Lou Katz @lou@entropyservice.com

Jesus: impossible to kill, reproduced asexually. Jesus is canonically a fungus. Clearly the part the Romans crucified was a fruiting body of some kind, leaving the bulk of the organism below ground, safe and secure. And every Easter, we find Jesus' multi-colored spores hidden in dark places. The rabbits tried to warn us. But now it's too late. He's metastasized across the whole planet. Soon enough, he will come again, and when he does, no cross in the world will be big enough to keep him at bay.

*Twilight Zone music intensifies*

@peterhoneyman Last Lecture Ever For Now
Last Lecture Ever Until The Next One
Last Lecture Ever Until I Feel Like Doing Another

How dare this happen in the 21st century!?

Gaza starvation could amount to war crime, UN human rights chief tells BBC
#AureFreePress #News #press #headline #Israel #gaza #Hamas

https://news.google.com/articles/CBMiM2h0dHBzOi8vd3d3LmJiYy5jb20vbmV3cy93b3JsZC1taWRkbGUtZWFzdC02ODY3OTQ4MtIBN2h0dHBzOi8vd3d3LmJiYy5jb20vbmV3cy93b3JsZC1taWRkbGUtZWFzdC02ODY3OTQ4Mi5hbXA?hl=en-US&gl=US&ceid=US%3Aen

Trump Bibles make a mockery of Christianity — and that's exactly why MAGA will eat them up
#AureFreePress #News #press #headline #gop #Trump

https://www.salon.com/2024/03/28/bibles-make-a-mockery-of-christianity--and-thats-exactly-why-maga-will-eat-them-up/

The amazing thing to me about these numbers is always how small they are.

Companies are buying these guys off with shake-out-the-C-suite-couch money. It's _nothing_, it's less money than these companies made in the time it took you to read this sentence, it's rounding error in a balance sheet money.

https://mastodon.social/@wdlindsy@toad.social/112173424646586162

Do I love my job and get a sense society benefits from what I do?
No.

But does it allow me to take nice vacations and afford to buy the things I need?
Also no.

The central problem on a bunch of international routes is *not* the cost of tickets - the demand *is there*. Trains *are full*

The problem is an absence of capacity - both track, and a lack of trains. Explained here https://jonworth.eu/make-international-rail-cheaper-capacity-on-a-route-is-the-crucial-issue/

Generally if you make taking the train cheaper currently you will transport *different* passengers, rather than *more* passengers

Since January 6, 2001, "50 prominent corporations have donated $23,273,400 to the campaigns and political committees of…election deniers…Some of the largest contributors to election deniers are also some of the country's leading companies, including #ATandT, #Comcast, #Walmart, and #Microsoft."
https://popular.info/p/these-50-companies-have-donated-over

#Jan6 #PopularInformation #USPolitics

Trump's shameless golf cheating is 'microcosm' of his whole life: Morning Jo panel https://www.rawstory.com/donald-trump-golf-2667623952/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

Ubuntu's Snaps is such a flaky technology --

Congressional Expert Called On House Democrats To Finally Do The Right Thing, Introduce Impeachment Resolution Against Judge Aileen Cannon For Pandering To Donald Trump https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/NmWK7c5pDzbadQQOpK-zzIfjc6hd5eWF?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

@whitequark well, the traditional (and true for all but my loopback interface) 1500 byte MTU on Ethernet comes from the fact that MTU plus Ethernet header is about 1536 bytes, which is 12288 bits, which takes 2^12 microseconds to transmit at 3Mb/second.

Why 3Mb? Because the Alto computer (for which Ethernet was invented) had a data path that ran at 3Mhz. This meant the Alto Ethernet interface could just write the bits into the Alto’s memory as they arrived (memory was really expensive then, and couldn’t be wasted on a device interface).

Also, at that rate, a bit took 300 ns to send on the coaxial cable, so it was about 300 feet long, a decent size for collision detection on a local area network.

(From birdsite: Alex Bertulis-Fernandes @alexbertanades)

Last week one of my art teachers suggested I 'dial down the feminism.'
Today I showed him my newest piece:

NY—where Kalief Browder was imprisoned 3 years on an alleged stolen backpack—Trump gets his $450M bond reduced to $175M.

TX—where Crystal Mason was imprisoned 5 years for trying to vote—Paxton gets 0 prison for securities fraud.

MS—the poorest state in the nation—Favre gets 0 prison for allegedly stealing millions in welfare fraud

The system ain't broken—it's working as intended.

I, for one, will not miss him.

Joseph Lieberman, senator and vice presidential nominee, dies at 82 https://www.washingtonpost.com/obituaries/2024/03/27/joe-lieberman-senator-vice-president-dead/

MSNBC’s Andrea Mitchell Asks Treasury Secretary If Elon Musk’s China Ties Are ‘National Security Problem’ https://www.mediaite.com/politics/msnbcs-andrea-mitchell-asks-treasury-secretary-if-elon-musks-china-ties-are-national-security-problem/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

@cstross I'm of the opinion that pretty much any question related to Donald Trump can be answered with “It's a form of money laundering, in other words.”

Golf courses? Truth Social? Money-losing casinos? $60 Bibles? PACs? You'll be amazed to learn what all these things have in common …

More or less chaos on the U.S. Mexico #border as migrants rush past the Texas National Guard to get to US Customs and Border Patrol. https://ktla.com/hill-politics/migrant-gate-rush-in-el-paso-highlights-friction-between-federal-texas-border-enforcement/

Q: Why is Donald Trump suddenly selling $60 bibles?

A: It enables churches to funnel money to him without violating the (US law) ban on political campaigning by churches—it's a form of money laundering, in other words.

"Police are using #DNA to create a hypothetical and not at all accurate face, then using that face as a clue on which to base investigations into crimes. Not only is this full dice-roll policing, it also threatens the rights, freedom, or even the life of whoever is unlucky enough to look a little bit like that artificial face". Facialrecognition https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/03/cops-running-dna-manufactured-faces-through-face-recognition-tornado-bad-ideas