WTF Way

Does anyone really believe that women get a horrifyingly ugly tattoo that makes them look like a gutter hobo to “take control of their body?” I’ve heard that excuse and that doesn’t seem like what’s happening there in most cases.

If so, way to fuck it up. All you’ve taken control of is looking like a walking trash heap.

Treat

It is impossible to recreate the cultural past by recreating the material conditions of that past. Culture simply does not work like that; as Nietzsche knew, there is no going back. That project is doomed to fail in really heinous ways.

Physicists Start To Pin Down How Stars Forge Heavy Atoms.

Too poor to science: How wealth determines who succeeds in STEM.

Donโ€™t Buy the Scare About Social Security.

Brace Yourself for Watery Mayo and Spiky Ice Cream. MAHA is coming for emulsifiers. Jesus Christ. Fucking morons.

โ€˜Too many, too soonโ€™? Debunking a common fear about kidsโ€™ vaccines.

CEOs Start Saying the Quiet Part Out Loud: AI Will Wipe Out Jobs.

Elon Musk and the power of the bro-code.

The Battle to Keep Consumers Means Smaller Packs of Cookies and Chips.

The big beautiful bill reveals the hollowness of Trumponomics.

Proof That Adult Brains Make New Neurons Settles Scientific Controversy.

Iโ€™m human. Are you? The battle for our online identity.

Vene

Indeed. As I pointed out earlier, we are taking ourselves out. There is no reason to intervene when your enemy is making a mistake. That might wake them up to the peril. China has won; the century of American decline and humiliation has begun.

Sunsetted

The Big Beautiful Bill is the worst legislation to pass in my lifetime and will make the country enormously poorer and the world worse off overall. However, it will make some billionaires and centimillionaires quite a lot richer. Which is, you know, the whole point.

The “smash and grab” phase of kleptocracy is in full swing.

TARP and the Patriot Act were also horrid, but nothing compared to this theft from the future and from the American people.

China has won the future ineluctably now. And didn’t even have to fire a shot; Sun Tzu would be proud.

Diff Skill

I don’t think I will ever understand the desire to turn systems and security people like me into shitty developers.

It’s happening because devs dominate all now. There is nothing wrong with automation, but development is a completely different skill. And I’ve never met a dev who was even remotely as good as at systems, design, security or networking as even an average systems type. And rarely have I met a systems person who was a good dev.

Again: completely different skills. Though most devs cannot see that — they think because they’ve heard of an IP address and know what a SIEM is, they know all there is to know in that space.