Dr. Non Linear

i’m hoping we get some public hearings out of this. it doesn’t always stop things (cf Kavanaugh) but it can leave some serious bruises

really just the dumbest name they could come up with

i am not generally a "go through the hoops to write a comment I don't think will really be read" kind of guy, but for a plan THIS bad, by a guy I hate THIS much... I'll make the exception

as it turns out, to get things done, you actually have to do things

good hair hides a multitude of sins

i stopped for lunch, opened this godforsaken app, and now 3 hours later I’m still here. MAKE IT STOP

can Johnson gargle balls any better than this? 🤮

this cluster of stupid satellites will not only ruin your view of the night sky, make a hash of astronomy and the science, but also
* poison the upper atmosphere
* screw up the ozone layer even more
* spew of tons of rocket propellant
* create a garbage dump in the sky

wow.
great results on a "nasal vaccine" for covid and other respiratory diseases

worth reading, to remind yourself of the long-term plans that are still directing world events. Some people just hate the future, and everyone in it

CBS News Lawmaker proposes ending daylight saving time in Pennsylvania By Josh Taylor October 30, 2025 / 6:55 PM EDT / CBS Pittsburgh Daylight saving time happens only twice a year, but the semiannual changing of clocks leaves an impact on the rest of the calendar. Currently, 48 of the 50 U.S. states and the District of Columbia follow daylight saving time, excluding Arizona and Hawaii. State Rep. Russ Diamond (R-Lebanon) is proposing House Bill 119 in an effort to make Pennsylvania the third state to opt out, as permitted by the Uniform Time Act of 1966. Diamond says there are multiple health hazards and other concerns that result from changing clocks twice per year. "The incidences of strokes go up twice a year in the weeks following the changing of clocks," said Diamond. "There's a measurable decline in academic performance. There's a measurable increase in accidents, workplace accidents. "Just in general, for everybody, it's kind of a pain in the butt." Diamond says for…

Yes on HB 119 to ditch DST in Pennsylvania! Tell your PA state lawmakers!

i feel you here. i have very little idea anymore of the internal dynamics of these monsters

truth. same.
tiny OSHA-approved hi-viz me needs to keep up the safety warnings

1. So sad too bad.

2. I think smoking out the implementation problems is a really good reason for the Judge to have entered his order requiring refunds immediately.

3. I'd forgotten about interest!

This has nothing to do with the specific content here, but Polymarket adopting the language of news, here with BREAKING, and with Texas election results earlier this week, is BAD. Polymarket is not and will never be a news org or break news. It's a betting app. It's Draft Kings for sociopaths.

this is a great critique of the “ vibe coding —> production” paradigm.
if only anyone understood the purpose of critique :)

fascinating takedown of Platner

if you've seen "world model" demos it's apparent that one future of software is AIs just constantly hallucinating every computing environment forever; things that used to require a fraction of a watt now require a small nuclear power plant

Along Came an Influencer: How America’s Bestselling Writer Became MrBeast’s Co-Author After decades atop the thriller game, James Patterson is fending off waning sales by doubling down on collaborations—and dabbling in romantasy too.

it’s funny — I read *a lot*, and I have never heard of this man. He seems to write the kind of novel I just instinctively gloss over on the shelf

www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

this is the economic equivalent of cutting yourself to see if anything can still hurt

If I wasn't so massive a stoner that staying up past 11 was physically impossible, I'd say this is what keeps me up at night.

There is a real danger these conflicts fuse into one. Then we get the world war everyone is so excited for.

I’m so burnt out on the Tr*mp f*clergy that the thing i fixated on was “add time on google” — like we’re putting quarters into the fresh horror machine to make sure we get up-to-date fresh horrors

the amount of untriggered cluster-fuck bombs still lying in the streets and office parks of Silicon Valley is astounding. You can’t go a day without hearing of someone’s career being ruined 🤣

Democrats may not be able to prevent Mullin's confirmation, but they can certainly turn his track record of offense and stupidity into two days of televised humiliation so spectacular that he is wounded in Trump's eyes from day 1. That is the job.

My wife has a lot of family in Poland, and one of her cousins was asking how the US can possibly afford this. The answer is, our public infrastructure and services suck colossally

We started to see nominally adult men but emotionally 12-year-old boys rise up during the Iraq War, with tough guy talk from folks like Cofer Black ("flies crawling on eyeballs") and GWB with his hamfisted "wanted dead or alive" metaphors. But there's one example from OCS that sticks out for me. /1

you've ruined my evening :)

click this interactive version of an xkcd comic to experience the life of internet software persons

editor.p5js.org/isohedral/fu...

are we literally doing always at war with eastasia now?

besides the social ineptitude on display here, what really bothers me is that CNN doesn't know how to pronounce "tarjay"
Or maybe they don't know how to spell. It's definitely not because they understand chinese transliteration.