The Democrats have a shot at taking the House and Senate this year. Will they have the courage to launch hearings and pursue criminal prosecution to its end-point — even if that means throwing DJT in prison?
Or will they wimp out, as the US has done since the Reconstruction after the Civil War, and give oligarchs a pass?
In the United States today there is no penalty for flagrant corruption and attempting the overthrow of the US government — if you’re a billionaire.
If you steal $1,000, they throw you in prison, but if you take hundreds of millions of dollars in bribes, they put you in the White House.
Infrastructure AI stalls before ROI, research finds — Separate research from Gartner and IDC finds AI adoption in infrastructure and networking isn’t meeting expectations. My latest on Fierce Network.
No email containing the phrase “bumping this to the top of your inbox” is worth reading.
A grandmother of ten went to work for Doordash after burning through her life savings to pay for her husband’s cancer treatments and Trump thinks this is a flex.
T-Mobile’s Ankur Kapoor: Here’s why 5G-Advanced matters to consumers and businesses. T-Mobile’s chief network officer, details how 5G-Advanced delivers faster, more consistent performance today, and is “training wheels” for AI-native 6G. My latest on Fierce Network.
I enjoy delicious schadenfreude watching Trump and his MAGA clowns set their house on fire, notwithstanding that we’re all in the house with them and the doors are locked.
When I make a doctor’s appointment, the doctor sends a notification asking me to arrive ten minutes early. That’s not how appointments work.
This is possibly the least annoying thing in my life that is, nonetheless, still annoying.
“Bikeshedding” is the futile expenditure of time and resources on marginal elements of an important technical decision. It’s based on a hypothetical story about a local planning organization tasked with reviewing plans for a nuclear power plant. They are overwhelmed by the cost and engineering of this advanced technological project, and instead focus on details of the bike shed proposed for plant employees.
Historian C. Northcote Parkinson noted the phenomenon in 1957. “The time spent on any item of the agenda will be in inverse proportion to the sum [of money] involved,” Parkinson said.
The idea of bikeshedding became popular in the open source community, which is where I encountered it.
I have been lately overwhelmed by organizing retirement, our estates, finances, decluttering the house and so on. Also, I’ve been dissatisfied with the dental floss I’ve been using. However, I have researched options thoroughly and I believe I’ve arrived at a satisfactory alternative floss.
I was thinking about “The Expanse” the other day, and I abruptly remembered the name of the technology that powered the spaceship engines: The Epstein Drive. That’s unfortunate