48 years ago today
Devo performs at Max's Kansas City in New York on May 25, 1977.

Photo by Ebet Roberts

#punk #punks #punkrock #postpunk #newwave #devo #history #punkrockhistory

44 years ago
The Beastie Boys (previously: The Young Aborigines) form with Michael Diamond (later Mike D), John Berry, Kate Schellenbach, and Adam Yauch (later MCA) as a hardcore punk band, May 1981

#punk #punkrock #beastieboys #hardcorepunk #hardcore #history #punkrockhistory

It’s #STFUfriday!

When cops ask you questions, ask for a lawyer and then STFU:

- I am not discussing how I’m doing or where I’m going.

- Am I free to leave?

- I am not answering any questions.

- If they ask to search anything: "I do not consent to a search."

- I want to talk to a lawyer.

YOU ARE NOT GOING TO TALK YOUR WAY OUT OF IT. Clinton was a smart guy. Law degree. But under questioning, he started saying dumb shit like this.

He couldn't do it. You won't, either.

STFU. Lawyer. 🧵

ProTip to tech workers: UNIONIZE.

@cassidy This sounds a lot like how I experienced digg or slashdot in the olden days and reddit to some extent today. The private space part is wherever the other contributors find things to share.

@jacob The more open-core the vendor the more this seems to ring true. :/

The idea that LLMs contain "all human knowledge" and therefore untapped wisdom to be drawn on is kind of understandable, but very wrong.

It's like saying the contents of grocery store processed through a blender is a meal at Michelin 3-star restaurant because it's got all the same ingredients.

No, it's a gray paste, but if you've never eaten fancy before you might be tricked into believing it's fancy by people selling gray paste.

<TimStarling> temporary solutions have a terrible habit of becoming permanent, around here

via: https://bash.toolforge.org/quip/AU7VTzhg6snAnmqnK_pc

Your outie triages Beta Cluster bug reports.

Huh. Something I looked into and realized today: Siri and Alexa carry out commands and requests. They use a female voice by default. ChatGPT, Claude, AND Gemini give authoritative answers to questions. They use a male voice by default.

Yeeeeeaaaah... 🙃

#ursulakleguin #metacrisis #capitalism #metamorphosis #fightoligarchy #quote

Handy bilingual mnemonic for tool use. 🪛🔩

#English #Spanish #screw #unscrew #tools #mnemonic

If Debian stopped producing security update packages the Internet would melt in weeks to months. https://infosec.exchange/@darfplatypus/114529835369020790

@VisualStuart My dad was working near Enterprise Oregon, ~300 miles south east. He has photos of snow like ash fall covering everything in the area. I had a baby food jar full of ashes scraped off the hood of his pickup truck for years.

I always thought these were the best photos of the St Helens eruption that occurred 45 years ago today. Can you imagine being there and seeing that!!!

(Photos by John Christiansen from Mt. Adams when Mt. St. Helens erupted on May 18, 1980.)

#Volcano #Geology #StHelens #Eruption #Mountain #Photography

Pundits, commentators, electeds, Democratic Party poobahs, and every last citizen should
be doing everything possible to impede, oppose, and focus attention on Republican Fascism, at state and federal levels. All should be figuring out how we are going to make sure we have non-sham elections in 2026 and 2028. 5/

@luis_in_brief External links are ugly. Other than that probably no reason.

Trans rights are human rights today and everyday. Tolerance of intolerance threatens all of human society.

I did end up making that content proxy during the Hackathon. It didn’t end up in the showcase because the person in front of me ran long and we ran out of time. #wmhack

https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tool:Gitlab-content