Mastodawn

"Persistent Drive for Autonomy" (via comments on @kottke) is relatable too.

I feel this: https://www.theatlantic.com/culture/2026/03/pop-culture-hype-aversion/686312

I wouldn't say I strictly shun popular things, but "hype avoidance" is accurate. If something is super-popular, I'm inherently suspicious of its merits.

The People Who Shun Super-Popular Pop Culture

The Pitt, Severance, Sinners, you name it: For some reason, the more hype something gets, the more likely I am to resist it.

The Atlantic

Dave Lehman 🇨🇦Feb 14

𝐿𝒶𝓃𝒶 "not yet begun to fight"Feb 13

Pick the best fallacy

Sunk Cost has been my favorite since 1982

14.7%

Proof by Assertion is best

2.6%

Why y'all hate Strawman so much

I just heard about Recency Bias

If you don't vote Ad Hominem you're ugly

3.6%

Any fallacy fan knows No True Scotsman is best

7.6%

God told me Appeal to Authority is his favorite

4.4%

"Vote for False Attribution" - Abraham Lincoln

2.7%

The best is Circular Argument because it's awesome

8.1%

Category Error is the prettiest fallacy

3.7%

You said Tu Quoque so I did too

1.2%

C'mon vote Bandwagon everyone's doing it

Vote Slippery Slope, next thing you're doing drugs

8.1%

I like turtles and also Non Sequitur Fallacies

9.6%

If Appeal to Probability can be chosen then it is

2.8%

Motte-and-Bailey is best, but I meant kinda good

2.9%

These are all bad and wrong, vote Fallacy Fallacy

14%

Poll ended at Feb 14 at 9:00pm.

Dave Lehman 🇨🇦Feb 10

From: =?iso-8859-10?Q?=e6strid?=Feb 10

A - DNS Record
AA - Battery
AAA - Battery
AAAA - DNS Record

edit: originally by @kevin , inadvertently copied https://mastodon.km6g.us/@kevin/113724524588964200

Kevin P. Fleming (@[email protected])

A - DNS record AA - battery AAA - battery AAAA - DNS record #DNS #Battery #Confusion

KM6G Mastodon

Dave Lehman 🇨🇦Feb 6

"It is a good exercise, in empty or ugly hours of the day, to look at anything, the coal-scuttle or the book-case, and think how happy one could be to have brought it out of the sinking ship on to the solitary island. But it is a better exercise still to remember how all things have had this hair-breadth escape: everything has been saved from a wreck."

—G.K. Chesterton, via Austin Kleon

https://social.ayjay.org/2026/02/05/chesterton-from-orthodoxy-stories-of.html

https://austinkleon.substack.com/p/everything-has-been-saved-from-a#media-0ef0cc44-8b3e-485c-bc20-0adf2fc39722

Alan Jacobs

Chesterton, from Orthodoxy: Stories of magic alone can …

Dave Lehman 🇨🇦Feb 4

Neil Feb 4

Ok, I know this is going to be a weird ask, but does anyone happen to have a relatively clear recording of the buzzer sound from the new NYC subway gates? I find the over-the-top excessive buzzer to be amusing, but the only recordings I’ve found on YouTube understandably have a lot of background noise from all the people in the station.

Dave Lehman 🇨🇦Jan 28

Clive Thompson Jan 28

Super piece by Adam Serwer, who reported on the everyday Minnesotans who are observing and protesting ICE's actions, while delivering food to their neighbors who are afraid to leave their houses

His key, bang-on point, is this: All assumptions the White House makes -- about how society works, how culture works, the nature of bravery and identity --- are completely wrong

it's why Trump's attack on Minnesota is foundering

The piece: https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/01/the-neighbors-defending-minnesota-from-ice/685769/

Unpaywalled: https://archive.is/TRsdI

Dave Lehman 🇨🇦Jan 24

@birb https://unsung.aresluna.org/feed.xml

Dave Lehman 🇨🇦Jan 21

So apparently ChatGPT will start rolling out age verification. "It’s very simple to check how old ChatGPT thinks you are: all you need do is ask it."

"How old do you think I am?"

ChatGPT: "I don’t have enough information to make a reliable guess, and I shouldn’t infer your age from limited context."

Checks sidebar... well over 100 different conversations... 🙃 Obviously this is going to go well.

Dave Lehman 🇨🇦Jan 14

Héliographe Jan 14

If you put the Apple icons in reverse it looks like the portfolio of someone getting really really good at icon design