CloudFlare is ruining the internet (for me).
Trump's 'Liberation Day' Tariffs Worked — They Liberated Americans From Their Jobs.
$400,000 Worth of lobster stolen en route to Costco stores, shipper says.
Japan's Cabinet OKs record defense budget that aims to deter China.
Stop buying Raspberry Pis: Why a cheap used mini PC is the better choice.
5 Reasons Why I Hate the New WordPress Editor Gutenberg.
People hate Gutenberg, at least people who want to just write, and that’s most WordPress users.
“People are instinctively curious: they want to learn, and they learn best by active self-directed exploration of their environment. People strive to master their environment: they like to have a sense of control over what they are doing, to see and understand the results of their own actions.”
That’s from the official Apple user interface guidelines. The first part is certainly untrue, as much as I like the whole work. About most things, including their computers, people are definitely not curious. In fact they will go far, far out of their way to make sure they know nothing of how it works or how best to use it.
Adults at least are generally very incurious in my experience.
Priorities for the new year:
1) Constrain Russia and China enough to keep them from steamrolling most of Europe and Asia, respectively.
2) Prevent third world Islamic migration from destroying Western Civilization.
3) Reverse the trend in the US of anti-wind, anti-solar and anti-battery sentiment. This antipathy to the inevitable future is more dangerous over the long term than what Trump is doing directly.
Cripes, we have a lot of shit to do. Best get started.
My hot take: Listening to audio books does not count as “reading” the book, and is only a little different than watching the movie based on a book.
I’m glad audiobooks exist, don’t get me wrong. Some people need them. But they are slow and inferior to actually reading.
The first time I installed a WordPress site and that turd Gutenberg thing was the default interface, I thought the install was faulty.
And in a way, I was right. It is defective by default.
I don’t particularly like Ries, but Nancy gets such a great sound out of her cello. She makes it a really different and better piece than usual.
Europe’s censorship complex rests on the belief that its ruling elites know what’s true and what is not. As such, it’s profoundly undemocratic and a recipe for economic stagnation. It invites conformism, risk aversion, and fealty. It reflects fear of competition and exploration. https://t.co/C7NCrhnFEB
— Timur Kuran (@timurkuran) December 27, 2025
This will be the only way to suppress the legitimate objections of the European masses to Islamic migrant invasion and resulting civilizational destruction; that’s why this is happening now.
Jingle Bells (Batman Smells): an incomplete festive folk-rhyme taxonomy.
Weight-loss pill approval set to accelerate food industry product overhauls.
En Israël, les survivants du festival Tribe of Nova seuls face à leur traumatisme.
Nuclear submarine arms race heats up between North and South Korea.
The latest government inflation and GDP figures are worthless, and will be for months to come.
The Holiday Inn Holidome. I remember these.
Gutenberg sucks. New site look, thanks to the asshats at WordPress.
Whichever oafish clown designed Gutenberg/the block editor must’ve asked the question, “What if we took WordPress and made it way, way worse?”
And then they followed their vision to its ultimate conclusion.
Do people truly not realize that anything that does not violate the laws of physics we could eventually do?
Why is that so hard to understand? The limitations are only in your imagination and not in the world.
Not that long before this was written in 1989, all of it was “nerd fantasy.” But now, more than 30 years later, just about all of the engineering written about there — which would’ve seemed impossible to someone from 1889 — is obsolete tech. It’s all been replaced by better and much cheaper, safer and more reliable hardware to achieve the same result.
I hate pseudo-progressives and degrowthers so so much.
This is correct. The US’s clownish obsession with enormous pollution-spewing trucks and fossil fuels is not mirrored by the rest of the world. We are being and will be left behind. In about five years, more than half of the cars on the road worldwide will be EVs. In 10, it’ll be more like 80%+. All except here, where Ford moronically canceled the electric F-150 because the American right now believes batteries, the sun and wind are gay.
Fucking idiots.
It’s weird that nearly all of the people who hate AI have never tried it, don’t know anything about it, and are all the usual degrowthers, doomers, and dipshits.
Also, as I’ve observed before, they believe AI still works as well as it did 3+ years ago. When that is not the case at all. I like when criticism at least has a clue. Sans that, it’s as worthless as another molecule of water in the ocean.
They remind me of people in North Florida who told me that messing around with computers was wasting my time, and that I should “do something real.”
Fun song.
