Year: 2025

Vax Lacks

Chill Annoying, Clowns

Am I crazy or was anti-vax originally far left-wing?

It was always a bit of both, but the far left-wing was dominant (maybe 60% of anti-vaxxers) up until 2015-ish or so. Then the right wing really started going batshit about then and now anti-vax clowns are about 70% MAGA dumbasses.

It’ll probably trade off again one day. Meanwhile, dozens of thousands will die easily-preventable deaths.

And yes, people will attempt to gaslight you, claiming it was “always” and only a right-wing thing to be anti-vax. History says different.

Chill Links

Krisp is using AI to help Indians sound like Americans on calls. Ugh.

Bullseye Standoff Weapon Based On Israeli Cruise Missile Unveiled By General Atomics.

Trump Says Tariffs Are Reciprocal. They Aren’t.

Stagflation Is Now America’s Best-Case Scenario. It’ll be depression.

World’s Smallest Pacemaker Is The Size of a Rice Grain.

Interviewing in the age of AI.

Why Companies Don’t Fix Bugs.

Thousands of North Korean IT workers have infiltrated the Fortune 500.

A Multiwavelength Look at Proxima Centauri’s Flares.

Tariffs Are Dragging Down Even Companies Without US Exports.

National Weather Service no longer translating products for non-English speakers. Moronic.

CDC’s top laboratory on sexually transmitted diseases is shut by Trump administration. Mega-moronic.

Tech In Plain Sight: Windshield Frit.

How Contracting Work Became a Race to the Bottom.

MAGA Maoism is spreading through the populist right.

Social Security Staff Worried Elon Musk’s Meddling Is Going to Accidentally Crash the Whole System. That’s the goal so, yes, probably.

Crack Country

Chill Clowns, Evil, Political Economy

I’ve not seen such insanity since watching a grown-ass man steal his own kids’ clothes to pawn and buy crack in North Florida.

And yes, that is real. So is the entire country being destroyed before our eyes now.

Macro Lacking

Chill Clowns, Tech

The more I learn about Kubernetes, Docker, microservices and the like the more it’s clear that it was all designed by people who knew absolutely nothing about networking, the impact of latency, what true scalability would or should look like, usability, or already-existing technologies.

It’s all just clown-level stuff. No wonder it took over.

Gadget

Chill Clowns, Political Economy

I Invented a Popular Kitchen Gadget. Tariffs Will Kill My Business.

And this will be happening a lot too; about 20% of the businesses in the US are unsustainable with current tariffs. If the tariff carnage continues this shuttering of previously-viable concerns will have vast follow-on effects. Depression, of course, but more than that. Somewhere between 40-60% of restaurants and service businesses will close. Entire neighborhoods will empty out as people cannot pay their mortgages any longer. Tent cities will sprout up across the land. Crime will rise and many areas will fall into chaos.

Every time massive tariffs have been enacted in the past, a depression has occurred. This time will be no different.

If you have favorite restaurants, visit them in the next few months. They probably will not be there in a year. And after that, you might not have any money anyway.