I am once again asking you to watch Gundam Wing and tapping the “Did Treize Khushrenada Die For Nothing?!?” sign.

"But he would take over as a relative unknown outside Apple. Inside the company, he is known more for maintaining products than developing new ones, according to six former employees. And Mr. Ternus, who has been an engineer in Silicon Valley for all of his adult life, has limited exposure to the policy issues and political responsibilities associated with Apple’s corner office." corner office highlighted

Apple famously has a circular headquarters

Plot of Sneakers remake just dropped.

Btw, I know you’ve said you stepped away from blogging, but wanted to say I started reading your blog in 2010 and read it religiously for years, and share my appreciation for your work!

That felt… Giroud-esque?

Update on where things stand on FISA: this deal is a win. We got the House to back down from an 18 month extension, buying us time to negotiate on real reforms. I'll be fighting like hell for reforms that put your privacy first, and will have more to share soon.

This repeated a few times over, until eventually... nothing. At some point a case got cited for the proposition that didn't really say that, or cite anything else. Pure dead end. There was no "there" there. Sometimes there just be dragons. 🤷‍♂️

I briefly did employment litigation, which took place in state court under state law. I decided for some reason that I needed to see the text of the case everyone cited for some very bread and butter proposition. But that opinion wasn't the primary source for the proposition. So I went upstream...

Comic. [Person and person with white hat facing two boxes stacked with $80 price tag and sale tag on each box.] PERSON 1: They want $80 for this? I could make one myself for $10 in parts, an hour of work, a trip to the hardware store, another $30 in parts, another few hours of work, two more trips to the store for $20 more in parts, another hour of work to redo the first hour of work because I messed up, and $80 to buy this when the one I made breaks.

Make It Myself

xkcd.com/3233/

If Bluesky's got a hangover or whatever the least they can do is wheel in the TV cart and put on an episode of NOVA for us or something.

if you have bones to pick with the pope on theology, that you're posting publicly, at that point aren't you... lutheran?

a mascot holding a hockey stick and wearing an orange jersey ALT: a mascot holding a hockey stick and wearing an orange jersey

was gonna post elmo rise meme, but this showed up and honestly... I'm gonna go with it.

writers room mailing it in again with reused plotlines…

Sully's Expedition (1863–1864) - Wikipedia

John Henry Pell, Class of 1852, was a lawyer, Minnesota legislator, Captain in the 1st Minnesota Infantry, Assistant Adjutant General after resigning his commission due to disability in 1863, and practiced law in NYC until his death in 1902... and maybe dabbled in some light indigenous violence?

A fun random thing I circle back to every few years: a widow dies in 1913 and leaves money for 3 buildings: to the Dutch Reformed Church (1) and Rutgers (2) to honor her late father; to Columbia (3) to honor her late husband, an alum.

The first two buildings were built; the third was not. 🤷‍♂️

One time I read a transcript of a round table I spoke at, and while I don't remember exactly which crutch phrase I used an embarrassing number of times, it was mortifying enough that I have never looked at that transcript file again.

Damn man, can't believe Europe is gone. Was just there two weeks ago...

'I read playboy, for the articles' -> 'I read buzzfeed, for the investigative journalism'

Anyway, is there a general consensus on the start/end of the 'golden era'? Feels like 2010-2016 is roughly right?

Post 'blog' era, up until the gawker verdict and 'pivot to video'?

Welcome To America — Now Spy On Your Friends When Muslim immigrants apply to become citizens, they often find the process delayed for years without explanation. Then, when they are at wit’s end, they get a visit from the FBI, with an offer they ...

I will 100% get "sure grandpa, lets get you back to bed"'d at the old people home for going on about the golden age of online published media. I mean just look at this! From Buzzfeed! The listicle kings!

As good excuse as any to re-up this absolute gem of reporting from the heyday of online published media:

I liked the one we got 9 years ago. didn’t seem like they still made that particular version anymore when we bought a bigger mattress 2 years ago alas.

The children yearn for SimTower

This is fun. I wish I had a ‘time machine’/version navigator of so many statutes (side eyes Title 47)

We don't have to feed to trolls because trained professional @dieworkwear.bsky.social is doing god's work .

This is 100% taking the bait, but as a point of pedantry, the tax rules are shackled to a system from the *1980s* (i.e. the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, established by the Tax Reform Act of 1986, and as amended since...)

Catholicism with Chicagoland characteristics.

staring at that brief mid-2021 'return to almost normalcy' that coincided with the mass vaccination drive (and preceded the triple whammy of delta wave + inflation surge + afghan withdrawal debacle) with extreme intensity.

Big "Y2K was overhyped" energy.

The millenial reflex to suspect everything is a potential scam or trap

(and that by doing it online you get time to read and act at your own pace rather than feel pressured by live in-person or verbal sales tactics, even though online is also full of dark patterns and deceptive sleights of hand!)

Understanding that the civil law world in effect breaks down into contracts and torts, and courts exist as an alternative to summoning Fat Tony to break knee caps for when you are wronged was a big ah ha moment in law school