shorter Anthropic: lol fuck you, you’re way out over your skis and we’re going to beat your asses in court

Finally organized some of my breakout boards into a repo and published it. These breakouts are narrower (but longer) than many other options. If you need breakouts for SOIC, TSSOP or SOT-23, help yourself! github.com/kimballa/bre...

You read about prior authoritarian regimes rounding up their opponents ("dissidents") and various groups and also "intellectuals"... Like why would they purge the smart people? Shouldn't they want smart workers, etc? No. Authoritarianism is stupid. The thing can only hold up in stupid minds.

I just want to call out she's wearing *flats*. Not boots. Not even running sneakers. She's bringing the same level of normal chill to this activity as stepping out down the street for a smoothie. Absolutely zero fucks given.

Giant foghorn doing what it can to make it seem like this game is actually exciting

May need to revise that quote about "nobody ever wrote a song called 'Fuck the Fire Dept.'"

The dry humor embedded in functional requirements like "a quality gas mask should last through normal wear and tear, like getting beaten or thrown around by the police" alongside anodyne product review bullet points may put this article in the running for best capture of American zeitgeist for 2026.

Fuck these kapos

I'm calling my senator right now about this. (if you don't want to talk to a person, call after hours! Leave a message!)

Interesting mini-lesson about terminology choice by the civil rights advocates.

Genuine question: I hear about so many people spending tons of time in Minneapolis guarding schools or street corners or otherwise heckling ICE. (inspirational) Are folks all just taking time off work to do this? Are workplaces functionally shut down during the occupation anyway?

Unclear to me if this fucking five year old kid getting kidnapped is breaking through outside of the Twin Cities and I don’t want to speak for anyone else but this has really steeled my resolve. This shit cannot be allowed to stand.

ICE are abducting 5 year olds, using them as bait to get to their family, and shipping them to a Texas concentration camp all in a single day. We need a Nuremberg for everyone involved. Abolish ICE isn't enough.

Absolutely incredible. Someone submit this for a Pulitzer for Commentary.

This whole thread is literally a ride

Genuinely solid cooking research Now makes me wonder if I need to up the canned tomatoes game in my chili recipe. ... Or if it's about sugar content, should I just add a spoonful of brown sugar to the pot? 🤔

This is a perfect piece of technical writing. alexharri.com/blog/ascii-r...

“I learned from them very early that what one does with Nazis is kill them,” he said at a 2023 conference on antinuclear activism in Johannesburg. “I am not a pacifist.” Absolute gigachad shit

I really want ppl w/o Minneapolis connections to understand You might've heard that Mpls public schools went hybrid bc so many families are in hiding. Well, a coworker just told me that today, during his kid's hybrid class, a kid's apt building was raided onscreen *Everyone has stories like this*

National net support for "abolish ICE" at -2% is within the margin of error. Genuinely the median Democrat opinion is "abolish ICE" at this point.

Ballshit

If you are a resident of California, the state now has a portal where you can demand deletion of your personal data from 500+ registered data brokers with a single request form, for free. consumer.drop.privacy.ca.gov

Wait, the name of the NYC metro's train announcer is Bernie WAGONBLAST? That is the most incredible nominative determinism I've heard in years

Oh, so many good options - Money for Nothing by Dire Straits. (or Weird Al's spoof) - Hypnotize by Notorious BIG for its over the top story - ...Anything by Michael Jackson ever (is Thriller too cliche?) - ...Mariah Carey's "Fantasy" may have triggered my first celeb crush as a teenager.

Happy Pop-Tarts Bowl Day to all who celebrate

And Tiny Tim, who did NOT die, sighed a weary sigh as he stepped into his power armor frame. "War," he whispered. "War never changes."

Watching /Goodbye June/, about a bunch of adult children who don't really fit together coming to terms with their mother dying. (It's a Christmas movie!) Anyway the actors completely nail insufferable family dynamics because halfway thru I am ready to reach thru the TV and murder the lot of them.

This thread being updated live is one of the most cyberpunk things I've seen in a minute

Again, from Michael Grynbaum, here is Sharyn Alfonsi's full email. It must be read:

Quick quiz: how many people in S.F. were killed by Waymos this week? How many people in S.F. were killed by human drivers this week? (The answers are zero and two, but no one would know that from the reactions today.)

The moment when AI news summaries accidentally create the murder mystery we deserve

Rolls Royce? Sure, what else do you do. But how do you spend $1MM on *bedding*? I have gone thru multiple custom mattresses over the years, but I'm still definitely below $10k total. I never fathomed this level even existed, much less getting on it.

As I understand it: - Data center scale is largely gated by cooling capacity (raw HVAC size, or available HVAC input power) - Dumping surplus heat into vacuum is one of the biggest challenges in anything space-related. So how do "data centers in space" possibly work at any meaningful scale?

Spent part of the evening hanging out with a lady going thru my in-laws' stuff for an estate sale, sorting junk from valuable. She put old boxes w/ MS Office CDs from 20 yrs ago in the "keep" pile. People will buy the older editions bc then they get software w/o paying a monthly subscription.

Film you’ve seen more than six times. Hard mode: no Stars (Wars nor Trek), LOTR, or Marvel.

Holy fuck

Ok, weekend project done: @museum.of.emilyk.art 's Frog of Righteousness now welcomes any visitors to our home.

Behold, the humble potato:

What the hell is going on in New York today? Are they OK over there?

Language models are the essence of moisture

Lyft has started blatantly lying about pickup ETA. I'm amazed this isn't a consumer protection law issue yet

Indivisible in an email tonight, starting project to primary Senate capitulators: "At some point, you gotta either change your leaders’ minds or you gotta change your leaders. And the time for changing minds is over."

My Alma mater living up to its founder's famous principle: “I would found an institution where any person can find instruction in any study, as long as the Fascists approve.” - Ezra Cornell, probably. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/07/u...

I just gotta know who are the 7% of NYC voters motivated enough to get out and vote in an otherwise odd year, but so low education or so delusional they bothered to cast a vote for Silwa. I need a 5,000 word profile on one of them, stat.

So apparently NYC got a Democratic mayor over dick Cheney's dead body.

A reminder that if you think Governor Newsom's stance on trans youth in sports is pathetic, you can let him know right here! www.gov.ca.gov/contact/ Takes two minutes. Feels cathartic to remind him he'll never be president if he can't grow a spine.

In light of today's antisemitism, your periodic reminder that it used to be US Government policy to shoot nazis on sight. We can bring it back. A better tomorrow is possible.

"Tzefardea Tzedek" (Frog of Righteousness) As soon as the Portland Frog became a meme, Jewish social media blew up with jokes about the 2nd Passover plague - tzefarde'a (frogs) - and the Rabbinical commentary around it. I knew I had to make a calligraphy piece encompassing all of it. (more in alt.)

Had some time last night and I wrote up a small analysis of how a fairly new comparator IC (TLV1871) is super handy for interfacing audio-rate analog signals with digital logic. blog.gremblor.com/2025/10/grem...