Do not let perfect be the enemy of good.

Sad to see homelessness is still an issue in the Mushroom Kingdom when the local monarchy is clearly living such a lavish lifestyle.

just checking in on the financial revolution that was meant to sidestep banks, tech giants, and the state

#crypto #cryptocurrency

On June 10, 1925, four Protestant denominations consisting of 600,000 members merged to create the United Church of Canada.
Over the course of its existence, the United Church of Canada has often been ahead of the times.
This is the story of the church.

🧵 1/12

New, by me: Compliance startup Vanta said it's fixing a bug that exposed some customer data to other Vanta customers.

https://techcrunch.com/2025/06/02/vanta-bug-exposed-customers-data-to-other-customers/

The internet was a mistake.

Our modems used to scream to warn us.

#lego #homer #bushes

Edit: we is fedi-trending, folks! 🎉

this is what happens when you typo “docker attach” as “docker attack”

Great season of CBC's Understood podcast with @pluralistic. about the history of enshittification, who's responsible for it (and why), and (hopefully in the upcoming final episode), what can be done to deshittify the internet.

4 episodes, all under an hour. No reason not to listen!

Episode 1: Don't Be Evil

Episode webpage: https://www.cbc.ca/radio/podcastnews

Media file: https://mgln.ai/e/12/cbc.mc.tritondigital.com/CBC_NAKEDEMPEROR_P/media/nakedemperor/nakedemperor-1lVbUeXe-20250502.mp3?ttag=season:5,episode:1

#enshittification

Parrot ftw!

EDIT : BACK ONLINE Wed May 21 10:56:56 AM EDT 2025

ONTARIO AND QUEBEC WIDE BELL FIBE OUTAAAAAGE :blobfoxdead:

https://old.reddit.com/r/bell/comments/1krxs68/outage/

#bell #ontario #BellCanada #fibe #networking #network #quebec #qc #canada

Email is the cockroach of the internet - it outlives every wave trying to kill it. Forget Slack, forget Discord, forget chat apps. Email is universal, decentralized, and asynchronous. It's not sexy, but it's the ultimate survivor.

Being a child in the US in the 1980s, you were terrified of two major things: (1) drug dealers forcing you to accept a bunch of free drugs for some reason, and (2) drowning in quicksand

To my Canadian friends who have an important election next week, I’ll give you some advice my dad once gave me, which has stuck with me all these years and seems very relevant to this situation:

“Jerry” he said
“Don’t fuck it up”

My thoughts and prayers go out to #voyager1, which after journeying for half a century to reach interstellar space is still expected to answer fucking work emails

Internet search in…

1990: ask people you know for their FTP server address

1995: scroll through twenty pages of Altavista results

2000: ten blue links

2010: ten blue links below ten ads

2020: one useful link to Wikipedia below the fold, all ads above

2024: AI summary followed by ads followed by a Wikipedia link

2025: AI summary followed by AI summaries of ads followed by a Wikipedia link behind an AI summary

2026: ask people you know for their archive torrent address

Slice of Sun at Sunset

Part of the #WinterStations
Final weekend to enjoy them, until the 21st.

Woodbine Beach, #toronto
https://winterstations.com/archive/slice-of-sun/

#toronto #x100vi #photography

Here is an old gif I made. I call it "Fireballs on Four Worlds."

#retrogaming #nintendo #mario

My son is a dirty little cheater... though, who didn't do this when they were kids? #sega #retrogaming