the k in 401k stands for "kurz" because it's much smaller than you'd like

and today we honored few get to commit this offering to the loving branches of Gi'tHub, the great tree

TCP_NODELAY is really the software version of “did you remember to take the parking brake off?”

Anyway, ICE is terrorizing Cicero again right now.

they should make a Spy Fox game where the antagonist is like the green goblin or the joker and call it Spy Fox: Bad Gas

Half of Americans oppose lawmakers banning or restricting gender-affirming care for trans youth, our new 19th News/SurveyMonkey poll finds. People don't like politicians targeting this health care, although only 37% support trans minors ability to access the care.

the fun thing about cycling is that if you Follow The Law™ when you are forced to ride with cars, it will probably get you killed by some inattentive driver, but if you ride in a way that is safe for you, you get branded as reckless by news org hit pieces and threatened by aggressive drivers instead

I was back at 26 Federal Plaza today, where an ICE agent violently threw this bereft woman to the ground in front of her kids. She had not touched him. She did not pose any threat. She had to be taken to the hospital. (🎥: Elias Eliahu)

Comptroller Lander’s 2nd post says “Seconds earlier, her husband had been abducted by masked ICE agents who did not identify themselves, did not present a warrant, did not give any lawful grounds for his detention” The federal government is openly disappearing people, then attacking their families

just saw a two-column paper where one one of the pages had a landscape-orientation data table in one column and then the other was a portrait-orientation column of text and ngl it took my breath away

New Jersey town wanted employees to racially profile immigrants - including searching trash for Modelo bottles: suit

NYT simply failing to ask if kitchen cabinets are a national security emergency here, well done www.nytimes.com/2025/09/25/b...

ok but it is pretty funny that Google became Cuil right

Also in this report were Councilor Burnley's questions about UASI (Urban Area Security Initiative, pronounced "you assey," no matter how much the councilors try to nuance around it) grants that might bind us to collaborate with ICE as a condition of accepting the funds. 14/?

til Dwight David Eisenhower's mom changed his name from David Dwight Eisenhower pretty quickly after his birth because she hated calling them both David.

"Just Give Me A Missile Launcher, I Promise" -- Carl von Clausewitz

thinking of picking up a true second amendment maximalism and saying that any club or organization should be able to acquire fully functional current generation fighter jets as long as they otherwise conform to FAA regulations

Years of observing traditional police work did not prepare Elizabeth Daniel Vasquez for what the NYPD is doing today: "building vast, hidden repositories of data it collects on everyone in the city, with no clear boundaries on how it can be used." www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

the hyperlocal civics blog i cofounded with friends help increase voter turnout in my community (in 2023) by almost 30%. i’m not involved much these days but anyone can make a blogblog.

why the fuck are people selling jars of whipped beef tallow on Etsy

As consumption becomes the preserve of a smaller and smaller elite, you can see how destabilizing this is for an economy. Look at US hospitality: luxury resorts in Las Vegas are doing fine but the complete collapse in the lower tiers of the market is creating havoc in the local economy 8/

Over time, high inequality (this is a cool finding from Chai, Stepanova et al.) will erode market depth and limit economies of scale. To explain: say buying an EV is a status symbol in a high inequality society. But if only a few can afford EVs, no way can you ramp up EV production. 7/

samsung really should stop lowballing the good ones if they want people with scruples looking instead of only people who want to attack them. 's an absurdly low payout for what they were saved from lmao. It's going to make people less willing to work with them and make them less secure lol.

🎵 i wanna bite you like an animal i wanna bite you on the outside you bring me closer to dog 🎵

Jeffrey Epstein: Bad Pedophile is maybe the funniest thing we've ever done. We're now almost certainly going to lose money on it, but that's not the point. We just want it out there. We've also learned something: Make good art right now, and people will bust their ass to help you on short notice.

Look, I don't think it's good that we can't make fun of the world's biggest dead pedophile because he was friends with the president. So we kept going. We called every independent theatre we knew in major metro areas to see if they wanted to air Jeffrey Epstein: Bad Pedophile. Most said yes.

A very big Onion announcement: The Onion has spent the last two months working on a masterpiece. It's a documentary titled Jeffrey Epstein: Bad Pedophile. It's so good, in fact, we were set to release it in theatres nationwide on October 2nd. Then two weeks ago, Charlie Kirk was shot.

WOW. The lead plaintiff is a Latino man who's been here legally for 24 years. He was grabbed off the street by plainclothes federal agents who didn't even ASK about his status. He was detained overnight and only released once a supervisor realized he had been illegally arrested.

Even back in the 70s and 80s when I could be hassled by the police for walking while trans, no one ever tried to stop me pissing in the Ladies or tried to make me change into my swimsuit among men. There is no dignity or respect involved in taking away rights I have exercised freely for forty years

hurricane katrina convinced me the system is irreformable and having trans friends convinced me there's no sense sitting around waiting for anyone else to make things better

All my best to this FEMA employee, and may they succeed in their mission:

I think the best way to educate people would be to give everyone a random assortment of knowledge from all knowledge so we have to work together to infer meaning from our pieces instead of eventually exiting the core shared simple lie

They joined the government, my dudes.

ICE shooter Joshua Jahn's politics aren't what's being reported, three longtime former friends tell me. www.kenklippenstein.com/p/the-ice-sh...

i run nixos-unstable as a spaced-repetition exercise

11/ There are still some copies available, but this book deserves a reissue with a introduction by somebody famous.

9/ I had launch with Paulina Borsook last month in Oakland. Her life is hard, but she still has a lot to say! She's trying to raise funds to get a new version of the book reissued on the Internet Archive. Some of her friends have a running GoFundMe to support her: www.gofundme.com/f/support-fo...

8/ Unfortunately, “Cyberselfish“ predicted the future but did not sell well. Borsook's writing career hit the rocks as tech fortunes skyrocketed astronomically in the 2000s. She is now elderly, disabled and struggling to survive as the rest of the world finds out what she knew a long time ago.

1/ A longtime Wired editor just wrote a mush-brained essay about how he totally missed the political rot of Silicon Valley (& still doesn't get it). But in the late 1990s, a Wired journalist warned of a toxic ideology bubbling up from tech. Paulina Borsook has largely been erased. Let's change that

And to clarify, the no cost extension would have extended our ability to use funds until 2027. Without the extension, our grant would have ended in 2026. The termination dated today requires we return all unused funds immediately. Students funded on our grant no longer have funds for the Spring.

OH MY GOD OUR NSF GRANT WAS CANCELED LITERALLY THE DAY AFTER WE WERE NOTIFIED THAT OUR NO COST EXTENSION WAS APPROVED *dies*

I get that the news cycle is packed right now, but I just heard from a colleague at the Smithsonian that this is fully a GIANT SQUID BEING EATEN BY A SPERM WHALE and it’s possibly the first ever confirmed video according to a friend at NOAA 10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)

i find it funny that the theme of this year is that basically every organization structured with strong-hierarchy lacked agility so much that people who barely know what they're doing had to supercede them or be trampled. for all sides.

very funny to get blocked over this

It is not our job to determine if resistance is hopeless. It is our duty to render it effective, at all possible points, while we are alive. It is the future that will determine if our efforts were victorious, not the present. To act fully in the present means to never face defeat.

it literally this. 😕 bsky.app/profile/sloa...

US intelligence and law enforcement agencies have removed the "T" from "LGBT," as revealed in intelligence documents we obtained and shared w/ @kenklippenstein.bsky.social. #FOIA www.kenklippenstein.com/p/feds-disap...