A friendly hello to everyone here who told me I was naive, deluded, and a fool to believe that there was any difference between suspension and cancellation. As it happens, I do have a little experience covering the entertainment business! (Kimmel is back tomorrow night.)

A disorienting moment: Trump is consolidating autocratic power in areas where there's an easy path to do so. But in other areas he's facing deep institutional resistance and people are refusing to abandon the rule of law. Here he's weak and failing. Thoughts on that: newrepublic.com/article/2006...

They would get better overall results by scattering this money in various parks.

NEW POST! bit.ly/46h3oin

I’m no fancy politics guy, but i’d say any country where you can’t put a man in prison for accepting a literal bag full of cash in exchange for favors from the government is not, in fact, a functioning state.

Here are useful Python modules and libraries for networking 😎👇 #python #programming #coding #network #devops Find a high-res pdf book with all my #networking related infographics from study-notes.org/networking-e...

Amazon is a leader in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for AI code assistants, but Cursor is not. How plausible!

NEW POST! Call For Papers Listings for 9/19 A collection of upcoming CFPs (call for papers) from across the internet and around the world. This is a list of the next 10 (or so) upcoming tech conferences that have an open "Call for Papers" (CFP), in order of the CFP closing date. bit.ly/48pKRBT

NEW POST! Job listings for week ending 9/19 Job postings that came across my desk, slack, email, discord, etc this week. bit.ly/3Kc0X8a

You still have time to buy something nice, wrap it up, and send it to Bilbo and Frodo. Their mutual birthday will be this Monday - September 22. Otherwise known as #HobbitDay

NEW POST! "APM vs observability: why your definitions are broken" Monitoring, o11y, APM, DEX... vendors tend to play fast and loose with all of those terms (and more). In part 2 of my "APM vs O11y" series, I try to tease out meaning and nail down definitions. www.catchpoint.com/blog/apm-vs-...

Warner Bros CEO Laments ‘Terrible’ Streaming TV Experience’ He Created, Proposes More Shitty Mergers And Price Hikes As The Fix www.techdirt.com/2025/09/19/w...

This Week's Onion Magazine:

My hobby: speed running how long it takes someone to go from “hey, let’s see who has the weirdest domain registered” to “Jesus Christ stop you win stop stop stop!”

This. This all day. while [ TRUE ]; do echo "this"; done

💻 Linux isn’t just an OS, it’s a career multiplier. Mastering Linux opens doors to: SysAdmin 🚀 DevOps ⚙️ Cybersecurity 🔐 Cloud ☁️ If you’re in tech and don’t know Linux, you’re leaving opportunities on the table.

AND WE’RE OFF. opening keynote by Jason Mayes, WebAI lead at @developers.google.com has me even more convinced about the importance of AI devs embracing client-side. #cascadiajs / @cascadiajs.com

NEW POST! Punchline, or Gut-Punch? In that moment, anyone in the audience who'd made that choice found themselves in an unintentional spotlight. Without my meaning to, I'd made them and their work the butt of a joke. bit.ly/46sQInC

The announcement came after FCC Chairman Brendan Carr criticized Kimmel and said, “We can do this the easy way or the hard way.” Carr co-authored Project 2025, the MAGA fascist manifesto to dismantle democracy in America. This is so clearly a political hit job. ABC's cowardice is breathtaking.

•ABC: fires Kimmel for mocking Trump •CBS: fires Colbert for mocking Trump •ABC: fires Moran for slamming Stephen Miller •MSNBC: fires Matt Dowd for saying “hateful thoughts lead to hateful actions” •FOX: Champions Brian Kilmeade as he calls for Nazi state murder of America’s 600K homeless people

Trump just designated “Antifa” as a terrorist organization, on par with ISIS and Al Qaeda. As a reminder, “antifa” is short for “antifascist”. They will use this lie to surveil, imprison, and kill Americans on the left. This may be our Reichstag Fire moment. Wake up. www.cnn.com/2025/09/17/p...

I love everything from @xkcd.com including this strip: xkcd.com/3143/ But not enough people remember Victor Borge's "Phonetic Punctuation" www.youtube.com/watch?v=n4Mh...

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"There is freedom of speech but I cannot guarantee freedom after speech" said by Idi Amin, former Ugandan dictator.

trump’s numbers are tanking and there is a palpable desire in the electorate for a real alternative and yet the only money in democratic politics is for doing starmerism

It says here that seafood products are Venezuela’s largest agricultural export www.fas.usda.gov/data/venezue...

Not to continue to do this Cassandra bullshit, but here is a clip from two years ago that outlines exactly the playbook in this moment: a government and private law enforcement army run entirely on grievance, culture war slop, and weaponizable data points, deployed against boogeymen, absent facts.

"In 2024, researchers at Johns Hopkins and Stanford delivered a sobering assessment of Chicago’s water system: nearly seven in 10 children under the age of six live in households where tap water carries detectable levels of lead." wordinblack.com/2025/09/chic...

Thanks also to Susan Oakes, who shared her images as an example of what was being lost, and @roxanelapa.com, who did the same, with here excellent AI protest art. Find more of their work here: www.suoakesphotoimaging.com www.roxanelapa.com

Haha we're killing fisherman hahaha yeah just some fisherman, but don't worry they have absolutely nothing to do with us or you we're just killing em because no one is stopping us

Picard organization tip: Compose your enterprise from separable parts. A section might need to be able to go off on its own for a while.

Amazing that the "it takes money to make money" folks don't get this.

A program in Flint, MI, gave $1,500 to any/all pregnant people and $500/month for the first year of their infant’s life. Among the benefits, those babies experienced lower rates of prematurity and low birth weight, which resulted in fewer NICU admissions, saving the city of Flint $6.2 million/year.

"History rarely repeats itself, but its echoes never go away." August 16, 1971, memo 👇 from John Dean about the Nixon "enemies list" and the administration's plans to "use the avallable federal machinery to screw" them "(e.g., grant avallability, federal contracts, litigation, prosecution, etc.)"

Livestream for #DevOpsdays #DevOpsDaysRox day 2 is live and running. Even if you can't be here to enjoy the food, sun, fun, and friendship you can still experience all the educational goodness. www.youtube.com/live/iwKzn3h...

DevOpsDays Denver #devopsdays #devopsdaysrox Day 2 kicks off soon. Catch the live stream here - www.youtube.com/@devopsdaysr... - yours truly will be on about 11:30amMT

Please permit me to remind you that just as the First Amendment protects Nazis, who would suppress our speech, it also protects the New York Times, which has sold out every American right and value for the mess of Park Slope potage that is false equivalency, false neutrality, and access.

@duolingoesp.bsky.social I was NOT expecting that plot twist at the end!

Next time someone on the right claims all the political violence in this country is coming from the left, not the right, do please show them this. You're welcome

"It’s not just Meta, though: EFF found censorship across platforms—from TikTok to LinkedIn."

NEW POST! Google’s Agent-to-Agent (A2A) Protocol is here—Now Let’s Make it Observable (This post originally appeared on Catchpoint.com) Can your AI tools really work together, or are they still stuck in silos? bit.ly/42r3lxZ

The fact that Trump thinks it's plausible that the entire US population (or ~ 1/27 of the world population) died from drug use last year should completely disqualify him from the Presidency. The real number, per WHO is ~ 600k. His brain is mush.

Have sent to my second year film student to set the bar for her future award speeches when I am in the audience.

korean reporting is nightmarish on the conditions Korean workers were contained in

update: male loneliness epidemic solved

The Brian Kilmeade apology looks like a hostage video

"But sure enough, in the halls of power, on the platforms of influence, naming hate is considered dangerous uncivil and hateful and out-of-bounds, but actual hateful incitement is not."

Illinois Governor JB Pritzker has signed an executive order which permits pharmacists and other medical personnel to administer vaccines recommended by state officials, no prior prescription needed. The order also requires insurance companies to cover the vaccines.

did a little media criticism www.theverge.com/politics/777...