Daniel McLaury
@danielmclaury.bsky.social
Concept: a concert band that's just the wrong version of every instrument. Slide trumpet, valve trombone, mellophone, sousaphone, xaphoon, bass oboe, etc.
November 18, 2025 at 11:35 PM
Concept: a concert band that's just the wrong version of every instrument. Slide trumpet, valve trombone, mellophone, sousaphone, xaphoon, bass oboe, etc.
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As of this morning, Starbucks workers across the country are officially ON STRIKE. And we're prepared for this to become the biggest and longest ULP strike in Starbucks history.
Say #NoContractNoCoffee with us: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS for the duration of our open-ended ULP strike! $SBUX
Say #NoContractNoCoffee with us: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS for the duration of our open-ended ULP strike! $SBUX
November 13, 2025 at 11:33 AM
As of this morning, Starbucks workers across the country are officially ON STRIKE. And we're prepared for this to become the biggest and longest ULP strike in Starbucks history.
Say #NoContractNoCoffee with us: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS for the duration of our open-ended ULP strike! $SBUX
Say #NoContractNoCoffee with us: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS for the duration of our open-ended ULP strike! $SBUX
Hit an interesting vulnerability I've never heard of.
Someone posted a link to a Google doc in Slack. I don't have access to the doc, but Slack (or Google?) helpfully created a thumbnail that showed me the first page of data.
Someone posted a link to a Google doc in Slack. I don't have access to the doc, but Slack (or Google?) helpfully created a thumbnail that showed me the first page of data.
November 12, 2025 at 9:15 AM
Hit an interesting vulnerability I've never heard of.
Someone posted a link to a Google doc in Slack. I don't have access to the doc, but Slack (or Google?) helpfully created a thumbnail that showed me the first page of data.
Someone posted a link to a Google doc in Slack. I don't have access to the doc, but Slack (or Google?) helpfully created a thumbnail that showed me the first page of data.
Direct from the federal government: the next time you see someone pepper-spraying children, we are safe to conclude that they are NOT actual law enforcement and respond accordingly.
November 12, 2025 at 6:45 AM
Direct from the federal government: the next time you see someone pepper-spraying children, we are safe to conclude that they are NOT actual law enforcement and respond accordingly.
Amazing how all the alarmist things the Christian right warned about are coming true, but they're the one doing it.
“Federal authorities told demonstrators Friday that there would be ‘no more prayer’ in front of or inside the Broadview ICE facility, in a move that mystified local leaders and raised legal questions.” blockclubchicago.org/2025/11/07/f...
Feds Tell Faith Leaders 'No More Prayer' Outside Broadview Facility
In a possible violation of the First Amendment, federal officials instructed demonstrators to stop holding religious gatherings outside the immigration processing facility in suburban Broadview after ...
blockclubchicago.org
November 9, 2025 at 4:46 AM
Amazing how all the alarmist things the Christian right warned about are coming true, but they're the one doing it.
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The verdict comes after the case came to represent broader resistance in the nation's capital to the Trump administration's law enforcement surge to the city. n.pr/47rmYsS
Subway sandwich thrower found not guilty in D.C. jury rebuke
The acquittal on a misdemeanor charge comes after the case came to represent broader resistance in the nation's capital to the Trump administration's law enforcement surge.
n.pr
November 6, 2025 at 8:46 PM
The verdict comes after the case came to represent broader resistance in the nation's capital to the Trump administration's law enforcement surge to the city. n.pr/47rmYsS
Me: [Shows up with a roll of film containing selfies of a teenager, followed by shots from several angles of what is clearly the rotting corpse of the same person]
Fotodome clerk: That will be $1.99, sir.
#firewatch
Fotodome clerk: That will be $1.99, sir.
#firewatch
November 6, 2025 at 4:44 PM
Me: [Shows up with a roll of film containing selfies of a teenager, followed by shots from several angles of what is clearly the rotting corpse of the same person]
Fotodome clerk: That will be $1.99, sir.
#firewatch
Fotodome clerk: That will be $1.99, sir.
#firewatch
They're making Naomi Watts act across from Kim Kardashian now? Do we need to take up a collection or something so she can have better roles?
November 5, 2025 at 6:59 PM
They're making Naomi Watts act across from Kim Kardashian now? Do we need to take up a collection or something so she can have better roles?
Hardy's estate should sue
Went on Mastodon long enough to see Jim Propp call out this New Yorker article, which takes a break from examining the resource consumption of generative AI to complain about matrix multiplication: www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
November 2, 2025 at 11:40 PM
Hardy's estate should sue
It is not uncommon for an attempt at clicking something to misregister as a click-and-drag. If you don't provide any obvious way to cancel an undesired click-and-drag without any effect, you're forcing users to do stuff they don't want, and they'll hate you for it.
October 28, 2025 at 3:58 PM
It is not uncommon for an attempt at clicking something to misregister as a click-and-drag. If you don't provide any obvious way to cancel an undesired click-and-drag without any effect, you're forcing users to do stuff they don't want, and they'll hate you for it.
Tell me if I'm missing something here:
The HTML standard should add an input element which will *only* send a secured password. The browser can identify this to the user in a way that can't be faked. And everyone should be trained to use this and nothing else.
The HTML standard should add an input element which will *only* send a secured password. The browser can identify this to the user in a way that can't be faked. And everyone should be trained to use this and nothing else.
October 26, 2025 at 4:08 PM
Tell me if I'm missing something here:
The HTML standard should add an input element which will *only* send a secured password. The browser can identify this to the user in a way that can't be faked. And everyone should be trained to use this and nothing else.
The HTML standard should add an input element which will *only* send a secured password. The browser can identify this to the user in a way that can't be faked. And everyone should be trained to use this and nothing else.
I *knew* it was MF Doom. Just didn't think to look up his joint project.
Apparently the main sample is incidental music from an episode of Ironside.
Apparently the main sample is incidental music from an episode of Ironside.
Madvillain - All Caps
YouTube video by Stones Throw
www.youtube.com
October 22, 2025 at 10:08 PM
I *knew* it was MF Doom. Just didn't think to look up his joint project.
Apparently the main sample is incidental music from an episode of Ironside.
Apparently the main sample is incidental music from an episode of Ironside.
from the Kentucky New Era, December 3, 1875.
I have so many questions.
I have so many questions.
October 22, 2025 at 5:40 AM
from the Kentucky New Era, December 3, 1875.
I have so many questions.
I have so many questions.
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To be clear: deportations to increase cultural homogeneity is the text book definition of ethnic cleansing. Demands that come even close to this are so far outside any democratic norm and the rule of law. What has happened to a country when this is not condemned in the strongest possible terms?
October 21, 2025 at 10:47 AM
To be clear: deportations to increase cultural homogeneity is the text book definition of ethnic cleansing. Demands that come even close to this are so far outside any democratic norm and the rule of law. What has happened to a country when this is not condemned in the strongest possible terms?
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ICE is stockpiling arms, including chemical weapons, guided missile warheads and explosive components. The spending dwarfs anything we've ever seen in the agency - a 700% increase.
The President is building an army to attack his own country.
The President is building an army to attack his own country.
October 21, 2025 at 2:45 PM
ICE is stockpiling arms, including chemical weapons, guided missile warheads and explosive components. The spending dwarfs anything we've ever seen in the agency - a 700% increase.
The President is building an army to attack his own country.
The President is building an army to attack his own country.
The first time I watched Dr. Strangelove (1964), I thought the character of General Jack D. Ripper, with his insane anti-fluoridation beliefs, was hilarious.
Not so funny today now that he's in apparently running our public health apparatus.
Not so funny today now that he's in apparently running our public health apparatus.
A surprising sight in St. Clair County, Michigan: A man waving Fixodent denture cream before the county commissioners at an August meeting.
“I am an unfluoridated child,” he declared, “with a set of uppers and lowers.”
“I am an unfluoridated child,” he declared, “with a set of uppers and lowers.”
October 13, 2025 at 3:29 PM
The first time I watched Dr. Strangelove (1964), I thought the character of General Jack D. Ripper, with his insane anti-fluoridation beliefs, was hilarious.
Not so funny today now that he's in apparently running our public health apparatus.
Not so funny today now that he's in apparently running our public health apparatus.
The name was familiar but I couldn't place it. He's the guy who wrote Satantango.
Nobel Prize in Literature 2025
The Nobel Prize in Literature for 2025 was awarded to László Krasznahorkai, “for his compelling and visionary oeuvre that, in the midst of apocalyptic terror, reaffirms the power of art.”
www.nobelprize.org
October 9, 2025 at 11:39 PM
The name was familiar but I couldn't place it. He's the guy who wrote Satantango.
I guess I owe an apology to everyone who I ridiculed when they said that things like this would happen in America: masked government agents atop a building shooting pepper spray at a Christian minister for standing on a sidewalk and praying.
I join them in condemning -- wait, they *support* this?
I join them in condemning -- wait, they *support* this?
CW: protester being struck in the head by a pepper ball
Footage I took earlier of the moment Reverend David Black, a regular protester outside of the Broadview Detention Center, was shot in the head with a pepper ball by ICE agents on the roof of the facility.
Footage I took earlier of the moment Reverend David Black, a regular protester outside of the Broadview Detention Center, was shot in the head with a pepper ball by ICE agents on the roof of the facility.
October 8, 2025 at 1:44 PM
I guess I owe an apology to everyone who I ridiculed when they said that things like this would happen in America: masked government agents atop a building shooting pepper spray at a Christian minister for standing on a sidewalk and praying.
I join them in condemning -- wait, they *support* this?
I join them in condemning -- wait, they *support* this?
I don't have the bandwidth to review this, but what's the solution here? An ASIC in the mouse that does Kalman filtering before sending the signals across? Sticking to $5 mice? Limiting the amount of mouse data that browsers let JS see?
New Mic-E-Mouse technique turns your optical mouse into a microphone that records conversations
sites.google.com/view/mic-e-m...
sites.google.com/view/mic-e-m...
Mic-E-Mouse
Your computer mouse has big ears.
Image courtesy of GPT4/Dall-E-3, generated using the keywords "computer mouse with big ears and a microphone as a scroll wheel."
sites.google.com
October 5, 2025 at 6:11 PM
I don't have the bandwidth to review this, but what's the solution here? An ASIC in the mouse that does Kalman filtering before sending the signals across? Sticking to $5 mice? Limiting the amount of mouse data that browsers let JS see?
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Donald Trump shut down the government because he doesn't want you to have healthcare.
But this isn’t just on him. Democrats MUST use their leverage to protect our rights, but it can’t end there.
Schumer and Jeffries can’t just go on TV or write letters, they need clear demands. We need action now.
But this isn’t just on him. Democrats MUST use their leverage to protect our rights, but it can’t end there.
Schumer and Jeffries can’t just go on TV or write letters, they need clear demands. We need action now.
October 1, 2025 at 5:50 PM
Donald Trump shut down the government because he doesn't want you to have healthcare.
But this isn’t just on him. Democrats MUST use their leverage to protect our rights, but it can’t end there.
Schumer and Jeffries can’t just go on TV or write letters, they need clear demands. We need action now.
But this isn’t just on him. Democrats MUST use their leverage to protect our rights, but it can’t end there.
Schumer and Jeffries can’t just go on TV or write letters, they need clear demands. We need action now.
I've heard this song 100 times, in probably a dozen different versions, but never like this.
(Unfortunately the mixing is not great on this recording.)
(Unfortunately the mixing is not great on this recording.)
Don't Think Twice
YouTube video by Paula West - Topic
www.youtube.com
September 29, 2025 at 8:26 PM
I've heard this song 100 times, in probably a dozen different versions, but never like this.
(Unfortunately the mixing is not great on this recording.)
(Unfortunately the mixing is not great on this recording.)
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Buried under more direct threats to American medicine from #MAHA, the University of Pittsburgh #pitt has quietly started up a "doctorate" in the pseudo-scientific discipline of #chiropractic "medicine."
This HAS to be stopped. Universities MUST be the last bastion of science in a world of grift.
This HAS to be stopped. Universities MUST be the last bastion of science in a world of grift.
Chiropractic (DC)
The Doctor of Chiropractic program is first of its kind. Train to be a patient-centered clinician helping with spine and extremity pain.
www.shrs.pitt.edu
September 25, 2025 at 7:52 PM
Buried under more direct threats to American medicine from #MAHA, the University of Pittsburgh #pitt has quietly started up a "doctorate" in the pseudo-scientific discipline of #chiropractic "medicine."
This HAS to be stopped. Universities MUST be the last bastion of science in a world of grift.
This HAS to be stopped. Universities MUST be the last bastion of science in a world of grift.
Go home, evaluation engine; you're drunk.
September 24, 2025 at 10:01 PM
Go home, evaluation engine; you're drunk.