Brian Trammell

template comic from "get your war on", but there are no characters or dialog

This is what kills me about the AI zealots: okay, you got to 95% accuracy. Those are impressive numbers for a college exam.

Those are "things go boom" numbers in chemical manufacturing.

The left tried for decades to pass green energy subsidies, passed them, the subsidies worked, and now literally the entire planet's electricity grid is going to convert to solar+battery. It just doesn't feel like "tech" because it mostly produces kinda boring blue collar jobs instead of billionaires

"Nobody questions it anymore"

You need to find people who will question it more.

I don't even mean this as snark. This is what happens when you're only surrounded by people who think like you: you knowingly become the most toxic version of yourself thinking it's the norm.

Russischer Staatssender RT DE bezichtigt SRF der Manipulation RT DE mischt sich in die Abstimmung zur SRG-Initiative ein. Das Vorgehen passt ins bekannte Muster.

russian propaganda outlets are behind the wider effort to destroy european public broadcasting? quelle surprise! www.srf.ch/news/schweiz...

“disestablish DHS and prosecute everyone involved” really is the absolute floor at this point.

GM: Charisma check.

Mamdani: [rolls natural 20]

GM: that’s a d6 how did you

Mamdani: [direct to camera] Did you know you can check out board games at your local public library? 😊

You are being misled about renewable energy technology. YouTube video by Technology Connections

Let's do this.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=KtQ9...

🚂🏙️ #commute

Carless Whisper cargo bike tyre

Round of applause for Specialized, ‘Carless Whisper’ has to be the best ever name for a cargo bike tyre.

The aggregation of 22 separate federal agencies, most of which had nothing to do with each other, into DHS was the second most corrosive post-9/11 action taken (after the passing of the PATRIOT Act) and I will die on that hill

An underappreciated point which I think got forgotten from older discourse is that one of the primary reasons ice needs to be shut down and abolished is that they are indistinguishable from random vigilantes.

And that is why now we must all act to protect people.

416 school shootings since 2000 and these ghouls couldn't find a single exception to the second amendment until someone was mean to them.

as with Twitter, I suppose the strategic goal here was to destroy TikTok, not to make money off it. Not yet clear to me whether that strategy was intentional though.

Dems should introduce legislation now defunding ICE and CBP operations in Minnesota, so they have to leave the state. One sentence bill. Demand an immediate vote. Maybe refuse to vote for cloture on any funding bills (or other bills) until a vote. Make the GOP Congress break w/ Trump or own it all.

What's the plan, Chuck? I run a fake news website. You're the Senate Minority Leader. What's the plan?

Have you ever wondered why the car lobby is always happy to respond to environmental claims, but you never hear them talk about obesity or public health? That asymmetry isn’t accidental. It’s a strategic choice about which fights they can survive.

Heard a lad earlier talking about ‘Belgian whistles’

“A basic website costs 10k or 25k upwards if you want all the Belgian whistles”

BELGIAN WHISTLES

By now, asteroid 2026 Dreadstone has impacted the Indian Ocean, sparking a firestorm not seen on this planet since the K–Pg Extinction Event. Most people just want to be with their families. Here are three ways effective business leaders can leverage targeted KPIs to turn tragedy 😔 into triumph 💪

As ever, the only appropriate response is impeachment and removal from office.

a sunrise starts to burn through a layer of thick fog above the rooftops of an early 20th century Swiss railroad suburb.

hello, 2026!

Russland-Nähe: Die EU belegt Jacques Baud mit Sanktionen. Ist Roger Köppel der Nächste? Aus der NZZ vom 22.12.2025: «(…) Der Ex-SVP-Nationalrat ist in diesem Zusammenhang sicher der exponierteste Schweizer. Köppel reiste mehrfach nach Moskau und rief diesen Sommer den Bundesrat dazu auf, die Russland-Sanktionen aufzuheben. Er und seine «Weltwoche» wurden im Frühling von deutschen Medien als «Schweizer Moskau-Connection» bezeichnet, nachdem bekanntgeworden war, dass Inhalte von Russia Today in der «Weltwoche» aufgetaucht waren.»

Ist Roger Köppel wegen Desinformation und Propaganda für Russland im Visier der EU? «Eine Sanktionierung von Köppel ist im Bereich des politisch Möglichen», so Prof. Viktor Winkler, Experte für internationales Sanktionsrecht. www.nzz.ch/schweiz/die-...

CSS seems more broken in safari, too; not sure whether that’s related to the Liquid Glass nonsense or just the usual bit rot.

A 2m Christmas tree wrapped and strapped sideways into a white front load cargo bike parked in a driveway

merry Christmas to all, and to all a good bike! 🎄🚲🌆

interested in standardization of AT at the IETF?

there are ongoing discussions happening on the mailing list, and there will be a video call this Wednesday to discuss the scope of work, especially around DIDs and identity.

more details in this email thread: mailarchive.ietf.org/arch/msg/atp...

A still from Star Trek Deep Space Nine. Gul Dukat is sitting in Sisko's chair, drinking kanar and acting like he owns the place. (Dukat is a Cardassian, a kind of grey alien with bony ridges on their face and neck.) Caption: "... is s there a single statue of me on Bajor?"

The most realistic scene in DS9 is when Gul Dukat whined about how the Bajorans never erected a statue in his honor. A prophetic text.

the year is 2026. the disney-nvidia merger has been approved. erika kirk is the new head of cbs news. bill kristol is extolling the necessity of a vanguard party and permanent revolution

Franklin Goes to The Hague

but I get skeptical anytime someone points at local politics in Belgium and says “yes this sounds like the solution to our problems.” 😀

don’t get me wrong this weekend’s result is an Unmitigated Fucking Disaster which will see the city need to defensively engineer its traffic network against a hostile sovereign stuck in a 1960s fantasy about cars, and it identity politics around clearly unfit for purpose transport tech sucks.