The latest deranged Executive Order. I’ll bet you didn’t know it was the poor beleaguered cops who needed all the resources of the Federal government to protect them. Including, by the way, that pro bono legal work he blackmailed big law firms into promising. Oh, and it also calls for using military personnel for policing crime. Fucking chilling.
Put an Old-School BBS on Meshtastic Radio
Tempting. Many many years ago I ran a dialup BBS on a Heathkit H-89 computer using Tom Jennings’s Puppy BBS software - the source code for which amazingly can still be found online. Perhaps I’ll go back in my dotage.
Trump: ‘I run the country and the world’
Megalomania much? If there was any sanity in this administration, section 4 of the 25th amendment would get invoked immediately. But there isn’t.
Brendan Carr’s FCC is an anti-consumer, rights-trampling harassment machine
More good reporting from The Verge on another icky part of the current administration.
A nearby dark molecular cloud in the Local Bubble revealed via H2 fluorescence
Gotta love astronomers: “nearby” in this case means about 300 light years away. Or if you’re a bit rusty on astronomical math, 1,800,000,000,000,000 miles or thereabouts.
The surveillance state is several steps closer thanks to the Doge Bros. I hope they choke trying to integrate my decades-old FBI file into everything else.
“Howl”
Olympus E-M10 IV, M.Zuiko 60mm f/2.8 Macro lens @ f/10, 1/25s, ISO 2500. Birds Nest Fungi along the Sweet Creek Falls trail.
“Vegetable Pigtail”
Olympus E-M10 IV, M.Zuiko 60mm f/2.8 Macro lens @ f/16, 1/30s, ISO 3200. Along the Sweet Creek Falls Trail.
“Amanita Goblin”
Olympus E-M10 IV, M.Zuiko 60mm f/2.8 Macro lens @ f/8, 1/60s, ISO 3200. Along the Crawfish Trail.
The scum rises to the top.
I know it’s hard to keep track of everything, but Martin is the guy who is going after Wikipedia and the New England Journal of Medicine, among others.
“Starry Starry Moss”
Olympus E-M10 IV with 14-42 kit lens @ 42mm, f/6.3, 1/80s, ISO 1600. Along the Adams Mountain Trail.
“Misty Mountain Morning”
Olympus E-M10 IV with 14-42 kit lens @ 14mm, f/10, 1/80s, ISO 3200. Along the Adams Mountain Trail.
Trump: US ships should not have to pay to use Panama, Suez Canals
Um. Trump says “Those Canals would not exist without the United States of America”. The Panama Canal, sure. But the Suez Canal? That one was built by the French, mostly at a time while we were busy with a civil war.
Wotta maroon.
Finished: The Dream Master, by Roger Zelazny 📚. Not IMO one of Zelazny’s better works, even if it did win the Nebula; this story of a psychiatrist who literally shares dreams with a student seems a bit self-conscious and over-extended at this point. But we don’t have enough Zelazny books (due to his premature death) and I’ll continue to hang on to and reread this 40 cent Ace paperback.
Courts Handed Trump A Slew of Legal Losses This Week
More losses for a big fat losing loser.
Judge says 2-year-old US citizen appears to have been deported with ‘no meaningful process’
Another step down the slippery slope.
Trump DOJ goon threatens Wikipedia
Because of course he does. The thought of a neutral source of truth is deeply disturbing to the fartclowns trying to run our country.
Trump offers a private dinner to his biggest memecoin buyers
The corruption really is right out in the open. Not that the Republican ass-lickers in Congress will do anything about it. When the Democrats take back the House in 28, the only four words I want to hear out of their mouths are Investigate, Indict, Impeach, and Imprison.
A Strange Phrase Keeps Turning Up in Scientific Papers, But Why?
Why? Because AI is quickly turning our ability to distinguish truth to mush.
Trump administration reverses abrupt terminations of foreign students’ US visa registrations
Good news, though given the chaos and pettiness and hatefulness of this administration who knows whether any of these students will still be here a month from now.