Jim @sullybiker@sully.site

Five women with identical tank tops that say “Drinking MARGARITAS with my SENORITAS”. Three of them have Mardi Gras beads draped around their neck, five months after Mardi Gras.

I smell tourists.

(Flashback moment: Tass Times in Tonetown, a text adventure. Once you got to the titular Tonetown you needed to wear a certain amount of bling, or an alligator-man would leap out and eat you after a few turns. It felt very weird to be the Tourist instead of the Local in that.)

If you haven't heard of KaiOS before, you probably think Firefox OS is entirely dead. But actually, as a fork of B2G, KaiOS has silently grown to a user base of more than 100 million people on devices from more than 10 manufacturers, making it the third most-popular mobile OS after Android and iOS now.

They just launched proper developer docs, as well as an app store:

* https://www.kaiostech.com/meet-the-devices-that-are-powered-by-kaios/
* https://developer.kaiostech.com/

Mastodon client for KaiOS, when? All JS/Web clients should work.

Well no shit! We repurposed a backdoor communications channel to send text messages, and now we're surprised that it also allowed carriers to send commands to modems inside your phone?

WOOWWEEEEE color me shocked

I trained a neural net to generate crochet hat patterns, and they showed a disturbing tendency to explode into ruffled hyperbolic yarn-eating shapes.
https://aiweirdness.com/post/187489831262/first-there-was-skyknit-now-theres-hat3000

image credit: Chunky Hat, crocheted by Joannastar