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A two-page score by J.S. Bach, shown being scroll horizontally in a browser window.
"4′33″: Page Not Found" and an empty music staff, referencing John Cage's infamous silent composition
CSS setting `outline-style: none` on anchor links which have focus, with a message indicating that it was committed 17 years ago. There is a comment about disabling "dotted line around clicked tabs"
lilypond-devel Archives is a plain-text bulleted list of dates which each have a link for "Date" and "Thread"
I work hard at this project because I find joy, pleasure and fulfillment in the process of this labor. I can say I am proud of the results without needing to qualify it. Work is the medium through which we negotiate what we owe to each other. If you have paid me your attention, then I owe you my best effort, and mine alone. Kaijuville, “AI”
Gregorian chant, in dark mode, with red staff lines and white noteheads.
A character with cropped white hair and a gold crown stands in front of a fountain and a double rainbow in Animal Crossing New Leaf for the 3DS
Comparison of underline styles in various browsers.
A comparison of the `text-underline-style: wavy` treatment across browsers. Top is Chrome, where the underline is thicker and taller. Middle is Safari, which has a shallower wave and a thickness which matches the default underline. Bottom is Firefox, which is thinner and has hard 45-degree connections between the segments of the wave, rather than rounded ones
Console errors when attempting to load a video in Bluesky showing network errors and Access-Control-Allow-Origin failures
YouTube comment on a Sweet Genius video that says "Please stop feeding that evil creature"
Sisyphus pushing a boulder and the boulder is the "reply" button on an email.
Bumper sticker on a red card that says "Garlic should be free!!!!!!! It shouldn't cost anything"
Yellow bumper sticker on the back of a Tacoma pickup truck that says "How's my gardening?" in the same style as "How's my driving?"
One recent study on AI "efficiency" out of Stanford found that the introduction of a flood of rushed and factually-incorrect AI slop into workflows actually results in human beings having to work harder than ever: “When coworkers receive workslop, they are often required to take on the burden of decoding the content, inferring missed or false context. A cascade of effortful and complex decision-making processes may follow, including rework and uncomfortable exchanges with colleagues.” As the Harvard Business Review notes, this hyperscaled introduction of pseudo-efficiency workslop results not just in new conflict and a bunch of wasted time for people, but a sort of broader "knowledge decay" that introduces the potential for organizational downward spirals: “Errors compound and pile up. Trust in information erodes. People spend more time verifying facts or risk costly and dangerous mistakes. Eventually, people start to lose trust in the processes that they rely on to do their jobs.”
Top row is the combination of sticker image + svg path. Middle row is the svg path alone. Bottom row is the image alone.
"Ky Decker designs www and writes CSS in NYC with Samwise" can be expanded to "Ky Decker designs world-wide websites and writes Cascading Style Sheets in New York City with Samwise"
Three Sams stand before you. Pleading, disinterested, and evil.
wide angle orange cat looking alien
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Email thread: From Ky: Not interested, thank you. Can you tell me where you found the [OLD EMAIL] address? I haven’t used that email in years and I want to make sure it’s not being advertised anywhere. Thank you, Ky From recruiter: Hi Ky, Thanks for getting back to me. We found your email address and profile using Juicebox.ai for recruiting lead generation. Took you off the list! Best, [RECRUITER]
NYC City Jobs Captain (Sludge Boat) DEPT OF ENVIRONMENT PROTECTION Posted on 05/21/2026 Full-Time NYC-ALL BOROS Exam May Be Required Department: Marine Section Salary Range: $133,531.00 – $133,531.00
Yellow and white firework against a minimal black background
The context menu for a drive on macOS shows "Eject" and "Erase" immediately beside each other. One keeps your data safe and stops the computer from yelling at you. The other erases everything forever. (Yes, there is an ellipsis after "Erase Disk", which means there will be a confirmation window to prevent accidental deletion, but I still think "Erase" should be located further from a common action)
A gray bird rests on an angled tree branch at dusk, one side of its face illuminated in the sun
A flock of pigeons rest on top of a traffic light post. A pigeon in the foreground, dark and out of focus, flaps its wings in front of others
Purple and red and orange BIG CLOUD looming over the skyline of Manhattan including the World Trade Center
A plot in the sidewalk full of dirt and mulch in the harsh sun. There are two small plants, a "Please help protect our plants, curb your dog" sign, and a tree stump with two black heels resting on top.
Secondly, you could call this "AI Slop", and this could be partly true as I have used AI tools to put it together and reach you, but realistically if you aren't using AI in 2026, you are being left behind which I am sure you can appreciate.
Email thread titled "Quick intro - Not a bulk message." with a reply to the recruiter: "If I'm being left behind, then please, god, leave me behind."
STILL AHEAD: IBM introduces new computer capable of hating its job
DoorDash advertising "18:47 min to DoubleDash" "Add on items from another store with no added delivery fee. Service fee applies." and an ad for "Buy 2, save $3 on Clorox"
two text messages of photos of Samwise, an orange tabby cat, with the text "its all about perspective". the first photo is taken from a distance, with Sam curled on some clothes. the second photo is taken up close with a wide angle, with Sam's ears extremely long and pointy toward the edges of the frame
The text reads: Namesake organizes its information around guides. The word "guides" includes the Markdown syntax for a link, and the AI autocomplete has suggested "namesake.ai" as a domain, a website which has never existed. "namesake.fyi" is the appropriate URL
Ursula Le Guin's schedule 5:30 a.m.—wake up and lie there and think. 6:15 a.m.— get up and eat breakfast (lots). 7:15 a.m.—get to work writing, writing, writing. Noon—lunch. 1:00-3:00 p.m.—reading, music. 3:00-5:00 p.m.— correspondence, maybe house cleaning. 5:00-8:00 p.m.— make dinner and eat it. After 8:00 p.m.—I tend to be very stupid and we won't talk about this.
Samwise little gay baby tabby cat is trapped inside a wine glass and he has stubbly little legs and a big forehead as he slowly morphs into the Renesmee baby from Twilight
Table of contents on vale.rocks with each section sized relative to the length of text.
A character from the video game Big Walk is sitting in front of a cliff looking through binoculars. Another character approaches, snatches the binoculars, and punts them into the sea.
GitHub diff showing +2,829 lines added and -12,228 lines removed, net 10,000 line deletion for removing Sanity CMS
A pull request on GitHub titled "Remove Sanity". Sanity is a CMS but this is also how I feel a lot
Dr. Pulaski from Star Trek: The Next Generation. She was present for one season and most notable for saying that Data, an android, isn’t alive, and treating him like a fancy appliance. I do love Data in the context of TNG but unfortunately that’s not what we got in real life
A monarch butterfly, bright orange with white and black spots, is perched on a leaf, backlit by the sun against a soft green backdrop
A small, bright yellow bird faces the sun and has its little beak open
A gray bird perches on an angled tree trunk and looks leftward, into the sun. Long shadows are cast from the bird and a tree branch. The background is full of dark green leaves.
Wikipedia entry for “Bee's dick” An Australian term for a very small distance, as in "he missed crashing into the truck by a bee's dick". It is derived from the small size of a male bee's penis.
The character Ginko from the anime Mushi-shi. Ginko travels around investigating strange natural phenomena caused by spirits called “mushi” who are invisible to normal people but cause things like rain and clouds and fog
Yahoo answers, open question: “Can spiders have fun ?“ “Can they enjoy things?”
Graphic poster that says: “Welcome to the web of lies!” and the ‘e’ in ‘Web’ is the Internet Explorer logo. Beneath it are the words “fake news” “extremism” “crypto rug pulls” “hoaxes” “conspiracies” “9gag” “rabbit holes” “division”. There is an old CRT monitor and keyboard with a spider web on the screen, and two black spiders beside it around the text. The bottom says “have fun”
Orange and yellow tabby cat chomping on a banana toy full of catnip
A container with two inputs, one for phone number and one for email address. The email address input is causing the entire container to grow past the full width of the screen, creating horizontal scroll. I want to prevent this, but there are multiple layers of flex parents which could be causing this. How do I find the correct one?
Peter Travers The Travers Take 1.5/4 Standup's comedy king of clean Nate Bargatze riffs on Mr. Mom for his screen acting debut. He deserves better than this phoned-in excuse for family fun. So do audiences. Micheal Compton Bowling Green Daily News D+ This lifeless comedy is more of a series of cobbled together bits than a feature film. M.N. Miller FandomWire 2/10 A comedy so stale, monotonous, and listless that it could be prescribed as a non-habit-forming sleep aid.
Line art of a snake wrapped around a trunk angled toward an apple. It says “Sin”
red and yellow and white flowers in a balcony planter box
Ky plays a chromatic scale up up a piano keyboard
Without a practice... Without a practice, without a discipline, life is pretty much a series of contingent events; moving from one situation to another, jumping from one mess to another, or simply sleeping through it all. With a practice, we develop a structure of acting in the world; within which we construct an interior architecture, moving to realise what we are, uniquely, born to achieve. Robert Fripp Tuesday 21st. January, 2020 Bredonborough, Middle England
AI slop album art for Mozart: Twinkle Twinkle Little Star, Kv 265 300E - "EP". "Mozart" has been Pixar twinkified and has hair like Elsa from Frozen. His hand is extremely tiny for some reason. The fonts make you want to cry
An album on Apple Music for Chopin Etude(s) Op. 10 by an artist called "Rain520". The album art is an AI slop twinkified anime Chopin playing gibberish sheet music on a keyboard with the wrong number and arrangement of keys. It has the worst fonts you've ever seen.
128. When we embrace the possibility of transcending ourselves through God’s grace, we do not deny our nature, nor do we become less human. On the contrary, as Pope Francis explained, “We become fully human when we become more than human, when we let God bring us beyond ourselves in order to attain the fullest truth of our being.” [137] Herein lies the radical departure from Promethean dreams: what saves humanity is not enhanced self-sufficiency, but a relationship that liberates, a communion that transforms. In this light, a technology that merely classifies and optimizes what already exists can, however unintentionally, become an obstacle to change and growth. For an algorithm, an error is a flaw to be corrected; for a person, however, an error can be a catalyst for profound change. A person’s future is not calculable, but depends on one’s freedom — elevated by the inexhaustible grace of God — and on the relationships cultivated.
110. Finally, I would like to employ the expression “to disarm,” which is close to my heart. Disarming AI means freeing it from the mentality of “armed” competition, which today is not limited simply to the military context, but is also an economic and cognitive phenomenon. This entails a race for ever more powerful algorithms and larger datasets, driven by the desire to secure geopolitical or commercial dominance. To disarm means discrediting the assumption that technical power automatically confers the right to govern. To disarm does not mean rejecting technology, but preventing it from dominating humanity. It means freeing technology from monopolistic control and opening it to discussion and debate, therefore making it human-friendly and restoring it to the plurality of human cultures and ways of life. Our task today is not only ethical or technical. It is ecological in the deepest sense, for it concerns a new dimension of our common home. AI is already an environment in which we are immersed, as well as a force with which we must engage. For this reason, merely regulating it is insufficient; it must be disarmed, welcoming and accessible.