I'm expecting that canceling 10% of the flights will also cause the remaining flights to be more expensive.

Close tie for the best victory speech tonight. Zohran Mamdani's victory speech I love it when politicians speak to their listeners in language that rises to meet the elevation of the moment, rather than lowering itself to what they assume is the least common denominator. www.cnn.com/2025/11/05/p...

Honestly, one of the best and heart-full victory speeches I can recall. Abigail Spanberger, next governor of Virginia. www.youtube.com/watch?v=TbzQ...

If you haven't yet watched the documentary "The Last Republican", I recommend you do. It is available on a many streaming services.

Nobody ever says why the super-secret Republicans healthcare plan needs to be super-secret for 15+ years. Are they afraid that the amazing details in it will be adopted and people will be healthy too soon. Maybe other countries will steal their amazing health ideas and then we couldn’t use them?

Latest Executive Order: In response to the government shutdown, the U.S. will add one Daylight Savings hour every Sunday until lawmakers return to work. Clocks will now advance only marginally faster than Congress.

It’s okay to be glad that restaurants are doing stuff like this AND absolutely furious about the utter failure of the United States government.

thank you!! 🫶🏻

it costs $0 to link to @wired.com's story that broke the news here www.wired.com/story/nancy-...

A fun and safe Halloween evening to everyone, especially the kids.

Crap, crap, crap. Nerd mistake. Just ran "sudo apt full-upgrade -y" over SSH on a Raspberry Pi that hasn’t had a system upgrade in 5 years. Now I’m being held hostage by my own terminal. Can’t let the laptop sleep for the next 90 minutes. #SysadminStockholmSyndrome

Just like those ever-growing giant pumpkins are the unofficial signal that autumn is rolling in, the rising count of how many hot dogs someone can down at the Nathan’s contest is basically the same kind of fun harbinger for summertime.

I wrote about Electric Nebraska and what it felt like listening to Bruce's holy grail: www.sydney-bauer.com/the-dysphori...

Today's Apple Snack Gang review -- the Winesap. With bonus thoughts on eating apples and performing simple, meditative, mindful tasks in this chaotic fucking shitbucket of an era.

“Why would you want to build an AI that’s smarter than humans?” - Gordon-Levitt

GOOD NEWS! A groundbreaking study of MORE THAN 1,000 people reveals that cancer patients who received a COVID-19 mRNA vaccine within 100 days of starting immunotherapy lived dramatically longer than those who didn’t. In some cases, their survival rate was DOUBLED.

I recently changed my Bluesky profile pic to just the original sketches I used for the tattoos instead of my actual calves. Didn’t want it looking like I was launching a leg-influencer side hustle.

ok who did this? ☹️

"but friends of mine who live in the area called last night to ask me not to go forward with the surge" Sounds like some serious and in depth analysis of the situation.

Is it naive to assume there’ll be an audit showing how much was spent, who paid for it, who got paid, and how many of them orbit the Trump universe?

Beer geek time. I‘d like it if sours would list their pH or Total Acid. IBUs were rare a decade ago, but customers self educated and now it’s common. Some indication of tartness could help consumers to better identify what they like and have a much easier time dialing into what they want.

Gift Link www.nytimes.com/live/2025/10...

Apparently the Overton window wasn’t shifting fast enough, so they brought in a bulldozer.

Another disturbing example of how Trump silences dissent: "the chief content officer for our parent company... stated in a meeting that we should not run articles that could draw the attention of the Trump White House and have them try to shut us down." www.politico.com/news/magazin...

Key phrase: “Trump is faking consent“. Doesn’t only apply here. It’s his modus operandi.

I kind of feel like the whole ”If the Biden administration had done this, imagine what they would’ve done” retort has lost any impact. Right up there with the phrase “unprecedented”. The first one is now a given, and something is only unprecedented and novel until it becomes the norm.

MACA Make America Creepy Again.

#NoKings event in Fairhope, Al. A woman was arrested for "lewd conduct" because she was dressed in penis suit with a sign that said "No dick-tator" 3 cops on a 53 yo woman.

Apparently, it’s possible to protest without storming the Capitol or attacking the police. Who knew?

I love reading content from people who love to write, particularly when they are this good at it.

Laws are not self-executing. Is this an obvious Hatch Act violation? Of course. But without good men and women in government faithfully executing the laws, it doesn't matter. When this is all over, assuming we still have a constitutional government, there needs to be an accounting.

Apparently, there are 2 survivors of the extra-judicial missile strikes against Venezuelan boats in international waters. Questions are: - Are these the first survivors? - Or, are these the first we've recovered? - Or, are these only the first we're hearing about? www.navytimes.com/news/your-na...

Wow, that turned around pretty fast.

The worst habits in the "Tech Industry", seemingly baked right into it, is that every new technology gets either hyped to the heavens or demonized into oblivion, many times at the same time. The loudest voices, biggest investors, and most self-appointed prophets always seem to take the bullhorn.

There is something really weird happening here, right?

This brings us up to 4 out of 9. Schools have until 10/20 to respond. Let's see what the other 5 do. This really is what it means to be on one side or the other of history. www.latimes.com/california/s...

Sometimes, you just need to search. Tonight was "Slurp Juice" usage:

I’m really getting tired of the Gen X bashing. Let’s be honest, it’s mostly a mix of jealousy, regret, and sadness over missed opportunities.

This thread hits it on the nose. I lived through, participated in, and survived start-ups in the pre/post dot-com meltdown, & it was exactly this. The loud narratives were only that, Loud. Real truths were in the boring but sane middle. Yes, the technology will be transformative, but ignore the hype

“The sight of this man presenting himself as a great peacemaker, bathing in praise from other nation’s leaders, creates in me whiplash—a sickening level of cognitive dissonance.” www.americaamerica.news/p/cognitive-...

At least I'm happy that we have move beyond the categorizing into animal, vegetable, and mineral.

MIT firmly in the No column for the Compact. Good for them. Is anybody maintaining a score card with other 8 institutions?

There seems to be a proliferation of "I Asked ChatGPT What Would Happen If ... — Here’s What It Said" This is all derivative, meta, lazy, AI Slop. And, I suspect that the whole piece, including the parts leading up to whatever questions are asked, and any commentary about the answers are GenAI too.

I thought I'd put the administration's proposed "compact" with universities in context, so I wrote the blog post below. It's especially for journalists covering this story! Many details about how the compact itself works and why the administration has retreated to this strategy.

Separation of church and sexual predators.

We are thrilled to announce that our NEW Large Language Model will be released on 11.18.25.

hey @nytimes.com: there is no counterpoint here. There are no credible legal experts who would EVER say that the US military has any right or authority to blow civilian craft out of the Caribbean and kill their crews from afar without any provocation. There is no other side to this question.

one of 50, one of 100? 500, 1000, googol? I feel we need to move to logarithm scales.

Book Iist has run dry. Time to build back my list. Not big on fiction. Lean towards Science, Maths, & Historical. Recommendations?