Scott Wilson

what is a polite way to say "this is bad engineering caused by a bad architecture and is impossible to fix"

Photo of armed customs and border patrol agents and cars on the plaza in front of the Japanese American National Museum in Little Tokyo.

We are outraged and deeply distressed that armed federal agents came onto our campus—making arrests on the very ground where, in 1942, Japanese American families were forced to board buses bound for concentration camps. It was a deliberate act of provocation and intimidation.

In authoritarian crackdowns, it’s important to randomly ensnare some people whom one would think would be safe, so that everyone is at least a little bit afraid that something could happen to them. The regime scales up its power of intimidation over a much larger group than those directly affected.

It is far past the time when Google PlayStore should be validating that the password manager Auto-fill feature actually works for every app that requires a sign in. People need to use password managers and stop reusing passwords, and this is one of the biggest obstacles.

Regular Expressions? There's nothing regular about them. I propose we change their name to Crazy Expressions. CrazEx.

When I was little, the U.S. military came to our home at gunpoint and took me and my family away. We were imprisoned for years in barbed wire camps simply because we were Japanese American. I have spent my life telling that story, hoping it would never be repeated.

When a network lays off one of America’s greatest satirists, it’s not because he failed. It’s because he succeeded too loudly.

As someone who hasn't played Starcraft in a while I can confirm it is *nothing* like riding a bicycle.

Golden Retriever sitting at attention, wearing a tuxedo collar.

“Your slipper, sir.”
“Where is the other one, Alfred?”
“I’m afraid there’s been a mishap, sir.”

Can we stop replacing the "No" button with "Not Now" as though I'm going to change my mind the 1000th time you prompted me?

More than 16 million Americans are at risk of losing their health care because Republicans in Congress are rushing to pass a bill that would cut federal funding for Medicaid and weaken the Affordable Care Act.

Riley: Don’t tell me you give a shit about the middle class when all you are doing is shitting on the middle class

The name "Alligator Alcatraz" reminds us that America is currently run by adults who are like malicious, giggling children using magnifying glasses to burn ants.

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If it took 8 days to build a massive concentration camp in Florida then it means they could build and house the homeless at any point but choose not to

My statement on Donald Trump's threat to deport me and his praise for Eric Adams, who the President "helped out" of legal accountability.

If the Supreme Court thinks universal injunctions are unconstitutional, to wait until *now* to say that, in this of all cases, with this of all presidents, is a devastating indictment of both its impartiality and its prudence.

So am I reading this court decision correctly? We now have 50 micronations with their own laws interpreting the U.S. Constitution wholly separate from one another? But there's one guy with private law enforcement who is immune from all punishment who can do whatever he wants in those 50 states?

A top staffer to Sen. Tina Smith emailed Sen. Mike Lee’s top staffers on Monday about “how much additional pain you’ve caused on an unspeakably horrific weekend”

Full emails below

Star Trek: Strange New Worlds will end with a truncated fifth season Star Trek: Strange New Worlds has been, sort of, cancelled by Paramount+. The show will end with its fifth season.

This is a mistake. This show is well-loved & the best of the modern Trek shows. It could easily go on to a season 7 or 8.
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How was Pocket any different than a cloud-sync'd bookmark? Firefox already has cloud-sync'd bookmarks. I never saw the benefit of that service. And it forced itself on the address bar without a way to remove it for entirely too long, giving me a bad perception of it anyway.

Clair Obscur: Exp 33 should have AAA studios questioning "Why did we need to have 600+ teams to make Starfield?"

Is their bureaucracy paying dividends or is it actually stifling creativity and exhausting game devs into creating the most expensive lack-luster turd drops imaginable?

Free Mahmoud Khalil.
Free Rümeysa Öztürk.
Free Mohsen Mahdawi.
Free Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia.
Free Juan Francisco Méndez.
Free Elsy Noemi Berrios.
Free the Venezuelan men.
Free them all.

This deserves more attention. The yahoos on the right are trying to steal the election from this justice in NC. After two vote counts, it was clear she won. But that's not enough. Her opponent is fighting to disenfranchise voters by tossing out their votes so he can have the seat.

Make sure the resolution matches what is in your display settings as well. Try running with Anti-Aliasing set to DLAA instead of DLSS. Some gpus may not even need DLSS for ESO as it doesn't have cutting edge graphics.

DLSS or FSR features set to Performance can cause that.

Asking a potential client "How many tentacles do you have?" is a question that could only come up in IT.

Mr. Dudek acknowledged in an interview with The New York Times on Friday that he had concerns about what would happen if the fast changes generated problems that impaired the agency. He told advocates during the meeting that if they disrupted citizens to the point of being untenable, the agency would roll them back. In another instance, the Social Security Administration briefly ended a contract that had allowed parents of newborn babies in Maine to sign their children up for a Social Security number at the hospital, instead requiring them to do so in person at an office. Mr. Dudek said he had ordered the move after watching Janet Mills, Maine's Democratic governor, clash with Mr. Trump at the White House. He quickly reversed that decision, as well as another to end electronic death reporting in the state.

"I was ticked at the governor of Maine for not being real cordial to the president," Mr. Dudek said in the interview. "I screwed up. I'll admit I screwed up."

The acting commissioner of the Social Security Administration admits he retaliated against the entire population of Maine—mostly newborn babies and their parents—because he thought the state’s governor had been rude to Trump in a White House meeting. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/24/u...

the Signal fiasco is a good reminder that while these people are destructive, and cruel, and bigoted, and petty

they are also really, really stupid

Whatever you do, don't feed JMeter after midnight.