Dev Null

I never did aspire to be a developer because I am bad at programming1. But most of the devs I meet are also bad at it, so I think I actually would’ve been just fine if I’d decided to go that way.

  1. And, more importantly, I do not enjoy it in the least; it is tedious and uninteresting to me.

Out With The Consultants. Democrats have long outsourced political judgment to professional-services providers (pollsters, strategists, lawyers)โ€”but what do they know about defeating a coup.

Defying the courts. The end of the rule of law in the United States is nigh.

On the Recurrence of Neoreactionaries.

This Ad-Tech Company Is Powering Surveillance of US Military Personnel.

My core frustration isn’t just how shitty things have gotten, but how said shittiness has become so profitable for so many companies. Most people being dumbasses == shittiness is very profitable.

Scholz should look to his Cold War predecessor.

If it moves, itโ€™s probably alive: Searching for life on other planets.

People don’t know how things work, but worse, they have no intuition for why things work the way they do, even once it’s explained to them. Society is too complex for about 80% of people to make any real sense of.

A Chinese state-owned military contractor that built 80% of the ship-to-shore cranes at U.S. ports. A yearlong congressional investigation found that everything these cranes do can be monitored by the Chinese government. Some ZPMC cranes can even be controlled remotely, and in a worst-case scenario, shut down entirely, according to the investigative report. Jesus Fucking Christ.

How Progressives Froze the American Dream.

Seafloor detector picks up record neutrino while under construction.