Brian Trammell

The aggregation of 22 separate federal agencies, most of which had nothing to do with each other, into DHS was the second most corrosive post-9/11 action taken (after the passing of the PATRIOT Act) and I will die on that hill

An underappreciated point which I think got forgotten from older discourse is that one of the primary reasons ice needs to be shut down and abolished is that they are indistinguishable from random vigilantes.

And that is why now we must all act to protect people.

416 school shootings since 2000 and these ghouls couldn't find a single exception to the second amendment until someone was mean to them.

as with Twitter, I suppose the strategic goal here was to destroy TikTok, not to make money off it. Not yet clear to me whether that strategy was intentional though.

Dems should introduce legislation now defunding ICE and CBP operations in Minnesota, so they have to leave the state. One sentence bill. Demand an immediate vote. Maybe refuse to vote for cloture on any funding bills (or other bills) until a vote. Make the GOP Congress break w/ Trump or own it all.

What's the plan, Chuck? I run a fake news website. You're the Senate Minority Leader. What's the plan?

Have you ever wondered why the car lobby is always happy to respond to environmental claims, but you never hear them talk about obesity or public health? That asymmetry isn’t accidental. It’s a strategic choice about which fights they can survive.

Heard a lad earlier talking about ‘Belgian whistles’

“A basic website costs 10k or 25k upwards if you want all the Belgian whistles”

BELGIAN WHISTLES

By now, asteroid 2026 Dreadstone has impacted the Indian Ocean, sparking a firestorm not seen on this planet since the K–Pg Extinction Event. Most people just want to be with their families. Here are three ways effective business leaders can leverage targeted KPIs to turn tragedy 😔 into triumph 💪

As ever, the only appropriate response is impeachment and removal from office.

a sunrise starts to burn through a layer of thick fog above the rooftops of an early 20th century Swiss railroad suburb.

hello, 2026!

Russland-Nähe: Die EU belegt Jacques Baud mit Sanktionen. Ist Roger Köppel der Nächste? Aus der NZZ vom 22.12.2025: «(…) Der Ex-SVP-Nationalrat ist in diesem Zusammenhang sicher der exponierteste Schweizer. Köppel reiste mehrfach nach Moskau und rief diesen Sommer den Bundesrat dazu auf, die Russland-Sanktionen aufzuheben. Er und seine «Weltwoche» wurden im Frühling von deutschen Medien als «Schweizer Moskau-Connection» bezeichnet, nachdem bekanntgeworden war, dass Inhalte von Russia Today in der «Weltwoche» aufgetaucht waren.»

Ist Roger Köppel wegen Desinformation und Propaganda für Russland im Visier der EU? «Eine Sanktionierung von Köppel ist im Bereich des politisch Möglichen», so Prof. Viktor Winkler, Experte für internationales Sanktionsrecht. www.nzz.ch/schweiz/die-...

CSS seems more broken in safari, too; not sure whether that’s related to the Liquid Glass nonsense or just the usual bit rot.

A 2m Christmas tree wrapped and strapped sideways into a white front load cargo bike parked in a driveway

merry Christmas to all, and to all a good bike! 🎄🚲🌆

interested in standardization of AT at the IETF?

there are ongoing discussions happening on the mailing list, and there will be a video call this Wednesday to discuss the scope of work, especially around DIDs and identity.

more details in this email thread: mailarchive.ietf.org/arch/msg/atp...

A still from Star Trek Deep Space Nine. Gul Dukat is sitting in Sisko's chair, drinking kanar and acting like he owns the place. (Dukat is a Cardassian, a kind of grey alien with bony ridges on their face and neck.) Caption: "... is s there a single statue of me on Bajor?"

The most realistic scene in DS9 is when Gul Dukat whined about how the Bajorans never erected a statue in his honor. A prophetic text.

the year is 2026. the disney-nvidia merger has been approved. erika kirk is the new head of cbs news. bill kristol is extolling the necessity of a vanguard party and permanent revolution

Franklin Goes to The Hague

but I get skeptical anytime someone points at local politics in Belgium and says “yes this sounds like the solution to our problems.” 😀

don’t get me wrong this weekend’s result is an Unmitigated Fucking Disaster which will see the city need to defensively engineer its traffic network against a hostile sovereign stuck in a 1960s fantasy about cars, and it identity politics around clearly unfit for purpose transport tech sucks.

drawing any border between “Stadt” (i.e. Us bzw Then) and “Land” (i.e. Them bzw Us) mistakes a dynamic for a static one, and is unlikely to fulfill the fantasies of either side even two decades down the road.

need to read more about why Basel split but my question above I think applies more to the first-ring suburbs of Zurich that are seeing and will continue to see a center-leftward shift as city folks are priced out of the city (one could argue that this is what has happened to Winti).

Was hat Winterthur gemacht, um mit Dinhard in einer Halbkanton Zürich Land abgeschafft zu verdienen?

(seriously though part of the reason the global hard right loves an unprincipled approach to sovereignty is to bait well intentioned people into the politics of separatism. When we fight they win.)

It's clear that our official embrace of torture after 9/11 was a point of no return for our country.

Sunrise over the track yard in front of Zurich HB, the spires of the old city and the right bank of the Limmat in the background

#commute #trainsky 🚂

YouTube video by Angela Collier vibe physics

youtu.be/TMoz3gSXBcY?... from @acollierastro.bsky.social maybe?

This is an amazing fact

I see this ignorance about software development history all the time, making people «reinvent» the past constantly or forgetting the lessons we learned.

I think universities need to teach «history of software development» or we’re just going in a loop here, unwittingly reenacting past mistakes.

#commute

YouTube video by Not Just Bikes This is Why Cycling is Dangerous in America

WATCH: If you REALLY want to understand a BIG reason why cycling [aka riding a bike] is so dangerous in North America, and one of the biggest villains in the origin story of our unsafe status quo, invest some time watching this one, by NOT JUST BIKES (aka @theurbanistagenda.com here). Then share it.