Chris Merkel

Kristi Noem's "Open to Work" LinkedIn Profile

South Dakota's "Meth. We're on it" campaign

I'll always remember Kristi Noem for the "Meth. We're on it." campaign.

You're absolutely right—that was not a command post, that was an elementary school. Those were not military leaders—they were schoolchildren. I said the opposite, and that's on me.

Ian Coldwater makes a statement before the Minneapolis City Council. They wear a black knit hat and a vintage KubeCon EU 2019 (Barcelona!) t-shirt - a shirt which some of you also probably have in a drawer. The lower third from this livestream says: March 03, 2026 Committee of the Whole Temporary pre-eviction notice extension ordinance lims.minneapolismn.gov

Powerful statement earlier today from @lookitup.baby in support of a pause in evictions for Minneapolis families in this time of crisis.

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[We see a close up of a young white male, tanned, white teeth, coiffed hair clearly an influencer on social media. It is an image such as you see when social media posts are shown on the news. In the corner of the screen is named a location: DUBAI. He is staring slightly off-camera for several silent panels of the comic strip. His eyes move slightly. He is having a thought.] From off-screen a newsreader’s commentary comes: NEWSREADER: Extraordinary images here of an expat in Dubai [The influencer’s eybrows raise slightly] …Having their first ever geopolitical thought. [CUT TO a BBC news scene. The BBC newsreader CLIVE MYRIE is talking to an interviewee next to the screen showing the social media influencer’s face. The interviewee’s name is David Jones]. CLIVE MYRIE: To explain the significance of this moment we’re joined by David Jones, our Expat Thoughts correspondent DAVID JONES: Clive, this is momentous It was caught on film at the end of an Instagram post titled: ‘Dubai Is Brilliant’. [Pointing at the screen, the influencer’s expression still the same] You can clearly see in the eyebrows here, the dawning realisation that there *might* be something in the world beyond his dickhead self. It marks a *huge* departure from all the Dubai Expat’s previous thoughts. CLIVE MYRIE: Which are…? DAVID JONES: You've Got To Get Yourself Out Here Mate, Everything Is So Clean, I Don't Have To Pay Taxes, I Am Incurious As To Why I Do Not Have To Pay Taxes, and Spa. CLIVE MYRIE: And might we see an expansion of these new Thoughts in coming days? DAVID JONES: I think we can expect to see: “I Deserve To Be Airlifted By A Country I Pay No Tax To” CLIVE MYRIE: Mmm. [Ends]

Oh and BTW, explaining how a CAN bus works would be great fodder for a video.

YouTube video by WIRED Hackers Remotely Kill a Jeep on a Highway | WIRED

The risks associated with Internet connected cars and a non-segmented CAN bus have been well known since the days when Charlie Miller found a remote exploit chain for OTA hacks from the infotainment system to the bus.

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The same company where the mid-00s ciso turned off automatic image downloads in outlook so as to not provide attackers open confirmation, then a decade later the mid-10s ciso turned it back on because they were annoyed they didn't get good phish open metrics.

Maybe @josephcox.bsky.social could just release the OG track (and the new ones which are nice) on the subscriber feed.

I'm still miffed that @patrick.risky.biz turned down the bass on his intro music. It used to have this deep bass drop that just doesn't hit like it used to.

Anyone Else Have Those Weird Dreams Where Sobbing Future Generations Beg You To Change Course? The human subconscious is such an interesting thing. No matter how much you think you’ve got it figured out, it’ll always spit out the most random stuff. Take me, for example. After coming home from a...

Commentary: Anyone Else Have Those Weird Dreams Where Sobbing Future Generations Beg You To Change Course?

He'll send over Big Balls to run the place

Lol all the degenerates can get rekt

Gen Z nooooo they never knew

Exactly, every headline should be "a third of the middle of the country"

Knowing their demo and who's going to pick up ads on CBS, I'm going all in on diabetic test strip stocks.

if I got workman's comp every time some bullshit at work gave me a headache...

the day you turn 40 every online advert assumes your dick don't work, because it probably don't

Movies like this usually cost $150,000,000.

We made this video for $7 in 2 hours.

Hollywood is dead.

[ATTACHMENT: The worst video you've ever seen in your life.]

If one country can murder people on the high seas with no evidence or due process, they all can.

I was at a gas station last week and watched multiple people avoid the massive gasoline spill and nobody said a thing to anyone inside.

Related: people who leave their carsnand go inside for a slurpee while fueling, trusting that the shut off works.

This feels like an homage to @techconnectify.bsky.social's backdrop

I hope they correct off the end of a pier and continue to correct. A net negative for society.

No.

Wow I absolutely would have not understood the joke without that helpful explanation

and it took 3.2 tons of CO2 to provide that result

The first, per-NYT version of wordle had a year's word of words hardcoded into it.

a man with long hair and a bandana on his head is standing in front of a refrigerator in a kitchen . ALT: a man with long hair and a bandana on his head is standing in front of a refrigerator in a kitchen .

That's a no regrets purchase

This App Warns You if Someone Is Wearing Smart Glasses Nearby The creator of Nearby Glasses made the app after reading 404 Media's coverage of how people are using Meta's Ray-Bans smartglasses to film people without their knowledge or consent. “I consider it to ...

New: this app warns you if someone is wearing smart glasses nearby.

Meta plans to add facial recognition to its Ray-Ban smart glasses. A 404 Media reader made this app after we showed men filming people w/o their consent, and DHS officials were wearing the glasses www.404media.co/this-app-war...

Like ESR said in his book "the cathedral and the nexus"...