Lou Katz @lou@entropyservice.com

He said, "What were you arrested for, kid?" And I said, "Being the President's son." And they all moved away from me on the bench there, and the hairy eyeball and all kinds of mean nasty things, till I said, "And lying on form 4473." And they all came back, shook my hand, and we had a great time on the bench, talkin' about crime, mother stabbing, father raping, all kinds of groovy things that we was talking about on the bench.

San Francisco's David Sacks -- champion of the Drug War, opponent of Harm Reduction, supporter of Trump and ... an investor in a massive online pill mill that just got busted for $100 million fraud and is responsible for multiple overdose deaths. https://sfstandard.com/2024/06/13/telemedicine-adderall-vyvanse-ritalin-done-global-brody-he/

Adam Schiff is spot on.

It's bring your felon to work day.

EFF and Jacques the Encryptid believe companies shouldn't control how you can connect, fix, or play with the tech that you own. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/05/m-jackalope

I’m no longer using the term “Republican Party” as it suggests that organization is a legitimate participant in U.S. constitutional democracy. I shall be referring to it as the Republican crime syndicate, as it is an organization wedded to giving a convicted felon dictatorial power.

New Audio: #Alito Bashes #ProPublica for Reporting on #SupremeCourt #Ethics
In a new, secret recording, the Supreme Court justice suggests partisan funding is to blame for coverage of justices’ undisclosed luxury gifts [Yeh @propublica - thank you for consistently bringing corruption to light] https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/samuel-alito-supreme-court-recording-propublica-windsor-1235037796/

Announcement is out. Good on Microsoft for finally reaching a sane conclusion.

- Recall won’t ship as a feature at launch on Copilot+ PCs any more.

- Won’t be available in Insider preview channel at launch, as it was pulled.

When it does appear in preview channels, privacy and security researchers need to keep a close eye on what Microsoft are doing with the feature.

Microsoft tried developing this feature in secret in a way which tried to avoid scrutiny. Thank you to everyone who stood up.

What's the difference between #Google Search AI Overview answers and obnoxious banner ads?

Occasionally obnoxious banner ads are actually useful.

Those of us who are ancient as the Pyramids might remember when TV stations would sign off at midnight, usually after playing the Star Spangled Banner.

One year at the end of one of the Interop shows we all gathered in the network operations center (NOC), sang the Star Spangled Banner, and then turned off the power to our rather large bank of routers and switches.

It was kinda fun.

Thanks to new records spotted by the Boston Institute for Nonprofit Journalism, we now know more about the current generation of cell-site simulators being used by law enforcement. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/06/next-generation-cell-site-simulators-here-heres-what-we-know

Denmark Recalls Popular Korean Instant Noodles Because They Are Too Spicy https://time.com/6988005/denmark-recalls-samyang-spicy-ramen-noodles/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

BREAKING: New reports show that CIA agents were killed, captured, or compromised because Hunter Biden sold their names to our enemies. — Now that I got Republicans’ attention: That was actually Donald Trump.

"In explaining the mass arrest policy, Snelling said a “peaceful #protest does not necessarily mean that someone is exercising their First Amendment rights.” https://blockclubchicago.org/2024/06/05/not-all-peaceful-protests-constitutionally-protected-police-chief-says-ahead-of-democratic-national-convention/?

"In explaining the mass arrest policy, Snelling said a “peaceful #protest does not necessarily mean that someone is exercising their First Amendment rights.” https://blockclubchicago.org/2024/06/05/not-all-peaceful-protests-constitutionally-protected-police-chief-says-ahead-of-democratic-national-convention/?

Florida ban on puberty blockers and hormonal treatments for minors with gender dysphoria overturned in a Tallahassee courtroom. https://floridaphoenix.com/2024/06/11/federal-judge-blocks-ban-and-restrictions-on-health-care-treatments-for-trans-people

No I don’t want cookies, no I don’t want to log in with Google, no I don’t want to give you my email address, no I don’t want a discount coupon, and just like that using the web on a phone feels like I’m looking for interesting rocks by the seashore. Maybe this is interesting, maybe it's good, lemme just wipe all this crud off first so I can actually see it.

Again, there is something really sobering about looking up anything like "automatically crop a set of images" and seeing nothing but web services that are obviously just thin wrappers around the imagemagick command you want, when what you want is the command.

I do think if he leaves he should still get a bonus.

His very own CyberTruck.

Maybe throw in a membership in AAA so he can have it hauled out when it gets stuck in sand.

"The findings suggest the return to office movement has been a poorly-executed failure, but one particular figure stands out - a quarter of executives and a fifth of HR professionals hoped RTO mandates would result in staff leaving."

https://www.theregister.com/2024/06/09/rto_quit_study/