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Crow-on-Crow Violence
I normally have my mini-murder of two or three crows who hang out by my window and tolerate me and my tithe of peanuts. But the other day there were five, and…
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Zombie Loophole
If you posit that souls, ghosts and zombies exist; then one who died with unfinished business, but whose death happened to turn their soulless corpse into a…
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The slopfondlers are even sloperating old concert posters
This piece of shit keeps showing up in my eBay searches for old DNA Lounge flyers: they are taking dates and venues on which actual concerts happened in…
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DNA Lounge: Wherein Bottom of the Hill survives
A so-rare bit of good news! Bottom of the Hill, instead of closing at the end of the year, have found a buyer who say they intend to keep it going in kind!…
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Finally got my Emacs setup just how I like it.
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DNA Lounge: Wherein some guy hates this window in particular
A couple of weeks ago, some crackhead threw a bottle at one of our second floor windows. We have no idea who this assclown is. Does he have some kind of grudge…
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Monkey paw curls
Me: "The internet was a mistake." * Monkey paw curls * Me: "Well, fuck." Previously, previously, previously, previously, previously, previously.
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No War But Data Center War
Talking Points Memo: I keep coming back to this graph because it's so eye-popping, almost impossible to believe. As you see in the legend, the blue line is…
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It's a bear market
A gentleman in the restroom just sold a dick pic for $20. So many guys out here leaving money on the table just giving it away for free. Previously…
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gitsquatting
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…
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Blockbuster
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…
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Linux kernel goes full AI slop code, hides chatbot commits
Pivot to AI: I suggest the social action: shame. Shame these people. Their actions are shameful. AI bros hate being shamed and they try to make rules against…
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Voter Guide
Every year, I find the San Francisco Pissed Off Voter Guide to be the best and most useful one. I especially like that they show their work. The most important…
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Scott Wiener, AI Stooge
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…
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Disney to buy Suicide-Booth Chatbot
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…
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Dazzle watches
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:
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XScreenSaver 6.17
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…
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Billionaires won't flee
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…
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DNA Lounge: Wherein a winnar is us
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…
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"It Is Done. Hail Satan."
City Immediately Regrets New Religious Liberty Law That Allows Prayer at City Council Meeting: On Tuesday night, Ottumwa resident, satanist, and former city…
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Recent movies and TV
Disclosure Day (2026): This was a hate-watch for sure. What in the Whitley Strieber Dr. Doolittle bullshit did I just sit through. Spielberg is such a hack…
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Codesign firedrill redux
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…
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Hammer Time
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…
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DNA Lounge: Wherein it is Spooky Season
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…
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DNA Lounge: Wherein the slopbros won't stop
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…
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Explain it to me like I'm 80
Mom: What's with these AIs escaping and hacking people? That sounds scary. Me: You park your car at the top of a hill. You leave a note on the dashboard that…
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DNA Lounge: Wherein we return this blog to our core competency: plumbing disasters
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…
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Another codesign firedrill
Apple let stuff expire, so now we have to re-roll our certs, hooray. I have questions: When they say: Installer packages [...] will no longer install. Re-sign…
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It's not illegal if you buy new laws
Lyft has to pay out $272 million for the fraud they perpetrated on their employees from 2016 through 2020! But then in 2020, they spent $200 million to make…
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Today in the scraperpocalypse...
Let me just take a nice long sip of this beverage and then open up my web-hosting bill for last month...
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XScreenSaver thumbnails
Dear Lazyweb, any idea why XScreenSaver thumbnail images are no longer showing up in System Settings on macOS 27? Works fine on macOS 14.7. The .saver bundles…
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The continuing downfall of USPS
For the third or fourth year in a row, it is October and USPS has issued new Christmas stamps but there are no Halloween stamps on sale. I'm sure this is also…
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Nomenclature
I got a used Mac Mini to use as a sacrifice zone for testing things on recent OSes. Since at this point it seems like you will pry macOS 14.7 from my main…
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"AI" once again revealed to be three perverts in a trenchcoat
Humans Are Reading Copilot Prompts -- And They're Horrified: Human contractors hired to improve Microsoft's Copilot AI chatbot are constantly bombarded with…
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DNA Lounge: Wherein Folsom Street Events has fucked us, and not in the consensual way
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…
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DNA Lounge: Wherein there's a little more about the parklet
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…
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Slo-mo dubstep glitch mode
Dear Lazyweb, please help me figure out why OBS keeps doing this crazy thing where sometimes audio goes into slo-mo dubstep glitch mode. Sometimes switching…
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SF Democratic Party loves Flock:
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…
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Disruption! AI!
Techbros literally out here trying to disrupt the fraternity rape-house: Today these so-called hacker houses are driven by missions, like the advancement of…
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DNA Lounge: Wherein SFMTA wants to bulldoze DNA Lounge's parklet
We've had our parklet for 15 years, and now SFMTA says they're going to fine us $500/day if we don't demolish it in two weeks. We have spent nearly two years…
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Ducking autocomplete
Dear Lazyweb, There are folks in macOS/iOS "Contacts" whom I haven't emailed in years. How do I make them stop being the first completion? I would prefer to…
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DNA Lounge: Wherein it's the gayest weekend of the year
It's time for the Folsom Street Fair and we've got quite a lineup! First a bit of an outlier, on Friday the Aniclover folks are bringing some kind of anime…
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Batman: The Doome
"The doome warning all men to the iudgemente wherein are contayned for the most parte all the straunge prodigies hapned in the worlde, with diuers secrete…
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DNA Lounge: Wherein Hubba Hubba Revue is two decades old!
I hope you will be joining us for the Hubba Hubba Revue 20th Anniversary show this Sunday, Sep 20! Main floor seating has sold out, but some balcony seats…
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Records of Enemy Surveillance
Records of Enemy Surveillance: The red squares are Flock cameras. They are networked devices with cellular radios and solar panels which read license plates…
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We Must Create the Shit Machine
Pete Reynolds: The miraculous Shit-Raining Machine, from which there will be NO HOPE OF RELIEF, promises to unlock PREVIOUSLY UNIMAGINABLE AND CURRENTLY VAGUE…
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DNA Lounge: Wherein we need your vote
Hey! Are you a fan of DNA Lounge? Would you like to help us stay alive? There is a thing you can do that will make it easier for us to book better shows…
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Happy "Big Block of Cheese Day" to all who celebrate
UN General Assembly votes against the Mercator Projection: The UN General Assembly has voted to replace the traditional world map with one that more accurately…
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I pay my parking tickets like any other Corporate Person: a million dollars at a time.
Waymo has been slapped with more than 8,300 parking tickets since January 2025, with fines of nearly $1 million for various violations. Waymo spokesperson…
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XScreenSaver 6.16
XScreenSaver 6.16 is out now for MacOS, Android and Unix. Four new hacks this time, two by me: floppy, graphstat, amigajuggler and polarnight. There is no iOS…
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My friends call it the big D
Periodically, the "d" key on my keyboard stops working. Always and only "d". Power cycling the keyboar█ █oesn't fix it. Plug the keyboar█ into a █ifferent…
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Periodic reminder that "Moderate Democrat" is how you spell "Republican" in San Francisco.
For historical reasons, it is impossible for a Republican to get elected in this city, so all the Republicans register as Democrats and call themselves…