#Linux lets me do 95% of what I want on a computer, and I'm happy with that. #Windows lets me do everything, except make it better, so I prefer Linux. Unfortunately, it is that 5% that forces me to keep Windows on one of my computer's drives.
I had to log into Windows just so that I could use #Logitech G Hub to change my mouse's settings, thus ending my two-month streak. Wine just isn't fully there yet. Don't worry, I'm still sticking to #Fedora.
I don't know how bad #antisemitism is at #Harvard University or whether that Ivy League university is in violation of the Civil Rights Act, nor am I certain that the Department of Justice's lawsuit against it is pure in intent or just more #jawboning. One thing's for certain, though: Harvard University can easily afford to do away with funding from government, and it would not feel the pressure to kowtow to it.
Yet more evidence that America's unreasonable regulations are a national security threat. This unduly red tape does nothing to serve the national interest ... or the common good.
https://reason.com/2026/03/21/chinas-rare-earth-dominance-was-made-in-america/
#bureaucracy #China #freeTrade #geopolitics #governmentFailure #nationalInterest #nationalSecurity #overregulation #permits #rareEarth #UnitedStates
This evening, I put out an essay on Wikipedia about spotting misinformation. It is marked as being in development, but it was created to help teach editors how to detect misinformation when they see it. It is preferable to have everyone decide reliability on their own over most turning to the consensus of the few who take part in WP:RSN. This will hopefully lead to higher-quality edits.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Big_Blue_Gnu/sandbox/Spotting_misinformation
At a restaurant, I order food, and I get to do what I want with it. Condiments, maybe. Anyway, I own the thing. Meanwhile, I purchase the hardware, apps, games, etc., and I should be owning them by now. With #DRM, it feels as if the companies are digitally managing restrictions on what I have in my own home, straight out of their headquarters. At least with food that I bring back, I can enjoy it without the cooks breathing down my neck.
Brickbat: An officer in Bridgeport, #Connecticut, involved in a foot chase last year that ended in a fatal shooting has been placed on administrative leave in light of—but unrelated to—reports that she took an ambulance intended for the dying person. Erin Perrotta was escorted away after suffering a "mild anxiety attack", leaving the bloodied Dyshan Best to wait another 14 minutes before he could be treated at a hospital, where he died from his wounds.
https://www.ctpost.com/news/article/bridgeport-dyshan-best-lawsuit-fatal-shooting-22075352.php
Not to wish ill upon anyone, but I can't wait for our gerontocracy to die. Seriously, vote every one of these anti-Section 230 representatives out and fill their seats with a bunch of thirty- or forty- somethings who favor the protections. At least Trump critic-turned-sycophant Ted Cruz recognizes the dangers of repealing the Internet's First Amendment enough to oppose it.
https://reason.com/2026/03/20/section-230s-legal-protections-for-internet-speech-face-new-challenge/
#FirstAmendment #freeSpeech #gerontocracy #Section230 #socialMedia #TedCruz #USSenate
Imagine a newspaper publisher announcing it will no longer allow libraries to keep copies of its paper. That’s effectively what’s begun happening online in the last few months. The Internet Archive—the world’s largest digital library—has preserved newspapers since it went online in the mid-1990s....
Senator Rand Paul's hearing of Secretary of Homeland Security nominee Markwayne Mullin brilliantly exposes Mullin's violent temperament and why he should not head the Departmant of Homeland Security (an illegitimate agency in its own right).
#DHS #abolishDHS #abolishICE #accountability #dueProcess #excessiveForce #FourthAmendment #ICE #MarkwayneMullin #RandPaul #USSenate #WarOnDrugs
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