Kit McCormick

Shooting at the shipwrecked. Should be a familiar concept to all involved. As always, though, justice will fall hardest on the lowest-ranking personnel.

I kinda miss the Rocky and Bullwinkle Show.

Nor could you build the Ring of Fire without taking Iraq out of play. There is a through -line, drawn by the dumbest electorate in our nation's history. Citizen's United must be reversed.

The standard you walk past is the standard you accept. None of us were held to account. Is it any wonder, the state of American democracy in the 21st century?

www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/jim...

A crisis of confidence.

Suzy Welch says Gen Z and millennials are burnt out because older generations worked just as hard, but they 'had hope' | Fortune "We believed that if you worked hard, you were rewarded for it," Welch said. "This is the disconnect."

This is my point, too. Many similarities, but one key difference. The kids have precious little hope. Is it any wonder that they stand in line to talk nonsense?

fortune.com/2025/09/19/s...

The middle-aged are no longer the most miserable Youth used to be cheerful. No more

Another "can't read the article but agree with the headline". There's a nexus here and if you review President Carter's "Crisis of Confidence" AKA his "Malaise Speech", then I think you will get more of a sense of it. Living your best life ain't all that, maybe.
www.economist.com/science-and-...

I can't read the article but agree with the headline. The kids are not alright. GenX, and I cannot imagine some bro rolling up on campus with a microphone and us standing in line to talk shit with him.

A new Martian climate model suggest a mostly cold, harsh environment A model built using data from the Curiosity rover suggests wet periods were rare.

arstechnica.com/science/2025...
As predicted by Rocket Man. Also, not the sort of place to raise kids.

Difficult reading. I don't know what kind of warning system would have saved these people. They went to bed as floodwaters were approaching. And it doesn't sound like they had an action plan for the circumstances.

Walmart Workers Vanish Overnight and Employees Sound the Alarm Walmart employees are sounding the alarm as sudden staffing cuts sweep through stores nationwide, reportedly driven by changes to immigration work authorizations and legal uncertainty. Multiple staffe...

The Supreme Court ended a temporary work program which had granted legal work authorization to OVER half a million migrants.

Is it possible this program made life more difficult for less skilled Americans? Absolutely.

www.yahoo.com/news/walmart...

The Supreme Court ended a temporary work program. The program had shielded over half a million migrants from deportation and granted legal work authorization until the court reversed course in late May.

Is it possible this program made life more difficult for less skilled Americans?

Scientists achieve teleportation between quantum computers for the first time ever Researchers have used the teleportation trick to forge a working logic gate between two separate quantum chips.

www.earth.com/news/scienti...

You first

Peak enshittocene.

This one is. The GOP has been seeking coalition with all manner of weirdos since the New Deal. They finally found someone who would stoop low enough to make their numbers work. That someone is very interested in the money. And OMG these weirdos are weird AF.

panicanned

also: Godwin's Law abides, as ever.

Jurassic Park is a chilling cautionary tale about not cheaping out on IT.

It's weird watching people process their remorse on social media. The trend lines are as bright as yellowcake. But do you.

This is the GOP. Trump is not interested in the details, after all. And we're on a similar trajectory as the last GOP admin. DHS, ICE, Patriot Act, yellow orange red, extraordinary renditions, waterboarding. The GOP has some tendencies.

Also, it's dishonest to conflate extraordinary rendition with immigration. We all become immigrants once birthright citizenship is extinguished, so get to the point of saying it's a civil rights issue.

How Meta is Using a New Metric for Developers: Diff Authoring Time Diff Authoring Time (DAT). DAT is a new metric developed by engineers at Meta to measure the duration required for developers to submit changes, known as "diffs," to the codebase. By tracking the time...

www.infoq.com/news/2025/04...
Developers move way faster than their employers can handle. This focus on dev productivity is weird IMO.

There's lots of shady characters, lots of dirty deals.
Every name's an alias, in case somebody squeels...

Be cool. Like 'dont tell Ma' ?
Or 'Ill pay you twenty grand'?

I'm a little disappointed that I find no 'panican' avatars on the intertubes.

The Dark Enlightenment: the Tech Oligarch Ideology Driving DOGE’s Destruction | Common Dreams President Donald Trump and Elon Musk aren’t just tearing down institutions—they’re laying the groundwork for an experimental new kind of authoritarian rule.

The Dark Enlightenment: the Tech Oligarch Ideology Driving DOGE’s Destruction www.commondreams.org/opinion/dark...

"Dark Enlightenment"? Weird AF. But relevant. This might look like a smash and grab, but it's way, way deeper. These people HATE us.

Pax Americana seems to be at a rather ignoble end. But the journey was epic. I hope he finds peace.

High as a damned kite