feb 17

May Likes Toronto Feb 17

There was a thread a while back about blogs from women in tech. My list of default subscriptions are very white and male. I'd like to fix this.

Can someone find me the link?

(Also I should blog/actually publish more.)

Edit: this is it! https://phire.place/@phire/115611626460291414

jenny (phire) (@[email protected])

I read a lot of newsletters and whatever about the tech industry and finance and labour and it consistently annoys me that the majority of people writing about this loudly are dudes. recommend me your favourite tech/finance/work blogs and newsletters written by not dudes please!! assume I know none of the obvious ones, I’d rather get redundant recs than miss a good one

phire.place

Picard management tip: If you're not sure what to say, take a deep breath and a dramatic pause. Maybe somebody else will talk first.

Scott Francis Feb 17

BrianKrebs Feb 16

Security nerds have launched a Gofundme to buy back securityfocus.com, a domain that hosted the Bugtraq site and more than 120,000 links from the National Vulnerability Database that are now dead. Whoops.

"Symantec killed Bugtraq in 2020 and let the domain lapse. Now it's squatted for $175k," writes Jonathan Brossard. "The NVD has 120,000+ broken links pointing there. The security community's memory is being held hostage."

https://www.gofundme.com/f/restore-securityfocus-bugtraq?attribution_id=sl:81e68f4d-14c5-46b5-9543-0d66980203e8&lang=en_AU&ts=1771062583&utm_campaign=man_ss_icons&utm_medium=customer&utm_source=copy_link

Not sure if this matters, but DomainTools says the domain was transferred to Accenture.com, Accenture Global Services Limited in Ireland.

I refute your parenthetical aside with three letters: NFT.

The correspondence between "willing to back up an assertion with cash" and "that assertion was good" is flimsy at best, because dumb people have cash too.

Scott Francis Feb 17

Patrick C Miller

Feb 17

Space Station returns to a full crew complement after a month https://arstechnica.com/space/2026/02/space-station-returns-to-a-full-crew-complement-after-a-month/

Space Station returns to a full crew complement after a month

It's only possible because of the incredibly talented workforce we have."

Ars Technica

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