@scott i might prefer challengers aligned with me, but i'm asking the broad D-leaning electorate, whether it would be better if "we" could agree to insist upon and stand up meaningful primaries (against the wishes of incumbents and the formal party they dominate) regardless of their faction.

i'd want AOC to beat any primary challenger, but at least in this proposal i'd not absent her from having to face one. (in her case, "moderates" do that anyway. but on principle.)

@scott that's a bit more specific, since it encouraged challengers from a particular faction (the one i most align with, but still). in any case, it looks like it had some pretty important successes, if one attributes the winning challenges to the group!

Good idea or bad? "Ensure every Congressional Democrat in 2028 faces a meaningful primary challenger."

(at first blush: upside is accountability for people some of whom seem to worry about more about risking their jobs than risking the country; downside is primary challenges might cripple in the general.)

@Unsightly3055 maybe i should try a bunch of browsers. it's a very weird message. i've tried making a new account, and the registration page just submits… back to a blank registration page. i'll switch browsers and see.

thanks for running the experiment!

@Unsightly3055 Thanks! It’s not so urgent to me, there’s no need for you to download and forward. But if you want to see if the issue affects you, I’d love to know that. I was trying to download Mac Java 7 from here https://www.oracle.com/java/technologies/javase/javase7-archive-downloads.html

Anyone here work for Oracle? No shade.

Sometimes I want to download old JVMs from Oracle. It makes me checkbox some licensing stuff then sends me to a sign-in. I have an account, I know the password, but every time I try to login I get an error, "A federated user can't perform local authentication."

Seems bad! Haven't found a workaround, don't understand the issue. There's no one to contact, so I'm sending out this message in a bottle in a toot. (Better I suppose than a toot in a bottle.)

Normie white dude: This renaming shit is just stupid. Let Ulysses S. Grant Elementary stay Ulysses S. Grant Elementary. Yes, the Black Hills. It was 150 years ago. I mean, even Robert E. Lee Elementary. Who cares? Let's get real stuff done.

Trump: Have I told you about the Gulf of America?

9/11: “They hate us for our freedoms.”

1/6: “They free us for our hatreds.”

is there a list of domains where Congress has imposed mandates the Trump Administration would characterize as DEI, so we can monitor the degree to which it is “tak[ing] Care that the laws be faithfully executed”, at least until it can persuade Congress to change the laws, as is its right to try?

“it turns out that most Americans are uninterested in acting like a belligerent asshole on the global stage.” @dandrezner https://danieldrezner.substack.com/p/the-pretty-prudent-american-public

we have to learn to appreciate the small pleasures.

it might not be right to say the Trump Administration's garish chaos-monkeying contributed to the crash. maybe. but we don't really know that.

nevertheless, it's a whole lot less ridiculous a claim than any attribution of blame to "DEI".

ferchrissakes.

it was just a bunch of kids who liked to twirl around.

what kind of due process would apply to Guantanamo detainees?

@Arianity @geerlingguy I really like the GPU + Raspberry Pi approach. I have no idea how one puts that together, but it's probably not too expensive and better at running these things than my laptop!

"the Supreme Court ruled that the NLRB needs three members to have a quorum. Thus, until Trump appoints a third NLRB member, the NLRB will not be able to issue decisions. Trump could opt not to fill any NLRB vacancies and prevent the agency from issuing decisions for his entire term." #MattBruenig https://www.nlrbedge.com/p/trump-fires-democratic-nlrb-member

Guys, really. Our apparently brisk GDP growth is down largely to rentierism, attaching ever more, ever larger tolls to everything. It’s not meaningful prosperity. We are miserable. Don’t emulate us. Stick with Universal Scandinavia. cf @crookedfootball https://crookedtimber.org/2025/01/29/the-death-of-the-hope-of-progress-and-the-fear-of-being-left-behind/

“No, I do not want AI to ‘polish’ me.” #JennyLawson https://thebloggess.com/2025/01/28/no-i-do-not-want-ai-to-polish-me/

“governments of the ostensible ‘centre-left’…are incapable of reviving neoliberalism in its progressive, internationalist guise, but are also unwilling to properly embrace the legacy of postwar social democratic nationalism.” #DavidTimoney https://fromarsetoelbow.blogspot.com/2025/01/the-pivot-of-history.html

@realcaseyrollins @dangillmor maybe. funny how Google actually had a policy about this, though. then… whoops!