Lou Katz @lou@entropyservice.com

@JamesGleick From a guy who teaches journalism at MIT:

https://balloon-juice.com/2024/08/09/the-new-york-times-is-an-arm-of-the-trump-campaign/

@pluralistic

I'm old enough to remember bitcoin's early days when there was hope it would be a non-fiat currency.

Then, I gradually saw how people wanted it less as an alternative fungible form of money, and more as a vehicle for a pyramid scheme.

I also didn't know just how much recklessness financial investors liked to get up to, that the SEC would infrequently put a stop to.

Nor did I have any idea of just how much electricity it would use up in pursuit of the scam.

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America likes to project a badass strong man persona to the rest of the world but a solid one-third of the people living here are terrified of being in the same room as an unused, packaged tampon.

TV "news" that runs Trump press conferences live is doing pure propaganda for the liar-in-chief. The media know this, but they care much more about money than journalism, much less the democracy they are doing nothing to save.

@GottaLaff The helicopter story perfectly captures the essence of Donald Trump. It is self-aggrandizing (he's the hero in peril), demeaning to others, and simultaneously shows both his mendacity and senility.

Misremembering something and misrepresenting it at the same time is a neat trick.

Biden may be 81, but Trump has the emotional maturity of a 3-year-old, with the mental & physical well-being of a 95-year-old.

“It would be hard to find a sentence in what Donald Trump said today that did not include AT LEAST one lie,” #LawrenceODonnell said on his show. “Some of the networks tried to play catchup w/ #FactChecking after Donald #Trump finished speaking but, that of course, is way too late & utterly useless. No network even attempted to check every lie Donald Trump told.” [I gave up after the effort induced a migraine]

#FactCheck #TrumpLies #The4thEstate #ResponsibilityInJournalism #Journalism #press

@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