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DNA Lounge: Wherein someone tries to sell our Prince scraps
There's someone on eBay trying to sell unused tickets to our 2013 Prince shows for $700 each. (I don't begrudge them the effort, but I'm still not linking to…
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Panopticars
Parked Waymos actively record 360-degree video and audio even without passengers aboard. Waymo discloses no fixed data retention schedule, storing footage for…
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Cop surveillance drones are going great
Handshake, not a drug deal: SFPD drone case falls apart: DA officials did not say whether they agreed with Helvestine's argument that the footage showed only a…
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Facebook's Pervert Glasses functioning as designed
Meta glasses are a workplace menace: The two customers were, in fact, recording Hinkle, and the entire exchange was turned into content for social media…
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Netscape Navigator 3.0 was released 30 years ago today
As I mentioned in my post on the 2.0 anniversary, what you knew of as "3.0" had internally been slated to be the "2.1" bugfix release, to be soon followed by a…
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Relatable Patent Art
US12711711-B1: The illustrations in this patent are great, they read like a silent children's book about a smirking creeper.
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Amazon's Book Woodchipper Facility has a cartoonishly evil logo because of course it does
We placed a tracking device in a shipment of rare books to see which AI company was buying it, and found an Amazon facility where Amazon scans and destroys…
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The Orwellian Company Behind ICE's New Electric Shock Gloves
We can only hope that these lead to an epidemic of ICE goons accidentally burning their own dicks off. "With a glove, there are no burn marks or scars." That…
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Do Not Talk To Me About "AI"
I had some cards printed up. These are unlikely to change any minds, but they will defintely shorten some incredibly tedious conversations at the bar. Here's a…
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Today in Clown Storage: PBS
Nine PBS sues Iron Mountain over blocked access to archival data: Nine PBS VP and CCO Leah Freeman confirmed the station's lawsuit against Iron Mountain and…
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"Someone who is good at the economy please help me budget this"
It was never about the money, it's about the impunity. Google oligarch Brin has now spent $100 million to avoid paying $13 billion in taxes. Google co-founder…
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DNA Lounge: Wherein today is Zero Cool Day
38 years ago today, Zero Cool hacked all those banks across state lines. From his house. Crashed 1,507 systems in one day. Biggest crash in history. Front page…
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Youtube's joke of a fair-use appeal process, Total Eclipse of the Content ID Robots Edition
"Good news! Your dispute wasn't reviewed within 30 days, so the claim on your YouTube video has now been released." Bonnie Tyler died last month, and so the…
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Today in Mr. Choppy news
In what-is-now-traditional journalistic malpractice, none of the articles about this have a photo or video of the guillotine. But I found one. Salem Brought a…
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Outside Lands
If you are going to Outside Lands and don't want to install their crappy app, here's a calendar file of the whole schedule. Also, if you are going and we…
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Today in the scraperpocalypse...
You may have noticed that my various sites were nearly unusable for the last 4+ days, and are still maybe not doing great. The current attack by AI scrapers is…
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Please keep this clown out of Congress, redux
Scott Wiener, Ladies and Gentlemen: Wiener employs Anthropic's tech for an interactive attack ad, but all Chan's campaign sees is desperation: The Wiener…
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Bummer and Lazarus appreciation post
Previously, previously, previously, previously, previously, previously, previously, previously, previously.
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TLDs used to mean things. We used to be a society.
I would love to hear the reason that all San Francisco government email addresses and services are advertised as being on the sfgov.org domain instead of the…
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Trillionaire versus Lettuce
Elon Musk is the world's biggest loser ever, having lost $800 billion in 7 weeks. Apartheid Emerald Mine Space Karen supposedly became a "trillionaire" on June…
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DNA Lounge: Wherein the Surveillance-Industrial Complex is asking for volunteers
I am currently incandescent with rage about something else entirely that I'm told I can't talk about yet, so let me sublimate that instinct with this unrelated…
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Googly-eyed Kremlin bitch loses defamation lawsuit
Patel and the Kash Foundation sued Stewartson over a series of allegedly defamatory statements: Among the statements at the center of the lawsuit were claims…
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Amnesty International UK Caves To JK Rowling
[ REENACTMENT ]The organization has stood up to dictators and death squads, but Rowling and the UK's anti-speech laws were apparently too much. On July 8…
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Still no QR for you
It has now been over two and a half years since Google has updated their aerial imagery of -- checks notes -- the sleepy seaside town of San Francisco. Still…
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The Eye of Pizza is, Once Again, Upon You
As you may recall, my beloved Gakken World Eye shit the bed during a power failure a couple weeks ago, after having been on 24/7 for nine years. Since these…
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We should rely less on the Nazi Bar somewhat.
After outcry, Meta reverses suspension of The Stud's Instagram page: Meta Platforms initially suspended its Instagram account after the bar said bad actors…
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Neuromancer
So there's a Neuromancer trailer out and it's exactly the necrophiliac snore you'd expect it to be. I already watched this show when it was called Altered…
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This is fine.
Previously, previously, previously, previously, previously, previously, previously, previously.
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Prosecuted for using a duress code
US government targets Cop City protester over phone operating system: The interrogation, including the questions about child sexual abuse images, was "a…
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SF Officials Will Arrest You for Partying in SoMa, Also Really Want You to Come Party in SoMa
Do it our way or else! Two inbox items from Thursday, presented without comment: July 23, 2026 Press release from San Francisco District Attorney Brooke…
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I see Apartheid Emerald Mine Space Karen is also getting into the Antichrist biz
Tesla swapped a solar owner's lease contract for the Book of Enoch: A Tesla solar customer went to pull up their lease agreement in their Tesla account this…
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DNA Lounge: Wherein another artifact comes to light
Today's VHS find: Pam Doré posted a video of the first night of Club Q at DNA Lounge, back in the distant year of Two Thousand and Two. Wait, we were still…
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Please keep this jackass out of Congress
Scott Wiener, Ladies and Gentlemen: Trans community, allies condemn Wiener for exploiting a march he was asked to leave: State Sen. Scott Wiener was not…
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The Eye of Pizza is No Longer Upon You
Yet another casualty of last week's PG&E antics: the projector in the pizza eyeball no longer lights up. Honestly I'm surprised it lasted as long as it…
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WP pro tips
There's a new WordPress exploit out there but I will show you how I vaccinated myself against it 6+ years ago: remove_filter ('wp_head'…
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Today in Youtube's joke of a fair-use appeal process
Apparently now Google requires you to give them a lock of your hair before allowing you to file a DMCA fair-use counter-claim to a spurious content-ID…
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DNA Lounge: Wherein another artifact comes to light
I found another 36-year-old VHS tape on eBay! D.O.A.'s final concert, live at DNA Lounge, in 1990.
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Today in Hoffman Lenses
Everybody Hates Elon: "Meta has spent years tracking us online," said a spokesperson for Everybody Hates Elon. "Now it wants to track us in the real world…
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More Pi fuckery
In raspi-config on Debian 13.6, when I enable the overlay file system it... does not. I found some breadcrumbs here but installing the linked eeprom did not…
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DNA Lounge: Wherein we're twenty-five
Twenty-five years ago today, on July 13th 2001, was the first event at DNA Lounge under current management. I am very old and I have been leaning on this bar…
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Weird Pi failure mode
I have a Pi 4 B that, after a power failure, seems unable to talk HDMI in any resolution higher than 1024x768. I have tried both ports, multiple cables…
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Nuclear option
I have a single AWS instance, with a static IP, not behind a load balancer or CloudFront. How do I block all of Hong Kong? I gather the answer has something to…
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We turn now to the Book of Jones
If Only There Had Been a Sign That the Face-Melting Nazi from Indiana Jones Wouldn't Make a Good Senator: Boy, do I feel silly. Until now, I've been a…
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Matt Dorsey, ladies and gentlemen.
SOMA's cop supervisor takes a break from jailing drug addicts to ask a billionaire's nazi chatbot whether he can have a little genocide, as a treat: Grok…
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Today in Waymos On Fire:
When they weren't rolling through fireworks they were trapping people near the Golden Gate Bridge. Waymos were a key reason for the traffic snarl in the…
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DNA Lounge: Wherein we are going hard on movie nights
As our "Cyberdelia" series has seen a bit of success at branching out from being only the "Hackers" party, we've decided to try and screen roughly one cult…
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[REDACTED] walks into a bar
Hey, what's your favorite "walks into a bar" joke? Please be aware that I have the most comprehensive collection of jokes of this formation, so you cannot…
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Scientists decry conference's use of hidden prompts to snare AI peer reviews
Better title: "cheaters outraged that they got caught." The 40th Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS) -- which is slated to…
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DNA Lounge: Wherein it's a series of tubes
We replaced our network rack with a slightly larger one. Exciting news, I know, but I'm posting these photos because I know that there is a certain segment of…
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Jonathan Ross murdered Renee Good and should be indicted.
ICE Tracks Down Woman to Force Her to Delete Instagram Post. Two ICE agents harassed a poll worker on Election Day, demanding she remove social media posts…
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DNA Lounge: Wherein another artifact comes to light
A few days ago Doris Fish posted this 90 minute video of the full show of Sluts a Go Go All Star Gang Bang, a drag and burlesque show which took place here at…
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Recent movies and TV
The Bride! (2026): Frankenstein is having a moment. This one is absolutely amazing! Where Poor Things was Arthouse Frankenstein, this is more of a Grindhouse…
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The Warrior-Witches of Ukraine's Resistance
An underground intelligence network uses subterfuge and honey traps to direct drone strikes deep inside Russian-occupied territory. "Serhiy was great at…
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Worst Kirk
Millions of Dollars Have Now Been Awarded to People Fired over Charlie Kirk Comments: All told, at least 600 Americans were fired, suspended, or investigated…