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Random musings & smartass remarks. Neurolurker. Dilettante. He/him/his. Interested in (but not necessarily posting about) (or even doing) higher ed, IT, infosec, cocktails, music, old movies, bicycling, & other stuff I don't have room for.
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There’s a lot of white dudes with dumb opinions and you should ignore every single one of them.

submitted 1 hour ago • 16 comments

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Everything that’s happened over the past six months has been a response to an imaginary crisis. There is no immigrant invasion. No trade crisis. No scientific or governance crisis. Just people completely high off their own supply trying to fundamentally reorder society. None of this had to happen.

submitted 17 hours ago • 798 comments

Seeing lots of discussion about whether the U.S. military will go along or push back against orders to confront mass protests. Here’s my take on what other cases and prior research tell us about what might happen. 1/

submitted 1 day ago • 19 comments

Wow no one could have predicted this. I’m sure AI will fix all this up. futurism.com/computer-sci...

submitted 2 days ago • 15 comments

This is a very well-argued and extremely diplomatic article that lays out the case for why CISA matters. It should be shared widely. I say “diplomatic” because it doesn’t spend much time highlighting *why* this gutting is happening, but rather focuses in on what the cost will be in a cyber attack.

submitted 1 day ago • 4 comments

Current mood.

submitted 392 days ago • 9 comments

The year is 2557. All human life is extinct. In geosynchronous orbit, a satellite containing the last Studentbot is still asking a satellite containing the last Teacherbot if there's any way it can do some extra credit to make up the last few missing points in its grade

submitted 2 days ago • 3 comments

"Success, in so crowded a field, depends not upon what a person is, but upon what he seems: mere marketable qualities become the object instead of substantial ones, and a man's labour and capital are expended less in doing anything, than in persuading other people that he has done it.

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I have a vague memory of reading a book about "life in Colonial America" back in 1st or 2nd grade or so, and it said they would have a guy hanging out during church services with a stick to bop anybody who fell asleep. I admit, I would favor this approach to making sure people at grocery stores

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

I took Fido out for a walk, and there were two rabbits and three birds on our front yard. And I'm sure there are dogs who would not just totally lose their shit in that situation, but Fido is not one of them.

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

Finally a show about Boolean logic operators

submitted 4 days ago • 28 comments

I would simply foil the Pacers by letting them have the lead the whole game

submitted 3 days ago • 11 comments

I have been trying to cut back on my alcohol consumption, but if I'm not going to have a second cocktail tonight, when am I?

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

Little early for Megilat Esther posts but ok #jewsky

submitted 3 days ago • 2 comments

"Grandpa, what were you doing during the great social media feeding frenzy of 2025?" "Uhhh... Which one?"

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This is a neighborhood of small yards, and our next-door neighbors are out on their back patio. And... Fido is not amused. He can tell they're there from inside our house. He does not approve of other people being in our space.* *as far as I can tell he considers the entire county our space

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

Actually, it's two men.

submitted 3 days ago • 21 comments

I picked a fabulous afternoon to bury my head in a bunch of database reports.

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if two of history’s all time whiniest babies can’t get along then what hope is there for the rest of us

submitted 3 days ago • 20 comments

Walter Brueggemann has died

submitted 4 days ago • 4 comments

this doesn’t make anyone seem tough, it makes them seem too soft to be in politics

submitted 4 days ago • 80 comments