I talk to the press professionally, I'm really, really, really good at it. So please, please believe me when say you cannot turn this interview request into anything good, it will do only harm. Harm to you, harm to your child, harm to other children.

Lol

"The sandwich did not impede Officer Lairmore’s duties that night,” Sandwich Guy's lawyer argues. "A footlong from Subway could not and certainly did not inflict bodily harm.”

“If someone assaulted you, if someone offended you, would you keep a momento of their assault? Would you stick it on your daily lunchbox and carry it with you day in and day out?"

“This case, ladies and gentleman of the jury, is about a sandwich.” Closing arguments from the defense in the DC sandwich guy case are now underway.

Called it. Side note, I guarantee you that's to show the contractors where to mount the gold letters. This is going to be permanent.

Zohran Mamdani polled +40% on men under 30. So we wasted all that time on all those think pieces about how we need a Joe Rogan for the left, when what we actually needed were *policies* for the left.

In case people are curious: yes, EU5 plays fine with Proton Experimental on Steam on a Chromebook. I failed my first game because I didn't see how to prohibit exports of critical goods needed for mission completion, but that mistake will be fixed on my next restart!

Considering its extreme scarcity, its provenance, and its immaculate condition, the Lincoln Bathroom's now-destroyed #Vitrolite walls—original to the 1949-51 Truman reconstruction—were considerably more valuable than Trump's common marble-by-the-yard. #HistoricPreservation #20thCenturyPreservation

Brad Lander is at the victory party and, folks, he has the custom one-of-one “GOOD FUCKING RIDDANCE” shirt.

Mamdani: "I wish Andrew Cuomo only the best in private life but let tonight be the final time I utter his name."

… I think Dems are going to win everything today, including Georgia.

some of y'all just failed an AI media literacy test involving the bear spray :(

a bit more on $ANON, kirts involvement and his renewed arrest here:

Full story here: www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/03/c...

This story is shocking and I didn’t think I could still be shocked

it's wild how often this seems to happen at companies when they do layoff waves when i got laid off early this year, they also got laid off every other out trans woman at the company at the same time

That. That. Just. No.

And for posterity, Mamdani's last name 「曼達尼」can be interpreted as "the long, graceful path to peace". There you have it, a noble man with an incorruptible spirit, who puts down fame and fortune to take the long, winding road towards peace, despite the cold winter ahead. That's a hell of a name

Most importantly, the Chinese names are homophonous with "Zohran Kwame" when pronounced in both Cantonese (the spoken language used by first-wave Chinese immigrants from the South) and Mandarin (the spoken language used by new-wave Chinese immigrants from the North). What an absolute masterstroke.

I don't know if that's true anymore. Real newspapers have a limited scope, the erosion of local news means that the bar for stuff to get reported on is quite high, and I see stuff on TikTok all of the time that people is saying is happening in their communities that I have no way to verify

Better observability tooling enables your juniors to debug like a senior.

One of the things I think the vibe coding stuff hasn't yet really come to terms with is junior developers and owners often think the key skill for developers is ability to write code, and principal developers know the /actual/ super power that distinguishes principals is their ability to debug.

Can Dorley Hall be read as an allegory for community-based self-medding, education and support resources? Sure, stick it on the pile.

Hello, this is the Almsworth Gender and Sexual Health Service. Your call is very important to us, please hold and ensure your phone has location services switched on while we find you… a sponsor. (I presume their predicted waiting list time has to be better than Glasgow though.)

I've actually seen this one app holding several people back from switching to Linux... Resharing to get the word out that this is possible.

The big article on data centers in the New Yorker is pretty good, which I wasn’t expecting given the reaction on X. Lots of talk of the good and bad of AI, and it covers both bubble & non-bubble arguments. It also featured the best version of “I spoke to a local farmer about a data center”

Well-meaning Americans in my mentions: kindly do not recommend extremely illegal actions that could land people in the UK with a ten year prison sentence

The intimidation included threats that family members would lose visas, which is both in character and *friggin insane*

'Fun' fact: Binance was (allegedly) instrumental in financing millions for Hamas. What's more, Zhao *designed the stablecoin specifically in order to secure his pardon,* then had Qatar use the coin to buy a stake in his company. www.bugeyedandshameless.com/p/guide-to-d...

Remember the far right handwringing about the "big estrogen" lobby convincing kids to transition? Turns out they were telling on themselves with their accepting money to be fat-phobic.

Ooooh now this looks like an interesting labeler

"'I never thought leopards would eat MY face,' sobs trans woman who voted for the Leopards Eating Trans People's Faces Party."

"I consider my business settled with all trans sisters." Oh you DO, DO YOU? You stupid fucking piece of shit when I want *you* to decide if your business is settled, I will have a TAG ON MY TOE! Until that day, stay in your lane and we will tell you when your business is settled.

If people start feeling like the only way they can get the media to cover the fact that they exist and object to the way things are is to commit a crime, that's a problem.

my “not going to de-naturalize and deport my pagan foreigner wife” shirt has people asking a lot of questions already answered by my shirt

Today's winner of the "Please STFU" Award is Kat Abughazaleh. She was right to hang up! Don't talk about the facts of your federal indictment on a podcast! Or anywhere except your lawyer's office! Sincerely, Every Lawyer, Literally All Of Us, Heed Our Counsel And Shut The Fuck Up

The fallout from the fact that data science/classical machine learning & generative AI are both called "AI" has been remarkably broad & persistent Policy addresses the wrong harms, companies have been confused about who should lead efforts, hiring is misguided, academic discussion is often muddled.

In that vein: keynoted o11ycon.jp on Monday and my protections held.

They always think this, but then they are also always not smart

Here's the question. The EHRC has briefed that the draft statutory guidance is basically the same as the Interim Guidance. So why, if the draft statutory guidance gets the law right, did the EHRC choose to take down the Interim Guidance in the face of our Judicial Review?

hahahahahaha holy shit they reinvented the junk bonds from ‘08 except it’s fucking data centre leases instead of mortgages to min. wage workers

lol

I don't know how people can still make this kind of blanket anti-AI of any kind argument after what we just saw Google's DeepMind AI weather modeling do for the Hurricane Melissa forecast. That AI model was what gave the NHC sufficient confidence to start warning about a Cat 5 as early as they did.

Talk to me if you have an interesting profiling use case. I'm doing some explorations :)

Project Nimbus was full of ethical landmines that Google stepped directly on. www.972mag.com/project-nimb...

So this is what Trump came away with immediately after visiting Japan, huh?

It's not just about export restrictions, the US has no shipbuilding capacity left for Australian needs let alone South Korean and it sounds like now SK is going to cut in line?

It is also the case that there's no excess capacity between our two yards in Electric Boat (CT) and Newport News (VA) (I think maybe merged now?). Building a 3rd nuclear capable shipyard from scratch would be quite an undertaking, and Philly certainly wouldn't make sense as a location