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Geekdoms: Tech (mostly Linux these days); Movies (35mm and 70mm film projection, DCP when necessary), skydiving.

oh shit

Lightspeed C.

LIGHTSPEED.

C.

Why has it taken me 39 years

"I am starting a petition to no longer refer to AI "art" as AI art but instead as Computer-Rendered Artificial Pictures (CRAP).

Pass it on."

For my friends who work in security, if you have not yet seen this: https://www.npr.org/2025/04/15/nx-s1-5355896/doge-nlrb-elon-musk-spacex-security

I am horrified. At worst, members of DOGE are actively promoting Russian espionage. At best, their security is so sloppy that they have been thoroughly penetrated by foreign intelligence services.

I cannot begin to state how bad this is for US national security.

I urge you to contact your senators and representative in Congress and ask them to shut down DOGE and open an investigation.

Found elsewhere:

Whether itโ€™s on abortion, Andrew Tate, or Jeffrey Epstein, the Republican Party is squarely on the side of the rapist.
--Skyler Johnson

(Of course, many others to add to that list, including Trump.)

Living through corrupt kakistocracy
Well, that is something.
PSA: you can just run the command "cal" in your terminal to get a properly formatted calendar. or "cal -y" for the entire year.

i recently found out that surprisingly few modern linux users seem to be aware of this, and instead keep digging around for a graphical calendar. it's an old unix command so it's typically available on even the most lightweight of systems (like alpine)
Happy 40th birthday to the computer that changed everythingโ€”the Apple LaserWriter

Y'all do see that the point of 200 executive orders in a single day is just a DDoS on education, news, empathy, and activism, right?

You can't have 200 front page stories.
You can't care about 200 changes at once.
You can't learn about 200 changes at once.
You can't act in opposition to 200 changes at once.

"I don't want to go to school today. I don't feel well, the administrators and faculty hate me, and the students all make fun of me."

Reality intrudes. Pattie:
"You have to go in, Gene โ€” you're responsible for teaching the class."