I'll ditch social media altogether before I would submit to mandatory age verification just due the privacy implications. www.techdirt.com/2026/02/25/h...

My IT Director boss just called AI “Artificial Incompetence” and I think this is the best description I’ve heard yet.

I really don't care about AI in Windows Notepad but Markdown is pretty cool. blogs.windows.com/windows-insi...

Doing my part.

“The problem with the world is that the intelligent people are full of doubts. While the stupid ones are full of confidence.” — Charles Bukowski

And to think that Texas sentenced Robert Springsteen to death. Now, he's been declared innocent. Imagine if his death sentence had been carried out. www.kut.org/crime-justic...

What is it with all the Texas GOP politicians philandering lately? Aren't they reading the 10 Commandments they keep trying to get posted in public schools? www.texastribune.org/2026/02/19/t...

From the liberal rag The Wall Street Journal: “They found that American households and businesses are bearing nearly 90% of the cost of the Trump tariffs, contrary to Mr. Trump’s claim that foreigners will pay.”

Maybe someone needs to post the 10 Commandments in his office instead of worrying about posting them in schools. thebarbedwire.com/2026/02/17/k...

Doh!

“Resist much, obey little.” — Walt Whitman

First senior British royal arrested since King Charles I in 1647. Nothing like making history on your birthday, Andrew.

“People have only as much liberty as they have the intelligence to want and the courage to take.” ― Emma Goldman

Today is Ash Wednesday and it’s also the first night of Ramadan. I wish you blessings regardless of your faith. May your faith make you a kinder, more decent human being in these troubling times.

“A politician divides mankind into two classes: tools and enemies.” ― Friedrich Nietzsche

“A nation of sheep will beget a government of wolves.” ― Edward R. Murrow

“A good politician is quite as unthinkable as an honest burglar.” ― H.L. Mencken

There is a ridiculous amount of irony in fake AI generated quotes showing up in an article about AI. arstechnica.com/staff/2026/0...

“The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.” — George Orwell, 1984

“A people that elect corrupt politicians, imposters, thieves and traitors are not victims... but accomplices” ― George Orwell

“Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion against injustice and lying and greed. If people all over the world...would do this, it would change the earth.” ― William Faulkner

This piece from @mcsweeneys.net is on point.

“Totalitarianism in power invariably replaces all first-rate talents, regardless of their sympathies, with those crackpots and fools whose lack of intelligence and creativity is still the best guarantee of their loyalty.” — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism

Well, the El Paso airspace closure is over. We now return you to your regularly scheduled dumpster fire.

The Hacker News thread for the current El Paso airspace closure is an interesting read. news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4697...

It's Patch Tuesday week! Check your systems SysAdmins! krebsonsecurity.com/2026/02/patc...

“The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it's indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it's indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it's indifference.” ― Elie Wiesel

“Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities.” ― Voltaire

“I guess the only time most people think about injustice is when it happens to them.” ― Charles Bukowski, Ham on Rye

“As democracy is perfected, the office of president represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. ...

“The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil.” ― Hannah Arendt, The Life of the Mind

“We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.” ― Elie Wiesel

“When one with honeyed words but evil mind persuades the mob, great woes befall the state.” ― Euripides, Orestes

Democracy dies in darkness, smothered by a gaggle of vapid billionaires.

“In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act.” ― George Orwell

“The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by an endless series of hobgoblins, most of them imaginary.” ― H.L. Mencken

Apparently being a magician isn’t enough to make your connection to Epstein disappear. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

“Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.” ― Martin Luther King Jr.

One thing we learn from the Epstein files is how many rich/famous people are sexual predators or sexual predator adjacent.

“When an alien resides with you in your land, you shall not oppress the alien. The alien who resides with you shall be to you as the citizen among you; you shall love the alien as yourself, for you were aliens in the land of Egypt: I am the LORD your God.” - Leviticus 19:33-34 NRSV

“There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest.” ― Elie Wiesel

Oh our Minneapolis, I hear your voice Singing through the bloody mist We’ll take our stand for this land And the stranger in our midst Directed by Thom Zimny Edited by Thom Zimny and Samuel Shapiro Production Footage: Pam Springsteen and Thom Zimny

“Before mass leaders seize the power to fit reality to their lies, their propaganda is marked by its extreme contempt for facts as such, for in their opinion fact depends entirely on the power of man who can fabricate it.” ― Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism

“In every age it has been the tyrant, the oppressor and the exploiter who has wrapped himself in the cloak of patriotism, or religion, or both to deceive and overawe the People.” ― Eugene V. Debs

“The accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive, and judiciary, in the same hands, whether of one, a few, or many, and whether hereditary, self appointed, or elective, may justly be pronounced the very definition of tyranny.” ― James Madison, Federalist Papers

This is perfect.

“We are not to simply bandage the wounds of victims beneath the wheels of injustice, we are to drive a spoke into the wheel itself.” ― Dietrich Bonhoeffer

“Once a government is committed to the principle of silencing the voice of opposition, it has only one way to go, and that is down the path of… 1/2

This doesn’t bode well.

“When he is tried, let him be found guilty; let his prayer be counted as sin. May his days be few; may another seize his position.” — Psalms 109:7-8 (NRSV)