Mason Long
@masonlong.com
IT staff member at http://humboldt.edu | #MECM, #OSD, #WSL2, and #Linux enthusiast | Focused on Windows, PowerShell, imaging, and Automation | Opinions are my own
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Windows 11 26H2 will be an enablement package
Microsoft confirmed it today: Windows 11 26H2, like Windows 25H2, will be an enablement package, so no full “OS swap” feature upgrade will be needed. Given past announcements around Win…
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Since I did do my PhD in cyanobacteria growth and treatment optimization modeling AND work in the water treatment industry, I’m gonna share my theory as to what’s happening here and how to fix it. People are focusing on the painted bottom of the pool increasing residual heat, and while that 1/19
derek guy@dieworkwear.bsky.social · 3mo agoRIP Mark Rothko. You would have loved how the hydrogen peroxide bleach is only turning the Reflecting Pool blue around the perimeter
There have been numerous occasions where I’ve given the lying robot a set of instructions for some code and reflected on how it still required my entire career’s worth of experience and knowledge to create that prompt and anything even remotely short of that would have produced disastrous results.
Trump should show up here at the L.A. County ballot processing center because he’d learn within five minutes this is democracy in action, not some conspiracy.
If everyone leaves “60 Minutes,” maybe another network can hire them all and start a new show “One Hour,” same old producers and reporters.
Stephen Colbert ended his final episode of The Late Show while singing "Hello, Goodbye" with Paul McCartney on the Ed Sullivan stage that made The Beatles mega stars.
Colbert is both a mensch and an actual genius. One of one. He and @maddow.bsky.social are the two best broadcasters of our time; truly in their own category. I'm angry and sad the president and the feckless suits cancelled the show but also know it's not the end.
good to see some pushback on BAGNAROK, but the fact that California and New York pensions would even be considering investing in this nightmare is nuts to me www.reuters.com/legal/govern...
Exclusive: New York, California pension leaders oppose 'extreme' SpaceX control structure
Leaders of three of the biggest U.S. public pension systems said they have major concerns over SpaceX's "extreme" ownership and control set-up in its upcoming public stock listing, urging founder and...
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🧵New poll has @xavierbecerra.bsky.social in the lead for CA governor with Steve Hilton in 2nd place. Pushing undecideds maintains the lead, and lifts Steyer into third over Bianco. This suggests that if Steyer wants a shot at governor, he should attack Hilton, not Becerra.
I just want to point out that the WHCD took place in a ballroom. Holding it in a different ballroom wouldn’t make it safer. The administration chose not to designate the WHCD as a “National Special Security Event.” That’s the difference.
“The only fraud here seems to be on the part of the U.S. on the grand jury and public,” former federal prosecutor Andrew Weissmann said on social media. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
‘Not a valid indictment’: Bogus charges against SPLC mark Trump’s latest attack on progressives
The Southern Poverty Law Center has rejected the Justice Department's fraud allegations and vowed to fight the charges.
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Kevin Warsh just lost me. He argues he's going to be an independent Fed Chair, but refuses to acknowledge that Trump lost the 2020 election. If you can't state simple facts when you're in the political spotlight, you aren't independent. You're a coward.
Rental Car place: Are you willing to drive an EV? Me: Yes, as long as it isn’t a Tesla. I refuse to drive a Tesla.
Watters: Are you happy that there is a ceasefire? Where do you stand? Jessica: I stand in reality that there is no ceasefire.
Actually, Americans are just like you. ~20-30% of them genuinely support fascism, as in ~every 🇪🇺 country. You are just more fortunate to have political institutions & a multiparty system that prevent that 20-30% from fully capturing the center-right party, becoming 51%, & controlling the government.
Philip Stephens@philipstephens.bsky.social · 6mo agoTime to admit it. Americans are not like us. Latest Inside-Out column open.substack.com/pub/philipst...
when people say "there's no crime in Dubai" they are trying to say something very different
Eliot Higgins@eliothiggins.bsky.social · 7mo agoNew footage analysed by Bellingcat shows two of the world’s most wanted crime figures, Christy and Daniel Kinahan, appearing openly at a mixed martial arts event in Dubai, despite US sanctions and multimillion-dollar rewards for information leading to their arrest. www.bellingcat.com/news/2026/03...
Worth watching the whole clip, but purely in propaganda terms it seems to me, admittedly just an amateur observer when it comes to war fighting, that it may be useful to send the message to the 91+ million Iranian civilians that we are not trying to kill them.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 7mo agoHegseth: "The only ones who need to be worried right now are Iranians who think they're going to live"
What can history teach us about what happens when a populist strongman with an idiosyncratic taste for low interest rates undermines central bank independence?
For over two thousand years Christians have been warning us about the antichrist. When he finally shows up, they vote him into office. Twice. 🤦🏻♂️
This is huge, right? They just Trump-proofed the Fed.
Federal Reserve@federalreserve.gov · 9mo ago@federalreserve.gov announces reappointment of Federal Reserve Bank presidents and first vice presidents after a comprehensive review by the boards of directors of each Reserve Bank, along with unanimous support by Federal Reserve Board members: www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/p...
Too many Americans either didn’t care or didn’t believe. Hopefully they do now.👇
Brian Schatz: "This is not about money. There is enough money to bail out Argentina with $20b. There is enough money to purchase a brand new aircraft for $173m for Noem. There is enough money to renovate the WH ballroom. What there isn't enough money for under this Republican government is you."