You’re absolutely right — you are Pagliacci. It would certainly be difficult for you to attend your own performance! I should not have given such paradoxical advice, and I apologize deeply for the error. There is no excuse for my failure.

Let me get this straight: we trained this guy to be an elite killer, abandoned his country to the Taliban, isolated him, arbitrarily banned him from working and so left his family unsupported. I don’t know if there’s any more efficient way of producing a mental health crisis outside of torture.

My grandfather supported a family of four on a single hose man income. The American dream was alive and well back then.

No, this is period appropriate. Back then vomit hose man was a respectable and well paid career before we automated it out of existence.

Why it matters

Revisiting some classics tonight www.sirlin.net/ptw-book/int...

I Think Her Party Should Be Making Statements In Her Defense And The Greater Somali Community

Last week, ICE arrested and separated a father and son after a routine check-in. Six-year-old Yuanxin had just enrolled in the first grade at an elementary school in Astoria. Now he's in custody, alone. ICE won't say where. This cruelty serves no one. It must end.

They’re terrorizing latinos with ethnic pogroms and torturing them in camps, they’re executing random people in the ocean, they’re threatening to overthrow the entire government of a latin American country, and they’re openly collaborating with the Russian regime.

They didn’t read Luigi Mangione his Miranda rights? And searched his bag without a warrant??? globalnews.ca/news/1155242...

Why can't the right win without gerrymandering? Why can't the right uphold free speech when it isn't about them? Why can't the right mind their own business? Why is the right the party of Fuck Your Feelings until it's time to joke about that mediocre podcaster who caught one in the neck?

EAST BAY FOLKS! I'm gonna be in this show at Rock Paper Scissors Collective in Oakland next week! come out and say hi and see my piece (and a lot of other cool art too!)

btw, it's this piece:

Broke: "I want justice." Woke: "I want justice, but I'll settle for revenge." Bespoke: "I want revenge. If we accidentally get justice along the way as a byproduct, fine."

'Tis the season to share this paper again: Pinto, Laura & Nemorin, Selena. (2015). 'Elf on the Shelf' and the normalization of surveillance. Our Schools Our Selves. 24. 53-62.

a lot of people debating the merits of that dogshit essay meanwhile the girl’s mom is retweeting demands to ban all trans people from teaching at any level. it’s forest for the trees shit

posting bangers in my mind palace

Bonus Easter egg here as well: The fact that an order is issued does not, by definition, make it legal. Someone in the White House and DoD should really read the manual before operating the equipment.

Like, for example, what does the US Department of Defense use as a literal example of a "clearly illegal order?" Why, it's firing upon shipwrecked sailors! JFC

[and yet you participate in society meme] We should ensure everyone can breath

I hate that I have to have a voice line. The only people I ever want to receive phone calls from are family and friends. Everyone else can take a hike.

LET'S FUCKEN GO DUDE so excited to work with the Astral folks. Lots of work to be done but this can be awesome.

I swear to god I'm gonna have to write something like my old DNS propagation check poller that lets me monitor the Bazel Central Registry until releases land so that I can queue tasks that are sequentially dependent on BCR releases going up. What an absolute dumpster fire.

I guess they do not teach keyboarding anymore, on top of not teaching printing and handwriting. I wonder how many other "basic skills" we take for granted are no longer as common as our technology and society assumes to be.

This is deeply satisfying boing.greg.technology

All of this. So frustrating to me that scheduled password changes and such are often contractually mandated "best practices" when they're completely the wrong things. www.hacklore.org/letter

"Local policies — including energy codes, climate taxes and electrification programs — also play a role. But the inventory suggests that Xcel’s changing electricity mix accounts for roughly 81% of reductions since 2018."

Guess who fucked up and bought 360 1u boxes instead of buying 16u boxes. #starcitizen

I have met rich (not ultra rich) people, and they are laundering company stock into charities into political donations. Your doctor isn't rich and neither is that annoying programmer, sorry.

Mark Kelly: "This president, when he says things like 'third world countries,' what is he really saying? I think what he's saying is he doesn't want brown people in our country. And that's disturbing. It's un-American."

{fast,reproducible} choose two

The dipshit "things are hard" vs the chad "make them easier"

bazel managed fully cached hermetic and reproducible Python environments

Finally getting some theological clarity on the ethics of reclining in one’s plane seat

It’s incredibly funny people flipped out about a guy running the most standard ass municipal government policy playbook imaginable.

Imagine showing a petrol engine to someone who had only known electric vehicles, and trying to convince them to switch to petrol. No-one would choose the dirty, noisy, less efficient, more expensive vehicle. This isn't 1910, hostage to gender insecurity. We can just choose the better tech.

Zero reckoning from any of the elites who credulously parroted the absurd idea that the right wing was in favor of free speech.

There is no constitutionally legitimate scenario in which we are being de facto governed by the White House Deputy Chief of Staff using a half-dead president as his sock puppet. We went out of our way to amend the Constitution on precisely this point.

To be explicit, we executed a German U-Boat commander who said he had to sink lifesaving gear / “inadvertently” kill survivors because it might give away his position, thereby potentially resulting in the loss of his submarine. We executed multiple members of that crew.

Every single congressional Democrat needs to be out there, right now, insisting that Pete Hegseth resign right now and announcing that he will be held accountable for committing war crimes. If you do not demand accountability here and now, they will only become more emboldened.

A new report from Germany has labeled the Model Y the most defect-ridden new car you can buy. Read More: www.jalopnik.com/2035447/tesl...

uncle after two beers: i built a resident evil style research facility under my farmhouse

In the long term this is what will kill what's left of America's miniscule credibility in MENA: US-backed ceasefires are when the Arab ceases and Israel continues to fire. And this is not a Trump problem, but a bipartisan problem. This "ceasefire" was achieved by the previous president.

happy turkey day

I removed the single em dash from this Reddit comment I wrote by hand, and then it allowed me to post it. We live in hell.

"Go Birds, Fuck ICE, Free Palestine" Seen in Philadelphia over the Schuylkill River.

US defense firm Anduril faces setbacks from drone crashes, including in a recent Air Force test, reported here for the first time reut.rs/3XFSBtb

So the gang talked me into playing star citizen. Which is visually delicious. Having the brain I have and being presented with a new space game, I immediately go for the trading min/max because of course. BUGS HAVE NOW EATEN MORE CREDS THAN I'VE HAD AT ANY POINT IN TIME.