1,350-word feature about the appeal of Charlie Kirk's beliefs doesn't specify them or quote him boingboing.net/2025/09/12/1...

I want to see the RCA for this.

Absolutely true. This happened during the fires in Jan too. I am begging anyone following this story to watch local news (KTLA, KCAL, KCBS, KABC, KNBC, KTTV) instead of than national cable news stations.

@georgewhitesides.bsky.social where you at on this one? I don’t see your name.

You should know that a big part of 18F's work was to make sure multi-million to multi-*hundreds*-of-millions dollar contracts at fed *and* state level didn't go to shitty enterprise IT consultancies that *repeatedly* delivered tech that didn't work, was late, or didn't even do what it needed to

Stand by this: www.politico.com/newsletters/...

If you interpret this as “ahead of where they currently are” instead of “ahead of everyone else” you can avoid embarrassingly sophistic arguments like this.

This whole thread but especially this… if you are part of the national media but have no connection to LA, feel free to sit this one out. It’s your job, you may say. But no, you don’t need to have a take, or an angle, or a unique opinion on all this.

--given the ACTUAL SUFFERING going on, please don't comment/speculate about L.A. and California state politics and budgets -- which, come on now, admit it, you know absolutely nothing about -- just to victim-blame or scold or reinforce preconceived notions of what life is like here, especially if--

All the xenophobia, racism, misogyny, homophobia, etc, used to be wrapped up under the veil of Christianity, so it at least came with the good parts to balance it out. Of course, it was always a ruse. They now feel emboldened to drop the banner of Christianity, leaving only the worst parts.

Sat down tonight and wrote the case for your Harris vote - I need Harris to win because I can't go through the next four years wondering fi today's the day they come and try to deport my wife, even though she's a citizen.

nice to see NYTimes drop the sanewashing and instead compile examples of just how bizarre his speech is now, and how little he campaigns (less than a quarter as many rallies as 2016) gift link so you can send this to the fascist weirdos in your life www.nytimes.com/2024/10/06/u...

Well…

Seeing as Luke Combs was born in 1990, my guess is no.

Do vegans celebrate Groundhog Day?

Taking bets on which game more people tune in to: NFL playoffs on Peacock or Iowa and Caitlin Clark on Fox. I would not be surprised at all if it were the latter.

Brilliant

One unexpected thing in my qualitative study w natural scientists (one-hour interviews) is how deeply, deeply sad the climate scientists are. They say things like "you have enough information from us, why won't anyone act?" -- the psychological distress these people are enduring is very great.

AWS published its first public post-even summary in ~2 years a few hours ago. This was after I emailed them that I'm writing an article comparing how AWS, Azure and GCP publicly communicate region-wide outages. Only AWS has not published a public postmortem. Here: aws.amazon.com/message/0613...

[fireworks go off] Nextdoor users: “Gunshots?”

You may be tempted to think that, surely there must be more than this provincial life, and I can assure you, friend, there is not.

The Dodgers backtracked and have apologized to the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence and WILL honor them on the field on Pride night at the ballpark after all. The public backlash worked.