It will always be Twitter, and it will always be the Gulf of Mexico.
January 23, 2025 at 1:19 PM
It will always be Twitter, and it will always be the Gulf of Mexico.
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He "got stuck" watching Seth Meyers? I guess Musk wouldn't let him have the remote.
January 14, 2025 at 9:40 PM
He "got stuck" watching Seth Meyers? I guess Musk wouldn't let him have the remote.
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I'm going to haul this one out again, about why it's not a great idea to idolize creative people, or indeed anyone, and certainly not me, because today really is the day to be reminded about that, isn't it:
whatever.scalzi.com/2024/08/15/p...
whatever.scalzi.com/2024/08/15/p...
Please Don’t Idolize Me (or Anyone, Really)
In the wake of the various recent allegations involving Neil Gaiman, people have been both very sad that someone who they looked up to as an inspiration has, allegedly, turned out to be something l…
whatever.scalzi.com
January 13, 2025 at 1:57 PM
I'm going to haul this one out again, about why it's not a great idea to idolize creative people, or indeed anyone, and certainly not me, because today really is the day to be reminded about that, isn't it:
whatever.scalzi.com/2024/08/15/p...
whatever.scalzi.com/2024/08/15/p...
She spent he life working for the opposition, so the real question is, Why isn't the party that she helped become what it is today rewarding her with this honor?
democrats continually reward bad behavior from across the isle and slap down the people coming up in their own party.
democrats continually reward bad behavior from across the isle and slap down the people coming up in their own party.
Former Representative Liz Cheney, who bucked her Republican Party to strongly criticize US President-elect Donald Trump and some of his allies, was one of 20 people awarded the Presidential Citizens Medal, one of the country's highest civilian honors reut.rs/3BSZ78q
Biden honors Liz Cheney and others with Presidential Citizens Medal
Former Representative Liz Cheney, who bucked her Republican Party to strongly criticize President-elect Donald Trump and some of his allies, was one of 20 people awarded the Presidential Citizens Medal, one of the country's highest civilian honors, by President Joe Biden on Thursday.
reut.rs
January 3, 2025 at 4:39 PM
She spent he life working for the opposition, so the real question is, Why isn't the party that she helped become what it is today rewarding her with this honor?
democrats continually reward bad behavior from across the isle and slap down the people coming up in their own party.
democrats continually reward bad behavior from across the isle and slap down the people coming up in their own party.
Since I went through the trouble and it gave me a chuckle.
January 3, 2025 at 4:15 PM
Since I went through the trouble and it gave me a chuckle.
The true surprise would have been if they had voted in favor of releasing the report.
December 7, 2024 at 2:08 AM
The true surprise would have been if they had voted in favor of releasing the report.
I just realized there are truly only 3 web browsers Chrome, Firefox, and Safari, of those 3, only 2 of those are fully cross-platform, Chrome and Firefox, and of those 2 Firefox only exists to provide cover for Chrome and its developmentis in part funded by google in part to avoid antitrust issues.
November 27, 2024 at 9:51 PM
I just realized there are truly only 3 web browsers Chrome, Firefox, and Safari, of those 3, only 2 of those are fully cross-platform, Chrome and Firefox, and of those 2 Firefox only exists to provide cover for Chrome and its developmentis in part funded by google in part to avoid antitrust issues.
The Star Wars nerd in me appreciates the deep and heavy irony here, clearly Implying that our armed forces are in the shoes of either the empire or a criminal org hunting a force of inferior strength yet somehow still failing due to bureaucracy and incompetence..
A photo of the "Houthi Hunting Club" patch — which disappeared from the Pentagon's website — shows how the U.S. dehumanizes its enemies.
America's Shadow War in Yemen Has Its Own Racist Military Swag
The U.S. military has been dehumanizing its enemies with slurs and caricatures for more than a century to make killing easier.
interc.pt
November 13, 2024 at 12:12 AM
The Star Wars nerd in me appreciates the deep and heavy irony here, clearly Implying that our armed forces are in the shoes of either the empire or a criminal org hunting a force of inferior strength yet somehow still failing due to bureaucracy and incompetence..
It's insane and amazing that Voyager is still going strong. I hope that along the halls of NASA, there's a project to send an updated satellite. I'm sure there's so much more we could learn with updated instruments.
Engineers at NASA have successfully fired up a set of thrusters Voyager 1 hasn’t used in decades to solve an issue that could keep the 47-year-old spacecraft from communicating with Earth from billions of miles away.
47-year-old Voyager 1 spacecraft just fired up thrusters it hasn’t used in decades | CNN
Engineers have mitigated an issue with Voyager 1’s thrusters, enabling the mission to stay in touch with mission controllers on Earth and send back unique data.
cnn.it
September 17, 2024 at 6:27 PM
It's insane and amazing that Voyager is still going strong. I hope that along the halls of NASA, there's a project to send an updated satellite. I'm sure there's so much more we could learn with updated instruments.
Bluesky now has over 10 million users, and I was #646,204!
September 17, 2024 at 6:21 PM
Bluesky now has over 10 million users, and I was #646,204!