i don’t like massie and i have never liked massie, and i think him losing his primary provides a lot of supporting evidence that the party’s just a personality cult now, because he absolutely stuck to his principles, almost all of which every republican claims to share save one

In Plan 9 in ~2001, we introduced "private" processes that even a sysadmin couldn't access, debug, etc. I just learned Windows Vista added the same in 2007. The difference? We did it to protect keys held by the security agent, while Windows did it to protect media content. Priorities! ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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every now and then I wonder how ridiculous and pointless it is to still be running my own SMTP server in the year twenty twenty six, and then I see something like

they 100% have no idea AI is hated. they're surprised every time. When I've told them, they think I'm lying, joking, making it up, or delusional.

However appalled you are by this, it’s not enough. It’s a frank statement that Trump and Trumpists are above the law and need not even plausible excuses to loot your tax dollars. It’s a total failure of our civic institutions.

In November I broke this story about Andrew Paul Johnson, a pardoned J6er who molested children and used the promise of reparations to bribe his victims silence.

This you, @playboy.com?

Exactly this. Take it from someone who worked in advertising. Considering how absolutely overleveraged the richest companies on the planet are with AI, they would have tons of glossy ass ads pitching normies the big wins made possible with AI if there were any.

Recently, FamilySearch digitized and uploaded tons of microfilmed records, including many from 18th-century Massachsuetts. They're using some sort of AI to transcribe/summarize the handwritten documents. I've noticed that the AI strips out references to race and enslavement in 18thc documents.

If there is anyone still wondering whether it is worth voting for Democrats at all, even when they are lackluster candidates who have expressed no interest in meaningful leadership or political reform: Please just consider what Mike Johnson thinks will happen if you do.

As a professional researcher I’ve spent time comparing different search engines to see which one makes my job the easiest and Kagi is by far the most effective search. Duck Duck Go isn’t even close.

This month is @andrewfarago.bsky.social's 50th birthday, so for my monthly Patreon wallpaper I drew his 50 favorite cartoon characters. www.patreon.com/c/Shaenon

I know this is bombastic but it is literally what we are going to have to do in order to get out of this mess. We have to build parallel institutions and do it fast. We have plenty of people who know how to do this. It's nation-building. Nothing else will work. Nothing

The thing is that politicians don’t even need to stop it! We just need @schumer.senate.gov to stare straight at a camera and say “Anyone who participates in setting this up or takes money from it we WILL IMPRISON when we take back power.”

If anyone tells you that we didn't have autism or adhd back in the day, I just want to remind you that this comic strip style first ran in the 60s.

one reason i am anti-quote tweet dunk is that it escalates quickly and life is too short to click back through more than twice to try to figure out what the hell someone's beef is even about. grow up and leave one mean reply before getting on with your day

Blanche could’ve just said, without even fully accepting the premise here, that if you’re a known child abuser you can’t have this money. The fact that he won’t say that is horrifying

Someone who put a detail like this in a satirical work about AI would be dragged mercilessly for the rest of their lives for being so over-the-top and implausible.

this has the flavor of a Tiktok gag gone way out of control

You know it's an election year with a potential blue wave, because Rs are back on the bathroom bill bullshit www.yahoo.com/news/article...

NEW: Sen Michael Bennet (D) says he will not appoint Gov Jared Polis to the Senate if Bennet is elected Governor. Bennet calls Polis' clemency for Tina Peters "disqualifying"

With the release of The Mandalorian and Grogu, we are going to see a big uptick in adoptions. As someone who works in Grogu rescue, I will remind you: when you adopt a Baby Yoda, you are committing to its 𝘧𝘶𝘭𝘭 𝘭𝘪𝘧𝘦𝘴𝘱𝘢𝘯. Grogus can live up to 900 years. They can also move shit around your apartment.

I've been enjoying Widow's Bay, but I just learned that the Welcome to Night Vale guy has been yelling that it's a ripoff of his podcast so I think now I'm going to enjoy it even more

I know that I'm way out over my skis here, but isn't this process -- casting doubt on someone's Jewish identity and calling them "Communist" in order to discredit them politically and socially -- fundamentally the same playbook used by the Third Reich and by American white nationalist agitators?

It is the official position of the current government of 🇮🇱 that some 🇺🇸 Jews are not really Jews & that non-Orthodox Jews don’t deserve equal access to the Kotel & that certain 🇺🇸 Jewish organizations are a “cancer” within the Jewish community. Again, it all boggles the mind: bsky.app/profile/mcop...

You can see why oligarchs fear this guy.

Genuinely I think the articles describing the amount in this slush fund as “$1.8 billion” are journalistic malpractice.

Holy fuck. It’s real. The passive voice elevates it to equal to the greatest works of beauty from classical antiquity.

Timeline remains undefeated

Israel now going phone to phone trying to argue with people

Orson Welles: I worked with Grogu. Not in film you see but on the stage. Brilliant performer but a cruel disgusting wretch of a soul. Interviewer: Pourrions-nous parler de Citizen Kane à la place, s'il vous plaît ? Welles: yes he did sell out his friends to HUAC, I will never forgive him for that

If you ranked the 1000 most corrupt things ever done by an executive branch official in the history of the United States something like 950 of them would have happened since Jan 20 2025.

We’re just normal men

Reminder: THERE IS NO SETTLEMENT. There can't be a settlement because Trump voluntarily dismissed the case before any notice of settlement was filed. No lawsuit, no settlement. Any news article that refers to a "settlement" is not telling the truth.

This reboot of ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO'S NEST sucks

this is punk

My snobbiest food take is that you should avoid fast food chains not just because the food is bad but because they despise their customers, and I have never felt more vindicated in that view than when I saw this

A tremendous loss. Peter was the founder and editor of the RISKS Digest, for years one of the critical Internet publications that cautioned not just about security vulnerabilities, but how to think about information risk itself. We are all the better for his contributions.

trying to overturn a free and fair election is, in a real democracy, one of the most serious crimes there is nine years is a light sentence for what she did

JFC. During an oil crisis, when EVs are a lifeline, Congress is about to *put a tax on EVs*. Spectacularly stupid.

This tweet, for a Ross Barkan story that copied my lede and reporting, now has more than 10x the views of the original. Ross hasn't apologized or acknowledged it; maybe he's just waiting for me to shut up. Without any explanation, I'm left to wonder how many times he's done this

I’m really pleased with having noticed this for the first time. #Sneakers #HATM

Mary McDonnell's "oh, I'm *fine*" -- like she's waving away a waiter at a cafe -- has always been one of my favorite moments in this movie #Sneakers #HATM

The roar in the theater in 1992 when James Earl Jones stepped into the camera was incredible. #Sneakers #HATM

Kind of a nice touch that Cosmo's gimmick was always the cheap palming sleight-of-hand, and ultimately he was undone by Bishop playing the same trick with the empty answering machine box. #Sneakers #HATM

And likewise, when Cosmo says "JUST GIVE ME THE BOX, MARTY," you can hear the desperation in his voice. He really *doesn't* want to kill Bishop but he's willing to. It's another moment that makes it so key to have a world-class actor in this role. #Sneakers #HATM

"You too, midnight." Cosmo's goons are about to find out exactly why Crease was canned from the CIA. #Sneakers #HATM

"Carl, what the hell were you waiting for?" "That's not easy what I just did!" Miss River Phoenix so much. #Sneakers #HATM

Some of the camerawork and lighting on this movie is really quite something -- the lighting on Bishop when he's in the ventilation system, the dark presentation lighting they use for Cosmo -- it's really worth calling out. #Sneakers #HATM