This is so much less bad than Oz presented it as. The DME industry is rife with bad actors, the rates charged to Medicare and Medicaid are absurd, the entire process feels like a scam and it too often is. That said, I’m dubious this will help with the problem in any way.

In my 20s, I enjoyed almost every Disney animated picture released in theaters, including the re-releases. Many of them are some of the most beautiful art humans have ever created. I have never seen a single one of these live-action remakes

basically, every time you use a fallacious argument of a faux harm, you lay the groundwork for these companies to escape accountability for their real harms, because it's trivial for them to make a concession to not do the faux harm. bsky.app/profile/lizt...

I was in desperate need of good brain feeling, so I installed Timberborn and played until 1am and now my head is sufficiently empty.

The trolls producing AI videos about me are on Twitter, a site I do not even use, so I’m not sure how’d I block them! Ultimately mass-scale harassment is a SOCIAL problem, not an individual problem, and can only be controlled with POLICY, not individual action.

you cannot trust anything that is on archive today, archive is, archive ph, etc. there is no accountability for it (anon owner), they host doxxing data and refuse to take it down, they alter things (defeating their one reason to exist), and they massively copyright infringe news sites etc.

Half of our agricultural land is used for beef that provides 3% of our calories. Nobody likes it when I bang my spoon on my high chair about this but eventually we need to grapple with it.

Phil Gonzalez from CBS, welcome to the Verge’s background policy www.theverge.com/policy/88000...

It was a wonderful chunky time

Current state of things: One Fox News host casually declares that Epstein’s money comes from “Jewish billionaires” and a “Jewish banking family,” another responds that he was a “sex rabbi.” www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/jes...

"Animated Bokeh" has been on my whiteboard for a long time, and this is the result. I thought it would just be for cheesy novelty effects, but it also does lightfield manipulation that was cooler than I expected. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kg_2...

the AIPAC candidate is very openly Fine, and neither Duckworth nor Biss get AIPAC money, it’s hard to read this as something other than “the Jew money bought her off for the Jew”

Narrative violation: a new report from CRA shows that a) power prices in the US are *not* rising across the board, just in a few markets (mainly the Northeast + CA), and b) it's not the places with the most data centers.

RIP Robert Tinney (November 22, 1947 – February 1, 2026), the artist famous for his playful covers for Byte magazine, a hobbist magazine that ushered in the microcomputing age from the mid-70s through the 90s. I'm honored to have included his work in my own art collection.

I have to say, I do not love this new trend of large liberal accounts with millions of followers identifying Jews.

Being wildly antisemitic about an Arab Israeli is a pretty narrow needle to thread but you managed it, congrats

Someone just finished writing a novel. Spoiler: It was me. It's called "Monsters of Ohio," it's my 20th novel, and it'll be out in November. I hope you'll like it. I'm very tired.

Gates McFadden told a great story at a Star Trek convention I went to as a kid about Kermit goofing around with her props on a break between takes during her scene in “Muppets Take Manhattan” and finally she goes “KERMIT, STOP THAT!”, like straight to the frog, and the whole crew lost their shit

A passenger aircraft, the An‑28, armed with miniguns, is shooting down russian "Shahed" drones over Ukraine - French TV channel TF1. The crew of the plane,reportedly made up of civilian volunteers, has already destroyed around 150 drones.

New from 404 Media: the FBI has been unable to get into the iPhone of raided Washington Post journalist because the phone had Lockdown Mode enabled. Apple markets Lockdown Mode mostly to stop spyware like NSO. Here, a real world example of it stopping access too www.404media.co/fbi-couldnt-...

The altnps account is the 13th most followed account on Bluesky and has more followers than every single news outlet other than the NYT, NPR and Meidas Touch on here. They actively spread misinformation and exploit gullible old people for cash. Accounts this unethical do not deserve to exist.

GM finally resumed production of the Bolt (the best-selling non-Tesla EV), and it reached dealerships a few weeks ago. Naturally, GM has now cancelled it, in favor of using the plant to build gas-powered Buicks, which I did not know still existed.

punchline's worth it on this one

Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial, Washington, DC. April, 2018. 📷 Fujifilm X-T2 + XF16-55mmF2.8 R LM WR 🎞 55 mm – 1/210″ – f/5.6 – ISO 200 🏷️ #Photography

Got three job rejections in one day so: I am asking for help finding a new full-stack web development job. My website/portfolio is available at casey.kolderup.org. I'm a great team member and I've worked at small startups and medium-sized companies with success working across teams and disciplines.

I forgot to put “Bo Burnham releases some insanely genius thing” on my 2026 bingo card but this is me predicting it. He’s been quiet too long.

If you want to spare yourself this madness, overtype.dev seems OK (parser isn’t great, and it doesn’t have a fix for Safari wrapping glitches, but nicely self-contained)

Another Erdos problem this morning: (just to respond to a few people-- the system does NOT work by trying every possible answer and then checking. There's not enough matter and energy in the universe to solve theorems by trying every possible combination of symbols or whatever)

Earlier this month, D.C. parent @aaronweso.bsky.social expressed frustration with changes to the English Language Arts curriculum at Alice Deal Middle School in an op-ed. Responses from readers poured in, including Ward 3 SBOE Rep. @ejgoulet.bsky.social, who tweeted that he'd escalate the concerns.

Rock and dust samples brought back from the near-Earth asteroid Bennu contain organic matter, including amino acids and all five DNA and RNA nucleobases, according to two papers published in Nature Astronomy and Nature in January. go.nature.com/40SlwfF go.nature.com/3CC6ZLO 🔭 🧪

After reading this I gave exe.dev a shot and the combination of cheap VMs, the HTTPS proxy with passkey auth and link sharing, and the built-in LLM agent is... incredible. Like, I know how to use each of these things individually, but combining them feels like when I first learned to script things.

1. Keep your eye on the ball, people That Epstein-Larry Nassar letter has fake written all over it -- N. Virginia postmark, after JE's death, in a handwriting that appears not his own It's hard not to think DOJ WANTED this out there to then be debunked and thus discredit every mention of Trump...

Probably would have been safer to just describe this as a letter that was in the DOJ doc dump that claims to be from Epstein or something like that. Reporting this as definitively from Epstein could backfire in a big way.

Okay, I have to say, this doesn't really seem like Epstein's handwriting. It was postmarked after his death, which doesn't prove it ISN'T real, but DOES mean anyone had the info to write it. And the postmark seems to be from VA. Someone writing Nassar pretending to be Epstein, I think.

It's honestly just WILD how fun a master animator's work is to just watch.

L1 reading list (stack in bedroom/on desk; files on kindle) L2 reading list (stack in living room, files on computer) L3 reading list (amazon bookmarks; open tabs) Main reading list (goodreads bookmarks, notes app)

Yesterday I blocked two people who separately quote-tweeted this, sneering that EMS departments can’t build software. That is classist horseshit, exactly the attitude that got us in this situation.

Today I woke up to a kid puking on me. After coffee I worked on debugging the Windows NFSv3 client to see why it wasn't mounting my Go NFS gomodfs server. Not sure which was grosser.

Reaper Krampug sculpted by Jason Wiebe. Available starting tomorrow with the 12 days of Christmas at ReaperMini. Painted with mostly MSP2.0 paint, and I can confidently say it is awesome stuff and I’ll be backing the kickstarter in the (spring? 2026.)

Annually, in the US: Agriculture (Irrigation): ~42,000 – 47,000 Billion Gallons Cotton (Apparel): ~900 Billion Gallons Golf Courses: ~530 Billion Gallons All Data Centers: ~160 – 200 Billion Gallons AI (Specific): ~10 – 20 Billion Gallons (Est.)* This backlash is absurd. The lies won't stop!

one single developer really just dropped a type system for Ruby with ergonomics that look FAR better than Sorbet. absolutely wild.

I've seen over a dozen accounts I follow post the "Hegseth didn't realize the photo was taken in a mirror" myth. First of all, selfies don't actually mirror-reverse unless you screenshot the preview. More importantly, if you look at the medals, they're not mirror-reversed. You can read the writing:

US District Judge Cameron Currie went pretty deep into the text of 28 U.S.C. § 546(d)

First successful fine tune of Baguettotron. And very on brand to see it’s about poetry.

“Housing shortage – Jews to blame," letter sticker, German Reich, 1938 zwangsraeume.berlin/en/context

Well Kyiv is having a fun night

It's too long for Bluesky & I refuse to compromise. So here's a screenshot with the words in the alt-text.