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I like that we are (seemingly collectively?) trying to use DW more/update more. My problem is usually that I have less things to update on than I did back in the LiveJournal days when I was going to concerts somewhat regularly, and seeing a lot more movies in the cinema.

I watched Bugonia last week - I knew the spoiler going in, which of course made it a different viewing experience, but I didn't know how it would play out. I've only ever watched one other Lanthimos movie (the Nicole Kidman one) and while it was interesting I remember thinking it was maybe not for me. But! Knowing the Bugonia spoiler made me want to watch, and it was probably good for my brain to break from the mindless comedies I've been watching on repeat, and engage with something funky. Yeah, Lake, it's probably not the best that you watch all of The League three times through in a row. Sometimes you just need to watch a fucked-up little movie!!

Neurosurgeon appointment could have been an email, [insert eye-roll emoji here]. He basically does not want to do anything but keep an eye on things for another six months, have me get more MRIs then, and see if there's any change in the syrinx between the two sets of images. Great, yay, another six hundred dollars in medical bills! I mean - I would rather not have a potentially risky spinal surgery if it can be avoided, but "avoided" means I now mentally need to account for having to use some sort of mobility aid more often than not for the rest of my life. But I guess in another decade someone might come up with a better surgical procedure, so who really knows?

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Posted by Ask a Manager

https://www.askamanager.org/2026/02/lets-discuss-throwback-bosses-managers-with-outdated-work-expectations.html

https://www.askamanager.org/?p=36557

In the comments on a recent post, someone mentioned that a boss once sent them home because they’d forgotten to wear a belt that day (“I wasn’t showing butt cleavage, but he wasn’t having it.”) Someone else mentioned a boss who expected people to rise whenever he entered the office (?!).

Let’s discuss managers and offices with weirdly outdated expectations who appear to be from a far-off era.

The post let’s discuss throwback bosses: managers with outdated work expectations appeared first on Ask a Manager.

https://www.askamanager.org/2026/02/lets-discuss-throwback-bosses-managers-with-outdated-work-expectations.html

https://www.askamanager.org/?p=36557

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Hunting the Falcon: Henry VIII, Anne Boleyn, and the Marriage That Shook Europe by John Guy and Julia Fox

A history/biography.

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$tyger: Isa, Lea, and Ven sketches from the Ultimania (Isa\Lea/Ven - battle of the pointy hair!)$

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Did not get all the sanding done today, nope. :(

I did get the filling on top of the shelves done, and some sanding, but... yeah.

( Rambles )

All that to say, I'm hoping that tomorrow I'll get through the rest of the prep and at least get the undercoat on. Hopefully. (Plz.)

OH RIGHT and also today I mucked out the chook coop, which took a LOT more energy than it usually does, ugh, fucking humidity strikes again :| :| :| 'Oh this will be a quick job, won't effect how much work I can get done on the walls at all,' I thought. 'No big deal,' I thought. HA. Sweat everywhere, had to chase the chooks around, bleh bleh bleh.

Anyway, now is time for naps. Later than I was aiming for, as fucking usual, BUT still way earlier than the past two nights, so that's an improvement! :3

Current Mood: sleepy
Current Location: Birthplace

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An extra JLI-adjacent feature inspired by your…yes, YOUR…comments on the Conglomerate in Justice League Quarterly #1! ( Really, it's almost as if YOU wrote this! Or at least as if you told ChatGPT to do it! )

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Title: Connected
Fandom: War of the Worlds (1988-90)
Summary: The tracker Harrison and Suzanne have developed works, but using it has some downsides.

( Connected... )

Current Mood: tired
Current Location: my desk

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Every Thursday, we have a community post, just like this one, where you can drop a rec or five in the comments.

This works great if you only have one rec and don't want to make a whole post for it, or if you don't have a DW account, or if you're shy. ;)

(But don't forget: you can deffo make posts of your own seven days a week. ;D!)

So what cool fics/fanvids/fanart/fancrafts/other kinds of fanworks/podfics have we discovered this week? Drop it in the comments below. Anon comment is enabled.

BTW, AI fanworks are not eligible for reccing at recthething. If you aware that a fanwork is AI-generated, please do not rec it here.

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Check-in post for day 26!

Days 1-14

Day 15:

sylvanwitch,

trobadora,

badly_knitted,

china_shop,

the_siobhan,

sanguinity,

cornerofmadness,

carenejeans,

ysilme,

goddess47,

chanter1944,

Day 16:

sylvanwitch,

trobadora,

badly_knitted,

china_shop,

the_siobhan,

sanguinity,

cornerofmadness,

carenejeans,

ysilme,

goddess47,

chanter1944,

Day 17:

sylvanwitch,

trobadora,

badly_knitted,

china_shop,

the_siobhan,

brithistorian,

sanguinity,

cornerofmadness,

carenejeans,

ysilme,

goddess47,

sakana17,

chanter1944,

Day 18:

sylvanwitch,

trobadora,

badly_knitted,

china_shop,

the_siobhan,

brithistorian,

sanguinity,

cornerofmadness,

carenejeans,

ysilme,

goddess47,

chanter1944,

Day 19:

sylvanwitch,

trobadora,

badly_knitted,

china_shop,

the_siobhan,

cornerofmadness,

carenejeans,

ysilme,

goddess47,

Day 20:

sylvanwitch,

trobadora,

badly_knitted,

china_shop,

the_siobhan,

brithistorian,

sanguinity,

cornerofmadness,

carenejeans,

ysilme,

goddess47,

Day 21:

sylvanwitch,

trobadora,

luzula,

badly_knitted,

china_shop,

the_siobhan,

brithistorian,

sanguinity,

cornerofmadness,

carenejeans,

ysilme,

goddess47,

Day 22:

sylvanwitch,

trobadora,

luzula,

badly_knitted,

china_shop,

the_siobhan,

brithistorian,

sanguinity,

cornerofmadness,

carenejeans,

ysilme,

goddess47,

sakana17,

Day 23:

sylvanwitch,

trobadora,

luzula,

badly_knitted,

china_shop,

the_siobhan,

brithistorian,

sanguinity,

cornerofmadness,

ysilme,

goddess47,

Day 24:

sylvanwitch,

trobadora,

luzula,

badly_knitted,

china_shop,

the_siobhan,

sanguinity,

cornerofmadness,

ysilme,

Day 25:

sylvanwitch,

trobadora,

luzula,

badly_knitted,

china_shop,

the_siobhan,

brithistorian,

cornerofmadness,

Day 26:

osprey_archer

At the beginning of Post Captain, right on the cusp of a big sea battle, peace is inopportunely declared. Fortunately for Jack Aubrey, he is extremely flush with prize money, so with his particular friend Stephen Maturin he rents a country house, enters local society, and meets a family of pretty sisters (plus one beautiful young widowed cousin).

I had just settled in for a reverse Austen novel, told from the point of view of the naval captain rather than his young lady, when Jack’s prize agent absconds with all his money. Jack, eleven thousand pounds in debt, flees to the continent with Stephen in tow - just in time for war to begin again!

This is all in the space of about four chapters. At this point I concluded I had better not settle in for anything at all, as we were clearly in for an ever-shifting picaresque novel.

In this book:

Stephen disguises Jack as a bear so they can flee from hostile France to still-neutral Spain.

Jack is subsequently so ill that Stephen has to nurse him back to health, which takes place entirely off page, because O’Brian could not care less about hurt/comfort.

Other things O’Brian can’t care less about? Spy plots. Stephen has become a hotshot spy for British intelligence and spends months in Spain gathering intelligence, which entire trip O’Brian disposes of in three paragraphs.

However, Stephen’s spy shenanigans allow O’Brian to skip the entire sequence during which Jack gets not-engaged with a girl whose mother won’t let her enter an engagement with a man who is eleven thousand pounds in debt, but emotionally they’re basically engaged.

So if O’Brian has cheerfully skated over hurt/comfort, spying, and romance, what IS he writing about?

Well, at one point Stephen declares that he has “a horror of appearing eccentric,” and asks worriedly whether it would make him look weird to practice swordplay on deck. (It will not, the captain of the marines assures him.)

(A few chapters later Stephen, the man who has a horror of appearing eccentric, shows up on Jack’s new ship wearing a wool onesie and carrying a glass hive of bees. The bees promptly invade the morning cocoa.)

Stephen and Jack almost have a duel but then it just kind of fizzles. They seem to have simply forgotten about the duel without, at any point, formally deciding not to duel.

The debt collectors catch up with Jack but fortunately he’s out with a bunch of officers from his ship so they turn the tables on the debt collectors and impress at least two of them into the navy. Ha-HA, take that debt collectors!

Oh, and obviously we DO finally have a sea battle at the end. We may not need spying or hurt-comfort but we MUST have a sea battle.

marcicat

Thanks, Be a Goldfish, for 8 great weeks of creativity! Time to go do the feedback form and send more comments!

(hmmm... March approaches... time for a new challenge???)

garryowen

Fandom: Brilliant Minds
Pairings/Characters: Josh/Oliver
Rating: E
Length: 9k
Content notes: none
ao3: https://archiveofourown.org/works/80281161

Summary: The interns have a pact to do exposure therapy for their fears and traumas. They decide Wolf needs it, too. Takes place shortly after 1.13. Canon compliant until then.

( Gently Down the Stream )

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Title: Towards A Common Purpose
Fandom: The Fantastic Journey
Author:

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Characters: Varian, Willaway, Fred, Liana, Halyana, Others.
Rating: PG
Setting: Turnabout.
Summary: The travellers must work together, alongside Queen Halyana’s people, to deal with the Complex and the computer’s mobile protectors.
Word Count: 350
Content Notes: Nada.
Written For: Challenge 507: Amnesty 84, using Challenge 65: Teamwork.
Disclaimer: I don’t own The Fantastic Journey, or the characters. They belong to their creators.
A/N: Triple drabble and a half, 350 words.

( Towards A Common Purpose... )

Current Mood: tired
Current Location: my desk

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Title: Stories To Tell
Fandom: The Fantastic Journey
Summary: There would be a lot of tales for Scott and his friends to tell about his adventures.

( Stories To Tell... )

Current Mood: tired
Current Location: my desk

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Posted by Bruce Schneier

https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2026/02/llms-generate-predictable-passwords.html

https://www.schneier.com/?p=71657

LLMs are bad at generating passwords:

There are strong noticeable patterns among these 50 passwords that can be seen easily:

All of the passwords start with a letter, usually uppercase G, almost always followed by the digit 7.
Character choices are highly uneven for example, L , 9, m, 2, $ and # appeared in all 50 passwords, but 5 and @ only appeared in one password each, and most of the letters in the alphabet never appeared at all.
There are no repeating characters within any password. Probabilistically, this would be very unlikely if the passwords were truly random but Claude preferred to avoid repeating characters, possibly because it “looks like it’s less random”.
Claude avoided the symbol *. This could be because Claude’s output format is Markdown, where * has a special meaning.
Even entire passwords repeat: In the above 50 attempts, there are actually only 30 unique passwords. The most common password was G7$kL9#mQ2&xP4!w, which repeated 18 times, giving this specific password a 36% probability in our test set; far higher than the expected probability 2-100 if this were truly a 100-bit password.

This result is not surprising. Password generation seems precisely the thing that LLMs shouldn’t be good at. But if AI agents are doing things autonomously, they will be creating accounts. So this is a problem.

Actually, the whole process of authenticating an autonomous agent has all sorts of deep problems.

News article.

Slashdot story

https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2026/02/llms-generate-predictable-passwords.html

https://www.schneier.com/?p=71657

andrewducker

1. Probably Hans Zimmer's finest work: (tags:music movies Disney video funny )

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Last year I marathoned the very well made series “Paradise” (Hulu in the US, Disney + for the rest of us), but was quite torn about whether or not I was happy regarding the announcement of a second season due to the show’s success. It seemed to me the first season told a mostly self contained story and the premise would lose its key ingredient in a second season. Also, there had been a couple of shows which were terrible when more than one season was greenlighted because they clearly hadn’t planned for it. Otoh: nitpicks aside, I did love Lost, which made a pretty radical premise change and pulled it off. And the first season of Paradise had been pretty perfect for what it was. So I watched. And based on the first three episodes now released (and there is a reason why the first three came together, more beneath the spoiler cut), I am happy to report that it looks like I was wrong in my fears. Those three eps are excellent.

( Spoilers are now all pumped up and ready… )

Current Mood: curious
Current Location: on the train

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