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Dear Lazyweb, Due to dumbasses squatting me, I'm gonna need you to go click "thumbs-up" or "stars" or whatever on this repo so that it bubbles up to the top of the list in search results. Thank you in advance for this utter fucking waste of everyone's time.

Headline ending in a question mark: no. The Supreme Court heard oral arguments on Wednesday in Salazar v. Paramount Global, a case about digital privacy. Well, it should be a case about digital privacy, but it is actually about whether a law passed in 1988 to regulate (not ...

AI-funded group backs Wiener for Congress with $3 million gift: "Scott Wiener's claim that he'll stand up to Big AI collapses the moment you look at who's bankrolling his bid for Congress," said Chan's spokesperson Krager. "After putting $500,000 behind him earlier this ...

The press keeps describing Kimberly Guilfoyle as Don Jr.'s ex-fiancée and that's so unfair. Let's remember that she's a monster in her own right, and describe pickme-bro Gavin Newsom as Kimberly Guilfoyle's ex-husband, which should be utterly disqualifying for him in any ...

Character. AI files for bankruptcy, to sell some assets to Disney for $20 million: Earlier this year, Character. AI and Google settled a lawsuit by the mother of a 14-year-old Florida boy who killed himself after the startup's chatbot allegedly encouraged him to do so. ...

I don't wear watches, let alone $10,000 watches, but this is cute: Oh hey this one looks like a fucked up QR code for only $18,000:

XScreenSaver 6.17 is out now for MacOS, iOS (eventually), Android and Unix. This is mostly a maintenance release, triggered by some onerous and stupid Apple changes. I think I worked around several longstanding Apple bugs where the "legacyScreenSaver" process would start ...

tl;dr: Yes on Prop 40: Billionaire wealth tax for Medicaid. No on Prop 41: Poison pill to kill Prop 40. No on Prop 42: Poison pill to kill Prop 40 and any future wealth taxes. Billionaires won't flee. The state won't lose money. But taxing the rich in CA could spread ...

You have once again voted DNA Lounge to be "Best Nightclub" in the 2026 Best of the Bay! Thank you all for your continued support! It means a lot, and is really helpful. We also got second place for "Best Live Music Venue" and, for the first time, second place for "Best ...

City Immediately Regrets New Religious Liberty Law That Allows Prayer at City Council Meeting: On Tuesday night, Ottumwa resident, satanist, and former city council member Matt Dalbey took the podium to read an invocation to start a routine meeting of the council. "Thank ...

Dear Lazyweb, if you have some very old Macs, I would like you to test some things. I have a handful of very old XScreenSaver DMGs on the downloads page because, for example, 5.14 was the last XScreenSaver binary release capable of running on PPC. Due to recent Apple ...

A friend told me they were planning an October rewatch of classic horror movies. I said, "So just Hammer, huh?" They said, "...what?" Ok, so, some of you never studied, and don't know about Hammer Horror. I have made you an introductory playlist. These are some of the ...

The Crow, Thu Oct 29. Why 2K, Fri Oct 30. Rocky Horror, Thu Oct 15. Project X, Sat Oct 17. Ravefurrest, Sat Oct 10. Gotham City Follies, Mon Oct 12. From Dusk `Til Dawn, Sun Oct 18. Hazbin Hell-Tel, Sat Oct 24 Lots of stupid shit going on lately, but let me try to talk ...

Normally I reserve my vitriol for the slopbros for my personal blog, but this has become extremely DNA Lounge-related of late, as I shall explain. (This counts as plumbing-related, the internet being a series of tubes, full of toxic slop.) As you may be aware, our web site ...

We had a leak in the main men's room by the urinals. It turns out that one of the urinals has some kind of internal leak, and it's a spot-welded mess, so we weren't able to get in there with any kind of sealant. It probably has to be replaced. And, in the intervening two ...

Please enjoy jwz mixtape 260.

Krysten Ritter on the hellsite:

Let me just take a nice long sip of this beverage and then open up my web-hosting bill for last month...

Jason Koebler: One of the most heated discussions occurring on X at the moment is about the ethics of a GitHub project in which a person is running Saw-like "torture" and "pain" experiments on a series of locally hosted large language models, causing a series of effective ...

Nicola Turner: A site-responsive installation made mainly from dark wool and horsehair will fill the ground-floor galleries at 16 Hanover Square, extending in a procession-like manner that continues 12 metres up the façade of the Georgian townhouse.

Humans Are Reading Copilot Prompts -- And They're Horrified: Human contractors hired to improve Microsoft's Copilot AI chatbot are constantly bombarded with lewd or sexually explicit photo editing requests and images that users have uploaded, including upskirt photos or ...

Friday evening, the Folsom Street Fair web site finally published the map of the fair. (This is not unusual for them: many years they don't publish the map or schedule until after the fair has begun.) And lo what do we see? That for the first time in over twenty-five years ...

Thanks to Charles Lewis III for his nice writeup about our parklet situation in 48 Hills! (Vote for us in Best of the Bay!) But since this wretched timeline is one that moves backwards in all the worst ways, City Hall and the SFMTA want the Lounge's parklet destroyed. ...

Smooth Dunk:

The SF Democratic Party [sic] voted on Wednesday to continue its support for Flock surveillance cameras: Two major resolutions were in front of the party's 31 members -- 13 of whom were absent -- on Wednesday. One, written by former District 4 supervisor Gordon Mar, called ...