Clever. 'journalist tracked a Dutch warship using a cheap Bluetooth tracker hidden in unscanned mail. Publicly available contact details enabled the tracker to reach the vessel. The device exposed the ship’s location and route for hours... a serious security gap' www.bitdefender.com/en-us/blog/h...
The out of control Trump Hating, Washington, D.C. District Court Judge, who doesn’t want to accept a $400 Million Dollar GIFT of one of the most beautiful Ballrooms anywhere in the World, desperately needed by the White House and its future Presidents (Due to time constraints, I will barely get to use it!), wants me to build the “underground” portion of the Ballroom, without the “above ground” portion, but the underground doesn’t work, isn’t necessary, and would indeed be useless, without the above ground sections. The underground portion is wedded to, and serves, the upper portion, including the Bomb Shelters, a State of the Art Hospital and Medical Facilities, Protective Partitioning, Top Secret Military Installations, Structures, and Equipment, Protective Missile Resistant Steel, Columns, Roofs, and Beams, Drone Proof Ceilings and Roofs, Military Grade Venting, and Bullet, Ballistic, and Blast Proof Glass. It’s all tied together as one big, expensive, and very complex unit, which is vital for National Security and Military Operations of the United States of America! The Judge’s decision, which doesn’t even discuss the vital subject of STANDING, of which the plaintiff has none, severely jeopardizes the lives and welfare of the people who work, and will be working, at the White House — including all future Presidents of the United States, and their families. President DONALD J. TRUMP
This is a crazy person
On the first day of joint U.S.-Israeli strikes on Iran, a primary school in southern Iran was attacked, killing at least 175 people—including many children. Akshaya Kumar evaluates whether the strike was sufficiently reckless to meet the mens rea standard for war crimes.
Washington Post.
Best Twitter riposte of the day is from Ronald Reagan's budget master.
"There is just plain, old-fashioned authoritarianism happening right now,” EFF’s Cindy Cohn told The Tech. “I think it is a mistake to think that this current moment was only created by tech, because then you don’t think hard about how to get out of it.” thetech.com/2026/04/09/...
Good place; great people:
Dr. Strangelove still. Capt. Lionel Mandrake looks freaked out as hell. The insane general Jack D Ripper has his arm around him.
The vibes RN
A guide to the US aircraft shot down over Iran. By me, no paywall.
fallows.substack.com/p/your-score...
Interesting:
Never forget that this was how The Washington Post greeted Pam Bondi's nomination. Support independent pro-democracy media. Support Democracy Docket. bit.ly/4qmEiFz
I’m glad to modestly donate to the @aclu.org monthly. Chipping in to help little things, like defending the Constitution of the 🇺🇸, seems like a worthwhile cause. Sounds like the Administration got their asses handed to them today. Thanks Ms. Wang. Via @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/live/2026/04/0…
I don’t even know what this means, but Carl’s a great guy and maybe somebody can help?
A page from the book 1984
Brown University is home to George Orwell's original manuscript of 1984. Most of it is marked up heavily in Orwell's hand-writing but this untouched page caught my eye.
Long ago; majored in math, and Quine’s course counted toward req’ts.
You can support this fellowship at givebutter.com/f7fpQk
"On the Windowsill at Night" Art by Quint Buchholz Mixed Media 1995
"On the Windowsill at Night"
Art by Quint Buchholz
Mixed Media
1995
Myself, I truly love this artist's use of colors.
#MenWithCats
And I thought that during the W years.
At a certain point it became
Unfashionable for poets to care about
Meter. they just started writing
Whatever they wanted
Into a vaguely poem-like shape.
Whatever happened to sonnets?
Are rhyme-schemes trying too hard?
Or did we forget to teach people how
To read
The fact that every scientific paper in 2026 is still uploaded only as fully formatted PDFs to academic archive sites that often limit downloads tells you everything you need to know about how quickly the scientific system is adjusting to the potential of AI to accelerate science & help discovery.
