David Colborne

Not sure if the iPhone’s Lockdown Mode is for you? Here’s some advice on who it’s for and when to use it. ssd.eff.org/module/how-...

I didn’t notice that part. That guy is an open white nationalist

This is why you shouldn’t be having friendly conversations on Twitter! You’re in an environment where every third person is an actual Nazi and you’ll end up being chatty with one on accident. Total war all the time or leave

Pic of Gowron's face photoshopped into the sun from Teletubbies

It is a good day to farm

So, ok, you have the bravery to stand up to a line of tanks, to risk your physical body.

But do you have the bravery to stand up to social media pressure? To risk your reputation as a savvy insider? To stand up for unpopular groups? To *care* when caring is cringe?

Thou shalt not make a machine in the likeness of a human mind.

orange catholic bible incoming

Activists hang photo of UK's Andrew in Paris' Louvre after arrest Activists from anti-billionaire campaign group "Everyone Hates Elon" on Sunday (February 22) went to the Louvre museum in Paris where they hung a framed photograph of Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, taken...

Thy literally put it in the Louvre
www.reuters.com/video/watch/...

what a good boy

I think The Argument and Nate Silver should ask voters if they support this.

Trump Administration Will Collect Social Media Handles from Legal Immigrants and U.S. Citizens The new requirement poses serious threats to free speech and privacy rights.

The 3 million-plus people applying for immigration status changes will now be required to provide the government with their social media handles. This expansive new requirement poses a serious threat to constitutional rights.
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Research is leadership, and code can help (but only in the right places) Code was never the blocker in delivering customer value — and the easier writing code becomes, the more it distracts from the work we must do to unblock productivity.

You often hear "software development is changing, and we must adapt" because of Claude Code.

But for my entire career, code has been the *easiest* part of making shit people care about, and we still haven't adapted.

The easier coding becomes, the less often we ask "do users actually NEED this?"

Anyway, my second midwit centrist take is that voters change their mind sometimes.

And, of course, an army of centrist pundits who can't believe voters elected Trump again, especially after Biden spent so much energy on a materialist-deliverist platform that treated economic issues as sacrosanct, just as every centrist has said Democrats should since Clinton was president.

With two notable exceptions:

· Trans people, their families and their friends, who have yet another reason to actively oppose Republicans.
· A much smaller number of conservative activists who mistakenly think "trans issues" are a winning wedge issue they can use to bring their base to the polls.

The real question pollsters should ask is this:

Do voters care about trans issues more than anything else? Do they care about trans sports more than immigration detentions, tariffs, recurring government shutdowns, overt censorship, obvious corruption, or anything else?

I suspect mostly not.

In this world, polling voters on trans issues, especially with the level of granularity The Argument pursued, is like asking "Other than that, Mrs. Lincoln, how was the play?"

And if you're a candidate or consultant who's taking any of the "data" even slightly seriously, you're going to get rolled.

My extremely centrist midwit take on polling on trans issues is that if Republicans passed some ineffectual bans on trans participation in minor-aged sports and did nothing else after 2024, they'd be annoyingly popular going into the 2026 midterms.

That, however, is not the world we live in.

I don't have the long history of it, but research on this phenomenon of "search engine data voids", funded in part by some of the large search engine vendors, is between 7-10 years old now; and the problem only seems to have gotten worse by the intentional product design decisions of those companies

OPINION by John L. Smith: CBS tried to censor Stephen Colbert’s godly guest — and it backfired spectacularly. U.S. Senate candidate James Talarico of Texas unleashed a scorching sermon that’s gone viral at biblical levels.

Read it here: thenevadaindependent.com/article/opin...

My coworker just suggested we "set a trap" for the guy who keeps stealing lunches from the break room fridge. Brother you are Tom and Jerry brained. We are going to HR.

*screams ultrasonically*

long shot, but if anyone sees this and is in the Louisville area with access to a Nissan Cube: i could use your help making a very dumb post

So the guy with the Nazi tattoo is now sayi...

...never mind

rice is life, and I got a thread to share about rice: Park Chung-hee's obsession to make South Korea rice self-sufficient in the 1970s changed everything about the country, including your favorite Korean foods and the urban environment 🧵

Wikipedia blacklists Archive.today, starts removing 695,000 archive links If DDoSing a blog wasn't bad enough, archive site also tampered with web snapshots.

In light of recent revelations that Archive(dot)today is involving its users in a DDOS attack, and altering archives to further a personal grudge, I am ceasing use of the site.

I also did three quick tests of alternatives for on-demand archiving, summarized below...
arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...

It’s a Wonderful Life bank run scene.

“You're thinking of the $175 billion in tariff money all wrong. As if I had the money back in a safe. The money's not here. Your money's in the White House ballroom, the renaming of the Department of Defense, the $10 billion transfer to the Board of Peace, and a hundred other unauthorized actions.”

Frei State Project

Splitting the D vote in the manner described above is the most likely answer, especially from someone who likely believes he's "clever".

Since Langford is an overly online "tradcath" whose poll numbers were in the basement when he was running as a Republican, we can safely assume is probability of personally winning is 0 regardless of party affiliation. Given that, we can ask ourselves what else he might accomplish by running as a D.

CA-26 is a D+8 district. If only two R's (the minority party) run while, say, 10 D's run, then the two R's will split ≈46% of the vote between them while the 10 D's split ≈54% of the vote. If split evenly, the 2 R's will get 23% each while the 10 D's get 5.4% each.