I doubt that greater law enforcement aimed at holding engineers accountable for sloppy engineering that kills people will change outcomes. If you don’t hold stock owners accountable, they’re just gonna hire another unethical CEO and more engineers willing to cut corners for a pay check.

Nothing like having the illegitimate rules of your country use a holiday address to demonize and attack you and other innocent people in a group his party has decided to use as combination jingly keys and an object lesson the cost of resisting authoritarianism.

DoG street. #blackandwhite #pinhole #photography on 4x5 Frankenstein 200 film.

The Governor’s Mansion in winter. #photography #blackandwhite FPP Frankenstein 4x5 film shot with a 300um #pinhole and developed in ID-11

Wind power the old way. #photography #blackandwhite FPP Frankenstein 4x5 film shot with an Ilex 165mm lens and developed in ID-11

I want real religious freedom: the freedom to live my life without fascists waving the flag of the dominant religion here to justify demonizing and abusing minorities like me to secure their rule over believers they exploit. Freedom. From. Religious. Fascism. Now!

The running theme between the Epstein story, banning trans healthcare for minors, religious homeschooling and the complaints about adult children estranging themselves is a fundamental American belief that children are property with no rights of their own

Delighted to hear that The Invisible Doctrine, the film by @peterhutchison.bsky.social and @lucas-sabean.bsky.social, is being offered free to view on YouTube for the holiday season. It's all yours! youtu.be/gR4eSEetKP0

Bari Weiss’s upwards failure tells you what the ruling class wants: she can’t attract viewers with her nonsense, but she can silence people who would speak truth to power. Tell the CECOT story!

Push these things into the landfill where they belong. Even when they’re not doing something risky, like failing utterly to find out why someone was trying to look under them, they’re just a way to offshore cab driving jobs.

#blackandwhite #photography RPX25 in Rodinal, Minolta SRT-102

Want some veg? #blackandwhite #photography RPX25 in Rodinal, Minolta SRT-102

Fancy a squash? #blackandwhite #photography RPX25 in Rodinal, Minolta SRT-102

Very good article detailing the truth around these blocker bans: they are harmful, and they are being driven through by politicians who, like Cass, ignore practitioners and patients.

Just woke up from a dream wherein, with good guys closing in, Trump took Hitler’s exit. I was part of the group that took over the white house while councils were forming. One of us replaced every mention of his name with TIP^3: The Insurrectionist P*do Posing as President.

Putting his name on things is the equivalent of spray painting a hate symbol like a swastika on them. When he’s out of office, strip his name from everything then sue him to recover both the public funds he used for the defacement and the cost of remediation.

This thread by a former NYT editor documents how the NYT came to push the Cass Review so hard over other reviews. It was dictated from the top by editors. They sidelined their own London reporter to put Azeen Ghorayshi on it.

What if most of the internet and computing is just as ill-founded and unsustainable as the generative A’I’ crap? Security seams … bleak. We’ve build towers of technical infrastructure out of slapped-together crap. We could have taken the time and care to build robust foundations—throwing a lot of …

The name "Popular Science" doesn't mean we shift our coverage depending on public opinion. It means we cover relevant subjects that are rigorously researched, reliable, and grounded in reality. And trans lives are grounded in reality. We see y'all. No matter what. www.popsci.com/science/tran...

Amendment 14, section 3: No person shall … hold any office, civil or military, under the United States …who, having previously taken an oath … to support the Constitution of the United States, shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same ….

Part of the point of deliberately €%£¥ing the USA’s research agencies—e.g., NASA—while €%£¥ing over universities is to pry loose people with knowledge who, desperate to avoid homelessness, can be hired cheap by industry. It’s how the USA gets sold for scrap.

The more I think about it, the more I reckon the 2003 Iraq War began the process that let Trump win. The blatant lies we were told by our governments, the disregard for public opinion and mockery of international law created a rupture that never healed. Trust, consent and cohesion were smashed.🧵 1/3

There’s a concept from electrical engineering that is useful for describing this: signal to noise ratio. The SNR in my field was already low after the business majors took over universities and ratcheted up the publish-or-perish incentives. Whole conferences would have maybe one or two good papers.

Don’t you mean it’s long past time? The court has done plenty of egregious shit over the decades to serve the ruling class. And then there’s replacing Scalia and Ginsberg under mutually exclusive rationales. There’s the court’s misogyny and transphobia. And on and on and on.

BREAKING: The House of Representatives passed a bill that would criminalize gender-affirming care for transgender youth under 18 and put doctors in prison for providing this care. This bill is an unjustifiable threat to the well-being of trans youth and their families. The Senate must reject it.

&$@! Clowngress. Genocidal €£*wipes.

For whatever reason, several households in my area seem to have Halloween priapism: the bony skeletons they erected are still standing at attention.

Hey @margaret.bsky.social and @iwriteok.bsky.social: if you are fascinated by inertial ICBM guidance and in a mood to nerd out, may I recommend Donald MacKenzie’s Inventing Accuracy: A Historical Sociology of Nuclear Missile Guidance. Beryllium babies, oh my!

LLMs will continue to be used for customer disservice and by scammers, but the big future use is democracy prevention: flooding info. spaces with so much crap that none of us has the information we need to act as full citizens. LLMs will be used by the powerful to reduce us all to passive subjects.

My employer, Dartmouth College, today boasts it's 1st Ivy "to launch AI at an institutional scale." It is doing this by partnering--"more than a collaboration"--with Anthropic, a company that stole the books of many faculty, me included, which many of us are suing.

This is what is going to happen. There will be a thin top layer of non-digital universities — and all the tech billionaires will send their kids to those places.

An AI pusher is now running an ad in which some idiot holds up a 3.6 kg ham and has to ask his phone whether it will feed 8 people. The phone assures him it will feed 8–10. Who needs an AI to tell them that an average guest is not going to eat 400+ g of ham plus sides etc. in one sitting?!?

Have a sunset. Shot on CatLabs 100 in a Reality So Subtle 6F. #pinhole #photography

Have a December sky. Shot on 4x5 FPP Frankenstein using a 300um pinhole in a view camera and developed in ID-11. #pinhole #blackandwhite #photography

I’m developing black and white pinhole photos of the winter sky and they just look like angiograms to me

Y’know, one way to encourage motorists to choose smaller cars is to impose a mass limit—say, 1.5 tons for a two passenger car and 2 tons for a 4–6 passenger car—and require automatic speed limit enforcement built in to everything heavier sold.

I want to make a comment on this: two TAs graded the paper, one cis, one trans. They agreed on the grade and the reasons. Based on OU’s press release, they have only suspended one of these TAs.

For my newsletter, I wrote about that college essay scandal that's gone viral and what everyone is seeming to miss: It's about ATTACKING TRANS PEOPLE!!! www.burnsnotice.com/that-viral-e...

New rule: If your car’s maker pushed adverts to your dash, you are entitled to have a c-suite executive fly out and detail your car’s exterior with their tongue.

Vendor A: Item X is in stock. Me: Orders. Vendor A, two days later: Sorry LOL it’s out of stock. Me: OK cancel then. Vendor B: We’ve got it and can expedite. Me: OK orders. Vendor B: LOL we’re just gonna sit on it till it incubates. Post: Delivers item from Vendor A.

That’s two engines in in two days. And only one sprained wrist injury.

The Hyde Amendment has got to €€#%ing go.

Amazon is recommending me PG-13 werewolf “romance”. Wheeee.

I spent most of his first term wondering when he was going to ring up General Shaed E. Mercke’s black helicopter service for a ride out of the country. Now I’m not sure he’s got the sense to git while the gittin’s good.

What payment would you accept to give up your right to play sport? To be excluded from a dorm? To be denied healthcare that demonstrably and markedly improves quality of life? That’s what the people making these decisions owe to those affected.

The gaslighting NU is doing is insane. They “place no restrictions on” trans people—as they restrict us. They “unequivocally support” us—as they deny us our human rights. That’s university “leadership” that must never be allowed to make another consequential decision.

Not a single major news outlet has covered this story. There is such a blatant, obvious attempt to suppress any and all news that deals with the actual facts about transgender life and experience. As the government rolls back our rights on an unprecedented scale, we have been left out to dry.

A microwave oven keypad

Riddle me this: where is 99 > 100?

Mama’s got a brand new bunghole