Cybersecurity expert Bruce Schneier:

“This is beyond politics—this is a matter of national security. Foreign national intelligence organizations will be quick to take advantage of both the chaos and the new insecurities to steal US data and install backdoors to allow for future access.”

Want to fight back? The AFL-CIO is suing President Musk and his cronies, and just announced "The Department of People Who Work for a Living". I just joined.

deptofpeoplewhowork.org

It's long but worth watching in full

We’re getting governed by the dumbest libertarian Reddit Bros from your sophomore year of undergrad

Hey, people smarter than me. Any idea why most of the images I upload here have a weird pink cast to them❓ (uploading from Macintosh OS via Firefox)

Let's keep this in mind in this dreadful farce of an inauguration day. Pete lived through times as dark as we are seeing now. He kept fighting back and singing. We can do it too.

The 1957 Zündap Janus microcar. Named after the two headed Roman god of beginnings and endings, it had an engine in the middle and two seats facing in each direction. (Image: Bruce Weiner Microcar Museum)

It's the last night of Chanukah, let's sing my Chanukah carol.

Gloria In Excelsis Latke

Angels we have heard on high
Telling us it's time to fry
Latkes crisp and golden brown
In the Jewish part of town

Chorus
Glo-o-o-o-o-o
o-o-o-o-o
o-o-o-o-orious
Hot potato pancakes (twice)

...continued

To those who, like me, feel down because the sun sets so dang early:
Take heart!
Though days keep getting shorter until the Solstice, the earliest sunset of the season is tomorrow, 12/9. Here in Burlington it’ll be at 4:14:46 PM. Tuesday gives us two extra seconds, and it gets better from there.

The rise and sad decline of the Honeycrisp apple.
TL/DR: it’s a great apple in Minnesota or other cold climates for fall and early winter, but hasn’t done well with Oregon’s large-scale year-round model.

Apple pie with sharp cheddar, my favorite breakfast ever.