If you know about PV and LFP, just skip to the politics for the last half hour.

Yeah, we were a bit peeved at the time.

“An essay” is an interesting choice of reference to the Declaration of Independence. I mean, I guess it was an essay by committee, but that undersells the source.

It was nonetheless satisfying.

That’s certainly something you could look into. I provide original sources.

Ms. Cleland, the Richfield resident, said that three days after the encounter with the ICE agent, she received an email from the Department of Homeland Security saying her Global Entry and Transportation Security Administration travel privileges had been revoked. No explanation was provided.

Ms. Cleland said she had swung from anger to fear. “I don’t know how far-reaching ICE can be,” she said. “I’m struggling to figure out what I can do, without putting myself at greater risk or putting other people at risk.”

Scary shit.

Feels like we had a surge of them a while back, but that’s subsided in favour of Waymos.

Further proof the the AI bubble is the only thing concealing that we’re in a recession. Overhired for Covid? Fine. But that was six fucking years ago, so you’re not really being proactive.

Seems most people under 40 from my online interactions. Though “Insta” is more popular in my experience.

Finally we have a solution to “I want to play a game, but feel like I’m at Walmart.”

This feels like abevigoda.com 2.0.

Though apparently he’s been dead for long enough that the nature of the site has changed.

That is an objectively terrible hed. What is the verb here? The only thing that could remotely qualify is “arrest,” but it sure as fuck isn’t functioning in that manner. This is essentially the longest label hed I’ve seen, and I’ve been doing this since the '90s. Bravo!

From the tens of thousands of heds I’ve written, I’m aware. I keep them intact here because to do otherwise would invite complaints of bias.

I fucking detest question heds on news for the same reason as Betteridge. I don’t write them myself. Basically, once I’m done reading a story and realize we have a question hed on our hands, I’ll spike for further reporting.

However, this is not news, but rather commentary. Not many columnists get to write their own heds, as the desk handles that. (of course I wrote my own, since I was also the page designer)

I used WhatsApp to stay in touch with family overseas until Facebook announced the acquisition. I’d already been off Facebook for years, never used Instagram and had zero interest being Zucked back into that orbit.

Since WhatsApp claims to use the Signal protocol in the first place, why not just use Signal and skip the data collection?

The world of finance is now primarily just pump-and-dump schemes.

LLMs are pretty OK at a couple of things. But the way they’re being sold as the next big thing? I’m not buying that.

It’s pretty clear that consumers are intentionally priced out of the market so they have to rent compute as a service.

I’m currently running my diesel heater. I’ve just learned over two prior winters how low temps can get and still have it livable in here. Last night was 39, and thanks to my down comforter, I didn’t even have to run it until I woke up. 22 is another story entirely.

Thank goodness we don’t have downvotes, because this is going to be unpopular.

I’m attracted to highly independent women. Without fail, they’ve wanted me to pay the bills and run the finances generally.

That is not equals. That’s not what I signed up for, and not a position I have any interest in. Like, even if we have a joint checking account and she has the login for a utility it’s like “can’t you just do that?”

It literally would have taken less time to pay it than to ask me about paying it.