Listen if we’re gonna call the PRA unconstitutional at least make it the bad one

Thin Lizzy’s ‘Jailbreak’ was released 50 years ago today

Ask people if they’d be willing to share their prompts so you can understand what they understand about the task and then give feedback

Funiculi Funicula (2019 Remastering) YouTube video by Haruomi Hosono - Topic

Besides “Eat Until I Die”, I defy you to find a better version of this song youtu.be/yDFxdAf-cHA

Part deux: current-{full,federal}.csv should reflect enterprise mode details · Issue #4277 · cisagov/manage.get.gov Issue description The data published in CSVs should reflect what enterprise mode data shows. An earlier attempt was close but mislabeled some data. This attempt should also re-name some of the valu...

The agency misattribution is due to a bug that will be fixed very soon github.com/cisagov/mana...

Loved the heck out of that Great Grandpa record this year too

A statue we see a pair of legs and a hand holding a briefcase but part way up the Torso the figure disappears into a raw monolith of Rock

Monument to the Unknown Bureaucrat, Reykjavik — Magnús Tómasson, 1994

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Update zone file Wed Nov 5 07:12:01 UTC 2025 · cisagov/dotgov-data@f69d079

If you look at the “creation date”
In Whois, the timestamp is very close to goldcard;gov.

That it shows up in this data now means NS records were added to the domain yesterday github.com/cisagov/dotg...

I play this game except with fictional .gov domains! Here’s Zootopia with zpd.gov

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I spent three hours making this list and I have no regrets

Opinion | Cyber warfare has arrived. Here’s the United States’ best defense. The U.S. must establish a national institution to train the next generation of digital defenders.

Here’s a thought for Rep. Stefanik—the U.S. would do well to first hire and retain (and rehire) all the technologists who already want to serve their country before thinking about a new service academy. Many such pathways to serve already existed and were entirely destroyed by DOGE.

wapo.st/45dVoxX

NYT crossword with 41 across, “gov”, highlighted. The clue reads “Domain suffix that most civilians can’t register”

The world’s best American government TLD in the Crossword of Record

What is common knowledge in your field, but shocks outsiders?

We don't have a definitive count of how many federal agencies exist.

I hope their phone got the worst of it.

Take it easy.

This was really lovely, Chris.

Several members of my team moved to support Direct File and we cheered y’all on from a neighboring domain! Thanks for pushing, moving the rock.

I believe these are @krusynth.bsky.social originals 😊

On the one hand this is all very funny but on the other hand I wish it had happened before the government was dismantled and all my friends got fired.

Screenshot from support.apple.com for tvOS 18: “Subtitles appear when you mute audio or when you skip back, up to 30 seconds.”

Using an Apple TV? This is a newish feature of tvOS: support.apple.com/en-us/106336

New from Jen Easterly and me: as threats to our critical infrastructure increase, U.S. policymakers need to defend + strengthen the role of security research. This is personal for me, having received legal threats for good-faith security research.

www.lawfaremedia.org/article/adva...

Screenshot of beta.weather.gov with an announcement info box saying "beta.weather.gov has been deactivated until further notice." The message continues by mentioning "This page has been deactivated...due to the loss of critical federal staff, which leaves the project without the resources required to continue its development or for routine monitoring and maintenance."

This is what happens when 18F goes away: beta.weather.gov has been deactivated, “due to the loss of critical federal staff, which leaves this project without the resources to continue its development or for routine monitoring and maintenance.”
18f.org/projects/#:~...

Do you know how lucky you are? Catching a @peeldreammagazine.bsky.social and Friko show hits it home: life is rough, but be kind anyway and savor good things.

The administration got rid of 18F under the cover of night. People who own skyscrapers are afraid of 100 people who make websites.

Not because of the latest tech fad, but because we proved the government can be fixed, the government can be made better and the government can work for the people.

💔 The 18F site was just brought down: web.archive.org/web/20250222...

I was once told that cars have brakes not so they can slow down, but so they can go fast.

Over the last decade, it was consistently 18F and their TTS peers that did “braking” work which, if followed, made everything go faster. My work has been better, and the public’s the beneficiary.

Agencies may still do that work! But in the end it will cost more, be done less well, or take longer; pick at least two.

A laptop with several stickers including a black square one that says “18F” in white letters

I’m heartsick thinking about the destruction of 18F. The lights of my own public service turned on when I learned about them in 2014. I’ve worked among them and learned from them, and the American public lost orders of magnitude more than whatever small amount won’t be expended on work left undone.

I’m so heartbroken for you and everyone and all of us. Let the credits roll, friend, and see all the good work you’ve done.

Public Service Accompaniment - YouTube

📣 PSA: I made a playlist that reflects how I feel about this moment in my decade+ of governmenting. It’s called “Public Service Accompaniment” 🎵

Devotion, resignation, resolve, disappointment, motivation, loss, hope, and the wild swings between these feelings. It has a happy ending! We deserve one

Far be it from me to assess the entire federal workforce’s performance, but what I can say with no doubt is they are subject to the most oversight and accountability of any workforce in the country.