It's all in their currency, but they say the Yorlok is very strong in the States now, and Mom agreed. So, here we all are...

Run DMC counsels us that it's tricky to rock a rhyme that's right on time. But the girl that follows Darryl is named Carol, which doesn't seem tricky at all. What if her name was Cynthia? Or Ingrid?

would it be cruel to make my kid write a grant application every time he wants to buy a minecraft mod

(british accent) __init__

"...people will just volunteer without explicit economic incentives to create..." This is LITERALLY what the internet used to be. The whole fucking thing. Every piece of it. Stem to stern. That sentence right there. We were just on here, doing stuff, just to share with each other.

just super stuff

also, SIGCIS (the special interest group in computing, information, and society AKA the computer history people) finally got over here on Bluesky can we give @sigcisconf.bsky.social a big welcome and an even bigger follow????

Quote with your favorite anti-fascist film

My day has already included WWII, Monty Python, Roman Empire, Rush, and old video game content. I am maxing out the Middlebrow Nerd Dad scale today.

I've spent much of my career studying the legal institution known as "the posse comitatus" as well as "The Posse Comitatus Act." Here's a quick thread. Cites at the end. Posse comitatus is Latin for "power of the county," or temporarily deputized people obligated to assist law enforcers.

Did you know someone reverse-engineered the Weather Channel computer system from the 80s/90s and now you can generate your own private weather channel for your location? weatherstar.netbymatt.com

I cannot stress enough how very much OK it is to be wrong, and to admit it. It is of no value to you intellectually or psychically to refuse new information or to be unwilling to defer. That momentary ache of pride is meaningless when compared to the joy of learning something new.

It took until 7:49 am today before someone made reference to the tariffs as a concern bearing directly on a project. On some regular old non-governmental data reporting. Seems like a bad sign.

I am struck by the extent to which DOGE is doing the things a desperate tech company might do when it's looking to make itself an acquisition target.

I don't use TikTok in any meaningful way, and I don't have a strong sense of its relative security (understanding many platforms are bad), but pols wanting to demogogue on a ban but not actually support it once passed is peak 2025 shit.

Interested in adding questions to the 2026 General Social Survey? You can propose to have items added (at no cost to you!). Read this thread for tips about how to write a strong proposal. 1/ gss.norc.org/content/dam/...

To be clear, I am not especially interested in the R vs. Stata debate. I am amused that we are now doing it here.

Repeat performance this year!

Your periodic reminder that there is a Gift Links feed where you can read all the latest non-paywalled articles from major publishers legally, courtesy of subscribers/authors. Save to your feeds and enjoy access to paywalled articles. bsky.app/profile/did:...

Here are the Frogpants Community Starter Packs as of right now. I will create a 3rd when we get some more names. Please re-post! To get your name added, please input your information on the form in Discord. Starter Pack 1: go.bsky.app/L3894mY Starter Pack 2: go.bsky.app/GTJbpVG

Being where I am, I am well past the "seeing the Cybertruck" thing. I did, however, have my first "seeing two unrelated Cybertrucks at an intersection" moment today. Apparently we love 'em in North OC.

🧪⚒️Good morning, SoCal! Did you feel that M4.6 #earthquake that just happened near Malibu? Why not start the day by filling this out and helping the USGS constrain how far the felt effects went! earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/...

Wait. HP bought DSI (and, so the design of the 2100) from *Union Carbide*?

There's an interesting problem in digital preservation, which is that preservation only exists actively. Only the things you actively move to new formats, survives. Community is probably the same way: it has to be actively maintained in order to outlive whatever spot it's currently in.

Goodnight, sweet prince

SimTower (1994)

Average American president has been convicted of .74 felonies

Just had one of those moments of feeling very old. I just head a woman in her 20s say that she loves old Rock music. Especially the Arctic Monkeys. My brain hurts.

I am unclear. Is this AI ASMR?

In retrospect, I should have had lunch at Wendy's today.

Subutai is the only general in history who has truly made war like it’s an RTS. You’ll never convince me he wasn’t save scumming.

I have addressed the great cultural question of our day by both watching "Turkeys Away" and listening to "Alice's Restaurant"

there is a large graveyard filled with my enemies. i do not wish to add to it, but will given no choice. those who pick fights with me do so at their own peril, but maybe this is their lucky day.

If I see you break this out I'm getting the fuck out of your house

I'm 24 hours in on the Novavax/flu combo platter and the advertising seems correct. Aside from some site soreness (for both), I haven't run into any side effects.

"What would you like in your poke bowl?" "Yes"

So...the neighbors have some karaoke going on and I am currently being serenaded by "My Heart Will Go On"

Is this how The Purge starts?