Grimthorn F. Redbeard

I haven't gone away. Just dealing with job/moving/divorce/kids stuff which is more "full time" than the job I don't have right now.

This is part of a larger problem. One of the first words you will find in any economics book is "Scarcity". Not enough widgets to go around, so how do you allocate widgets equitably?

In the digital economy and with AI, goods and labor are no longer scarce. So how does a capitalist economy work?

This morning at Dept of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) HQ in DC as mandatory return to office began, this video played on loop for ~5 mins on screens throughout the building, per agency source.

Building staff couldn’t figure out how to turn it off so sent people to every floor to unplug TVs.

Here is my agenda for this week.

1) Trying to sell my house.
2) Final job interview.
3) Nerdi Gras show prep
4) Sam's softball season
5) Trying to find a house to replace the one I'm selling.
6) Still working on the Bluesky converter
7) Designing a new website for Nerdi Gras
Oh look, character limi

No, not Ludacris. Kendrick Lamar...

This has been America since day 1. It’s just now easier for “them” to be seen publicly.

If you know, you know.

I just lost the NFL Playoff predictions pool on a tiebreaker (had to go to predicting the final score in the Super Bowl, closest prediction wins) to Pat Henry, of all people.

The last time I lost the pool on a tie breaker was the 28-3 game. #StillTooSoon

I’m buying several hundred cases. Do I get to choose the billionaires?

Too soon!

(…lives in Atlanta)

Guys, (and yes, I'm singling out straight white men) you don't have to care about any particular marginalized group or what they're fighting for. It doesn't matter. Trans? Black? Women? It makes zero difference. Your aim should be "Treat other people with respect and basic decency" That's it.

It's an automatic win if your diss track not only wins a Grammy, but you perform it live at halftime of the Super Bowl?

Bonus points for the crowd singing "Tryna strike a chord but it's probably A Minor"

Drake, you need an undertaker cause you just got murdered in front of a billion people.

Looks like the check cleared... #4thand2

Maybe name it "Swift"?

YouTube video by Raxxanterax I Made Elon Musk's Dream Build in POE2

Raxx is hysterical. A popular Path of Exile Streamer duplicates Elon Musk's POE2 build and runs mid-tier map content with predictable results.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jbz0...

YouTube video by Screen Bites "I'm Putting Together A Special Team" | Inglourious Basterds | Screen Bites

www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Dv5...

So I'm going to say what it seems like people are thinking but are too scared to say just yet.

The Democrats are either:

Too ineffective to mount a meaningful resistance to Trump.

or

Willing accomplices to the GOP (Trump).

You're on your own, people. Don't count on Washington for anything.

That reminds me. Time to make some updates...

I mean... WHAT COULD GO WRONG?

Sharing is caring. If anyone needs the advanced course, I might know a little something.

ssd.eff.org

White House rescinds Trump's funding freeze memo after huge backlash It's an astonishing reversal by the Trump administration.

I said-a flip, flop, the flippie, the flippie
To the flip flip flop-a you don't stop the flop
It to the bang-bang boogie, say up jump the boogie
To the rhythm of the boogie, the beat…

DeepSeek halts new signups amid "large-scale" cyberattack Chinese AI platform DeepSeek has disabled registrations on its DeepSeek-V3 chat platform due to an ongoing "large-scale" cyberattack targeting its services.

That didn't take long...

www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/securit...

Just had a lovely conversation with a friend of mine at a government agency that I won't name for REASONS.

Forget what you've heard about Pumpkin Palpatine running things. The truth is so much worse.

Everybody that is even close to retirement is pulling the ripcord.

YouTube video by sherri sanders She's Alive Alive!

IT'S ALIVE!!!!

www.youtube.com/watch?v=F_ET...

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This is why I hate gambling on football.

I WANT Buffalo to win, but I BET on Kansas City.

Well, it WAS "Hellcat" until she had a chance to actually drive one. Then she started dating a guy about 3 months younger than she is... Hellcat changed to "Cougar"

She was not amused.

Anyone feel like helping a guy get nginx and apache unscrewed so that it can run a python app without crashing the whole damn server?

I’m about to turn Sam L. Stallard loose on this server with a softball bat.