One American company shouldn't be able to unilaterally prevent the operation of key public services including hospitals, universities, schools, government departments, courts, police, ambulance, and other emergency services, as well as large swathes of private sector industry. Across the entire planet.

Apparently this very radical belief marks one out as an impractical ideologically driven free software hippie weirdo.

JSAUX's Black Friday sale has just begun, and has some great discounts on #SteamDeck and #SteamMachine accessories:

https://steamdeckhq.com/jsauxs-black-friday-sale-brings-discounts/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

omg Thunderbird reminders, calm downnn

For a while, I was under the impression that all spiciness, or burning sensation in food flavoring, would come from capsaicin, the compound that causes it in chili peppers. Then I realized that Sichuan peppers are a quite different kind of heat. Wasabi (horseradish) is different yet again.

How many hot-flavored compounds are there? At least five!

Kalsec: "The Elements of Heat"

kalsec.com/insights/crafting-t…

For a while, I was under the impression that all spiciness, or burning sensation in food flavoring, would come from capsaicin, the compound that causes it in chili peppers. Then I realized that Sichuan peppers are a quite different kind of heat. Wasabi (horseradish) is different yet again.

How many hot-flavored compounds are there? At least five!

Kalsec: "The Elements of Heat"

kalsec.com/insights/crafting-t…

Fastmail.com is what I moved to.

A goal against Everton we'll never forget 🤩

@epalimski czyli autobattler bardziej?

The central #US state also elected a #Democrat for the US #Senate for the first ​time in nearly a century, choosing pastor Adam Hamilton over incumbent Republican Roger Marshall in a backlash against #Trump's #immigration crackdown. It also flipped the state's attorney general, electing Democrat Chris Mann over incumbent Kris Kobach.

#Kansas #BlueWave

Japanese workers return to fax machines during ongoing Microsoft 365 outage

Japanese workers are breaking out fax machines to deal with Microsoft's 365 outage.
#hardware
https://www.tomshardware.com/software/japanese-workers-return-to-fax-machines-during-ongoing-microsoft-365-outage-were-going-full-analog-say-workers-forced-to-ditch-pdfs

TIL: Alan Silvestri began learning composition by buying a book in 1972, when he was 22. He scored Back to the Future at 35.

Today's #Muppets GIF of the Day is...

@serge Perhaps a better analogy would be “I'm a Catholic but I have no particular affinity for Rome.”

New blog post: Moviebuff (thanks to @retiolus for creating it!) and you can follow me on Moviebuff at @prcutler@moviebuff.silversaucer.com - https://www.paulcutler.org/blog/2026/11/13/moviebuff/

Sources: SpaceX laid off ~60 Grok Imagine staffers in the past week, leaving a handful to keep the product alive, as it prioritizes AI coding tools and Grok Bot (The Information)

https://www.theinformation.com/articles/elon-musks-ai-group-guts-grok-video-generation-team
http://www.techmeme.com/261113/p14#a261113p14

@forteller Ikke bare deg. Sist jeg måtte bruke den chatbotten, foreslo den en løsning som hørtes fornuftig ut, men som gjorde at jeg hadde to problemer istedenfor ett.

@llorenzin Wow, only a few pages into it, that looks like they have PROBLEMS.

Table next to me at this coffee shop is just two people having a LinkedIn exchange as a discussion

Just back and forth jargon about AI and deliverables and value and dashboards and how you need to get on AI now or you'll be left behind

Imma turn into the Joker