Waiting for the Orange Chaos Monkey to ban smartphones because the original ARM chip they run on was co-designed by a trans woman, Sophie Wilson.
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There are two things to remember about that horrific crash at DCA yesterday.
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The New York City subway system is finally experimenting with open gangway trains.
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Read https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/18/opinion/immigration-trump-ww2-japanese-internment.html for the last time the US government tried—successfully, at least at first—to eliminate birthright citizenship.
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Obviously, Trump’s minions think that Navajos should go back to where they came from.
Idiots. https://mastodon.social/@cmorris/113892274957821967
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New blog post: “DHS Axes All Advisory Committee Members”: https://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb/blog/2025-01/2025-01-22.html
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So is this supposed to be a reference to 2001 (in which case I have a nominee for the sub-intelligent ape…) or done in ignorance of the current meaning that goes with the -gate suffix?
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To paraphrase and merge two Churchill speeches, we shall go on to the end, we shall fight in America, we shall fight on the streets and parks, we shall fight with growing confidence and growing strength on the Internet, we shall defend our democracy, whatever the cost may be, we shall fight in the courtrooms, we shall fight in the Congress, we shall fight in the voting booth, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender. But if we fail, then the whole world, including the United States, including all that we have known and cared for, will sink into the abyss of a new Dark Age made more sinister, and perhaps more protracted, by the lights of perverted science. Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duties, and so bear ourselves that, if the United States lasts for a thousand years, people will still say, "This was their finest hour."
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Getting ready to mute all news sources for a day or so…
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It would be nice if the US healthcare payment system were summarily replaced with something that valued patient care, time, and dignity, and reimbursed doctors, nurses, pharmacists, and other caregivers, instead of insurance companies, pharmacy benefit managers, and others who most assuredly belong on the B Ark.
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An interesting unanimous, per curiam opinion from the Supreme Court upholding the law banning TikTok. The Court felt that intermediate scrutiny was the right standard to use, under which the law was constitutional; Sotomayor and probably Gorsuch felt that it should have been strict scrutiny, but that that standard was met, too. (Gorsuch had a bunch of other concerns I won't try to summarize.)
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This snippet, from https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/09/us/politics/trump-title-42-migrants.html, is really sick. I suspect that he's going to conclude that these migrants are using the blood of Aryan babies to make their tacos.
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Hey, @mattblaze, have you seen the exhibit on Impressionism at the National Gallery? If not, you should, and it closes Jan 19. (There is also some interesting industrial photography opportunities in the temporary cell phone towers near the Capitol, plus some surplus security fence segments on the ground off Constitution Ave.)
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Timeline cleanse
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Watching the memorial service at the Capitol today for Jimmy Carter, I realized that some day, they'll do the same for Trump. (No, I won’t watch that one…) But that in turn made me think of this old Tom Paxton song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5w0p5XzjdoQ
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Do any of my followers read Czech? I need a few pages skimmed (and perhaps portions translated) for a paper. You get an acknowledgment in the paper… (Knowledge of basic cryptography is helpful but not required.)
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Dear Washington Post. You used to have these people called editors, people who might notice that Honolulu is not on Kauai…
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Any suggestion on a good translation of Dante's Inferno? I've seen good reviews of translations by Hollander, James, Pinksy, Esolen, and Palma, but it's >50 years since I last read it…
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Just when I think he can't be any stupider or crazier…
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