Day: September 13, 2025, 1:20 PM

Tech Neek

Chill Amusing, Annoying, Clowns

I’ve had men spend half an hour offering their opinions on IT and on how computers work, despite me being an industry pro with multiple professional-level certifications, understanding computers very deeply, having used them since I was four years old and been employed in tech for 25+ years. And these men were not programmers or developers nor did they work in tech. And nearly every word they said was incorrect.

Women believe that “mansplaining” happens only to them — a very solipsistic view. But some people are just oblivious boors. More often men, but plenty of women are that way too (Karens).

Chill Links

New pathway engineered into plants lets them suck up more CO₂.

Bosses admit they’re using return-to-office mandates to trim down teams—without needing to announce layoffs. Told ya.

Insurance in the Polycrisis.

We Already Know a Way to Save a Bunch of Lives. Thanks to insurance companies, we’re not doing it.

Charlie Kirk’s Murder Illustrates How the Second Amendment Is Swallowing the First.

Life, Work, Death and the Peasant, Part IVc: Rent and Extraction.

EU Court Rules Nuclear Energy is Clean Energy. Correct.