Jorg Brown

Yours is the first channel I've seen where your most popular video has LESS than 10K views, but your subscriber count is MORE than 10K. Happy to have been part of your jump past 10K. www.youtube.com/@JorgBrown returns the favor.

You should post your Breaking Points interviews to your channel!

YouTube video by Combat Veteran News Don't Believe the Government, This Was Murder

When the YouTube channels run by ex-military guys with flags and pistols in the background are against your police actions, you really need to rethink your tactics. youtu.be/qjN73-gn90Q

A strong warning about AI image-editing.

Gemini did a great job when I told it "please remove the two fingers behind the head of the person on the right."

Once the cards were printed, I realized it had re-imagined the entire picture, which was unnoticeable except for the part that had text…

I hope someday we defeat fascism and in the far future, No Kings Day is celebrated as a federal holiday, and little children leave out dance mixtapes and cookies for the Resistance Frog, who leaves pocket Constitutions in their shoes.

Trump's demolition of the East Wing of the White House, originally built in 1942 by Franklin D. Roosevelt, is a metaphor.

A metaphor, inside an enigma, wrapped in a cheesy corn tortilla and deep-fried, and then pulverized by a Volvo high-reach demolition excavator.

Correction: That was the West Wing. The East Wing was built in 1942 by Franklin D. Roosevelt. I'll repost.

Benjamin Netanyahu

I will never forget.

A profound sign of the times that when I relay news that “US Secretary of Health has convinced Donald Trump to ignore White House doctors and instead treat his congestive heart failure with healing crystals that realign the body’s mitochondria.“, I have to clarify that Yes, OF COURSE I am joking.

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And don’t forget that while complaining that Tesla sells “self-driving” vehicles don’t drive themselves, government is simultaneously working to block Tesla from allowing its cars to drive themselves.

Q: "if you saw someone behind the wheel of a car at 65 mph watching a movie, wouldn't you want to know if that car had automated driving features?"
My A: No, because like cruise control, there won't be any way to determine if the feature is actually on!

Q1: What does this allow us to do, that we could not have done without it? Asking for a friend who already knows how to use pointers.
Q2: Is sizeof(std::optional<T&>) the same as sizeof(T*)?

Trying out Bridgy Fed today. Trying to comment on a mastodon post without going through the trouble of acquiring a mastodon account. We'll see.... fed.brid.gy/docs

AI fail of the day… trying to solve the NYT crossword (three letters, 19 across):

Trump may not have lowered the price of eggs, but boy has the price of Teslas dropped! Thanks @elonmusk-parody.bsky.social !

Dear Elon:

Last week I:

1. Bought a toothbrush, some toothpaste
2. A flannel for my face
3. Pajamas, a hairbrush
4. New shoes and a case
5. I said to my reflection, Let’s get out of this place.

That's 3 of 38 pending CFPB cases against big companies that could give money back to millions who were scammed.

An attack on the CFPB is an attack on everyday people—and a gift to giant corporations that try to cheat them.

h/t to @warren.senate.gov who originally proposed CFPB in 2007

The CFPB was suing Walmart for allegedly forcibly opening deposit accounts for more than 1 million delivery drivers and charging them $10 million in junk fees.
The Trump administration has frozen that enforcement case as well.

The CFPB was going after the big banks behind Zelle for $1 billion in allegedly unchecked consumer fraud on the platform.
The Trump administration has frozen that enforcement case, too.

Drain the swamp.

The CFPB was taking on Capital One for an alleged scheme cheating millions of consumers out of more than $2 billion in interest rates on savings accounts.
The Trump administration has frozen that enforcement case.

Shockingly expensive?!? My Model Y just passed 100K miles. Full service history is on app; i checked, and have 1 charge: alignment due to vibration when going over 80mph. It was $275.

My primary service expense is tires, totalling about $3,800.

Way cheaper than any other car I own: 4c/mile.

#TIL literally anyone can write the hr@opm.gov email address and tell Elon 5 things they did last week.

AI fail of the day. NONE of these words appear in the title of ANY Kings of Leon song. The correct answer is “they’re all types of patches”.

This is Apple Intelligence’s actual summary of my notifications from the NYTimes today.

David Lynch, director of Eraserhead, Blue Velvet, and Twin Peaks, died Wednesday, at 78.

But we might not find out who the killer is for two more seasons.

it used to be that only minorities could blame their failures on racism. Now that experience has been made available to white people as well.

An hour a day is 6% of your waking life. 6% where she is completely passive. It’s more time than any other single activity in her life. That’s not nothing.

To be honest, I agree with you. The real justification is the key-logging that the early TikTok used to do, that demonstrated that their motivations lie beyond just making money.

Why Biden, why?!?

My daughter watches TikTok on iPhone more than 1 hour per day. (Used to be more, before we figured out how to get iPhone to limit app time.) I was really looking forward to breaking that habit cold-turkey, without it being a punishment that only affected her.

If only for a day.