I’m in San Francisco waiting for the EFF event to start. Walking around the area, totally amazed at the number of Waymo driverless cars on the streets. Every other car in some cases.

Every single defense.gov url now redirecting into war.gov. What could possibly go wrong.

I have no special insight into the matter, but I'm betting that RFK Jr. will not receive the Nobel Prize for Medicine. Just a wild guess, I could well be wrong.

Having ripped 500 or so dvds, I was able to bring an ipad to the local bar, put myself on their wifi, and use tailscale to talk to my jellyfin server on a mac mini on the wall of my basement steps and play an episode of MASH. My own private netflix.

According to the Google AI Overview: "The statement "Finally, the medium isn't the message" was a tagline for Carl Malamud's Internet Talk Radio project, which launched in 1993. It deliberately inverts Marshall McLuhan's famous phrase, "The medium is the message," to highlight the distinct and radical nature of the early internet's effect on broadcasting."

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That is just so backwards. Exactly not what I was talking about.

Just shaking my head over and over on this article about the state of the US relationship with India. Totally screwed it up.

The Nobel Prize and a Testy Phone Call: How the Trump-Modi Relationship Unraveled

President Trump’s repeated claims about having “solved” the India-Pakistan war infuriated Prime Minister Narendra Modi of India. And that was...

9 early Internet videos.

Internet Archive: Digital Library of Free & Borrowable Texts, Movies, Music & Wayback Machine

Just added the InteropNet 1993 video to the collection.

One more influential endorsement in the quest to make peace prizes great again. https://thehill.com/homenews/house/5469047-trump-nobel-peace-prize-mike-johnson/

I am just imaging the awesome power the position of Chief Design Officer of the United States must hold.

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Improving Our Nation Through Better Design

By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered: Section 1.  Pur...

Can establish a new dress code for federal employees, redesign the American flag, enforce tattoo codes of decorum in our cities with assistance from the National Guard and federal law enforcement. Require red baseball caps to be worn in all federal buildings.

The federal government has announced that it is preparing plans for the invasion of the municipality of Chicago and perhaps even the greater Cook County area. https://wapo.st/4mvKFW3