At last we understand the true meaning of the HTTP 500 error.

Do not assume that your prior experience with dangerous discourse prepares you to operate in these conditions. Engaging in discourse during this discourse emergency makes you a danger not only to yourself, but to anyone who is tempted to join in the discourse either on your behalf or in opposition.

Due to prevailing rhetorical conditions, the discourse level this evening is DANGEROUS and potentially LIFE THREATENING. All avenues of discourse are hereby CLOSED and discourse is PROHIBITED until the discourse emergency has passed. This has been a message from the National Discourse Service.

So apparently rolling the orange rocket out to Pad 39B is bad for it. I guess 31.6 billion USD wasn't enough money to be able to afford vibration testing. Good thing the vehicle won't experience any vibrations when doing its actual job. #WeAreGoing arstechnica.com/space/2026/0...

Another entry for the International Deranged Signs archive.

Right? I’m like why is NASA telling us that the launch window will be “impacted” and then Isaacman saying it’s off the table. Don’t love that.

Software engineers crying, rending their garments, ripping out chunks of hair, all like "we understood the bargain; we knew that to have this career we would have to make peace with reinvention, an industry built on foundations of quicksand; but not like this - don't make me write natural language"

Don't even get get me started on how an AUSA, in a sworn declaration filed in federal court, complains about how many habeas cases they have and how hard it's making their life. Pathetic.

Raided the camps to confiscate the letters from the kidnapped kids. Classic Good Guy behavior.

My immutable infrastructure at work: it starts in the off state and it's so immutable that it stays in the off state. #linux #bootc

I mean our son likes his special blankie too. He's 4.

Strength is not always movement. Sometimes it is stillness. Sometimes it is patience. Sometimes it is the quiet refusal to be carried away by the storm. -Lucian Coldwater (pictured in meditation) Photocred: cheokolateblog on IG

Found an additional graphic that gets even more of these quotes together. I've kept "I hate myself, I hate clover, and I hate bees" pinned above my desk since I first started studying evolutionary biology as an undergraduate. So relatable to get extremely frustrated with your study system.

Interesting attempt to summarize Europe's deterrence options/dilemmas on page 56 of the @munsecconf.bsky.social European deterrence report. securityconference.org/en/publicati...

Take it from a former incident commander and coordinator of incident commanders: You cannot operate at incident tempo forever. A week, two weeks, a month at the outside. Then you need a month off. Package work up, hand it off. Let stuff lie that can. Rest, recover. It’ll be here when you’re back.

Ultramarines getting ready to cheer on their athletes at the 2026 Winter Olympics #warhammer40k

For balance, the BBC added that a cat is fine with the policy.

Yeah but he would say that wouldn't he

The alien ambassador sidled through the museum in awe. "You Humans have so much art! Do you have machines to make all paintings, poems, stories and songs?" "We experimented with that, briefly," the guide said. "But humans are both cheaper and more creative. And, well, we will make art regardless."

"Professional plane enthusiast" = neurospicy

Imagine if your lawyer submits an AI-generated court brief so bad that the judge says "goddamn dude, fuck you" and rules against you before it even goes to trial. That is what actually happened here lmao

I legit don’t know if I will ever get past this ad I saw walking to an appt this morning in soho. And yes, it’s a company that uses human sounding AI voice bots to take over your customer service calls.

Masterful summary by @sciguyspace.bsky.social of the extraordinary state of the SLS. For a long time I was supportive of flying the rockets already built, but if you're not iteratively improving because each vehicle is bespoke, then you're not learning and it can't become safe. #space #launch #moon

The number one debugging technique most teams rely on after an alert goes off is, "Who wrote that code? Who shipped that diff? Find that person so they can explain what is happening." What happens when no one has that deep knowledge? What happens when code must be understood from first principles?

This analysis of an allision that happened off Queensland in 2024 by @mercoglianos.bsky.social was fascinating, but as you watch the footage and see the depiction on Marine Traffic it's amazing to see how crowded the anchorage off Hay Point is. So many other vessels. www.youtube.com/watch?v=mHzC...

A free Termagant. They sure went all out on that one. #warhammer40k

I have a program which takes GitHub Actions events in via a webhook, turns them into traces, and sends them to Honeycomb. Looks like they had a Bad Day™ for a few hours today. Every workflow timed out at 15 minutes! Cool that I was able to catch it. #opentelemetry

maybe a different clerk than the one assigned to footnotes, who also served with distinction here

Haiti’s TPS continues for now!!!!! And zowie: https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.dcd.283214/gov.uscourts.dcd.283214.124.0_1.pdf

Judge Reyes starts with a comparison: George Washington versus Kristi Noem.

Somebody forgot to take his dried frog pills

🇺🇸❗️🇬🇱 Donald Trump stated that the United States is not planning a military invasion of Greenland, but intends to acquire its territory. He never considered Greenland as the 51st state, as that spot is reserved for 🇨🇦Canada… 🫠 Greenland will become 52nd state, and 🇻🇪Venezuela become the 53rd.

*sigh* “i will replace you with a very small shell script” becomes reality

one problem is that people are using full remote LLMs like claude to run their heartbeat by default which is *fucking insane* - like the guy who pinged claude every minute to see if the sun was out. first off, no, you query a weather service and get sunrise/sunset data once. second. RUN IT LOCALLY

Missed out on seeing the presentations at Everything Open 2026 in Canberra? We are pleased to announce that our keynote presentations are now available to watch! Subscribe to our channel and keep checking the playlist for all the conference videos coming soon. #EverythingOpen #EO2026

I am, thankfully, not an authoritarian government, but if I were the first fucking thing I'd do is just make all weird phones illegal and then arrest everyone who has one

The most essential function of a court is to exercise the monopoly on arbitrating disputes and to enforce that against extra-judicial... blood feuds, ultimately. You cannot more fundamentally strike at what the court's job is in hearing a case than going outside that process w/ your own coercion.

Defendants in that case (incl. MN) should raise this immediately if Bondi sent that letter as it's described, as a response to this murder, making threats and explicitly tying it to if the state caves in ongoing litigation. That is... to even call it obstruction falls short of the gravity of it.

It's astonishing, but this is sanctionable misconduct in that case, and also criminally referable. A party to a case is literally threatening the other, with violence and retaliation, outside of the court. This is no different from walking up to them on the courthouse steps and threatening a party.

Last talk before I had to get on the road, Andrew Bolin speaking about lessons learned programming FPGAs for the SKA-Low at #everythingopen #eo2026. Nice to finally see some technical detail about a fascinating topic.

Experienced web dev @doubleedesign.bsky.social talking about pitfalls when you decide to build your own code. Not that you shouldn't! but there are many ... sins ... that you can be trapped by. #everythingopen #eo2026

Democracy Dies In Darkness Anyhow, can witchcraft cure baldness?

Finished my talk about the Technique procedures language at #everythingopen #eo2026. Such a delight to finally speak publicly about something I've been working on for over 20 years. 2026.everythingopen.au/schedule/pre...

Enjoying an overview of the Australasian Inter-Service Incident Management System from @aduckismyfiend.bsky.social. Getting people to collaborate effectively in an emergency is hard! #everythingopen #eo2026

This will be a treat: an update on the Square Kilometre Array from JC Guzman #everythingopen #eo2026

Looking forward to Jacinta Richardson speaking about Chaos Theory and how it applies to software engineering. #everythingopen #eo2026.

Really enjoying opening keynote at #everythingopen from @kyliemcdevitt.bsky.social about experiences determining patterns in device security [weaknesses]. What's interesting is although she's using IoT analysis examples, this explicitly all applies to the compute infrastructure we build, too #eo2026