my son, when accused of mischief: "I am innocent of all the crimes that I've committed."

people are mean to Elon Musk, but he has the same care for all of us as he has for his own children.

why does tech hate science? www.technologyreview.com/2025/02/21/1...

the best kind!

@steveroth.bsky.social

www.youtube.com/watch?v=rKBM...

dmv.community/@akuchling/1...

“masculine energy”

but Trump wrote an EO saying that only He (via his AG), not independent agencies, can interpret statutes, so future litigation will pit the Supreme Court in review of an agency, but against a "coequal" President, in interpreting laws passed by Congress. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/18/u...

we’re getting hard lessons in why bureaucracy supplanted personalist rule.

last time around ratings agencies were corrupted by greed. now they are corrupted by fear.

impeach. convict. remove. rinse. repeat. we don’t have to put up with this.

DOGE doesn’t have to search far to find waste either!

If DOGE wants to find fraud in government, they don't have to look very far. I suspect the restrooms in most Federal office buildings have mirrors.

"When reporters called this out, the DOGE team made a fascinating choice. Instead of fixing their error, they actually removed the correct document from their website and replaced it with the old, incorrect one. They are now deliberately posting false information to support the narrative."

Called my Congressional delegation to express my disgust at the President’s turn against Ukraine. Two Senators’ voicemails, one exasperated House staffer. Doesn’t take long. Can’t hurt. If we act like we live in a democracy we still might.

they just test our theories of mind, these people. it's not just that they make evil choices, choices which they seem to know and understand to be evil. they do. but they baffle us, because there is no particular reason why. he's retiring. he's not long for this world. why?

ha! perhaps, in some normative sense of citizenship. in any case, they constituted residents? subjects? as social creatures.

the one norm the "international community"—especially the United States—has pretty consistently enforced post WWII is that recognized borders, however historically contingent and artificial, are sacrosanct and not to be violated by military force. letting this one go is opening the gates to hell.

microsoft always astonishes me. it's allegedly an IT company. i renewed my Excel subscription yesterday, after i let it expire. today they write me — twice, same e-mail — "Your Microsoft 365 subscription has expired" asking me to renew. it was queued yesterday or whatever. information technology.