Craig B
@voxelwise.bsky.social
Leader of people, maker of things.
Santa Barbara, CA
Small reads here. Long reads at http://voxelwise.com
Santa Barbara, CA
Small reads here. Long reads at http://voxelwise.com
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Lesson 13 of "On Tyranny": Practice corporeal politics.
Find your No Kings protest, June 14th.
Find your No Kings protest, June 14th.
June 12, 2025 at 3:05 PM
Lesson 13 of "On Tyranny": Practice corporeal politics.
Find your No Kings protest, June 14th.
Find your No Kings protest, June 14th.
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Let's all take a moment to read the Posse Comitatus Act of 1878. It's only one sentence.
June 9, 2025 at 9:33 PM
Let's all take a moment to read the Posse Comitatus Act of 1878. It's only one sentence.
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Our cover this week.
April 24, 2025 at 1:46 PM
Our cover this week.
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In his 1957 filibuster, Strom Thurmond said "Negroes ... are not so well qualified to vote as are the white people.”
A Black senator just broke the record Thurmond set with that speech.
talkingpointsmemo.com/news/cory-bo...
A Black senator just broke the record Thurmond set with that speech.
talkingpointsmemo.com/news/cory-bo...
Cory Booker Just Gave The Longest Speech In The History of The US Senate
Only two men have spoken on the floor of the U.S. Senate...
talkingpointsmemo.com
April 1, 2025 at 11:31 PM
In his 1957 filibuster, Strom Thurmond said "Negroes ... are not so well qualified to vote as are the white people.”
A Black senator just broke the record Thurmond set with that speech.
talkingpointsmemo.com/news/cory-bo...
A Black senator just broke the record Thurmond set with that speech.
talkingpointsmemo.com/news/cory-bo...
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"I don't want a Disney vacation of our history! I don't a whitewashed history, I don't want a homogenized history. Tell me the wretched truth about America, because that speaks to our greatness" -- 20 hours into his speech, Cory Booker is spitting absolute 🔥
April 1, 2025 at 7:47 PM
"I don't want a Disney vacation of our history! I don't a whitewashed history, I don't want a homogenized history. Tell me the wretched truth about America, because that speaks to our greatness" -- 20 hours into his speech, Cory Booker is spitting absolute 🔥
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This is a very important point. Breathlessly vague headlines and summaries of these executive orders created for the executive powers it does not have. This kind of press contributed to authoritarian regime change.
It's critical for everyone to remember what an Executive Order is. It is the President communicating orders to members of the executive branch. Policies to pursue, actions to take, etc. They are not laws. They are not close to being laws. They are formalized memos to employees. That's all.
March 27, 2025 at 5:54 PM
This is a very important point. Breathlessly vague headlines and summaries of these executive orders created for the executive powers it does not have. This kind of press contributed to authoritarian regime change.
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The people Attorney General Bondi is calling “terrorists” have had no trial and no chance to defend themselves. We do not know who they are. Ignoring the Constitution does not make us safe. It puts us all in peril.
March 17, 2025 at 1:34 AM
The people Attorney General Bondi is calling “terrorists” have had no trial and no chance to defend themselves. We do not know who they are. Ignoring the Constitution does not make us safe. It puts us all in peril.
This was the first article that really helped me understand how Canon ultrasonic autofocus motors work. Highly recommended if you are into photography or otherwise appreciate turning electrical signals into mechanical action: exclusivearchitecture.com/03-technical...
March 10, 2025 at 5:13 PM
This was the first article that really helped me understand how Canon ultrasonic autofocus motors work. Highly recommended if you are into photography or otherwise appreciate turning electrical signals into mechanical action: exclusivearchitecture.com/03-technical...
Three years, eight months, and one day to the 2028 election. Three years, ten months, and fourteen days to Inauguration Day in 2029. We can make it - we will make it.
March 7, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Three years, eight months, and one day to the 2028 election. Three years, ten months, and fourteen days to Inauguration Day in 2029. We can make it - we will make it.
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as much as we tend to group these people together in a single (awful) bucket, it emerges from this account how each has his own (terrible, defective) management style that proves to be incompatible with everyone else's
March 7, 2025 at 6:18 PM
as much as we tend to group these people together in a single (awful) bucket, it emerges from this account how each has his own (terrible, defective) management style that proves to be incompatible with everyone else's
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As an offshoot of this thread, let’s talk about what happens if federal, state, or local officials text, email, call, or show up at your door wanting to talk to you about what you said about the President.
I have a theme, a thesis, a throughline, a leitmotif, which is SHUT YOUR FUCKING MOUTH.
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I have a theme, a thesis, a throughline, a leitmotif, which is SHUT YOUR FUCKING MOUTH.
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This is a First Amendment question combined with a practical question. The answer is as follows.
First, the First Amendment protects advocating the moral and practical necessity of breaking the law in the abstract.
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First, the First Amendment protects advocating the moral and practical necessity of breaking the law in the abstract.
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Being a lawyer and all, do you know what the tipping point is for it to become acceptable to openly advocate for political assassinations? Just a little curious, is all.
February 28, 2025 at 8:07 PM
As an offshoot of this thread, let’s talk about what happens if federal, state, or local officials text, email, call, or show up at your door wanting to talk to you about what you said about the President.
I have a theme, a thesis, a throughline, a leitmotif, which is SHUT YOUR FUCKING MOUTH.
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I have a theme, a thesis, a throughline, a leitmotif, which is SHUT YOUR FUCKING MOUTH.
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They need him to be a genius because they cannot handle what it means for them to be tricked by a fool.
February 22, 2025 at 7:56 PM
They need him to be a genius because they cannot handle what it means for them to be tricked by a fool.
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Portuguese editorial cartoonist Zez Vaz reaches back to Tiananmen Square to call on American defiance.
February 15, 2025 at 1:43 PM
Portuguese editorial cartoonist Zez Vaz reaches back to Tiananmen Square to call on American defiance.
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BREAKING: A fourth judge blocks Trump's executive order to end birthright citizenship.
"This ruling ... is based on straightforward application of settled Supreme Court precedent reiterated and reaffirmed in various ways for more than a century by all three branches of the federal government."
"This ruling ... is based on straightforward application of settled Supreme Court precedent reiterated and reaffirmed in various ways for more than a century by all three branches of the federal government."
February 13, 2025 at 8:12 PM
BREAKING: A fourth judge blocks Trump's executive order to end birthright citizenship.
"This ruling ... is based on straightforward application of settled Supreme Court precedent reiterated and reaffirmed in various ways for more than a century by all three branches of the federal government."
"This ruling ... is based on straightforward application of settled Supreme Court precedent reiterated and reaffirmed in various ways for more than a century by all three branches of the federal government."
Do I think that Trump and Musk are galaxy-brained geniuses that simply understand complex systems more deeply than anyone else? No.
Do I think that they are playing "five-dimensional chess" and are able to see hidden patterns in complex systems that others cannot perceive? Also no.
Do I think that they are playing "five-dimensional chess" and are able to see hidden patterns in complex systems that others cannot perceive? Also no.
February 11, 2025 at 6:41 PM
Do I think that Trump and Musk are galaxy-brained geniuses that simply understand complex systems more deeply than anyone else? No.
Do I think that they are playing "five-dimensional chess" and are able to see hidden patterns in complex systems that others cannot perceive? Also no.
Do I think that they are playing "five-dimensional chess" and are able to see hidden patterns in complex systems that others cannot perceive? Also no.
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The ABA supports the rule of law. Read full message: www.americanbar.org/news/abanews...
February 10, 2025 at 10:06 PM
The ABA supports the rule of law. Read full message: www.americanbar.org/news/abanews...
I just called my representative (@carbajal.house.gov) and both California senators (@schiff.senate.gov and @padilla.senate.gov), urging them to take action on the unconstitutional actions by the President. You should do the same. Get the numbers from 5calls.org and call your reps today.
February 8, 2025 at 6:31 PM
I just called my representative (@carbajal.house.gov) and both California senators (@schiff.senate.gov and @padilla.senate.gov), urging them to take action on the unconstitutional actions by the President. You should do the same. Get the numbers from 5calls.org and call your reps today.
I've struggled with being a maker since the election. It feels a lot easier to just curl up and hide away from the terribleness. Why try to bring beauty and whimsy into the world with your art when the world is such a painful place?
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February 7, 2025 at 7:44 PM
I've struggled with being a maker since the election. It feels a lot easier to just curl up and hide away from the terribleness. Why try to bring beauty and whimsy into the world with your art when the world is such a painful place?
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The Government’s Computing Experts Say They Are Terrified. “This is the largest data breach and the largest IT security breach in our country’s history. You can’t un-ring this bell.” [kottke.org]
“The Government’s Computing Experts Say They Are Terrified”
Charlie Warzel and Ian Bogost from The Atlantic talked to four experienced federal-government IT professionals who have all “built, modified, or maintained the kind of technological infrastructure” that Elon Musk’s team
kottke.org
February 7, 2025 at 4:36 PM
The Government’s Computing Experts Say They Are Terrified. “This is the largest data breach and the largest IT security breach in our country’s history. You can’t un-ring this bell.” [kottke.org]
I have to admit - the protest sign that said "you can't spell 'felon' without 'elon'" made me laugh.
February 7, 2025 at 1:03 AM
I have to admit - the protest sign that said "you can't spell 'felon' without 'elon'" made me laugh.
@kottke.org I read your Programming Note and just wanted to thank you for your ongoing coverage of the 2025 Coup. It sounds like it was a hard decision, especially in the context of previous pandemic coverage. I wanted to let you know that I appreciate it.
February 6, 2025 at 8:52 PM
@kottke.org I read your Programming Note and just wanted to thank you for your ongoing coverage of the 2025 Coup. It sounds like it was a hard decision, especially in the context of previous pandemic coverage. I wanted to let you know that I appreciate it.
The thing I will always remember about the 2025 Coup is the powerlessness I feel as I watch the US federal government being absolutely ripped to shreds by a tyrant and his henchmen.
February 5, 2025 at 7:46 PM
The thing I will always remember about the 2025 Coup is the powerlessness I feel as I watch the US federal government being absolutely ripped to shreds by a tyrant and his henchmen.
@gruber.foo Enjoyed your post on video game cheating today. Reminded me of the "Al Capone theory of sexual harassment". People who can't be trusted in one context are generally untrustworthy in others. hypatia.ca/2017/07/18/t...
The Al Capone theory of sexual harassment
We developed the Al Capone Theory over several years of researching and recording racism and sexism in computer security, open source software, venture capital, and other parts of the tech industry…
hypatia.ca
February 3, 2025 at 7:35 PM
@gruber.foo Enjoyed your post on video game cheating today. Reminded me of the "Al Capone theory of sexual harassment". People who can't be trusted in one context are generally untrustworthy in others. hypatia.ca/2017/07/18/t...
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I hope you will all join me in expressing your thanks to the NIH and NSF staff who are working in an impossibly difficult and chaotic environment to keep science going in our country.
February 3, 2025 at 1:45 AM
I hope you will all join me in expressing your thanks to the NIH and NSF staff who are working in an impossibly difficult and chaotic environment to keep science going in our country.