Lou Katz @lou@entropyservice.com

1-800-DOUG-FORD

is also

1-800-3-MUG-DOPE

#DrugFraud
#DoFo

“Billionaires are spending outrageous sums to stop Mamdami.” is an incredible endorsement.

San Francisco Mourns the Loss of Beloved Bodega Cat KitKat, Struck by Autonomous Waymo Vehicle
https://hoodline.com/2025/10/san-francisco-mourns-the-loss-of-beloved-bodega-cat-kitkat-struck-by-autonomous-waymo-vehicle/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

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San Francisco supervisor Matt Dorsey is taking aim at San Francisco's 2019 #surveillance transparency ordinance by trying to strip the provision that pays attorney fees for people who enforce the law in court. Eliminating attorney fees eliminates public accountability and sanctions lawlessness.

Use this easy one-click action to tell the San Francisco Board of Supervisors to vote NO on the Dorsey proposal. https://takeaction.salsalabs.org/SFAttorneysFees/index.html

I really don't understand why people get so mad about pronouns. Sure, the user base can be a bit smug, and not everyone needs, or can afford them, but if you use language a lot the upgrade is definitely worth it. Proverbs are also great (and I think they're planning on releasing pro versions of more word classes soon) although that's mostly because anything is better than getting your verbs interrupted by ads, and I'd rather speak pirate if that was my only other option.

Of course, you get even more flexibility for free with an open source conlang - it's nowhere near as hard as people say (you don't need to compile anything to Chomsky Universal Grammar yourself anymore, unless for some reason you want to), and you won't have to change your workflow much unless you do something crazy like jump straight into a minimalist Pirahã based distro, or commit to hours of debugging aethyrs whenever the latest channelling broke something just so you can comment "I use Enochian btw" everywhere (I use Enochian btw).

The support for language games is also much better now than it used to be, particularly after Wittgenstein was open sourced in 2022, although there can still be compatibility issues with utterances made in proprietary language (not to be confused with private language, which was thing used by IBM back in the day, for single-user systems with no networking support, and definitely not Wittgenstein compliant).

As for the security benefits, a lot of it really comes down to using a separate "subject of enunciation" for low-level access and administrative tasks. Of course, imperative mode escalation ("Voice of Command", "7th Function") attacks are still possible, but under normal circumstances they're really more of a theoretical curiosity than anything you need to worry about, unless you plan on getting on the bad side of entities like the NSA or Académie Française (In which case; Solution: Magical amulets? Fake your own death, move into a submarine? You're still gonna get Académie Française'd upon).

Most users will be perfectly safe as long as they keep their True Name - i.e. the first-person declension of their root morpheme - secret, and don't incorporate any suspicious, pseudo-linguistic nonsense from anonymous blog comments into their world model (and even then, you're far more likely to get bricked by a basilisk than Snow Crashed in the colloquial sense of taken over and remotely controlled by an attacker).

Also, and I know this is a meme and hopefully nothing anyone takes seriously, but: if you're running anything English based, DO NOT remove French "to save space" ("to spare room"?) - it will break all kinds of critical dependencies, 1066 and all that.

Trump regime is demolishing part of the White House East Wing to make room for Dear Leader's fascist monument to himself. (Of course the regime lied when it said no such damage would occur, and hasn't gotten required permits.)

Is there a better metaphor for their attitude toward democracy?

THIS.

If You Think Tylenol Is Bad For Kids Wait Until You Hear About Guns #nokings

Trump Claims A Senator Wants A ‘Train To Hawaii’ https://twp.ai/E6BfE3

Mehdi Hasan Calls Marrying Trump A Job 'Immigrants Will Do’ But Americans Won’t https://twp.ai/E6BfEJ

“what are you thoughts on the constitutional crisis?”

“which one, you’ll need to be more specific?”

“the one from today”

“morning or afternoon?”

@tomjennings
I don't think you're likely to be successful at prohibiting corporations outright. The secretary of state of whichever state in which the business was incorporated might take offense.
You might want to only prohibit the corporation from copying your work.

A purported leader reacting angrily to a country song seems weak, not strong.

“OpenAI is very seriously underestimating people’s creativity when it comes to harassment,” EFF’s @evacide told the Washington Post. https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2025/10/07/sora-cameo-deepfake-consent/

Of course getting upset about a country song seems fairly normal for someone struggling with dementia.