Mastodawn

What the fuck dudes. People are rejecting anthropogenic climate change but /Leviathan wakes/ is on the table for explaining extreme weather?

GrRrrRrrrrrRrrr.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/danidiplacido/2026/01/27/monster-winter-storm-awakens-the-leviathan-on-social-media/

'The Leviathan Is Waking Up'—The Bizarre Conspiracy Theory, Explained

Social media reckons that "the Leviathan is waking up near Virginia"—but where did the bizarre conspiracy theory and meme come from?

Forbes

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Vast and Dire Beast 3d ago

Yes, it is my actual considered position that it is morally praiseworthy to break the DRM on and widely distribute anything under DRM, no I do not consider copyright violation a ‘lesser evil’ in this context.

Vast and Dire Beast 3d ago

Comics are actually a medium where the digital version made something available to me that wasn’t easily. Big PDF comic scans are so much easier to deal with for my visual impairment than paper books, I can invert the colors to read the lettering if I want to.

Of course then DRM came and made them worse than paper again. (Which is one reason I consider violating copyright law a positive social good on anything DRM’d.)

Vast and Dire Beast 3d ago

No one has yet to explain to me how “You can’t stop people from submitting codegen” is any different from “You can’t stop people from submitting code they don’t have the license to.”

You can totally add to your contributing documentation that the developer’s signoff on a commit implies they did not use codegen for it nor did anyone they received it from. There is exactly as little automated test for code that can’t legally be submitted as there is for LLM code, so the “Well, you can’t tell!” argument is bogus.

It’s not even that I want projects to adopt the policy, it’s just that the constant refrain of “You can’t /stop/ people. You can’t /not/ accept LLM-generated contributions.” seems so obviously wrong that it smells like something the speakers would like the listeners to just accept without questioning than an actual thing anyone believes.

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Vast and Dire Beast 3d ago

I love that there’s a scene where Victor von Doom proclaims “SQUIRRELS ARE EMOTIONALLY RESILIENT” as a pre-murder one-liner.

Vast and Dire Beast 3d ago

Me, reading Squirrel Girl’s intro/first meeting with Iron Man, and getting annoyed by her nut inventory.

Yes, I can grudgingly accept macadamia as a flavorless energy source for a combat ration. But nobody actually likes acorns and you shouldn’t feed squirrels peanuts.

Vast and Dire Beast 3d ago

I keep trying to watch The Amazing Digital Circus and I can’t make it past Episode 2.

I like other Gooseworx stuff but this has no musical numbers, and Caine’s voice would be fine for a bit at the start of every episode, but every bit of dialog it’s like he’s trying to sell me a car and I want the ad to stop and the show to begin.

Vast and Dire Beast 3d ago

My kitten is such a good kitten

Vast and Dire Beast 3d ago

Salience is at the stage of distrust where he enjoys being brushed and will hang around to be brushed and rub against the brush if I hold it near him, but he does not quite realize he enjoys being brushed so keeps acting surprised when it’s pleasant.

Vast and Dire Beast 3d ago

Interesting that the Overly Sarcastic explanation for why the Sonic movies are good are almost identical to my list of things I didn’t like:

Why is this set on Modern Day Earth? Does everything have to be a fish out of water comedy?

This is just some generic woobie teenager?

Why do you think we want a movie focusing on some boring human guy?

Theriotype	Fox/Squirrel Confusion (Firrox)
Stature	2.98 × 2¹²⁰ ℓₚ
Gender/Sexuality	No, thank you. (Ace, they/them)
Politics	Transnatural Socialism: No Gods, No Master Computers; Analytic Left
Unitarian	Universalist