Joel

@joelman
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Oh, can I really believe the poet's tales, that when one first sees the object of one's love, one imagines one has seen her long ago, that all love like all knowledge is remembrance, that love too has its prophecies in the individual.
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JoelApr 24, 2025
Steve HermanApr 24, 2025
(AP) — Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth had an internet connection that bypassed the Pentagon’s security protocols set up in his office to use the Signal messaging app on a personal computer. https://apnews.com/article/hegseth-signal-chat-dirty-internet-line-6a64707f10ca553eb905e5a70e10bd9d
Hegseth had unsecured internet line in Pentagon for Signal, sources say

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth had an internet connection that bypassed the Pentagon’s security protocols set up in his office to use the Signal messaging app on a personal computer. That's according to two people familiar with the line who spoke to The Associated Press. Known as a “dirty" internet line by the IT industry, it connects directly to the public internet, where the user’s information and the websites accessed don't have the same security filters or protocols that the Pentagon’s secured connections maintain. The chief Pentagon spokesman said Hegseth "has never used and does not currently use Signal on his government computer.”

AP News
JoelApr 24, 2025
Dare ObasanjoApr 24, 2025

The notable thing about this story about Google’s return to office policy is that media coverage has given up pretending they’re anything more than a cost cutting move.

If you live within 50 miles, commute 1-2 hours each way or lose your job is a stealth layoff.

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/04/23/google-teams-are-including-remote-workers-in-their-cuts.html

Google forcing some remote workers to come back 3 days a week or lose their jobs

Several units within Google have told remote staffers that their roles may be at risk if they don't start showing up at the office for a hybrid work schedule.

CNBC
JoelApr 24, 2025
Steve HermanApr 24, 2025
Kyiv Independent- Eight people have been killed and 77 injured, including at least six children, in a Russian missile and drone attack on Kyiv. https://kyivindependent.com/explosions-heard-in-kyiv-amid-russian-missile-attack/
'Russian peace in all its glory' — Mass Russian missile, drone attack on Kyiv kills 8, injures 77

Authorities initially reported nine people killed, but the Prosecutor General's Office later said only eight fatalities had been confirmed.

The Kyiv Independent
JoelApr 7, 2025
Matt BlazeApr 7, 2025

“Last month I was just worried about my classes. Now I’m worried that I’ll simply disappear.”

- From email from a talented student whose visa was just summarily cancelled because she’s from the wrong country.

God damn this.

JoelMar 2, 2025
Cory DoctorowMar 2, 2025

I'm really trying to make sense of the new @mozillaofficial privacy policy.

Here's where I'm getting tripped up:

> Mozilla doesn’t sell data about you (in the way that most people think about ‘selling data’)

OK, sure. But if Moz isn't "selling my data in the way that most people think about selling data" then how *is* Moz selling my data?

JoelMar 1, 2025
Erik JonkerMar 1, 2025

Must-watch video from Timothy Snyder

"Five Failures in the Oval Office."

https://open.substack.com/pub/snyder/p/five-failures-in-the-oval-office?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web

#ukraine #usa #russia #trump #eu #europe #geopolitics @geopolitics

Five Failures in the Oval Office (video)

America hurt itself badly today.

Thinking about...
JoelFeb 15, 2025
Teri KanefieldFeb 15, 2025

Philosophical question: If I can't stop tinkering with the words in a blog post, does that mean I will never be finished?

Okay, that's it. Time to stop and publish.

I started out writing about the trial and execution of Socrates.

That brought me to the nature of subversiveness and the role of subversive elements in a democracy.

🎶 Come gather 'round people wherever you roam . . . "🎶

https://terikanefield.com/part-4-socrates-and-the-subversive-element/

Socrates and the Subversive Element - Teri Kanefield

I started out writing about the trial and execution of Socrates. This brought me to the nature of subversiveness and the role of subversive elements in a democracy.  *  *  * To gain perspective on today’s politics, I have set out on a journey. Here’s where we’ve been so far: Introduction. (Given the nature of […]

Teri Kanefield
JoelFeb 14, 2025
Steve HermanFeb 14, 2025
"If no lawyer within earshot of the President is willing to give him that advice, then I expect you will eventually find someone who is enough of a fool, or enough of a coward, to file your motion. But it was never going to be me." - SDNY assistant attorney Hagan Scotten to Emil Bove, acting US deputy assistant attorney general
JoelFeb 14, 2025
Ruben Bolling 🪲Feb 14, 2025
🔵 This week's Tom the Dancing Bug comic
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A Calvinesque and Hobbesian look at a criminal presidency
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Brought to you by the Inner Hive, including longtime member Skull Goblet and new member Gene G.
( bit.ly/theInnerHive )
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READ IT RIGHT HERE👇
JoelFeb 13, 2025
Show threadJay KuoFeb 13, 2025
New York should demand return of Congressionally authorized funds, with interest. And we should begin to think about how to create a federal tax strike. Right now employers withhold federal taxes on paychecks. I wonder if there is a way to decouple that so it doesn’t automatically go to federal coffers. Probably not easy, but maybe the state of New York could interpose itself somehow between employers and the federal government, holding that tax money in trust and indemnifying employers (1/2)