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@… Have you seen this post by @… ? https://www.

Republicans are literal Nazis https://indieweb.social/@rickf/115765336223728652

People have made electronics out of the strangest things.
Has anyone ever made a literal ham radio? There has to be some way to make a vaguely nonlinear junction between cured meat and a semiconductor or something right?

What @… says is what a lot of us have been lamenting since the ICE invasion started. Shouldn’t local police protect citizens from ICE?? Why this hasn’t happened is a really good question. Factors to consider:
- “Obstructing a federal agent” is illegal, and local police / politicians feel constrained by that (even if the agents themselves don’t seem constrained by the actual law at all, only by what they think they can get away with)
- Police can in theory cite federal agents for e.g. traffic violations or illegal plate swapping after the fact, as long as they’re not “obstructing” the agents — but how do you cite a masked person with fake plates who refuses to give ID?
- Some police are visibly supportive of ICE, chumming it up with them and giving literal fist bumps; a nontrivial subset are outright closet Nazis. A lot of people don’t really see any need to go past “ACAB” as a full explanation for all of this — and certainly The ACAB Hypothesis is…um, not really being proved false right now in Minneapolis.
- I think some police quietly resent ICE for stepping on their turf, but that does not seem to have boiled up into actual confrontation in MSP. One police leader here painted it in early Dec as “some people want to instigate a confrontation between Minneapolis Police, and that’s not going to happen.” Police culture says that police should be a neutral party in a dispute between ICE and residents, and actually protecting residents would be taking sides. (Duh, yes, taking sides that way is your literal job, you dumbasses…but I digress.)
- Some police (especially leadership) really want to get on the community’s good side after the murder of George Floyd, and see this as an opportunity, but unfortunately this has materialized entirely as non-interventionist support: “We responded to a 911 call and help a distressed resident after her husband was abducted!” “We transported children left parentless on the streets by ICE safely back to their home!” “Our officers volunteered at the food shelf!” OK, nice, good for you buddy.
So yeah, I’m wondering this too, and am bitter about it. https://tilde.zone/@n1xnx/115928447564126393

Literal Potty Police Demand IDs In Texas Capitol - Joe.My.God.
https://www.joemygod.com/2025/12/literal-potty-police-demand-ids-in-texas-capitol/

2 days ago, I had a shelf (and the contents of it, which included literal ROCKS due to a kids' "rock painting kit") fall on me. It left a nice bloody cut right next to my eye, and I haven't repaired the shelf yet because I'm petty enough to hold grudges against inanimate fuckin' objects.

As the AI Impact Summit in New Delhi draws attention, a look at India's AI opportunities and the political economy gridlock that threatens its ambitions (Shruti Rajagopalan/Get Down and Shruti)
https://srajagopalan.substack.com/p/indias-ai-wedding-buffet-generous

India’s AI Wedding Buffet: Generous Portions, Political Economy Heartburn
India's AI Summit promises a revolution. The electricity grid, the tax code, and the literal ground beneath the chip fab have other plans.

I also think it's worth just doing the math here. There aren't enough ICE agents to remove an occupation of more than a couple of facilities. They would have to rely on local police. A lot of police departments have been ordered not to support ICE activities. This means Trump would have to activate the military. If an occupation was peaceful, especially playful like Portland, deployment may not even be possible. Meanwhile, if ICE agents continue to be as violent as they are Governors may be forced to activate the national guard to protect citizens against ICE.
Forcing conflict when Trump is at his weakest, in a way that is non-violent, puts resistance in the best possible position.
At the same time, we are at a strange time of unity. Trump supporters are leaving over Epstein, some are even mad about the deportations, and he's otherwise systematically alienated basically his whole base (except literal Nazis working for ICE).
The AI bubble is, in a lot of ways, a fun house mirror reflection of the 2008 financial crash. The whole economy is held up by loans secured with "compute." Everyone hates this, and Trump's policies have made everything far worse.
#OccupyICE could actually have a lot of momentum and be difficult to stop, especially if folks went to ICE facilities in frog suits and Luigi bloc with banners demanding the release of the Epstein files.
At least, that's my impression from out here.

Donald Trump is worried that Republicans aren’t as afraid of him as they used to be.
Despite his self-billing as a dealmaker,
the president has only ever had one tool to control his party: fear.
GOP politicians have been afraid of career damage and literal physical harm if they crossed him.
Trump is not above reminding elected officials that he has unhinged followers who are known to be violent.
But as his approval ratings fall and the 2026 midterm elections …

Republicans are quiet quitting on Trump
The White House chief of staff says the president has “an alcoholic’s personality”

The Guardian: Rightwing leaders endorse Viktor Orbšn in Hungarian election campaign video.
PS: With "rightwing leaders" The Guardian means literal nazis, fascists & genocidal maniacs.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/jan

Rightwing leaders endorse Viktor Orbán in Hungarian election campaign video
Italy’s Giorgia Meloni and France’s Marine Le Pen among figures showing support for Hungary’s prime minister

my solution to the nightmare that is "SPI modes"

Is it fair to say that the US treats the ultra-wealthy like royalty?
No. The UK has actual, literal royalty, and even they face more accountability than billionaires do in the US.
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/live/2026/feb/19/police-arrest-former-prince-andrew-mountbatten-windsor-sandringham-latest-updates

With the emergence of more processors with 64 cores or more, I'm thinking more about whether it makes sense to implement a hypercube virtualised on a single chip with a single vector of memory, or as a literal hypercube of 64 (say) RP2350s. I understand the problems of transferring data across a hypercube, but I don't have a good feeling of how the bus contention on a multicore processor scales. What should I read?

Implementing post scarcity hardware
Prototype work towards building a post-scarcity software system

This is cool to learn, I came to the word via Niven and I had always assumed that “futz” was, like many words out there, a workaround to say a more profane word, in this case, “fuck”.

Third world looksmaxxing Facebook groups

PayPal kept my account locked, rejecting all the documentation I was sending, not even notifying me after each reject, for like a month. I got pissed when they rejected a document for "not having a logo or a footer" when it very clearly did and I called. After fighting the damn voice menu thing I got a real human and he fixed it in a literal minute. He straight up told me this happened cause their AI misses shit all the time 💀

Small nit-pick but especially if your argument is about the unreliability of US tech in light of the US' (and its tech sector's) turn towards fascism publishing on motherfucking Substack, a service actively platforming and supporting literal Nazis, defeats the point.

I think the root of the “AI” evil is when AI researchers in the 1960s recognized that they outrageously underestimated the complexity of the human mind.
They became humiliated by their promises that AGI was just a few years away—and then went full goblin mode that’s lasting to this day.
Some of the OG researchers took it quite badly that they stalled and weren’t in the limelight anymore.
‣ Marvin Minsky (co-founder of MIT AI lab and arguably the most important early AI bro) went on to visit Epstein’s island multiple times.
‣ Karl Steinbuch, who came up with the German term for computer science ("Informatik")—who also was a literal Nazi (and likely war criminal) in World War II—later wrote articles in ultra-right magazines about things like “equal rights rob women of their children”.
‣ John McCarthy (inventor of Lisp, co-authored document that coined the term “Artificial Intelligence”) was a staunch Republican who years later claimed (in a serious article) that “thermostats have beliefs”.
[one moment, I am receiving more information]
‣ There’s a second Epstein Island AI pioneer? Who also was Chief Learning Officer at… Trump University? That would be Roger Schank (founded one of the first AI companies in the 1980s AI boom, it even had an IPO. Of course the 1980s AI bubble burst).
Obviously all of the above received all the awards in computer science and are very revered people.

What you get in other fields is papers being under submission for literal years. That sort of thing can kill a carer if it happens early on.
The nice thing about conferences a venues is that you get a definite reply by a deadline. Sure, it's a bit of a scramble, but you do get a few months.
I don't think there's much of an incentive to be overly critical. On 10k submissions, it won't do you much good to kill the 10 papers you're assigned.

_Rhythm_ is a way of trusting the future.
This sounds poetic, but is also quite literal!
To entrain is to assume: something will happen again; it will happen around about when expected; it is safe to commit energy in advance.
It is a minimal form of trust.
Despair is characterised, in part, by a breakdown of such trust. The future becomes either threatening or blank.
Rhythm gently reinstates futurity.
A pulse says: you can lean forward; time will catch you…

from my link log —
What is a PC compatible?
https://codon.org.uk/~mjg59/blog/p/what-is-a-pc-compatible/
saved 2026-01-04 https://

every once in awhile I stop for a moment and marvel at the state of journalism that we have to spend so much time convincing them to leave platforms run by literal nazis that actively block their content in the first place.
#mastodonMigration

Just so you know: a fascist is now running this country, openly pushing for Maduro to resign so his so-called “regime change” can install a literal fascist instead.
#Venezuela #USPol #Politics

I have been using Nebo and Paper. Nebo has the best handwriting input I’ve ever seen, got bought and it seems like I can get my data out of it so I’m doing that now. Paper got bought by Evernote and I can’t even export my existing pages. I struggle with RSI but can still use a pen most of the time so these apps are a literal game changer - or rather, they were.

#TuneTuesday this week asks for #AnimalCalls, songs with animal sounds or about animals. I'll go literal. This tune - the first off the first album by the best ever Québec trad group (on se bat-tu ?) - features a loon right off the top.

Deploying and prompting #Claude by #Anthropic means ripping apart literal books. Strange, strange world
"Project Panama is our effort to destructively scan all the books in the world."
An exclusive WaPo post:

I still am so profoundly frustrated that we have literal concentration camps again, and our politicians ain't doing shit.

Today I switched to my winter blanked made of yak hair. Shout-out to the literal yak shavers out there!

Heads-up, pretty serious food and drug recall in Indiana, Minnesota and North Dakota for a bunch of products including Cheerios, Kellogg’s stuff, Pringles, Coca-Cola, Gatorade, Heinz ketchup, Crisco, pet foods, beauty products etc because of literal rat shit at a distributor
The PDF with products is 44 pages long
https://people.com/thousands-of-gold-star-items-recalled-for-exposure-to-rodent-waste-11894824

Precedented, but not the same:
If ICE and CBP are basically the reincarnation of the KKK, it’s the KKK with a budget the size of Russia’s entire military.
Literally. In the literal sense of “literally.” The incoming ICE CBP budget is ~$140 billion.[1] Russia’s military budget is ~$145 billion.[2]
(If I’m misreading these numbers, please correct me.)
[1] https://www.appropriations.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/fy26_homeland_security_conference_bill_summary.pdf
[2] https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/russia-hikes-national-defence-spending-by-23-2025-2024-09-30/
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