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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…
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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…