Rudy Giuliani managed to squander an incredible amount of unearned Goodwill be had by happening to be NYC Mayor in 2001. Now he's in bad shape in the hospital and no one cares because of who he showed himself to be.

It is wild to me when someone describes a co-working moving on as "sad". It's a job. Develop some perspective. If they're leaving because they want to leave, that's a win.

Does anyone need a 38" x 52" x 7" granite surface plate? I know of a dead CMM in the LA area which is going to become landfill if they can't find anyone to take it off their hands.

I don't think I'd want to have such a blatantly ageist policy on the books. https://www.theregister.com/2026/04/24/microsoft_seeks_quality_improvements_by/

I have no plan to watch any Beast Games, but I've watched a couple of videos about people talking about Beast Games, and my main takeaway is that Jimmy Donaldson is one of the most untrustworthy people alive, and absolutely can not understand why the players in his games that he's […]

I really like my @frameworkcomputer. I dropped my 13" laptop a bit ago and it bent the top cover and broke the display. I was able to swap out the parts really easily, and when I messed up the Wifi cables on the new cover, I was able to swap in the wifi module from the old cover and everything […]

OMG, an episode of High Potential this season has the LAPD using Copilot to assist in an Investigation. Like, MSFT pays for a LOT of product placement, but this was egregious and awful.

I love Kumail Nanjiani, but is absolutely coming in last this series of #taskmaster

Ensuring the release of Package Queens into the rest of the Colony tomorrow, and fortunately, my packs of Norroa should be arriving from Mann Lake too. It's been much colder here in New England this week than I would have liked for Package installs (Saturday was fine, but it was *snowing* […]

Watched Wonka with Timothee Chalamet. I understand why it was reasonably well rated on release, but I really doubt many people have felt the need to rewatch it. Just didn't have the feeling of a classic to me.

NH #beekeeping is something else. I'm picking up bees on Saturday, and it's SNOWING today.

The only thing Webby's voting convinced me of every year is that there are way too many podcasts.

I've gotten a couple of emails from Charley Phillips at "primalbees.com", but Charley runs a company hosted at "primalbee.com", so I"m reasonably sure this is a scam. Keep your head on a swivel folks. #beekeeping #scam

You load sixteen tons, what do you get? Another day older and deeper in debt Saint Peter don't you call me, 'cause I can't go I owe my soul to the Company Store […]

Mick Foley is a solid dude, one of the best to come out of the WWE. But I'm always going to be surprised when I learn he's still alive. Guy destroyed himself for years. https://youtu.be/7ssDFzesdn4?si=lYhtUNlRoraY0Ssa

Oh, no. Bernie Sanders just posted a video of himself talking to Claude on his YouTube channel.

I had three trees fall down during yesterday's wind storm, and none of them were the one I *want* to fall down.

Watched 2015's "Victor Frankenstein" on a whim, because I knew it would be bad. Max Landis clearly never read Mary Shelley's work when he wrote this script. One of the worst versions of The Creature ever committed to film. Still better than Bright though.

Middle Management is absolutely desperate for us to find a use case for LLMs that they can attach themselves to. I'm pretty sure they're starting to realize their "jobs" are at least at risk as those of us who are builders, if not more so.

Our town saw a 20% increase in Health Insurance costs for our school district this year, and one of our Budget Committee members mentioned as an aside that it was due to increased rates of Ozempic/GLP-1 Inhibitor prescriptions. This is a drug that US patients are charged nearly 10x as much as […]

Clay Higgins is probably weaker electorally than he's ever been, and the National Democratic Party isn't even TRYING to fight him seriously. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pU_7Aaor0y8

America will have its own Gulag Archipelago. Twenty-three concentration camps will soon come online, unless, together, we can find and pull the political handbrake. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2026-01-29/us-spends-hundreds-of-millions-on-warehouses-for-ice-detention-centers

Reading The Wheel of Time and it's wild how much Robert Jordan clearly dislikes women for a guy who centered his narrative around a lot of women.

You know that “stop forcing AI into fucking everything” graphic that went around on here? I bought the t-shirt. I get a lot of compliments on it. The only negative response was from a friend who works for McKinsey. She read out the “everyone hates it” and said, “do they really, though?” as we […]

I really don't trust this Government to even do Differential Privacy incorrectly, let alone correctly. https://www.axios.com/2026/02/14/elon-musk-doge-medicaid-fraud-hhs-database #uspol #doge

Just got a Pitch Deck for an "AI Advisors" company where "Coaches" can create Digital Twins of themselves that users can assemble into "Teams" to give them advice or mentorship or whatever. If you ever had a reason to doubt whether or not "Life Coaches" are bullshit platitude spouters, don't […]

The fact that Chris Pappas thinks that James Carville can help him get elected does not bode well for the NH Senate Race this year.

Apropos of nothing in particular today, I'm thinking a lot about the Town Budget Committee explaining how they'd already cut the School District Budget as much as possible without harming instruction/workers to account for the increase in our property taxes this year, and one of the things […]

The number of Engineering Managers excited to use LLMs to destroy the training pipeline of Junior -> Senior Engineers is deeply upsetting. Yeah, our Bosses won't give us enough headcount to do everything they demand, but that does't mean that we should destroy the field by kicking down the […]

So, this guy goes to TED to try to legitimatize his "Data Centers in Space" business, mocks critics by only choosing unspecific criticism, and then ends his talk by demonstrating that he doesn't know Freeman Dyson's Sphere proposal was meant to mock ignorant people. There is also some […]

RE: https://mastodon.me.uk/@pikesley/116025260026076876 Let's be frank, I'd have been shocked if Richard Branson *wasn't* in the Epstein files. Literally one of the least surprising "revelations" of the last few weeks.

One thing I continually find hilarious about the Epstein Emails you can read at jmail.world, is that almost all of Epstein's emails have one of those meaningless "delete this email if you received it in error" notices that bosses were trying to force us to add to our signatures in 2008, and that […]

Attended a Town Budget Committee Meeting to get a copy of the proposed budget for the Town and our School District. School District budget jumped because Health Insurance Premiums went up over 20% this year, and even though we have one of the most frugal School Districts in the State […]

Was just thinking about how Donald Trump was the man to end the American Century that started after the end of World War 2 and noticed that he was born exactly 9 months after Japan surrendered in 1945.

I don't imagine Alex Garland's Civil War was an easy film to watch in 2024. I do think it's harder to watch now. The cinematography is fantastic, and it evokes the feeling of the chaos of battle (or, I imagine it does). It's also not a particularly introspective film. It doesn't really seem to […]

Almost all the advice about potty training a toddler acts like you just need to take a week or so where they don't wear pants and will pee and poop on the floor, and then they'll figure it out and be fine. That is lies. Not a single parent will corroborate it being that easy. It's a part of […]

Our town's Garbage and Recycling services, which we just locked into a 5 year contract for, are set to increase 20% this year. I expect this is going to be a thing people get pissy about in our coming Town Meeting. Not coincidentally, our contractor showed nearly 20% YOY earnigns growth in it's […]

Looking at a company's Pitch Deck, and they are projecting that the US Bottled Water market is likely to increase from $304B in 2025 to $500B by 2030, and I am depressed. The fact that "bougie reusable water bottles" is also a growing market segment at the same time is absolutely a signal that […]

Increasingly thinking that if I'm reading a job listing and it lists a "cute" nickname for employees, I'm going to ignore that job listing.

Palantir has a "Privacy and Civil Liberties" team, and it does not pay nearly enough for a job where you're going to be consistently ignored while serving as a reputation washer for a mass surveillance company.

Probably the biggest problem with a lot of TV shows that have to write in Pregnancy due to an actress getting pregnant is that because they don't want to have to film with children regularly, it just makes the character seem like a truly awful parent.

Knowledge Fight put out a Re-Release today, the first re-release episode on their feed since I started listening, and these guys have gotten a LOT better at Podcasting over the years.

I like to keep an eye on Zillow in my town, not because I ever plan to buy another house, but just to understand the area a bit. For the first time, I see a pending Foreclosure Auction. Worse, there are actually 2. This doesn't bode well.

RE: https://infosec.exchange/@SecurityWriter/115939333516240229 Truly wild that Tech has built systems of promotion entirely dependent on people filling out Reviews and Ratings, when I don't know *anyone* who willingly rates anything online.

I once again feel the need to remind people that American Nazi Website Stormfront had a section of its style guide that said "it's just a joke, but we mean it." Nazis have always used "jokes" as a way to push the conversation further. Testing the waters until the "joke" doesn't have to be a […]

just learned that Al Sweigart makes all of his Python books (Automate The Boring Stuff with Python etc) available on his site for free https://inventwithpython.com/ i haven't read them but I've heard good things and I'm always curious about free resources I can recommend to beginners

OMG, Realtors are starting to use GenAI to "stage" photos in their listings. https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/6-Abbey-Rd-Bow-NH-03304/113449047_zpid/?

If someone tells you that your content is unwelcome, block them so they don't have to see your content again.

My favorite story arcs in Copaganda shows is when they take a few episodes to have someone ask if, maybe these cops shooting people all the time might be indicative of a problematic power imbalance, and they talk about this for no more than 2 episodes before going back to business as usual.

I've been seeing a ton of ads for a "political profile" quiz which plots your political position on three axes - Left, Right, and Libertarian. With "Centrist" in the middle. I can't think of a more useful ternary political analysis method. What does "Left" and […] [Original post on dice.camp]