I normally hate it when ppl cite ancient Chinese wisdom, but as children we’re taught 揠苗助长, a parable about a smartass who pulled up his sprouts in the field to help them grow taller faster, only to kill them. Slow thoroughness of a process often can’t be hacked without destroying them altogether.

Lol

I will give money to anyone with access who will ask palmer who Qian Xuesen is

I don’t ever want to hear anyone say “the raids aren't as bad.” this is the last 2 days. lataco.com/daily-memo-d...

not to put too fine a point on it but it is because “criminal illegal alien” is a floating signifier for something amounting to a subhuman. This is how they say something unimportant has died, which the base celebrates, while still meeting the reporting requirements. They turn death into propaganda.

The Segment/Optimizely/Mixpanel/FullStory era of startups really fucked the game up. People collect data (surveil) their userbase just because they think they're supposed to in order to be successful.

Earlier this week L.A. TACO’s Aisha Wallace-Palomares, Izzy Rodriguez, and @eltragon.bsky.social joined Harbor Area Peace Patrol for their daily monotoring at Terminal Island, the staging ground for federal immigration agents.

A good rule of thumbs is that if a country doesn't have a strong enough opposition to unseat their own dictator, they don't have a strong enough opposite to fill the power vacuum if you do it for them. Something you'd think the US would have learned after like the 15th time this century.

CISO’s out there showing their asses.

90mins of Gaston talking proudly about joining ICE. deadline.com/2025/12/disn...

When Rob Reiner was on his all-time epic run at the start of his career, he had an opportunity to read a script that was looking for a production partner, and he lost his mind for it. He decided Castle Rock had to have it, no matter what.

You had one job

I can't ever recall an NTSB Chair speaking so strongly about legislation. Jennifer Homendy pulls no punches in criticizing the NDAA's reversal of safety recommendations taken since the DCA Airport midair collision in January.

The Houthis:

They should go back to using WordPerfect 5.1, the last real word processor. On DOS, of course

i read stuff like this and can genuinely angry at guys like jd vance who insist that this country belongs to some narrow vision of the "native born"

I have been put in a confinement box (for training! - it’s fucked up) and I hold very strongly that the people who justify and do this, to anyone, are sick fucks that belong in prison. The list of people I will instinctively throw a shoe at starts with John Yoo, and needs fresh entries.

They're using the confinement box, one of the most horrific methods of CIA torture in the post-9/11 black sites, against migrants now. This is the direct result of the lack of consequences for the architects of the torture program. Either there will be criminal penalties for this or it will expand.

If you truly wanted to rm-rf we would weigh the pros and cons with you. Uh, we would explain that it would be very destructive, uh… Carol: yes or no? Ultimately… yes. Wouldn’t necessarily feel good about it. But we would move heaven and earth to make you happy, Carol. Would you like to rm -rf?

Lamenting that propaganda has turned our brains into mush while …. checks notes … working on ads for Meta is some level of Severance

John Chapman, operation red wings, task force bruiser, the money in the maersk Alabama lifeboat, Linda Norgrove, Eddie Gallagher, why do we need these guys again?

These motherfucking murderers deserve to spend the rest of their natural lives in prison.

We’re rapidly getting our own IRGC.

Sam Altman hired an Apple designer to develop vaporware products current AI tech cannot deliver so naturally Zuck had to have one too www.theverge.com/news/837654/...

(Credit to macrumors commenter) Alan Dye left for Meta so he could get them to remove UIDesignRequiresCompatibility from their apps

I sat for a long while with my complicated feelings about "vibe coding". It is _genuinely_ empowering for many — opening a door to creating with code that otherwise would never exist. Also? It enables a dangerous dependency that could be a path to serfdom for coders. www.anildash.com/2025/12/02/v...

That Meta is pushing for this should tell you all you need to know to judge if this is a good idea. www.theverge.com/policy/83087...

Proud of my fellow New Yorkers today. This is a place that named a public elementary school after William T Sherman.

"Contrary to Miller and Trump, Lakanwal’s shooting spree is not the result of importing Afghan culture to America. While much will surely be revealed in Lakanwal’s upcoming trial, it looks more like the result of importing American culture to Afghanistan." New from me @zeteo.com

Troops dying in service of stupid orders is not a reason to double down on stupid orders. - I, a GWOT veteran

NO IT ISN'T AND FUCK YOU FOR NOT HAVING A "NEVER SHOW THIS" OPTION

Here's the initial report from the Marimar Martinez shooting. Lots in here we now know to be bullshit. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Gemini out here confusing Hyeseong Kim with Ha-Seong Kim 😕

Everyone Kidnapped by ICE and Border Patrol In Southern California Since August lataco.com/everyone-kid...

What the fuck

People out there with bootleg part ii’s like dvd’s on canal street

The answer when it comes to security for sensitive data, and a lot of what people post to a private social media account is sensitive, should *always* be "do not promise the user security you aren't 100% confident in". People post a lot of stuff they wouldn't otherwise if you tell them it's private!

“You can’t joke about violence on Bluesky”

Bellingcat’s contact email has always been a magnet for people with fairly unusual views; paranoid delusions, sprawling conspiracies, the works. But recently, the pattern has shifted, we’re seeing more and more emails clearly written with ChatGPT.

An agentic framing that might help: The proposed feature is that a Bluesky user can extend invites from their verified phone number to some other phone numbers. Other users should be able to claim the invite by proving possession of their phone number, and providing this phone number pair.

When we built Share Name and Photo in iMessage, we designed it to send that info along with a user’s messages exactly to avoid this kind of issue. We chose to put agency in the hands of the person sharing info, not a potential attacker trying to learn it. www.wired.com/story/a-simp...

ICE never left L.A. The military did but they aren't the ones terrorizing the city. Please don't ignore L.A.

It's actually really nice that Bluesky is notifying Alex of the subpoena. A lot of tech companies simply comply and don't notify the targets

I would eat a suspension for this

In the Epstein Administration, tanking child sexual exploitation & adult sex trafficking investigations is a bug, not a feature.

What in the fresh hell? You thought MCAS was bad….