Reminder to next dem government: take all of SpaceX’s federal contracts and give the money back to NASA.

It’s a very high bar but if your April Fool’s gag can’t top this then you shouldn’t bother

They like Trump and want to help him

I was melting down a bunch of little chocolate bunnies to make one enormous chocolate bunny and long story short does anyone know how to kill a Golem?

If this war wasn’t already one of the most significant strategic defeats in US history before, it is now

I’m trying to think of a more significant strategic defeat in US history and I’m drawing a blank here

I don’t want to spoil it but this is a thread and it is a journey

My next train read is the third in the Dungeon Crawler Carl series which is train themed, so that’s neat. It’s as much fun as I’ve come to expect from the series and the hook for this one looks especially interesting

Again the Optimist Economy podcast harkens back to the Planet Money’s heydays. This time @kedseconomist.com puts up a full throated, capitalist explanation of why corporate taxes are too low and why all the libertarian arguments against raising them are wrong optimisteconomy.com/episodes/cor...

You may not know there are Canadian TSA agents but there apparently are which is why you wouldn’t know the one he’s talking about

This whole thread on Musk’s data centers in space presentation is full of quotes like this. It’s hilarious until I remember how many of my coworkers are still Musk fans

Started the RE2 remake this morning, and it occurs to me that a zombie outbreak isn’t dissimilar from having a toddler: -Why is everything sticky -Aw a hug NOPE A BITE -Always faster or slower than you think they are -Inexplicable and persistent stank -Driven by hunger and rage

The top two books that are next up on my reading list are both completely checked out from the San Diego public library. It’s a bummer but people are reading at least

Got some sunrise surfing in and now to check and see what’s happening on Bluesk—

meta being called meta is so incredible. it’d be like if microsoft was called zune or nasa was called challenger

A little over 12% of that ask has already been spent

I know nothing about the guy but if I were to guess I’d say that Marc has spent so much time talking to LLMs that he’s convinced himself that human beings are LLMs

I’m surprised that he would use niche economics jargon like “consumer” in a TV interview

Liberals took this from you.

Very on-brand for Gingrich to seek out a new, younger canal the moment the current canal starts having health problems

Trying find lime jello and it’s surprisingly hard. Strawberry and cherry for days though. Makes me wonder how much jello consumption is driven by colonoscopy prep

yep the cuban public has had access to a lung cancer vaccine since 2011 and not that bogus consultant speak "access to healthcare" i mean single payer free access bitches

Apropos of nothing, Jaws hits a bit different post covid. It’s still really good but I’d keep thinking the metaphor was heavy handed until remembering the movie was forty years old

“But, as you see, it's a beautiful day, the Strait of Hormuz is open and people are having a wonderful time.”

Anecdotal but my wife, who works customer service, is reporting that all her customers are starting to show the same panic that they did in the Great Recession. My corporate leadership is signaling that they’re going to start treating employees the way they were treated in 2008. Namely, very shitty

NEW: Under Trump, mental health care for vets is getting squeezed VA is bleeding shrinks & *not replacing them* One told me she's so overloaded her sessions can be *16 mins* She's had to online sessions w/ 35 vets How is that therapeutic? It's not, she said www.propublica.org/article/vete...

NPR covers ripping up the constitution like it’s some quirky debate over marginal tax rates, and still holds out its hand asking for money. Unreal. They won’t start loving you, you know. Do not donate to this organization. Support independent journalists, not this feckless agitprop.

The YouTube algorithm decided that I needed to see the @tftcproject.bsky.social 1.4 trailer which got me to dig up my old copy of X-Wing Alliance. If you ever wished that one of the best Star Wars games ever made got a modern graphics and control overhaul then you're in luck. Runs and plays great

usually if you ask experts why an empire fell they’ll say it’s nuanced and multifaceted, so i think it’s kind of cool that with America future historians will get to just say like “oh they took the idiot train to moronsville”

Regular gas is over $5 a gallon in San Diego. One reason gas is expensive here is because we’re constrained geographically. That makes our market sensitive to price changes. If we’re up a dollar a gallon here then elsewhere isn’t too far behind

As someone who wasted a bunch of time on the Conversatron back in the early 2000s I approve

If you see this, we IMPLORE you to post a picture from whatever device you're using without explanation.

@tftcproject.bsky.social When I try to install both TFTC-C and TFTC-R 1.4 I get an error that FlightModels\Skins\GolanThree\Default_0.zip can't be found. I grabbed the asset on the Models Resource, renamed the file and the install completed

Today the most grace I can show for people claiming they didn’t vote for this is to demand a promise from them to never vote again

From Paul Musgrave, who is in Qatar.

Digging into the fine print leaves me a lot less impressed by this. Free for six months if you’ve got 5000 stars or 1 million NPM downloads isn’t even early stage enshitification. It’s just trying to get celebrities in the community and influential corporate devs to push Claude Code

small brain: free markets produce free press normal brain: consolidation of media into monopolies makes the press unfree large brain: despite media consolidation, media consumption is more diverse than ever galaxy brain: media fucked because of phone

Heck of a thing to say out loud. “Other council members did not second her motion, leaving the contract in place. They argued […] that cancelling the contract would draw the wrath of the Trump administration and trigger intensified immigration raids in Escondido.” calmatters.org/politics/202...

It’s been a minute since I posted a thread that will make you audibly gasp

So the guy with the Nazi tattoo is now sayi... ...never mind

Short thread

AI is revolutionizing the world! A Playstation now costs $5,000 and this is the last phone you will ever own.

Yesterday’s storm wasn’t too bad but the window box possum did come back for shelter

So when thousands of women (and children) were being duplicated--including in non-consensual AI porn--it was no big deal. But it took "only a 15-sec clip" of these two famous white men to draw outrage and fear. Gotcha. Cool cool.

My wife likes to watch Gardener’s World videos on YouTube when she’s on the treadmill. This last time she searched on “Monty Don” to find his other videos and all the right side recommendations were straight up porn. Not wanting to keep that up in our local Y she did a different search to fix it

View from San Diego

Rewatching 30 Rock and all the Six Sigma, Jack Welch and GE jokes land even harder now that GE cratered

@wrenispinkle.bsky.social So what question are you asking in Scott Peters' telephone town hall? I tried not to be too unhinged in mine but I don't think I succeeded