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Techbros literally out here trying to disrupt the fraternity rape-house: Today these so-called hacker houses are driven by missions, like the advancement of humanity, and have become critical nodes for the AI industry. Residents are often startup founders or engineers ...

It's time for the Folsom Street Fair and we've got quite a lineup! First a bit of an outlier, on Friday the Aniclover folks are bringing some kind of anime maid thing, your guess is as good as mine. But this one is phone-free, which I can certainly get behind. (BTW, if, in ...

"The doome warning all men to the iudgemente wherein are contayned for the most parte all the straunge prodigies hapned in the worlde, with diuers secrete figures of reuelations tending to mannes stayed conuersion towardes God: in maner of a generall chronicle, gathered out ...

I hope you will be joining us for the Hubba Hubba Revue 20th Anniversary show this Sunday, Sep 20! Main floor seating has sold out, but some balcony seats remain. Broke Ass Stuart has a nice retrospective: How did this all get started? Kingfish: "I got a call from DNA ...

Records of Enemy Surveillance: The red squares are Flock cameras. They are networked devices with cellular radios and solar panels which read license plates via machine learning algorithms. Police have access to the full network of cameras, and have used it to stalk women, ...

Pete Reynolds: The miraculous Shit-Raining Machine, from which there will be NO HOPE OF RELIEF, promises to unlock PREVIOUSLY UNIMAGINABLE AND CURRENTLY VAGUE BENEFITS FOR HUMANKIND, such as: Business things. Other stuff. WE MUST CREATE IT. Could the Shit Machine END ...

Hey! Are you a fan of DNA Lounge? Would you like to help us stay alive? There is a thing you can do that will make it easier for us to book better shows, receive grants, and avoid harmful interference from our local bureaucrats. And even better, it only takes a minute of ...

UN General Assembly votes against the Mercator Projection: The UN General Assembly has voted to replace the traditional world map with one that more accurately reflects the size of Africa. The "Correct the Map" resolution, sponsored by Togo and backed by African Union ...

Waymo has been slapped with more than 8,300 parking tickets since January 2025, with fines of nearly $1 million for various violations. Waymo spokesperson Chris Bonelli told Gazetteer in an email that the company pays parking tickets "like any other driver". [...] The ...

XScreenSaver 6.16 is out now for MacOS, Android and Unix. Four new hacks this time, two by me: floppy, graphstat, amigajuggler and polarnight. There is no iOS version because, though it compiles and runs just fine, Apple recently began rejecting App Store uploads that do ...

Boy, I sure wish Rockbox didn't just... completely fuckin' suck. When it does this, the only thing you can do is reboot, and that means "hope you didn't want to listen to any music for the next 15 minutes."

Periodically, the "d" key on my keyboard stops working. Always and only "d". Power cycling the keyboar█ █oesn't fix it. Plug the keyboar█ into a █ifferent computer: works fine over there. Rebooting the Mac fixes it. An█ I have now █iscovere█: the mere act of launching ...

For historical reasons, it is impossible for a Republican to get elected in this city, so all the Republicans register as Democrats and call themselves "moderates". What they actually are is "neoliberals", or, if you like, methane-breathing space zombie free-marketeers. The ...

There's someone on eBay trying to sell unused tickets to our 2013 Prince shows for $700 each. (I don't begrudge them the effort, but I'm still not linking to it -- and I realize that "asking for" is not the same as "receiving".) But what they don't know is, I have around ...

You ever notice that Dale Gribble sounds like Jello Biafra? I can't un-hear it now.

If Only There Had Been a Sign That the Face-Melting Nazi from Indiana Jones Wouldn't Make a Good Senator: Boy, do I feel silly. Until now, I've been a passionate supporter of SS-Sturmbannführer Arnold Toht, the Nazi who got his face melted off by the sight of God, in his ...

SOMA's cop supervisor takes a break from jailing drug addicts to ask a billionaire's nazi chatbot whether he can have a little genocide, as a treat: Grok, what's the difference between right and wrong? Last Sunday, San Francisco District 6 Supervisor Matt Dorsey relaxed ...

When they weren't rolling through fireworks they were trapping people near the Golden Gate Bridge. Waymos were a key reason for the traffic snarl in the Presidio after Saturday night's foggy fireworks display on the Golden Gate Bridge. Videos and social media posts from ...

As our "Cyberdelia" series has seen a bit of success at branching out from being only the "Hackers" party, we've decided to try and screen roughly one cult movie a month! I hope you will join us. Our bill through the rest of the year: Conan the Barbarian (this Sunday!), Evil

Better title: "cheaters outraged that they got caught." The 40th Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS) -- which is slated to take place in Sydney, Australia, in December 2026 -- bans peer reviewers from uploading papers they referee to AI ...

We replaced our network rack with a slightly larger one. Exciting news, I know, but I'm posting these photos because I know that there is a certain segment of my readership who will be upset by them, perhaps even scarred. Is this what peak performance looks like? Probably.

ICE Tracks Down Woman to Force Her to Delete Instagram Post. Two ICE agents harassed a poll worker on Election Day, demanding she remove social media posts they claimed threatened federal agents. Paigelynne Gonyea, a poll worker in Syracuse, New York, said she received a ...

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