This is a really good explanation about why nefarious actors don't NEED ownership or supply chain attacks to exploit a router, because you probably haven't secured it anyway

much of fitness culture in the US was developed by people who literally entered sports and physical education instead of going to therapy and the attitudes around intensity and effort kinda reflect that. the smiling Jazzercise folks were right and your football coach / PE teacher was wrong

How is Bernie alone on this particular soapbox? Silence = Fear v @jwomack.bsky.social

I went to a social event with the teaching team for one of my units on campus before semester started and wore my Pingu “Noot noot motherf***er” shirt, only for the lecturer to decide she wanted to take the team photo for the unit’s Moodle page 😆

The 'kin' of ‘napkin’ means "little." ‘Nap’ comes from ‘nape,' which means “tablecloth.” So a napkin is a little tablecloth. 10/10, no notes.

I dreamed I was awaiting a package and got a bill for hundreds of $$$ for tariffs.

These motherfuckers who shill AI keep saying 'the genie is out of the bottle'. You realise that stories are full of ways to trick the fucking genie back into the bottle, right? You keep using that metaphor but I do not think it means what you think it means.

tired: everything's computer wired: fewer things will be computer

When I was in high school they opened a TOWER Books Records and Video a half mile from my house. My life was permanently changed.

Modern electric blankets really are pathetic.

A thing I'd recommend is taking some time to write a letter to you in six months. Screw a new years resolution: resolve what kind of citizen you'll be in 2026. Making your decisions now helps in the moment when things will seem confusing. Write down your road map: what is good and valuable?

It is that community which made - makes - us 'fit,' in evolutionary terms. The fact that we will pack bond with the roomba and apologize and feel bad when we accidentally kick it? That's us. That's the most human you can be.

"People are still valuable even after they're done having children or doing heavy labor" and "my understanding of family is so expansive that it includes other species" are incredibly rare in the animal kingdom, and people who forget that deny our history and our inheritance.

We didn't survive and thrive as a species because we had warriors or hunters - pretty much every omnivore can manage that. We did so because we developed Grandmothers, and domesticated Dogs. Community is what defines us as a species, and every "self-reliant" libertarian shitweasel be damned.

Dessert course accidentally celebrating Walter Benjamin, the great flaneur (flan, and tragically, but deliciously, gateaux basque)

Once again, a fancy conference where folks are paying $1000+ a head has invited me to keynote and has offered me... "exposure." No I do not want to mingle for opportunities. I want to do my thing and come home and get paid. Stop bothering me.

"New York has broken the state record for flu cases in a single week. The state's 71,123 cases in the week ending Dec. 20, 2025." Yes, you can STILL get your flu shot. Flu peaks thru February but can extend to May! NYC folks, call 311. If you need a free shot, you can get it at a City hospital.

2025 in a nutshell: we're kicking ourselves in the [redacted] with robot AI, and rather than show us care or even sympathy, the AI robot is claiming that it's the one in pain

Good! An early insight of human centered design is that it was possible to reduce airplane crashes by introducing tactile switches and toggle that did not create confusion or require people to take their eyes away from their core tasks donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-origin...

A huge loss. Bob Kafka was a force as a national organizer for ADAPT who helped plan the Capitol Crawl demonstration in 1990.

Bob Kafka is interviewed in this oral history of the Capitol Crawl. He says, "We wanted to show that 'access is a civil right' is more than just words, that we were willing to take action. We wanted to make sure the statement we made was symbolic & visual." newmobility.com/the-capitol-...

I just taught my lecture course on mid-20th c US history, which starts with Harding and concludes with Nixon. For the first time, I had to pause and stress that those scandals were actually shocking at the time and, what’s more, that Americans actually demanded people be held accountable.

For about a year my brother's boss loaned him (us, because we were roommates) two mirrors that supposedly belonged to Frank Sinatra. I'm kicking myself that I never took a picture of them, but also mirrors are tough to photograph and this was pre-digital, so it makes sense.

“Vivaldi CEO Jon von Tetzchner accused other companies like Google and Microsoft of ‘reshaping the address bar into an assistant prompt, turning the joy of exploring into inactive spectatorship.’” Well, Vivaldi. You had my interest; now you have my attention

These guys never attend the panels about it taking ten or twenty years to become an "overnight sensation."

As people start reflecting on what they accomplished this past year, if you are feeling less than, remember that capitalism wants you to compete with others. Your worth is in being human, full stop. That’s it. Anything else is a bonus.

If you can make it to Bluestockings Books before 5 pm today, there are so many good and cheap books available!

The cats know Christmas is over and have started attacking the ornaments and trying to climb the center of the tree.

one of many reasons that the organized critique and refusal movement is overwhelmingly led by women (yes including women computer scientists, cognitive scientists, and engineers)

I meant to write "data out of Japan" . The data out of Australia was also concerning but if you want to know what I mean here you go. if we had a competent health agency we would have really pushed for vaccination this year.

I'm pretty ... hit or miss when it comes to the flu vaccine because I live in a mask (and my reaction to the covid vaccine means I can't take covid and flu at the same time) but the data out of Japan was so fucking concerning I stopped dragging my feet last month and got a flu shot.

I'm sharing this because sharing an NYT story about this outweighs my dislike of the publication. We have known for months because of data outside of Japan that this year's flu season was going to be bad but we have an HHS secretary that hates vaccination and so voila.

I checked a children’s book out of the library about Rose Valland. The book didn’t mention that she was queer, only that she helped save thousands of artworks that were looted by the Third Reich. There’s a book for adults about her too! youtu.be/NWLsugFoSWQ?...

Four hospitals in my city have reinstated mandatory masking.

Being the apex predator was our first mistake

I must not discourse. Discourse is the mind-killer. Discourse is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face the discourse. I will permit it to pass over me and through me.

For anyone curious about the overlaps between Bipolar I and II and ADHD, ASD, PTSD, BPD, [etc], I just made some updates to this interactive with requested definitions of terminology. I'm not a medical doctor, so none of this is advice, but this specifically is my published research area

In 2026 I want us to build not just more homes but more kinds of homes. Good kinds, I feel obligated to say. There are so many good kinds of homes and so few that we build here.

Turns out five year olds are exactly like Barbie in the Barbie movie. “You guys ever think about dying?”

Gavin Newsome talked a big game, and made a lot of promises, about health care. Many of those never came to pass, and for some Californians, our access to care has actually gotten worse.

So I see something like 20,000 people a day, at work. They blur into archetypes for me - and I get snapshots of their lives. I see folks traveling with dogs all the time, and it's wild the difference between (what I read as) secure and insecure men and their relationships with their dogs.

"Sodium is nearly 50 times cheaper than lithium and can even be harvested from seawater, making it a much more sustainable option for large-scale energy storage”

I had a dream last night that today was broken and only had 17 hours because the other ones were corrupt and couldn’t be loaded. I think I need to spend less time around computers

campuses have learning opportunities, social space, entertainment, and universities ARE healthcare. multigenerational access is net social good.

The real reason to tax billionaires isn’t to let the government spend their money, it’s to prevent them from buying government and directing how they spend our money

this administration is trying to murder one of the most brilliant services our country offers and it is so aggravating because the post office is amazing! it shouldn't need to make money it is a public good! I love it! STOP PUNCHING IT, FOR THE LOVE OF GOD