it is not so, nor it was not so

m - 25 dying in grad school bury me in the N section

[intercal]

researching medieval file formats like .tapestry and .stainedglass

[nohoperadio]

You know that thing would eat you if you died, right? *pointing to the false image of you that others perceive*

[covid-safer-hotties]

Ignoring ongoing covid paved the way for this change and put millions more in worse danger because of it. Mask up. Keep people developing debilitating long-term illness the government wants you to die from.

[jareckiworld]

Tuula Lehtinen — Van Huysum VI (oil on canvas, 2023)

[antlered-vixen]

I am so tired of short-attention-span, trim-the-fat culture. All writing advice these days is for how to write like Chuck Palahniuk. "Cut 'think', cut 'feel', cut 'wonder' - only action, only pushing forward, show and move and move and move." What if I could emulate this style, and still don't want to? What if I want to write like Henry James, with three paragraphs of introspective musings between each dialogue line? The music advice is, "make it shortform, make it Tik-Tok compatible, make it punchy, hit the refrain as soon as possible." What if I want that 10-minute prog rock piece? What if I want that symphony? What if I want it slow and luxurious and lazy? Movies. Series. Poetry. Bodies. Everything is "trimmed trimmed trimmed trimmed, stripped bare, you have three seconds to win me over, make it airport chic." I don't want to win you over, then, I guess. I want the fat left it. I want the pleasure and the indolence and the indulgence. Fuck this art-advice that's always "your art needs Ozempic."

[attemptedartist]

it's pride month and they killed doctor who

[scorebug]

[openingadoor]

[victusinveritas]

[b0tster]

its WHAMP!!

WITCH

HAT

ATELIER

MONDAY

(and also)

PRIDE

😃🪄🏳️‍🌈

[nebulations]

[ID: A sparkly gif of a thumbnail of a 21-minute-long YouTube video showing a smiling Coco superimposed against the progress pride flag and the text "woke garbage!?" in all caps. End ID]

[probablyasocialecologist]

Landmark German ruling declares Google's AI Overviews are Google's own words and makes it liable for false answers

A German regional court has ruled that Google is directly liable for the content of its AI search overviews. According to the court, previou

A German regional court has ruled that Google is directly liable for false claims in its AI-generated search overviews. In this case, Google's AI had wrongly linked two publishers to scams and shady business practices. The court treated the AI overviews as Google's own content and rejected Google's argument that users were responsible for fact-checking the results themselves.

9 June 2026

[fuzzynecromancer]

[frogribbit]

i wish people would stop romanticizing not eating breakfast and not getting enough sleep and being dependent on coffee to function and always being in a bad mood and treating yourself poorly because that behavior is very unhealthy for you

[flameraven]

He’s right.

[stjohnstarling]

All of digital video — and by extension, all of social media — is poisoned. There’s been so much written about the Dead Internet theory lately, but that’s not what this is. It’s closer to the Clear Channel internet, where everything has been so thoroughly corporatized that nothing ends up in our feeds by accident anymore. At least, not when it comes to the truly viral content. It’s either being directly bankrolled by a company like Kalshi or downstream of some weird payola agreement a bunch of influencers made with random clippers on Discord. But unlike TV or the radio, our social media feeds continue to look like — and market themselves as if — they’re still powered by real people. And there are really on two outcomes here. One possibility is we just slowly accept that nothing we see online anymore is genuine and accept that social media is just a new worse version of TV now. The other, much more interesting possibility, is that people realize the internet is infinitely big and you can always just make a new version of it.

The Clear Channel internet

[stjohnstarling]

Regreening the Digital Wasteland

Why I’ve been thinking a lot lately about the California condor.

Nice to see other people reaching the same conclusions I did:

What does it mean to restore online habitats? If the internet is polarized between extremes of public fishbowls and private walled gardens, it seems to me the path forward is to rebuild the middle. Anyone who was online in the 2000s will have some intuitive sense of what I mean by this — what I am calling “the middle internet” is occupied by finite, bounded communities. They may vary in scale, but they have defined edges in a way that social media platforms do not. This allows them to have their own unique cultures and senses of identity, as well as to have some control over who is present and what types of conduct are allowed. Although they may have varying private and public elements, they are nevertheless not completely hidden behind closed doors (as the walled garden Discord servers are.) They may have, as their public face, an associated website, publication, archive, project, etc.

[keatxu]

abandonware should be public domain. force companies to actively support and provide products if they don't wanna lose the rights to them

[omikronsoul]

Game companies hate emulation, but none of them seem to understand that a lot of us would just buy ROMs from them directly if we could. I don't want a fifth remake of Final Fantasy IV, I want to pay five bucks for the 3MB file you already made bank with thirty years ago. Nobody who wants to play something for the purpose of retro gaming is going to consider a $40 remake as the alternative option, and we're certainly not going to let the original dissappear. They're crying about opportunity cost for a product they're not even selling.

[justletmeremember]

op i know you're probably talking about like, video games, etc, but this is also critical for research science - my lab has so much abandonware, either because the company's out of business, or the company decided to not maintain it, and it's a fucking nightmare. we have two windows 95 computers that are CRITICAL for performing experiments/data analysis because the software needed is abandonware. one of the main roles for a guy in my lab is to maintain these little dinosaurs because if they go out, we lose access to ~20 years of raw data for research. part of why is that these companies also make their own file types, and make it difficult-to-impossible to convert those file types without their specific software. by habit, i convert all research files to more generic versions (txt, pdf, tif, etc) so that i minimize risk of losing my shit, but some stuff can't be converted.

for example, we have a microscope that is perfectly functional, good microscope, but its software is abandonware because the company refused to maintain it. the company is still in business, still makes essentially the exact same software, but they made all of the old tech incompatible with new software to force people to buy the new microscope tech. it would cost a quarter million dollars to replace this microscope. this perfectly good microscope.

so like, i know a lot of people look at the original post here and go "well op just wants old video games to play" (which is valid! games companies should not be able to push shit to abandonware and then close it off) but also this is critical for like. biomedical research. if y'all had any idea how much basic infrastructure built on science relies on shit that is technically abandonware, you would probably be horrified.

[jollysunflora]

#there is so much abandonware just...out there being used and carefully maintained#because nothing quite replicates the functionality

[wordsforyoungmen]

[1995lahaine]

stop the rpf about the hockey and vampire shows. emma d'arcy and liv cooke are doing press and events together again and acting like they're been dreaming of fucking each other at least once a week for nearly a decade.

[puppygirllaika]

If elected, I will institute a tax on golf courses and lawn-watering that will be used to fund city parks. you don't need your own private grass patch. we have grass patch at home the park.

[puppygirllaika]

Friends, Seattleites, and Countrymen, is it fascism to tax people for growing invasive water-intensive grasses to impress their neighbors in order to fund public facilities that provide open grassy spaces for everyone to enjoy instead?

[puppygirllaika]

Fascism is when the government institutes taxes to fund public services.