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Good morning from somewhere over Portugal - not even halfway from D.C. to Qatar.

submitted 15 hours ago • 3 comments

Fellow journalists, what shorthand phrase are you using to describe DOGE when "cost-cutting project" is clearly lying to readers? I opted for "government-disruption project" in this story I wrote Friday, but I'm open to ideas.

submitted 20 hours ago • 20 comments

I'm back on an airplane for work for the first time since CES, thanks to Web Summit Qatar flying me to Doha to moderate three panels. And this particular Qatar Airways 777-300ER happens to have Starlink onboard. They're not turning it on until after takeoff, but I will be taking notes from then on.

submitted 21 hours ago • 4 comments

Vegas travelers, take note: Capital One's lounge at LAS opens Friday in the D gates. If it's anything at all like the Cap One lounges I've enjoyed at DFW, IAD and DCA, you will want to get to the airport early for this one (and may find a line to get in at busy times).

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

New money-making opportunity for Vegas casino guests unlocked: $50 class-action settlement offer from MGM Resorts to compensate for what the e-mail informing me of this artfully calls "Data Incidents" in July 2019 and September 2023.

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

Cooking-substitution tip: If you're a little short of arborio or carnaroli rice for a batch of risotto, bulgur wheat can fill out the recipe nicely. (Don't ask me how we wound up with a leftover bag of that in the pantry.)

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

The passive-voice journalese "is expected to" is always weaksauce in a headline, but never more so than in the front-page print headline in today's Post. That hed that needs a different word, "illegal," to describe trying to annex via executive order a function the Constitution reserves to Congress.

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

I watched the video in one of those tweets--a good 5-6 minutes of a constituent quoting her ancestor Patrick Henry and asking Rep. McCormick what he'd do to stop Trump tyranny, followed by whataboutism from the congressman. That tweet is now somehow "unavailable"--yet another reason not to trust X.

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

Thoughts and prayers for my fellow journalists covering CPAC.

submitted 3 days ago • 2 comments

Timeline cleanse: the nerdiest military aircraft livery that I have ever seen. Well played, RCAF!

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

Per @cred.blue's automated analysis of my activity here, I have a healthy combined Bluesky and AT Proto score of 490 out of 1,000, I'm a "Highly Engaging Pathfinder" and an "Engaged Text Poster" (which I read as "Enraged Text Poster"), and I've been here for 666 days. 😈 (h/t @mmasnick.bsky.social)

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

The U.S. Department of Metaphors remains in a constant state of readiness, and no amount of illegal DOGE cutbacks and firings can stop its essential work.

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

Great how-to from @andrewwrites.bsky.social about decluttering Windows 11 to make a little less pushy and interruptiing. Just getting that distracting news/weather widget out of the taskbar makes a non-trivial difference.

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

I now feel like I committed grand theft egg when I bought two dozen eggs--organic, even!--for $8 and change at Costco two weeks ago.

submitted 3 days ago • 2 comments

When bootlicking is a bust for a billionaire: A Pew Research Center survey shows Mark Zuckerberg's approval ratings not just underwater but under an oil rig on fire.

submitted 3 days ago • 4 comments

Some replies to this obsequious post by NJ Gov. Phil Murphy (D): • "I had to pay a toll when traveling through NJ last month but I didn’t become a fascist enabler over it" • "Quisling" • "how does the king’s boot taste, phil" • "Fuck you and the car you rode in on" • "Stop whining and take the PATH"

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

My gripe last year about #MWCBarcelona PR foolishness remains unfortunately relevant.

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

Once again, the allegedly business-friendly president shows he doesn't give a shit about signed agreements and issued permits if something somewhere hurts his feelings. NY should tell Trump to go pound sand (and invite the NY Post to do the same with this garbage framing of a successful policy.)

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

I'm so old that I remember Republicans erupting in outrage after Obama said the FCC should write Title II-based net-neutrality regulations.

submitted 4 days ago • 4 comments

"The $7.992 billion mistake was discovered simply because it was the first item The Upshot reviewed, after sorting the list by the savings amount."

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

Oh, the Humane-ity!

submitted 5 days ago • 1 comment

Some personal news (no, not that kind): I'm skipping SXSW this year, on account of MWC ending only a day before I'd have to fly to Austin and my then getting invited to moderate three panels at HumanX in Vegas. I trust that those of you going to that fun festival will eat my share of tacos and BBQ.

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

FYI, Mets fans: SNY goes DTC with an in-market streaming service, $124.99 for the season, that requires no larger TV bundle. That brings us to 22 MLB teams offering direct-to-consumer streaming... and the Nats will be among the last to join them if Baltimore keeps putting morons in charge of MASN.

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

This is an application of AI that I can't hate: The family of late Arlington County CIO Jack Belcher, a longtime Red Sox fan who became intrigued by AI's possibilities, heeded his request and had ChatGPT write his obituary in the style of Sox color commentator Jerry Remy.

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

Anybody else recently set up a Sony TV around D.C. and have it not pick up local stations' ATSC 3.0/NextGen TV broadcasts? WRT, WTTG, WJLA, WUSA all show up only in their ATSC 1.0 versions despite repeated rescans, even though I've had good results tuning them in here with aftermarket tuners.

submitted 5 days ago • 4 comments