The Trump FCC is using false claims of immigrant fraud to drive up the cost of broadband for everyone. By Karl Bode at Techdirt.
The Qanon Shaman is now anti-Trump
”This morning I met the ‘QAnon Shaman,’” by Jennifer Sandlin at Boing Boing.
Jacob Chansley aka Jake Angeli aka the “Qanon Shaman,” now carries a sign that reads “TRUMP IS A RAPIST. TRUMP IS A PEDOPHILE. TRUMP IS ALL OVER THE EPSTEIN FILES." Chansley “presents as smart, well-informed, and thoughtful.” And he’s deep into hateful anti-Semitic conspiracy theories.
The Democrats finally released the 2024 election autopsy
Party chair Ken Martin saying the report is rubbish and he only released it to shut people up. That’s basically the upshot of this write-upby Alex Thompson and Holly Otterbein on Axios.
The report doesn’t actually conclude what went wrong for the Democrats, and does not interview Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, Tim Walz and many of their top aides.
Meanwhile, the Republican Party has $124 million cash on hand and the DNC has negative $3 million with $17 million in debt.
Ironically, the election autopsy report, by its very incompetency, demonstrates how the Democrats lost the 2024 election — the DNC is a bunch of buffoons who couldn’t even manage to win an election against the soft-handed depo-baby Nazis that constitute the national GOP, and the Democrats also proved incompetent to produce a report about their failure.
The Trump phone is a years-old knockoff with the wrong number of stripes on the U.S. flag logo.By Rob Beschizza on Boing Boing.
Confederates Weren’t Punished Enough And Now We’re Here. “The trick to understanding the necrotic pageantry of modern American, Christian, Southern conservatism is realizing that the Civil War never actually ended in any meaningful moral sense.” By David Gate.
Here’s something I saw while walking the dog: These stickers on the back window of a minivan at the park. The operator of this vehicle was nowhere in the vicinity but using my keen deductive powers, I deduce they are a woman, attorney, Mexican-American and a Pedro Pascal fan.
Finished reading: The Winds of Gath by E.C. Tubb 📚1967 space opera about an interstellar drifter searching for the lost world he was born on, a mythical planet called “Earth.” A light, easy read with clever gimmicks. I guess I’ll read the next book in the series one day.
The hero’s full name is Earl Dumarest, which is a funny name for a two-fisted noir space opera adventurer.
Watched: R.J. Decker S1E1, Pilot. This is the perfect tv show for me. Carl Hiaasen meets the Rockford Files. 12/10 no notes. 🍿
I don’t use dictation on my desktop. I have spent a lot of time typing every day for my entire adult life and much of my teens. I am as comfortable typing as I am speaking — maybe more comfortable.
But that’s only when I have a full-size keyboard and a flat surface to put it on. On my iPhone, I dictate, rather than type, half the time or more. I use Siri for that; I haven’t tried any other voice-to-text apps.
In the 1970s, writer John Varley wrote a series of science fiction stories where the characters communicate with their wearable computers using “subvocalization” — whispering inaudibly. Sensors at the throat detect throat and mouth movements and convert that to speech for the computer to read. That still seems workable, and would solve the problem of making offices sound like call-centers.