Larry Clapp

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Go (#golang) hacker, husband, reader. Author of #hucksh(ell), a new Unix-ish terminal & shell.
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Blue Skyhttps://bsky.app/profile/theclapp.bsky.social

If you don’t ever want to hear the term “concentration camp” on American television describing U.S. policy, you have to give Jake Tapper a lot of credit.

https://www.patreon.com/posts/jake-tapper-want-153501742

Mass surveillance and censorship are escalating in many countries right now. There is a global attack on secure encrypted communication. Often, authorities, politicians, and tech companies work together to push for new laws. One example: when Ashton Kutcher (yes, the actor), through his tech company Thorn, tried to introduce total surveillance of all EU citizens through undemocratic and corrupt methods.

RE: https://mastodon.social/@404mediaco/116241338503387167

To the endless list of “sovereign citizens" who have believed a load of old tosh rather than lawyers, we much add the smaller – for now – pile of idiots who have believed that ChatGPT can give accurate legal advice.

Low Quality Fact: One day we will discover that everything @lowqualityfacts has ever posted is, in fact, 100% true.
@hotdogsladies A nice big Baby Boom poster for you about the dread year of 1946 and the march of time in general, as per @RecDiffs discussion. Some more detail at https://kieranhealy.org/blog/archives/2023/12/20/the-baby-boom-again/

fauna of jupiter

#SilentSunday

15 Clever Street Art Pieces That Use the City as Part of the Art

Plot twist: The best street art collaborators are already built into the city. These artists turned giant sharks stranded on land, traffic signs, staircases, and entire buildings into their own surreal street art. 🌿 “Planté là” — By Levalet in Paris, France 🇫🇷 Levalet makes this Paris wall feel wonderfully unstable. The figure seems to tumble straight into a painted plant-shadow, while the real foliage above finishes the joke and turns the whole corner into one seamless […]

https://streetartutopia.com/2026/03/17/clever-street-art-pieces-that-use-the-city-as-part-of-the-art/

15 Clever Street Art Pieces That Use the City as Part of the Art - STREET ART UTOPIA

Plot twist: The best street art collaborators are already built into the city. These artists turned giant sharks stranded on land, traffic signs, staircases, and entire buildings into their own surreal street art. 🌿 “Planté là” — By Levalet in Paris, France 🇫🇷 Levalet makes this Paris wall feel wonderfully unstable. The figure seems to […]

STREET ART UTOPIA
As a general media literacy tip: If the claim is that someone used "AI" or "ChatGPT" to do something, the real story is probably something else.
FT hits the nail square on the noggin.
@lclapp Also you're writing code in a very high level language that gets interpreted on a heterogenous range of platforms some of which are buggy and corrupt everything (human headmeat being what it is).