Someone lied on their resume.

I was a Junior in Wooster High School in Ohio. I was in a class where we were taught to create Crystal Radio sets, requiring an antenna and earphones. I plugged my set in and the first thing I heard was “Kennedy has been shot.” I dropped the earphones; afraid I had made the radio incorrectly.

TIL: Deming’s PDCA cycle is called the Shewhart cycle 💡 It originated from the physicist Walter Shewhart at the Bell Telephony Laboratories. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PDCA

#TodayinHistory #dataviz #Onthisday #OTD 📊 💀Mar 11, 1967 Walter A. Shewhart died in Troy Hills, New Jersey, USA 🇺🇸 1925: Development of the control chart for statistical control of industrial processes

SOMETIMES I use my Internet powers for good instead of evil

Evidence that could have been used at trial traded for social media grist.

ignore the writing. Is this an M1903 clip? Civilian Marksmanship gun?

So those of us who, under Trump, still want less powerful government and more civil liberties gotta find a new name huh? We going with "classical liberal" or what?

Good answer to the question "why would Putin attack Poland when he's already stressed in Ukraine"

Many people have always wanted plots with randomly generated buildings, roads, and decorations. Here they are:

good clouds today

it's 2025 can we not be free at last from these fucking smurfs?

Trump's abuses lend additional weight to the great economist Ronald Coase's classic 1959 argument for abolishing the FCC. We don't need a govt agency that licenses broadcasters, and such an agency is inherently dangerous to liberty: reason.com/volokh/2025/...

I will always repost on the science and practice of Quality!

One of the reasons I like Bluesky is there's less gross stupidity floating across my timeline provoking me to reply angrily.

may I speak with the primary poster in your household?

lol lmao

Was not expecting a coal shovel in the middle of the southwest freeway this morning.

Endorsed and recommended

2/ Welsh promptly announced that McCoul had been terminated. The message from Texas is alarming: Professors teach at the mercy of those in power, not under the protection of academic freedom or the First Amendment.

Anyone that has spent time looking at conspiracy sites is familiar with "Here we go!" It's a knee-jerk-reflex post that dozens of people make whenever there is news that they think (or indeed hope) heralds WW3. Trump is so pilled.

as someone who's worked in manufacturing, I can confirm this

This plane had chicken pox and it turned out fine.

are my airpods dying? ah, no, i'm listening to Boards of Canada

did now know Oscar Wilde was a QA engineer!

Pity they have never read en.wikisource.org/wiki/Gargant...

I learned this from Bonapartists in the oubliette of the Chateau d'If

I need more tech/hobby/project content on my feed. RN I'm working on: * Call buttons for my mother, who has dementia * A retro desktop PC (basically just a casemod) * A "PD Racer" small sailboat * Custom-length 2-gauge cables for my hurricane power inverter * A 3d printed floating pool light

It does get to why so many figured out ways to support Trump's interventions into markets: Markets were cool when they generated wealth without upsetting the social/cultural status quo. But once market choices became engines for social change, it became time to rein them in.

Jury nullification is a decision by a jury to return a verdict of not guilty even though the defendant has broken the law, stemming from the belief that the law is unjust, that the prosecutor has misapplied it, that the punishment is too harsh, or from general frustration with the legal system.

Well I'm far from under 35, but it's a good podcast if you're looking for one. Recent topics include, yes, Demosthenes but also: * _Nineteen Eighty-Four_ * Bertold Brecht * Twelfth Night, or What You Will * The Valladolid Debate * Virgil's Georgics * Paul Erdos * Chartism * Superconductivity

New sneaky approach. "Click here to add this innocuous text to your clipboard so you can paste it into Terminal" Narrator voice: "It was not actually innocuous."

Much like "crab", industrial music is constantly re-evolving from first principles basically anywhere where there's a bunch of metal and plastic laying about

We all live in a capital i, in the center of the desert, in the middle of the sky.

sometimes youtube's captions do the right thing

Two podcasts in a row in my queue today about the militarization of ICE and the border. www.qanonanonymous.com and www.mercatus.org/hayekprogram... How's that for an odd couple? The fusion of JSOC and ICE is gonna be a hell of a thing.

My brother sent me this

Trying to decide whether to be angry at people for not changing their minds in the face of obvious facts, vs marveling at how fickle their principles are.

I can confidently say I am quite a bit more libertarian than Charles Murray, and yes, one's gender identity is a personal choice we should respect, and libertarian first principles demand that.

Jon Lovett’s face when LA City Councilmember Imelda Padilla said she forced an affordable housing project to go down from six stories to three stories and add in EV charging spaces

You know you're old if... your computer was ever plugged into a print spooler/sharer

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only 👏 australians 👏 can 👏 have 👏 kangaroo 👏 fursonas

Humans spend 31% of our lives sleeping We spend 4.7% eating And we spend 8.4% authenticating

You make a great point…*checks notes*… Big Farts 4 20

I'm not on here to argue with people. I'm on here to read things from people I find insightful. And also some shitposting. Sorry. I just can't help it.

Once you start believing in metaphors there's no turning back.