AOC is quite on point with this.

Jerry Goldsmith was still rocking an Apple ][ Plus in 1986 to run a MIDI sequencer.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DaS3zfkSHnc&t=357s

“When Brak has trouble he likes to think of just how lucky he is…” https://youtu.be/8zi5FdRTV5M (I ripped this from Napster oh so many years ago, still yell “All kindsa corn!” at random…)

Internet Archive is looking for engineering managers with a rare set of experiences, and we could use your help.

Do you know someone with extensive experience using PHP as a systems language? Someone who has gardened a petabyte-scale system under high load? Is this person a player/coach engineering manager who enjoys helping other people succeed?

If you do know someone like this, or someone close, I would love to talk to them.

Apply at this link and drop me a line:
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First Caturday without cat. She’d be 21 next month.

From Seattle to Key West, as high as Pike’s Peak and as low as Death Valley. Ran towards the coyotes in Joshua Tree, then casually strolled back to us. Crafty, ruthless dispatcher of Maryland house centipedes and Colorado crickets. Fierce and happy consumer of the smorgasbord her Papa put out for her multiple times a day. Sweet, chirpy, adventurous. Lassie in feline form. Our best friend and traveling copilot, we miss you, Captain Kitty.

The cat is out of the bag. Even Business Insider is conceding that return to office policies are less about mythical hallway conversations and more about getting remote workers to quit.

https://www.businessinsider.com/rto-mandates-layoffs-quit-jobs-hybrid-remote-work-office-2025-5

Q&A from a talk I gave last week.

Q: "What do you think is the biggest threat in cybersecurity right now? Is it post-quantum computing? Is it AI?"

A: Fascism. It's fascism.

Trump sycophant Stephen Miller says the White House is considering suspending Habeas Corpus.

As a human rights lawyer, let me be clear: Due process and habeas corpus is arguably the last line of defense before fascism takes permanent hold. I cannot emphasize enough how serious this situation is for our nation.

Continue to loudly speak up against this fascist regime while we still can.

Tariffs just got real: our first $36K bill with 125% + 20% + 25% markup hits hard 💸. These are upfront costs - due before selling a single unit - causing serious cash flow strain, price increases, read more! 📦 http://adafruit.com/tariffbill

#tariffs

*rolls up sleeves*

Time for another productive day…

You can't go back, but you can remember:

(This was inspired by another post I saw about this image, which I'd never seen before. I wanted to show it without saying right away what it was. Hence the new post.)

Hundreds of thousands of Computers won't be able to upgrade to Windows 11, but that shouldn't make them eWaste.

Kudos to the @kde team for this amazing initiative!

https://endof10.org/

@mattblaze @davesomebody I don’t think Dave was complaining about you or the article you posted, but trying to share some background. It seems like a lot of the articles are leading with “staffing shortages” (true!), but if you read between the lines, ATC staff may’ve walked out exasperated by broken software… https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/02/travel/newark-airport-flight-delays.html

"Chat-GPT said my random number generator had enough entropy"

Man, the future is gonna have some wild security issues

Today I went out looking at birds (found cool birds), but especially looking for insects. American Lady butterfly, Sonoran Bumblebee, Apiomerus spissipes (assassin bug that predates on bees - cool), and a blurry Large Milkweed Bug. They're lovely beings worth being appreciated for their beauty. cc @futurebird fellow bug appreciator.

Hundreds of scholars have had their visas revoked and dozens have been detained.

What’s exceptional about Öztürk’s case is how her detention was caught on camera.

What’s scariest, immigration lawyers say, is how little is known about all the others.
https://www.propublica.org/article/rumeysa-ozturk-best-friend-inside-story-tufts-trump-louisiana-ice?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#News #ICE #University #Immigration #Trump #Deportation #Boston #Palestine

it is my opinion that "I'll give you access to my NAS" is a romantic gesture, and that "I'll add you to the sudoers list" is tantamount to a proposal

@deviantollam @dave_cochran @wendynather Some teams appreciate, some don’t—but in all cases, providing possible solutions is always helpful, or at least not harmful, in the long run. The teams that don’t appreciate it often end up quietly implementing one of your proposals anyway.

Here's a description of the Russian attempted access to NLRB from the whistleblower complaint. whistlebloweraid.org/wp-content/u...

“While NPR was unable to recover the code for that project, the name itself suggests that Wick could have been designing a backdoor, or "Bdoor," to extract files from the NLRB's internal case management system, known as NxGen, according to several cybersecurity experts who reviewed Berulis' conclusions.”

https://www.npr.org/2025/04/15/nx-s1-5355896/doge-nlrb-elon-musk-spacex-security