Peter Cattaneo

It's of course OK to argue that the reasons given by the Trump regime for the tariffs are nonsense, but it's deeply stupid to still pretend that his tariffs are some kind of reasoned economic policy in the interest of the US.

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It has occurred to me that the optimal level of marketing for my podcast Volts, upon which my family's entire income depends, might be higher than its current level of zero.

"We are watching one of the wildest things a nation-state has ever done," journalist Garrett Graff wrote: "A superpower is [dying by] suicide because the [Republican] Congress is too cowardly to stand up to the Mad King. This is one of the wildest moments in all of geopolitics ever." -Heather Cox Richardson

The ICE surge in Minnesota cost $280M, to detain 4k people of whom only 30 were accused of violent crimes.

$9 million per capture of the "worst of the worst". Plus two citizens murdered.

~ Veterans for Peace

The funny part is that Ms. Stodden would be shocked to learn that if she rejected the use of all the "communist code", her life, as she knows it, would end.

GPL code is everywhere, making everyone's life better.

The stupidest part of her thinking is describing "share-alike" as "counter to scientific norms" and describing it as somehow opposed to the "public good". Moglen is a staunch supporter of GPL. GPL is communist, in a positive sense. It's widely used because it PROMOTES THE PUBLIC GOOD!

Pretty amazing that comms person at FBI called my @ms.now colleague @kendilanian-nbc.bsky.social a liar and demand a correction only for Kash to post a photo from the locker room

Maternal mortality in Louisiana is literally 40x Greenland (41.9/100k to 1.0/100k). They should send hospital boat to Louisiana.

IRS lost 40% of IT staff, 80% of tech leaders in DOGE shakeup CIO says sweeping reorg followed deep cuts as agency pushes cross-functional teams and AI Job cuts at the IRS's tech arm have gone faster and farther than expected, with 40 percent of IT staff and four-fifths of tech leaders gone, the agency's CIO revealed yesterday.…

ICYMI: IRS lost 40% of IT staff, 80% of tech leaders in DOGE shakeup

Your point assumes that there is demand and revenue to drive the announced AI build out. -- There isn't. Sorting this out is going to be ugly.

Seagate and WD have balanced supply and demand through multiple technology cycles so well you rarely hear about them.

They're probably right again.

How a defendant in Minnesota went free because of Justice Department turmoil The federal prosecutor’s office in Minnesota has been gutted by a wave of career officials resigning or retiring over objections to Trump administration directives.

So here's a hardened criminal in Minnesota who was about to go away for good and he went free ... because Trump and the MAGA degenerates are so focused on shooting protesters and assaulting law-abiding grandmas. apnews.com/article/minn...

Perhaps "more consequential for the next 30 years" is more precise and polite.

My grandfather started designing and building heat pumps in 1902. It's a mature technology.

Currently, AI is the opposite of mature.

Minnesota lawmakers paid tribute to former House Speaker Melissa Hortman and her husband Mark, who were shot and killed in June.

📸: Renée Jones Schneider and Alex Kormann

i'm watching spike lee's remarkable documentary FOUR LITTLE GIRLS and as much as i want to focus on the film i can't help but think about the people, with real power and influence, who want to take this country back to before birmingham

To End Abuses, Eliminate ICE and Give the Money to Police Abolishing ICE would not end all deportations. But it would make them much more dependent on state and local cooperation, which would be a particular boon to “sanctuary” jurisdictions like Boston.

This is from THE CATO INSTITUTE, people.

A right-wing think tank.

www.cato.org/commentary/e...

This won’t make the headlines because it’s not under construction, but NY just canceled a massive offshore wind request for proposals.

Gigawatts of clean electricity that won’t get built.

renews.biz/110047/new-y...

Open source registries don't have enough money to implement basic security Free beer is great. Securing the keg costs money fosdem 2026  Open source registries are in financial peril, a co-founder of an open source security foundation warned after inspecting their books. And it's not just the bandwidth costs that are killing them.…

ICYMI: Open source registries don't have enough money to implement basic security

CBS Surrenders to Trump The network tried to bury an interview critical of Trump. Stephen Colbert made it an indictment of the administration's assaults on the First Amendment.

CBS shows what authoritarian capture of the media looks like, writes @chrislehmann.bsky.social. Stephen Colbert, at least, is pushing back.
https://bit.ly/3MuEjtm

In related news, my washing machine will no longer finish a cycle, the $0.30 "flapper" has failed. The "backflow preventer" is now the forward flow blocker. No one sells the part.

The manufacturer is dreaming I'm going to buy their $150 replacement pump. The $32 knock-off is arriving overnight.

It is beyond belief that the companies that make these products and could trivially make and promote these videos, don't.

Make you customer's life better for a tiny cost.

Or, screw your customer, and hope they'll give up and buy another one of your shitty products.

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Painting of George Washington from the National Portrait Gallery. Washington is standing tall, extending his hand, welcoming immigrants of all nations and religions, unlike the current president. Washington was a president who showed leadership and moral character, 250+ years ago.

Presidents' Day 2026
George Washington, first president of the United States, wrote this:
“America is open to receive not only the Opulent & respected Stranger,
but the oppressed & persecuted of all Nations & Religions.”

#travelforkids
created by people, not AI

Nothing better than pupfish.

I think this is "re-open", as there used to be a boardwalk that was hit with flooding. It's brilliant, you can walk up close and observe without harming the environment.

Just started doing new data analysis and I know I keep saying this, but: I really, really don't think people appreciate how much this moral panic was a deliberate and extremely expensive invention.

...abhorrently high...

Trump administration drops appeal of court order blocking $1.2-billion UCLA settlement The Trump administration dropped its appeal of a major higher education case in which a federal judge blocked its $1.2-billion settlement proposal to UCLA over alleged civil rights violations. It will...

This is a genuinely huge, sweeping victory today for the University of California—or rather, for us, its faculty, acting through our faculty associations, while the UC itself maintained a strict policy of deer-in-headlights silence.

The Trump admin has given up its appeal of a powerful injunction:

Another 87,000 BMWs Recalled Over Engine Starters That Can Catch Fire BMW’s latest recall affects nine different models, including the popular X3 SUV.

OMG !!
BMW recall thousands of models due to fire risk !!!!!!

And it's NOT the EV models !!

Ha ha ha ha ha !
www.autoblog.com/news/87000-b...

Cartoon by @andertoon.bsky.social.

This is the future of the automotive industry.

EVs are simply better cars.

"for public good"