Now it's all about acquiring those elusive Letters of Transit. I hope Rick has a cafe in Dubai...

A warning to all programmers: Be careful about using fancy code editors today. Beware the IDEs of March!

Outer space is open for transit, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said. "The only thing prohibiting transit to outer space right now is Earth exerting a strong gravitational attraction," he said. "It is open for transit should Earth not do that."

"How dare they respond to our unprovoked and needlessly destructive attack in a way everyone with a clue could easily predict, but we decided to ignore? No fair, they're being competent!!"

The manager of my apartment building announced this morning that crews will be trimming the large trees on one side of the property tomorrow, so we should avoid going that way. Just now I found this sign on the relevant door. I propose that it be used to illustrate "catastrophizing" in the next DSM.

I just received an email that claims to be a notice that a customer appreciation package from Costco awaits my response. The body is a big image link that leads to a phishing form. So far, so normal. What caught my attention was the Google AI message summary. 1/3

The manager of my apartment building announced this morning that crews will be trimming the large trees on one side of the property tomorrow, so we should avoid going that way. Just now I found this sign on the relevant door. I propose that it be used to illustrate "catastrophizing" in the next DSM.

Happy Days went downhill after the episode where Fonzi jumped the strait of hormuz ngl

Just like sports fans wear team jerseys, IR guys wear strait jackets.

I wondered why I had such trouble dragging myself out of bed this morning. Then I walked into the living room and discovered that these two were filling the apartment with sleepiness radiation. Mystery solved! 💤🐱💜🙂

Why is nobody worried that if AI starts doing important jobs, the ~4 successful AI companies will utterly control those jobs? When software dev is an AI walled garden, only Anthropic will have software dev. If you tick them off, no software for you, and no plan B available. Seems suboptimal.

Perhaps if the Democratic Party ran an AI candidate in Iran, all three of them would collapse together into a black hole of antipathy. I'm fully on board with trying this experiment.

RIP Tony Hoare, March 5 2026, age 92 blog.computationalcomplexity.org/2026/03/tony...

ECCC was fun and I had a wonderful time. But there was a storm cloud. When I complained about Trump with my white straight cis friends, we were all sincere and concerned. But I talked with many Trans friends, and it’s so much worse. They are in fear for their lives. 1/

It's Schrödinger's War, with the caveat that people are dead inside whether or not you can bring yourself to look.

Daylight savings time is cordially invited to bite me. 💤⏰🫤

One of my favorite jokes from my wonderfully clever coworkers: "A lot of people *think* they understand the Dunning-Kruger effect." 😁

When I was a child in San Jose CA USA in the mid 1960s, my mom would sometimes take me to a small park with a playground specially designed for blind and low-vision kids. I loved it, and so did a lot of kids with normal vision; the equipment was amazing. Accessibility is often a win all around.

There seems to be rising demand for protest folk music right now for some unfathomable reason, so I'm reposting this from last summer. Wells has only become more amazing since then. Give him a listen.

Every day, Trump comes closer to being the Emperor of Mankind from Warhammer 40K.

"So successful" tells you everything you need to know about the real purpose of this shambolic disaster: To kill people for sport. Everything else is retrofitted justification for dropping exciting bombs on brown people.

As Umberto Eco points out in his essay "Ur-Fascism", a key feature of the chosen enemies of a fascist state is that they are both disgustingly weak and dangerously strong. E.g. immigrants are both lazily abusing public assistance and industriously stealing jobs. Cognitive dissonance is the point.

This’n felt like a good fit to just go on the website A short story about looking up at the stars and wondering if the things that lurk between them could be any worse than what lurks on a rural subsistence farm in the Pan Handle. It’s kinda gruesome, enjoy.

As Cathy awoke one morning from uneasy dreams she found that she had entirely lost the plot of the current BlueSky Trans Discourse.

Trans Joy is, in fact, when you have to pay strangers slightly less to drive you around because the government designated you an illegal person.

It's 1 AM, and "The Thunder: Perfect Mind" is once again breaking my mind of logic. 'Αγιος Βαρβηλώ! "I am the incomprehensible silence and the much-remembered thought. I am the voice of many sounds and the utterance of many forms. I am the utterance of my name."

Couldn't they have just called it "OPERATION BOMB BONER"? Why hold back at this point?

Ich thynke but litel of a Mondaye bleake Tuesday grey and Wednesdaye eke Thursdaye Ich care not for thee Yet Fridaye Ich am yn love [dreamye lute arpeggio] Mondaye thou kanst fall awaye Tuesdaye, Wednesdaye, myne herte slaye No mirthe ys founde upon Thursdaye Yet Fridaye Ich am yn love

My favorite prog-rock band really missed an opportunity by never releasing an album of improvisational jazz titled "Yes And". 🙂🎵

My favorite prog-rock band really missed an opportunity by never releasing an album of improvisational jazz titled "Yes And". 🙂🎵

That's it. I'm somehow living in a parody of reality, and I refuse to take it seriously any longer.

Thank you, Android library code, for providing such clear and actionable documentation. 🙄

Five authors I've read at least five books by: Iain M. Banks J. R. R. Tolkien Arthur C. Clarke Ursula K. Le Guin Larry Niven

Big Doofus is watching you.

Last night I was reading the linked page, "Background tasks overview", to prepare for a new app project. Today I sat down at my computer and saw that the tab had the dotted border that indicates Chrome has put a tab into the...background. Well played, Chrome. 🙃 developer.android.com/develop/back...

Mood for a Saturday morning. open.spotify.com/track/7Ea9xk...

I wish I could get people to stop framing questions in terms of Trump's intentions. He has none beyond dominance displays and personal avarice. He has the attention span and disposition of a spoiled toddler. Any intention is leaking through from his handlers, but even they can't impose coherence.

Is the US system of government best described as an autocracy, oligarchy, gerontocracy, corporatocracy, kleptocracy, or kakistocracy? I could make a solid case for any of them, but I want to hear which one you would pick as the best fit, and why.

They should imprison him in the Tower. Tradition is important.

first they came for Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, and I said nothing, but i did laugh quite a lot

My phone's fingerprint reader is getting unreliable, so I googled for a fix. This sentence appeared in the AI-generated search result: "Delete existing prints and re-register them, preferably in a dark room if the sensor is struggling, as it uses an ultrasonic reader." Um... 🙃

Moon and Mercury setting next to the Griffith Observatory just moments ago. Found a good spot to take photos. #Photography #Astrophotography

I've been a software engineer for 4 decades; I plan to retire next year. I would like to offer sincere thanks to the "AI" vendors and their credulous customers for working so hard to create an enormous pile of bug-ridden unmaintainable crap code. 1/2

Today's weather in #LosAngeles. music.youtube.com/watch?v=0HZV...

It's settled: My next home audio system will use wet mud instead of cables. I'd prefer bananas, but you have to replace those at least once a week. www.tomshardware.com/speakers/in-...

"That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives." —Carl Sagan Voyager 1 captured the "Pale Blue Dot" image #OTD in 1990. 🧪 🔭 🔵 Image: NASA/JPL-Caltech

⏳ Timeless insight by Marcus Aurelius: “When you arise in the morning, think of what a privilege it is to be alive — to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love.”

Proposed new term: "Slopwashing" -- falsely attributing harmful or malicious actions to a (supposedly) independent "AI" agent in order to escape responsibility for those actions.

Proposed new term: "Slopwashing" -- falsely attributing harmful or malicious actions to a (supposedly) independent "AI" agent in order to escape responsibility for those actions.