Lou Katz @lou@entropyservice.com

Just reminding you that if Biden had lost a debate so badly that he basically said he was retiring from debating within 48 hours, the New York Times would have pronounced him literally dead.

She doesn’t understand,
she made it through
2020 and 2021
without catching it
but now she’s caught it
for the fifth time,
so I asked what precautions
she was taking,
and she explained
she stopped with all of those
back in 2022
when the pandemic ended,
and all I could say was: oh.

Why did the chicken cross the road?

To avoid another debate.

When life hands you rabbit holes, make hasenpfeffer
.
#Curmudgeonry

AI is \*not\* just a tool. It is a pea and thimble game in which a few, very rich people steal our entire cultural and intellectual history, and use it in a way that forever depletes it. It is a way of enclosing the commons. And it's taking us all, the demos, too long to get our collective heads around it because, like the climate, it is so strange to think of it being steal-able that the idea doesn't stick, it doesn't have language to describe and discuss it. 1/3 #AI

Trump has mobilized his violent cult to muzzle people who once would have challenged his contempt for law and basic decency.

Big Journalism, for whatever reason, doesn't think this is much of a story.

That's why we need outlets like Talking Points Memo.

https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/public-menace-how-trump-mobilizes-the-violent-extremists-in-his-midst-for-political-ends/sharetoken/a170ef86-130b-49f1-a8f6-abb08e23bb37

Watched Trump's "press conference" in which he did nothing but lie, lie, lie.

The supplicant press just sat there and let him do it.

Sad, sad, sad...

How the 'politicization of the courts' is used to 'erode democracy': analysis https://www.alternet.org/autocracy-courts-applebaum/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

THE ONLY THING YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT DONALD TRUMP IS THIS: A person who never admits a mistake or apologizes and blames everyone else with the most childish insults does not have the character or temperament to hold elective office. Oh, he's also a crook and a liar.

The War on (Some) Drugs is re-escalating, and in the abusive ways it's always punished the wrong people.

Here, hospitals are using crap tests on pregnant women, making bogus findings, and doing nothing as law enforcement takes kids from their parents.

https://www.themarshallproject.org/2024/09/09/drug-test-pregnancy-pennsylvania-california

Great reporting from the @marshallproject --

🧵 I forgot to tell you guys!! I discovered something *amazing* during the legal research last month. There's an #OSHA law called HAZWOPER that required Apple to inform us about our NPL #Superfund office, formally train us, monitor exposure, & develop health/safety plans!! ⬇️

I'm appalled that after so many conversations with state & US #EPA & OSHA, they all claimed no law like this exists. It exists!!!!! All the things I told Apple to do were actually expressly required by law. Eat that, Apple.

At Least Two #Saudi Officials May Have Deliberately Assisted 9/11 Hijackers, New Evidence Suggests
==

Newly revealed information also raises questions about whether the #FBI and #CIA mishandled or downplayed evidence of the kingdom’s possible ties to the plotters.

#News #September11 #SaudiArabia #Government #NYC #Law

https://www.propublica.org/article/saudi-officials-may-have-assisted-911-hijackers-new-evidence-suggests

Today is the anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, widely believed to have been supported/orchestrated by the Trump family's dear friends the Saudis.

@brouhaha True, but reality ruins the joke! ;)

Listening to Dr. Marshall Kirk McKusick describe his funding challenges and the hoops through which he jumped to get paid while he was at UC Berkeley makes me think that even with the UCB grants, they were a pittance relative to the Herculean efforts the BSD/CSRG devs put in, he couldn't even double up to combine his work on the TCP/IP stack to make it the subject of his doctorial dissertation.

Instead his advisors made him do that on something else, which was on MC68000 register allocation. During MeetBSD 2014 he guessed maybe only six people had read that thing.

I'm pretty sure I was one of those people. I looked up the dissertation afterwards and was like, "oh, I think I read this when I was trying to hone my 68k asm chops."

@danhon any sufficiently advanced malice is indistinguishable from incompetence

No, immigrants aren't killing your pets and taking your stuff, you're thinking of cops

I call on ABC to inspect Trump's shoes for prohibited lifts before the debate. We deserve the truth.

Proposal: Any organizations that are found to have colluded to form cartels automatically have their patents or other intellectual property related to that collusion placed in the public domain.

Back in the 2000s, this guy used to leave long, unhinged, occasionally racist comments on my blog. Eventually had to ban him. Good to know the state of Tennessee has been paying him to litigate away trans rights. www.wired.com/story/lawfai...

He Worked for a Law Firm Consu...