Mastodawn

taken.

A web page that tells you what your browser gave away the moment you arrived. No login, no form, no permission. Most pages do this. None of them tell you.

Since You Arrived

jarkko Apr 20

Tony “Abolish ICE” Arcieri🌹🦀Apr 20

The Onion completes its acquisition of InfoWars, with creative director Tim Heidecker!!!

Tim has already been practically making a parody of InfoWars-like podcasts as part of his show On Cinema at the Cinema (search for “Xposed” or “Zero Hour”)

That’s gonna be awesome.

https://variety.com/2026/digital/news/the-onion-deal-taking-over-alex-jones-infowars-1236726130/

#theonion #infowars

The Onion Says It Has Deal to Take Over Alex Jones' Infowars

Satire site the Onion says that it has landed a deal to let it take over Infowars, the right-wing conspiracy-fueled site run by Alex Jones.

Variety

jarkko Mar 20

There's a special place in hell for people sharing links with the Google share prefix.

jarkko Mar 20

Not immune to funny Chuck Norris memes, but let's not forget he was still yet another old MAGA fart.

jarkko Mar 14

Classic Web Mar 3

The Batman Forever website, launched in May 1995 by @zeldman and friends, was cinematically visual. And this was a period *before* HTML tables had arrived! See my writeup for the full story: https://cybercultural.com/p/1995-web-design/

jarkko Feb 24

Tim Bray 🇨🇦Feb 24

IBM crashes because we’re gonna YOLO a replacement for banking and credit-card back-ends, replacing billions of lines of COBOL with vibe code. Uh…

https://www.techbuzz.ai/articles/ibm-crashes-11-as-anthropic-threatens-cobol-empire

IBM Crashes 11% as Anthropic Threatens COBOL Empire

Anthropic's AI disrupts IBM's mainframe business, sending shares down 11% on threat

jarkko Feb 20

Alfie Kohn Feb 20

Kudos to the NJ branch of CACKLE (Contrived Acronym Coiners Keeping Legislation Entertaining)

jarkko Feb 17

Am I the only one for whom their Garmin does this? After a zone 1-2 ride, it adjusts my FTP down by more than 100W, to lower than the average power of said recovery ride. And this happens regularly.

jarkko Feb 5

Randahl Fink Feb 5

Thank you to Steve Bannon for giving away the game:

Step 1: Show the people that ICE can kill anybody.

Step 2: Have ICE show up at polling stations in areas where people vote against Trump, so those neighborhoods do not go vote.

jarkko Feb 5

Simon Willison Feb 5

The CIA just stopped publishing their World Factbook and took every page, including the archived copies of previous versions!

This sucks. It was public domain, so I recovered the 2020 edition (the last one published as a zip file) and shared it to GitHub https://simonwillison.net/2026/Feb/5/the-world-factbook/

Spotlighting The World Factbook as We Bid a Fond Farewell

Somewhat devastating news today from CIA: One of CIA’s oldest and most recognizable intelligence publications, The World Factbook, has sunset. There's not even a hint as to why they decided …

Simon Willison’s Weblog