bribery is a crime even if the current administration asks you to do it

People need to stop criticizing him for the small secondary lead and focus more on how you don’t slide into home on a force play www.si.com/mlb/blue-jay...

Plex’s Sonic Analysis feature for music is good now (at least, scanning my library took 4 days, not 4 months, and it will no longer hang indefinitely on malformed files). See sonically similar tracks and albums, playlists based on same

Villains used to obfuscate. They looked normal on tv and said things like "Fiscal discipline." Now you have grotesque guys hissing "Empathy is weakness" like a cartoon

One of the slave power secessionist complaints was that Northern juries kept acquitting people who obstructed the Fugitive Slave Act. But even when the bastards had the federal government on their side, there was no way around the Sixth Amendment's requirement of not just a jury but a local one.

“In 2029 we will use antitrust law to break up all companies that went through mergers after donating more than one million $ to President Trump while merger was being reviewed.”

🚨🚨🚨 The jury has reached a verdict. Sean Dunn, aka the DC Sandwich Guy, has been found NOT GUILTY of assault.

of course (and Shoe knows this, I'm preaching to the choir I think) they've convinced themselves that this is actually the Real Strength, that the evil empathy-peddlers have filled our society with all these women and kids and that the test of a real man is who's willing to hurt them for racism

marina sirtis on jonathan frakes who, in general, seems like the nicest man in the world www.instagram.com/reel/DQj_nPa...

a simple matter of banning gerrymandering

"Crypto" in general should be, if not illegal, regulated to the point it has no speculative value. Mythical "inventory management on the blockchain" sure knock yourself out

Cool. What would you call the other wing then? www.nytimes.com/2025/11/03/u...

recalling Jonah Goldberg’s whole “liberals are the real fascists” routine as Republicans battle Nazi scandal after Nazi scandal

the arguments in this video are comprehensive and unassailable

who remembers fido-net

@hypernode.bsky.social holy cow, great account

trial descends into chaos as it is revealed that he threw a hot dog, not a sandwich. or does that pre-judge the issue?

Google no longer supports the Links browser. Sad

Reminder that this is a winning position, and people support it

the jury “must” not do jack shit. judges love lying about that

electronics equivlent of those Soul Jazz compilations advertised on the back of The Wire www.theverge.com/news/814300/...

New one: using LocalSend to send a password from my phone (which has my password manager) to the various random computers I find myself using

Yesterday I tried to say “I have a little brain fog” and it came out “I have a brain frog,” proving the point 🐸

The laws of physics are always the first to go.

😎😎😎😎 GOOD THINGS CAN STILL HAPPEN 😎😎😎😎

huge news tonight!

I missed two (2) entire meetings once because Teams would get stuck in some sort of weird log in / log out loop. I know that it doesn't let you join some meetings you were invited to with the "wrong" kind of account, for no clear reason. Eventually I trashed the Teams app and just use the browser

let’s check that % of revenue spent on payroll chart ah yes hmm I see

🔈 New interview with @markhurst.bsky.social on @wfmu.bsky.social's “Techtonic.” We discuss my book “The Secret Life of Data” (written w/ @jesgilbert.bsky.social), and talk privacy, democracy, and cultcha. It was a wonderful conversation. techtonic.fm/episodes/202... #podcast #radio

I hope so!

tons and tons of Aphex Twin stuff is not on streaming: the entire Analogue Bubblebath and Caustic Window series. And the Analords for more recent

sometimes I like reading about old beefs: like the Linux people who were incandescently mad about systemd. Lots still are!

"The nondelegation doctrine has nothing to do with the Constitution as it was originally understood. You can be an originalist or you can be committed to the nondelegation doctrine. But you can’t be both." www.columbialawreview.org/content/dele...

Character.AI has resources for kids who are about to lose access to their chatbots. One is essentially “consider reading a book.” support.character.ai/hc/en-us/art...

I'm hoping that in the future we'll understand tomorrow as the very beginning of the end of Trump and Trumpism. We'll see. But if it happens, I want to make sure that people counseling moderation and kumbaya are ignored. We need to do more than defeat Trumpism. We need to crush it, forever.

Business leaders will praise Trump for not *totally* destroying their businesses just yet because they are afraid of him, and they will criticize democrats over incremental tax or regulatory policies because they are not afraid of democrats

Crazy how much some media has normalized the idea that voters are taking a risk if they elect governors/mayors who will defy Trump. That he’ll threaten their funding, etc. Try to imagine, say. Greg Abbott being asked if he’s worried that Biden will punish Texas over his lawsuits.

people say “have a ball!” but those are actually formal events that require a lot of planning

Abduction of Proserpina, by Giambologna, 1579 (from the @NortonSimon Museum in Pasadena), 📸 by @nturchiarophoto

Rogers Hornsby: People ask me what I do in winter when there's no baseball. I'll tell you what I do. I stare out the window and wait for spring. Rogers Hornsby's Therapist: Let's unpack that, Roger. Rogers Hornsby: It's "Rogers"

as always, I want one of the Blue Jays World Series Champs hats and shirts they’ve got in boxes

genuinely crazy-making how much the national press is indifferent to the verifiable fact that jd vance is buddy buddy with internet nazis, and the degree to which this is almost certainly a form of solidarity among people with a similar institution pedigree

I can’t even baseball

Blue Jays lost yesterday so they stopped wearing the powder blue

autechre is the linux of music