The one posted by Ars Technica

https://arstechnica.com/space/2026/11/elon-musk-moved-spacex-to-red-texas-now-its-blue-what-happens-next/

Has “abolish ice” on the shirt which is really the perfect icing on the cake there.

I mean I purchased an external floppy for my undergrad laptop as recently as… 2004… Oh shit that was 22 years ago… Fuck a kid born a year later can legally buy alcohol and a kid born then is graduating from undergraduate…

When did I get old?

https://dogedeaths.co/

He’s got literally over a million deaths due to him. Administrative murder is still murder, or else Hitler isn’t responsible for Jewish deaths during the Holocaust.

Van Hollen:

https://bsky.app/profile/lebassett.bsky.social/post/3mzjh3n5m222l (via Bloomberg)

Use Firefox and the “Bypass Paywalls Clean” XPI.

Use Firefox and the “Bypass Paywalls Clean” XPI.

Even given there’s 0% chance of conviction, impeachment is a political process. It’s important to announce where one stands, and what’s ok and what isn’t.

Also, why are Democrats incapable of recognizing that performative red meat to the base drives turnout and engagement? How much mileage and therefore actual votes did “Benghazi” and “repeal Obamacare” get?

That shit MATTERS.

That’s a great quote, thank you!

Somwhow, no one has mentioned Lord of the Rings, which basically invented modern fantasy.

Unpopular opinion time: I’m torn as to where that theft line is.

If a turn of phrase in Lord of the Rings inspires something new in me, do I owe royalties to the Tolkien estate?

The stories on FanFiction.net are derivative by definition — is it theft? I love “Harry Potter and the Natural 20”, a 4th-wall breaking D&D and Potter universe mashup story (seriously, it’s hilarious). Does that story owe royalties to Wizards of the Coast and (ugh) JKR?

Maybe those are super transformative. What about opinion pieces where the author redigests information from all over, many paid writings? Are they selling the original authors’ product, even though restated?

Maybe it’s ok if they paid for the subs. But what if it came from free library books?

My wall has a bunch of art from artists at SDCC. I’m looking at Spider Gwen; Thor, Iron Man, and Mjolnir Cap charging into battle; Kaladin and Syl before the Stormfather; and a map of all the places the Gaang went in ATLA. Those artists all ingested the original work to make those derivatives; were they not allowed to make them if they borrowed their friends’ copy?

It feels kinda wrong to vacuum up public data to train models, kinda? But I don’t know that I can fairly call it immoral without condemning all these other things I think aren’t immoral. I kind of want to, but that’d be really inconsistent, and that’s profoundly frustrating in its own way.

It’s messy and complicated and I think the gut response of most people isn’t actually a reasoned one.

If OP is doing orbital dynamics in their day job, they probably live in California. JPL, Raytheon, LLNL, LBL, and Berkeley are all here.

Even if they don’t have rooftop solar, most of our grid is renewable. Their local GPUs have a decent chance of being more environmentally friendly than charging your cell phone, depending on where you live.

And using it for science and programming is really different than using ChatGPT to write you an email. I’m home right now, but I have two agents at work running debug and trial experiments, and they’ll be running it all night until I get in in the morning. I’ll review their work and steer them all day while I’m in the office; and while those two completely different projects are running, I’ll be personally working on a third. They are enormous productivity multipliers when you have a well-defined and deterministic target.