@quiche.industries how do I make Browser stop opening up the Google app
drop whatever you’re doing and watch this video on the curta calculator i don’t know what i imagined when i read pattern recognition but this wasn’t it
The Curta Mechanical Calculator
YouTube video by Steve Mould
youtube.com
just a quick reminder that you can encrypt your bluesky posts by using the #encrypted hashtag #opsec #encrypted
Today, it's important to remember the true spirit of the Ides of March: Coming together to stab a tyrant with friends and family.
the authoritarianism is bad, but the loser energy is absolutely intolerable
How have I never heard about this? If only the left had such a systematic framework for achieving its objectives.
Jerusha Jane@jerushajane.bsky.social · 2y agoThe plan is to deport all foreign anti-zionists and crush out all criticism of Israel. Read Project Esther, folks.
the goal for 2025 is to have a vibe somewhere between Helly R from Severance (season 1) and Stevie Nicks (specifically in her June 1997 performance of Silver Springs)
“We must especially beware of that small group of selfish men who would clip the wings of the American eagle in order to feather their own nests.” -FDR, 1941
Between the Bove/Sassoon/Adams contretemps and Attorney General Bondi’s preposterous letters to Apple and Google, Thursday was about as bad a day for the Department of Justice’s credibility as we’ve seen in generations. Me, via “One First”: www.stevevladeck.com/p/124-the-th...
124. The Thursday Night Massacre(s)
Two very different episodes on Thursday provide growing evidence of a Department of Justice that is showing less respect, by the day, for the rule of law.
stevevladeck.com
USAID staff were sent an email informing then that headquarters are closed today. Note the reply-to: Gavin Kliger, a DOGE appointee, who appears to have gotten himself a USAID email. Kliger has no previous government experience and graduated from UC Berkeley in 2021.
This is the difference between Trump 1 and Trump 2. First time around, all his cronies were named stuff like Joey Macaroni and wanted to commit tax fraud and go on Dancing With The Stars. This time, they have names like John Hitlerfuhrer and have spent the last 15 years blogging about phrenology.
Adam Smith@asmith83.bsky.social · 2y agoThe federal government's new top HR attorney has said "Consent is probably modern society’s most pernicious fetish" and "Slaves owe us reparations," according to a new report from @pogo.org. www.pogo.org/investigatio...
@tamarakeithnpr.bsky.social very disappointed to hear the blasé way that politics podcast is covering trump admin withholding funds. This is clearly illegal and you need to be *raking them over the coals* ffs
Don't forget: it's almost time to stop writing 2024 on forms and instead drawing a picture of a skull with blood pouring from its eye sockets
The latest version of Obsidian Web Clipper adds Interpreter which lets you extract page content and manipulate it using natural language. This is super useful to create consistent data structures for research within your vault. You can run it locally using Ollama. help.obsidian.md/web-clipper/...
Someone just reminded me of this great gem I made a while back! "What happens when you type in a URL in the address bar in a browser?"
Lots of folks on our “side” tell me that the comparisons to Hitler “don’t work.” And guess what — I don’t fucking care. They can look the other way all they want, the rest of us are looking directly the fuck at what we’re fucking seeing.
