KtG YouTube video by Mike Byrne - Topic

@josephhall.org Here's one for you.
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JUST IN: John Eastman, the conservative attorney who helped devise President Trump's last ditch strategy to overturn the 2020 presidential election, has officially been disbarred, per the California Supreme Court:

America: we can automatically sign you up for the draft

Also America: automatically signing you up to vote is impossible actually

The first talk I saw on quantum computing was when I was an undergrad, probably 1989 or 1990. At the time the claim was that quantum computers were “ten years away.”

Almost 40 years later, they’re still ten years away. Somehow they’re always ten years away.

I wonder why that is.

So, I use TimeMachine plus a second backup… because I’m paranoid.

Since I started doing this, I’ve never needed the secondary backup. Conclusion: TimeMachine knows when it’s being watched and goes on its best behavior.

Does anyone know a decent iPadOS client for this place? The native client is iOS, not iPadOS, and doing it via the web is suboptimal on multiple fronts. Tried a couple third-party ones but they’re just too buggy. Would love to hear recommendations.

Do you know the band The Hu? If not, check them out, I think you’d be into them.

You know my wife works at JSC, right? She knew some of the astronauts on Columbia. You want to talk trauma…

The Chaos Is the Point Rick Hasen: "That certainly seems true of President Donald Trump’s second executive order on elections, issued on Tuesday. The order purports, among other things, to direct the United States Departmen...

The Chaos Is the Point politicalwire.com/2026/04/01/t...

KtG YouTube video by Mike Byrne - Topic

No better time to make art than when the world is crazy.

I'm still a novice and it's definitely a process (mixing a 20-track song was a major learning experience) but I have something new to share.

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Also on Apple Music & Spotify and gradually making it to other services…

I see the TGDC has two vacancies. Hat thrown in ring.

Thank you for the work that you do!

And when you get a chance to breathe, check your email.

Looking forward to Graffle v8!

But you knew I’d say that.

I dunno, I’m pretty predictable.

Why is the advice always “introverts be more extraverted” and not “extraverts maybe calm down?” How about we normalize people being how they want to be? Do better, NPR.

If only this was the attitude taken by security folks in the 2000s.

Aww, geez we have some here. We could have shown them to you last time you were in town.

Imagine the government demanding a key to your home, promising only police would use it. Then, a hostile foreign power steals it and walks in.

This just happened. "Salt Typhoon," a Chinese-sponsored group, exploited backdoors built for US intelligence. There is no safe backdoor.

This isn't abstract. It is the fight for a secure, trustworthy Internet for everyone. We cannot allow this foundation to erode.

21 October is #GlobalEncryptionDay. Read Sally's urgent warning, share this thread, and demand protection for encryption. prosyn.org/zQ7OiTg?h=SS...

Why, no, Apple devices, I do not want to install an x.0 version of the operating system.

I will vaguely consider x.0.1 but won't actually do it until AT LEAST x.0.2, so you can stop asking for a while.

twitter post by brendan carr from august 2022: "This is very concerning. The government does not evade the First Amendment’s restraints on censoring political speech by jawboning a company into suppressing it—rather, that conduct runs headlong into those constitutional restrictions, as Supreme Court law makes clear."

folks surfaced a lot of past brendan carr tweets that seem to contradict his current agenda but i feel like this one got unfairly slept on a bit

This time of year Sunday is for football.

Currently in Salt Lake City for the Election Center 40th Annual Conference. Very cool meeting!

Election officials are amazing.

Episode 2 – Voting Machines - How Voting Works Let's talk about why we need voting machines in the US, and the specific types of voting machines we use and how they work.The Reality of Full Hand Counts: A Guide for Election Officials, by the Elect...

In case you're wondering why we use voting machines in the US: podcast.voting.works/2407158/epis...

And now for something entirely non-academic.

Despite grand claims, a new report shows noncitizen voting hasn't materialized New research confirms what election experts have said all along: Noncitizen voting occasionally happens but in minuscule numbers, and not in any coordinated way.

New research confirms what election experts have said all along: Noncitizen voting occasionally happens, but in minuscule numbers, and not in any coordinated way.

Just your regular reminder that the gov’t does not leak or tweet that they’ve found crimes - they indict and prosecute when they have the evidence. If you see any gov’t off’l, incl the AG, DNI, or POTUS, do that, it’s an admission they have absolutely nothing.

The “new Coke” of the 2020s.