This feels like a "too many cooks" gag

I feel like we have the opportunity to turn David Lynch's quote into this moment's "Keep Calm and Carry On" and it's a far better rallying cry too.

I have gigabit internet but apparently I can’t leave the house for a day because an iOS update so that’s fun

The federal agency in charge of federal agency providing budget and economic information to Congress said a "foreign actor" hacked its systems and may have gained access to messages and chats between Congressional offices and staffers therecord.media/cbo-implemen...

A new report largely blames "disruptive technology” and cuts to government spending for a high number of job losses this year.

CALL FOR REFORM: We need laws that stop govnt shutdowns entirely. If Congress can’t compromise, funding should auto-continue at prior levels. We must put an end to abusive leveraging tactics & the chaos. Also, if the govnt does shut down, NO PAY for lawmakers until it reopens. Full stop. 🛑

The US is the world's largest oil and gas producer. Yet, "China is now making more money from exporting green technology than America makes from exporting fossil fuels."

oh absolutely. I mean thanks to the snap cutbacks I think you'll have mass graves by then. great work as always

Quite remarkable how many people don't know the difference between socialism and communism ( but the same ones think they can differentiate absolute strangers' genders with absolute certainty. People are strange )

Texas… it’s not just Grijalva…. #TrumpEpsteinFilesCoverUp

On my dog walk I often chat with right wingers. I pretend I am an ex-Reform voter put off by the utter fuck up of our county council. Then they see me as one of their own, don't get defensive and shouty, and start to question their own opinion of Reform. Honey, not vinegar.

“Shut up!” screamed Toad.

"and he ate TWO black holes, but he was STILL hungry" www.newscientist.com/article/2502...

Your cat when you're choking to death in your apartment

AI-Enabled Malware Now Actively Deployed, Says Google www.infosecurity-magazine.com/news/aienabl...

1. This is a thread on freedom, and how easy it is to lose. Over the past 2,000 years in Europe, there have been few periods and places of freedom. For much of the time we lived under highly oppressive tyrannies of various kinds, whether small or grand, local or imperial, secular or religious.🧵

Again, every time a social media site does this is robs users of agency. End of story. Fucking dumb. There are other ways to manage a river.

Growing concerned that Boo Boo might be the world's most photogenic kitten.

I got an adapter that turns my four inch into a … hey wait a minute

And on the third day…

Sandwich beats gun

AND THE ROCKETS RED GLARE THERES A GUY OVER THERE

Kubernetes is the sum of all the shell scripts, and practices, system administrators have cobbled together over time, presented as a single system behind a declarative set of APIs.

Every time a social media site switches to algorithm vs human choice, a devil gets its horns.

found out today there's a sticker pack in microsoft teams of a guy named calamity bert who's about to kill himself

Perfect

SANDWICH GUY AVOIDS TOASTER

The FBI is trying to unmask the owner of infamous archiving site Archive.is, according to a subpoena the site posted. No other information given, the site quietly posted the document a few days ago. FBI telling domain registrar to hand over all sorts of ID'ing info www.404media.co/fbi-tries-to...

When people talk about the excesses of MeToo, they have to lie, because the reality is that there was no massive social reckoning forcing people to believe survivors or hold perpetrators accountable. In fact, there has been a significant backsliding and new punishments in rejection of MeToo

Awesome! I canceled Spotify when they gave Joe Rogan that big fat contract and I sent them a little note explaining why. Nobody cared, of course but maybe in the aggregate they'll start to listen...

“They didn’t just walk in chasing one person, they went into multiple rooms asking and looking for teachers while children were present,” Ramirez said. “This is an agency that has gone rogue and it an agency that believes that as long as they can cover their face, they can get away with anything.”

Thank you sir. Job cuts for Oct totaled 153,074, a 183% surge from Sept and 175% higher than the same month a year ago. Highest level for any Oct since 2003 and has been the worst year for layoffs since 2009. Companies in the tech sector announced 33,281 cuts, @ six times the level in September.

The long-running ideological war on libraries, education, and government workers is not separate from AI boosterism. It is the same ideological war on human knowledge and expertise. In some cases AI is being used to directly supercharge this effort: www.404media.co/ai-is-superc...

Never think that just one person cannot change the course of history, because it happens every moment of every single day

If you voted for Zohran, don’t bother coming to Butt Shit, Montana when things go bad! Don’t come here and try to put out the underground coal fire that’s been burning beneath every sq foot of our town for 80 years! don’t come here and vote for anyone cept this one family that owns the coal mine

Sorry NYC people, you did this to yourselves. Don’t be tryna move on down to Fart Sequence, Tennessee! We are full! Of bears! Seriously, we eliminated trash pickup to save money and now there’s bears everywhere. So don’t move here! But maybe save us from the bears! They sleep in our beds now

Some Over the Garden Wall for this month’s riso print subscription, because I would love to have a frog sing to me

How can these two seemingly contradictory things about US politics both be true? 1. Partisanship is calcified. 2. Election outcomes are thermostatic. TURNOUT. It’s not the same people who vote every time. Mobilizing, organizing, educating, party infrastructure—it all matters.

Yeah I’ve seen this episode of Star Trek before. They’re getting ready.

Dec 2024 - Costa Rican man crosses into U.S. Feb. 2025 - ICE detains him. He talks to his family daily. June - He disappears. Aug - His family finally finds him detained and in a vegetative state. Sept. - He's air ambluenced home. Oct. 26th - He dies. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

yo bro is it safe down there in the woods? yeah man it's cool by Tomislav Jagnjic

Gremlins 2 (1990)

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