I advise against starting fights with criminals out of boredom

you have way more to lose than they do probably

original: www.nytimes.com/2025/09/26/w...

PEPFAR was good (and the current admin uhh didn't completely kill it, so that's something)

I guess this is obvious, so what am I actually trying to communicate... I suspect you're saying "people who make visual explainers expect them to replace actually having to think about stuff, and they don't" and I'm saying "that's right but let's have more visual explainers anyway"

I sympathise with where this is coming from but think it's probably still better than very dry textual explainers that also don't demand that

now I am imagining a Vitruvian Man type thing where somehow the different bob positions perfectly land on a background geometrical figure

is there such a thing as a fish? (ref. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_Such... )

A cuts three large pieces and one tiny piece, B can't avoid getting the tiny piece

as a matter of operational security the Pentagon needs to start holding randomised pizza parties for all staff

you know the thing where you see someone wave so you wave back but then they walk past you and you figure out they were actually waving to someone else? what if you distilled and concentrated that experience and put it in a website

if they're going to be negotiating leverage though, it has to be *possible* for them to stay, right? so you need to say you believe in 1 to make 2 work

(no comment on whether this is actually what's going on)

leitmotef

nah the actual bad guys are worse I think

original: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

pistachios

FWIW I see many ads for Gemini on YouTube. Not a specialised application or niche field, just "why not use it to plan your social event" or whatever

github.com/bluesky-soci... for the curious

I have determined that a problem I was having with the login process breaks it for *only me* and no other users, which makes a change from the usual developer experience