Lou Katz @lou@entropyservice.com

@s92 I'm guessing you've never worked in Android app development. Because if you had, you'd know that Google has been tightening the screws on developers for years, blocking key functions and increasingly preventing non-Google apps from performing properly, even from developers with long track records. This is key to understanding a major part of Nova's problems.

@brouhaha Sadly, the answer to "who wrote this crap" is often me, a year or more ago.

I like to think that I write good code now, but future me will likely find something to gripe about in it. I see this simply as a side-effect of growing as a programmer.

Please note: the civil war in the UK has been cancelled owing to a massive display of human decency on one side and the other side not showing up.

"When I was president, I totally protected the guns." —Donald Trump

That's true. Too bad he didn't work as hard to protect the children. Guns became the leading cause death for American kids under Trump.

Does a service member violate the Uniform Code of Military Justice by disobeying a direct lawful order from the president or secretary of defense? Maybe not. Dan Maurer examines the gap in UCMJ coverage for civilian orders. https://www.lawfaremedia.org/article/norm-defying-military-disobedience-in-a-norm-defying-presidency--what-role-does-the-ucmj-play

@kamalaharrisforpresidentnews

"Someone who says they will terminate the Constitution of the United States should never again be allowed to stand behind the seal of the President of the United States."

The advent of LLMs masquerading as artificial intelligence has made the notion of an absurdly powerful computer, constructed at great expense, and given unseemly resources to answer a meaningful question, only to return the answer “42”, feel more and more prophetic.

Voters approved a statewide measure requiring Kansas City to spend at least 25% of its general revenue on police. It’s the only city in the state with no control over how it’s policed. No accountability. And this takes money away from basic services. https://boltsmag.org/kansas-city-police-funding-referendum/

Accusing Elon Musk’s X of bias is like accusing J. P. Morgan of capitalism. https://journa.host/@samlitzinger/112922809028968929

Via Andrew Weissmann:

Let’s remember that as the polls start to show a Harris-Walz victory, it means not just another loss for #Trump, but the real prospect of jail. Given those stakes, we shd expect truly criminal and violent behavior above and below the water line.

SHOCK POLL: Majority Of Voters Say Trump Is ‘Too Old’ To Be President https://www.politicalflare.com/2024/08/shock-poll-majority-of-voters-say-trump-is-too-old-to-be-president/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

Cops are not medical professionals. They should never be given the power to decide who can legally wear a mask for health reasons.

I keep hearing people I know who I thought genuinely cared for the people on the ragged edges of US society saying that they’re not going to vote for Harris. I wish they’d see voting as a thing we do *for each other* instead of something that speaks to your own self-centered opinion.

It’s just moral narcissism - the idea that how it makes you feel about yourself is the most important thing. It’s wildly, WILDLY selfish. And these are the same people who lecture others about privilege.

Wild.