it's my half birthday

does that count

is this the duke of buckingham's search
history while escorting the teenaged charles i around france

octobussy

Two headlines from last week tell an interesting story if you’re paying attention. 👀

"uhhhhmmmmsorry, but you can only sit at my table if you're blocked by Why"

horseshoe theory is real. leftists almost got kat abughazaleh elected into congress and now it comes out that her boyfriend owns infowars…

The puzzle is why the east-west runways are in pairs (for a total of four), while the north-south runways are solo

It does mean, though, that you get fun parallel landings sometimes like at SFO

wait

two UA hubs with parallel landings

we might be into something

The mountains running pretty much north-south just to the west of the airfield kinda does mean that any wind from the east gets redirected to come from the north or south. But combine that layout with the tunnels, the horse, the tent, and the budget, and you get why there are conspiracy theories

KDEN airfield diagram

the airfield diagram, for reference

I stayed not far from there the last time I was in London

someone in denver trying to give charles manson a sick burn

When does it just become The Washington Times-Post?

this is, however, how I put together that "cannoli" is descended from "cannula" whence also "channel."

cannolis general, not cannoli generals

in other news: go rams

pretty sure being in the military means your body is very much negotiable

been saying that email should have to have stamps for fifteen years

hurricane bertha you say

Gil Duran tweet: TLDR: Fascism in response to Palantir's long fascists screed on X.

"Your Account is Suspended" Message on X

The CEO of Palantir posted a fascist manifesto on X.

I pointed out that it was fascist—which resulted in a permanent suspension from X (my second time!).

So, when you hear the tweeters complaining that BlueSky is intolerant, remember why many of us came here in the first place.

The first bio pic of a world leader shot entirely inside of a single room in a hospital

Spoof paper on the unsuccessful treatment of a case of writer's block: The page is blank and at the bottom is a note from the referee commending it as the most concise yet complete manuscript they had seen

Star Trek The Original Series scene. We're in a CORRIDOR! A room door is open, and we see two crewmen spilling out into the hallway in red and blue uniforms. They are otherwise indecipherable tho because they are entirely enveloped in a big cloud of smoke. It's pouring out all around them and into the hallway area, like there's a Phish concert in there. Closed caption reads, "[COUGHING]"

my dealer had to bump up his prices by 20% when the pandemic hit. when supply lines started stabilizing he was all "we're back to 5 for 5 baybeee!"

guided by better morals than any capitalist, we salute the humble pusherman

becoming increasingly convinced that @toddzwillich.bsky.social is the journalist at a major media institution best meeting the moment we are in

If I ever see a laptop with a PalanGenderQueer sticker on it in the wild it's on sight

When you use AI to do your writing, you are telling your audience: “I deserve your attention, but you do not deserve my effort.”

I am forever saying that if refusal isn't a live option in any decision making process about "AI", then no ethical practice is possible. You've got to be able to stop if the thing is unacceptable.

It's very murky how to disable this so I'll just provide a scorched-earth approach:

1. Disable Gemini Apps Activity: myactivity.google.com/product/gemini
2. Disable ALL activities: myactivity.google.com/activitycont...
3. Disable "Activity-based personalisation": photos.google.com/settings

pckt.blog/b/jcalabro/a...

The postmortem of the *last* big outage shows that it was because they DOS'd themselves through vibecoded slop.