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Newspaper executives' emphasis on reader data doesn't serve subscribers who look to editorial staff to guide them to potential new areas of interest (John Williams/The Atlantic)
http…

The Washington Post’s Leaders Missed the Point
The editor of the recently scrapped Book World believes in serving subscribers, not data.

Worked with a hand-held circular saw today. It's been a good day. I am a sucker for power tools.

#potd A week ago I was cycling over sandy piste in Senegal, now this. After de-icing the bike cycling to the office worked quite well, because the city of Vienna is very good at removing snow from bike paths and streets. The pavements are in a worse state, because removing the snow there is the job of each house owner.

Why the Raiders' Sales Pitch to Klint Kubiak Worked https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/onsi/las-vegas-why-sales-pitch-to-klint-kubiak-worked

Worked with an #acting #coaching client on an audition piece and we dialed in how morose they were. They found a new way to transition this one part, that I never would have expected and are finding really cool vitality in it.

I spent Sunday with friends I hadn’t seen in a month or more. We baked cookies, worked on a jigsaw puzzle, shared stories. The story sharing consists of someone talking about a personal experience that would have seemed unthinkable a month ago: a friend with a missing relative, a car left in the street, a family who had 8 loads of laundry because they couldn’t leave the house, running on the ice and fumbling for the whistle while witnessing somebody being abducted right there, right in front of them.
After each story, there is really nothing to say. It is horrible. We nod. We know. We continue the puzzle.
4/

HUGE NEWS from the new Epstein files:
Records show that Maria Farmer, who worked for Epstein, filed a "child pornography" report to the FBI in 1996.
The FBI has never before acknowledged that complaint. The case went nowhere, and mass abuse followed.
Maria has been accused over the years of fabricating her story that she had gone to the FBI.
After finding the document in the trove, I called her.
She broke down in tears.
“I’ve waited 30 years. I…

Sony just killed Bluepoint games, a studio that worked marvelously. Stupid industry.
https://www.theverge.com/games/881578/sony-close-bluepoint-games-studio-remaster-remake-demons-souls-shadow-colossus-god-of-war…

Sony is closing the studio behind the Demon’s Souls and Shadow of the Colossus remakes
Sony is shutting down Bluepoint Games, the PlayStation studio behind well-received remakes like Shadow of the Colossus and Demon’s Souls. Sony purchased it in 2021.

Ok, actually, one more thing. There was an #OccupyICE in 2018 and it worked really well with far less support than there is now.
Ok, that's all, I'm dropping offline again. Go organize some shit!

RE: https://mastodon.ie/@padraig/109542535631847723
I bought myself some Apple AirPods 4th Gen and they fit perfectly. The Pro's would not have worked with the shape of my ears.
Really digging the ANC on these. And a very smooth transition between A…

Universe is another word for Cosmos, hence Universix as the name for the bootc Cosmic image I've cooked today. And it worked out very well. More on that tomorrow. Back home an updated MangoWC on Slackware waited for me! Great diversions from a shiite day at the races.
#cosmic_de #slackware

Did you know if you leave the pumpkin guts in the fridge until they get a little squishy you can just rinse all the guts off instead of picking out seeds one-by-one? Happy this experiment worked out. (Was actually intentional, btw. 🙂 I read about how farms that produce pumpkin seeds just leave the pumpkins out in the field for a bit and thought I'd try the fridge version.)

Trevon Diggs activated by Cowboys, will play vs. Chargers https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/trevon-diggs-activated-by-cowboys-will-play-vs-chargers

The offices at John Quackenbush’s lab at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
were once full of postdoctoral fellows, graduate students, and interns.
Young scientists here worked on some of the most cutting-edge computational biology research in the world,
driving new discoveries and the creation of widely used big data tools, including one the National Cancer Institute named among the most important advances of 2024.
Today, the offices are rows of empty comp…

His lab was humming with discovery. After one year under Trump, it’s almost silent
John Quackenbush built a lab that is at the forefront of human genetics research and bioinformatics. Trump administration cuts have put it in danger of collapse.

She is quick and clever ❤️ I hid 5 treats in the #puzzle and boom they were gone 😆
It took her a couple of months to figure out how the wheel worked but now nothing is stopping her 🙃
#dogsofmastodon

I am trying to renew my US passport. I sent in an application via their online renewal system. It worked well - except that it is picky about photographs.
Well, the rejected the application because they now do not like the photograph that they had accepted.
And now they tell me dimensions - e.g. head 1.38 inches high. Well, I sent 'em a digital photo and unless they tell me the pixel resolution of their printers I can't tell 1.38 inches from a hole in the ground.

New Year, Same Job Search.
If you are looking for a Staff/Principal level #PHP developer, with a long history of helping both projects and teams update and modernize to become more robust and reliable, look no further because you've found him! I've worked on multiple major OSS projects, including PHP itself.
US-based, remote-only, plenty experience working for non-US companies as we…

From the sounds of it, the Chinese national who stole the Coupang data was working on the cybersecurity team, specifically on a key management security system.
https://koreajoongangdaily.joins.com/n

Alleged Coupang data leaker had only worked at company for two years, say police
The former Coupang employee accused of leaking 33.7 million customer data had worked at the company for just two years, according to police on Thursday.

#Blakes7 Series D, Episode 11 - Orbit
EGRORIAN: A short range relay, now I see how they worked it.
SERVALAN: A bit late in the day, Egrorian!
EGRORIAN: Not so! It means that Orac is still on board the shuttle. We'll be able to recover it after the crash.

Client explaining spec: “Clicking the drop-down opens a product grid menu with pop-ups to choose colors.”
Me: “Wut.”
Technical pedantry is important in UI and digital accessibility work. As practitioners we have to translate lingo all the time.
Suggestions…
• Drop-down: https://adrianroselli.…

Stop Using ‘Drop-down’
TL;DR: Stop using the word drop-down. Instead choose a term that accurately describes the control you want. I have worked both with native platform developers and web developers. While control names might differ, if a control was functionally the same then it was not an issue. A TextBox, for example,…

“What's dispiriting is the (lack of) process and care: take someone's carefully crafted work, run it through a machine to wash off the fingerprints, and ship it as your own. This isn't a case of being inspired by something and building on it. It's the opposite of that. It's taking something that worked and making it worse.”
@… on how Microsoft …

After the whole Adam Something "dating advice for leftist men" thing, I realized I should probably write something about that. I didn't, but I realized I should. Here I am sort of getting around to it.
I had a friend call me an "elder" at one point. I was like 35 at that time, but like... a lot of old leftists are just dead or in prison, so we take what we can get I guess. Being also an elder in the sense that I'm an elder millennial, who is also a parent and married for almost 10 years and all that, I guess I'm technically qualified.
So here it is, dating advice for (straight cis) leftist men:
1. Don't.
That's it, actually. That's the whole thing. Let me explain a bit.
First of all, this is dating advice for neuroatypical folks. We're way overrepresented in both extremes because this system wasn't built for us. And that's who is *the most* confused by all the relationship stuff, and most likely to try to apply all this masculinity/manosphere bullshit. I'm also talking a bit from experience here, as a neruo-spicy trying to "figure out" how to date within a paradigm entirely built around neurotypicals and their relationships. It's garbage. Throw it out. There's nothing worth saving.
His video had some line comparing not having sex to your house being on fire. I'm not gonna bother to quote it because I'm busy with actual life. But like, that's exactly what I'm talking about. I recognize that and it's horribly destructive. Men who buy in to patriarchy actually believe this, because those men value themselves based on (hetro) sex. Yeah, if you think you're worthless because you aren't "getting laid" then yeah, you're gonna feel like that's an emergency.
"Dating" as a paradigm turns humans into roles. It dehumanizes us all, and thus makes human connection much harder. It is a game that, like thermonuclear war, can only be won by not playing.
When you abandon "dating" and just act like a human, everything starts to be easier. There's no such thing as being "friend zoned" because you're just friends. Sometimes friendships become other things, sometimes they don't. It doesn't actually matter, because if you're actually there for friendship then you don't *need* anything else.
My grandma, at 98 I think, gave me some advice. My grandparents always got along well, and were married for enough decades that I listened really closely. She told me I should just do things I loved to do and everything else would work itself out.
And it kind of did.
I understand the fear, the idea that you'll die alone. I get that. I get the loneliness. It all hits a lot harder when you have ADHD emotions and past trauma. I get that. But that fear is self-manifesting. When you build your confidence, when you don't *need* to be "in a relationship," you have more room to actually build relationships. For me, dating was dehumanizing. When I abandoned that, I was able to actually be a good partner, and I was able to find my partner.
I would advise against marriage as well, but we did get married for legal reasons. It can still be hard to maintain that, to see each other as people rather than roles. That becomes extra hard as parents. But the times that we cut through that are the times we're closest. Those are the times when it becomes easier to remember that we're both humans and all human relationships need tending.
Roles don't need to be tended because they are classifications. Classifications are static. But relationships between humans are not. Humans are messy and chaotic. Humans have all kinds of complex needs and desires.
So yeah, don't date. Just be a human and see what happens. Maybe google "relationship anarchy" and see where it takes you.
If you have ADHD, it can be especially useful to understand that relationships with neurotypical folks can be especially difficult. Assume you're incompatible with 90% of the population as your baseline, and you'll start to understand why the standard "dating" thing has made you feel so alienated and miserable.
Neurotypical folks generally have no idea that atypicality exists, much less how it impacts relationships. Having to conform to a neurotypical relationship just adds additional mental strain unless you find someone (really special) who can do at least some of the work.
The ADHD thing was especially important for me. There were so many things I was told to do in specific ways by neurotypicals that never worked for me. Their advice always made me feel like a failure. When I was finally diagnosed, I realized they were just giving advice for the wrong type of brain. It was advice I could never use. Basically all dating advice I ever got fell into this same category.
That's my braindump. Maybe I'll develop it more in the future, but I'm busy so maybe not. I hope it helps someone who is struggling like I was.

How Seahawks benefitted from NFL rulebook loophole that Matthew Stafford didn't even know about on two-pointer

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/how-sea

Living a charmed life. I just installed a new video card and it took like 5 minutes, worked first try. (My old 1080 Ti with 8GB served me well. Just got a new 5060 with 16GB. For all my AI projects, of course.)

"This Week in Videogames spoke to a dozen professional concept artists in the wake of Vincke’s comments, all of whom currently or have previously worked in game development, ranging from indie studios to large AAA developers. All, without exception, said that ‌generative AI image tools had only made their lives more difficult – even when simply used as reference material."

RE: https://sfba.social/@cowperthwait/116094253654738191
Seriously consider him. He's one of the most thoughtful and skilled marketers I've ever worked with, who actually understands the work deeply and not just throwing out suppositions that might be true without checking.

Ukrainian soldiers: "What if we use fishing rod?" Two Russian drones later: It worked - Euromaidan Press
https://euromaidanpress.com/2026/01/12/ukrainian-soldiers-what-if-we-use-fishing-rod-two-russian-drones-later-it-worked/

I remember a friend who worked at a company that made a popular browser, and complained that I didn't have any "skin in the game" when I constantly complained about the browser the company was building.
Great guy, but I could not accept "be quiet, you are not part of this" when I am a browser user, web user, former-web developer (1995-2010) and just a person who gives a shit about privacy, security, and enshittification in general.

A look at Michael Saylor's Strategy, known for buying bitcoin via creative financing strategies, as its stock trades way below its peak amid the crypto downturn (Rob Copeland/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/0…

Michael Saylor’s Creative Bitcoin Strategy Isn’t Working
Michael Saylor’s financial alchemy thrust an ordinary software company, Strategy, into the center of the crypto frenzy. It all worked spectacularly, until now.

A century of hair samples proves leaded gas ban worked https://arstechnica.com/science/2026/02/a-century-of-hair-samples-proves-leaded-gas-ban-worked/
Banning lead in gas worked: The proof is in our hair

A century of hair samples proves leaded gas ban worked
“We should not forget the lessons of history. And the lesson is those regulations have been very important.”...

Last day of work for the year. In the London office. Always fun to get see colleagues I haven’t seen in a while or meet ones I’ve worked with forever!

TikTok's first awards show, held on December 18, handed out 14 awards, including Creator of the Year for Keith Lee; at the event, none of the screens worked (Kirsten Chuba/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business

Inside the TikTok Awards: Paris Hilton and a Labubu Cannon Take Center Stage While Tech Issues Plague Inaugural U.S. Show
The event, which streamed live from the Hollywood Palladium on Thursday, handed out 14 awards and battled problems with its video screens.

Once again “cold messaging” eBay seller about a listing that didn’t have “make offer” worked out, I got 40% off

I like that @… works on my laptop and on my iPad (it is a great app) but I wish it worked on my #Android phone.

Ashton Jeanty Makes Feelings Clear After Raiders Lose to Texans https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/las-vegas-raiders/ashton-jeanty-offense-loss-texans/

We're happy to be teaming up with the Athenaeum at the Lamar Dodd School of Art (#UniversityOfGeorgia), on a pair of exhibitions focusing on #BeverlyBuchanan. Known nationally as a bold experimental artist who worked in land art and video as well as more familiar forms, she lived in Athe…

I hate trying to work with OS/2. I'm told this worked on IBM systems, but it's a pain in the ass on anything else. Right now, it can see the drive, crate partitions, but not volumes. And it needs volumes to install.
I'm at the point where I be happy if it nuked my two windows installs (because I can put those back) if it would just install itself....
#retrocomputing

So…my first retail job was at a place the city HATED*, and would occasionally send cops in to “check” on the place (it’s open 24/7) and the owner told us to tell them to get out
Getting to tell a cop to pound sand and GTFO at 2am was a true joy.
*it’s still there 40 years later 😂
https://b…

Used our selfhosted #Koffan today in a real-world setting: One at home and adds items to the shopping list, the other at the grocery store checks them off when put in the basket. It updates live and works very well!
There are some UX quirks that make adding/modifying/reordering items a bit tedious, but it's a very new project (1 month old), so I expect it to be worked out in the future.

GitHub - PanSalut/Koffan: Free selfhosted groceries list for families and shared households
Free selfhosted groceries list for families and shared households - PanSalut/Koffan

Tell us a bit more about the candidate you are referring, CAPTAIN SALTBEARD:
⚪ This is a professional contact. I have worked with this person before.
⚪ This is a personal contact. I have not worked with this person before.
🔘 This is a nemesis. I have worked against this person my entire life.

My #AvatarFireAndAsh review: amazing photorealism down to the tiniest twig and mote of dust. 3D worked very well except for a few scenes that felt flickery. Might this be when they went from 48fps action back to calmer 24fps shots? It really pulled me out of the immersion.
And did they forget to remove the big belly of the pregnant Navii after she gave birth?

I have been trying for YEARS to have my printer print on Linux and it has always felt like a headache and I stopped before it worked.
Today, having no other choices, I plugged it in my #Fedora Silverblue 43. A pop-up asked me for my admin creds. I inserted it. VoilŠ. The printer works and I had nothing to do for it to work. That's amazing 😻 Whoever fixed this and automated this: you are…

“The New York Times contacted
Ms. Farmer about a report stamped with the date of Sept. 3, 1996.
She broke down in tears.
“I’ve waited 30 years,” she said.
“I can’t believe it. They can’t call me a liar anymore.”
-- klasfeldreports.com
https://www.

Epstein Files Include 1996 Child Porn Complaint That F.B.I. Ignored
Newly released files show how Maria Farmer, who worked for Mr. Epstein in the 1990s, had urged the F.B.I. to investigate him. The case went nowhere for years.

@… it seems boost behavior 🚀 has changed in the recent Ivory update. How can I get it back to how it was before?
99% of the time I really just want to boost and not „choose to quote“. Long press to quote worked well for me.
I vaguely remember there was a setting for that, but I can’t find it anymore.

Damn it, what was the name of the HR system for the company that I worked for last January? I'm sure there's a link to that W2 in my inbox, somewhere...

@…
Disagree on one point:
You do need to worry about how the passkey is stored, least you loose access to the credential manager that holds all your passkeys.
I know that’s a problem being worked on, I appreciate everyone involved, but let’s not pretend it’s a non-problem.
@…

How is government still spending tens-of-millions on software development with nothing to show for it?
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2026/feb/17/uk-frictionless-post-brexit-trade-border-project

UK shelves £110m frictionless post-Brexit trade border project
Programme launched by last Tory government was worked on by Deloitte and IBM but was paused in 2024

This weekend I worked on my custom /blogroll page
it has 3 input types :
1. you construct the collection by adding blogs manually
2. you import an OPML with your collection
3. you connect your /microsub existing collection to feed the blogroll on the frontend.
https://rmendes.net/notes/2026/02/08/3

Ricardo Mendes
8 February 2026 indiekit plugins blogroll opml This weekend I worked on my custom /blogroll page it has 3 input types : you construct the collection by adding blogs manually you import an OPML with yo...

My Lyft rider rating is a 5.0 yet my Uber one is 4.74. Guess which company I worked corporate at.

Remember back when JavaScript was meant to enhance the browser experience, and we did graceful degration to make sure things worked even with JS disabled? That was pretty crazy, wasn't it...

The whole app is a blob
... character driven UI as a path to language learning, a different kind of "gamification"
#software

The Whole App is a Blob
I tried to prepare for life in French-speaking Canada by turning language drills into a Tamagotchi. It worked, as long as you don't ask me whether my coffee is for here or to go.

Person of interest in Brown University shooting served in Army, worked at Arlington National Cemetery (CNN)
https://cnn.com/2025/12/14/us/benjamin-erickson-brown-university-shooting?Date=20251215&Profile=CNN
http://www.memeorandum.com/251214/p50#a251214p50

I'm glad @… @socialistdogmom.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy chose to change her subject for this week's episode. I'm sorry for the reason behind it, but I'm glad people who know the history remind us of it.
It's important to know we aren't alone. It's important to know what has and hasn't worked against hate and violence …

Last day of work for the year. In the London office. Always fun to get see colleagues I haven’t seen in a while or meet ones I’ve worked with forever!

THE DAILY DRIVE: Lions film review: Exploring what worked rushing the passer vs. Cowboys https://www.detroitlions.com/news/the-daily-drive-lions-film-review-exploring-what-worked-rushing-the-passer-vs-cowboys

#ShitPost #Shitposting #ShamelesslyStolenFromSomewhereElseOnTheInternetHonestlyICantKeepTrackOfThisStuffAnymore

"Actions speak louder than words."
Boy, is that an understatement... as #TaylorSwift hands out $100,000 bonuses totalling $197 million to everyone that worked on her tour, including production assts, merch salespeople, security, tech staff, truck drivers, dancers & musicians.

For anyone who cares about the environment - be it climate, toxics, endangered species, biodiversity, air quality, water quality- here's a chance to support removing Lee Zeldin, the EPA Administrator who is cheerfully removing all the environmental protections so many have worked so hard to put in place.
Please sign this petition to remove him from office:

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For anyone who cares about the environment - be it climate, toxics, endangered species, biodiversity, air quality, water quality- here's a chance to support removing Lee Zeldin, the EPA Administrator who is cheerfully removing all the environmental protections so many have worked so hard to put in place.
Please sign this petition to remove him from office:

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I made a script for this, but then I thought a webui would be better so I could use it in my phone and stuff
I asked an LLM to generate a python webui to run server-side the script I wrote, and surprisingly it 100% worked first try. I was sure it wouldn’t work at all, but I didn’t touch that code and it works.
I can’t even say I “vibe coded” this bc I didn’t even read the code enough to know its vibes lmao. I’m surprised this even works, and it does work well. What the actual fuck.
Welp, not my favourite way to do things but I wasn’t in the mood to do python and figure out the extra libraries and stuff.
And it works so I’ll just use that. In a hardened systemd service to make sure it doesn’t like accidentally delete my whole system or something.

An eight-month study at a US tech company finds AI tools didn't reduce work but intensified it, as employees worked faster and took on a broader range of tasks (Harvard Business Review)
https://hbr.org/2026/02/ai-doesnt-reduce-work-it-intensifies-it

AI Doesn’t Reduce Work—It Intensifies It
One of the promises of AI is that it can reduce workloads so employees can focus more on higher-value and more engaging tasks. But according to new research, AI tools don’t reduce work, they consistently intensify it: In the study, employees worked at a faster pace, took on a broader scope of tasks, and extended work into more hours of the day, often without being asked to do so. That may sound like a win, but it’s not quite so simple. These changes can be unsustainable, leading to workload…

I'm slowly and entirely accidentally working my way through the canon of stuntman Loren Janes. (No relation as far as I've been able to determine.) The first time I saw his name was in the credits for Masters of the Universe leading into a show I'd videotaped; the most recent was in Escape from New York (today). Pretty sure the most famous film he worked in was Back to the Future, which I've seen *many* times, but haven't yet watched again since learning he was involved. …

Totally normal problems.
So one day I had trouble zipping my winter jacket; around the final teeth, the zipper would stop catching. And when I tried again, I couldn't zip anything at all. Finally, at nth careful attempt it finally worked, and I had no more trouble that day. When I've turned, we looked at it, and decided that a loose thread must have gotten into it while zipping. Cut the thread off.
Next day, the zipper worked just fine in the morning. However, when I was about to leave the train, it suddenly stopped working. It seemed that I'm up for a cold day in unzipped jacket, but it finally caught a few minutes later, on the road. This time, I suspected the zipper. Tightened it, it started working again.
Today, I've tried zipping it three times to make sure it really works. And of course, as soon as I arrived at the destination, it refused to zip. I've tried again while walking, and it fell apart completely. Fortunately, the wind stopped blowing, and walking on snow was hard enough to jumpstart my metabolism fast. Finally, I've replaced the zipper and now everything works.
I wonder what tomorrow holds…

When I worked at a stock photo company I used to want to build a way to re-upload the photo to get a refund.

I wish more folks from the US (and here in Aotearoa) worked this out like the Italians: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQMZR64G_eM I don't think Fonterra is doing 'co-op' right. They've corrupted it by adopting US-style CEO pay scales.
And the Italians know. Recall that it w…

Bill Paxton received his PhD from Stanford in 1977. -- He worked with Doug Engelbart at the Stanford Research Institute where the group built the Online System (NLS) and he participated in
"The Mother of All Demos".
After leaving Stanford, Paxton joined the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center (PARC)
where they developed emerging technologies, including Ethernet, networked personal computers, bitmap displays, graphical user-interfaces, and laser printers
Paxton j…

Today was another one of those days where I was in pain for over 12 hours. These days suck so bad. I did get a few hours of relief this evening though and even worked for over an hour today.

The EMC disk shelf decided it wanted to ramp the fans to "taking off the flight deck of an aircraft carrier", so I decided to updated all the Proxmox nodes, the NAS, and then power cycle the EMC disk shelf.
Fortunately, that worked and everything is back online. Definitely a pain in the ass though...
#homelab

Hmm, starting to play with ESP-32; I've got the rust toolchain going; my first attempt at flashing I think worked, but it was with a bare image that didn't do much; my 2nd attempt ahem...it doesn't enumerate on USB any more, and wiring up the GPIO 0 doesn't seem to help. I can see on power on that the real-serial outputs an ID string, so time to wire that up and hope the tools can unfuck it.

It’s striking how dramatically our mindset has shifted in under 30 years. Before the 90s, people were frustrated by the need to buy products they weren’t able to build themselves. Today, despite having unprecedented access to tools, materials, and even electronics development, many people prefer plug-and-play solutions.
In essence, we once valued understanding how things worked. Now, we often prioritize convenience and mental ease. Even remembering a few keyboard shortcuts feels excessi…

D'Andre Swift hopes to return to Bears with future unclear: 'I don't want to play nowhere else' https://www.nfl.com/news/dandre-swift-hopes-to-return-to-bears-with-future-unclear

Spend my day in Slackware Flatbrew, a one-off from my mate in Motown. Synced KDE dots, brew installs and installed flatpaks between Aurorix and Slackware, to achieve that at-home feeling, anywhere i go. It worked out great. Tomorrow it'll be Larry and dwm. Can't go wrong with that one either.
#slackware

"There's this analog device called a badge that has worked wonders for generations, maybe consider that too?
Dem Congressman Wants to Make ICE Agents Wear QR Codes
https://gizmodo.com/dem-congressman-wants-to-make-ice-agents-wear-qr-codes-2000710345

I have worked for them for something like 20 years, but it wasn't in a single stretch, and I know for a fact they don't recognize all of it. I'm tempted to go just to see what they consider my number of years of service.

It’s odd that that happened, I’ve removed batteries a long time ago (these laptops have 3 separate batteries), and while there was some corrosion from one of them I cleaned it all up and it worked for several years.
I suspect something in power suppply (which is built into the laptop), so gonna have to take it apart which is annoying to say the least (brittle plastics, flimsy cables).

Afghan Gunman Worked for CIA, Let In by Biden (David Strom/HotAir)
https://hotair.com/david-strom/2025/11/27/afghan-gunman-worked-for-cia-n3809330
http://www.memeorandum.com/251127/p41#a251127p41

Inside the re-making of Fernando Mendoza from shaky starter to 2026 NFL first-rounder https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7050416/2026/02/17/fernando-mendoza-2026-nfl-draft-indiana-development/

Three Andean condor chicks hatch in Colombia as species nears local extinction https://news.mongabay.com/short-article/2026/01/three-andean-condor-chicks-hatch-in-colombia-as-species-nears-local-extinction/<…

Three Andean condor chicks hatch in Colombia as species nears local extinction
Since July 2024, three Andean condor chicks have hatched at an artificial incubation program located near Bogotá, Colombia’s capital city, contributor Christina Noriega reported for Mongabay. The artificial incubation program is run by the Jaime Duque Park Foundation, a Colombian conservation nonprofit that has worked since 2015 to counter the birds’ population decline. Globally, the […]

Anthropic adds Chris Liddell, an ex-Microsoft and GM exec who helped GM IPO and worked in Trump's first administration, to its board ahead of a potential IPO (Kate Clark/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/anthropic-ai-board-chris-liddell-1df5545b

“The US State Department’s Font Flip-Flop: Guest Article by Dr. Aina G. Irbe on A Step Backward for Accessibility”
https://www.lflegal.com/2026/01/font-flip-flop/
The guest author worked for the State Department when it replaced Times New Roman in 2023.

The US State Department's Font Flip-Flop
Amidst the cruelty and chaos of president trump and the current federal administration in the United States, December 2025 brought news of a font change for documents in the State Department. A font change of course is small in comparison to the local, national, and global harms of the administratio

Inside the Raiders’ Hiring of Klint Kubiak — Why It Worked and What It Means https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/onsi/las-vegas-inside-hiring-klint-kubiak-why-it-worked-what-it-means

Worked on a client project in the basement where it’s currently 50-ish degrees F and that’s enough for now. Short break with the heating pad next then I’ll try some office work for a bit. This is not a fun Saturday so far.

Series B, Episode 11 - Gambit
DOCHOLLI: Servalan. She represents some people I once worked for. Augk. [Drinks] I knew they'd get me in the end.
CHENIE: You've got to get out of Freedom City. Away from this planet. You can't stay here now!
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/211/305…

What we're seeing with #theforkiverse has worked before and can work again. Community leaders have proven they can build communities in places like discord and it would be super cool if there were clear reasons for them to choose fediverse platforms.
Not sure if there are clear ways to promote it. Perhaps more focus on instance customization (tbh plugins would help).

Top 5 candidates Cowboys must consider to replace DC Matt Eberflus https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/onsi/news/top-5-candidates-dallas-cowboys-must-consider-replace-matt-eberflus

@… When I worked in corporate IT, we had some of these. Tiny little USB dongle, like the wireless receiver for a mouse, that makes the cursor wiggle just slightly.
We used them as a way to ensure employee’s laptops wouldn’t lock while we were working on them at the helpdesk, so we wouldn’t need to unlock them.

Real estate agent brothers
Tal, Oren and Alon Alexander
– known as ‘closers’
– are on trial in New York for
sex trafficking
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/feb/15/alexander-brothers-trial?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

Alleged National Guard shooter worked with US government entities in Afghanistan, including CIA: Ratcliffe (Brooke Singman/Fox News)
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/alleged-national-guard-shooter-worked-us-government-entities-afghanistan-including-cia-ratcliffe
http://www.memeorandum.com/251127/p2#a251127p2

Series B, Episode 11 - Gambit
DOCHOLLI: Servalan. She represents some people I once worked for. Augk. [Drinks] I knew they'd get me in the end.
CHENIE: You've got to get out of Freedom City. Away from this planet. You can't stay here now!
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/211/305…

A profile of SpaceX president Gwynne Shotwell, who has worked at the company since 2002, and is known as a customer emissary and Musk translator (Micah Maidenberg/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/business/gwynne-shotwell-sp…

I saw this on tiktok just now. Obviously, they don't live in #Sheboygan. I once worked at #Kohler and those folks are all about the "double brat".

U.K. might lose a prime minister because a guy who worked for him knew another guy who hung out with Epstein.
Meanwhile the U.S. opposition party is telling our President, who was Epstein's best friend, that his secret police should get better training so their public street murders look less messy.
https://

Tim Onion (@bencollins.bsky.social)
U.K. might lose a prime minister because a guy who worked for him knew another guy who hung out with Epstein. Meanwhile the U.S. opposition party is telling our President, who was Epstein's best friend, that his secret police should get better training so their public street murders look less messy.

Raiders give 2nd interview to coach who has worked with Josh Allen, Joe Burrow https://www.reviewjournal.com/sports/raiders/raiders-give-2nd-interview-to-coach-who-has-worked-with-josh-allen-joe-burrow-3612077/

Sources: Blue Origin has worked for over a year on tech for orbital AI data centers; SpaceX plans to use upgraded Starlink satellites for AI computing payloads (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/bezos-and-musk-ra

The U.S. State Department has ordered certain public libraries nationwide
to cease processing passport applications,
-- disrupting a long-standing service that librarians say their communities have come to rely on
and that has run smoothly for years.
The agency, which regulates U.S. passports, began issuing cease and desist orders to not-for-profit libraries in late fall,
informing them they were no longer authorized to participate in the Passport Acceptance Fac…

US State Department halts passport services at nonprofit libraries
The State Department has ordered nonprofit public libraries to stop taking passport applications, cutting off a popular local service. In late fall, the agency started sending cease and desist orders, which take effect on Feb. 13. It says these libraries cannot collect and keep passport processing fees under federal rules. Librarians say the service has worked for years and residents still call every day. Members of Congress from several states pushed back in a letter to Secretary of State Marc…

If you want a good explanation of why the American system of government worked well enough for 200 years and then suddenly stopped,
it's because Republicans in Congress suddenly started letting their partisan interests COMPLETELY override their institutional interests
https://bsky.app/profi…

Robert Black (@hurricanexyz.bsky.social)
Right. If you want a good explanation of why the American system of government worked well enough for 200 years and then suddenly stopped, it's because Republicans in Congress suddenly started letting their partisan interests COMPLETELY override their institutional interests [contains quote post or other embedded content]

Clearly, Pam Bondi's performance was strategic.
It was part of her goal of deflecting attention away from Trump and the fact that his name appears more than a million times in files related to Jeffrey Epstein that were released by the Department of Justice, according to Raskin.
She beclowned herself and perhaps it worked.
Most headlines were a variation of the Daily News’: “Bondi shouts down Democrats in hearing on Epstein files release delays.” 
At one point, t…

Pam Bondi is daring the Democrats to impeach her
The reasons for her contempt are secondary to the contempt itself.

They told the poor white man:
"You may be starving,
you may be broke,
but at least you aren't one of Them."
It worked.
The poor whites stopped fighting the rich.
They started guarding the rich.
They accepted their poverty -- because they had been given a false sense of superiority.
The "Divide and Rule" algorithm was born.
350 years later, the campaign is still running.
The Elite are still terrified of Unity…

MikeDunnAuthor (@MikeDunnAuthor@kolektiva.social)
Attached: 1 image Andre Gonsalves The most effective marketing campaign in history was launched in 1676. The product was Racism. Before that year, the Elites in America had a massive problem. In the colony of Virginia, poor white indentured servants and black slaves were friends. They worked the same fields. They lived in the same shacks. They even married each other. They realized they had the same enemy: The rich plantation owners. So, they united. Led by a man named Nathaniel Bacon, this…