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Oh, it’s not just in RSS!! Page is still up!

The same placeholder “Do not publish” page live on WIRED’s website.


Love it when this kind of thing shows up in my RSS reader so I can use it as an example in my content management systems class.

An obvious placeholder article from the WIRED CMS marked “Do not publish” but that has obviously been published because it’s gone to RSS.


There are so many layers of unearned, inaccurate, and problematic chatbot anthropomorphism here that I honestly don’t know where to start.

A New York Times headline and description reading “What Do A.I. Chatbots Talk About Among Themselves? We Sent One to Find Out. We interviewed our bot about what it learned on Moltbook, the A.l.-only social network.”


My brain is fuzzy enough this morning that I read this as a Bible verse: The book of Linux, chapter 6, verse 19. Now wondering what that would read and whether I’d add it to my personal canon (which already includes Doctorow’s pro-open-source “Walkaway”).

Screenshot of a headline from The Verge reading “Linux 6.19 arrives with a teaser for Linux 7.0”


I appreciate that The Verge is reporting on the government tear gassing kids, I appreciate the transparency of The Verge’s reporters as they do so, and I appreciate the nerdy details of this specific disclosure.

A screenshot of an article from The Verge, with “[Disclosure: Prior to his election, the author was Councilor Green’s DM in a Dungeons & Dragons campaign.]” prominently in the middle of the screencap.


Can’t even start a lazy Saturday archive binge of a decades-old webcomic without coming back to Jacques Ellul, concerns about quantification and metrics, etc.

A screencap from Shortpacked. Faz is brandishing a graph and says to Galasso: “Contrary to what he says, I have this graph that clearly shows a line going up.” In the next panel, Ethan counters: “You don’t even know what that graph represents!” Galasso replies that it “represents upness.”


Look, I genuinely appreciate my university employer sending this out in their daily email, but it would be cool if they also acknowledged how much data they and their various platform partners are collecting on faculty and students. Because it’s a lot.

A screenshot from an email, reading: “Did you know? The devices, websites and apps you use every day collect, store and use your data. The more integrated technology becomes into our every day lives, the easier it is for that data to be exposed. Here are some tips to protect yourself online.”


« Chéri, t’as pas déjà assez de livres de ce type Ellul ? T’as vraiment besoin d’en acheter un autre ? »

« Ah, mais tu vois, chérie, celui-ci, c’est un livre SUR Ellul, c’est pas lui qui a écrit ! »

Une capture d’écran d’un courriel annonçant que le livre « Avec Jacques Ellul » a été envoyé par la Fnac.


Heck yes, new nerdy magnets for the office.

Two magnets, one for the “Mutara Nebula National Park” and the second for “Ghorman National Park.”


Prepping one of my Spring courses, and I’m apparently so tired that I’ve just decided to appeal directly to my students’ sense of decency when it comes to respecting course policies on generative AI.

A screenshot of my Canvas course that reads: “As with all assessments in this course, I will not accept writing that has been created by a generative Al tool. I do not believe in student surveillance, and Al detectors would be untrustworthy even if I did use them, so if you want to sneak some LLM-generated text by me, you might be able to get away with it-but please consider what that says about you as a student and a person. If I have compelling reason to believe that you have used generative Al tools in this assignment, I will reach out to you about it and penalize your work accordingly.”


LDS press releases occasionally get published early, and while it gets fixed quick, an orphaned reference will show up in my RSS reader. This one sounds interesting…

A press released scheduled for 16 Dec 2025 entitled “New Guidance on Bible Translations for Latter-day Saints.” The preview blurb reads “The latest wave of updates to the General Handbook: Serving in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints includes an adjustment to a portion about editions and translations of the Holy Bible.”


I see that adding kiddo to the extended family Signal chat has had predictable consequences.

Screenshot of a Signal poll asking “What’s better dogs or cats,” with two votes for each option.


I was left unsupervised during the family visit to the local library’s artisan fair, and so now we have this on our tree.

A red Christmas ornament featuring a twenty-sided die, with the 20 face up. A banner underneath reads “Merry Critmas” (as in a critical hit).


From now on, when I’m feeling insecure about the depths of my technical knowledge, I’m just going to think about this bit of dialogue here.

A comic book panel with a bearded character asking “And you wanna hack past Tor and go diving in the deep web for what reason exactly?”


Still trying to figure out a replacement bike after my main commuter was declared unsafe by the U.S. government. Juggling price, geometry, maintenance, practicality, and everything else.

Calvin (from Calvin and Hobbes) curled up in bed with a smile on his face, saying “It’s one of the few pleasures reserved for those who don’t drive.”


Cette carte de vœux MBudget que j’ai acheté en 2009 restera toujours l’un des meilleurs souvenirs que je garderai du temps que j’ai passé en Suisse.

C’est une photo d’une carte de vœux très moche, car elle suit le design des produits MBudget de Migros ; en plus, il y a le nom du produit ( « carte de vœux » ) marqué en allemand, français, et italien. C’est hyper stupide, mais ça fait marrer.


I really struggle with deciding whether a local event sounds fun. If only I could ask a computer to determine that for me!

A screencap of an interface on allevents.in that reads “Ask AI if this event suits you” and then lists a few different AI services you can query.


Weather.app bug or moderate chances of space lasers this afternoon?

A screenshot of the weather app on macOS, but there are red rays coming from the sky in the background of the center pane.


Picking up a sick(ish?) kiddo from school has me thinking of this decades-old panel from Ultimate Spider-Man.

Liz Allen: “I heard he threw up on your shoes.” Mary Jane Watson: “He didn’t throw up on my shoes.” Liz: “What I heard.” MJ: “Well, he didn’t.” Liz: “The cheerleaders are calling you ‘spew shoes.’”


Sometimes blocking external images in my email clients is worth it just because the alt text makes me chuckle. “Drone over corn” could be a good band name.

screenshot of an excerpt from a university email; one blocked image is replaced with the alt text “drone over corn”


J’avoue que je ne comprendrai jamais comment fonctionnent les anglicismes dans la BD. Attorney général? Si on veut de l’anglais, il faudrait attorney general, sans accents. Sinon, pourquoi pas ministre de la justice, pour faire du français à 100%.

Une case du premier tome de Largo Winch, où paraît la phrase « attorney général » qui n’est ni du français ni de l’anglais.


Okay, so there are already concerns that quantified behavioral reward/punishment systems reinforce existing inequalities. Did no one at kiddo’s school think about the implications of letting parents literally buy good behavior points by joining the PTA?

Picture of a flyer reading “Bonus! Additional 10 eBucks for grade level with the most NEW memberships!”


TFW a webcomic punchline is more or less your actual theology.

A panel from the Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal webcomic featuring a disk-like god who, surrounded by angels, is explaining “Actually Frank, the real heaven was the friends you made along the way.”


I hate read this article because I was sure RSS wouldn’t be mentioned. It did get a reference at the very end, but that almost feels worse. RSS is hands down the best way of customizing news consumption, and it kills me that we don’t talk about it more.

A screenshot from my RSS reader depicting a New York Times article entitled “How to Set Up a Personalized News Feed On Your Phone.”


This, but for communication platforms the local school district uses.

The “how standards proliferate” xkcd cartoon. Panel 1: “Situation: There are 14 competing standards.” Panel 2: One stick figure says “14?! Ridiculous! We need to develop one universal standard that covers everyone’s use cases.” Another says: “Yeah!” Panel 3: Soon: Situation: There are 15 competing standards."