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Happy Belated!

Derpy is my spirit animal. #KPDH

Several paragraphs likening Trump supporters to classic totalitarians over the years.

Mike Lofgren was one of first to diagnose structural collapse of GOP. (Book 'The Party's Over,' 2012. Same time as Ornstein/ Mann 'Let's Just Say It: Republicans are the Problem')

Now he argues it's time to use 'totalitarian,' rather than 'authoritarian,' for MAGA era www.salon.com/2025/06/22/a...

"Historically, when Americans suddenly care about women's rights in a Middle Eastern country, that country is about to get bombed."

Using AI is loser behavior

Light pole ephemera, Richmond Va.

I need to super clear when I say it’s f*ck your life plus eternity if you voted for this guy.

Make this go viral.

We want Miller in a cage, humiliated and made an example of, in front of the entire country. Don’t care what it costs. Nothing else matters if this isn’t handled.

Always know what time it is over there. Announcing Casual Timezone, now available as part of the Casual v2.5.0 update on MELPA.

yummymelon.com/devnull/anno...

#Emacs

Announcing Scrim - An Org Protocol Proxy for Emacs on macOS Org mode celebrates its ability to export to a multitude of formats. However, lesser known is its ability to import content. One of the ways to import into Org is through a custom URL scheme....

Happy to announce that Scrim 1.0, an Org Protocol proxy for Emacs on macOS has launched on the App Store. Learn more about it at the link below!

yummymelon.com/devnull/anno...

#Emacs #OrgMode

The reason why older generations burnt the shit out of their meat and boiled the shit out of their vegetables, was your kid died if you didn't.

Medium rare steaks and roasted Brussels sprouts are a side effect of an intact food safety infrastructure

The auteurs who inhabit the margins of our space operas ...

Palantir @PalantirTech • 26m Dropping at select colleges today. [Embedded image of a billboard ad:] A moment of reckoning has arrived for the West. Our culture has fallen into shallow consumerism while abandoning national purpose. Too few in Silicon Valley have asked what ought to be built - and why. We did. We built Palantir to ensure America's future, not to tinker at the margins. On the factory floor, in the operating room, across the battlefield - we build to dominate. Join us. [signed by the Palantir founder]

You don’t have to be particularly sharp to decipher the code here.

But if you need someone to say it, this is a major technology company and a sizable defense and intelligence contractor publicly declaring, with only the thinnest patina of deniability, that its cause is white nationalism.

Strong parallels to making software nowadays too.

Watching Coachella. Whole essays in my head on performance, musicianship, popularity, and craft and how they all in combination rarely align these days.

DJ is carrying a lot of weight for Rema at Coachella rn.

Not on my 2025 bingo card: DJ Z-Trip with LL Cool J performing with the LA Philharmonic at Coachella. Wild to see how much mileage has been gotten from Rock the Bells since Future Primitive Soundsession.

Even more mind blowing, Paul Williams is still alive. Great to see him on the stage.

Flavor Flav in the Yo Gabba Gabba show at Coachella was not in my bingo card for 2025. RIP Biz Markie.

How senior engineers are made 🤐

I agee w Patrick. (We lived in China at same time, diff on many things, agree here.)

Chinese leaders always reckoned with the vast *depth* of US strength. Institutions, networks, expertise.

Now, in cold-blooded rather than triumphalist mode, they recognize they're dealing with nuts and clowns.

“This is not what we voted for.” Yes, yes, it is. You just didn’t think it could destroy you, too.

a cnbc headline that says "Trump advisors feud with each other over tariffs: Live updates"

cnbc is about to liveblog a fistfight apparently

75%

Anyway, since January 20, 2009 the Republican Party should have been razed to the ground, set aflame, and sown with salt. The best time to do that was January 21, 2009. The next best time is now.

Looks like Wall Street is gonna find out more tomorrow.

Watching Bloomberg covering Asia business news right now is wild.

ChatGPT ass presidency