Whenever I see some jackass slaloming through traffic, I think "Republican." Whenever I notice some shmuck has pissed on the toilet seat in the public bathroom, I think "Trumper." It's become my short hand for selfish idiots. Tell me I'm wrong.

I want to see the Americans who chose this held accountable for their choice. This doesn't mean harm or shaming. I just need them to understand that they are responsible.

My cell phone now auto-replies with "stop" to all solicitation messages. God bless Macrodroid. The best $8 I've spent today.

Powerful 🇺🇸

Yet another company adds "user agrees to be used as soylent" to their EUA, to avoid falling behind in the crucial international artificial soylent arms race.

It will never be good enough, but you have an obligation to get up every day and do your best anyway.

Fifteen years https://xkcd.com/3172/

Imagine being responsible for a quarter million surplus child deaths last year. Imagine being a billionaire and not caring. https://www.wsj.com/health/for-first-time-in-decades-child-deaths-will-rise-this-year-92c67b51?mod=hp_lead_pos9

Actually, if you chase two rabbits, you might end up with deep, meaningful relationships with two amazing rabbits.

The marketing geniuses at Liquid Death found a product name that spoke to the core of my being.

as I understand it: Pete Hegseth gave an illegal order, either intentionally or accidentally due to being drunk and/or stupid and/or high on machismo. Seal Team Six executed the order, a war crime. WaPo broke the story, and the Trump administration responded by denying the order was given […]

So back in 1944, a German U-Boat Commander named Heinz-Wilhelm Eck did exactly what US Secretary of War Pete Hegseth ordered US military forces to do - kill the survivors of a destroyed boat at sea. Now, as then, this is considered a War Crime. In 1945, Commander Eck was tried, found guilty […]

I'm thinking about the anti-vax movement. For a long time, they had no impact on health policy. They could believe anything they want with no repercussions. Now that their movement has changed American health policy, and children are dying of preventable diseases like measles, are any of them […]

The devotion of silicon valley could be viewed as the progression from collaboration to plagiarism. AI, in a way, is plagiarism as a service.

microsoft just opensourced zork https://opensource.microsoft.com/blog/2025/11/20/preserving-code-that-shaped-generations-zork-i-ii-and-iii-go-open-source

When a Border Patrol officer shoots a protestor and later brags, "I fired five shots and she had 7 holes" I find myself wondering: in what version of a sane world is this man still allowed to carry a badge and a gun?

Trump gave MBS *permission* to murder a journalist? What the holy fuck is wrong with this guy?

*There is plenty of space on this car for more people to board. You step out of the doorway. You move to the middle of the train. You take off that ridiculous backpack.* - The absolutely true story of how I saved rush hour.

I want a ticket to anywhere

It's not the cover up, it's the crime. Our politicians may be idiots, but their lawyers are intelligent. They wouldn't be burying evidence like this if it didn't contain something even worse.

Dec 8, 2015 at 10:14 PM, Epstein replied to Landon Thomas Jr: [picture] my 20 year old girlfriend in 93,, that after two years i gave to donald #Congress #DOJ #law #criminal #Trump #Epstein #EpsteinFiles #rape #SexualAssault #SexTrafficking #felon47 #CoverUp […] [Original post on masto.ai]

Oh hey, the new Gore Verbinski movie looks promising. Anything Sam Rockwell is in can't suck. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CaSxNAZUKsM

Every accusation is a confession.

The other silver lining of the shutdown ending is that we'll finally get a real jobs report.

Yep, that Sonder bankruptcy definitely fucks me over.

On the passing of James Watson, we'll hear a few hagiographies, but it's also worth noting that Watson was something of a racist, sexist, unpleasant, plagarizing shmuck.

There really should be a holiday where we all dress up as cats and parade around Dia de los gatos.

I was genuinely concerned that the Trump administration was going to use that $170B to fund their own private, partisan army. But now I see they're merely using the money for graft and self-dealing, and I'm greatly relieved.

"Why'd you do it, Johnny?" "For the clicks, man. I did it for the clicks."

The vendor says there are small number of customers who keep coming back every week buying huge quantities. Fungal marketing!

GBIs: 61% of the time, it works every time.

It's important to understand that Kristi "Take your problems off to the quarry and shoot them" Noemi is writing the rules of engagement for ICE agents invading our American cities.

Another "you had one job" security story: https://www.wired.com/story/card-shuffler-hack/ tl;dr: "Let's put a camera inside our card shuffling machine so we can use the same hardware for both deck integrity checks and deck randomization, what could go wrong, derp derp derp."

The fight ain't over but take a moment and celebrate our wins.

Hey New Yorkers! I just saw a room full of Californians cheer when the election was called for Mamdani. Well done, New York.

Hey remember how mad you got about Disney firing Jimmy Kimmel for a few days? Well here's your chance to show another corporate media overlord that you're pissed at them firing someone for political speech, and to let them know why you did it. It's time to cancel all your subscriptions to Code […]

Remember kids: It's not 9/11 that destroyed America. It's the way Dick Cheney handled the response to 9/11 that destroyed America. One man can make a difference. Stay in school, kids.

AI writing tools have clarified for me: 1. I have a distinct writing style. 2. The people who make these tools think my writing style is wrong. It's only a matter of time before AI powered grading tools start homogenizing the student population. "I'm trying to teach you to communicate […]

Remember that the last thing to should ever do is accommodate a bully because of what he might do otherwise.

I've been thinking about AI and economic systems. I've been thinking about automated farming. An AI powered robot might achieve 1% of the productivity of a human farm worker, but would work for the cost of solar energy, plus maintenance. If you kill off everyone but the super rich -- then you […]

Remembering my friend in Dia de los Muertos.

I'm seeing more and more electronics items listed as sold out by reputable sellers. Maybe the inventory stockpile that has been insulating us from Trump tarriff shocks is starting to get depleted. Just in time for Christmas!

Best outfit at #supercon last night IMO - @securelyfitz - above the buttons are paper displays that change questions, and when you make a choice, it takes your picture and prints out the meme with you in it and the questions you were given.

"How'd you get that scar?" "Some dumb shit I did as a kid." "We all did dumb shit when were were kids." "I was chasing a frisbee and ran full-tilt into a jungle gym." ... "Ok, that's some dumb shit."

Maybe this is a dumb idea, but what would it take to implement a distributed denial of ddos attacks? Why filter the Aisuru torrent at the destination when the block list can instead be distributed to participating edge routes at the ISPs? If nothing else, it'll finally motivate the residential […]

"If starving American children is what it takes to increase health insurance costs by thousands per family, that's a price we are willing to pay," said the MAGA politicians. "I mean, we won't actually pay, you guys will do the actual paying. But we all know that I'm the real victim here."

Micro Magicwand repair. Just remounting the battery cleared the battery error, which is lovely but boring. What else is in here?

It would have been really nice to have beaten Trump a year ago and then never seen or heard from him again. plus, bonus, all those dead people who'd still be alive.

me: "So, the scariest thing in this whole Halloween haunted house is this empty room off to the side here. Pretty weird right?" cast member dressed as a zombie: "what, this room here?" me: "uh huh. can you feel it?" cast member: "yeah. yeah, I do." me: "Whatever this is .. they stationed you […]