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Question for people who shave their faces with an electric shaver: do you have one that has lasted longer than a year?

A gentleman in the restroom just sold a dick pic for $20.

Dear Lazyweb, Due to dumbasses squatting me, I'm gonna need you to go click "thumbs-up" or "stars" or whatever on this repo so that it bubbles up to the top of the list in search results.

Headline ending in a question mark: no.

Pivot to AI: I suggest the social action: shame.

Every year, I find the San Francisco Pissed Off Voter Guide to be the best and most useful one.

AI-funded group backs Wiener for Congress with $3 million gift: "Scott Wiener's claim that he'll stand up to Big AI collapses the moment you look at who's bankrolling his bid for Congress," said Chan's spokesperson Krager.

The press keeps describing Kimberly Guilfoyle as Don Jr.'

Character.AI files for bankruptcy, to sell some assets to Disney for $20 million Earlier this year, Character.AI and Google settled a lawsuit by the mother of a 14-year-old Florida boy who killed himself after the startup's chatbot allegedly encouraged him

I don't wear watches, let alone $10,000 watches, but this is cute: Oh hey this one looks like a fucked up QR code for only $18,000: Previously, previously, previously, previously.

Disclosure Day (2026): This was a hate-watch for sure.

Dear Lazyweb, if you have some very old Macs, I would like you to test some things.

A friend told me they were planning an October rewatch of classic horror movies.

All Hallow's Eve, Sat Oct 31 The Crow, Thu Oct 29 Why 2K, Fri Oct 30 Rocky Horror, Thu Oct 15 Project X, Sat Oct 17 Ravefurrest, Sat Oct 10 Gotham City Follies, Mon Oct 12 From Dusk `Til Dawn, Sun Oct 18 Hazbin Hell-Tel, Sat Oct 24 Lots of stupid shit goi…

Normally I reserve my vitriol for the slopbros for my personal blog, but this has become extremely DNA Lounge-related of late, as I shall explain.

Mom: What's with these AIs escaping and hacking people?

We had a leak in the main men's room by the urinals.

Apple let stuff expire, so now we have to re-roll our certs, hooray.

Please enjoy jwz mixtape 260.

Lyft has to pay out $272 million for the fraud they perpetrated on their employees from 2016 through 2020!

Krysten Ritter on the hellsite: Previously, previously, previously, previously.

Let me just take a nice long sip of this beverage and then open up my web-hosting bill for last month...

Dear Lazyweb, any idea why XScreenSaver thumbnail images are no longer showing up in System Settings on macOS 27?

For the third or fourth year in a row, it is October and USPS has issued new Christmas stamps but there are no Halloween stamps on sale.

Jason Koebler: One of the most heated discussions occurring on X at the moment is about the ethics of a GitHub project in which a person is running Saw-like "torture" and "pain" experiments on a series of locally hosted large language models, causing a se…

Nicola Turner: A site-responsive installation made mainly from dark wool and horsehair will fill the ground-floor galleries at 16 Hanover Square, extending in a procession-like manner that continues 12 metres up the façade of the Georgian townhouse.

I got a used Mac Mini to use as a sacrifice zone for testing things on recent OSes.

Humans Are Reading Copilot Prompts -- And They're Horrified Human contractors hired to improve Microsoft's Copilot AI chatbot are constantly bombarded with lewd or sexually explicit photo editing requests and images that users have uploaded, including ups…

Friday evening, the Folsom Street Fair web site finally published the map of the fair.

Thanks to Charles Lewis III for his nice writeup about our parklet situation in 48 Hills!

Dear Lazyweb, please help me figure out why OBS keeps doing this crazy thing where sometimes audio goes into slo-mo dubstep glitch mode.

Smooth Dunk: Previously, previously, previously.

The SF Democratic Party [sic] voted on Wednesday to continue its support for Flock surveillance cameras: Two major resolutions were in front of the party's 31 members -- 13 of whom were absent -- on Wednesday.

Techbros literally out here trying to disrupt the fraternity rape-house: Today these so-called hacker houses are driven by missions, like the advancement of humanity, and have become critical nodes for the AI industry.

We've had our parklet for 15 years, and now SFMTA says they're going to fine us $500/day if we don't demolish it in two weeks.

Dear Lazyweb, There are folks in macOS/iOS "Contacts" whom I haven't emailed in years.

It's time for the Folsom Street Fair and we've got quite a lineup!

"The doome warning all men to the iudgemente wherein are contayned for the most parte all the straunge prodigies hapned in the worlde, with diuers secrete figures of reuelations tending to mannes stayed conuersion towardes God: in maner of a generall chro…

I hope you will be joining us for the Hubba Hubba Revue 20th Anniversary show this Sunday, Sep 20!

Records of Enemy Surveillance: The red squares are Flock cameras.

Pete Reynolds: The miraculous Shit-Raining Machine, from which there will be NO HOPE OF RELIEF, promises to unlock PREVIOUSLY UNIMAGINABLE AND CURRENTLY VAGUE BENEFITS FOR HUMANKIND, such as: Business things Other stuff WE MUST CREATE IT Could the Shit Ma…

Hey!

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UN General Assembly votes against the Mercator Projection: The UN General Assembly has voted to replace the traditional world map with one that more accurately reflects the size of Africa.

Waymo has been slapped with more than 8,300 parking tickets since January 2025, with fines of nearly $1 million for various violations.

XScreenSaver 6.16 is out now for MacOS, Android and Unix.

Boy, I sure wish Rockbox didn't just... completely fuckin' suck.

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Periodically, the "d" key on my keyboard stops working.

For historical reasons, it is impossible for a Republican to get elected in this city, so all the Republicans register as Democrats and call themselves "moderates".