Stephen Checkoway

Why is the "we must be united!" hectoring directed at people who are mad at the Cavers and not to the Cavers? Everyone who's mad was united, then the Cave Caucus walked across the aisle and betrayed what the public had been told was the Dem position.

Don't call the cops on someone in a mental health crisis unless you want them dead.

Rudy press conference at 4 seasons total landscaping

HAPPY FOUR SEASONS TOTAL LANDSCAPING DAY TO ALL WHO CELEBRATE

I was teaching Rust closures today. Specifically, the traits FnOnce, FnMut, and Fn. It was only when I was in front of the class that I realized how it sounded.

Me: Which trait does this closure implement?
Student: It's f'ing mut!
Me: No, it's f'ing once!

To my trans and nonbinary friends, I am so sorry that you have to deal with this hate. And I hope to see us reach the other side of it soon. And, we will reach the other side. This is horrifying, but it is ultimately the latest iteration of a time-worn tale. And their time always comes to an end.

That was actually a pretty horrifying case. Sadly, it got played for laughs at the time. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liebeck...

YouTube video by Josh Follmann Seventh-day Advent Hoppists

youtu.be/6HVClB6wPrA

Dick Cheney shot his friend in the face the right way.

by Ezra Klein

How to Opt-Out of Airlines Selling Your Travel Data to the Government The Airlines Reporting Corporation (ARC), owned by major U.S. airlines, collects billions of ticketing records and sells them to the government to be searched without a warrant. I managed to opt-out…

When you book a flight through major travel sites, a data broker owned by U.S. airlines will sell details about your flight—your name, credit card used, and where you’re flying to the government.

We found out how to opt-out of ARC selling your travel data. A guide:
www.404media.co/how-to-opt-o...

3333 day streak

I guess it'll be a while before I hit my next single digit DuoLingo streak.

Screenshot of a keynote slide. Text reads: Now that origin/feature has been deleted, how do you delete feature? A. $ git delete feature B. $ git delete -b feature C. $ git branch -d feature D. $ git push origin -d feature E. I would google "delete a git branch" and then click on https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2003505/how-do-i-delete-a-git-branch-locally-and-remotely like every other programmer

I'm fond of this clicker question I wrote a few years ago about deleting branches in git.

I hope everything is okay with Kit. I know how stressful a sick pet can be and I'm sorry you're dealing with that.

ICE Agent, 7-Year-Old Both Wearing Same ‘Military Commando’ Halloween Costume

ICE Agent, 7-Year-Old Both Wearing Same ‘Military Commando’ Halloween Costume

"In a human coworker, those qualities would be pathological." And you'd probably avoid working with that human. It's not at all clear to me why this wouldn't lead someone to avoid working with the AI tool in exactly the same way.

One of these guys is running for Congress on an explicitly pro-LGBTQ platform. Hell yeah. www.advocate.com/politics/dyl...

Reminds me of en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robbins... (which the Wired story likely mentions but it’s paywalled so I’ve only read the screenshot).

I’d have hoped schools would have learned not to do this.

In grad school, we called up Fry’s to ask if they had it and the guy laughed at us. I honestly cannot recall if we were looking for the version with aliens or not. Eventually, we found Los Imortales 2 on DVD (from eBay, maybe?) which had the English audio track. Good times.

Geordi was a deepfake AI girlfriend pioneer

I realize it’s probably too late for this advice to be useful this year but nevertheless: If you are applying to an academic job, write your own materials. Do not use generative AI tools at all.

The personal details of all F1 and other drivers could have been stolen via an FIA web portal

ian.sh/fia

6, I think. But 4 of them are PlayStations.

Chess pros demand Vladimir Kramnik be permabanned after Daniel Naroditsky’s death - Dexerto Chess pros are calling for Vladimir Kramnik to be banned and for FIDE CEO Emil Sutovsky to resign after Daniel Naroditsky’s death.

Vladimir Kramnik should be banned and Emil Sutovsky should resign. www.dexerto.com/entertainmen...

We are giving a tech talk at @hackadayofficial.bsky.social Supercon with @dr.supersat.phd in a few weeks 🩷
What happens when your body is the dev board? Dive into the wild world of biohacking, rogue experiments, and deeply questionable decisions in the name of science, curiosity, and chaos.

Grandmaster, Popular Commentator Daniel Naroditsky Tragically Passes Away At 29 GM Daniel Naroditsky, the popular U.S. grandmaster, commentator, creator, educator, and author, unexpectedly passed away on Sunday at the age of only 29.

www.chess.com/news/view/gr... Damn.

After the game, I asked why they did that and they sent me a long, salty DM about how I needed to learn how to play chess and know when to resign.

I played a 150+ move chess game in the 1 minute with 1 second increment time control. In the end, I had a king vs. a king, knight, and five pawns. My opponent under promoted four pawns into knights and bishops and then gave away/blundered everything except 2 knights and then eventually flagged.

Two National Guard down a mostly empty 14th St mid-day Friday.

The Mission: Doing not much. Three National Guard pass The Mission on 14th.

Continued (mis)use of National Guard in DC for no purpose in the third week of a shutdown.

The Trump at work. (Doing nothing.)

I have _almost_ written a hobby project in Rust several times. But then I realize that hitting the REST API is just gonna be easier to do with curl and a shell script. But then I start thinking about using jq to parse the response to craft the subsequent API calls…and then I go play chess instead.