This is all so stupid and I hate it.

Everything is so incredibly stupid.

I live in Arizona, which would have _plenty_ of water for the visible future if we made one change: Outlaw the growth of almonds, pecans, cotton, and cattle feed.

I finished _107 Days_ yesterday. The last 20 pages were *rough* I've been in a lot of therapy in my life but I really just cannot imagine being Kamala or Hillary. My God.

Tammy Faye was surprisingly complicated for an old school evangelical; much more so than the current crop of one dimensional creatures

. o O { What ever happened to Daniel Bernstein? }

Co-signed.

I retired in March, but today's React vuln should remind everyone that @charity.wtf has always been right: if you have a holiday code freeze, your build-test-deploy-rollback process is completely broken and you should not work on anything else until that's fixed.

Regarding The Essay: If you have not yet figured out in Dec. 2025 that an appeal to a strict and fair adherence to the First Amendment is a rigged game, I would like to inspect your wallet for just a moment. The Essay was a trap designed to do just this - fail and then gin up far-right grifting 1/

The fundamental flaw here is the assumption good faith when the student, her family, TPUSA, and OU itself are broadcasting their bad faith from the Bluesmobile. There is no response from the instructor that would be even remotely fair to the assignment and yet not trigger this. None.

my "worked in tech in the 90s" brain cannot comprehend wtf is going on here

Congratulations, you have learned everything you know about EULAs from Mary Ann Davidson.

Now that the hullabaloo has died down, I can reveal the absolute truth: The only correct answer is Strawberry-Rhubarb pie.

For a while there, we had rumors of a Jenette Vasquez origin story movie with Michelle Rodriguez in the lead role. In the service of all humanity, I would suspend all film production until that was in theaters.

Everything that's wrong with higher education today is encapsulated in the view that it's an industry.

TIL Edmund Fitzgerald, namesake of the ship lost with all hands in a Lake Superior storm in November 1975, had a great uncle Edmond Fitzgerald who also had a ship named after him, the Edmond Fitzgerald, which was lost with all hands in a Lake Erie storm in November 1883

There is no reality where algorithmically picking projects for maximum shareholder value creates Art like Earth Girls Are Easy

This. This right here.

the monkey's paw gives a terrible handjob

In 2028 I will vote for whoever will send Stephen Miller to The Hague.

Post your favorite Star Trek character. Wrong answers only.

Growing up in a time when “selling out” was the most shameful thing you could do and then being forced to live through the 2020s feels like being kicked in the head by a horse every day

trust is neither given nor earned. it forms naturally between people who share the experience of having listened to Skinny Puppy at or after 3 am in the dark by themselves

The ability to convince capital markets to hand you a trillion dollars on the strength of obvious bullshit paired with the inability to get a single human to sincerely and spontaneously say they love you is some real punishment of the gods shit.

I’m two hops from Donald fucking Trump.

New rule: You don’t get to host a literary theme party until you produce a 10 page précis, in the author’s voice, summarizing the theme and lesson of the book. Else, the guillotine.

Just @ me next time, OK?

I know it’s too much to expect them to know their history, but if the American Revolution had a motto, it definitely would not have been “immigrants go home.” It would have been “get your fucking soldiers out of our cities.”

Kind of amazing to think about how different the world might be today if PayPal had just... failed early on and shut down. You can trace so much nonsense today back to PayPal getting bailed out by eBay.

I had a heart attack at 49. The bill was $300,000.

Those who refuse to learn from spamhaus are condemned to forever reimplement it, badly.

We always thought John Bolton was a ham sandwich. This confirms it.

Cowboy Junkies, Powderfinger. Absolutely transformative.

Truly, Chicago is the Platonic ideal of an American city.

It seems clear—I think to everyone, now—that a false and illegal invocation of the Insurrection Act is coming before the end of the year. Media outlets should be telling us how they will prepare for this potential Treason. State governments should be telling us. Activists should be developing plans.

I've been thinking about this a lot lately. How corrosive it is that public figures are--more and more shamelessly--ripping the copper wiring out of the walls. Integrity is for suckers. Abusing power is fun. Caring about anything bigger than yourself is lame. An elite class of evil toddlers

ICE is a physical and existential threat to the fabric of this nation and they must be shut down.

Today’s tragedy at the Dallas ICE Field Office shows how dangerous anti-immigrant rhetoric has become. Words that dehumanize don’t just poison politics — they fuel violence. My thoughts are with the families who lost loved ones as we work with officials for clarity and accountability.

Everyone’s talking about the Kissinger stuff- and it’s terrible- but imagine having Cass Sunstein’s reach and influence and saying “what the country really needs right now is a good, rousing lecture about John Rawls”

I find I can’t muster a proper response to either the Tylenol madness or the U.N. appearance. At some point it is just too ridiculous. It would feel insane to offer sane commentary.

I am not even remotely kidding. If we come out the other side of this with even a rudimentary sense of justice, Miller should spend the rest of his hopefully very long life rotting away in actual, literal Spandau.

My goodness. The *joy* in this.

What share of faculty during McCarthyism were adjuncts, I wonder. I feel what this is two bad effects multiplying each other: an authoritarian MAGA that is uniquely anti-speech, and an academy that has created a vast array of always-vulnerable faculty.

In fairness, some of them aren’t LLMs, they’re just rationalists.

For those who may not know- Rao’s is a notorious mob joint where you _cannot_ get a table if you’re not connected .

The _only_ thing I will miss is being able to fondle bed pillows before buying them. With BB&B gone and Target having joined Wal-Mart as a non-starter, there's really no place left where you can pick out a good pillow in person. That's _it_.

when the AI bubble finally collapses and everyone who spent a year smugly hyping it suddenly has to come crawling back with their tail between their legs, i just want to say i am not going to be the bigger person about it. i am going to be meaner than you can even believe