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I am writing computer programs at the undisclosed bee's knees, and previously at Amazon Lightsail (part of AWS EC2), Upworthy, AWS CloudFront and Route53, Cozi, aQuantive, etc. My posts are just my opinions, and should be accorded zero gravitas.
Yes!
“Rufe criticized the Trump administration as asserting that ‘truth is no longer self-evident, but rather the property of the elected chief magistrate and his appointees and delegees, at his whim to be scraped clean, hidden, or overwritten.’”
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The New York Times reports that the Department of Homeland Security has sent Google, Meta, and other media corporations subpoenas for the names on accounts that criticize ICE enforcement. The department wants to identify Americans who oppose what it’s doing. I’ll save them time.
Apocalypse no: how almost everything we thought we knew about the Maya is wrong
It's pretty amazing to me the amount of shit that apparently you can Just Do as an NYC mayor. It makes basically every other American politician look like an incompetent loser.
What do you mean there was just a button that reversed wage theft? Why wasn't and isn't everyone hitting it all the time??
Case 1:25-cv-02463-JMC Document 52 Filed 02/02/26 Page 1 of 9 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA JOE NEGUSE, in his capacity as a Member of the U.S. House of Representatives, et al., Plaintiffs, Case No. 25-cv-2463 (JMC) V. U.S. IMMIGRATION AND CUSTOMS ENFORCEMENT, et al., Defendants. ORDER Pending before the Court is Plaintiffs' motion for a temporary restraining order, or in the alternative, for a stay under 5 U.S.C. § 705. ECF 49' For the reasons discussed below, the Court GRANTS the motion for a temporary restraining order pending further proceedings on Plaintiffs' request for a Section 705 stay.
ORDERED that Defendants are TEMPORARILY ENJOINED from enforcing against the Plaintiffs the oversight visit policy as announced on January 8, 2026, or otherwise requiring any Plaintiff to provide advance notice before conducting oversight visits at any facility operated by or for DHS used to detain or otherwise house aliens; and it is further ORDERED that this Order shall apply to the maximum extent provided for by Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 65(d)(2); and it is further ORDERED that, pursuant to Rule 65(b)(2), this Order shall expire in 14 days, subject to any further order from the Court; and it is further ORDERED that, should Defendants intend to file a supplemental brief in support of their opposition to Plaintiffs' request for a Section 705 stay, they shall have until February 8, 2026, to do so. Plaintiffs shall have until February 11, 2026, to file any additional reply in support of their request for a Section 705 stay. The Court will shortly contact the Parties regarding a hearing. Should the Parties confer and agree on an alternative briefing schedule, they may request alternative dates by submitting a joint status report. SO ORDERED. ЛА М. СОВВ United States District Judge
BREAKING: Judge Jia Cobb issues a TRO blocking DHS Sec Noem's Jan 8 memo purporting to require 7-day notices by members of Congress to perform oversight visits to immigration detention facilities.
The effect is that congressional oversight visits are allowed on request, as is required by Sec. 527.
Cover of Beck’s album Everybody's Gotta Learn Sometime featuring a photo of the singer in a white suit, wearing a pink flower on his lapel. He appears to be lounging in the back seat of a car.
Beck released a surprise 8-track album titled Everybody's Gotta Learn Sometime: #newmusic
“Imagine how they lie when there’s no evidence to contradict them.”
Watch this powerful message from Jon Stewart.
BREAKING: Immigration officers are asserting sweeping power to enter homes without a judge’s warrant, a memo obtained by AP says.
A beginner’s guide to Arc Raiders: what it is and how you start playing
Photo by Pierre Lavie. Yes this is me. And I threw my Leica. It landed on the bass plate with hardly a scratch. Another Photographer grabbed it along with my phone and I was able to track him later. I was held face down tear gas deployed right in front of me and pepper sprayed directly into the eye.
Philadelphia Sheriff Rochelle Bilal warns ICE:
"No law enforcement professional wears a mask... Those that come into our communities wearing a mask to commit crime... You getting arrested".
"Fake wannabe law enforcement... The criminal in the WH will not be able to keep you from going to jail".
When heavy military equipment is taken from its original context and placed in the hands of a domestic law-enforcement agency with little training in wartime scenarios, it becomes nothing more than an instrument of intimidation. It simply has no other purpose. Wearing jungle camouflage in an urban setting, pointing guns at civilians, driving around pointlessly in an armored personnel carrier — all of these egregiously violate military best practices. This is playing soldier dress-up to scare the pants off the locals — except the guns are real. Notice also how many of these riot cops have their faces completely covered by gas masks and insect goggles. That is almost never seen in recent wars, because covering the face makes a soldier look less human, which is directly at odds with modern counterinsurgency thinking. But covering the face to dehumanize the enemy is a common feature in first-person shooter games (like Half Life 2 and the Killzone series), where the player often has to slaughter them by the score. Doing it to oneself is, I think, a deliberate effort to broaden the emotional distance between law enforcement and the people who are being forced into submission. It turns out that when you put normal cops into soldier gear, you don't get soldiers. You get paramilitary goons.
I wrote this almost 11 years ago theweek.com/articles/444...
PSA: go.sum is not a lockfile.
You never need to look at go.sum.
go.mod has everything you need.
In a study following 23 million people age 18-59 (pretty young) for 4 years…despite the fact that the ones who got the COVID vaccine were overall older and sicker at baseline, they not only had 74% lower risk of dying from COVID than the unvaccinated but 25% lower risk of dying from any other cause!
It would be so cool if the United States Congress still existed.
It's a bit as if the British Empire in the 1890s was controlled by a senile emperor who went all-out to dominate the global supply of sail cloth and get its client states to pass laws banning steam engines. (Not even Lord Salisbury was that mad.)
My Ubuntu Summit talk is up! Where I talk about:
1. How Desktop UX is effectively dead
2. Why I hate the term UX/UI with the heat of 1000 suns
3. How OSS can actually innovate in #ux
www.youtube.com/watch?v=1fZT...
BREAKING: WATCH the full 60 Minutes CECOT segment here. This was sent to me anonymously. It appears to be the segment CBS' Bari Weiss killed. www.muellershewrote.com/p/watch-the-...
President Trump and his administration aren't above the law of the land.
This is a victory for our clients and due process.
The full spiked 60 Minutes CECOT package, clean & subtitled. 1/5
Exactly this: the administration’s concentration camps should be a howling, daily outrage, a scandal of historic proportions.
For comparison, every robotic mission NASA has ever sent in its history, from the dawn of the Space Age 65 years ago to today, from Mercury to Pluto and beyond, has cost less than $40B.
I know which one has done more for humankind and which one should be dismantled.
Okay, the crowd going nuts like someone just scored a touchdown at the Super Bowl all *through* the KDH performance is a hell of a thing to see hear/see:
“How can we make it so that all human beings have enough?”
Superhuman intelligence: well the people who have way too much need to give something up
Techbros: no no no CHANGE THE ALGORITHM
New blog post: I'm Independently Verifying Go's Reproducible Builds: www.agwa.name/blog/post/ve...
BREAKING: The Ninth Circuit has restored the block on Trump’s National Guard deployment in Portland. The appeals court voted to rehear the case and vacate an earlier extreme ruling that let him seize Oregon’s troops.
The dream of safe C/C++ code is here.
I have been following this development, and I am in awe at how much has been achieved, now available as a package:
github.com/pizlonator/f...
You can get drunk on the details here: fil-c.org
A good post by Bruce Schneier: digital threat modeling under authoritarianism www.schneier.com/blog/archive...
