No email containing the phrase “bumping this to the top of your inbox” is worth reading.

A grandmother of ten went to work for Doordash after burning through her life savings to pay for her husband’s cancer treatments and Trump thinks this is a flex.

T-Mobile’s Ankur Kapoor: Here’s why 5G-Advanced matters to consumers and businesses. T-Mobile’s chief network officer, details how 5G-Advanced delivers faster, more consistent performance today, and is “training wheels” for AI-native 6G. My latest on Fierce Network.

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I enjoy delicious schadenfreude watching Trump and his MAGA clowns set their house on fire, notwithstanding that we’re all in the house with them and the doors are locked.

While walking the dog this morning I spontaneously thought of the ending to last night’s episode of “Rooster” and I burst out laughing out loud.

When I make a doctor’s appointment, the doctor sends a notification asking me to arrive ten minutes early. That’s not how appointments work.

This is possibly the least annoying thing in my life that is, nonetheless, still annoying.

I have been lately overwhelmed by organizing retirement, our estates, finances, decluttering the house and so on. Also, I’ve been dissatisfied with the dental floss I’ve been using. However, I have researched options thoroughly and I believe I’ve arrived at a satisfactory alternative floss.

The idea of bikeshedding became popular in the open source community, which is where I encountered it.

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Historian C. Northcote Parkinson noted the phenomenon in 1957. "The time spent on any item of the agenda will be in inverse proportion to the sum [of money] involved,” Parkinson said.

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It’s based on a hypothetical story about a local planning organization tasked with reviewing plans for a nuclear power plant. They are overwhelmed by the cost and engineering of this advanced technological project, and instead focus on details of the bike shed proposed for plant employees.

“Bikeshedding” is the futile expenditure of time and resources on marginal elements of an important technical decision.

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I was thinking about “The Expanse” the other day, and I abruptly remembered the name of the technology that powered the spaceship engines: The Epstein Drive. That’s unfortunate

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A friend shared rumors of poor ratings for Starfleet Academy, undercutting my theory that it was taken off the air because the network had gone anti-woke.

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When you have Internet ADHD. I feel seen. youtube.com/shorts/pX…

A brief history of the trenchcoat. “Nothing on this coat was decoration. It was built for war.” I have a black trenchcoat that I love. I wear it on the very rare occasions that it’s cold enough and I need a long coat. youtube.com/shorts/ip…

Our neighbors across the street speak little or no English. I’m Jewish and see plenty of Christmas decorations go up around the neighborhood. We have Latino, Asian and Black neighbors. It’s fine. None of this causes us any problems at all. Dale is a dipshit.

I have been using RSS daily for more than 20 years and I have no clue what the difference is between RSS and a JSON feed, and whether or why I should pick one over the other. This kind of thing is why more people do not use RSS.