It's "the rain has soaked through the joins in my front door" wet here in LA this morning

RE: the Bundys and the wholly inadequate response, I'm fine with not beating the allegations when the allegations are "armed defiance of lawful government orders and hostile armed occupancy of government property ends with you going home in a bucket"

I'm usually fine with "it's stupid but it's fun" (see: my love of both Twister movies and Dante's Peak/Volcano) but that tolerance vanishes when you're promoting stupid untrue shit about things that public opinion actually sways

True Facts: The Tia Carrere fronted cover of Ballroom Blitz they did for Wayne's World is the best rendition of Ballroom Blitz

fuck yes fuck yes FUCK YES

One of the lines I keep on having to deploy is "Do you want to be right, or do you want to be mad?" You can oftentimes be both, but eventually you'll have to choose between correctly understanding a situation or rejecting bad info and continuing to chase the high of being mad about/at something.

You know a muscle pull has been fucking your sleep up when you feel like laying down and taking a nap every evening

McNeil found out about this trade when Stearns texted him to pick up his shit from the curb outside Citi Field, I guess

The gift that you'll be absolutely compelled to share with everyone!

Scanned my test roll I shot when I got all the lenses I wanted for my Pentax 67 and this one popped so well I have to share it. Good fucking god is 6x7 such a good format and these lenses are *insane*. 6cm x 7cm is so much detail it looks damn near 3D. Totally worth only getting 10 shots a roll.

peaking for myself, I was poking around with ChatGPT as soon as it was released publicly (mostly for code), and my partner has been doing extensive work experimenting with multi-agent LLMs. i work in drone tech, another controversial high-tech field. i am 100% an early adopter Type. and yet....

Merry Christmas

I was reminded how good 2022's Day Shift was, so I guess I'm watching that now. Fun as hell little action flick, Jamie Foxx killing vampires in LA, highly recommend.

Next step - which is *mandatory* - is follow-through. This is an open door, but Democrats still need to walk through it. Deliver on immigration policy, shut down and punish the ICE raids, try to disassemble ICE if the will is still there. Job's not finished.

Beyond accuracy, beyond the bad economics and bad businesses, the thing I find most offensive about LLMs and many of their fans is this insistence that they give you the reward without doing the work. The reward is what happens *because* you did the work.

If an academic depends on a LLM hallucinated study in their work, it's embarrassing and could mean wasted time and lost prestige. If an attorney depends on a LLM hallucinated precedent or law, it's potentially career ending and already has been for some. I like my license to practice, thanks.

Apparently I missed yesterday that Palmer Lucky is doing a FPGA Game Boy Color, that he's tied it to his idiotic "defense" tech startup, and since people are mad at him about that he's doubled down by selling a version made from the same materials as the drones he's trying to sell what the fuck

Just finished Alan Clarke's Elephant, and it's probably the first film I can genuinely say is shot in the 2nd person. The movie is a straightforward depiction of murders during The Troubles, released in 1989, and is a spectacularly effective statement against the violence of The Troubles.

This is fucking shameful.

I really have no idea what will happen when the political tide changes and SV is caught at low tide, having cooked their brains post-COVID and thrown in with the GOP, while their products malfunction and cause havoc or are just outright hatred - but they are unprepared for whatever it might be.

I mean if the WelcomeFest gang want to start picking fights with established Democrats with a broad base of popularity and friends actually in politics, far be it from me to stop them

Okay I'm absolutely going to go back and do a B&W Cinemascope playthrough

turning a big dial that says "hanging out with pedophiles" on it and constantly looking back at the audience for approval like a contestant on the price is right

How does @aotearoabadger.bsky.social not have this already

I finally am (very very slowly) catching up with my film scanning. These are from a roll of FPP Retrochrome, which is expired military surplus Kodak Ektachrome 400. No one makes high speed slide film at the moment, but the real killer for me are those amazing vintage 70s-esque color tones.

"Hey isn't this a huge undisclosed conflict of interest that makes him and the institution that published that look bad?" "He didn't fuck any kids!"

Tired: e-bike overreaction/crackdown because idiots driving what are basically electric motorcycles on the sidewalk Wired: e-bike overreaction/crackdown because gang violence

just replace NFL with MLB and you get my feeling on the Mookie Betts situation

lol he did it again Salt has now pushed the blindfolded WR below where the sighted record was when he started speedrunning Mike Tyson's Punch-Out

If there's one thing that everyone on active duty can do, it's MyPay math. It will take approximately 0.2 seconds for people to get that this was supposed to be BAH (which is tax-free) and they're now paying taxes on it. Leave it to Trump and Hegseth to bribe the military and piss them off even more

And then there is a third comedy option, which is that this isn't additional pay at all but rather is taking money from the reconciliation bill that was supposed to be used to plus up the BAH account (presumably to allow BAH increases in line w/higher housing costs) and doling it out in a lump sum

If Hegseth and Trump are looting BAH (Basic Allowance for Housing) to pay for the bribe, that's gonna have *severe* knock-on effects. BAH is how servicemembers pay for off-post housing and utilities, and fucking with *that* has the potential to actually disrupt housing.

Go to any military subreddit's thread on it. The dominant themes are 1) open disbelief the check will clear 2) references to "steak and lobsters" (i.e., the token bribe before you're fucked over) 3) very Bluesky-coded wrangling over it being illegal and regressive (E-2s need it, O-9s don't)

It would be very dumb to not do this because The Troops™️ are guaranteed to hold grudges about exactly two things: 1. Being told they will get time off and then not getting time off, and 2. Being told they will get paid extra money and then not getting paid extra money

That's the other thing, it's almost certainly not a big dramatic Trump check if he does actually follow through, it'll be a single line on your online MyPay statement that maybe a quarter of all service members ever look at

The only thing more insulting to the military than Trump's impromptu bribe will be when he doesn't actually pay it I'm surprised how many people are treating this as a done deal, how many times has Trump made up a tariff check that never comes, it's at least 50/50 he doesn't do this

I almost never have a quick trigger finger on blocking but you talk shit and besmirch the honor of chaplains and how seriously they take their duties and what this will mean to them this atheist will break this goddamn screen mashing the block button

If you want a window into how empty and black Hegseth's soul and faith are, you can't get a clearer one than what he's doing here. Even if you share his beliefs, there can be no emotional support, no aid to morale. All he sees religion as is another arena to dominate in. No ministry, only hostility.

Oh *this* will go exceptionally poorly for Hegseth. You don't fuck with the chaplains.

Volcker would simply make prices look lower by standing next to them

It's more that we need to re-evaluate regulations in light of both the intended and actual process and impacts. We have too many regulations that have impacts we don't want and don't discourage/promote what we want them to.

Cluttered frame reminds us of how unprofessional/chaotic they are, but the real slap is the focal length. These look like wide focal lengths but also wide shots. Wide angle lenses make the image feel bigger and people look small, wide shots on solo portraits make the subject small/isolated.

Armor-piercing fin-stabilized discarding-sabot burritos

this is an exercise in futility as a Mission super burrito is simply too heavy to be carried by a commercial drone missionlocal.org/2025/12/sf-d...

Nvidia definitely isn't desperately throwing money at anything that says "AI" on it blogs.nvidia.com/blog/starclo...

For anyone worried AI will replace all of us. Courtesy of Gemini for the prompt “create an infographic of all the World Series winners since 1986” I dare you to find 10 things that are right.

+42 swing in a very suburban district that's 59% white/23% black with a median income under $57k is worth an eyebrow raise for sure

Wildfire really does need to be treated like Flood and Earthquake insurance: It should be excluded from normal insurance, be a separate plan, and backed by the state/feds. This is how flood and earthquake insurance work already.

The trick is to be *so* aggressively wrong on something that people really want your wrongness to be right. That way you have an audience that is willing to listen (and eventually pay) to basically be hotboxed with you while you kill your brain huffing your own farts

"LLMs aren't for people who want the answer, they're for people who want just any answer" part the thousandth www.wired.com/story/openai...