When I miraculously catch the last bus to the no-loads-refused event.

"the powers of this world" is such a great phrase here, acknowledging their fearsome lethal power while simultaneously dissing how transient and pitiful it is compared to the real power.

(And regulators are still nerds.)

As a kid in the 80s, I thought it was an interesting loophole that you can put any person X's address as the return address, a bogus address as the addressee, and get the post office to "return" a letter to X, much to X's surprise. Testing this out may have been my first federal crime.

Yeah, "time broke" is one of those things that sounds worse than it is. (But I'm still mad that the International Earth Rotation Service changed its name to be less funny, because I loved the idea that if they had an outage we would all slam into the nearest wall.) web.archive.org/web/20030122...

Today during church, 10yo accused 8yo of copyright infringement (and also trademark infringement). First picture, 10yo’s work. Second picture, 8yo’s work. So when we got home, we held a trial. Wife is jury, me as judge. I gave each child a quick prep on what plaintiff had to prove and

This claim is quite hyperbolic. Lynching was always a state crime and has long been a federal crime too. All the 2022 act did was increase the sentencing for some things that were already federal crimes. That is, it was congress pushing the "increase incarceration" button it uses for everything.

Chat, I’m getting roasted by the orcas.

The new British competitive knitting show hosted by Olympic diver Tom Daley has been denounced by the knitting community of the Shetland islands for its imprecise portrayal of fair isle knitting and negative attitude toward a technique known as steeking

Damn, less than 24 hours after Zohran’s elected I see a socialist flyer in Indiana for the first time. Guess we’ll soon be a the-other-red state. #OnYourMarxSetZoh

In the case of the TRO application re: White House destruction, which was oddly free-floating from any complaint identifying a claim, the clerk's office has now entered its long-winded version of "What even is this?". www.courtlistener.com/docket/71734...

@joshuajfriedman.com The Santos commutation is out. www.justice.gov/pardon/media...

Yes, re: the Trump coin, people are citing laws that (a) are applicable only to paper currency or (b) are about specific series of coins. It's still unclear to me that a Trump dollar coin would be illegal. bsky.app/profile/abtn...

I can't believe someone made a bracketed capitalization change to the Musings of Everybody's Favorite President, and it was to *upcase* a word.

They sent in *the* public defender to handle this, the head of the CD Cal federal defender’s office. To give you an idea of how big everyone understood the stakes were for this misdemeanor prosecution.

cities are cesspools

Judge Alsup did at least name and shame James D. Todd Jr., and I think this will likely be published in the Federal Supplement. (which might have helped were "shame" still a thing) storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

People said we needed to accept that nobody could unseat Mayor Dickless, but life found a way.

Here's the federal complaint and affidavit against Decarlos Brown for the Iryna Zarutska killing. I guess the statute does allow federal prosecution of any serious battery on a mass transit system, no matter how unrelated it may be to political terror or any federal issue.

It's sometimes reported that Tesla achieved all the ambitious goals in the 2018 CEO compensation plan, but Tesla only got halfway through the annual revenue goals, which went up to $175B. At the end of 2022 it reached $75B, which sufficed for Elon to get the full >$50B payout, ...

There's apparently a sealed affidavit that a USMJ found on 8/31 to be probable cause for violations of 8 USC 1324(a)(1)(A) and 1324a. The cause seems to be in relation to 4 named aliens. How that became 400 detentions is ????. www.courtlistener.com/docket/71273...

Thank you for this recipe. I followed it strictly today, using a 1970s Crock Pot and $2.79/lb ribs. Eating it, I can feel myself getting paler.

It looks like the Washington Post Editorial Board membership was last disclosed on about July 30 (when it was Duenwald, Stromberg, Gebelhoff, McArdle, Hohmann, Porter, and Richburg). Since then, the About section of the Op page has what looks like a link to a member list, but it goes nowhere.

We learned that like comes from like, but now woke ants have taken that from us. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Hegseth: "We won World War II with the War Department" Ghost of Admiral Nimitz is gonna kill this bitch. x.com/DeptofDefens...

I am mildly obsessed with the stagecraft involved in this photograph from Tesla's most recent impact report. Sustainable abundance is Optimus watering a house plant

ugh now I have to write a postapocalyptic screenplay just so I can put this audio over the pre-title montage, thanks a lot

About time a district court said this

My gastroenterologist has certified that I am a tolerant, high-quality bowel preparer. Best feedback I've had in a while.

this is so inaccurate it makes my eyes bleed

The bigger incompetence issue isn't that they don't understand constitutional law or any other legal issues, it's that they failed to read the executive order, and then falsely reported, based only on Trump oral nonsense, that it mandates one-year jail time when it plainly says nothing of the sort.

The record is suffering

This is absolutely mind blowing! 😳 Watch 11yo Yiheng Wang win the world record in solving Rubiks Cube in ~4 seconds.

Tesla's stock is up this morning apparently on the news that it obtained some kind of Robotaxi permit. The reality remains that the September 1 date is meaningless and it won't be until March that Texas requires an AV operator to make any showing of competence. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

The inlining of social media images into legal briefing keeps getting more ridiculous. Here, Trump cites his own rambling "Truth" for the factual proposition that Murdoch told him he would personally involve himself in the WSJ's editorial decision-making about the wonderful-secrets letter. ...

And here's the "It's worse than just lack of relevant experience" skeet I posted in reply.

Here's what the article says:

I love this line of corporate church-speak: “a proactive consultation with an exorcist, out of an abundance of caution"

"Once the rockets are up, who cares where they come down? That's not my department, says Wernher von Braun."

Tesla has at last announced an annual meeting date, punting it all the way to November 6. Remains to be seen whether this actually gets them past peak Elon hate. www.sec.gov/Archives/edg...

Some dispensations are more fun than others.

NEW: Bishop Rojas of San Bernardino has dispensed his Diocese from the obligation to attend Sunday Mass due to ongoing ICE raids.

Tfw you miss the latest tech news because you keep "H*tler" on a muted words list.

... but that's just another reason the Apple execs who decided to remove the headphone jack should have been publicly executed. www.lifewire.com/use-fm-radio...

I agree that expecting people to maintain a working old radio isn't realistic. The obvious solution is for all smartphones to be radios, which is very cheap and simple. Apple objected to this because phone radio chips rely on the headphone cable as an antenna, ...

Incredible scene. FBI: Do you like Marx? Mhmood Mamdani: I haven’t met him. FBI: No, no, he’s dead. MM: Wow, what happened? FBI: No, no, he died long ago. ... He wrote that poor people should not be poor. MM: Sounds amazing. www.warscapes.com/conversation...

So Trump didn't really drop his litigation against Ann Selzer today. He just made his latest move to try to get it into the state courts rather than federal. It's typically insane (losing a motion to remand and then doing a self-help remand), but it's not a surrender.

And 11 minutes after the deadline, U.S. filed a notice of appeal, apparently in lieu of the ordered letter. (More to come, I'm sure.) storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Hmm, parties didn't file the letter that MJ Hammer said they must file by three minutes ago. And he clearly said "must" in both his outdoor and indoor voices.