hi it’s me, your locally undesignated wordsmith! in today’s wordsmithing, one not of my own but I thought worthy of known: robo-scab

(cred to @dgerard for linking upskeet that got me finding this. also I was so close; close but no cigar, I guess)

eyeballing the orange site top-frontpage, and:

shit should come with a strain warning

is graphology the pentaseptateragonoid spiderweb-dartboard-connect-the-spines thing?

I recall seeing an article in the last week or so, regarding a right-wing associated group taking aim at these. will see if I can find that again

ah yeah @fasterandworse found this when it was happening (and I pulled archives of the live streams on the days it was playing)

some further observations to the stuff in her writeup: the day1 livestream also “starts late” (and cuts suspiciously cleanly in mid-sentence). I still want to do some tests to find out if YouTube’s live editor allows editing out stream history while stream is going, but either way they made very sure that they could completely silence that talk if it turned out that she didn’t bend as forced

(the now-up video published on youtube definitely starts differently to the livestream, too, so it’s likely a local post-mix recording that got uploaded. I haven’t had time to review both and find possible differences)

this toot was how I did

click here to take 10d8 psychic damage

On a personal sidenote

do you keep count/track? the moleskine must be getting full!

rip [SA]HatfulOfHollow

I also did some digging, and this appears to be a profile matching that poster (username, displayed email)

note not only the massive uptick in recent commit counts on the github, but also the complete lack of any related domain experience in what they’re posting to the git list about

much as the rules here, the only answer is to keep laughing these fucking people out of the room

mmm, word suggestion for this kind: hypeslopper?

Example use: “from a hypeslopper such as this”

found new potential eye muscle strain material

“we must fuck around with the essential basic components a significant part of modern software exists on, because AI and agents and MCP”

(e: first saw here)

also great: the promptfondlers unrapidly rediscovering why source control management exists and is desired

Also, the cat doesn’t appear to be polydactyl

truth in advertising: they’re hinting what the music will sound like

thescream.tiff

I would’ve stan’d syslog-ng but they’ve also been pulling some fuckery with docs again lately that’s making me anxious, so I’m very :|||||

nasb, new torres piece out, promising title and opening

(I’ll have to read it after done with my present other currency-related diversions. old-man-shakes-fist-at-cloud.gif)

mozilla has for years had a habit of tailchasing some utterly fucking weird shit instead of focusing on their core business, and this feels very much like part of that. but fucking still

prompt injection phish by email

so glad these things have a solid security model and this totally won’t result in a scrambled half-assed fix

and upon hearing the lesson, the journeyman went to the pub