Meta are using “AI” to generate advertising for their own advertisers, without consent or control by the advertisers. This is not protected by §230 at all.

Finally, after a decade plus of wearing suspenders with metal buckle things, I clued in that if I know I’m flying to just not put them on the morning of the flight and pack them in my backpack for after security. I’m fucking slow but eventually I learn.

My wander around Madrid petered out after an hour. Kind of want dinner now but it’s way too early.

8:20 pm Ed thinks 4:00 pm Ed was smart to check the carry on on an oversold flight but now wants 4:00 pm Ed to figure out where the bag is at Barajas so 8:22 pm Ed can go to the hotel and sleep.

Waiting to board my flight out of Luxembourg after a ridiculously short visit to “reclaim” my citizenship. Now to Madrid to retrieve my national identity card. Both activities would have been unimaginable two years ago.

Note to self: if you order Coke Light, you will get Coke Zero.

Looks like it’s time to start investing in guillotine manufacturers.

Yet another anti–capitalist move by the Trump regime: www.nytimes.com/2026/02/09/u...

Both of my dogs made it clear this morning that it was indeed possible for it to be too cold for either of them to spend time outside (it was 6℉/-14℃). Tax paid below.

We put on an all-Yiddish community production of fiddler on the roof in Philadelphia and cast member and local artist Sofie Rose Seymour created the most amazing show poster that ever was

Deleted the Washington Post app from my devices and canceled my decade+ subscription. What an idiotic business decision by Bezos.

Hard to believe that blocking online advertising and canceling paid subscriptions would damage a free press. Inconceivable, really. Don’t they know information wants to be free?

Just made a MarchFirst.com joke that, I suspect, few people would get.

Just referred to the White House Press Corpse in the group chat and, no, that wasn’t an unintentional typo.

#tfw it’s the eighth year in a house and various systems start failing the same weekend.

I regret not checking to see if it was blowing a fucking gale outside before walking the dogs just now. Applying iron to face to defrost.

Future generations will watch Trading Places utterly confused by the short squeeze on options in Frozen Concentrated Orange Juice (FCOJ): www.cbc.ca/news/busines...

As a child in the 70s my parents would warn me off of doing one terrible thing or another with the caution that it would be added to my “permanent record.” They were right, of course, except that “permanent” is now spelled “Palantir” in the 21st Century.

Came close to telling a boomer I know “just fucking retire already”. They keep twisting the dials and pushing the buttons on systems they don’t understand and turn to me to fix the resulting mess. Hell, I want to retire already and I’m 58.

Random reminder to everyone “terminated” for whatever reason, in whatever industry: remove your corporate email address from every personal account you have. From personal experience of a corporate manager utilizing a suspended corporate email to access a personal account.

Can’t wait for the hijinks when the capital class realizes they can replace the managerial class with AI

General Strike for Due Process.

Curious how Minneapolis, Minnesota is within 100 miles of an international border. Even using the extremely gratuitously liberal definition of the 100 mile 4th Amendment Free “border zone”, Minneapolis is only “near” a border if the Mississippi and Ohio River system are considered international…

The Administration position appears to be that lethal force can be deployed against anyone who shows open carrying (lawfully) up in public. I am sure this will have no unforeseen consequences.

Google is flagging every single message as suspicious today. Someone didn’t get their golden star this week that they were a very, very good extremely smart and capable systems engineer, did they?

They did this to a white male veteran abcnews.go.com/US/army-vet-...

I get that it’s just your standard business processes at work, but it costs less to messenger a “critical” envelope from 26th & Madison to my apartment in Chelsea than to Fedex it using two day delivery via Memphis, TN.

Something tells me that upgrading to Tahoe at the start of a month of multiple trips is a bad idea. As stupid as I am, I’m not that stupid to tempt fate with an upgrade right now. Plus Tahoe seems…not quite ready for release?

LOL. Tried to buy something from Corkcicle…they appear to add a mandatory "shipping guarantee" charge, which is separate from a shipping charge? Yeah, no. Closed that window.

It’s a Joy Division/Malcolm McLaren/Hayzi Fantazee morning here in West Chelsea.

Coming around to the idea of deporting 50% of Trump supporters to Bir Tawil.

I would like to wish a billion cases of the worst gonorrhea or something else just as fun on the Zelle scammers who prey on elderly people or just anyone not sophisticated about con jobs.

Impeach and remove from office, now.

ICE has kidnapped one of my MN News Guild siblings

Unrelated morning brain fart: the MAGA bros and Silicon Valley chuds who want Greenland to become a state are explicitly assuming they get to deport (or worse) everyone who's in Greenland now. That's the only way making Greenland a state works for them.

I was briefly curious about what will happen when the gun rights brigade realizes ICE has all of their information thanks to the combination of “non obvious relation awareness” algorithms with the various firearms warranty and group databases. Briefly, but then I realized the answer.

Happy Sully Sullenberger day to all who observe.

I regret trying to sign up for a new Google Workspace account. Rejected both a clean copy of a New York driver's license as well as my passport as proof of identity.

Filled out my NY IT204–LL this morning and for the second year running checked off “No” for question 1. Either need to rustle up some business or close the LLC (again).

I don't follow the business of academia at all but…this is the second academic campus Vanderbilt is taking over (they just took over the General Theological Seminary in Chelsea, NYC which I live next door to, so I have mild bias): www.kqed.org/arts/1398535... via @erikahall.bsky.social.

Apropos of nothing, do you know you can just buy body cams off Amazon? You don’t even need 47 days of training or your own crypto coin to rug pull.

Random discovery of the day: `sort -hu` will strip out a mix of IPv4 and IPv6 addresses unexpectedly, where -h and -u separately won't. viz: curl www.digitalocean.com/geo/google.c... -hu|wc -l > 81 # curl www.digitalocean.com/geo/google.c... -h|wc -l > 1193 etc. Am guessing a non-printable byte?

Some day a vehicle turning onto or off from the southbound Taconic at Peekskill Hollow Road will be the end of me. Fortunately not today, though an attempt was made.

Curious that Meetup, a US company, is citing the GDPR, an EU regulation, as basis for deleting my stale account. I’m fine with it, just find it curious.

If I understand the latest rules of the Reich correctly, you can deny medical care for someone based on your religious beliefs or your perception of *their* political beliefs, right?

OOh, I figured it how. He’s fixated on Greenland because of Greenland sharks. Not natural resources, not some northwest passage gambit, nor the Silly Valley bros’ orgasmic joy over a regulation free utopia for their AI obsequious lying machines. He wants to kill Greenland sharks.

Random brain fart of the morning: I wonder if this era, which I sort of peg as starting with Obama’s second term, not particularly to blame Obama but to peg the time frame, is really like the interwar years of the 1930s, with the end of the Cold War filling the role of WW1, and 1990s as the 1920s.

Picked a bad week to give up stress inhaling Fruit Adventure Tic Tacs. Coincidentally the bulk 1000 piece bags arrived yesterday.

I'm a fairly stupid guy, but maybe giving unqualified immunity and carte blanche to commit acts of violence to a bunch of corrections officers rejects with minimal training was a (typically) bad idea by the Trump Administration.

Could Denmark invoke Article 5 and ask France to defend Greenalnd with its nuclear weapons against *any* invaders? Let’s find out the hard way.