Google randomly switched my language to Spanish again. Love it.
No, nothing on my system is set to Spanish, my keyboard is English (US), so is the language in my browser, so is my OS and my geolocated IP address is also in the US. Just poor design.
Author: Chill
Criminality
Regarding the below, I too remember when you could get banned from Twitter for merely posting official government stats from various countries about immigrant crime. I mean, we’re talking straight from gov’t agencies, no commentary. Some people are just really allergic to the truth and hate that it exists.
Screened Out
It’s now impossible to get a smartphone with less than a 6″ screen. Fuck this.
I’d prefer not having a smartphone at all, but one with a 4″ screen would be ideal for me. I’d even take one with a 3.7″ screen if it were really durable.
Clocking
I think my parents had that one; I remember the JCPenney logo on it. This was about 1984. From this piece.
Wall Street Ruined the Roomba and Then Blamed Lina Khan.
How the Phone Ban Saved High School. It really is the phones.
Last US cents sell for $16.7 million.
Russia’s economy is struggling. But that won’t bring Putin to the negotiating table for years.
How Europe’s new carbon tax on imported goods will change global trade.
Trump Announces 5,000% Increase In All Numbers.
Flock and Cyble Inc. Weaponize "Cybercrime" Takedowns to Silence Critics.
Early Int
What‘s something that you miss about the 2000‘s internet age?
Almost no surveillance and what was present was easy to evade. And most things were built for the benefit of users and not large corporations.
It’s a different and much worse world now.
The List
I’ve been punched, kicked, hit in the throat, held at gun point, caught up in a riot, and nearly choked to death.
I am not impressed by you. https://t.co/hwmeZRV7tG
— Natalia Antonova 🇺🇸🇺🇦 (@NataliaAntonova) December 20, 2025
Sounds like she had a life like mine. I’ve been punched (tons), kicked (tons), avoided two attempted stabbings because I am hella fast, been held at gunpoint twice, been shot at once, and been in a few hundred fights.
And other than a few of the fights, none of that happened in the army. What a life, my friends.
Aweþi
For those who are too sheepish, sounds like a ewe problem.
Joss Stone Temple Pilots Performs ‘Interstate Love Song’
Good, fun mash-up and cover. Also, Joss has long-ass monkey arms like mine.
The Burden
One of the disadvantages of being loaded and having the awesomest girlfriend in the known universe is that you spend a lot lot of time wrapping presents before Christmas.
Stake
All the people who didn’t like the movie Presence — jeez, put the crack pipe down. That was a great film. Get off your high horse and realize that not every movie has to be a cookie cutter “the whole world is at stake” action extravaganza. There’s nothing wrong with a little introspection and calm.
In Herman Melville’s Moby Dick, Queequeg, a South Sea harpooner visiting Nantucket, was offered a wheelbarrow to move his belongings from an inn to the dock. But he did not understand how it worked, and so, after putting all his gear into the wheelbarrow he lifted it onto his shoulders. Most travelers have done something that looked equally silly to the natives, for we are all unfamiliar with some local technologies. This is another way of saying that we do not know the many routines and small narratives that underlie everyday life in other societies.
David Nye, Technology Matters: Questions to Live With (MIT, 2006)
Flippin’ Mad
Cheyenne, Wyoming yesterday during high wind warnings pic.twitter.com/irB47cPLCi
— Heidi Hatch KUTV (@tvheidihatch) December 18, 2025
I’ve been driving on a highway where stuff like that was happening. Rural Montana. At night.
Do not recommend.
Texas is suing all of the big TV makers for spying on what you watch.
The Scottish Highlands, the Appalachians, and the Atlas are the same mountain range.
Rapid-Onset Political Enlightenment.
Boeing Taps Anduril in Bid For Army’s Cruise Missile Interceptor.
Jobs Could Soon Replace Prices as Focus of Anxiety. Already have.
Welcome to the age of zero-sum politics.
Japan needs to possess nuclear weapons: PM office source. Indeed.
3D-printed helixes show promise as THz optical materials.
The U.S. Is Stealing From Millennials and Gen Z To Make Boomers Even Richer.
LG TVs’ unremovable Copilot shortcut is the least of smart TVs’ AI problems.
The inside story of SpaceX’s historic rocket landing that changed launch forever.