Weasel

California, Ireland, Colorado.
MS Math/CompSci UCLA.
Locus, Sun Microsystems; PDP-11, x86, C, Go.
Programming since 1973.
I wrote the program that calculated the GPA that appears on my high-school transcript.

Starting in 1984 I led the project at Locus to create the first x86 virtual machine, to run MS-DOS under Unix, on the AT&T 6300 Plus (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/6300_Plus).

The lines in the avatar are horizontal.
There should be no profit in human misery.

Weaselweaselx86
2025-11-13

@PoliticalCartoon

Larry the Cat for Prime Minister!

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mekka okereke :verified:mekkaokereke@hachyderm.io
2025-11-13

Far-right dudes setting world records in not being chosen.🤷🏿‍♂️

I mean, everyone gets rejected sometimes. Happens.

But if 2 in 5 women I tried to talk to backed away, took out their passports, drove to the airport, left their keys in the car at long term parking, and left the hemisphere? That'd hurt!

This image is a data visualization chart from Gallup with the headline: "Two in Five Younger Women Want to Leave U.S. Permanently".
The chart presents data showing the percentage of different U.S. demographic groups who would like to move PERMANENTLY to another country, based on the question: "Ideally, if you had the opportunity, would you like to move PERMANENTLY to another country, or would you prefer to continue living in this country?"
📊 Chart Breakdown
The image contains five line graphs, each tracking the percentage over time, roughly from 2008 to 2025:
 * U.S. Adults: The overall percentage reached 20% in 2025.
 * Women 15-44 (Younger Women): This group shows the highest desire to leave, peaking at 40% in 2025.
 * Men 15-44 (Younger Men): This percentage reached 19% in 2025.
 * Women 45+ (Older Women): This percentage reached 14% in 2025.
 * Men 45+ (Older Men): This group shows the lowest desire to leave, reaching 8% in 2025.
📝 Key Takeaway
The data indicates a significant increase in the desire to permanently leave the U.S. across all demographics, with Younger Women (15-44) having the strongest desire to move abroad (40\%), and Older Men (45+) having the least (8\%).
Would you like to know more about the data for a specific group, or would you like to compare the trends?
Weaselweaselx86
2025-11-13

Easy Prediction: Trump will eventually issue a blanket pardon covering all ICE/DHS officers for their numerous crimes against citizens and non-citizens.

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2025-11-13

[DEEPLY EVIL: Fascist #Google says ICE officials are a "vulnerable" group] Google hosts ICE Gestapo App to hunt immigrants with facial recognition, while removing apps to help people locate attacks by ICE

If you still work for Google, don't be surprised when people call you a fascist when they find out. -L

404media.co/google-has-chosen-

Evil is evil. No way around it.
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2025-11-13

Jeffrey Epstein: "I have met some very bad people. None as bad as Trump. Not one decent cell in his body."

Photo by George Conway on November 12, 2025. May be an image of ‎text that says '‎From: Sent: Subject: [eevacation@gmail.com] 79:53:21AM Summers Fie: Importance: High rccall have mct somc vcry bad pcople ycs- dangerous 2017 nonca 12:03 AM, Lary Summers trump. not onc decent didn't wreck world and avoided scandal. doos Ruemmler wrote: his Sent תוך لا Pud Please direul all scheduling inquiries my flice twitter @lhsummers the people jeevacation@mail.com> wrote: Mon, Feh 2017 9:17 AM, Larry Summers NYC . Irum my Phone wrote: Please direct l1 scheduling inquiries my witter @lhsummers www.lacrysummers.com speak today *jevacalionr@_gmail.com>wrole notc informmation containedi confidential, ם constitute side formation, the addressec. this communicationi privileged, may intendod only for property OVERSIGHT‎'‎.
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Heidi Li Feldmanheidilifeldman
2025-11-12

The Roberts Court could have lifted the administrative stay and taken a week or longer to do (a) and/or (b). In the meantime, people would have been getting their full SNAP benefits for November. Instead, the Roberts Court prefers that people suffer hunger while the Court goes about its business. 3/

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2025-11-12

"I know how dirty Donald is."
-- Jeffrey Epstein, 8/23/2018

bsky.app/profile/did:plc:s5b3x

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2025-11-12

Internet pioneer Vint Cerf, co-creator of the TCP/IP protocols that built the Internet, celebrates the Internet Archive reaching 1 trillion pages & reflects on why preserving our digital history matters for generations to come.
More ⤵️
blog.archive.org/2025/11/12/vo

#Wayback1T

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2025-11-12

This may be the closest you'll ever see to the color with the ridiculous name of "olo".

To see true olo, you need a mad scientist to map your retina, individually identify each cone cell as one of 3 kinds - and then use lasers to deliver tiny doses of light exclusively to the cones of one kind: the "M" cones.

The 3 kinds of cone cells, amusingly called S, M and L, respond to different colors. But there's no kind of light that excites the M cones without also exciting the others! So you can't see pure M in nature - the color called (0,1,0) or "olo" for short. You have to hire a mad scientist to make you see it.

This first happened on 18 April 2025 at U.C. Berkeley. Only the five victims of this experiment have ever seen olo. Professor Ren Ng, one of the mad scientists involved, described olo as "more saturated than any color that you can see in the real world". His victims describe the color as a "blue-green of unprecedented saturation", and will live the rest of their life haunted by this vision, depressed by the boring, bland colors they usually see.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olo_(col

Most chromatic color inside the sRGB gamut that has a similar hue to olo.  It looks sort of like green or aqua.

Approximation of the color "olo", a color created by stimulating only the M cone cells in the human retina. Under natural conditions, green light activates the L and S cones as well as M cones, so there is no naturally occurring wavelength of light that stimulates only the M cones. Since olo can only be created in laboratory conditions, it is considered a fictitious or imaginary color.

From here:

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Olo_color_approximation.jpg
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Strong-arming Boebert meeting: "..the planned meeting would include Bondi, Blanche, Patel and Republican Rep. Lauren Boebert of Colorado, who has wanted DOJ to release their trove of #EpsteinFiles & signed onto the effortto force the vote compelling their release" www.cnn.com/2025/11/12/p...

Exclusive: Trump administratio...

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2025-11-12

This is the most zoomed-in, highest-frame-rate movie of a solar eclipse ever taken from the Martian surface.

Phobos is slowly drifting toward Mars. Tens of millions of years from now, it will crash land.

Weaselweaselx86
2025-11-12

@GhostOnTheHalfShell

Don't take Ma Bell away from me
I've gotten used to monopoly
When they divest then I'll be blue
Yes breaking up is hard on you
...
They say that breaking up is hard to do
And so they put the screws to you
Don't say it's fate my friend
Including breaking up
They're also jacking up the rates again
...

youtu.be/NJN5_0hUmaA

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DO NOT REPEAT THIS POPEHATkenwhite.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy
2025-11-12

OVERT ACT 125 In additional furtherance of the conspiracy, DEFENDANTS met on November 12, 2025 to discuss ways to wield official government power to prevent further news of the child sex trafficking ring from becoming public.

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:dzezcmpb3fhcpns4n4xm4ur5/post/3m5h7mwhhji2h

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For many people in positions of power, being a sexual predator and covering up for sexual predators are not only NOT disqualifying—they are forms of in-group bonding. The Epstein network is the most prominent example of that dynamic, but the dynamic exists at multiple levels throughout our society.

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2025-11-12

PANIC SETS IN

Pam Bondi, Kash Patel, Todd Blanche, and others, plan on holding an EMERGENCY MEETING today on the Epstein Files as the discharge vote nears.

Rep. Boebert will reportedly be there.

It appears there is an all hands on deck effort to try to prevent a vote on the Epstein Files. (CNN)

Photo by MeidasTouch on November 12, 2025. May be an image of one or more people, the Oval Office and text.Photo by MeidasTouch on November 12, 2025. May be an image of one or more people, blonde hair and text.
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Official Kakistocracy Jester 🪓OGjester@stranger.social
2025-11-12

@ProPublica Thinking about that 2012 study that showed Fox News viewers knew less about what was going on than people who watched no news.

forbes.com/sites/quora/2016/07

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2025-11-12
Shocked! Shocked!
Weaselweaselx86
2025-11-12

@lauren

Time travel into the past will likely never be achieved, but we already know how to time-travel into the future.

Sergei Krikalev holds the time-travel record, having traveled about 20 milliseconds into the future during his time on MIR.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergei_K

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2025-11-11
Bart Simpson Worst Day Meme

Bart: THERE IS NO CLIENT LIST 

Homer: THERE IS NO CLIENT LIST *ANYMORE*

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