She Who Must Be Obeyed teaches psych nursing at a community college in a seriously red county. The college has implemented a program for "reporting DEI" in classes. Psych nursing is 90% disparities. Guess who's getting reports on her class, mostly from failing students? Guess who's doing her damndest to waste as much admin time as possible with her response to each of these reports?

I will not be presenting or teaching at this year's #bsdcan It's my last year as con chair and the ops committee, so I am dedicating my time to mercilessly wielding my power, crushing my enemies, and eating gelato. Not in that order.

When someone is a print-level sponsor of a tech book, I send them a gift that might or might not be the book. I've set the gift for the new "Networking for System Administrators," so I can't change it. But I just learned that you can get custom-printed Crocs...

Printify

Printify Drop Shipping Print on Demand for Ecommerce

Mezzo looked out at the world. What he saw did not please him. You should do something about that. #petrats #rats

ICYMI: I am now selling print books directly from my store. Buy print, get the ebook free. Only Run Your Own Mail Server and Dear Abyss right now, but it's a start!

Now available: combined print/ebook bundles direct from my bookstore – Michael W Lucas

A blog post is coming, but here's a preview of why I'm so excited.

Tilted Windmill Press

Run Your Own Mail Server

You Against the Email Empire Message services appear and disappear, but email remains. One of the Internet’s oldest and most open protocols, e...

Tilted Windmill Press

Dear Abyss: The FreeBSD Journal Letters column, years 1-6 (print and/or ebook)

You asked. He didn’t answer. The We Get Letters column of the FreeBSD Journal has been called “a tsunami of bile disguised as experience and ...

Look closely. You'll see a new word: print PRINT FROM MY WEB SITE. BUY PRINT DIRECT FROM ME, GET THE EBOOK. Only these two tiles available so far. I'll be adding more.

"Oh, ads don't put that much burden on your browser! You're exaggerating how bad they are!"

Hey US folks: in case you haven't thought of it, this is a GREAT day to freeze your credit report with all three agencies.

How to place or lift a security freeze on your credit report | USAGov

Learn how to place a credit freeze. This prevents any new credit accounts from being created in your name and helps prevent identity theft.

I consider it an ethical point to not review tech books. I write the damn things, I don't want to rip down the sincere efforts of my colleagues. But daaamn, this Blender book is challenging my ethics. I suspect but can't prove AI.

The Proud Boys lost their trademark and logo rights to a Black church they vandalized.

Proud Boys Lose Control of Their Name to a Black Church They Vandalized

A judge awarded the trademarked name and symbols to a Washington church to help satisfy a $2.8 million judgment against the far-right group.