Spencer PriceNash
@spricena.bsky.social
retired sysadmin: UNIX (FreeBSD, AIX, HP-UX, Solaris) Linux (Fedora/Debian), networking, whatever's in data centers that's not Microsoft. Likes: comics, movies, books, learning, traveling.
About $16 for two pounds of standard co-op hamburger. So, around $5.50 per homemade half-pound-of-meat cheeseburger, the way I make them.
I've been asking friends how much a fast-food burger (meal) costs. Around $15.00 USD, they say.
I thought burger'd be about $10/lb now, Feb2026. Lucky.
I've been asking friends how much a fast-food burger (meal) costs. Around $15.00 USD, they say.
I thought burger'd be about $10/lb now, Feb2026. Lucky.
February 15, 2026 at 9:09 AM
About $16 for two pounds of standard co-op hamburger. So, around $5.50 per homemade half-pound-of-meat cheeseburger, the way I make them.
I've been asking friends how much a fast-food burger (meal) costs. Around $15.00 USD, they say.
I thought burger'd be about $10/lb now, Feb2026. Lucky.
I've been asking friends how much a fast-food burger (meal) costs. Around $15.00 USD, they say.
I thought burger'd be about $10/lb now, Feb2026. Lucky.
Love this headline. www.theregister.com/2026/02/13/a...
"The figures offer insight into the mentality of investors in AI platforms. Anthropic, like its rival OpenAI, has yet to turn a profit, although there are hopes that it will do so any moment now."
"The figures offer insight into the mentality of investors in AI platforms. Anthropic, like its rival OpenAI, has yet to turn a profit, although there are hopes that it will do so any moment now."
Investors toss another $30B atop the Anthropic money furnace
: $380B valuation for a company that's yet to turn a profit? Sure, why not
www.theregister.com
February 14, 2026 at 7:47 AM
Love this headline. www.theregister.com/2026/02/13/a...
"The figures offer insight into the mentality of investors in AI platforms. Anthropic, like its rival OpenAI, has yet to turn a profit, although there are hopes that it will do so any moment now."
"The figures offer insight into the mentality of investors in AI platforms. Anthropic, like its rival OpenAI, has yet to turn a profit, although there are hopes that it will do so any moment now."
A separate-but-equal halftime show? Really?
February 9, 2026 at 9:03 AM
A separate-but-equal halftime show? Really?
Please don't quote anything from newsbreak dot com.
It's a Chinese-born "news aggregator" that has been successfully sued by at least two real news agencies for, er, "borrowing" data and using AI to repost info. It used an app, is now available via http(s). Articles 404 soon after being posted.
It's a Chinese-born "news aggregator" that has been successfully sued by at least two real news agencies for, er, "borrowing" data and using AI to repost info. It used an app, is now available via http(s). Articles 404 soon after being posted.
February 8, 2026 at 9:41 PM
Please don't quote anything from newsbreak dot com.
It's a Chinese-born "news aggregator" that has been successfully sued by at least two real news agencies for, er, "borrowing" data and using AI to repost info. It used an app, is now available via http(s). Articles 404 soon after being posted.
It's a Chinese-born "news aggregator" that has been successfully sued by at least two real news agencies for, er, "borrowing" data and using AI to repost info. It used an app, is now available via http(s). Articles 404 soon after being posted.
ICE training? www.ice.gov/doclib/about... declares it is "IMMIGRATION AND CUSTOMS ENFORCEMENT ACADEMY
Detention and Removal Operations Training Division
Basic Immigration Law Enforcement Training Program (ICE-D)
PRE-ACADEMY ORIENTATION"
The bottom of the doc says "Revised April, 2008"
Detention and Removal Operations Training Division
Basic Immigration Law Enforcement Training Program (ICE-D)
PRE-ACADEMY ORIENTATION"
The bottom of the doc says "Revised April, 2008"
www.ice.gov
February 4, 2026 at 9:06 AM
ICE training? www.ice.gov/doclib/about... declares it is "IMMIGRATION AND CUSTOMS ENFORCEMENT ACADEMY
Detention and Removal Operations Training Division
Basic Immigration Law Enforcement Training Program (ICE-D)
PRE-ACADEMY ORIENTATION"
The bottom of the doc says "Revised April, 2008"
Detention and Removal Operations Training Division
Basic Immigration Law Enforcement Training Program (ICE-D)
PRE-ACADEMY ORIENTATION"
The bottom of the doc says "Revised April, 2008"
Hamburger may hit ten dollars per pound ($10/lb). Soon. How's that for affordability slash the economy slash tariffs/taxes?
If that doesn't hurt, an equally large increase in the price of alcohol would get your attention.
If that doesn't hurt, an equally large increase in the price of alcohol would get your attention.
February 1, 2026 at 2:03 AM
Hamburger may hit ten dollars per pound ($10/lb). Soon. How's that for affordability slash the economy slash tariffs/taxes?
If that doesn't hurt, an equally large increase in the price of alcohol would get your attention.
If that doesn't hurt, an equally large increase in the price of alcohol would get your attention.
Economics. I don't know much about econ, but what I've read lately, this is bad for US citizens: www.theguardian.com/business/202...
Succinctly, if you're an investor, it might be good, but if you're not, you're buying things that cost more than you expect.
Succinctly, if you're an investor, it might be good, but if you're not, you're buying things that cost more than you expect.
US dollar sinks to its lowest level in four years
Dollar drops against basket of currencies after Donald Trump brushed off concerns over slide
www.theguardian.com
January 29, 2026 at 6:13 AM
Economics. I don't know much about econ, but what I've read lately, this is bad for US citizens: www.theguardian.com/business/202...
Succinctly, if you're an investor, it might be good, but if you're not, you're buying things that cost more than you expect.
Succinctly, if you're an investor, it might be good, but if you're not, you're buying things that cost more than you expect.
“The dildo of consequences never arrives lubed.” Well now.
January 28, 2026 at 6:34 AM
“The dildo of consequences never arrives lubed.” Well now.
"A living thing seeks above all to *discharge* its strength -- life itself is *will to power*; self-preservation is only one of the indirect and most frequent results." -- Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil (1886)
January 27, 2026 at 10:06 AM
"A living thing seeks above all to *discharge* its strength -- life itself is *will to power*; self-preservation is only one of the indirect and most frequent results." -- Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil (1886)
Watching Peyton Place, the 1964+ night-time TV show. First 60-odd episodes, about half the first season. Dorothy Malone, Ryan O'Neal, Mia Farrow, et al. Library DVDs.
Historical significance.
This may be interrupted by Godzilla Minus One or Stranger Things season 1, no historical significance.
Historical significance.
This may be interrupted by Godzilla Minus One or Stranger Things season 1, no historical significance.
January 25, 2026 at 9:37 AM
Watching Peyton Place, the 1964+ night-time TV show. First 60-odd episodes, about half the first season. Dorothy Malone, Ryan O'Neal, Mia Farrow, et al. Library DVDs.
Historical significance.
This may be interrupted by Godzilla Minus One or Stranger Things season 1, no historical significance.
Historical significance.
This may be interrupted by Godzilla Minus One or Stranger Things season 1, no historical significance.
"money is nothing but a commodity's value-form. Things that in and for themselves aren't commodities -- for example, conscience, honor, and the like -- can be sold by their owners for money. [...] A thing can therefore (formally) have a price despite having no value." -- Karl Marx, _Capital_, 1867
January 24, 2026 at 10:33 AM
"money is nothing but a commodity's value-form. Things that in and for themselves aren't commodities -- for example, conscience, honor, and the like -- can be sold by their owners for money. [...] A thing can therefore (formally) have a price despite having no value." -- Karl Marx, _Capital_, 1867
We here in Texas are expecting very cold weather this weekend (Jan 24). Where's Ted Cruz? Oh. California. www.fox4news.com/news/ted-cru...
Ted Cruz spotted on a plane to Laguna Beach ahead of Texas winter storm
A photo of Senator Ted Cruz on a plane to Laguna Beach as Texas braces for a winter storm is drawing a lot of attention.
www.fox4news.com
January 21, 2026 at 11:26 PM
We here in Texas are expecting very cold weather this weekend (Jan 24). Where's Ted Cruz? Oh. California. www.fox4news.com/news/ted-cru...
"[If a narrator wants to evoke interest through his narrative] he will exaggerate, use superlatives, etc. Then he usually narrates the worse, because he is not thinking so much about the story as about himself." -- Friedrich Nietzsche, _Human, All Too Human_ (1878)
January 21, 2026 at 9:44 AM
"[If a narrator wants to evoke interest through his narrative] he will exaggerate, use superlatives, etc. Then he usually narrates the worse, because he is not thinking so much about the story as about himself." -- Friedrich Nietzsche, _Human, All Too Human_ (1878)
If you are trained to complain about the printing of money, you default to accepting the existence of money.
January 18, 2026 at 7:46 PM
If you are trained to complain about the printing of money, you default to accepting the existence of money.