Retired guy with interests in technology, politics, life, the universe, and everything. Technologist, video editor, and coder. Husband, Dad, and Grandad.
“‘“Move fast and break things” may be acceptable to someone who owns a business and owns the risk. And if things don’t go well, the damage is compartmentalized. But when you break things in government, you’re breaking things that belong to people who didn’t sign up for that,’ said Cordell Schachter, who until last month was the chief information officer at the U.S. Department of Transportation.”
h/t @anniebergin
Remember. If Russia stops fighting, the war ends. If Ukraine stops fighting, Ukraine ends.
@GottaLaff Every time her name comes up I'm reminded of my mild irritation that the crime that got her locked up was defrauding investors, rather than doing bogus medical tests.
@imyke Congratulations!
@randahl tfg is including the userous interest rate and his vig.
@dcoderlt A quaducken!
Donald Trump responds to Elon Musk's email demanding weekly accomplishments:
- Played golf three times last week
- Driven around Daytona racecourse
- Blamed Ukraine for being invaded
- Fired black chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
- Said “inflation is back” as DJIA fell below where it stood on inauguration day
I wonder if his boss will let Donald keep his job?
@caseyliss The first time I heard this phrase, Craig Ferguson was using it as a technology review,”The Zune, it’s cracka lackin’.”
Apple has decided to stop providing encryption to iCloud users in the UK to address the request from the UK government to provide backdoors to the service.
Better no security than a false sense of one.
I'm probably in the minority, but I'd love to see the new Bond movie replace Q (the guy in the lab who makes dart-pens and machine-gun cars) with Amazon Prime. https://variety.com/2025/film/global/james-bond-amazon-mgm-gain-creative-control-1236313930/
#ADHD lifehack: get a pill organiser. I have a little rainbow case where I have individual boxes for each day. I keep it near my breakfast stuff, as my first dose is then. I fill it once a week for the week ahead. This has several advantages:
- I can literally pop all five of my morning pills into my hand and into my mouth at the same time, and take them (with water) in one go. No spoons required to find all four boxes and pop them out the blister pack, and put them away. Especially important cos the adhd meds - which give me organisational spoons - are there
- I can tell at a glance if I’ve had my morning or evening meds on a given day. I don’t have to rely on faulty memory or potentially inaccurate logging to stop me from overdosing
- By filling once a week, I have a good idea of remaining meds in my meds box. I just discovered I only have five days’ worth of one of my daily drugs. I’ve ordered it for pickup from my pharmacy, and I’ll have time to pick it up before I run out
I keep thinking of this quote from the Great Gatsby:
“They were careless people, Tom and Daisy- they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made.”
@ai6yr It would make more sense if that was a photo from Australia.
@ampersandwich If tfg had first thought of The Gulf of Golf, that’s what it would be.
love people saying mental health drugs "alter your brain chemistry." Yes, I sure hope they do! Have you tried living with brain chemistry like this? It sucks. It needs changing.
Women are being -erased- in America #resist https://www.reddit.com/r/optimistsunitenonazis/s/FvYzm4erhn
@martinvermeer @jnfrd @mekkaokereke @lerxst @OldFartPhil @grumpasaurus
One of my physics professors in undergrad was Hans Courant.
His father Richard Courant was a mathematician at Göttingen, where he developed numerical methods for physics with Hilbert. After the Nazis took power, he was forced out due to being Jewish and a Social Democrat.
The family moved to Copenhagen, to Cambridge, and then to New York in 1934.
A decade later; both Richard and Hans Courant were working at Los Alamos.
@ai6yr @ve3qbz @n8dmt @W6KME @msbellows @flyingsaceur@ioc.exchange @douglasvb @kc2ihx Does this really require starting at 1987 (when Max Headroom started) and rolling forward?
My favourite statue in Santiago🤣🇨🇱
