Tim Cook Will Step Down as Apple C.E.O.

Hopefully this transition will allow him more time to do what he does best: betray his supposed principles by appeasing authoritarian leaders like Xi Jinping and Donald Trump.

#5NovelsAndAShortStory that I love:

🤡 Slapstick by Kurt Vonnegut
🏴‍☠️ The Princess Bride by William Goldman
👽 Up the Walls of the World by James Tiptree Jr.
🧙 A Hat Full of Sky by Terry Pratchett
🐢 The Lathe of Heaven by Ursula K. Le Guin
🪽 "Upon the Dull Earth" by Philip K. Dick

Coachella is trying to wipe all of the footage of The Strokes protest set so I’m gonna post it here. The last images on the screen made me cry.

This petty sociopath now has 𝘢𝘭𝘭 your information thanks to the criminal activity of Peter Thiel, Elon Musk, and Donald Trump.

Isn't it charming how he's fantasizing about using our tax dollars to spray his enemies with fentanyl piss? It's like when Trump posted that diarrhea jet video. 🫩 #NoKings

TLDR: Everyone should stop scrutinizing their leaders and just follow orders... which may include genocide because some cultures are just bad, okay?

Some of the lowlights:

"National service should be a universal duty."

"The ruthless exposure of the private lives of public figures drives far too much talent away from government service."

"Some cultures have produced vital advances; others remain dysfunctional and regressive."

#FuckPalantir

I just pulled these off the top of my head, but there is a definite running theme here. If you haven't read any of these, start with the shortest one!

#5NovelsAndAShortStory that I love:

🤡 Slapstick by Kurt Vonnegut
🏴‍☠️ The Princess Bride by William Goldman
👽 Up the Walls of the World by James Tiptree Jr.
🧙 A Hat Full of Sky by Terry Pratchett
🐢 The Lathe of Heaven by Ursula K. Le Guin
🪽 "Upon the Dull Earth" by Philip K. Dick

I haven't listened to the new album just yet because I missed these guys the first time around, but thanks to you and John freakin' Darnielle, I'm catching up now!

Today I learned Tim Curry was the voice of Auntie Whispers in Over the Garden Wall.

Absolute legend!

Today I learned Tim Curry was the voice of Auntie Whispers.

Absolute legend!

I believe the French invented something in the 1700s that could help.

Two gray cats sleeping on a teal sofa. One is big and fluffy, and one is smaller.

Lazy #Caturday.

It's literally a Markov Chain algorithm with Neural Networking with massive amounts of data. The large data is why it seems to speak, it just has more sentences to compare and mimic

Woohoo... Got my ᵖʳᵒᵛⁱˢⁱᵒⁿᵃˡ black belt today! I'm officially a ᵖʳᵒᵛⁱˢⁱᵒⁿᵃˡ black belt!

Actually, my school calls it a poom belt, but everything I find online says that a poom belt is a "junior black belt" for students under 15. At my school, everyone has to get "poom" before black. 🤷‍♂️ Soon enough.

I'm basically just compressing all the data with this. Instead of remembering a whole sequence of words like "left back stance with a double-knifehand middle block," I just remember a couple of syllables like "sofen" and use my key to decode that (which is easier than it sounds).

Taeguk 8 Jang Taeguk Pal Jang 1: Sopen sida gikiqsipodata zida. 2: Hosaipabe sitaudii, raihizaibape zidautii. 3: Horusofen sida gihuzuvo. 4: Hesufen kisida sufo, razuven gizita zuvo. 5: Rezoban kisuigiqzibotada. 6...

I'm about to go test for my poom belt (provisional black belt), and this is my secret weapon for memorizing the form (taeguk 8 jang).

#taekwondo #tkd #martialArts #linguistics

The most despicably racist public statement of our lifetimes came from the perverted mind of RFKjr who said “every black kid” should be taken away from every black parent by government and “re-parented.” Listen to him say it & hear the sound of American Nazi madness.

Absolutely. As an American who's worked in tech for most of his career, 𝘥𝘰 𝘯𝘰𝘵 𝘵𝘳𝘶𝘴𝘵 𝘜𝘚-𝘣𝘢𝘴𝘦𝘥 𝘵𝘦𝘤𝘩 𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘱𝘢𝘯𝘪𝘦𝘴!

That probably applies to any government and any corporation, but it goes double for big tech in the US right now. They are not your friends!

RFK2: "What does that even mean? I never said that!"

Here's you saying that in a TV interview two years ago. 🤷‍♂️

These liars can't even handle direct quotes of things they recently said.

They used to have to explain what they 𝘮𝘦𝘢𝘯𝘵 to say and take at least some responsibility, but not under Trump!

Yeah, kind of like that but with the focus on dreams instead of ecology. 😁

Google Maps tells me I'm 8 hours and 33 minutes away, so I could just barely be in...

🎶 Amarillo by morning. 🥴

John 11:58: Jesus farted.

Is THAT what's going on with Bluesky today?! Damn it.

I'm thinking the back row needs to be randomized since there are far fewer variables here than in normal chess, but this could be fun, right? Should I build this like I did for Ozghard Chess? Y'all better not leave me hanging if I do. Play my free game!

A messy drawing of 16 4-by-4 chess boards showing the progression of a game involving only rooks, bishops, and pawns. White won with a score of 6 to 0.

This is #auDHD. I'm supposed to be wrapping up the workday, but I accidentally invented a new chess variant on the back of a piece of mail. 😑

EXCERPTS FROM KAFKA'S DIARIES 281 JANUARY 20. The end of writing. When will it take me up again? JANUARY 29. Again tried to write, virtually useless. JANUARY 30. The old incapacity. Interrupted my writing for barely ten days and already cast out. Once again prodigious efforts stand before me. You have to dive down, as it were, and sink more rapidly than that which sinks in advance of you. FEBRUARY 7. Complete standstill. Unending torments. MARCH 11. How time flies; another ten days and I have chieved nothing. It doesn't come off. A page now anc hen is successful, but I can't keep it up, the next day m powerless. MARCH 13. [.] Lack of appetite, fear of getting ba te in the evening; but above all the thought that I wr

The writing life, courtesy of Franz Kafka.

*Not to mention (a) ransomware to get cryptocurrency and (b) ransom-kidnapping of the wives and children of crypto-whales

www.theregister.com/2026/04/15/c...

Drop your crime-fighting Catholics.