How did Big Balls pass the background check? https://www.reuters.com/world/us/doge-staffer-big-balls-provided-tech-support-cybercrime-ring-records-show-2025-03-26/
This may be true, I also havenāt listened. I rarely have time to listen to a random episode and absolutely cannot subscribe to another show without dropping one from my subscriptions. https://calmatters.org/commentary/2025/03/gavin-newsom-podcast-judgment-problem/
Working from home means preparing the stuffed meatballs midafternoon rather than the evening before. https://cdn.nostrcheck.me/905ed0827d411758a1b194ae5afee3c6696507fc62dec9aca06a43069917b4d8/a79927617ea272bac07ce2529c71a1eaf7ed6bff47f050e198e6e453db9e088c.webp
A directory of āpro-lifeā businesses. You absolutely shouldnāt download the app to find small businesses to avoid. Also donāt give them five stars for helping you boycott businesses. https://www.publicsquare.com/
Wanting to put up signs for your local April 5th event, wheat paste is your friend https://www.instructables.com/Wheatpaste/
Famine is one way to control the population https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/22/opinion/doge-elon-musk-usda-crops.html
Fun fact: Bob Dole was the first presidential candidate to end his closing remarks in a national debate with the phrase ādot orgā https://www.dolekemp96.org/main.htm
Given how the big tech companies are scaling back expectations publicly, Iām not surprised https://futurism.com/ai-researchers-tech-industry-dead-end
I can think of dozens of corporate social media accounts that need AI generated memes ASAP https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/03/ai-beats-humans-at-meme-humor-but-the-best-joke-is-still-human-made/
Someoneās read The Art & Science of Billboard Improvement https://cdn.nostrcheck.me/905ed0827d411758a1b194ae5afee3c6696507fc62dec9aca06a43069917b4d8/0e568ee3b84d0645a08084222d1cfb3c42de6200f031c428f27dd95d36ad7ae5.webp
The stock market is not the economy, but they are dance partners https://www.cnbc.com/2025/03/14/us-stock-market-loses-5-trillion-in-value-in-three-weeks.html
So, are Tesla factories no longer in danger of being nationalized in China now that we no longer broadcast pro-democracy messages to their citizens? https://www.vanityfair.com/news/story/trump-guts-voice-of-america
I donāt fully know whatās going on but this is a way better response from leadership to a product that didnāt hit the mark than what happened with MobileMe, rebranded as iCloud and still not competitive a little over a decade later https://www.macrumors.com/2025/03/14/apple-siri-team-reassurance/
Getting off the couch to protest is great, but thereās a lot of people working online to protect democracy. Lots of ways to help out! https://www.newyorker.com/news/the-lede/the-data-hoarders-resisting-trumps-purge
Make good trouble and shutdown the broken system https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/schumer-senate-democrats-votes-gop-funding-bill-shutdown-rcna196029
Musk doesnāt strike me as the type of person to read a TOS https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/03/xs-globe-trotting-defense-of-ads-on-nazi-posts-violates-tos-media-matters-says/
Democrats still need to vote no. The GOP doesnāt have the votes despite the President demanding no dissent, yet even the head of DOGE seems to be disagreeing. Why should Democrats comply when Republicans wonāt?
https://www.wired.com/story/elon-musk-has-wanted-the-government-shut-down/
Why canāt I share an Assignment in Google Classroom with other teachers? Everyone has to copy and paste open curriculum into the software if they want the grading features on assignments. Even just an API would allow me to script this from the curriculum source.
Hereās a crazy idea: create dot archive as a TLD managed by the Internet Archive which mirrors the DNS (example.com is archived at example.com.archive) and host static versions of websites that are donated for archival. https://daringfireball.net/2025/03/abc_shuts_down_fivethirtyeight