"Scheduled", sure.

Your friendly neighborhood CTO here reminding you that universities(, etc.) are such easy targets because we all use the same major systems. Hackers just need one good exploit to screw everyone at once. We got ourselves into this mess by letting monopolistic private platforms sit between everyone.

I don't get mad about many theme park closures, but we're losing the Hot Dog Hall of Fame? To be replaced with Joey Fatone's Fat One’s Hot Dogs & Italian Ice? Shut it all down. amusementtoday.com/2026/05/univ...

Spent a while discussing AI with a colleague today, and I think I've finally nailed down something important about why I'm unsettled by the whole thing: These companies want us to grant them Authority, but refuse any Accountability.

Ewoks are fun and I like them. Boba Fett stinks and I don't find him interesting. You can draw a direct line from him to the worst excesses of the Filoni era.

My personal May the Fourth tradition is to share this, the best piece of Star Wars humor ever created. @davidmalki.com created it when we didn't know anything about Episode VII yet.

This is what journalism has been reduced to: clickbaiting the fact that you can now get a bottle of water instead of soda with a costco hot dog.

Gonna resurface this periodically from now til November. You can make a difference.

Now that I have signed cards from both Paul Reubens and Patrick Warburton as their Star Tours droids, I think I can retire from collecting.

I used to be good at Computer. Now Computer thinks it is good at me. But it actually isn’t??????

"...anyone concerned with the fate of higher education should not treat entire states or regions as lost causes. And no one should allow themselves to think their geographic position is an indicator of their moral worth. Moral distance is not moral superiority." 🧵

Pentiment is $9.99 on Steam buff.ly/wWBeVM1 US eShop buff.ly/XaPI1no US PSN buff.ly/DwgmMrU Deck verified also on Game Pass Premium

Today in I'm Old News: There's a team in my kid's softball league named the Golden Girls, and all the players are convinced it's a reference to Kpop Demon Hunters.

New scam attempt: someone I don't know sent me 1 Japanese Yen (less than $.01) via Paypal. The details talk about an impending big charge from Coinbase, and includes an 888 number to call. Nope.

An excellent and very readable summary of why AI stinks. www.theverge.com/tldr/915176/...

and here's your periodic reminder that George Wilkins' outro music from Living with the Land is one of the greatest tunes ever composed. www.youtube.com/watch?v=uHUO...

Living with the Land is here to, once again, save my day

Bluesky should turn off images on purpose every so often, just to highlight the difference alt text makes.

WHAT NOW - dashare.zone ADMIN

Pet peeve: A form field lists all states by abbreviation, but sorts them alphabetically by the full state name. Why would someone go out of their way to do that?

listening to smart & talented people who worked on the IRS' now-killed DirectFile, and I am SO MAD that this didn't get to continue. This was how government should actually work for the people.

Ladies and gentlemen... the weekend. (also: you are important and are not alone 🧡)

It's absolutely bonkers to see this extension just a week before the deadline. People all over the country have been busting ass to get in compliance. Which is a better world to be in! Even if I'm frustrated with the details. I hope this doesn't kill momentum www.federalregister.gov/public-inspe...

@mayor.nyc.gov: "If you are a Mario Kart fan, government is Yoshi and philanthropy is the Golden Mushroom, that edge we need to beat Bowser on the Rainbow Road. To belabor this metaphor even further, Bowser is corporate greed in this scenario."

"Slack is not a repository." - Matt Arnold, #IAC26 amen

my algorithms are 100% watch ads now

In 2019, scientists velcro'd 3D glasses to European common cuttlefish (Sepia officinalis) They didn't do this just to make them look cool as fuck, but in order to study their vision. Using a 3D theatre made for the cuttlefish, they were able to test if cuttlefish have stereo vision (they do!)

It really sucks that AI companies have made the economics of a stable and well-preserved web near-impossible. aramzs.xyz/noteworthy/t...

Today at a conference I heard the Treasurer of NC joke that he could probably vibecode a replacement for their big clunky important enterprise software "in an afternoon". I've never heard "fortran" said with such disdain. It was a joke, but with an undercurrent of "I might try it anyway"

if you're asking a question at a convention or conference: Use the mic. You're not special. Nobody can hear you without it.

This weekend I did a bunch of improvements on the home office setup, adding a KVM switch and replacing monitors. In a victory for electronics-hoarders everywhere, the bag of cables in the back of the closet had all the supplies I needed.

If I won the lottery, I think my big indulgence would be getting into fancy watches.

youtube premium is raising the price of their family plan by 17%, with nothing extra to show for it. Just the most recent in a long line, while I haven't had a cost of living raise in almost 2 years. Everything stinks.

I'm so used to watching edited compilations from the Apollo era that I had no idea recovery takes this long! Still genuinely thrilled to watch it live

I'm moonscrolling

Clearly they haven't come out yet because they're putting on their ape costumes

Things that work: giant rocket, very precise math, orbital mechanics, cameras, iPhones Things that don’t work: Microsoft Outlook, toilets, sat phones

That whole thing was cool af. The entire Artemis mission has been cool af. Abolish ICE and give the money to NASA

Splashdown! Vehicle is stable and upright. “A perfect bulls-eye splash for Integrity and its four astronauts!” #Artemis

the image just before blackout...

This is Hermes. As of today, we've kept him alive for a very unexpected three years. He also murdered all his roommates. But Happy Birthday, Hermes!

Lord help me, I've become a regular public commenter at school board meetings.

IMPORTANT ARTEMIS II HOT SAUCE UPDATE Thanks to Carlie Kollath Wells’ reporting out of Axios New Orleans (which I confirmed via email since there are two versions of the article out) …. WE HAVE OUR LIST. It’s these 4 pictured, plus Heinz Hot Taco Sauce! www.axios.com/local/new-or...

Whoa 🤯 The Moon, in full eclipse, with the #Artemis II Orion spacecraft. Part of the Moon and spacecraft are lit by Earthshine, and both Saturn and Mars are visible to the lower right. Incredible. Details: images.nasa.gov/details/art0...

Oh this is great: there’s now an #Artemis II Lunar Flyby Gallery on the NASA images site: www.nasa.gov/gallery/luna... (thx @dpmanchee.bsky.social for pointing it out)

The whiplash of Artemis and Iran news. Wonder and despair, all rolled up together.

I really appreciated this video by Kihana Wilson (who is not on Bluesky, alas) about the mixed feelings of #Artemis II. Follow her on Instagram (www.instagram.com/the_astro_st...) if you're over there!

A few minutes before the Artemis crew broke the record for farthest anybody's ever been from Earth, their Nutella broke loose and floated by.

Dollywood has been moving up the ranks of my travel to-do list.

Do you think the Artemis crew talks about not coming back