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Cake day: February 18th, 2026

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  • Parnell, the Pentagon spokesman, responded to the ruling in a statement posted to social media, saying the department planned to challenge the order.

    “We disagree with the decision and are pursuing an immediate appeal,” he said.

    Their first step in the appeal will be to seek a stay of the district court order. And they probably will get it, making this an illusory victory. To recap:

    • Step 1: Enact illegal rule/agency guidance/EO. This creates a new status quo.
    • Step 2: Ignore any objections and delay during inevitable court challenges to sustain the new rule as long as possible.
    • Step 3: Argue in trial court or appellate court that an injunction against the new rule will disrupt the status quo.
    • Step 4a: Court rejects the injunction. Go to Step 2.
    • Step 4b: Court agrees to the injunction. Appeal, and optionally ignore the court order during the appeal, which only creates more urgency for the appellate court and challenger to address the appeal.

  • Why do some people like vinyl? Why did the iPod’s scroll wheel evoke joy when used? Why is the OG PSP’s UMD drive clicking open and closed enjoyable?

    If you’re looking to abstractly optimize consumption and sharing efficiency, it’s worse. But if you’re looking to optimize personal connection to the art and to other people, having some tactile interaction and giving a physical object that embodies the music arguably does that better.

    I’d even bet that if you scanned brain activity of someone opening an MP3 versus someone putting in a disc and hitting a play button, the disc’s physical interaction very likely creates stronger neural pathways that trigger more chemical rewards.





  • Per the article, because he wanted to shine light on the fact that you play by different rules if you are wealthy.

    From the article:

    Parr’s experiment and documentary raises questions, of course, about who gets to have privacy in America. A wealthy enclave has set up the legal and surveillance infrastructure to be able to prevent being mapped. The rest of us, meanwhile, are subject to all sorts of surveillance by our neighbors and law enforcement. “The only reason it’s set up this way is because it’s such a wealthy community,” Parr said. “I know that I was able to do this, but I don’t know if I should be able to do this, and that’s kind of the question that I wanted to tackle. The YouTube comments are pretty crazy man. They’re all over the place. They’re very split 50/50 on that question.”

    Seems like a pretty worthy activity to me.




  • But they’re bracing for long hours and possible late nights in a bid to build momentum for the bill, which already has broad public support. A recent Harvard CAPS/Harris poll of 1,999 registered voters found that 71 percent support the SAVE America Act.

    That’s pretty depressing. But then, I suppose low-information people would support any bill if they just called it “The Good Law Act.”

    Oh, right, that’s basically what they did when they passed the, what was it called, Big Conservative Wet Dream Bill last year.

    Edit: Oh, seeing the headlines alongside the poll that are all extremely suspect and right-washing, I wanted to check further.

    Despite that TheHill reports uncritically about it and it is somehow associated with Harvard, the poll was commissioned by Stagwell Global, a marketing firm that is run by Mark Penn, who is apparently a “deep state” conspiracy theorist and Trump supporter, and contact info for the poll is not Harvard, but Stagwell, who also somehow was allowed to “release” the poll (“Stagwell (NASDAQ: STGW) today released the results of the February Harvard CAPS / Harris poll…”).

    All in all I feel the most likely fit for the above is this is propaganda and not reliable.






  • You’re right to feel insulted. LLMs are verbose and unreliable often enough that you have to check any work that comes out (or be negligent).

    So what’s usually happening is someone is saving their time by spending yours. They saved the time normally needed to write a thoughtful reply by shifting the time and cognitive cost of reading and verifying to you, with AI as an excuse (often not without condescension, which is a type of “virtue signaling” driven by c-suite AI boosting). The slop output looks like “work product,” but is neither - it took no work and is a facade of a “product” because it’s unverified.

    They are being selfish, and it is objectively an insulting act.