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  I don't think a California Governor can really run for president until they finish the fucking bullet train.

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  Roosevelt: speak softly and carry a big stick Trump: yammer endlessly and run out of munitions

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  When I swipe "Unitary Executive" into my Android phone it renders "Unitarian Executive" and I think that is a form of government that is really worth a try.

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  German car designers understand that Americans are currently drawn to and ready to pay for the "angry with a funny mustache" aesthetic.

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  RE: https://sfba.social/@dannyman/117056224812397998 To be clear: I have no beef with BMW here. Or with anybody who buys an electric car that resembles Adolf Hitler. I just think it's funny to be selling or buying a car that looks like this in Donald Trump's America. And of course you can totally buy an electric car from a guy who wants to be a Nazi. I wouldn't do that. That's a bad idea. Please don't give Elon Musk any more money. He is a terrible human...

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  "infrastructure is code" 🤔 I mean infrastructure is computers. Computers are partly code. Computers are also more than code. 🤔 "Code is infrastructure" 👍 In my opinion, successful operations is managing your infrastructure effectively. That means using code to orchestrate the computers, for example. It also means being thoughtful on how you architect the systems and the code. There are cloud people who wish to wash their hands completely of the physi...

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  As a rising power, China is following a historical precedent: mastering emerging technologies. As a declining power, the United States is following historical precedent: embracing military dominance and fossil fuels. "Superpower suicide and its most basic form." Rush Doshi and Timothy Snyder from "The Future, Made in China" by Evan Osnos The New Yorker, August 10, 2026

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  Young people think AI is cringe and it makes you dumb and it makes you look dumb. via The Week August 7, 2026

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  Allow new data centers, but they have to bring all of the new electrical generation they will need to the grid in renewable form. And all water used for cooling has to be a closed-loop system. If AI is bringing this much value to the table then that will pencil out no problem. Of course, if AI is just a Ponzi scheme then they'll need to to externalize their costs as much as possible and cash out before the crash. In that case, a moratorium will do just fine in the interim.

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  Leonard Peltier commuted.

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  RE: https://mastodon.social/@campuscodi/116506790225207872 The Spirit Airlines of search engines.

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  It seems like the only thing anyone running for governor of California wants to talk about is Tom Steyer.

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  Today, I built an ugly little stool out of some 2x4s that have been sitting in the backyard for a few years. Used up some old spray paint to protect it from the rain a little bit. The shorter members of my family use a stool to reach the bird feeder.

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  Last July, Gmail added a hidden feature to group email subscriptions together and make it easy to unsubscribe. In the left-hand pane, click under "More" and select "Manage subscriptions" (Catching up with an old un-hidden feature in Yahoo mail.) https://blog.google/products-and-platforms/products/gmail/new-manage-subscriptions-unsubscribe/

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  RE: https://hachyderm.io/@evacide/116518175369029095 > When I later asked him who, exactly, sent the email to him with the file attached and directions to print, he told me he couldn't tell me even if he wanted to. > > "I wish I could,” he said. “But two months ago I listened to AI when it was instructing me on changing out my email server. It spoke to me so reassuringly, and then gave me a command that I followed, that deleted all my old emails from forev...

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  Africa-born aspiring N+zi Elon Musk sees this data as "an existential threat to civilization." https://www.visualcapitalist.com/global-fertility-rate-divide-by-region/

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  Bishop Castle The place was hand-built in the middle of nowhere in defiance of the government and its pesky permitting and construction safety standards. You visit very explicitly At Your Own Risk. https://dannyman.toldme.com/2026/04/15/bishop-castle/

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  *snaps suspenders*

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  https://www.sfgate.com/centralcoast/article/usda-aid-california-farmers-22240694.php Weird they gotta kill a bunch of trees because they can't can the peaches.

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  https://youtu.be/orQKfIXMiA8

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  @Lkdc I suspect Mastodon users are atypical folks, and that plenty of us have traveled in the Schengen Zone.

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  Technical Debt

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  I mean, since you asked.

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  RE: https://infosec.exchange/@SwiftOnSecurity/116150276019513688 In the United States, we struggle between the competing desires to go ever deeper into debt to destroy the world either more quickly with bombs or more slowly with highway congestion. 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸