Cephalobloop Jones

DOGE had a culture of blatant disregard for the law & somehow still increased government spending.

If true, this another example of their reckless leadership putting millions of Americans at risk.

We deserve secure systems, data guardrails, and federal workers empowered to protect our privacy.

Thinking about servicing update.exe without breaking all the back compat ever is even scarier, imo

Three reboot minimum, with a run or die shell script in the middle reboot. On failure of that step, just :: shrug ::

Official guidance was to reinstall.

I was in the room when they figured out that Vista SP1, for all the engineering in the CBS stack and everything else, would not be the first no-reboot SP.

The CBS team forgot that they were also a component, and thus their stack couldn't service itself originally.

Photo of Hegseth talking with a general blurred in foreground. Text reads: BREAKING NEWS. U.S. troops were told the Iran war is part of God's plan, and Trump was "anointed by Jesus to light the signal fire in Iran to cause Armageddon and mark his return to Earth."

This from the same mfers who would have attempted to deport Jesus if he came to US soil…

SOURCE: jonathanlarsen.substack.com/p/us-troops-...

I don't normally like dragging kids into this, but if he's over six foot tall, I do wonder how tall his father is.

Susie Wiles is wearing an Apple Watch during a highly classified meeting on Iran.

Unreal.

Hmmm. My recent searches on google seem to only return with ai-crap-less if I swear like an Australian. They're catching on.

Weirdly, I find by adding in expletives, I can get normal search behavior back.

So much of the "recommended" goes via ad flows... Lemme try for a live example, brb

Make no mistake, the Trump Administration and MAHA are actively discriminating against and devaluing the lives of people with special needs.

This is modern eugenics.

www.hhs.gov/press-room/t...

I loved when someone tried an off the rack LLM on the FAR. Damn thing was hallucinating so hard it was giving advice that has led to the arrests of procurement folks previously. Things like "always this, except for the things in [six other categories all in different parts of docs]" just kills them

WTaF

Judge blocks release of special counsel Jack Smith's report on Trump classified documents case A federal judge has permanently barred the release of a report by special counsel Jack Smith on his investigation into President Donald Trump’s hoarding of classified documents at his Mar-a-Lago estat...

Fuck this regime and Aileen Cannon in particular.
I don’t have words for how angry this makes me as a federal employee and guardian of classified material.

apnews.com/article/trum...

This sort of thing is all over gov, OPM basically has like a wizard group who still speak directly to the mainframe.

Fuck that, fed unions are already hamstrung by the provision against striking. I hate getting Voughted all over like this for the whole fedgov

Holy shit.

A lot of people have suggested this, but I don’t think Lieu would make the allegation unless he had seen some evidence.

🧵

This is behind a paywall but I will explain more in the following thread.

There’s a public comment period but I think our time is probably better spent contacting our representatives and senators in Congress. I have zero faith in public comments as they seem to be completely disregarded.

DAV statement on VA Interim Final Rule concerning disability ratings and medication

"The new regulation would allow VA to reduce disability compensation ratings for veterans who take medications to control their conditions or reduce their symptoms."

WHAT THE FUCK?? So if you don't have symptoms because you're on meds then you don't have that condition anymore??

Avoid roads and waterfronts

As soon as one of the lovely good altgov accounts has a write-up out, this needs to go loud with veterans groups to get loud at Congress

They are coming for the disabled veterans.
This new rule says the VA will now set disability ratings by your level of disability with medication. Not what you would be without meds. Comment period runs thru April 20. COMMENT.
www.federalregister.gov/documents/20...

So much of this^

Sent from a coastal state which still doesn't have an income tax.

Completely not the point, but I think most municipal water treatment with chlorine should actually oxidize away the CN-... (Not a chemist, not a water treatment except, do not take as advice)

My team at the Crowd Counting Consortium (@djpressman.bsky.social, Soha Hammam, & Chris Shay) has shared a big data update, covering all recorded US protests through Jan 2026. Some key takeaways 🧵:

We eradicated one of the four main strains of the flu during the COVID containment efforts... Hitting a similar virus with similar vaccines would be huge.

I hope a certain Danish interlocking brick manufacturer sues the DoD.

Comic. [Person with ponytail pointing to diagram on wall as she talks to two other people, one with short hair.] PERSON 1: The high carbon content of the skeleton indicates that the individual lived less than 12.6 billion years ago, after the first round of stellar nucleosynthesis. [caption] Cosmologist carbon dating

Carbon Dating

xkcd.com/3205/

Placard for a grocery store that sells uncooked chicken pieces and offers to cook them for free for folks who have an EBT/SNAP card.

Not directly related to this at all, but very sad-to-see-it-needed and very happy-to-see-it-happen with these bureaucracy hacks with EBT restrictions.

Want a thread that analyzes Bad Bunny's halftime show?

This is it ⬇️