I feel like this whole thing could break open an hour from now or never, and I'm so, so sick of that feeling. The best time to burn it all down was at least a decade ago. The second best time is now.

Even the most basic back-of-the-napkin math (ignoring physics and cost) on space data centers shows it's ludicrous. Putting a medium-sized terrestrial data center in space would take something like 10-20 ISS-sized structures that each had 15X more solar arrays.

I don't think CBP needs laser trucks.

This is the best they've got.

Playing to an audience of one will be good practice for Trump officials when the only human contact they have is their cellmate.

Defeating this party balloon cost us like $15M, right?

Bondi's performance today better lead to actual consequences. She's the Attorney General of the United States, not the Congressperson from Podunk, West Dakota.

I don't want to brag about my life, but I'm eating some mac-and-cheese and running thousands of Jaccard Similarity and Cosine Similarity scores, so I'm just saying things are pretty good.

My connection lagged briefly when I saw @atrupar.com's post, and I think this capture says it all (the dramatic Massie eye-roll):

Bondi's entire career and probably staying out of prison rest on Trump and only Trump. She's never going to turn on him. That's the very definition of being compromised.

Tells you all you need to know, IMO ...

So -- noting this is an unfolding story and pure chaos right now -- those "cartel drones" might actually be our own drones going haywire (monitoring the cartels) and *not* drones operated by the cartels.

Honestly think we're going to look back on vibe-coding in the same way we (well, some of us) look back on building websites in Microsoft FrontPage.

Controversial opinion, but I don't think that the lady who took bribes to bail out a fake university that defrauded 6,000 people should be Attorney General of the United States.

Ah, so it *is* a desperate distraction from the Epstein files.

"Never ascribe to malice that which is adequately explained by incompetence and also malice."

Genuinely wonder how the Musk true believers (i.e. not the grifters who know he's full of shit) feel about this sudden shift from building a city on Mars to building moon catapults.

There should be a national day of apology (annually) to every person who's been accused of "overreacting" re: Trump this past decade, and probably two days for women.

Of course, Bill Barr is in there. I really try to steer clear of conspiracy theories, but at this point the conspiracy is staring us right in the face and laughing.

February 3, 2026 was the second-highest temperature ever record on MozCast, at 140.4°, and the first-highest (August 15, 2024) was at least partially due to a confirmed bug.

Anyone know if this Google Discover Core Update has any crossover with organic results, or are those algos completely separate? Rankings flux has been off the charts the first half of February so far.

Gonna kick off the Lunar New Year in a week with a bowl of meat and ferments, like any normal human person.

I know this is the 739th least terrible thing in the news, but I can't get that RFK meat and "ferments" comment out of my head. His carnivore diet and role in our healthcare aside, there were just so many possible normal answers, like "I'm gonna grill up some steaks" or "I love buffalo wings."

"TRUMP'S ONLY BEEN PRESIDENT FOR 13 MONTHS! PLUS 4 YEARS BEFORE THAT! PLUS, YOU KNOW, THOSE 4 YEARS IN BETWEEN HE COULD'VE WORKED ON STUFF! THIS YEAR WILL BE THE YEAR, THOUGH!!"

"I never saw Jeff again ... except when I saw him outside because he lived nextdoor to me, and when I took my whole family to his private island, and when we invested in a business together. But only those times, at least until more emails are released!"

You could pay off the national debt in one day by having an event where you paid $10,000 each to smack the smug grin off of one of Trump's sycophants.

Lutnick single-handedly shatters the idea of the meritocracy daily.

So, one day with limited access to some of the unredacted files, and Congressfolk have already confirmed 6 co-conspirators? Guessing Bondi and Blanche will be looking for excuses to shut down that access ASAP.

This is stuck in my head recently -- Japanese song/duo (and used as an anime theme), but with a Latin beat: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ce6y...

To anyone still under some delusion that I'm an intellectual -- I laughed for a solid minute at this.

On a less serious note, I decided last night that the smartest thing any company could do re: Super Bowl advertising is sponsor the hand towels players keep tucked in their pants. Those things probably get 30 minutes of air-time throughout the game.

Puppy Bowl vs. Kid Rock numbers are the Super Bowl stats I've been most anticipating ...

Just realized that my notes file documenting the 1,000 data points I collected via 3 different methods could be misconstrued ...

U.K. might lose a prime minister because a guy who worked for him knew another guy who hung out with Epstein. Meanwhile the U.S. opposition party is telling our President, who was Epstein's best friend, that his secret police should get better training so their public street murders look less messy.

So, Erica Kirk didn't even show up for her TPUSA halftime show, and it's not clear if Trump watched any of it?

Congrats to the AI billionaires for achieving the impossible and making me wish for more online gambling ads.

All I'm saying is that if the Bears were down 29-7 right now, the game would still be interesting.

Whoa, Seahawks did that thing that isn't a field goal.

Remember that Trump hates the NFL because he poured money into the USFL and it was a train-wreck. Everything is a petty grudge, and every one of his many failures is someone else's fault.

We could've had the Bears down by 30 now and watched them come back to win 42-39.

Meanwhile, Budweiser: "look at the baby bird and the pony -- oh, wait, ITS A FUCKIN' EAGLE RIDING A HORSE!" Only ad that also played on the Kid Rock halftime.

Realizing 15 minutes later that that was Ricky Martin.

Rep. Thomas Massie, R-Ky., and Rep. Robert Garcia, D-Calif., the ranking member on the House Oversight Committee, called on Howard Lutnick to resign amid revelations that the Commerce secretary had more extensive dealings with Epstein than he previously disclosed… www.cnbc.com/2026/02/08/e...

I'd really like know Rep. Massie's path re: the Epstein Files, because I'd sure love to see it repeated across Congress.

Racism, antisemitism, socialism, Presbyterianism, antifascism, both-sidesism -- it's all basically the same, right? Such absolute cowardice to normalize this bullshit.

If you're an anime fan and liked The Good Place and/or Lost, check out AngelBeats -- goofy name, but surprisingly good. Single season and one of the better endings I've seen in a while.

How did I not know until yesterday that season 2 of Frieren had started?

If I had a dollar for every penis-adjacent story out of the Winter Olympics this year, I'd still only have $2, but that seems like a lot.

Coping this week by re-organizing the pantry and the kitchen island and the overflow pile of random crap next to the pantry. With two teenagers, this will last for 27 minutes.

In other news, my wife is out of town, and I've decided that maybe we don't need 7 canvas bags of plastic bags jammed under the kitchen island.