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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
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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.
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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…
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The Vaillancourt Fountain when it was fully operational
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Priest removed as exorcist after his comments on UFOs and demons
The archbishop of Washington, D.C. removed an exorcist of the archdiocese after he made public comments suggesting that UFO sightings were the work of demons…
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Wifi bukkake
I am trying to control an Internet-of-Shit device that can only speak 2.4GHz wifi. I find that I am unable to operate a 2.4GHz network that anything can…
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Guy Who Sucks At Being A Person Sees Huge Potential In AI
SAN MATEO, CA: After spending the past three decades of his life being totally unable and unwilling to engage in any meaningful way with the world around him…
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DNA Lounge: Wherein the Surveillance-Industrial Complex gains another foothold in SF
SF Gazetteer, Cydney Hayes: Why do these Castro gay bars have TSA-style face scanners? The machine Owen encountered is called a Patronscan Guard+, a biometric…
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Judge Rules Blacked.com Can Sue Meta for Scraping Its Porn
The judge found that Meta's attempt to blame the pirating of thousands of Vixen.com and Tushy.com porn videos on rogue employees "strains credulity." Strike 3…
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433 MHz remote from cron
Dear Lazyweb, I have a device that pairs with a 433 MHz remote control, and I wish to control it from the command line. What is the simplest way? I would like…
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Like Gerald Ford and George H. W. Bush, I am no stranger to plumbing problems
It's Only a $13 Billion Aircraft Carrier, Why Would We Expect the Toilets to Work? The 600 toilets aboard the USS Gerald Ford, the "most advanced" and most…
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Today in the scraperpocalypse...
It has become more frequent for someone to contact me saying "I can't access your sites from my phone / cable modem", and on the few occasions when they tell…
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In case you needed one more reason to shake an angry fist at Bezos
Joseph Mallozzi: Stargate cancelled, for the fourth and likely final time. Creator Martin Gero developed a new Stargate series over two years, ultimately…
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It has come to my attention that I have not posted a bloody mary photo since before the world ended
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