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We just got an "imminent threat alert" for tornadoes and telling us to go to the basement.
Tornado - in Santa Cruz? And who here has a basement?

Fenster auf!!! Ist gut für die Wirtschaft.
#Covid #LongCovid
"Dass die Zahl der Viren nicht nur mit hoher CO₂-Konzentration korreliert, sondern sie bei hohen Kohlendioxid-Anteilen in der Luft auch länger überleben, wissen selbst viele Ärzte nicht. Dabei ist der Zusammenhang von CO₂…

Great - our home heating is controlled by a Honewell thermostat, but that thermostat depends on a server somewhere out in cloud land, and that server is dead.
(At least we have alternate means, but gark, they are inconvenient.)

Wow - The IRS just sent my company a letter saying they are discontinuing our mailing address.
Why? Because their data got corrupted and they have the wrong zip code.
Now we gotta jump through umpteen IRS hoops to prove our "new" address, which they have had for quite a while, including the correct zip.
My guess is that I am seeing data corruption resulting from Musk and Big Ball's messin with government data via DOGE.

I found this an interesting view on the AI scraping and Hoovering everything disease.
This view focuses on the overhead and costs that such hoovering places on our packet carrying infrastructure.
"The hiQ Decision Legalized Infrastructure Theft - We Need a Federal Fix"
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The hiQ Decision Legalized Infrastructure Theft - We Need a Federal Fix
The hiQ ruling erased legal protections against commercial scraping, leaving infrastructure providers to absorb escalating costs. Without federal action defining data misappropriation, a free-rider AI economy could undermine open networks, investment, and long-term data integrity.

So El Cheato wants to pay the military during the government shutdown.
OK. (But I do wonder why the military rather than people who guard nuclear stockpiles or provide emergency health care.)
The personal costs for the DoD are about $0.5 BILLION per day. Yup, half a $billion per day.
That's taxpayer money - money from you and me.
And where is it coming from? Where is the mandatory appropriation by Congress?

The destruction of our country has gone even faster than I had known as El Cheeto makes us bend even more to our corporate, especially AI corporate, masters who want to access all data, all information, everywhere and anywhere, without permission and without paying anything.
"The May Massacre: Firings, AI, and Constitutional Crisis at the Copyright Office"

The May Massacre: Firings, AI, and Constitutional Crisis at the Copyright Office (via Passle)
These are extraordinary times. And this is an extraordinary case. In 2020, Shira Perlmutter was appointed Register of Copyrights by Dr. Carla D. Hayden,...

These death threats by the maga-klan create a real fear.
These kinds of statements especially as they are coupled to an increasing tendency on the part of our so-called government to move in the direction of these statements, creates a plausible defense that could be raised by the killer of Kirk and also by Luigi:
Self defense and defense of others.
Tyler Robinson and Luigi M. could well, and plausibly assert, that they were acting to defend you and me.
It's a def…

I am so sick of how badly companies maintain their software.
Take Roku. Their devices are rapidly becoming less reliable than a 1960 Austin Healey - meaning that you always have to have al alternate 'cause something is always broken.
Today it was the Roku Media Player. It no longer can play .mp4 files that it used to be able to play. It can do the sound, but not the video. It used to do 'em both, with decent synchronization.
But now, nope. Has Roku become yet a…

This, if true, is damning. Although I do not know whether this is true, it certainly is consistent with many things we know about trump.
https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2025/12/quick-hit-watched-as-girls-newborn-was-murde…

Trump watched as girl's newborn was murdered & dumped in lake, Epstein document says - LGBTQ Nation
"He was present when my uncle murdered my newborn child."